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[origamiscienceguy]

This post. Just edit it to have the OP, then I'll make a link to it in the actual OP.

[Daniel the Finlander]

Done.

Chaotic skies added to fortress 1 turnlist, alexs2112 added to fortress 2 turnlist.

Gwolfski and Catfishboss are next. I'll send them PMs notifying that it's their turns.

[Nakéen]

Thank you origami for launching this succession game ! And thank you Daniel for taking the flame of the OP

May your reign be everlasting.

[Daniel the Finlander]

Gwolfski asked me to postpone his turn. It's now Zuglarken's turn to run fortress 2.

Edit: Zuglarken requested a later turn. It's now Tournesol's turn.

[Tournesol]

Save (131-01-01) downloaded and running.

I told Daniel this will be a very busy week for me already but what with others postponing, I'll take my turn but probably only start on Tuesday, Jan. 19th, expect an initial update at that date..

What is the tileset being used? It looks much like the Phoebus tileset I'm used to (or is that LNP converting automagically when I load it?). I'm running 0.40.24 with LNP r20

[Daniel the Finlander]

Catfishboss still hasn't replied to my PM, so I will skip his turn. TheCheeseMaker is the next overseer of fortress 1.

[TheCheeseMaker]

Alright, I'll get started tomorrow or Tuesday.

[TheCheeseMaker]

Alright, here's the prologue for my turn.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kogan looked down at her work.  The small pipe section, while perhaps not masterful, was still exceptionally done.  Satisfied, the dwarf left the forges and continued up the stairs.  The forges, built directly above the magma sea, were far from the rest of the forges, but eventually she reached the upper levels and the unfamiliar sounds of the above world.

Somewhere, the militia commander was arguing with the mayor about the amount of stress the military was under.  Their shouting echoed through the entire fortress.  Some dwarves began moving finished goods and other objects to prepare for trading with the elves.  Others began to place the finishing touches on the large outer wall.  Kogan, pausing for a moment, decided to ignore it all and instead walked directly to her bedroom.

The bedroom itself was decent enough.  The bookkeeper declared it 'quarters' quality, meaning that it was nicer than the bedrooms of most of the dwarves in the fortress.  It was small though.  Between the bed, the cabinet, and the coffer, there was barely enough room to walk.

Kogan opened the door, then looked around.  There was a small child in the room next to her, but otherwise there were no dwarves on the floor.  The dwarf entered her bedroom and immediately walked over to her cabinet.  Just below, on the floor, was a single sheet of paper.

The dwarf grabbed the paper and read it.  As expected, the paper contained of long list of random letters without meaning.  That was its purpose, however, a code to disguise the contents of the message.  Kogan quickly translated the letter.

What drives the common dwarf of Armok?
Greed and survival, fear of death and despair.

Two sentences, five words each (ignoring participle, conjunctions, and articles).  The sentence that meant there were no problems from their end.  Kogan, just below, began writing her own message in code.

Fear of death and despair is of the weak.
Death causes chaos.
Chaos prolongs destruction.

Three sentences, one relating to the previous phrase, followed by two, short, three worded sentences.  It meant successful infiltration, awaiting further orders.  Kogan waited for a short time, then words began to appear on the page, as if they were written by an invisible pen, now writing no longer in code, but in plain dwarven.

It is time to begin.  Your world is not chaotic enough to ensure its continued survival.  We believe that Armok is tired of waiting.  Soon the fortress will reach complete stability, followed by destruction by the great hammer and anvil.

Kogan smiled.  Below the new lines of text she wrote her own message.

I have already seized control of the leadership of the fortress.  Sewing chaos will not be that hard, I even already have a plan.



The dwarf grabbed the paper and returned to the forges below.  Not a single dwarf seemed to notice her absence, and if they did, no one asked her about it.  And why should they?  Kogan was the best weaponsmith and metalcrafter in the fortress, in addition to recently becoming the overseer.  They would have no reason to question her.

Kogan crumpled the paper and dropped it in the magma sea.  She would of course begin to have to go by her code name, once again.  It wasn't an issue, despite it sounding odd, she actually liked it.  TheCheeseMaker grabbed a steel bar and began to forge another pipe section, as if nothing had changed.

[Tournesol]

Spoiler: Fortress 2 Status 131-01-01 (click to show/hide)

I have just taken over the running of this Fortress. My first action is to get to know everything before I do anything, and for reasons which will become clear later, I shall remain incognito until I have done so. I will post some images of the fortress in my next missive.

KIll count is 559 (654 total minus 95 Dwarves)

And, as can be seen, there is a population of 88 Dwarves, including 22 children, and
Created Wealth: 4413839
Imported Wealth: 494651
Exported Wealth: 87423
Drink: 1595
And if this can be translated into a single figure measuring wealth, I don't know.

One thing is for sure: There is not enough booze and my first act as manager of this place will be to take steps to remedy that!

OK, I am new here and assuming the game loads and saves with the graphics selected for this game as long as I do nothing active to change those. Correct me if wrong. Using LNP r20/DF 0.40.24.

[Daniel the Finlander]

Have you read my final entry? There's some important notes there.

Spoiler: Notes for the next overseer: (click to show/hide)

-The pond south of the fortress is being drained. Don't touch it.
-Do not pull the gneiss lever in the middle of the lever room. You'll regret it.
-Keep training smiths, they have low skill levels.
-Attack elves next year. Kill them all.
-Do not pull the lever.
-When a militiadwarf reaches the 'Great' level with their weapon skill, promote them to the Ducal Guard. They only have three members currently.
-Keep reclaiming bone bolts below archery targets and making new ones.
-Don't touch the military schedules or I'll bite you.
- Do not pull the lever.

Spoiler: Stats: (click to show/hide)

Population: 88 dwarves (22 children)
Kill count: 42 goblins + 51 goblins and trolls, 1 wild troll, 7 crundles, 1 giant toad, 1 giant chinchilla
Wealth: 4 407 243

I'll upload the save shortly.

Good luck, you two. Please notify me if you are unable to finish your turn for some reason.

[Tournesol]

Have you read my final entry? There's some important notes there.

I have, a while ago, and am currently re-reading all of Fortress 2 in case anything slipped my memory.

Spoiler: Fortress 2 (click to show/hide)

[Notes for the next overseer:]

-The pond south of the fortress is being drained. Don't touch it.
-Do not pull the gneiss lever in the middle of the lever room. You'll regret it.
-Keep training smiths, they have low skill levels.
-Attack elves next year. Kill them all.
-Do not pull the lever.
-When a militiadwarf reaches the 'Great' level with their weapon skill, promote them to the Ducal Guard. They only have three members currently.
-Keep reclaiming bone bolts below archery targets and making new ones.
-Don't touch the military schedules or I'll bite you.
- Do not pull the lever.

Please remind me why you recommend I massacre the Elves.

[Stats:]



Population: 88 dwarves (22 children)
Kill count: 42 goblins + 51 goblins and trolls, 1 wild troll, 7 crundles, 1 giant toad, 1 giant chinchilla
Wealth: 4 407 243

I wonder how come your stats image differs from mine - mine is taken from the savegame I downloaded, before unpausing.

Part of the reason I posted stats and counts is I was uncertaing which numbers to use for the wealth & kill counts.
I take it Wealth is "Created Wealth" on the stats screen.
Kill count is specified as "3. Kill count. (Everything except for other dwarves counts towards this)" and so my number is the # from "Dead/Missing" minus the number of Dwarves on that screen. Perhaps my re-read will clarify to me how to do the kill count properly.

Good luck, you two. Please notify me if you are unable to finish your turn for some reason.

Thank you! I aim to finish my turn over the weekend

[Daniel the Finlander]

Spoiler: Fortress 2 (click to show/hide)

Please remind me why you recommend I massacre the elves

I wonder how come your stats image differs from mine - mine is taken from the savegame I downloaded, before unpausing.

Part of the reason I posted stats and counts is I was uncertaing which numbers to use for the wealth & kill counts.
I take it Wealth is "Created Wealth" on the stats screen.
Kill count is specified as "3. Kill count. (Everything except for other dwarves counts towards this)" and so my number is the # from "Dead/Missing" minus the number of Dwarves on that screen. Perhaps my re-read will clarify to me how to do the kill count properly.

Spoiler: Fort 2 (click to show/hide)

1. Kill the elves for roleplay reasons and !!FUN!!. The last overseer promised the Empress of te human realm to attack the elves. Read my reports for more info.
2. Not sure why stats are different. I might have taken that picture some time before ending my turn.
3. Wealth is created wealth, yes.
4. My kill count only included the kills of that year, not the total number.

[Tournesol]

Right, it took ages before I dared unpause the game and I am certain I must have missed some important matters. Also the game runs sort of slowly, so things are not progressing as fast as I'd like. So my first report covers only one month.

Spoiler: Fortress 2, Granite 131 (click to show/hide)

131-01-01

I need alcohol to get through the working day.

My name is 'Tournesol' Singeddaggers. I am a survivor of the Massacre On Children of 129 and the Purge Of Children in 130. I need alcohol to get through the working day.

The last two years I spent hiding from the Monster - in fact I stayed out of sight of all and any adults until I came of age a little more than a month ago. I did not trust them not to hand me over to the Monster.

My life's goal was to avenge myself on the Monster, but he is gone now. He doesn't even have a grave which I can desecrate. There is nothing I want to do other than stay drunk. I need alcohol to get through the working day.


Nobody really wanted to take over as Overseer after the Monster. Noone cares anymore. People are unhappy.

But there has to be someone, and what with people feeling guilty about the child-killings and not caring about things, it was decided to appoint the youngest adult among us as Overseer. That is me. All hail Tournesol, Yo ho ho and a barrel of booze.

I shall strive to use my time as Overseer to ensure I am safe and stone blind drunk. In happiness lies safety, for truly we have seeen the enemy, and he is us. And happiness comes from a surplus of available booze, the more, and more varied, the merrier. Also, I need alcohol to get through the working day.

It is all very confusing.


Misty threw a tantrum a few days before I was appointed. It seems noone was hurt. I told her to lay off work for a while and focus on boozing.

The (other) Monsters in the Depths worry me, I have ordered the lever which controls sealing them off from our fortress walled in.

Whenever I am in the company of others I get nervous. What if they suddenly seize me and throw me into the magma? I have left my militia squad and will use my Overseer privilege to acquire my own, and very safe quarters. I shall become a brewer and work in a safe place. The outcast Urlance has been skiving in her hut long enough: She has been assigned my place in the militia.

I am also taking steps to augment food and drink production and assigning more Dwarves to the military, as I hear the Elves may be on the warpath. Or in the war-trees, whatever. When people are feeling better I'll try to get everyone into some squad, even if only armed-citizen ones. Just so they can fight if needed.

So much to do, let this be enough for today, I am thirsty and weary.

131-01-15 through 21
An Elven caravan arrives. Two days later, their diplomat shows up. The duchess and me met with the Elven envoy, Emofe Damitiariva, who proved to be both arrogant and unpleasant. Straight away she demanded to control how much wood we cut.

We refused her demands and then listened to her news of war.

It looks like the world is turning into one big joke! Be that as it may, she bid us farewell in a disdainful manner

and then proceeded to call me 'Sun Flower' and suggest I must be descended from Elf-friends. This is where I lost it completely! A word of advice to you all: Never get me mad! I immediately ordered to seize the caravn's goods and kill our unwelcome Elf visitors.

And so it was done.

No Dwarves were harmed in this action. Zan Athsersazir Oburbungek, Swordsdwarf of the Ducal Guard, fought with his willow crutch.

Notably we are still not at war with "The Tender Cobra", the civilisation of the Elves.


In between, Misty slipped into depression. I can only hope time will heal her.

As Granite ends, Workclench fills with the sounds of industry and drunkennness. Work on my chambers are progressing nicely, and *am* I going to throw a party when they are done!

[TheCheeseMaker]

Sorry for the lack of updates. Progress is slow and I've been pretty busy. I should be able to get a spring-summer update tonight.

[Nakéen]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It looks like the world is turning into one big joke! Be that as it may, she bid us farewell in a disdainful manner

Spoiler: Forteress 2 (click to show/hide)

Priceless xD