Make the single most idler-and-friendship-generating fortress EVER devised, and let the women fill it from floor to ceiling with children.
But only Broseph Stalin knows what the dwarven translation of the name is, so only he can say whether it is laughter or slaughter being used.
My fortress has suddenly gone into ‼PANIC‼ mode.
For 5 years, I have been accosted only by dingos and crundles. I fully believed I was alone on this continent, cut off from all other landmasses and with no native civilizations to speak of. Dwarven paradise; more iron and flux than I could ever find a use for.
Then, They came: the dragonmen. They didn't show up on the civs screen on embark, they haven't shown up for 5 years of gameplay, and I am completely and utterly unprepared to deal with them through any means. No external walls, no trained soldiers, no traps and no bridges to lock them out. These guys send petty thieves like kobolds, which is what I caught. But they also breath fire in both the fireball and jet-spray varieties, and those thieves killed 3 dwarves that way. However; they also send sieges and ambushes, both of which enter the map hidden with no warning whatsoever. At most, I have a season or two to bunker up and train an actual militia, before their war parties show up and slaughter us all.
The goddamned thief that waltzed down my stairwell and torched three militia dwarves managed to catch himself on fire and ran out the front door-pit-thing, where two of his buddies were hanging out on the edges of the pit and started hocking fireballs at the troops chasing him up. The ‼dragonman‼ ran out, torched my enclosure, and then proceeded to set fire to the entire embark, just for teh lols. i built a fire-break specifically to prevent that sort of thing from happening and keep my workers safe above-ground, but no. Just had to humiliate me for my attempts to prevent massive delays in production. The rest of the dragonmen followed, leaving me paranoid and terrified of the implications of this.
I am SO glad 40% of the population has masonry duties enabled and I have 2000+ stone blocks. They're out there building a massive wall around the fortress as I type this. Nevertheless, I am in for one of the toughest fights I've ever gotten into in DF. Nobody suspects the draconic inquisition until it is far, far too late.
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OH GODS NO they set fire to my second-most-important miner!
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