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[origamiscienceguy]

May I have a turn on one of the fortresses?

Yep, fortress 2

[EoyaBosan]

Hooray! I've downloaded the save and all seems to be well. Expect the first update before terribly long.

Just throwing it out there, but the last turn I played in a succession fortress ended with literally the entire population of the fortress dead. Let's hope this one goes slightly better!

[De]

Hooray! I've downloaded the save and all seems to be well. Expect the first update before terribly long.

Just throwing it out there, but the last turn I played in a succession fortress ended with literally the entire population of the fortress dead. Let's hope this one goes slightly better!

Hey! I see what you're doing there! You're trying to make me check your posts. I won't do it. Peddle your temptation elsewhere while I wait for fortress 1 to update....

PS- I've never played a succession for at all. We'll see how it goes.

I just got home from work, I can barely form sentences.

[Elagn]

Here is the winter report from fort 2

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Winter started well, with a good amount of work down in the deeps with the magma forges. The bedrooms neared completion, and much of the stuff for the new dining room is ready for installation. All of the workshops are now in place (at least that will be made during my this season). The food and drink stockpiles are made, but currently contain neither food nor drink, that needs to be fixed by someone.

I, personally, worked and added some cage traps to the entrance of the fortress. There are about one layer, in each way, but arranged so that caravans can still come and go. This is more to alert of ambushes and catch any thieves or animals than to stop forces that want to hurt us, but it will damage them to make them somewhat easier to deal with.

I noticed that parts of the moat freeze, along with parts of the river. The part of the river we draw water from for the well and moat is still fine, but much of the rest is frozen. On the frozen moat, I saw fools WALKING ACROSS THE ICE. Don't they know that it could unfreeze at any time, and they could fall in the water and drown? To prevent this, I made a second order, that, along with the bottom of the moat, the top of the moat is to be considered restricted unless it is absolutely necessary for one to go there, frozen or not.

Soon after, I noticed that both miners were idling. I promptly reassigned most of the hauling jobs on them, and ordered some new excavation; places to eventually make checkpoints into the cavers. At each checkpoint, there is a 5*5 room to eventually become a barracks, and one or two places that overlook where the cavern opening will be made, to be smoothed and carved out with fortifications, to let us post marksdwarves over the entrances, just in case.

The magma forges have been doing well, we now have a small quantity of steel, and the head smith was ordered to forge 3 steel battleaxes, for the military. They all came out exceptional, and the military now wields steel. 3 steel helmets were latter ordered forged, but I never got around to ordering them to use them.

Again, as the miners were looking for work, I gave them two tasks, to dig out a much expanded catacombs space, with alcoves for future coffins, that I hope will not be filled for a long time, and then a massive new expansion of the housing floor. In neither of these places did I order furniture nor coffins, but the room should be done for them, should they be needed. There are some unassigned furnished rooms still available for new immigrants.

As my term was about to end, I commissioned from the smith 3 pure gold statues, all of the founding of the fortress. 2 of them were placed in the two dining rooms for all to enjoy, though I doubt the dwarf who was stuck with the job of hauling the statue from the forge to the main dining room up many, many levels enjoyed that too much. The third, in the only sign of self-importance that I have tried to repress during my term, I ordered placed in my own room. I doubt that the hauler will get it there by the end of my term, but that is of little importance, it will be there.

END OF TERM

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR NEXT OVERSEER

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The rooms for the smiths are done in the depths. Some of them still have rooms up in the fortress main, particularly the head smith, and he still uses it for sleeping. You may want to find it and take it from him to make him stay closer to his work.

We have all of the resources for steel available, but only a small quantity forged. If more flux is needed, it is in the south-east corner of the map, near the surface. I suggest ordering more forged

The military is small, and we have many good immigrant candidates with experience. Currently, as I suck with uniforms and such, each piece of equipment was individually assigned, you many want to change that if you know how.

The job titles are odd, and you may want to change them. Note, that most of them are only enabled with the job given in their custom title

Food is currently all plump helmets and whatever we can forage from some parts of the surface. Newer, larger fields were dug out near the surface, but never planted

There is currently one totally inexperienced potter on repeat between gather clay and make clay pots. These pots CAN hold liquid, without glazing, as they are stoneware from fire clay. I suggest accelerating said process

There are currently NO cavern breeches, they are all sealed. Up to you to decide what to do about that.

Most of the fort is currently hauling stuff up and down the stairs and stuff.

Food stocks are fairly low, as well as booze stocks, and the stockpiles for the magma workers is not filled at all. That may be a priority.

The magma extraction is done via a iron and gabbro pump 1 z-level below the forges that has to be powered manually. After the lava trenches were filled, the hole was closed with the closest piece of rock available. If you want to expand the magma-works, more magma may be needed and that hole may have to temporarily re-open.

Many old stockpiles near the top are a mess that I did not organize, and accept virtually everything that is not raw stone, wood, or refuse. Reorganization may be in order

Industries we have: Carpentry (high level, frequent masterworks), Masonry (High level, frequent masterworks), Stone crafting (medium level, occasional masterworks), Armor/weapon/metalsmithing (high level, frequent masterworks), pottery (very low level), gem cutting(very low level), mechanics (low medium level), food input (meh, it gives us some food/drink, but very repetitive), leather working (very low level, no domestic leather), mining (High level, 2 legendary miners), woodcutting (moderate, good woodcutter or 2), wood burning (currently 2 workshops on repeat. With magma industry, may want to cut that to 1 for steel making), Animal training (low level, few animals to train), medicine (one skilled dwarf, no demand as of yet), military (3 low-medium soldiers with decent equipment, can make better)

That is pretty much it. Take or ignore this advice at your whim.

End of Term Fortress Stats

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Created Wealth: 344,079
Population: 61
Kills (By Fortress): 16 (9 giant capybaras, 5 giant wild boars, 1 wombat, 1 turkey hen
Deaths (By nature): 29 (1 dwarf caravan guard via giant capybara, (19 troglodytes, 2 trolls, 7 bat people), all by each other or the giant cave spider that had been hanging around.)

[origamiscienceguy]

Okay, I updated the glossary in the OP.

I hope DDDragoni will finish his turn within by tomorrow. If he doesn't post something by tonight, I'll send him a PM.

[DDDragoni]

Just finished- here's the save.
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11235
I'll get a write-up done soon, but I didn't want to make everybody wait for that.
And the competition stats:

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Population: 50, 20 of them children
Wealth: 221892 Urists
Kill Count: 2 by military, 2 slaughtered, 1 by merchants, 2 stray animals not slaughtered, 57 corpses found in caverns(on dead list but idk if they count) for a total of 64 (and 3 dwarves)

EDIT: The write-up:

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Journal of Dragoni Gatescoured, Overseer of Workclench
None of the entries are dated. It appears that the overseer forgot to record them

My child, thankfully, has recovered from his affliction. The spirit that claimed him has been channeled into a bone shield. One of our cats had to be slaughtered in order to obtain the necessary materials, but it was a small price to pay for the mind of my child.
Doren is calling it Berrypractices the Sanctum of Champions.
The miners have broken through into an underground cavern.

There’s bodies strewn about it- Giant cave spiders, bat men and women, and Cave Crocodiles. We cannot let the children down here until they’re cleared out—they’d be traumatized.
The miners also reported a single living batwoman, which hissed and threatened with her spear before fleeing deeper into the passages.
We can’t allow a hostile creature like that so close to our home, so I’ve sent the military to take care of her.
The cavern is full of ores- chiefly tetrahedrite and native gold.
A caravan has arrived from the mountainhomes, along with a liaison who has come to speak with our newly elected mayor, metalcrafter Inod Worthyblockade. 

Origamiscienceguy took the transfer of power well, considering.


Oddly enough, the caravan brought nothing but food to trade with us.
The mayor and I talked, and he rather likes the idea of having a second leader. He’ll handle exterior policy, and I’ll take care of interior direction.
I prefer it that way. Now I can focus on keeping our children safe.
Dammit, dammit, dammit!
We were working to get the cavern layer blocked off, when…

The damn spider killed a stonecrafter and an engraver before the military could get there. Grabbed them by the head and shook them around until their skulls collapsed.


The militia commander, a Speardwarf by the name of Thob, took the worst of the fight. The monster grabbed him by the leg and tore it apart. He bled out before a macedwarf, Dumed Syruproasts, was able to smash the beast’s abdomen.


He has since taken up Thob’s position as militia commander.
Fortunately, none of the children were hurt.

The spider took so much of our time and attention that we were unable to make any trade with the merchants. Instead of going back to the mountainhomes, they drove down into the caverns. Perhaps the food they brought is supplies for an expedition?
One of their guards killed a Cave Crocodile on her way out.
3 migrants also arrived recently- a Farmer, a Weaponsmith who has skill with the axe, and a fishery worker.
Today one of our cheesemakers produced this:


We’ve broken through into two more cavern layers, and made quite the interesting discovery in the lowest layer…



The miners are extracting as much as they safely can.
But utilizing it will be a problem for the overseer after me.
I’ve decided to step down, I haven’t been able to spend enough time with my wife and family over the last year.

[origamiscienceguy]

Okay. You may now check out Elagn's reports, and any future Fortress 2 reports.

[De]

Save obtained. I'm looking around...

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Thoughts summarized thusly:

-Wow, this is a twisty little fortress isn't it.

-Gosh, this is a fecund group we have here.

-Huh, my experience with wells that are directly connected to the river with no floodgate is that they flood, sometimes in spectacular gouts of delightful mist before covering your hospital in mud.

[Catfishboss]

Save obtained. I'm looking around...

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Thoughts summarized thusly:

-Wow, this is a twisty little fortress isn't it.

-Gosh, this is a fecund group we have here.

-Huh, my experience with wells that are directly connected to the river with no floodgate is that they flood, sometimes in spectacular gouts of delightful mist before covering your hospital in mud.

Here is a comment about fort 1

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I seriously hope there are no necromancer tower near this fort because the refuse pile is very accessible outside. Also next overseer should probably think about walling the grazers before the imminent goblin siege. Holy shit nice work on that adamantine

[De]

Save obtained. I'm looking around...

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Thoughts summarized thusly:

-Wow, this is a twisty little fortress isn't it.

-Gosh, this is a fecund group we have here.

-Huh, my experience with wells that are directly connected to the river with no floodgate is that they flood, sometimes in spectacular gouts of delightful mist before covering your hospital in mud.

Here is a comment about fort 1

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I seriously hope there are no necromancer tower near this fort because the refuse pile is very accessible outside. Also next overseer should probably think about walling the grazers before the imminent goblin siege. Holy shit nice work on that adamantine

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I feel like the adamantine could have waited for a more secure entrance into the caverns. Right now there are several staircases that lead directly down into it. Public service announcement folks: Doors do nothing against building destroyers like trolls and forgotten beasts. You will not be safe just because your 80 story staircase terminates in a hallway with a door.

[Catfishboss]

Save obtained. I'm looking around...

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Thoughts summarized thusly:

-Wow, this is a twisty little fortress isn't it.

-Gosh, this is a fecund group we have here.

-Huh, my experience with wells that are directly connected to the river with no floodgate is that they flood, sometimes in spectacular gouts of delightful mist before covering your hospital in mud.

Here is a comment about fort 1

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I seriously hope there are no necromancer tower near this fort because the refuse pile is very accessible outside. Also next overseer should probably think about walling the grazers before the imminent goblin siege. Holy shit nice work on that adamantine

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I feel like the adamantine could have waited for a more secure entrance into the caverns. Right now there are several staircases that lead directly down into it. Public service announcement folks: Doors do nothing against building destroyers like trolls and forgotten beasts. You will not be safe just because your 80 story staircase terminates in a hallway with a door.

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Put kittens attached to chains next to those cage traps then wall that shit up lol

Cmon De! You can do this

[origamiscienceguy]

Are you just trying to tempt the other fortress into reading your spoilers?

[Catfishboss]

Just trying to respect rule #3
Go team fort 1

[EoyaBosan]

At the beginning of my year, Fortress 2 has:
Population: 61
Created wealth: 344000
Dead/missing citizens: 0
Dead/missing other: 45

Without further ado, here are the events of Spring 127...

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Hooray, my plan to rig the overseer election was successful! They didn't suspect a thing. Normally I'd rather avoid bothersome responsibilities like overseership, but my hand was forced. A voice came to me in a dream - a deep and terrible voice - and whispered of bizarre and unknowable things: of time itself branching and braiding like a stream through shoals, and of competitions between parallel universes on the very waxing and waning of entire fortresses.

I knew what had to be done. As soon as I was elected I began drawing up blueprints, giving orders and reassigning labours as necessary. I would require substantial amounts of metal for the project I had in mind, so several entire veins of metal had to be bored out and the forges were set up to round-the-clock smelting. I almost fear my one year of leadership mightn't be long enough to see this through to completion.

Two weeks into the new year, a pair of elves arrived to trade.



For some reason, they decided the best way to enter the fortress would be through the moat.



It is not our place to try to rationalise the workings of the elven psyche; therein lies madness. That aside, I allowed them inside to trade, and found they had brought almost nothing of use. A few flimsy bits wooden armour and weaponry, baubles, trinkets, an armful of fruit - but not even a drop of booze! Who comes to trade with a dwarven fortress and doesn't bring booze‽ The only things I bought, in the end, were a tame leopard and two giant crows, in return for some a single silver spiked ball. They looked ecstatic.



My mother mentioned that she hadn't seen my younger brother Bomrek in a while. What does she think I am, my brother's keeper? I have more important things to worry about.

I whipped the military into order, putting their uniforms and training schedules in order, and, while I was at it, recruited a few of the more useless peasants into a new swordsdwarf militia. That one incredibly talented metalsmith I hear so much about produced some beautiful weaponry, and had his contributions to the fortress recognised with a new office.



It's little more than a figurehead position, with minor responsibilities but no real power. I'm just glad it won't be me who has to suffer through another tiresome meeting with the outpost liaison this Autumn. Kogan is now entitled to some better living arrangements, which I'll sort out as soon as I can.

A substantial migrant wave arrived, consisting almost entirely of unskilled farmhands from the surrounding countryside. Few are more than a novice in any given skill. Most fortresses would be disappointed, but this is perfect - all of them are perfectly capable of hauling building materials to the surface and assembling them into walls and floors, and that's all I need from them. I used a few of the more skilled or capable migrants to set up a scrimshaw industry and bolster the existing mining, mechanical and smelting industries.

My younger brother Bomrek revealed what he's been so secretive over until now.



I can't say I'm particularly impressed. Not only did he call it Brimscloisters the Target of Stoking (I mean, really?) but he did the whole "encrust the artifact with a fractal image of itself" thing that's so popular in the Mountainhomes these days. I don't care for such pretentiousness; give me some good old fashioned menacing spikes any day.



Summer arrived all too early, but thankfully work on the project also advances at an excellent pace. Everything is going well in the town of Workclench. Almost too well...

What a cliffhanger! Future updates will have more images, but I'm trying to avoid spoiling my secret project.

[DDDragoni]

I've my final fort 1 report to my previous post. Posting this so people know.

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I knew the doors wouldn't stop building destroyers, but they will slow them down while still allowing materials to be collected. And as far as adamantine goes, not enough was happening and I wanted to make some kind of progress after spending a third of my turn solving pathfinding issues.