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Author Topic: What's going on in your fort?  (Read 6215458 times)

Jaxxie

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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30690 on: September 01, 2013, 09:51:22 pm »

Well, after Bodicevirgins succumbed to a goblin siege, a tantrum spiral/drought, and another goblin siege, I started up a new place in year 5. Soulhammers has a grand total of six women and one man, and he's taken now. Better hope I get a lot of single men in the first migration wave!

Better hope there's enough dwarves in the world for a migration wave!
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30691 on: September 02, 2013, 02:05:14 am »

Well, after Bodicevirgins succumbed to a goblin siege, a tantrum spiral/drought, and another goblin siege, I started up a new place in year 5. Soulhammers has a grand total of six women and one man, and he's taken now. Better hope I get a lot of single men in the first migration wave!

Better hope there's enough dwarves in the world for a migration wave!

Dwarf Porn.  Congratulations.   ;D

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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30692 on: September 02, 2013, 07:18:41 am »

Or better yet, dwarf anime.

GearedGalley has a twisted werebear now.
I may try to integrate it into a trap somehow, probably trap #3 if I have the patience/time.
(The first trap is a filtering dodge-me trap (at 10s), and the second is a pressurized-push into spikepit trap).
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30693 on: September 02, 2013, 01:32:25 pm »

I have declared the year 277 of my fort to be Spring Cleaning, lol (cleans out all the goblin junk I've accumulated over time without realizing it or doing anything about)

22nd Malachite, Those annoying vultures are back :P *sends marksdorf squad off to hunt them*

3rd Galena, okay, one of those 'bloodsuckers' has appeared. No not a vampire, a mosquito woman. Going to kill it before it decides to suck the blood of my dorfs. Edit: Meh, it's hanging out near the edge of the map and far up enough to be out of range.

Also, lots of stockpile reorganization for sure.
« Last Edit: September 02, 2013, 02:20:36 pm by smjjames »
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30694 on: September 02, 2013, 04:01:09 pm »

In Clobberhalls, in the autumn of the year 253m having earlier been attacked by a measly 1 goblin thief, 1 goblin master thief, a 1-squad siege (along with a kobold thief who had gotten inside my fort before I pulled up the bridge so I'd have time to check my military was equipped, etc.)...

... I get a message saying the dwarven caravan has arrived. Then the game pauses-centers-popups:
"The Hill Titan Thiliri Lafoyeque Quitheaweme Zepave has come! A towering three-eyed maggot. It has large mandibles and it moves deliberately. Its bronze exoskeleton is waxy. Beware its fire!"
... and when I have a look at the units list for a fast zoom to where the caravan is in relation to the hill titan, I notice some goblins. WTF. Sure enough, the announcements screen has "An ambush! Curse them!" just before the hill titan.

Of course, I asked for this. I was just starting to wonder where all the enemies were, and that this was threatening to become boring... Time for some !!FUN!! (for once, a correct usage of !!FUN!!! :P)


edit: I thought the caravan would at least fight off the ambush. But it seems it was just the outpost liaison that was near the ambushers, and he's not gonna last long alone... instead, the caravan was near the titan, and now all the pack animals and wagons are having !!FUN!!

edit2: The guards did end up killing the titan and most of the goblins. An enraged donkey being led around by a melancholy merchant was spotted. 1 merchant fled sane and unharmed, and the outpost liaison made it to his meeting (the goblins ignored him). A goblin thief and 2 kobold thieves tried their luck just as my military was marching out, with squashed brains to show for it. The ambush and goblins must've been hanging around on the surface for a while...?

I couldn't have prevented most of the carnage even had I attacked immediately, the fighting took place pretty far from my fort. This cleanup is going to take a while...
« Last Edit: September 02, 2013, 04:29:52 pm by Snaake »
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30695 on: September 02, 2013, 04:16:22 pm »

This is my minecart test fort located on a volcano island cut off from every civilization except for intrepid dwarfs and their wagons. No iron outside imports, not even goblinite. The only weapons-grade materials on the area are copper and silver and a little cotton candy somewhere too deep down discovered by a brave volcano-exploring puppy "volunteer".

Year 4 I get my first uninvited guest.

A Bronze Colossus.

Military is woefully underequipped, so far it has mostly dealt with stray troglodytes from cave #1. Most of them don't even have any armor. Some don't even have weapons. They've just been doing military training to keep them out of the way. No traps on the surface either.

Goodbye military, I didn't know you well but your sacrifice will be remembered in the long tantrum/insanity spiral. They make good effort though, but only the silver hammer hammerdorfs can even make a dent.

From the other side of the map the yearly dwarf caravan arrives with its seasoned guards. There's still hope left.

The colossal rampage is only slightly slowed down by the monster's weapon of choice: a x(tusk beard cloth sock)x courtesy of randomplants. Many rookies and dogs experience flying, but most are dead before they hit the ground, or even left the ground. This is a volcano, remember. The slopes are steep.

Fast forward a few months. All my military is dead, except for one brave dwarf that trains alone in the cavern, keeping the settlement safe from the underground horrors. The caravan left when a tantruming dwarf smashed the depot and all the cheese was left to rot in the sun. Their guards remained behind, either dead on the green slopes or in case of two remaining hammerlords, locked in dance to the death with the colossus. Now just one hammerlord, fighting tirelessly for months, dodging every attack, chipping away at the monster. Two thirds of the population are dead, lost to violence or sorrow. Here a berserk farmer killed a melancholy weaver with a wool shoe. Somewhere in the stockpiles is Blightclenched the dwarf bone crown, all that remains of a dutiful citizen who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The hospital is a bloody mess with long-lasting nightmares from the moment a hammerdwarf went berserk in bed and smashed the skulls of three other patients before a dog attacked and killed him.

A minotaur showed up too and smashed a few outdoors buildings. Nobody cared. Now the trapdoors leading into the fortress underground were surrounded with cage traps, so the minotaur can now contemplate a view to the caldera as she sits in a cage. Some new migrants braved the danger and bolstered the numbers with much needed fresh dwarfpower. Most of the dead are buried now - half by sheer chance as no one told the masons to stop turning stone clutter into coffins. Axedwarf and berserk farmer and pet keet rest side by side, in peace.

Two seasons later the nameless caravan guard hammerlord and the Bronze Colossus Liwa Eneriqui Rayathicuthefi, Liwa Boltshock the Dominant Axe, are still fighting. It is a fight the colossus cannot win, with three limbs and all of its toes gone.

Soon there will be more science to be done. But before that, a legend.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30696 on: September 02, 2013, 06:56:38 pm »

At the end of the year after the aforementioned carnage involving a dwarven caravan, no less than 2 kobold and 3 goblin thieves, 2 ambush squads, and a hill titan, a popup appeared, announcing that the world, Dathaecamo (The Ageless Universes) had passed into the Age of Legends. Probably was the hill titan's death that did it, but the age status is only checked once a year?
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30697 on: September 02, 2013, 07:02:35 pm »

apparently my marksdwarf, who's also my mayor is purple instead of green. every other marksdwarf is green. he's holding a silver crossbow.

i almost thought he was a hammerdwarf.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30698 on: September 02, 2013, 07:16:19 pm »

An insane, berserk demon that I imprisoned in my baron's office escaped. I had sealed the fiend in there with constructed walls immediately after he came to meet the head of Syrupurns, so I have no clue as to how he escaped. Somehow, he did.

He was... dealt with. I don't want to spoil how (the combat report is interesting, and will be included in my next update), but suffice to say, the baron has his office back.

apparently my marksdwarf, who's also my mayor is purple instead of green. every other marksdwarf is green. he's holding a silver crossbow.

i almost thought he was a hammerdwarf.

Yeah, most nobles (bookkeeper, manager, mayor, baron/count/duke, and monarch) are purple, regardless of their profession.
« Last Edit: September 02, 2013, 07:22:02 pm by DS »
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30699 on: September 02, 2013, 07:39:26 pm »

my legendary mechanic is the luckiest dwarf ever.

on the way to load a cage trap, she stumbled upon a goblin squad.

a goblin swordsman then chased her for I think 150 tiles before falling into a random cage trap halfway on the other side of the world.

his only hit with a silver sword was deflected by her masterwork silk cloak.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30700 on: September 03, 2013, 01:19:17 am »

Oh god... a fire imp got into my fortress through the channel for an unfinished Magma Kiln. He flew up 100+ Z levels of stairs and... and... oh god... the flames... he found the underground livestock pasture.... years of mushroom growth torched in minutes... the dying cries of terrified water buffalo and turkeys ... I watched in morbid, powerless fascination, as a wild Elk Bird (I have no idea how it got in there) was cornered, trapped by the advancing flames... smoke... then a trail of bloody ash and a big red E shaped splotch....

On the plus side, I think one of the macedwarves that survived the inferno just invented Fire Imp Baseball.
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« Reply #30701 on: September 03, 2013, 09:48:19 am »

Finished with the stockpile reorganization a while ago, thinking about how to deal with the five forgotten beasts that I have accumulated down in the second and maybe third cavern levels. Two are organic, one is made of water (blob that squirms and fidgets, appropriate for an element that is often considered chaotic), one is made of mud, and another is made of clear glass.

Speaking of glass, I've just had a glassmaker mood, haven't had one of those in a while. Going to savescum it to see if I can get something useful.

Edit: Green glass bed, not bad, though this brings the number of artifact beds to 3, heh.

EDIT2: The elves FINALLY bring a female peregrine falcon. I had gotten a female a while back early on, but that one died of old age, then later got two males. Time to set up a rookery.
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« Reply #30702 on: September 03, 2013, 03:11:06 pm »

A vile force of darkness has appeared. 1 squad of trolls as an advance force, which my military killed while I was evacuating the grazers from outside, but they did manage to kill a goat and cause the death of a tame black bear. Various melee goblins, ALL mounted on Giant Toads. So my walls and moats are almost for nothing, since they're just swimming in via the river that makes a bend inside my fort...

Guess I'll have to build retracting bridges on top of the whole river if I don't want them to have that easy entrance, or something... Or just build those marksdwarf towers I've been thinking of.

edit: or not, once the initial couple goblins were beat back into the river, my 4 marksdwarves (yes, only 4, compared to 16 or so melee) are doing a decent job of knocking the toads unconscious while underwater. We'll see how many goblins drown in a moment.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30703 on: September 03, 2013, 07:24:25 pm »

Started a new fort. A ragtag group of caravaners lose their last good set of wheels and post up in the wilderness. There's two guards and the rest have different trade skills, including two miners, useful for gems in the wall.

Right at the end of spring, we're set upon by a group of ten langurs trying to steal our food. The two hammerdwarves dispatched them without a problem before they went back to sparring. They also took out two horses for the sake of the hunt, and now we've got more than enough meat.

The summer brought a wandering group of people. The dwarves needed to expand from the small hole in the ground to a second dirt level. This level is just so they have room to sleep and eat without elbowing each other. So far, no help has been sent. A jeweller we picked up was getting bored so we gave him a log. Now we've got bone crafts coming in.

As a sidenote, I'm surprised this thread isn't stickied.

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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #30704 on: September 03, 2013, 08:44:53 pm »


As a sidenote, I'm surprised this thread isn't stickied.

Threads that are updated dozens of times a day rarely need stickies  :P
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