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Next Post(10)Another bone carver is possessed. Seriously, why so many possessions? I mean, there's about two hundred ghosts floating around, but it's not like they knew how to make stupid bone trinkets before they bit the dust. So he gathers a few complete skeletons, two stacks of gold bars and a few other knicks and knacks. Out comes Stakepears! The Bean of Floods! (Punctuation optional). It's a stupid horsebone cage. I'm tempted to chuck it in the magma so he goes insane, but as it is we're already hitting a razor edge on happiness quality around here, and I'd hate for everyone to go down fighting everyone.
Speaking of happiness, the military is getting
unhappy, which is unfortunate because they have all the axes and armor. Apparently they don't like sparring in a snowstorm, although I don't know how they got cave adaptation on top of it. They were only walled in for 3 or 4 years! Their training was cut in half so they have 6 months off, and the required amount of dwarven targets for training cut in half too. Maybe some of them with broken limbs will get some bed rest or something.
A kobold raiding party shows up, probably emboldened (see what I did there?) by stealing all of my steel armaments when we decided on the unpopular but effective
screw the outside world movement. 4 bowbolds (uh oh) and a spearbold (huh) in all. Here's how the first entanglement went...
Pregame report:
The expected result:
This mason goes on to absolutely perforate a kobold bowman until he bleeds out. I think we'll be giving her a wide berth from now on. Anyone that takes a sword to the mason's shop should be avoided, or at least respected from a distance greater than arm's reach.
Fey mood (not a possession, thank Armok's fiery bones), this time from a brewer, which is great cause we're about to be a dry town pretty soon, and I need one of my two brewers to go nuts and start babbling about stone and rocks and bones and whatever. I don't care what he makes, if it hasn't got a proof higher than 0, he's not getting any accolades for this. Craftsdwarf shop claimed, the site of such other massive failures as the bone earring and bone cage. I expect only failure to come out of this. And it's an obsidian crown, with only one image on it, that of the ascension of the queen Catten... Plankman? Someone dropped the ball on naming duty there.
Then some elves show up, and as I plan to dump all my finest wooden products on, they're followed closely by a siege of 78 goblins and 14 trolls. Against my army of 10, minus whoever is too drunk or tired to bother to show up for the coming apocalypse. Might be time to start walling in the civvies again... but at least the elves will get killed, I'll have that going in my favor.