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[Eric Blank]

The skink fiend had a very biref, unproductive chat with our mayor. Just a greeting and farewell, without showing me anything in between.

[Broseph Stalin]

The children of Strong Towers have been sent to live in the caverns four have been injured by cavern beasts, two were eaten by cavern beasts, one drowned another only to have fragments of his own shattered bones pierce his lungs suffocating him, three are in the hospital throwing nonstop sleep tantrums and one has been abandoned for killing a child who tried to murder him. It's been three months.

[Reudh]

Id Shemuker made an artifact toy hamer called, Id Shemuker.... I don't know, he sounds a bit arrogant

I had a dwarf called Meng Oarsounded make an artifact adamantine chain leggings called Meng Oarsounded in an older fort.

[Newbunkle]

If draining the volcano of sea water was annoying, clearing out the random obsidian walls is even worse. I keep losing track of where things are connected and have experienced several cave-ins already. Nobody has died yet, but someone broke their arms and legs.

[Yoink]

I'm... Not quite sure what just happened. So my reclaimed fort, Earthspirals has been slowly spiralling into madness, people getting ate by giant spiders, dying of thirst and all, and basically my militia commander is the only one staying strong.
So anyway, a stonecrafter named Onul Helmedequaled enters a fell mood. Laughing maniacally at the death around him, he makes his way to a butcher's workshop, viciously murdering... Two ghosts along the way? He also harvested the annoying potter who's been tantruming constantly, but the main thing is: How did he just kill two ghosts? What will he make out of them? Spikes of ectoplasm? Anyhow, this is pretty cool.

[Jacob/Lee]

Hmm... I wonder if we can get Ghostly Ghostly dwarves.

[Broseph Stalin]

I'm... Not quite sure what just happened. So my reclaimed fort, Earthspirals has been slowly spiralling into madness, people getting ate by giant spiders, dying of thirst and all, and basically my militia commander is the only one staying strong.
So anyway, a stonecrafter named Onul Helmedequaled enters a fell mood. Laughing maniacally at the death around him, he makes his way to a butcher's workshop, viciously murdering... Two ghosts along the way? He also harvested the annoying potter who's been tantruming constantly, but the main thing is: How did he just kill two ghosts? What will he make out of them? Spikes of ectoplasm? Anyhow, this is pretty cool.

When a dwarf murders a ghost he doesn't get the precious dwarf parts he wants so he goes out and kills someone else. that's why he didn't get to work after killing two ghosts, he had to kill a live one. It's been hypothesized that with the proper use of burrows you could make a fell dwarf rid your fortress of ghostly intruders.

[SixOfSpades]

My baroness has been wearing the exact same clothing, day in, day out, for nearly 4 years straight. All of it is either threadbare or showing heavy wear, and I expect that shortly, it will start literally rotting off of her body.

My baroness doesn't seem to mind this in the least.

My baroness also shares her bedchamber and dining hall with her serious, long-term boyfriend, who just happens to be the mayor and the person who nominated her to become the baroness in the first place.

My baroness is deeply traumatized by a lesser's pretentious dining arrangements.

In other news, the end of Year 4 and still not even a hint of a military!

[Kazimir86]

Just started a new fort as I ended up killing another one off, and it has NO candy at all. Used DFHack prospect to see if I finally had Iron (last 4 forts were iron-less) and there was no candy listed. So I used reveal to poke around, and sure as hell, there's absolutely no candy on my 3x3 embark. So no circus for this fort I suppose, so I'll have to find a new way to kill this fort off spectacularly. Probably with magma, and preferably with a stockpile full of caged elves in the middle of it somewhere.

[tryrar]

my mayor is actually a dwarf who has his priorities straight! He's been mandating the construction of serrated discs for the last three mandates(and a ban on serrated discs as well, but oh well), so I'm actually gonna keep him around; he give me an excuse for glass industry, and he like silver as well, which I have by the bucketloads(galena and tetrahedrite are my most common metals)

[shadenight123]

Just started a new fort as I ended up killing another one off, and it has NO candy at all. Used DFHack prospect to see if I finally had Iron (last 4 forts were iron-less) and there was no candy listed. So I used reveal to poke around, and sure as hell, there's absolutely no candy on my 3x3 embark. So no circus for this fort I suppose, so I'll have to find a new way to kill this fort off spectacularly. Probably with magma, and preferably with a stockpile full of caged elves in the middle of it somewhere.

sorry for what is about to come out of my writing...

"DIG AN HIGH-WAY TO HELL. HIGHWAY TO HELL!"

no easy road to hell with the candy bar. Turn the magma into stone and dig through it!.
or die trying when pressure get's the best.

[Garath]

reveal from df hack doesn't reveal the candy, though it's possible to spot it by looking around the bottom few layers, but this involves actually moving the viewpoint, since the minimap doesn't show it either

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try reveal hell

[Garath]

elephant meat roast. Estimated value, 11000 urists

captured a dragon, male. Now a female and I can start breeding them, maybe. He's sitting at the entrance scaring the diplomats. I could add some war dogs and other creatures...

Note to self, do not let dwarfs stand in the way of dragon fire breathing at goblin siegers. Find place for automatic firedragon fire

[Viscen]

Hanging out in Temporal Limbo while I plan out my new fort before the first unpause.

[Valid_Dark]

I have 2 forts I switch between depending on how I'm feeling,

Just started a new fort in the most savage and evil part of my world,
I decided my dwarves got tired of the dorf life and want to be human, so the embarked to establish the first above ground dwarven establishment in their world, have the wall up and am planning out the town.
population - 7
Spring, year 1

In my other fort, there was a mishap involving a glass magma floodgate not being as magma safe as the wiki had claimed,(could be due to the stone mechanisms maybe?) with some crafty designations I was able to save the fort from certain firey death, killed a forgotten beast, redesigning the great hall to be pure marble. and other boring things, like building 10 layer catacombs and making dorf housing.  Just got a giant war jaguar though, thats kinda cool I guess.
population - 80-ish
Fall, year 4