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I have 3493 bars of iron, 467 unrefined magnetite, 149 unrefined hematite, 926 bars of coke, 8 unrefined bituminous coal, and I haven't mined out all of any of that.
Do I have to release the jabberers on that sarcasm, young lady?
I have a repeating spike trap hallway. Bring it on.
... Wait, I completely misread that, I thought you were threatening invasion. What sarcasm? I really do have an obscene amount of magnetite, hematite, and bituminous coal, and I still haven't mined out all of it. 5 unmined magnetite blobs and unknown numbers of hematite and bitu. coal veins.
I appear to have misread you as well; I thought you meant that you'd traded for all of that ferrous delight.
Ahaaaa. I was gloating evilly and forgot to connect this to "if only we could trade between fortresses". I mean, I could basically ship out
all the things. Well, not steel, I don't have flux, but I could trade iron to someone with flux layer stones but a severe lack of ferrous ores. Oh, it would be
lovely... ah well.
In Laborfords, it's the 19th of Opal 233 and I've stuck Medtob Sprinkledlens in a romance suite with the five eligible bachelors who can compete for her hand. She barely knows any of them, but that'll change.
Edit:
http://i.imgur.com/A31BO1K.png is the state of affairs. The only actual new death is Mebzuth Hatchetwebs in the unpaired male column; everyone else is an old death that's been added into my catalogue. They're sorted by
age descending year of birth ascending, then living status, and actually I think I might move dead units to the top and mix in half-dead pairs...