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[TD1]

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And the good south wind still blew behind,
But no sweet bird did follow,
Nor any day for food or play
Came to the mariner's hollo!

And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist.

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.

Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!

All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.

And some in dreams assurèd were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.

And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.

In other words - dead Albatross corpses everywhere. An auspicious start.

[Dunamisdeos]

The real question is how is the weasel staying aloft with his albatross comrades

[Tacomagic]

The real question is how is the weasel staying aloft with his albatross comrades

The weasel was probably fired off by a novice siege operator and he keeps missing the planet.

[Prop42]

So, I started a fresh fort, now in 0.43. Everything was going fine until the first autumn, at which point the local vulture population decided that my dwarves were a menace to society. Whenever a dwarf tried to go outside, they spammed about 50 "Interrupted by vulture" messages in half a second, then ran back into the fort. For some reason, basically every job, including things that should have been unaffected like sleeping several z levels below, or mining in a cavern, became cancelled immediately, despite none of the vultures actually being anywhere near the fort, and in fact being about 50 z levels in mid air at the time. As the two macedwarves that my military consisted of at the time could not fly, they were unable to remove the source of the problem, and nothing got done for several months, until everyone died of dehydration after being unable to reach any liquids due to the apparently telekinetic vultures.

Quite possibly one of the silliest ways I've ever lost a fort. Presumably, it was the work of an enemy stand elves.

[Kogan Onulsodel]

My first 0.43 fort just met with FUN end. It was only in its second year, about 20 dwarfs, and I didn't turtle on this one. My best warrior happened to be out and about... without his weapon or armor... when he stumbled on a werelemur. That ended him before he could get to any defenses. The werebeast got a couple more dwarves before the rest of the militia showed up (and he turned back into a human at about the same time). Then, just as my dwarves are burying the dead and getting back to work... necromancers show up. My dwarves were overwhelmed, and it didn't help that there were several corpses nearby for them to raise.

It's a shame, too, it promised . I'd just gotten magma furnaces set up, there were whole layers of chalk and magnetite, and it had the tallest adamantine spire I've ever encountered (I'd already mined out over 200 raw adamantine without any risk of breaching the main spire, and I was maybe a third of the way down).

[DG]

Someone finally decided to play one of my instruments rather than just simulating it! All it required was having the whole fort largely idle for a year while I await materials for the Proper Fort Project^TM. I also notice that Dastot is credited with creating all of the parts, but that is not true. The assembler must be overriding all credit.



Surprisingly, a photo made it into the Daily Urist. I can't really get a tab on what those guys consider worthy of print.

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Wow. She sure has some asymmetrical eyebrows. Also, artistic license not even being a novice at the ugath means that she doesn't yet realize that she should only be using one mallet.

---EDIT---

With things so slow I decided to make my entire population (not many) into scholars to see what would happen as I haven't yet experimented with them. I formed a library in the bare dirt and gave it a title and then made everyone purple. As soon as I unpaused a gorlak scholar turned up.

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I like her cos she seems cheerful. She's now Discussing Pulmonary Medicine! It's pretty cool. My dwarves have been discussing windlasses, military ethics, processes and medicine. The wiki led me to believe that they wouldn't do much else early on when made scholars but they all seem willing to break off their discussions to do other work when it comes up.

Also, not long after creating a library my first siege turned up after 10 years to be consumed by my cage traps. Coincidence? I think not. Now a question. If I slowly and carefully feed goblins to my uninvited feathered sauropod will it learn fighting skills?

[TheFlame52]

Also, not long after creating a library my first siege turned up after 10 years to be consumed by my cage traps. Coincidence? I think not. Now a question. If I slowly and carefully feed goblins to my uninvited feathered sauropod will it learn fighting skills?

No. But don't let that stop you!

[Urist McShire]

A Dwarven Child of Combatcloistered just punched a rhesus macaque in the head and killed it...

She sounds like my two-year-old nephew...

[Dunamisdeos]

A Dwarven Child of Combatcloistered just punched a rhesus macaque in the head and killed it...

She sounds like my two-year-old nephew...

........ does he kill monkeys with his bare hands frequently, your nephew?

[Random_Dragon]

...you've struck a vein full of eggplant brutes! You fools!

EDIT: Ahah! Got stairs down to ground level of hell, without getting mobbed.

[Boatsniper]

eggplant brutes

What the fuck.

[Random_Dragon]

eggplant brutes

What the fuck.

That's what I'd like to know.

[ManaUser]

Had a small but entertaining goblin siege. First of all, my drowning trap failed, the goblins wouldn't enter it for some reason. More on that later, perhaps. But what they did do was very interesting. Their melee fighters held back, while a pair of bowmen (or a crossbowman and a bowman? Doesn't matter) rushed a lookout post (a dog ringed by fortifications). They shot the dog of course, my only loss in the battle. But then in an amazing display of either luck or cunning, they jumped or climbed inside the fortification! Now I had a little bit of a problem. The goblins refused to come in through my trap and their now fortified bowmen could be a serious threat.

Fortunately, the surface level part of my fort also includes a large wall topped with fortifications. So following advice I read hear that using "station" on marksdwarves makes them behave rashly, I instead defined a burrow overlooking the captured lookout post and sent my crossbow squad there. Being more skilled, my squad could shoot through the fortifications while they could not. Once the two goblins in there were incapacitated (one of their noses was shot off with a pair wood bolt ), I sent my axe dwarves out to deal with the melee goblins (no problem) and then send the marksdwarves in to to finish off the goblins in the lookout post at close range.

And then the mayor had someone beaten to death for not making splints fast enough. wait, what?

[Eric Blank]

eggplant brutes

What the fuck.

That's what I'd like to know.

It refers to the color more likely than not. Although I don't see "eggplant" anywhere on that list. Maybe they really are living eggplant horrors.

[DG]

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Also, not long after creating a library my first siege turned up after 10 years to be consumed by my cage traps. Coincidence? I think not. Now a question. If I slowly and carefully feed goblins to my uninvited feathered sauropod will it learn fighting skills?

No. But don't let that stop you!

That's a shame. I suppose they don't have [CAN_LEARN]. Still, it could probably do with some protein so I'll take your advice.

Something unexpected happened with my siege. There was a largish squad of bowgoblins that all fell into my cages except for one. This last goblin stood on top of the drawbridge (2x3 in size) I can raise just in case there is a siege so large that I don't have enough cages to break their morale or I haven't had time to reset them. He spent around a month chilling so I decided to pull the lever and catapult him out of his torpor, except he disappeared. He's now dead in my unit list and there is no body to be found as would be expected if I had atom smashed him. Is this a new thing? I often used to catapult goblins with drawbridges quite a few versions back.