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[martinuzz]

in the 42.x versions, it is normal for all diplomats to stay a whole season. They'll leave, just about when the next season's caravan arrives.

[Random_Dragon]

Got the liaison outside. I would assume he got the hint. My personal headcanon is that he was naive enough to visit here, he'd take their word for it that the whole "walling him off in a room" thing was totally a prank. :V

The bad news is that now we have the two yak cows inside as well, and I'm worried about if I butchered them...

EDIT: No, bad yak skin! Get back in the tanning vat!

EDIT 2: Savescummed due to yak cow skin being pure two-dimensional whupass. This time I got the liaison outside without the yaks getting in.

EDIT 3: The outpost liaison is kicking around an animated raven head. We've invented dwarven soccer.

EDIT 4: In Soviet Russia, dwarven soccer plays you! Poor bastard eventually died.

[callisto8413]

My Dwarfs keep getting trapped in trees.  Many have died already and now I have two Dwarfs and a Human in a tree.  Morons!  I would chop down the trees they are in but wonder if there is anything else I can try.  These happen to be in a militia squad and I was wondering if I could make them inactive or use a barrow to make them move/climb down?  The Station command is over. 

I wonder if my medical staff can help the Human if he is hurt from the fall?

I am really thinking that maybe thinning out the trees may help.  Hate to do that - so many of them are fruit trees.  But I think they get confused by the close, crowded, tree tops.

TREES!!!!

[Random_Dragon]

I figured that the dwarves of Coldtomb could use a few musical instruments to liven things up. Sadly the only thing they can crat is a type of wooden horn. The most common instrument they have experience with is a stationary stringed instrument.

Of course it would be made of bone. In this hellhole that is not happening. Also, it seems to be a lot easier to actually care about my dorfs when there's only 7 of them.

EDIT: The raven zombie that claimed the liaison has been named Eseriden.

[martinuzz]

Uh-oh. Forgot to fulfill my duke's mandate.. One dwarf is in for 8 hammerstrikes. Severe sentencing is real. I hope her steel chainmail/helm/greaves are enough, and I hope that bone artefact hammer does no damage.

EDIT: hammerer cancels execution: no weapon. Weird, the hammer is assigned to her as military weapon. It's strapped to his upper body though, not currently wielded, since my hammerer is on civilian duties. Maybe a hammerer shouldn't have a shield assigned  nvm, he has no shield.

EDIT: okay this means from now on I'm going to forget more mandates and export some banned goods. Prison sentences are good for general population moods, if only for getting rid of the 'not able to help someone lately' thought, from feeding and watering, while unexecuted hammer strikes are good for the lucky victim's morale.
I don't like my duke anyways. In his thoughts he 'was disgusted to be near a caged toad'. The heretic!

EDIT: in other news, the dwarven caravan is bringing a splendidly written book about the worthlessness of self-control. Tossing a coin now on whether to buy or not. I wonder if it'd cause brawls, or that it relates more to dwarves hoarding crafts.
-- okay I bought it and it's safely forbidden, I might release it on my fort later.

[Rumrusher]

Uh-oh. Forgot to fulfill my duke's mandate.. One dwarf is in for 8 hammerstrikes. Severe sentencing is real. I hope her steel chainmail/helm/greaves are enough, and I hope that bone artefact hammer does no damage.

wonder what happens if you retire during that moment does the sentence go through or do you return with a dead dwarf still?

[Urlance Woolsbane]

I don't like my duke anyways. In his thoughts he 'was disgusted to be near a caged toad'. The heretic!

You've got the poor chap all wrong. He was clearly disgusted at the Toad's imprisonment, not being near the Toad itself.

[Random_Dragon]

Well. I am slowly engineering some pump fuckery to get down a level and bypass the aquifier.

EDIT: Do you see this?



This is the dwarven symbol for futility.

[Random_Dragon]

AHAH! I've engineered a cavein method to get through the aquifer. I...miiight have had to mod dwarves to be unliving so they could do so in peace, but still!



EDIT: A grey langur corpse stole some parchment that was left by one of the merchants after getting mobbed by zeds. Like I give a fuck, we're busy making obsidian doors now that we got access to stone.

[Urlance Woolsbane]

Spoiler: rant (click to show/hide)

Lost a fort to a bullshit werebeast again.   attacked summer of year 1, right after the first migrant wave.  The werebeast was killed but so was half the fortress, 5 of the remaining are almost certainly going to turn.  I managed to quarantine a few who could still walk that I wasn't sure of with burrows but despite a (lockdownable) hospital zone and no other labors enabled the hastily drafted doctors (ie the entire remaining fortress population) refused to take any of the immobilized dwarves to a hospital bed and the game won't allow me to simply off the poor bastards before they turn.  Which would be the sensible solution.

I don't have enough dwarves remaining to get the crippled guys walled up completely before the next full moon since I wasted so much time trying to get healthcare hauling to work.  But that's the last option I have.

Yep sure enough only three got walled in in time.  Third fort in a row lost to werebeasts before even seeing the first goblin.  Guess I'll just be disabling them in worldgen until either a stable df hack version is released that lets me off fortress residents, or Toady gives us the ability to either mercy kill or move wounded. 

Never been so pissed off at this game before in nearly 10 years of playing.  at least before when something bad happened I felt I could have done something about it and learn from it.  But a werebeast?  on month 3?  I don't even have a dormitory yet, let alone defenses.  And the one military dwarf I embarked specifically to counter this bullshit, just got torn to shreds effortlessly like all the rest.

There is a simple, alternate solution: Open the DF executable with a hex-editor, then search for [ATTACK_TRIGGER:20:0:0] and change 20 to 99. Werebeasts on any subsequently-generated world should only attack you once your population reaches 99.

[Random_Dragon]

I've made a proper temple with statues of each of the deities the dwarves worship. All made of cinnabar. It's raining blood outside, they're in a sealed-off hellhole where the dead haunt the lving outside. A little mercury isn't gonna hurt them. :V

[Splint]

Since the last report, several small families came to us seeking homes, and were provided for. The building of dwellings is a simple affair, as the land provides what the domain of the dwarves refuses to us. We are barred from stone and ore by water, and our initial attempt to breach it has ended in disaster.

A construction accident has left one of our warriors temporarily handicapped and likely now battling infection with no cloth to dress his wounds  until the caravan arrived in winter. It will be a sad end if our Hersir does not meet his fate on the field of war. A war which, all told, may soon come to us.

An alfr horde approaches Morksongr, as already they drive the norse from their (few and far between,) northernmost holdings and reclamations. However, when the time comes there is no doubt in the minds of any that the alfr will not find a weak populace, but instead find themselves dashed upon the shieldwall, cut apart by the steel sword blades of gotland, ulfberht, and valkyrja.

We will show the alfr what true norse are made of, and show them their folly in incurring the wrath of Father Frost and the anger of the All-Father.

Morksongr awaits.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Somehow, my AI fortress has a werebeast in a cage. Hmm.

[Random_Dragon]

This gives me some good ideas. Loving the new image specification system.

Now I'm trying to mod goblin blood to ignite so that anything on the surface dies horribly.

[Rumrusher]

uhh dognado

so I'm gonna wrap up this adv relationship test with the discovery of Dog mob defense or when you have +60 dogs from neglect of a fort. oh well back to uhh advent farming I guess.