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[Splint]

Playing a noncanon version of Spearbreakers. A loyaty cascade happened.  Picking up the peices now. Only 7 functioning dwarves, six of them soldiers.

[Loud Whispers]

Just had a zombie moose show up.

Sent Z. Baron Urist Muthkat to deal with it.

While dispatching the moose, 9 undead ravens showed up.

Z. Urist Uvash and Urist Likot Lion show up to help Muthkat. It's not enough.

Captain Nil Erith, R. Zuntir and R. Atis all show up to smash some feathers.

All is well; one last raven to deal with and then a zombie kakapo shows up. The Crossbowdwarves split off to take out the last raven whilst the hammerdwarves sort out the kakapo.

Both are dead, all is well right?

Then 12 zombie ravens show up.

Every Dwarf from the Pleated Stakes to the Banners of Ringing are called up to fight; around 60 bolts were recovered and I think I managed to make a record for the bolt with the most kills.



Tl;dr, kill ravens. With a crossbow.

[Fishybang]

This is my human fortress at the begining of year 4(i think ). Anyway in the big open space at the top, i am planing on building a castle where in case of a siege i will put all of the civilans.

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EDIT: Also I just had 3 ghosts rise from the dead. No idea how they died, but im going to leave them, gives the fort that worn in feel ya know?

[Splint]

my guess is one is that ranger who died of dehydration.

[Fishybang]

my guess is one is that ranger who died of dehydration.

Yeah, I killed him because while building the walls a werecavy appered and bit him, guess he didn't transform fast enough.

EDIT: An ambush! Curse them! Also praise them becaus

[Oaktree]

Dwarven acupuncture experiment going on!   

Four marksdwarves got shot up by a elite goblin archer and were hauled off to the hospital. 

Unfortunately two were dumped into the same bed - which triggers some sort of non-treatment bug.

Various solutions were tried over the last six months:
- Deconstructing the bed (which got one dwarf moved and treatment continued on him)
- Undefining and then redefining the hospital zone (no effect)
- building a retracting bridge under the unconscious dwarf and "popping" him into a bed (no effect on treatment status)
- building a upright training spear under the dwarf (his steel armor deflected all the attacks)

Luckily the medical staff was at least willing to give him water and food, so he lived through all this.

Finally built a copper menacing spike under him and got him stabbed in the leg.  The new wound got him picked up, put in a bed, diagnosed, and treated while he sleeps rather than lying unconscious.  (Though lying there for six months pretty much healed up his arm wound anyways.)

And I was willing to experiment since otherwise he was going to lie there in a coma anyways.

In other news a military shuffling of squads just put 160 of the 215 population into full steel armor.  Most of the reservists are now trained enough to be assigned to militia or full-time units.   Including a pick squad in steel armor - time to see if their training is sufficient to survive open battle.

[Loud Whispers]

my guess is one is that ranger who died of dehydration.

Yeah, I killed him because while building the walls a werecavy appered and bit him, guess he didn't transform fast enough.

It's entirely possible the bite never infected the ranger - it never passed the clothes/armour ;-;

Also floor up those murky pools. It's rare, but things can get into your Fort from there.

[Splint]

Alternativly, leave them open and positon soldiers around them a distance away. Force those riding amphibious mounts to fight in a bottleneck.

[Vent]

I caught a necromancer in a cage during a zombie siege, so I've been going to work trying to capitalize on my new slave. So far I've set up a few rooms dedicated to the reanimation of dead bodies, using a drawbridge to cover the necromancer's line of sight while my dwarves put the bodies in their place. When the drawbridge is lowered, the necromancer raises the undead, who immediately path to a chained up dog at the end of a line of cage traps.

My first test with the undead was a failure. I tried to release some of the undead I caught during the original attack on an ambush, but they immediately ran off the map when they were freed. Hopefully this won't happen with the zombies that have been created on site, but until the next ambush I won't be able to test it.

I've already had a few close calls with zombies nearly escaping into my fort, but I've since fixed those problems by creating a system of airlocks separating the zombie rooms from everything else. I'm secretly hoping my plan backfires and my fort is overrun by zombies, because it would surely be fun to watch.

[Fishybang]

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Apperntly the bushtit people like the castle so far

EDIT: Well, lost the fort due to my laptop crashing and corrupting the save Anyway guess i have to start a new one, and since Splint and Loud whispers helped me with the last fort, im naming the first to humans after them.

[ArKFallen]

I decided to play the Lore/AdventureQuest mod despite the fact that I don't really remember any of the game. I then proceeded to remove all the vanilla content I possibly could, completely changing every biome's inhabitants.

I decided to plop down a smaller, 3x3, fort. I noticed we had a Fighter to start with so he became the warleader and I brought along whips as an affordable-effective defense against whatever nasties there might be. The settlement is now in its second year going strong with 19 residents and we've only had two events of great significance.

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The first was when our Bartender (an Adventurer settlement needs a tavern) and one of the lashers were killed by an abomination. The lasher was friends with a bunch of people and the bartender was almost universally hated. Unfortunately for us the bartender's one friend was the fighter I dubbed Warleader. In a tantrum the Warleader snapped one of his friend's lower spine with a power attack. That friend happened to be our legendary miner. So my legendary miner laid in a bed, passed out, for over half the year. Then one day after I managed to get cloth and thread he got out of bed. I was overjoyed...until I realized he wasn't assigned any of our 30 crutches, and would likely never move at a decent speed ever again and mines at an adept's speed.

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The second was in our 2nd migrant wave. In the migrant wave came an odd couple: a martial artist (husband) and a pirate (wife). They are now our only full-time soldiers and are also the only wrestlers. The Pirate actually bit off an abomination's head during one of their rampages.

[Fishybang]

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The first artifact in the new fort. Might be good, don't know though?

[Splint]

Who cares if it's good. make a spear based army and have the militia commander roll with some bling of war.

[crazyjake56]

I started a new fort today and after about a year in I lost a ranger's life to a wereshrew right as the elven caravan came in. It's like elves are a bad omen or something. Which is why I bought all their good stuff with my worthless trinkets.

[Fishybang]

I can't get my millita caption to equip the spear