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[malimbar04]

Weird... I have 3 friendly dwarves labeled "trader" on my map. I have no idea why.

Also have a cave dragon, which I'm debating whether to kill him, or divert dwarves to make a cage trap for him. Right now it's just sitting in the maze of the caverns. Agh! nevermind, its' chasing a dwarf up the stairs. Time to send out the militia to see what I can do about it. Here, reporting live! Note... this dragon is fast!

Battle Dramatization!

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The roar fills the caverns. It sounded close to the adamantine guard, which was not unusual down at the bottom of the known world. This was definitely a bad sign, but that is also not unusual in a place filled with monstors like jabberers, trolls, crundles, cave crocodiles, and giant just about everything. Fikod screams "We got this!", and immediately two dwarves dressed in dog-leather armor with panda-bone greaves rushes off.

Fikod (Stokergorge the Geared Ambiguity of Splashing) was an unsual dwarf. She named the first weapon, a copper battle axe, "The Girder of Yelling". many believe this to be a compensation for her otherwise unassertive and friendly demeaner. Either way, she rushed off at full speed, unsure if she would catch up. Her reliance on water over alcohol these last few months hasn't helped this situation. She gained on teh sound though... sprinting up the staircase with Atír Cloisteredboots on her heels. Atir' was grinning, obviously loving the thrill that such a hunt could give.

As she gained on the creature, she started to catch glimpses of the tail. A tail... covered in white scales. A creature with wings limp at it's side. It could only be a dragon... a dragon hunting the caves. No wonder it was so fast! they ascended over a hundred levels to get here! She would have to end this quickly.

She leaps, hacking the cave dragon in the upper body with her "Girder or Yelling". The dragon makes a gasping sound, good! The copper axe swings off clumsily, as both her and Atír scratch and swing at the wing and the lower body. The dragon screeches and spins wildly, swiping at the dwarves. They were too fast though, with Atír latching onto it's toe, and Fikod dodging while simultaneously slicing into it's other foot.

The dragon falls, still struggling with it's torn tendon and gash to it's lung.

Fikod leads the attack, hacking and punching the large white creature as if it were little more than a large nuisance. The dragon retches, voments, and moans, giving ample opportunity to both to start hacking at the head.

One more kill, now of a cave dragon, in the caverns of The Quiet Memory. No bards to sing it's tales or engrave the walls, but an accomplishment that will always be known.

Edit:

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I'm so... afraid?

[Joben]

I now have 5392 meat for a population of 149.

Nice to know I have company. I have almost nothing BUT meat.

Pigs: Who knew not being grazers was so fucking awesome?

Yes! A pair of pigs will probably be part of all my future embarks.

They're awesome. Can just let them run the fort until they're ready to be bacon.

They make decent pets too, and being bigger than dogs and hoofed they have half a shot at defending themselves.

...I might mod my raws to make them war trainable for more awesome.

[bukitodinos]

a siege went right trogh my fort... and then back out only casualty was a kitten ON BOTH SIDES. NONE OF THEM DIED. we just coach potatoed a siege to boredom.....

[Xob Ludosmbax]

13 Malachite, 258, Mid-Summer
Emergency Field Report

The overseer has gone mad.  He let them in.  Oh dear Armok, why did he let them in?  He has doomed us all. 

8 long years we have been besieged by zombies.  When we reached 400 zombies on the surface, scratching at the doors, at the ground, trying to get in, it was decided that something had to be done.  So, we had started to let them enter the fortress in small groups of five to ten.  These groups were easily dispatched and sent to the magma bio-hazard disposal unit.  Sometimes with especially large corpses, the magma would mist up, and the unfortunate who had just dumped the body into the unit would be burnt to a cinder.  But, for the most part, it was working.  We had reduced the 400 walking corpses on the surface to a mere 300.  We even had a booming steel industry.  Every dwarf was wearing at least steel boots and leggings, and every dwarf had a copper shield on them at all times.  We thought we were well on the way to overcoming the zombie menace. 

But then, the goblins came.  And the thieves.  And the snatchers.  And even some stupid migrants arrived, despite the danger.  The zombies easily dispatched all of them and converrted the bodies to their own kind.  Before we knew it, the zombie army was back to 400 strong.  The overseer just snapped.  Started muttering about FPS or some such nonsense.  He declared that we would overcome them or they would overcome us, and then he let the zombies in.  We tried to stop him, but it was too late.  The undead trolls quickly demolished all of our doors and hatches, and the zombies came pouring in.  Vucar killed over 50 and Minkot killed over a hundred of them.  But they are just too many, and they just won't stay dead.  In the end, even Minkot was cut down.  We started as a thriving fortress of 70 souls.  Now there are 40 of us left including 9 children -- the poor children.  We did manage to destroy over half of the zombies, and even more of their bodies lay inanimately on the ground.  But the haulers can no longer keep up with the steady stream of bodies.  They shudder to life before we can get them into the bio-hazard furnace.  I fear this is the end.  We will continue our struggle to the last dwarf, but only a fool or a child would believe that we can overcome them. 

If you do not hear from us, do not send anyone to investigate.  Do not send a military expedition.  We will be dead, and this cursed volcano will use our bodies to attack anyone who comes near.  Chambergate is no more. 

Likot Mingkillorbam
Acting Mayor
Town Mafolinod, Chambergate

(message arrived at the mountainhome via cave swallow.)

[Akura]

Gah, Orc sieges(Genesis Mod) at the start of the second Spring. I had just gotten my first decent migrant wave, too. Sealed off the fort, got some steel halberds and arrows made quick, but it was still not a pleasant fight(still won) when I opened it up a few months later.

Second siege almost immediately after that, fought off with bowdwarves.

And then, a third siege larger than the previous two combined. C'mon guys, that's not funny anymore!

[ZzarkLinux]

RabbitHut's two naked axedwarves just "killed" some buffalo skin and buffalo hair.

They only got bruises from the fight, and I got ~3 leather and ~5 threads from one buffalo.
It's proof that edged weapons are best for zombiomes.

One axedwarf went from Adequate to Skilled simply by "sparring" with the buffalo head skin. Sweet.

EDIT: That Skilled naked Axedwarf just split a troll's head in two.
Gotta dump that troll body and that immigrant body into a containment chamber fast.

DOUBLE-EDIT: Zombiegeddon
That immigrant corpse rose up and brained a miner before my axes got there.
Now that Skilled axedwarf has a broken spine...

!! Abandon Ship !! Hide while you still can !!

[Mephisto]

I was just trading with some elves. They weren't happy with the amount of profit they were getting, so they requested a bone bracelet and wool quiver that happened to be in some of the bins that the dwarves carried over.

I haven't looked at the raws, but it was a bit surprising.

[Mageziya]

I was just trading with some elves. They weren't happy with the amount of profit they were getting, so they requested a bone bracelet and wool quiver that happened to be in some of the bins that the dwarves carried over.

I haven't looked at the raws, but it was a bit surprising.

Elves just don't accept wood, they accept everything BUT wood or things that were made with wood. (Like crystal and clear glass.)

[Splint]

The fact they dislike wood can be used. I wanted them to piss off after I was done trading with them so i tried selling them a wooden barrel of elkbird eggs. They pissed right the fuck off.

[oven_baked]

I just had a human diplomat arrive.
Boring?
It's a deity.
"A gigantic gopher twisted into humanoid form with external ribs. It has a bloated body. It's eyes glow orange. It's pine green hair is patchy.  Beware it's deadly blood!

She is fat."

I've got a green fat bloated giant gopher God with deadly blood, who is negotiating on behalf of the humans.


Also my I choose my baroness to be a legendary miner who was one of my original seven, because she has done so much and I have plenty of replacement miners. But she has kept digging! Hasn't set a mandate, only banned the export of bolts (which I prefer to keep hold of) and is just plain awesome!

[misko27]

Not a god, just a demon fooling them.

Also, malimbar? its a bug. Use DFHack to fix.

[Splint]

Culling my massive herds of sheep and water buffalo. And still haven't made a real dent. One of my personal dorf's bodyguards smashed the elven diplomat hard enough to impale him on a statue, and I'm preparing to invade hell with only soldiers after I gun down the intial clown car rush to see if my plans will work for a succession game I'm running.

[ZzarkLinux]

Embarked another RabbitHut to a wonderful Mountain/Bog location.

Typical zombiome -> everything is fine until it started raining acrid ooze.
Some people lay unconscious for a while, but then this happens.

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(Notice that the dwarf thrall is still pen/pasture large animal the pig thrall)

My rain also enthralls zombifies people !!
I was so impressed that I saved the seed info if you so desire.

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>>0) Get Version 34.11
>>1)Add the below world_gen stuff into your DF/data/init/world_gen.txt file,
>>2) Run Advanced world gen with this profile (named TERRIFY)
>>3) You will get 37 map rejections
>>4) Let the world run for ~450 to 465 years, because if you stop it short then the rain only knocks-out and doesn't zombify

[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:TERRIFY]
   [SEED:jCy7ODnHbzI0Yagkvh6f]
   [HISTORY_SEED:22LQBPFMpJ6MJqJMiqN3]
   [NAME_SEED:bRvmgNKRoGugx3us9o4k]
   [CREATURE_SEED:zywvR33xfEqzVOZ1ZjG0]
   [DIM:257:257]
   [EMBARK_POINTS:1324]
   [END_YEAR:1050]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:300:80]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:1]
   [ELEVATION:1:400:800:800]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:600:600]
   [TEMPERATURE:25:75:405:405]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:405:405]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:500:500]
   [SAVAGERY:0:100:800:800]
   [ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:3:1:2:2:2:2]
   [TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:3:1:1:3:5:5]
   [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:3:1:1:2:2:1]
   [MINERAL_SCARCITY:2600]
   [MEGABEAST_CAP:80]
   [SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:150]
   [TITAN_NUMBER:35]
   [TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:70:0:100000]
   [DEMON_NUMBER:50]
   [NIGHT_TROLL_NUMBER:26]
   [BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:26]
   [VAMPIRE_NUMBER:26]
   [WEREBEAST_NUMBER:26]
   [SECRET_NUMBER:52]
   [REGIONAL_INTERACTION_NUMBER:52]
   [DISTURBANCE_INTERACTION_NUMBER:52]
   [EVIL_CLOUD_NUMBER:26]
   [EVIL_RAIN_NUMBER:10]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:50:500:1000]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:400:4000:8000]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:55]
   [PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:2]
   [COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:16]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:900:5:3]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:1100:9:7]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:3567:10:8]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:8500:12:7]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:8256:7:6]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:3000:7:6]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:7000:9:11]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]
   [RIVER_MINS:400:400]
   [PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
   [OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
   [SUBREGION_MAX:5000]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:100]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:15]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:5]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:2]
   [LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:1]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MAX_SIZE:25]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:100]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:200]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:0]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
   [TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:40]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:15000]
   [SITE_CAP:1500]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]
   [RAIN_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]

Now this is where I want my RabbitHut to be. Next

[malimbar04]

Not a god, just a demon fooling them.

Also, malimbar? its a bug. Use DFHack to fix.

Thanks! Actually, I didn't realize this worked so easily on Linux, so I never got it before. Now though... after playing with stonesense and DFHack for a bit... I'm making a new world and redoign this. Clothing and FPS management! yay!

Learned enough this time around though I'm also changing tactics. Screw bringing food, we're drinking water and hunting with military from here on out.

[Splint]

There's FB blood splattered all over the hallway in front of my mayor's office now, said FB killed a bunch of dogs and pets, hospitalized multiple dwarves, and my champion... Was utterly unaffected by the dust that put 7 dwarves in the hospital.