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[JDF117]

Yeah,

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curious underground structure!

Now, how do I keep the

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hordes of undead

safe for my eventual adventurer?

 I'd say drawbridge with lever, but I don't know if that keeps the undead from scattering. It also has the convenient side effect of letting you bolt and seal the now opened hole to

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Hell

, if you think you'll get utterly destroyed. (Which you will be, barring unexpected pigeon intervention)

[Gizogin]

Yeah,

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curious underground structure!

Now, how do I keep the

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hordes of undead

safe for my eventual adventurer?

 I'd say drawbridge with lever, but I don't know if that keeps the undead from scattering. It also has the convenient side effect of letting you bolt and seal the now opened hole to

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Hell

, if you think you'll get utterly destroyed. (Which you will be, barring unexpected pigeon intervention)

For now, I have the 'U' -shaped entryway with a floor hatch on each upward ramp, as I heard somewhere that building destroyers cannot destroy hatches above them:

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from the side:

__c||c__
||\__/||

_ = floor
c = floor hatch
| = wall
\ / = ramp

[Oaktree]

Windmirrors enters Year 9 since the Founding.

Main activity in the past year was expanding and placing complexes cells trapped with spike traps and baited with doors in the caverns.  This has led to the known population of Forgotten Beasts in the caverns being eliminated or otherwise controlled.  Six killed, and three locked into cells on a more-or-less permanent basis*.  A few of the non-Syndrome carriers were edible and have been butchered.

The pets brought in by migrants are starting to die off.  That will reduce the quantity and variety of livestock hanging about the place.

And the elves traded me a breeding pair of giant cheetahs.

And a patrol found a pair of goblins sneaking about.  My 17-year-old Axe Lord got a couple of kills.

* - Until I get around to inflicting magma or an obsidian trap on the remaining ones.

[ClkWrkJester]

Two FBs at once... a giant humanoid feathered croc, and a huge shelled lizard. I was trying to wall it off, but they got to the corridor too fast. Tobot was the first one, the shelled Lizard. my dorfs caught it, and pulled it down without suffering a single wound. Just utterly butchered it with one of my Magnificent Seven cutting it clean in half. They began to chase Nes, the second one when i realized.

I'd left the walkway down into my cistern open. The thing slipped down into my water supply and right in the middle of a group of dwarfves having a party around a gold statue. Chaos reigned, alerts issued, and as I had sudden visions of massacred dwarves, my freshly trained animals arrived.
War jaguars. War lions. War tiger. Wardogs by the bushel. Easily 20 animals leapt all over the beast and kept it busy breaking grapples all over, for a speardwarf to ram his spear through its brain and kill it.

Dwarf Fort.
F- Yeah.

[Musashi]

Did I mention deaths and tantrums? Because there's more deaths and tantrums.

[Haspen]

I got bored with my overpowered magma fort, so I turned on 'Macarena', and began shuffling through dwarves list. When they go 'EHHH MACARENA', I pick the dwarf.

And then I toss him into volcano (with some proper lever/bridge work).

It's fun~~

[Tharwen]

I got bored with my overpowered magma fort, so I turned on 'Macarena', and began shuffling through dwarves list. When they go 'EHHH MACARENA', I pick the dwarf.

And then I toss him into volcano (with some proper lever/bridge work).

It's fun~~

A room full of terrified dwarfs huddle together as the horrifying music floods the fortress. As the chorus approaches, they become visibly twitchy until suddenly one of them starts to sidle uncontrollably towards the bridge room. He begins crying and screaming, begging someone to help him but still he marches on, step by step, pacing in time with the beat. He reaches his destination, having given up his struggle, and looks back at his friends through sad, pitiful eyes. A moment later, he is gone.

...the chorus begins anew.

[Wannazzaki]

I got bored with my overpowered magma fort, so I turned on 'Macarena', and began shuffling through dwarves list. When they go 'EHHH MACARENA', I pick the dwarf.

And then I toss him into volcano (with some proper lever/bridge work).

It's fun~~

A room full of terrified dwarfs huddle together as the horrifying music floods the fortress. As the chorus approaches, they become visibly twitchy until suddenly one of them starts to sidle uncontrollably towards the bridge room. He begins crying and screaming, begging someone to help him but still he marches on, step by step, pacing in time with the beat. He reaches his destination, having given up his struggle, and looks back at his friends through sad, pitiful eyes. A moment later, he is gone.

...the chorus begins anew.

Im sending you a bill for the cost of a new monitor. I have pie and peas all over it.

[Endiqua]

I got bored with my overpowered magma fort, so I turned on 'Macarena', and began shuffling through dwarves list. When they go 'EHHH MACARENA', I pick the dwarf.

And then I toss him into volcano (with some proper lever/bridge work).

It's fun~~

A room full of terrified dwarfs huddle together as the horrifying music floods the fortress. As the chorus approaches, they become visibly twitchy until suddenly one of them starts to sidle uncontrollably towards the bridge room. He begins crying and screaming, begging someone to help him but still he marches on, step by step, pacing in time with the beat. He reaches his destination, having given up his struggle, and looks back at his friends through sad, pitiful eyes. A moment later, he is gone.

...the chorus begins anew.

You know, the various science experiments conducted and discussed around here don't horrify (and entertain) me nearly as much as this right here.  The Macarena?  Dude...that's hardcore. Plus, Tharwen's description of the scene is going to have me laughing all day.

[Spinning Welshman]

Currently my first serious fort is in the process of succumbing to tantrum spiral. it survived 4 years but a combination of unfortunate accidents and death in battle overcame them.

So, acting in the only appropriate way i knew how, I pulled the lever and flooded the residential areas. Now most of my dwarves have died of thirst after hiding from the water in their rooms.

I love this game.

[hjd_uk]

Candy Processing continues, as does Siege cleanup and Goblinite smelting. My fortress shaft walls will not be disfigured by caverns, breach ing and dwarfy-straight walls will prevail ( FBs be damned - i will have my super-column fortress ).

[Tharwen]

I got bored with my overpowered magma fort, so I turned on 'Macarena', and began shuffling through dwarves list. When they go 'EHHH MACARENA', I pick the dwarf.

And then I toss him into volcano (with some proper lever/bridge work).

It's fun~~

A room full of terrified dwarfs huddle together as the horrifying music floods the fortress. As the chorus approaches, they become visibly twitchy until suddenly one of them starts to sidle uncontrollably towards the bridge room. He begins crying and screaming, begging someone to help him but still he marches on, step by step, pacing in time with the beat. He reaches his destination, having given up his struggle, and looks back at his friends through sad, pitiful eyes. A moment later, he is gone.

...the chorus begins anew.

Im sending you a bill for the cost of a new monitor. I have pie and peas all over it.

Excellent. My plan worked.

[FrisianDude]

A skinless theropod fb appeared with poisonous vapours. As of yet only a dog has succumbed to its wounds (pet war dog so I can't bury or slab it. ) and six militia went, puking and barfing, nauseous and very drowsy, to hospital. All of them were diagnosed and then went to bed. Let's hope they don't explode because my mayor is among the ill and the diplomat is standing next to his bed. An 48 x2 hallway of quartzite was half green after they passed through it.

[nightwhips]

I got bored with my overpowered magma fort, so I turned on 'Macarena', and began shuffling through dwarves list. When they go 'EHHH MACARENA', I pick the dwarf.

And then I toss him into volcano (with some proper lever/bridge work).

It's fun~~

A room full of terrified dwarfs huddle together as the horrifying music floods the fortress. As the chorus approaches, they become visibly twitchy until suddenly one of them starts to sidle uncontrollably towards the bridge room. He begins crying and screaming, begging someone to help him but still he marches on, step by step, pacing in time with the beat. He reaches his destination, having given up his struggle, and looks back at his friends through sad, pitiful eyes. A moment later, he is gone.

...the chorus begins anew.

You forgot that THEY ARE UNCONTROLLABLY ALL DOING THE MACARENA!!!

[jc6036]

Why do you think dwarves can never resist a party? It's all because they can not NOT dance to the Macarena, and all of the most sociable dwarves always play The Macarena at their parties.