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[TheBiggerFish]

((Psst, your forum game needs more explanations, better stat assignment systems or whatever, and a splitting of magic level and tech level.))

[Amperzand]

As it turns out, it took the migrant wave a month and a half to arrive. The extra two weeks have been put to good use.

Fish: Research more healing magic and the razordust pores:

Magus Patham recedes into seclusion, accompanied only by his automaton. Proper understanding of these things will likely take months, since his prior experience has been in much higher-energy environments, where efficiency of this degree was unnecessary and little-considered. Some progress has certainly been made, however. The razordust pore is a genuinely remarkable object, and several more are secured from what has been moved to the surface stockpiles. While a safe way of replicating the Canteen has not been found so far, a fairly efficient way of creating slightly more directly effective, if less thorough, single-use variants, essentially enchanted poultices with a long shelf-life, has been developed, and a dozen are made up for emergencies.

Chaotic: Research more light sources and finish designing the dam:

Chaotic Skies spends the time working on the hydroelectric designs during the day, occasionally visiting the site to take more measurements, and spending the night hours experimenting with new technologies of illumination. Aside from some minor improvements to existing phosphorous flares, and getting a stable phosphorescent compound, he succeeds in creating two major advancements in the area: An oxyhydrogen blowtorch, and a limelight, using it to produce an intense white light from quicklime.  The fuel is a tad difficult to come by, seeing as it requires electricity to create, but existing crude voltaic cells will allow small quantities to be electrolyzed, enough for a few minutes of burn at a time.

Gwolfski: Research construction, especially subterranean:

The civil engineer, Gwolfski, spends the weeks diving into the library's few books on the subject, and making small scale models. He is, for now, the fort's authority on the subject, for whatever value of authority can be gained from a month of reading.

Porkins: Organise the preparation of the caverns for construction, and move valuables into storage:

Self-proclaimed "Lord" Porky, along with five of the surviving dwarves, spend their time clearing a great path on the cavern floor to the intended dam site. A considerable quantity of useable fungiwood, and of charcoal, is stockpiled at the base of the access column. Additionally, more chunks of corpse-diamond are moved, this time including a few larger lumps.

Hache: Be in prison, work on maps:

The imprisoned necromancer whiles away the endless hours, adjusting and re-adjusting his maps of all he has seen, and perhaps contemplating other matters.

Murdoc: Get orders rolling for any damage to the fort getting repaired, getting our dead buried and the rest of the corpses thrown in a hole or otherwise dealt with, that sort of thing. Order some trebuchets and ballista constructed, too, though idk that we have the dorfpower to actually get this all done in a month.

The Foreman gets most of the soldiers to work, first dynamiting a hole in a hill off a little ways from the fortress to inter the mass of corpse-flesh, which is then sealed with a solid slab of granite, engraved with old dwarven runes of grief, rest, and eternal burial, then repairing the ramparts and augmenting the limited heavy guns with a great antisiege trebuchet, the only real construction the soldiers are familiar with, having been trained to assemble them in the field.  The thing has a pile of great stones ready to throw, but a few weeks from the engineers, chemists, and gunsmiths among you would arm it with iron and dynamite. Eleven workers was barely enough, and they are both exhausted and further demoralized by the effort and stink.

Elagn:

The first of two newcomers settles in, setting up a workshop for fine glassworking, and constructing three magnifying tubes, one specialized for mounting on a rifle via adjustable bolts, the others compact and durable for personal use.

Moony:

The other newcomer begins the laborious and difficult process of building a somewhat advanced piece of industrial hardware effectively from scratch, ending this recording with two failed model prototypes, awaiting disposal for scrap, and a partially build third, this time at full scale. More work is needed, but this one is both a useable size and made of strong enough materials, so it should work.

NPC Actions:

The gunsmiths have repaired all remaining guns, though the damaged howitzer had to be completely scrapped, leaving an empty heavy artillery mounting ready for new uses.  Additionally, they have produced two new Rattler submachine guns, heavily upgraded in the fields of reliability and durability.  A long-range rifle has been developed from past work, likely more reliable, and man-portable, than the last ones, intended for mating with Elagn's scope. It will require new ammunition, of which only ten rounds have been made.

Five of the wounded have recovered partially, and no longer need care. Two others died of their wounds without access to antibiotics and high-octane healing magics, and the remaining three simply have too many broken bones and surgical scars to recover remotely quickly.

[TheBiggerFish]

Nrrgh.
Get penicillin.
If at all possible.
Continue research.

Think about how to improve morale.

[MoonyTheHuman]

(Shouldn't be too hard) Moony is bolting the last of the pieces into place, ready to make some copper wire for electronics "ok.... This here... That there..."

[chaotic skies]

((Psst, your forum game needs more explanations, better stat assignment systems or whatever, and a splitting of magic level and tech level.))

<<Huh. I never thought of that. Honestly, I suck at explanations/descriptions, and will rework the entire stats thing. I'll split the magic and tech thing, I don't know why I didn't think of that. Any more feedback from pretty much anyone?>>

[Amperzand]

{Given the way I don't have any stats whatsoever, and things work out based on decisionmaking rather than wussy dice, I can't really criticize that area. Sounds neat, I've got too much on my hands with this and college to join in.}

[TheBiggerFish]

((This is actually probably more rigorously decided than anything with dice, though.  Assuming you do research.))

[MoonyTheHuman]

Moony is putting a copper bar through the extruded, where it comes out and is coiled onto a spool
"I did it. It works!"

[Amperzand]

[Most sciencey stuff I've either done research on before, or do research on for this. The other stuff is fairly seat-of-the-pants, I'm afraid. If anybody would like something to be decided with dice rather than GMmandate, that's an option.]

[Moony, you generally don't get to decide whether or not your own things work, in games with a GM. :V]

[MoonyTheHuman]

(Sorry, my fault xD)

[Chevaleresse]

Draft some plans for a nice dining room and get the aboveground gardens repaired. Try to keep the remaining fortress citizens occupied but not exhausted in the process, with light work assignments.

Work with our apparent resident glassmaker to see if we can get some sort of reinforced glass developed.

[AzyWng]

Posting to Watch.

Maybe to play.

Also going to read the whole of this stuff.

Gonna see if I can get anything worthy of the snipping tool! 

*Holds up scissors and menacingly snips them*

[Amperzand]

[Armok, why are there so many new people this month?]

[TheBiggerFish]

((Migrant wave.  ;P
Activity attracts activity.))

[Amperzand]

[Evidently. Well, if I have time after two trig/calc word problems, I'll have the actual migrant wave show up.]