Greetings from the People's Tyrannic Republic Of Solonatek,aka Flagbore.I,than402,insane dicato...err Beloved and Revered Overseer and First Citizen of Solonatek,shall now write the most important events of the last year:
MilitaryLast year,i lost two steel clad legendary soldiers on a goblin siege.They fell heroically after stupidly charging alone at,like,two units of macegoblins.Their carnage shall be greatly missed,their brains...not so much
EconomyI found a way to sell captured orcs and goblins(i gave them the PET_EXOTIC tag and a PET_VALUE,and removed the EVIL tag),as well as gray langure and dingo people,which i succesfully enslave,err civilized.So i found myself going from bargaining my last bone crafts with particularly obnoxious humans to being flooded with superior quality,gem encrusted imported equipment almost overnight.Some may call this slave trade.I call it "relocation and rehabilitation of dangerous raiders through honest work".
Oh,i also mined some adamantine(rumors that i left for dead eight miners and a baby when they accidentally ran into lava are lies fabricated by enemies of the state.These miners never existed,with evidence being the total lack of memorials or graves.Their so-called families are just delusional.Their ghosts lie too).I am currently training some dwarves not to suck in armorsmithing,and then i'm gonna make some breastplates and helms,make some lucky comrades extra crunchy
Politics
I got my second goblin mayor in the history of the fort this year.These goblins are the descendants of the goblins that first raided my fort and got caught.They are fully enslav...civilized and even have their own quarters in the level of the fortress where i keep most of the prisoners along with the animals i try to domesticate.The quarters are quite small and crowded and the goblins are not allowed out of them,plus they share them with some orcs(similar story,but they have not taken an active interest in politics yet).but they are allowed to live freely and without persecution,provided that they give in most of their newborn as a tribute.We,the people of Solonatek,accept the members of each race among us as equals.Even these filthy,murderous barbarians.Like her predecessor,the mayor is quite awesome.She does not make ridiculous demands,does not need extra stuff and space,and nobody will mind if some "accident" ever happens to her.
SportsAfter several years,the Goblin Games will start again next year!!!That's essentially me pitting naked prisoners against wild beasts and making them run through corridors filled with traps.Sadly,they refuse to fight each otherand i have yet to find a suffecient motive...yet.Sure,they have a mortality rate of up to 90% with unlimited horrible and humiliating ways to die,but the winners are guaranteed not to sol...relocated, or be used as an emergency food source,so they have lots and lots of volunteers,which were never tortured and browbeaten beforehand and enter on their own free will.This year's theme shall be...Bears Are Bad News,starring grizzly bears and blind cave bears,and dwarves singing The Bear And The Maiden Fair.Well,at least i'll let them take wooden swords.
CultureMy latest project,the Graveyard For Dwarves Who Actually Do Not Suck And So Deserve An Actual Burial And Not Just Being Stuffed Into Some Box And Tossed In The Ground(still working on the name),is finished.Each dwarf buried there is entitled to a stack of gold coins,two statues from precious metal,a door from precious metal,a coffin from precious metal(noticed a pattern,yet?),engraved floors and walls,and some deadly traps to deter future grave robbers and murderhobos...erhm,sorry "Heroic Adventurers,clearing a dungeon of dangerous monsters inhabiting it". Obviously,no noblemen will be allowed,but the aforementioned goblin mayors might be...
My other latest project,the Most Definitely Not Evil Temple To Armok,still lies in the deepest,darkest,filthiest layer of the Development Hell for now.When it is finished,it will include ridiculously expensive statues,iron seats,engravings on the floor,badass cave dragons,and seasonal sacrifices of goblins,orcs,dwarves,trolls,humans and elves by feeding them to the cave dragons or throwing them in magma(when i figure how to move the magma,like,100 levels upstairs).
Other newsThings are going quite smoothly in the rest of my fort.Due to me giving PET_EXOTIC to humans and elves,i now have a small but thriving human community living inside my fort.They are descended from the diplomats they send me and their bodyguards,and are currently in the third generation.They even helped me kill a Forgotten Beast which somehow managed to sneak into my dining room(the government refuses every accusation of ever having a blatant gap in the defense from below and endagering civilian lives),and they killed it without me even taking notice(OOC,i still don't know how did it do that,the cavern are walled off and my main gate extremely well guarded). However, a maceman has taken a liking in beating down my prisoners as i move the from cage to cage.Unfortunate as it is, i respect the (admittedly weird and rude) customs of their civilization,and if in the next months this particular human and/or his immediate family,friends and little dog suffer an unfortunate,magma related accident in will have nothing to do with that.Honestly.
Also,i just placed a table and a chair to the room of every dwarf in my fort in an effort to stop overcrowding in the dining room and therefore improve my fps.Works great so far.
The free people of Solonatek bid you and your stout dwarves farewell,and wish you good luck in your endeavors.