Although it's rather slow at the moment, this is surprising for the nature of my fort, so I'll just recap a bit
let me tell of Geshud Shash..
I created the world from advanced parameters but didnt change a helluva lot. I increased the amount of evil sites considerably, made small changes here and there, set the mineral scarcity to 420 (
) because I didn't feel like wasting precious dwarven time on any of that 'searching' nonsense.I required industry.
From the very beginning, 'Geshud Shash' ('Fortress of Hell' in Dwarven) offered little reason or sanity. Bitter slime rained from the skies, making it impossible (at least from my view) to notice the forest of eyestalks and fleshy whatever's living like grass off the ground. Once we got inside the mountain I almost immediately set my dwarves to carving out the start of my main section of fortress, a giant ringed pentagram of course, that will 'spin' clockwise every z-level down (the staircase is in the center) and probably go about 6 levels down (doing a half rotation) the staircase in the middle, however, will delve straight towards the underground.
My biggest mistake was allowing so many minerals, and embarking with a dedicated metalsmith (already skilled in weapon/armorsmith) and then churning out so many steel weapons and armor, but needless to say in no short amount of time (I'd only carved out 2 levels of the fortress) we were already getting hit by heavy sieges. The first siege, about a year in, was just a single war party; followed almost immediately by another siege of 3 more warparties (and war cave dragons, but no big deal. just dragons)
Due to a mixture of dwarven balls and a silly amount of traps at my front door, we always repelled the invaders, but an increasing wave of unhappiness from alot of my dwarves, particularly military ones (yearlong training regiments and long battles in bitter slime storms, while being out of alcohol, seems to do that) was always threatening, and as I feared it served our undoing in a final siege. The battle itself and ensuing massacre was how you'd expect, but actually uneventful save for a Goblin general running into weapon traps and dying like a bitch in front of his whole squad. I gave up before they'd even killed half my dwarves and i had already settled on making a new world.
But I could not give up on my fortress!
I set about to reclaim shortly after fucking around in a different world, and things have gotten rather interesting. I spent the first year waiting for migrants and watching my dwarves run around hauling everything I had ever made ever, not that I mean after the first year I was done hauling. No, I'm well into (maybe even past?) the second year and I've still only cleaned up half my fortress still; but the most interesting problems so far have been in the problem of wereiguanas.
First off, there are plenty of goblins from the first fort still loitering around being friendly too us (naturally) and I've mostly ignored them, but lately a wereiguana attacked and killed several goblins before running off screen (my military dwarves couldn't even get outside in time) I watched him leave. And yet.. maybe a season later, one of the goblin spearmen standing around revealed himself to also be a wereiguana! Now I didn't remember if the names matched, but this is quite a funky coincidence. Now this one ended up killing a ranger (rather brutally) before 3 more gobbos rallied together and took him down (again, my soldiers were nowhere to be found)
Entertaining as that was, my latest problem has been in the most recent migrant wave. I got about 20 dwarves, and since I usually give their personalities a quick check I was looking through them all, to notice a clothier happened to be exactly like a certain shedwarf I had in the first Geshud Shash! I checked her affiliations and sure enough the times and names all checked out, she was a true siege survivor, and a good one since she had been a decorated speardwarf, and had also become a professional clothier (something I did not have) in the time.
Sure enough, I was basically giggling like a little girl (on the inside) only to have my hopes flogged and murdered once again when I found out barely after all the migrant had settled.. my speardwarf/survivor/badass has become a vampire.
She's already murdered 2 of my dwarves, and despite currently serving 200 days in jail that I sentenced her too,
I still kinda like her
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