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[cog disso]

My hospital is actually working! It is so damn endearing to see everybody doing their part.

[Musashi]

Winter 263: Windslap's hospital got a functioning well. AT LAST.
It is a small revolution here.

Getting a working well was the first accomplishment I was proud of at DF. Congrats

Thanks! Now the doctors are seeing their patients within the week of their admission and almost seem eager to help them. There was a time where no patient would die of anything else but thirst. This era of mass dehydration is finished!
Oh, also, barony. Two more diplomats are waiting in line now.

[cog disso]

Finally got a spider silk farm operational, after building a chamber immediately ABOVE the caverns with a single entrance in. I surrounded the hole with cage traps (for the inevitable FB) and waited for the cave spiders to manifest, and sure enough, they did. Now we're sitting pretty in silk garmentry.

I've got a tribe of sparrowmen immediately UNDER the hole, staring up at it, waiting for me to build stairs down or something, an it ain't gonna happen. Hopefully sparrowmen can't fly.

[Shelegelah]

I've embarked on my first ever volcano, and I've named my fort appropriately... Thustarsakrith Zikelstodir, which translates to something like 'Crimsonblaze the Fiery Volcano'.

Sure, it's cheesy, but boy is it fun.

Currently I'm working on perfecting my tower system and my magma-execution platform overhanging the very caldera of the mountain.

Also dealing with a strange breed of floating kitten that is apparently resistant to magma.

Very worrisome.

[Shurikane]

Sigged

Woo-hoo!  My first!   

[Lord Shonus]

It was looking good for The Kingdom of Kings. A victory over a chaos dwarf ambush party left only one dwarf dead, a child that was being snatched and was released in the middle of the battlefield, and the spoils of war would have bought a great deal from the caravans. The miltia commander, pierced by a spear, was quickly patched up and healed without complications.

The following season, along with three caravans, came six ambushes. The militia sallied forth, but was quickly destroyed. In no time at all, no dwarf remained alive.

[Gamer of Indie]

Also dealing with a strange breed of floating kitten that is apparently resistant to magma.

Very worrisome.

You know how if you keep throwing antibiotics at a virus, it can become immune to them?

I think that somehow happened with DF, only the virus is cat and the antibiotic is magma.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Also dealing with a strange breed of floating kitten that is apparently resistant to magma.

Ahhh, yes. I had that breed of kitten when I didn't want to breach the magma sea but instead send it through the magma pipe. Strange kitten, that one. My first real fort too, I think.

Also :

I think that somehow happened with DF, only the virus is cat and the antibiotic is magma.

Nice joke. Or it wasn't.

[FearfulJesuit]

So...many...gold...goblets. I'll be able to buy everything the next few caravans bring. Even masterpiece platinum cabinets.

[Jacob/Lee]

I just created a fortress named "TowerCrafted".

Time to get some towers up...

I also found the most badass ants ever:

[Fishbulb]

I just lost five of my soldiers to Sostet Eraruker, a three-eyed alligator with poisonous vapors who appeared in my caverns. They dispatched it quickly, but not quickly enough. They all died on the bridge leading back to the stairwell.

I feared a tantrum spiral, but apparently those five weren't all that well liked. They'd been in the militia since they arrived at the fort, so I guess they didn't really have time to make that many friends.

This takes me back down to a population of 85. I'm capped at 90, so I should be getting replacements in a season or two.

EDIT: I hit "post" too soon. In a classic case of kitten rot, every dog and cat in my fort is now dead. It wasn't that many; two guard dogs, plus about a dozen pets in total. As soon as the first one dropped I scheduled all the strays for butchery, but it was no use. This syndrome, whatever it is, killed fast. Paralysis, trouble breathing, heavy bleeding. It's a race to see whether the victims suffocate or bleed out first.

The population currently sits at 77, and nobody else is affected so far according to the health screen. There are a couple of low-grade tantrums, but no violence as yet. Dare I hope it's over?

[Internet Kraken]

Part 28 of my DF LP is up.


Summary; fuck vultures.

[TolyK]

lulz
great update. thanks!

[Fishbulb]

Okay. Seriously. Seriously.

Just as I thought I was starting to get a handle on the ebola outbreak in my fortress — population down to 74 from 90, including two offenders who were punched to death by fortress guards when the jail filled up, but moods were stabilizing and nobody had exploded in a shower of gore in nearly a month — the game crashed.

The game. Crashed.

I'm not a proud man. I will savescum with the best of them. But I prefer it to be my choice, thanks.

At least I do seasonal autosaves. Thought I can't remember exactly when the last season-break happened. Was it before or after the uninvited guest that started the whole thing? I don't recall. I'm a little scared to re-open the game. I'm not sure I can handle seeing my fort fall into chaos a second time.

[Musashi]

MUHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHA IT WORKS
My global mist generator system works! Now, there's a veil of mist in all the main halls of the fort! I can switch it on and off at will, and the risk of flooding is very limited! I did it! And it can refill the hospital well, too! And it was all designed and finished in only 14 years!
Now, all I need to do is a little tweaking. Then, finish building the giant statue of Zuglar the Oar of Yearlings, dwarf god of lakes, oceans, coasts, rivers, and children, so that it looks like he's pouring the water from his blue hands. Then... dunno, I'll make more statues probably.
My semi-useful megaproject.... it's so pretty.