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[Larix]

^ One foot missing and nerve damage in the other foot - neither foot provides a "Stance", so the dwarf can't stand again, ever, crutches can only replace lost stance of one foot, not both. The only cures would be infection with a werebeast curse or hacked healing interactions.
If the dwarf has skill in any civilian labours, it might be good to give them a personalised workshop for their exclusive use. Letting them drag stones around is a bit of a waste of a dwarf.

Whitemountains: Phew, one project done. A properly adressable powerless memory. As per usual, building large amounts of memory this way isn't feasible - each _bit_ takes three hatch covers and two pressure plates just for the memory cell, and twelve mechanisms for links; 112 mechanisms, 24 hatch covers and eight minecarts for each byte, and 32 hatch covers, 25 pressure plates, 13 levers, about eighty linkage mechanisms, eight doors and nine minecarts for operation machinery, display, controller and output buffer. I carved out the space and installed the controller for eight bytes but only fully installed two bytes of memory, since this is just a demonstration rig. Memory contents can be direclty linked from a cell to an output, but also read into a buffer (destructively - the contents of the memory adress are cleared in the process) and from the buffer written to any memory adress (can be restored to the original adress, but also 'moved' or 'copied', because the buffer is not destroyed by writing).

By the way: this thread has over a million views by now! I don't know who the lucky millionth visitor was, but conglaturations! You _might_ win a fancy car in our lottery!

[smjjames]

Slowly the second marksdwarf squad is levelling up.... I've sent them on hunting expeditions when the opportunity arises, but still slow...

*moons the nearest goblin dark fortress*

HEY GOBBOS! YOU FIGHT LIKE WORMS! COME AND SIEGE!

...

[Bastus]

I decided to man dwarf up and fight my fear of Aquifers.
So I drill through 7 layers of aquifer bearing soil and stone via the double stilt method and just as I hit the last layer and prepare to drain it a pack of badgers rips apart my dwarfs.
Well, I know to deal with aquifers now...
Now I fear Badgers.

[smjjames]

Finally got all of them to eliete, no siege though, but an ambush did help. Preparations are being made for fighting HFS.

Also, I am having real problems with getting fertile peregrine falcon eggs. I left some in there for one whole year in an attempt to see if they'll hatch and nope, I've tried waiting two seasons before.

[Sutremaine]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is the second time that Catten McFlattened has decided to recover after getting down to a blood level of 30. I think she really is trying to prove something.

Her treatment list:
Surgery x4
Sutures x11
Setting x9
Dressing x10
Traction x1
Immobilise x7

I'm surprised her survival chances are even at 50/50.

[ZzarkLinux]

Working on the last batch of iron to cloth my eligible survivors (all adults save one miner and two fungicutters). Hopefully by that time we'll be finished flooring the water intake so I can re-activate my obsidian farm and finally fill the generator (It's completed and sealed, just no flowing water yet). Then I can start moving magma to the surface.

[Runehunter1212]

5th of Obsidian, The year 236 of the Dwarven age

Battlecheese burns. The Grand underground cavern city is in ruins, with humans running freely throughout. The emergency ale was broken into last night by a kobold. Little bugger got away with the entire barrel.  Food is low, and the chef is babbling about steel bars, and golden opals.
Well.... If he wants them, he can go ask those oh so kind, hammer wielding knights. Because I'm certain almost no-one else wants to go out there for them.
28th of Obsidian, The year 236 of the Dwarven Age
The humans are still out there.
And we are in here.
Dear Armok, we are going to die in here, and none of us are going to get a proper burial....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


So yeah... my once proud underground city, with buildings and streets carved out of the rock was attacked by humans, there is currently: A heavily wounded stonemason, the baron, and a Chef (who wants Steel Bars, A boulder, and Five golden opals. All things that would be no problem, if not for the fact that there are around a dozen armored knights wielding warhammers RIGHT OUTSIDE THE BUNKER DOOR) holed up in a bunker, and the total number of picks inside the bunker is 0, so there will be no escapes...Oh, and the dwarves? Yeah... they are all on the verge of tantrum. The Noble because his mandates for Steel Tables was ignored. (Urist McMetalsmith cancels job, Make steel table. Interrupted by Warhammer to the face.) The stonemason, because he watched his wife and two kids get murdered by the humans, and the Chef's pet cats were killed by the attackers as well. All in all... This fort is doing pretty well compared to my others, as I haven't run out of booze yet. ...'Yet' being the key word.



TL;DR: Much FUN.

[Mentalpatient87]

Noble because his mandates for Steel Tables was ignored.

Eeeeugh, a noble that wants steel tables? He deserves to greet the humans.

Okbuddustik, "Doomedboar," 5th Obsidian, 135

After the orcish incursion, the backdoor was sealed up and restructured. Guard towers were constructed at strategic points across the map (each equipped with a "Release the beards!" drawbridge) And the troubles with my Shaft of Enlightenment were mostly solved. Now Doomedboar is guarded from every angle by ten Enlightened warriors. Another squad or two will be prepared soon. Too many idling peasants.

We need the security, too. It seems both the elves and the humans are pissed at us. The tree lovers seem to be the best equipped. Whereas the humans and automatons only "siege" with a single squad, the elves show up with six or seven groups of warriors and call it an ambush. Still, they are no match for our might and trickery. The drow still like us enough to send caravans and diplomats, but if they get mobbed while visiting us much more (as is likely to happen) they might start attacking, too.

We were able to fill up our meat, cheese, plant and fish supplies from the mountainhome caravan. Selling them old elf armor bought us everything useful that they had. A trade tunnel is on my list of next projects. Our current depot isn't ideal for wagons and requires putting the fort at risk to open. It seems trade is our only way to keep the food supplies in order until I can repair our meat farms and maybe set up some fishing ponds.

[Larix]

Noble because his mandates for Steel Tables was ignored.

Eeeeugh, a noble that wants steel tables? He deserves to greet the humans.

Material _and_ item? That can't have been a mandate, it was a demand - "Urist McFancy, first last Baron of Battlecheese demands a steel table in the bedroom." (or other room); doesn't carry the justice consequences of mandates and they only ever demand one item at a time, so no big deal...
if you have steel, fuel, a forge and a metalsmith. If you can't or won't fulfil a demand, the noble will get fairly strong unhappy thoughts, which of course doesn't help much when that selfsame noble is one of few survivors in a bunker with little room and no smithing facilities.

[Mentalpatient87]

Still, he's wasting valuable steel.

Anyway, the orcs showed back up. There are a lot of them. This was the gist of my response.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://youtu.be/wyuUZtjZPwc?t=1m38s

Time to let the soldiers have some fun.

[ImagoDeo]

Carnagemines, 20th Timber, 1061

Journal of King Zuntir Mokezkonos

The count died several days ago. He went berserk not long after being seen naked by half the fort's population. The problem was rectified swiftly, but the lingering embarrassment drove him insane and he had to be killed by the fort's militia.

It's a shame. He was one of the only four vampires in this Armok-forsaken wasteland.

His death has brought a wave of insight upon me, though. My fellow vampires and I shall cease to hide our affliction! It will be a simple matter. Etur Likotezar has volunteered to be the fountain from which will flow a river of life. We shall forbid all of our citizenry from drinking the alcohol they so terribly crave, and once they have tasted his blood, we shall all join together in glorious undeath. Onward, my brethren!

[ImagoDeo]

I can't tell if it's working.

I tainted a water supply with a vampire's blood, added the [NO_DRINK] tag removal to the blood (which I know worked), and restricted everyone to a single water supply. I'm pretty sure over 50% of the fortress has drunk from those wells so far. But I can't tell if anyone's a vampire.

[Mentalpatient87]

Don't undead ignore vampires? Got any zombies on hand?

[ImagoDeo]

IT HAS BEGUN

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[ImagoDeo]

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