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[Gashcozokon]

On a previous embark, I was looking for a good statue to carve, and came across this creature:

Wicked Champion
   A large hairy humanoid. It has large mandibles and it has a distinctly depressing moan. Its gray hair is very curly. It was created by the human goddess Uta the Slim Harshness and is of a part with misery and torture.

It's not perfect, but close enough for me to build a shrine of "Predators" wielding 'Curved Blades' and fighting various large beasts.

Currently, Summer of my first year has arrived. I have achieved practically nothing, beyond cutting a few trees and planting a couple of farms. When all of a sudden on the 21st of Hematite I get a pop-up box that my expedition leader is now Baron.
If I remember, that means it is likely that my home civ is in trouble? "Catten Whippointy has been appointed to the position of baron of Tonedtheaters."  The map centered on the dark -28Z below the surface.  None of my dwarves are named Catten Whippointy, and my outpost is called "Wheeledinked". using Reveal and Reveal All showed me nothing,  Only with using Reveal Hell was I able to see the area of the map where the cursor positioned, so... is there a Baron Clown below my site? Is that a thing, I haven't heard of it.


Also, I would welcome if any of you wanted to stop in and play. I am running a public DfTerm2.16 game of DF 0.44.21
TELNET into 172.218.49.68 using Port 34343 with Putty or your client of choice.

[Craftsdwarf boi]

There was yet another werebeast, was quickly dispatched by my menial squad armed with masterwork/artifact adamantine weaponry.

[Eschar]

uninspiring humanoid made of salt

That's why you don't look back towards the fortress.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Some dwarf got 20k pressure points so I left the game running. When I returned from lunch, it dropped below -6k.
Wtf?
Maybe all those negative thoughts expired at the same time?

[Splint]

Sometimes it seems like no or very little stimulus is better than a bunch of both. Isolation chambers with just some basic amenities seem to work wonders over a prolonged period, though I suspect it's more the lack of any possible bad thoughts to refresh constantly than anything.
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Incinerator worked more or less flawlessly - no dead thief bits cluttering the place anywhere! Except some purified humans which for whatever reason the incinerator refused to take. Also found an entire storage room and an empty museum (which frankly probably didn't have anything worth writing home about in it before Salty the Saltman ran everyone out.) There's an absolute glut of furniture, pre-furnished, if small, bedrooms and plenty of other furnishings to go around. Gonna need to redecorate the inn with some uniform tables and chairs out of that stuff and get a central food storage and dining area sorted while everyone moves into the residential sectors.

Speaking of which, I know there's a lot to do miners, but could you please carve those access halls for the living quarters? it'll make everyone's daily commute much faster with a more direct link to the main stairwell.

Also godsdamned forges everywhere. Like... Why so many? There's gotta be at least four rooms dedicated to nothing but forges, and there's not a smelter or craftsman shop to be seen.

Summer has also come, and with it news that a puppet was installed in a fortress to the west, and a hillock that had been abandoned years ago by The Held Papers was reclaimed and likewise not actually "part" of the civ apparently (or got conquered almost immediately.) Checking the civ map shows the cave has been depleted by roughly 20 dwarves - all accounted for at the hillock, which makes the new count at the other fortress all the more concerning. I have to wonder if it's just the count's son or grandson of the place assuming ownership, since his name is frankly gibberish by dwarven standards.

[Imic]

I tested it out, and I found that, weirdly enough, if you use DFhack to embark on an inhabited Fortress, it’ll have tanners, leatherworks, masons workshops, cqrpenter’s benches, forges, smelters, craftdorf workshops, and everything ekse under the sun, but if you embark on a ruined fort, it’s almost as though every single one has been replaced with forges.
At least the Anvils cost something...

[Naturegirl1999]

I was apparently at war with with The Fish Held, an even for, and they took over the Helm of Tones, my cub. They are not attacking my fortress yet, which is good

[methylatedspirit]

A weremonkey came and infected 2 people, both humans. They were sent to the hospital and subsequently locked in. Nothing really happened when they turned. I was expecting something !!FUN!!, but what can you do?

It seems that one of them had turned back a split-second before the other had, since they had turned against each other. The fight left only one man dead, unfortunately, so that leaves one human as a living source of !!FUN!!. To quote a certain pink starfish, "He's just standing there... menacingly!"

[Imic]

Set up a few pumo stacks and a drowning chamber is my advice.

[Pvt. Pirate]

or carve fortifications into the hospital wall and send your archers there.

[Craftsdwarf boi]

Or send it down into the third cavern layer, where it will likely encounter a FB (hopefully it is not made out of potash).

[Grimbot]

The Grand Temple of Idrath Jewelsilver the Golden Diamond of Gilding was finally completed and work was begun on the rework of the Outer Gate. Also, two new live Wereasses were put on display at the Royal Wereass Museum (probably part of why the Wereass figurines are hot this season).

But the best story to come out of recent events was the sad death of Cerol the Wrestler who has gotten sleepy outside the gates and decided to crash in the Human Dorm with a Dwarven waxworker (all of our humans are currently dead or banished). The Human Dorm is outside the Outer Gate, and when the raid came I knew that Cerol and the Waxworker were done for. Four or five trolls, a bunch of goblins, and several beak dogs piled into the dorm and grabbed the dwarves in their sleep. Blood flew as I waited for the raid to move on.

But they just stayed. And then more enemies filed into the room.

I checked the combat log and saw one of the most incredible examples of impromptu Dwarven teamwork I've ever seen. The Wrestler had disarmed a goblin of its hammer, but his blows kept clanging off the goblin's helmet. So th waxworker grabbed the goblin's helmet and pulled it off. Cerol's next hit exploded the goblin's head. The waxworker attempted to beat a troll with the helmet, but was subequently dismembered.

But Cerol kept going. She was just a regular Wrestler, but she went full Urist Wick on her enemies. She bounced around the room, tearing out tongues and ripping off ears. She'd leave a weapon stuck in someone's torso only return to it later after snapping a few necks. She went into a martial trance (something I've never seen a middling warrior do) and literally bathed the entire place in various varieties of blood.

There came a point when I thought that maybe I should pull the squads up to the top and see if I could save her, but she was never going to make it. All in all, she killed four trolls, at least five armed and armored goblins, and however many beak dogs there were before they became beak dog goo. Honestly, there were so many limbs packed into such a tight space it was hard to say.

We're building her a special hero's tomb now in the catacombs. Pedestals for the three intact troll heads and her arms and armor. I commissioned an engraver to do a special piece based on the battle, but let the engravers riff on Cerol's life for the rest of the decor. That's when I discovered that the only other mark Cerol had made on Reignboot was simply moving there a month prior. She died protecting a home she barely knew.

And the Dwarves are gonna monetize that too. The Temple of Idrath wouldn't have it any other way.

[Superdorf]

Beautiful.

[vjek]

First time I've seen such a complicated dance as this one, and 15 dwarves are performing it, while one watches.  I suppose it's possible all of them are like this, and I've just never paid attention.

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  Perform Dance   The dance has reached the point where its accompaniment is at a simple passage and a simple passage.
 The Assaulted Shields is a sacred group dance originating in The Vessel of Tails.  The form guides dancers during improvised performances.  The dance is accompanied by any composition of The Renowned Lancer.  The dancers perform loosely mingled, moving to the music's biban rhythm.  This dance is a refined artform, with three specific moves to be mastered.  The dance is punctuated by understated facial expressions, high body level and passive arm carriage, with movement mirrored by group members. 
The dance begins with the introduction of the music.  The dancers perform along an intricate path.  This crude section is punctuated by raised arms and straight walks, with movement performed in retrograde by group members. 
The dance enters a new section with the passage of the music.  This section is serene and fluid. 
The dance enters a new section with the next passage of the music.  The dancers perform along an intricate path, moving slower and slower with the music.  This section is punctuated by passionate independent body movement and spirited spins. 
The dance enters a new section with the bridge-passage of the music.  This serene section is punctuated by independent body movement and body level changes, with partially realized moves. 
The dance enters a new section with the finale of the music.  The dancers perform very slowly with the music.  This sinuous passive section is punctuated by twisting counterclockwise half turns. 
The ingish is one of the fundamental dance moves.  There is a lively left kick with a vivacious leap. 
The dudgoth is one of the fundamental dance moves.  First, there is a grotesque rightward bend with a passive body level change.  Then there is a subtle right leg lift with a partially realized clockwise eighth turn. 
The stalk•b is one of the fundamental dance moves.  There is a joyous backward bend with a refined spin, a powerful arm carriage and calm independent body movement.   
 The Renowned Lancer is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Taron originating in The Vessel of Tails.  The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed.  The music is played on a emad, a distat and a likot.  The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint.  The entire performance should be made with feeling.  The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form.  It is performed using the bidok scale and in the biban rhythm.  Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes and alternate tension and repose. 
The emad always does the counterpoint melody. 
The distat always does the counterpoint melody. 
The likot always does the main melody. 
The Renowned Lancer has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, a lengthy passage and an additional passage, a bridge-passage and a lengthy finale. 
The introduction is at a free tempo, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft.  The likot stays in the shrill high register and the emad stays in the breezy low register.  Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. 
The first simple passage is at a free tempo, and it is to become louder and louder.  The likot stays in the strident low register and the emad covers its entire range from the breezy low register to the strained high register.  Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. 
The second simple passage gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be soft.  The likot ranges from the raucous middle register to the shrill high register and the emad covers its entire range from the breezy low register to the strained high register.  This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range. 
The bridge-passage is moderately paced, and it is to be loud.  The likot ranges from the strident low register to the raucous middle register and the emad stays in the breezy low register.  This passage typically has some sparse chords. 
The finale is very slow, and it is to be moderately loud.  The likot stays in the shrill high register and the emad covers its entire range from the breezy low register to the strained high register.  Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. 
Scales are constructed from fourteen notes dividing the octave.  In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-xx-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-xO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes.  The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.  After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named.  The names are mabdug (spoken ma) and zustash (zu). 
The bidok hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale.  The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th, the 6th, the 9th and the 11th. 
The biban rhythm is a single line with twenty-two beats divided into four bars in a 6-5-7-4 pattern.  The beat is stressed as follows:
| - - - - x - | x x - x - | - x - - - - x | x x x - |
where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.   

[HYSTYS]

Oh shit oh fuck

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