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Roll back to before Taupe's disastrous turn

Keep going and see what happens

Let it die

[Mr Frog]

Eyyy, sorry I've been quiet the last couple days. I felt like doing a few non-DF related things for a while. I'm so happy we have a pet pterosaur now!

To be absolutely-clear, since I'm too dumb to puzzle it out -- are we getting a Summer update, or should I PM the next guy now?

[Crashmaster]

Among the new births and comings of age came something I'd never seen before; a masterpiece boulder in Mr.Frog's support.
 

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New bed room blocks are being finished. Mr. Frog's masterpiece boulder is regrettably lost piercing the deepest part of the caverns lake.

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When the bridge is opened water will be forced up through two separate floor grates before the pool at the bottom of the pump stack.

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Most of my other attention is spent trying to keep the mechanical connections for IMMOLATION ALLEY on schedule. As spring's end and deadlines draw near we are attacked by banshees again. The military may not be ready but they are on station when the banshees' force splits and attacks.

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The drawbridge claims their leader and bolts and dwarves rush out. Support is ordered for the front-liners. Marksdwarves held back guarded by the squad of axedwarves.

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First squads go down the slope to the left to close on the ranged banshees as the others pick targets from the ogres coming down from the north.

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The enemy vanquished, civilians are given leave to return to the surface. A cloud appears, but only for a short while.
It is summer. Things seem pretty calm. I should make some plain old bolts for a while.





It's been an issue getting all our corpses discovered reclaimed from outside. Hard to remember where they are when I've had the chance to get them. Constant crundle issues in the lower caverns which are kept very poorly defended and heavily trafficked by civilians. I was lucky to get by just letting the rangers keep their population down but it is a weak point. There was a bridge but I never looked for a lever.

Forgotten beast silk production is very clunky right now. I think clothing might be an impending issue. Never got far with the waterfall plan but everyone is friends with the military since the upper barracks is in the meeting zone so I think it still has some merit.

For my project there are two last hatch covers left to link to the microcline lever in the meeting area. I think it's the two to the right of the center of the top row but it might just be best to let the queue finish and see.

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Much worse is that I built much of the lowest section wrong. Only the upwards-facing units got built right. There are enough masons though the wrong track-ramps could be de-constructed and have the correct track-ramps in place before the hatch cover linkings are finished. The track-ramp U-bends should point towards the rest of the track and not the bridges under the pathway, derp.

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If not, it is still quite deadly in it's current flawed state and could be fixed later. It'll take almost a year to fill each time though - fill controls are in the alcove to the left of the exit.

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PM away, we were each playing to the first day of summer now.

[Mr Frog]

Pity you didn't get to finish your contraptions; hopefully the fort will last until your second turn.

The masterwork column is hilarious and I think merits a journal.

Cherry-hearts hasn't been active for over a month, so I saved us all a headache and just PM'd pisskop.

[Crashmaster]

Pity you didn't get to finish your contraptions...

It was inevitable.

[pisskop]

Dear God the mechanics.  Im just a simply law-abiding dwarf, not an engineer.  Ill scrap it up and try to finish you complex devilry.


Law and order shall return to the fort!  Ill set up some basic cave defense for crundles!

pedit:  I shall reclaim my room from the horror guard!

[Mr Frog]

Dear God the mechanics.  Im just a simply law-abiding dwarf, not an engineer.  Ill scrap it up and try to finish you complex devilry.


Law and order shall return to the fort!  Ill set up some basic cave defense for crundles!

pedit:  I shall reclaim my room from the horror guard!

Ohhhh man. A storm is coming, bros.

[Splint]

Pisskop wasn't ejected from her lodgings. Jeff was.

[Mr Frog]

Pisskop wasn't ejected from her lodgings. Jeff was.

sssshhhhh

[Crashmaster]

Naw, I reassigned Pisskop's room leading to his tomb from the caverns barracks to the new millitia commander after re-arranging the millitary. Just too lazy to make something new or re-re-organize at the time.

[pisskop]

Its fine.  I mean, I was upset, but its literally too easy to either design a new room for the or repurpose the inefficintly used rooms we have around.

We have a whole room devoted to coin storage, for instance.  And the old hospital is literally still just standing around.


Ive alreadly lain out orders for a room for the new guy to hole up in to be dug.  Im planning to remove the bulk of the clothing indutry from that middle area and move it to tbe FB level.  Im going to move the wood and stone industries to the cavern levels and Im going to make all that space storage.  Im going to order some clay stuff to be done, and I plan to build a topside hospital that will feature more protection and isolation.  Dont know what else.  Ive never played with minecarts beside testing them for mass-goody transport.  I have only a vague idea of how to make what I assume were minecart defenses.

Aside, I dont like the dwarves hanging out in food stockpiles.  Ill make a nice statue park/zoo.  Deeper than the Mayors/kings quarters, so visitors dont get distracted by the chined up ogres.


Whoot-whoot for being a master-level crossbowdwarf, tho.

[Mr Frog]

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The Diary of Mr Frog Thusestdeler, Stoneworker

5 Felsite 207

Oh, diary!! I did something amazing today! All my practice, hard work, and that funny book I nicked from the Archivist's collection finally paid off today! I, Mr Frog Thusestdeler, have constructed... DRUM ROLL... the perfect pillar!!! The pillarest pillar there ever was! It holds the ceiling up at least TWICE as hard as your average non-heroic pillar! I worked super-duper hard on the base molding, too -- I even drew little pictures of His Gaudiness on it in crayon, so it's all symbolic and patriotic and stuff! I've been not-so-discreetly hanging around it all day, and it's been getting lots of comments on it, like "outrageous!" and "if the King sees this he'll have a stroke!"! Do you think His Gaudiness would really like it that much, diary!? Oh, I haven't been this happy since old Rakust was found safe! I'm going to throw a party to celebrate!

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The turnout for the party was okay. It's nice to just keep things amongst friends! Just me, Mr. Chair, Mr. Dust Bunny, and the rest! I was a bit upset that Ms. Serving Platter turned up uninvited after our little spat last time but we managed to make things up. Overall, it was super nice! Pity that dear Logem couldn't come. I haven't seen her around lately at all! She must be getting really good at hiding from me, hahaha! I guess I need to sing louder to prove the depth of my feelings!


7 Felsite 207

I... I just felt a great disturbance in the stone... as though the most faburiffic pillar ever constructed screamed out in terror, and was suddenly silenced...

Eh, probably nothing! That was a lot of rumbling, though! Maybe one of the mutants farted. Yeah, that's probably it. These funny jungle fruits clean you right out!


12 Felsite 207

DIARY!!!! I... I went to look at the pillar again, because I'm so proud of it, and... and.. AND...

IT WAS MISSING!!! Some awful untalented person must have so jealous of my heroic pillarsdwarfship that they kidnapped it, along with most of the surrounding stone, for some reason! That's such sloppy kidnapping! Who accidentally kidnaps a cavern ceiling!? A THIEF, THAT'S WHO!! I tried reporting this horrible crime against pillarcraft to the captain of the guard, but she just rolled her eyes at me and told me to go back to my room, even though this is clearly a heinous crime that has been committed! Suspicious! I bet she's in cahoots, diary! Just how far does this gremlin-hole go? Who can I trust!?

...I know! I can trust His Gaudiness!! Except I don't want to bother him, so I'll just bother his guards instead. This is a national crisis, after all! Our capital's guard force has been COMPROMISED!!! And only I, the heroic Mr Frog, know about the evil... it is a heavy burden, but it is one that I bear with pride... oh, diary, I hope I can root out the foul ones before any other innocent pillars get hurt! WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE PILLARS!?!?

[Mr Frog]

Eyyy pisskop, how's it going?

[pisskop]

today im in for a season or two play

[Mr Frog]

today im in for a season or two play

Schweet.

[Mr Frog]

Oy @pisskop, can we have some sort of status report in the next couple days? (As always, please don't make me have to pester.)