Mandate #3: Apartment ComplexThe People shall build and reside in above-ground dwellings.We have begun work on a large apartment complex this Slate. When completed, it should be able to house an extra fifty dwarves at least. With any luck, it should also make me the most hated dwarf in Breadbowl.
Listen, I know that dwarves are very attached to the ground. In any normal fortress, the nobles usually get the best rooms hollowed out deep within the earth, while normal citizens usually end up somewhere below the sedimentary layer. Let’s face it though; Breadbowl is no ‘normal fortress’. For Tecak’s sake, we’re the only dwarven settlement that’s been banned from touching underground crops!
So we scavenge, fish, gather from the land. All this is aboveground work. And people simply can’t do aboveground work when they’re puking their guts out every two steps because they’ve spent the last night tucked up in their cozy underground bed holes. Since we came here, the Founders and I have lived in aboveground rooms. We’re not insane (yet), and our beards have not shrivelled. No, the People will move, and it will be for their own good.
We begin here, extending upwards from the Founder rooms. If it’s any consolation, they will be getting stone rooms. There is a massive mining and masonry undertaking going on in the mines, and blocks are being churned out day and night to keep up with the demand. Dwarven industry at its finest.
The rooms are made from a combination of jet and rock salt, although the latter is far more abundant the deeper we go. Suits me perfectly fine. Jet’s a dull rock; you barely see it until you trip over it. Rock salt is much brighter, plus you could always scrape some into your dinner. I’m hoping we can find microcline down there. Such a striking mineral.
By Felsite, the bedrooms are functional, but nobody seems to be keen to call dibs. I’ll have to see whether I can get them to move in willingly (read: forceful evacuation).
My plan is to have this section as a home for reputable/important dwarves (read: named dwarves), since half of us Dorfed ones are already living in this section. Also I’ve set the door to internal so I can expand the room size even further until the balcony. It’s a neat little trick to boost the room’s value. Now they have an extra 4 tiles of space + their own door.
Next up, the central part of the complex will be built above the dining room. Because of existing flooring, construction is proving to be bloody difficult. They say they have to dismantle the roof to build walls on it, and that takes time. Not to mention the structural instability that it causes….
Uh oh.
UH OH.
Right in the dining room, goddamit.
In fact, it punched all the way through the dining room, hospital floor and right into the well.
Context here, it really is a miracle that only two people suffered real injuries when the cave-in itself knocked out about twenty odd dwarves.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t hide the fact that those two people are Hiddenleafguy’s wife and baby son, and that they are now swimming with the proverbial fishes in the literal well.
You'd think that the ladydwarf who was just crushed by a heap of falling logs would be pretty well-incapacitated
hehe by now. But with superhuman effort, she
-UNH- lifts herself one tile upwards and plomps herself onto the ground.
According to the laws of physics though, babies don’t float too well
Har har. Hey Quasar, didn’t you say this game was PG-rated?
*cough* And the thing being, we can’t retrieve the body because it’s an aquifer. Erm. Yeah. That means we’ll have a dead baby in our well. Well
muhaha that got dark(er) real quick.
Wait until Hiddenleafguy finds out. I’m sure he’ll share my sense of humour. Or he’ll bash my skull in, not too sure.
I didn’t catch a screenshot, but he literally gave zero fucks. The only bad thought he had was ‘indignant at being forced to endure the decay of a loved one’ since I didn’t bury him. It took him more than three months to feel this, during which his wife had already went through about seven different stages of grief and mourning.
Now back to your regularly-scheduled program free of puns and dark humour.
~Tiiiime lapse~ It’s taken absolutely forever, but we’ve finally got the quarters operational. Building extensions upstairs should be much easier now, as long as the design matches that of the floor below. A keen eye would notice something – Taupe’s finally getting a roof over his head! To be more exact, he’s getting four rooms over his head. Hope nobody minds the noise.
The third floor finishes in a record one month. It is beautiful. Microcline is love, microcline is life.
Don’t take my word for it, but those Founder apartments look very Scandinavian.
Bearskie is relieved to have a mandate deadline met recently.Epilogue2nd Timber 238“WAAAAAAAAAA!”
Jeez Hiddenleafguy, you’re f-kin incredible.
Incase you haven’t realised, these updates are only vaguely arranged in chronological order; instead I’m grouping them based on undertaken projects. Most of the time I have several separate projects going on concurrently.
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