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[Witty]

I'd like to give a shout out to my local 3 year-old dwarf who crafted a fine horse hoof earring in a fey mood. Much appreciated .

[Geocat]

So I was busy setting up my new fortress, just over a year in, and a minotaur shows up and almost easily kills the first drawf and wardog he sees, giving the others time to run back to their Burrow to hopefully let the traps do him in...but then this happened.





I laughed my ass off at this.  (the obstacle he hit was a huge boulder after falling backwards down a slope)

[dewboy]

If indeed baconing waits for no man, then perhaps I am fortunate that these are Dwarves! You see, the baconing waits at the next minecart stop for every Dwarf who wishes to take it and make it true...
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touche

[fricy]

Testing a new minecart logic gate. 5 hospitalized, one dead.

[Lielac]

*Finally* sent a minecart of serrated glass discs up to the surface...

... they're in the river now. Dammit. I think I used too many impulse ramps, the track stop did nothing.

[Larix]

My test case for active archer training has devolved into a 'how can i mess things up?' and 'can they crosstrain?' sideshow to the very very very slowly growing wooden tower (trees just grow back ridiculously slowly on that map and i'm honour-bound to only properly trade with the elves). The one melee dwarf in the four-strong archery squad was recruited without any skills, so i've always kept an eye on him to make sure his happiness doesn't decrease too much. He shortly turned 'unhappy' when the long-dead remains of his sister were dug out of the ice, but remained 'content' otherwise.

But at one point, i got a 'xxx, Woodcrafter, is throwing a tantrum!' message. Looked at her and she was miserable in spite of a load of nice thoughts. The only bad thought was 'lost a pet recently'. Hmmm, i'm not allowing any animals for adoption, so it must be the resident cat lady. Looked through the message log and right enough, four named cats had died of old age. I instantly freed her and the mayor of any jobs and they soon headed off for a meeting. It didn't take long, and the unhappy woodcrafter was mollified and made a quick mental recovery. Funnily, after the meeting she had 'yelled at someone in charge and felt much better afterwards' _and_ 'talked to mother lately' - the mayor is her mother.

In the meantime, i issued war hammers as secondaries to the marksdwarf squad, and they're sparring like crazy, mostly using the crossbows of course.

[Loud Whispers]

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Oh this'll be interesting.

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HALLELUJAH
My Dorfs just used a necromancer's corpse to make a throne fit for Silentthunders... But who shall sit on the throne of bones?

It's a rather lively chair if I may say so myself.

[dewboy]

The now fully trained spartans have claime the lives of 4 1/2 goblin squads. however we lost two in the process. To cheer everyone up I traded for a breeding pair of lions. *evil laugh*

[Hamsmagoo]

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Oh this'll be interesting.

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HALLELUJAH
My Dorfs just used a necromancer's corpse to make a throne fit for Silentthunders... But who shall sit on the throne of bones?

It's a rather lively chair if I may say so myself.

I love how the throne has a picture of itself on it.  Love when that happens.

It should go in the king's throne room.  Who should sit on Nationssquirt if not the squirt that runs the nation?

[firsal]

A minotaur came in City Delerurist. The first I've ever come up against.

I sounded the alarms, and all dwarves scurried back inside. I also closed the outer gate. My marksdwarves took up positions on the ramparts, and my melee squads stood guard at the gate. Everything was set.

I closed in inner gate, and opened the outer gate.

The minotaur came running to the open gates when one of my marksdwarves found him. His first shot hit it in the foot. I expected the marksdwarves to simple soften him up so my hammer dwarves with silver war hammers could bash its skull in.

That very same marksdwarf shot it in the head, killing it instantly, presumably while wearing shades.

That guy can expect a nice room and an even better tomb.

[Lielac]

-yawn- I simply cannot contain my excitement. (Walled off caverns :3)

[flabort]

Oh, wow, Lielac! You managed to attract a King Slime! Haha.

[VerdantSF]

Relicshield, pop. 121, Spring of 299 (Year 48)

After considerable equipment allocation and scheduling issues, the duchy's melee and ranged squads have now been combined to impressive effect.  While the melee troops create an advancing shield wall, blocking enemy bolts and arrows, the ranged soldiers quickly incapacitate foes if not outright killing them.  The combined barracks and archery ranges have also greatly increased training frequency, with two marksdwarves just shy of legendary status and others well on their way.

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The increased mobility of ranged troops has been a great boon.  For decades, wagons were barred from Relicshield due to security concerns.  While those from the humans are still under consideration, this year marked the return of the full Mountainhome caravan.

Ibmat the Dragon's training has progressed well, with her now expertly trained.  Her trainer, Meng Roughwhips, happened to be the most naturally inclined to such work (thank you Dwarf Therapist attribute-occupation calculator).  Even before becoming a dragon trainer, he already had the title "The Planes of Taming."

Meanwhile, Edem II, after years of stunted growth, has been making up for lost time, with 92 kills to his name .

[Boltgun]

A swordman punched a forgotten beast in the head and killed it.

At the same time a Minotaur charged at the main entrance to my other squad, I braced for impact.

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Minotaur cage (zinc)

Pretty mundane stuff.

[Knick]

Got a were-beast.  A were-lizard in fact.  I did not recognize it as particularly dangerous, and sicced by troops on it.  It killed one dwarf.  Then it jumped into the stream, and accessed my aquaduct.  It then transformed into an olm-woman.  It is currently swimming around in my watersupply system.  I would prefer the damned thing not pop out of a well. 

I really don't know how to get rid of it.  It might be possible to crush it with a collapse.