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[Akura]

After a few weeks away, I've returned to Bouldersprinkles. A Fish Dissector got possessed:

Bekarsoloz Gérig Otin, "Dipworship the Bank of Wines", a marble scepter
This is a marble scepter. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with marble, fire opal and fire agate and encircled with bands of orthoclase. This object is adorned with hanging rings of yellow gossular and menaces with spikes of fire agate. On the item is an image of a cloud in iron.


So wait, it's a scepter tha makes it rain wine? HELLS YEAH!



In other news, a child was mauled by a Draltha that had somehow climbed up from the caverns, which was quickly finished off. The Draltha I mean. Unfortunately. The child then irritated the surgeon by leaving the hospital, walking on a broken leg and a broken finger, to get a drink of booze. Also, lost the outpost liason, probably to gorrilas. Coincidentally, the liason had the same first name as the child.

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

In other news, a child was mauled by a Draltha that had somehow climbed up from the caverns, which was quickly finished off. The Draltha I mean. Unfortunately. The child then irritated the surgeon by leaving the hospital, walking on a broken leg and a broken finger, to get a drink of booze. Also, lost the outpost liason, probably to gorrilas. Coincidentally, the liason had the same first name as the child.

Coincidence... or CONSPIRACY?!

[The Yellow Peril]

Still in the process of walling off the edges of the first cavern layer on this fortress. I started with the objective of immediately digging down into the caverns, getting everything I brought with me inside, then walling up the exit and starting there. Plus, I wanted to keep my fortress in the general layout of the caverns, so I've also been following the self-imposed rule of "no digging unless it's to get stone". Everything is quite cool at the moment, my rooms are all irregular shapes because I'm having to use the natural cavern walls for most of them. Every now and then I'll wall off a section so that only my dwarfs can access the inside, and nothing in the rest of the cavern can get in. Now that the fortress has been going for 6 years, I've almost claimed all of the first cavern, and I'm just in the process of building several 15 z-level high walls to seal off the edges. Even after setting [POPULATION] to 0 I still get one or two immigrants a season - so the surface is littered with the corpses of various Urists who decided that it was a good idea to migrate to a fortress which has never had any contact with the outside world, caravans, liasons, etc.

Once I'm done with the first cavern layer, I suppose I'll have to start on the second...

[SmileyMan]

in my current fort, I have apparently recruited Captain Falcon into my military. He took down a forgotten beast with one punch, applied directly to the back.

On first reading, I thought that he'd punched the titan and his hand had flown off!

[Urist McTaverish]

On first reading, I thought that he'd punched the titan and his hand had flown off!

Seems more likely doesn't it?

[Akura]

Spoiler: Deep Fried goodness! (click to show/hide)

I decided to dig deep, very deep. Eventually hit the magma sea, and with it found the addy vein. After working out how to dig into it(it was inside the magma), I planned a savescumming after breaching Hell. The tube down to hell was at most 17 z-levels above the 0th z-level where Hell starts, starting from about 150 above. Digging down, I got over 350 raw adamantine ores without actually trying to dig it out. Once Hell was breached, I ordered my military, 30-strong with iron axes and mail and very high skills to intercept. They encountered Ghosts of Salt, Boiling Banshees made of apparently salt, Flame Phantoms, Cicada Fiends, demonic dung beetles, and a few others. All were wiped out quickly enough, but they still generated a page and a half on the unit list of dead demons. I'd bet they'd last a lot longer if I refitted them with all that adamantine.

[FuzzyDoom]

Just went from 16 POP to my pop cap of 40 in one wave. One of the migrant went Fey before he ever reached my fort. Too bad he's just a weaver and not the Smith that came with him. 

[SmileyMan]

Just broke through to the brook to start filling my underground river and moat.  Fingers crossed...

[Rumrusher]

in my current fort, I have apparently recruited Captain Falcon into my military. He took down a forgotten beast with one punch, applied directly to the back.

On first reading, I thought that he'd punched the titan and his hand had flown off!

first reading it it looks like he DONKEY punch that ocean titan and either he lost his hand or titan lost his pelvis bone.

[SmileyMan]

Just broke through to the brook to start filling my underground river and moat.  Fingers crossed...

Yay!  I now have a nice underground trading post, surrounded on all sides by a fast-flowing moat, and overlooked by double-height fortifications.

The moat is fed from the brook on the surface, and drains into the caverns and off the edge.

[alway]

My magma cannon from z level -54 to -1 is finished. Well, almost. There is still a minor power issue of being able to fill the small reservoir with magma and pumping that to the surface not being able to be active at the same time. And due to the fun invincible snow blob outside and the half dozen forgotten beasts down below, wood it a bit hard to come by. No river, so I am using windmills for power. However, I did manage to use my magma cannon on the snow blob outside. There's just one problem: it seems to have no effect on it besides immobilizing it. Turns out it will immobilize it, but as of yet (3 days of sitting in magma) it has yet to have an effect on the snow blob. However, being able to lock down a snow blob like that is pretty awesome, especially if you think of what that would look like. So it seems immortal snow blob is immortal.

Now that its locked down, time to kill it with a cave in. Lol, this is the most epic boss battle EVER.

I WIN!!!! After several years of being terrorized by the snow blob and the deaths of dozens of dwarves, three trade caravans, and several squads of goblins, the reign of Sanene Melifafire Cethutha Icithi, the Forgotten Best, has come to an end!!!

[Akura]

You crushed a blob? Wouldn't that only splatter it into several hundred smaller angry immortal snow blobs?

[alway]

You crushed a blob? Wouldn't that only splatter it into several hundred smaller angry immortal snow blobs?

Crushed while being bathed in magma. And in the processes also crushing a dwarf as a sacrifice to ensure the blob's utter destruction. And it wouldn't have splattered, since of its three body parts (two tails, and body) the tails had been removed, and the body was mangled to the point of there being no more tissue. It was down to the very essence of the thing. So it was more of soul-crushing a blob.

The part which scares me the most is the fact that underground there are two more blobs of various materials. Underground security is currently at maximum.

[slink]

Today we left the entrance to the first two levels of cavern open for the first time ever.  We put weapon traps in place.  So far only three blind cave ogres managed to get through the traps.  They killed a rhesus maqaque and a couple of dogs before I finally drafted all seven of my miners who killed the ogres.  Oh, and the ogres also killed the girlfriend of the ex-Mayor who was responsible for the beating death of my only armorsmith.  The armorsmith was married and had three children, too.  It was justice that the ex-Mayor's girlfriend was killed.

That raw adamantine-loving ex-Mayor was about to get his in a hastily constructed drowning chamber when he lost the next election.  His successor wanted native aluminum and we had none, so that one drowned.  The next Mayor was one of a nice couple who had no strange tastes but they gave way to another lover of raw adamantine who likewise drowned.  The current one likes lay pewter and doors, and is very easy to keep happy.

We've had to turn let most of the plots go fallow because there is too much food in the fortress.  We have been making lots of iron, and we have limestone, so steel is next.

[Vercingetorix]

Had two untrained stray dogs kill a cave troll, cave crocodile, and a giant olm during our attempts to establish a settlement in the caverns.  It's quiet now, so hopefully we'll be able to get the place fortified before the S wanders in...