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[Shurikane]

At last.

I finished my superstructure, its edges consisting of nothing but green glass GEM windows.

I finished walling off my lava ducts and activated the pumps to flood the bottom Z-level and permanently fuel my new forges.

I have begun stripping down the last batch of goblins in preparation for their placement into the dropzone.

Soon, Project Coppertop shall be made a reality.

[tps12]

And 50 or so bars of unusable soap, due to it being on the last little sliver of soap, with not enough left to complete the cleaning task.

Score one for verisimilitude.

[Arekis]

I have finally encountered my first skeletal creatures.  This was the first moments of a new terrifying grassland embark.  A giant skeletal tiger killed a dog, eviscerated one axedwarf and critically injured my second one.  In the process of walling in my entrance, a giant skeletal leopard killed a miner while the injured axedwarf finished it off.  I was thinking I might have this one even with tantrums galore inside the fort until a herd of skeletal elephants crashed through the gates and stomped everyone to death.  By mid-spring of the first year, Safetysteels had fallen...

[Vercingetorix]

Building the mortuary temple component of the King's pyramid tomb and working through the massive backlog of forging jobs in order to start operating them more effectively.

[Zaik]

First time i haven't been wiped out by goblins, and i'm finding i have waaaayyyy too many dwarves.

Set the population cap to 110 and now i'm making exactly 132 doors so i can cull the population properly.

Was fine at 110, got like 25 migrants and fps dropped like crazy

[Internet Kraken]

I got another moody dwarf. By this point I don't even pay attention to them. I have a mountain of materials so Dwarves almost always find what they need. But this dwarf hasn't. I can't figure out what the idiot wants either since everything she demands appears to be in my fortress. So she'll probably go insane. I don't care either. She's just a farmer, and not an important one at that. Also vultures attacked again. They don't appear to be as bloodthirsty as before though, since none of them attempted to attack my crippled Dwarves in the hospital. However one did steal some plump helmet roasts which apparently made the cook that made them incredibly depressed.

Townbrush Fun Fact: All of the migrants from wave 15 are dead except for one baby.

EDIT: Okay, now that aforementioned cook is throwing a tantrum. So far all she has done is topple a fishery, which doesn't bother me to much since nobody has caught a fish in Townbrush in years. But I honestly don't get why she is going crazy over this. Ogres mercilessly tearing my friends to pieces? Well that sucks but life must go on. Vultures stealing my plump helmet roasts? OH GOD WHY THERE'S NO POINT TO LIFE ANYMORE!!!!

EDIT 2: Apparently the captain's definition of "beating" is "smash with a crossbow until their lungs are crushed and they can no longer breathe". The cook paid for her destruction of the fishery and farmer's workshop with her life. The captain also delivered this "beating" inside the hospital for some reason. That must have been fun for all the cripples to watch.

[DrGravitas]

FOE received an uninvited guest recently: a 2-headed humanoid ettin. This was the first credible threat to my latest fortress! It also became an object lesson in the brutality of silver war hammers and silk shirts as weapons. The real gore may have come from the spear, but boy was there a lot of pain before hand...

Really the whole thing was nearly farcical. Especially in the beginning. Oh, that Ettin chased my dwarfs for a good twenty minutes. The military was slow to arm and practically refused to chase after the Ettin as a classic Benny Hill scene played out all up and down mountain peaks.

I ultimately lost two guys who hadn't bothered to pickup their equipment like the rest of the military.


More delays to the FOX Head and 5 more Fox kits for a total population of 45 Foxes... and not a single dwarf who "likes foxes for their cunning."

[cog disso]

I just got bored, so I decided to flood the bitch, and things continued pretty much as usual for at least a year afterwards. None of the dwarves seemed to mind that they were being flooded out of house and home, and instead continued my silly dream of a large blocked-in green glass warehouse and building a gigantic tower that defied the laws of gravity by being built out of a small wooden shed sideways.

[Wolock]

My marksdwarves squad had just invent a new form of acupuncture and they tried it out on 2 snatchers. One had been hit with nearly 25 bolts. 8 bolts were still lodged in him when he finally died. He sustained 2 perforated lungs and his liver, pancreas and right kidney were perforated too and he had numberous fractures. My militia had to finish him off by bashing him with their crossbows. The other one took this time to flee with three bolts lodged in his guts and vomiting all the way to safety.

Right after an ambush was spot by a woodcutter, they were marksgoblins lead by a hammergoblin. He was cut two times while retreating to the fortress but he made it and he activated the drawbridge. The squad was moved on the gatehouse and the first shot finished his course in the brain of a goblin, killing him on the spot. They were unable to return fire. Only one goblin survived. We took 2 prisoners and the leader of the ambush (And his silver maul).

Now my dwarves know that you can't perform acupuncture by putting a bolt in the brain of someone without killing him.

[Beeskee]

Oh, children. You make the BEST artifacts.

A depiction of a battle, the Sieges of Attacking, where a human tore out an elf's tooth. Epic.

What's this? A love letter to the outpost liaison. Wonderful. I haven't seen artifacts with those before.

Oh, and a reference to another (more valuable) artifact. Woot. I think that's all the artifact cliches on one artifact.


At least it's worth 31k.

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Edit: And at least the little bastard got skill off it.

[melomel]

Tentative exploration of the just-breached caverns suggests that the aquifers have been "nicked into" by the caverns.  This would result in them having been slowly filling with water for, uh...  six years or so ingame.

Hoo boy.

Also have over 300 animals.

[ETA] 351.  And a siege.

[ETA2]  Led by a hammerlord.

[ETA3]  Y HELO THAR HUMAN CARAVAN.

[Shurikane]

It's coming.

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[lanceleoghauni]

now make a vertical one, with the mouth the entryway.

[Shurikane]

It is vertical.

[eclipsetail]

It's coming.

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+1 dwarfisim