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[Niccolo]

My current fort is boring.

I'd go and stab the clowns, but I want my first time doing that (Yes, I'm a clown virgin!) to be the Pièce de résistance in a fort that's gone through crazy.



I had a fort like that, once.

It ended when I accidentally plugged a hole in the bottom of the river.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I embarked on top of another hydra lair. This one was immediately southeast of the wagon. Good site, best spot. One dfliquids-obsidian wall later and I'm set. I also have an ☼adamantine long sword☼ on the embark tile east of the hydra lair. Also, I've checked that my tame rocs and nakkadiles (humanoid cave crocodiles with red scales, modeled after the crocodiles from Homestuck) both can be purchased, and I've embarked with four nakkadiles (rocs are way too expensive to bring on embark). I wish I could tame that hydra so the nakkadiles could worship it as a god, what with it being the same color as them and being a seven-headed dragon thing. Definite god material.

[Reudh]

Zalisiden had its first Caravan today from our homeland, Olin Cenath (in the common tongue, The Tongs of Adventuring). I saw on their axedwarves a horrific sight. (image spoilered for slower connections)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

They took our paltry amount of goods we could offer (six onyxes and a few claystone crafts) and demanded extra. in return we could only get a training sword and a dog off them. Sad that our parent nation can be so unforgiving in trade...

No moods as yet. We have two miners hurriedly digging out more room for workshops and our mason has begun to make statues to make the dining room better. It shan't take too long.

[imperium3]

Akrulatol has a few unhappy dwarves at the moment due to a recent cat extermination spree. The mayor went stark raving mad, and a hauler berserked while passing the barracks (he didn't last). Captain of the guard locked up a couple of serial tantrumers who had hit other dwarves:

First one went berserk while chained, so a squad of axedwarves burst into his cell and hacked him to bits.

The other tantrumed while someone was giving him food, hit the poor mason who ran away. So the CotG came over and punched the criminal in the head with his steel-gauntleted fist, killing him instantly.

My fortress is feeling more and more like a communist dictatorship...

(Before anyone says, I don't believe in decorating my cells to cheer up prisoners - it's supposed to be a prison, dammit! They do get individual wells though, after a nasty incident involving a dehydrated legendary metalcrafter and my rather forgetful, previous CotG... who was fed to the scorpions.)

[SlimyMarmot]

(image spoilered for slower connections)

Spoilering an image doesn't stop it from loading, only a pure URL link would give the effect you want. Not that I would bother... 

Recently at Tongshigh: Operation Magma Piston is nearing completion while a two-front invasion of cavern critters continues. A badger climbed to the top of the archer tower, where it was roundhouse kicked off by a speardwarf. The impact didn't manage to kill it but the entrance is now a pool of vomit. Constant illithid ambushes are making it hard to secure the caverns, where all our lifestock are pastured... at lest they'll serve as a practice ground for recruits.

I still have doubts about the integrity of the piston, but if it fails, I will re-arm it and drop it on the miners' heads. The mayor can join them, too.

[Oaktree]

Back working on Divine Towers after a vacation...

Year and a half in and no explicit goblin assaults yet.  Migrants have pushed the fortress population to sixty.  Tower construction lags due to immediate infrastructure demands being made on the masons.

Adamantine being processed from a discovered spire, but not enough to start arming the militia yet.  A general lack of weapons-grade metal has limited the military so far - I just have some silver warhammers and whatever other stuff I can scrounge.  Hopefully, the next dwarven caravan will help with the situation.

In the meantime the Smelter Level is humming.  Four smelters processing ore (zinc, galena, gold, adamantine) and full-time glass and porcelain production going as well.  The last has been a useful trade good as well since a well-made pot goes for 1000-1500 db.

Last migrant wave, however, included two trained hunters.  They checked in, and then immediately went out and bagged three deer and a giant panda.  Plenty of meat, but now my limited crossbow bolt supply is drained again.  Bonecrafters, to your workshops! 

A badger incursion was brief due to serrated glass blades creating badger steaks and chops on the spot.  Yum!

Current project is getting the hospital stocked and ready to go.  A cistern is dug out, but I need the river to thaw in order to fill it.  Beyond that it's organizing the fortress and expanding facilities to handle the population growth. 

[Haspen]

Spoiler: Kirarlegon, The Righteous Wanderer (click to show/hide)

A granite figurine of dwarves. Worth 66000.
All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.
The item is a masterfully designed image of dwarves in granite by Ducim Esdortun. The dwarves are traveling. The artwork relates to the foundation of Bridgegate by The Theater of Arenas of The Submerged Rags in the early spring of 91.
It is decorated with turkey bone and encircled with bands of cinnabar, black zircon and smokey quartz. The object is adorned with hanging rings of hoary marmot leather and menaces with spikes of yellow zircon.

On the item is an image of Limar Giltearthen, the deity of jewels and wealth, depicted as a female dwarf in granite. Limar Giltearthen is laughing.

On the item is an image of Olon Smithbright the dwarf in rutile. Olon is laboring. The artwork relates to the settling of the dwarf Olon in Bridgegate in the midsummer of 91.

On the item is an image of Limar Giltearthen depicted as a female dwarf in green glass. Limar Giltearthen looks offended.

On the item is an image of Rimtar Clamnet the dwarf in clear glass. Rimtar is striking a menacing pose. The artwork relates to the return of the dwarf Rimtar from the dead as a forlorn haunt in Bridgegate in the late autum of 100.

I can't help but notice a nice story there

Dwarves founded the outpost, and the god of wealth laughed on their dirty hole. Then comes this Olon, one of many immigrants, a sign that fortress prosper. God gets pissed about this and makes dwarves rise from grave to haunt the living

[Frogwarrior]

Recently qualified for a mayor. The first elected mayor of Rampartroots wasted no time in issuing his first mandate. Which was...
Prohibiting the export of bins.
I fired his ass.

Really?  I often save bins for future use by selecting the contents for trade, while leaving the bin behind.  I tend to embark on sparse wood maps, so I save all the wood products I can!

......

So do I.

But if there's a mandate on bins, you can't even bring them to the depot.

Except for "ignore mandates" which I only just now remembered existed LAWL

[Oaktree]

Hmm, given supplies of marble, kaolinite, and cobaltite it might be time to get decorative.  Perhaps do the corner towers of the main keep in different colors to act as proper landmarks.  Red Tower for executions and split the militias between Blue and White teams.

And get some obsidian production going in order to get the Black Tower built that rules them all...

[jaxy15]

I'm testing out my new race of evil egg laying humanoids, who don't dig, and instead perform rituals to turn wood into stone, stone into ores and stuff.
They're working good.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Spoiler: naknaknaknaknaknaknaknakkanaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknakkanakkanaknaknaknak (click to show/hide)

In two years I will have all the food. All of it.

Alternatively, all the war nakkadiles. All of them.

[Gamerlord]

You're... You're insane!

[jaxy15]

Spoiler: naknaknaknaknaknaknaknakkanaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknakkanakkanaknaknaknak (click to show/hide)

In two years I will have all the food. All of it.

Now put enemies and magma in the area, and send a 13 year old dwarf with a steel sword to fight everything there.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I have a hundred and eighty really tiny (average 60 cm³, just like cave crocodile hatchlings) ADHD anthropomorphic bright red crocodiles (and four adults). I passed "insane" a long time ago.

Spoiler: naknaknaknaknaknaknaknakkanaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknaknakkanakkanaknaknaknak (click to show/hide)

In two years I will have all the food. All of it.

Now put enemies and magma in the area, and send a 13 year old dwarf with a steel sword to fight everything there.

How about the upright addy long sword I have? I just don't know how to break it.

[Haspen]

How about the upright addy long sword I have? I just don't know how to break it.

q -> 'x' to destroy, I believe, much like every other furniture.