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[Tournesol]

Spoiler: Fortress 2, first 1½ months of winter 131. Comments, please. (click to show/hide)

Depression and tantrums continue during Moonstone, but until Mid-Opal noone gets seriously hurt. And at last the enemy bodies (and body poarts) are being cleared away, albeit very slowly.

Late in Moonstone the incessant rain gives way to snow, and the moat partiallly freezes which serves as further justification for the hardening of the courtyard defenses.

The Duchess mandates the forging of battle axes - I hope the metalsimths will do that, they've been sitting on her previous mandates of gauntlets for quite some time.

In the beginning of Opal the improved courtyard defences are done (except one single wall tile where a chert block is in the way, and the Dwarves are not removing it) and the removal of scaffolding begins.

It dawns on me that there is quite some traffic to and fron the "Outcast's Hut": outside, unsafe, unsound. But as I feel I am not up to overseeing for much longer, I will leave a note to my successor to investigate.

Then, on 12th Opal, the Spared eleven-year-old Doren Idenavuz, who has been in the loony bin for a while, throws a tantrum, lasting for days.

Next day, he gets into a fight, knocks the Chief Medical Dward out and badly injures Rigóth Udildum, shearer/broker. Rigóth is found dead the next day.

Doren is convicted of disorderly conduct.

And so I have to step out of character for a bit - no doubt Tournesol the Dwarf is as out of his depth here as I am out of mine, but nevertheless - How came this to be? Doren notes no really negative experiences since the massacre of the Elves, more than half a year ago. And how do I deal with this murder? I see Doren is convicted of Disorderly Conduct, but in my ignorance I don't know how to find out what his sentence is - this conviction was automatic and I find no option for me to influence what justice should be dealt him.

A similar thing has not happened to me before. I am new. So please advice on this - I've 1½ month to go, almost done, and may have handled the fortress clumsily, but certainly I don't want anymore depression disasters on my watch if I can help it.

[Daniel the Finlander]

Spoiler: Fortress Två (click to show/hide)

Corpses cause a huge amount of stress and might be the reason for all those tantrums. It also takes quite a bit of time for dwarves to recover from extreme stress. Doren's punishment will probably consist of imprisonment and beatings, unless you've assigned a hammerer.

[Tournesol]

Spoiler: Fortess 2, end of 131 and summary (click to show/hide)

..Yes, there is a hammerer, assigned by a predecessor of mine. Well, let the blows fall as they may: Murder is murder!

Meng, our chief Diagnoser, was appointed the new broker. Not that we trade that much, and the few Dwarves with any appraising skills are better left to their growing of stuff. Must. Not. Interfere. With. Booze. Production.

Hard to do anything about all the deaders in the moat.

18th Obsidian: Yes, mayor, three hives will be made.

21st Obsidian and Zulban the Miller is killed in a fight with yet another tantrummer, Alåth àlilasob.

The next day brings good news as Dodok Äsildom is stricken by a flash of creativity. He was a hauler...now he better learn something useful or he goes into a squad.

On the last day of the year, Tulon Kosothobok is sentenced to 5 hammerstrikes for not complying with the Duchess's mandate to make gauntlets.

And as the year ends, so ends Alåth's tantrum. She has been picking fights for a week an was finally knocked down and is on her way to hospital. Dodok is working furiously and secretly on his mysterious construction. And the elven debris at the depot is mostly cleared away.

One year as overseer is enough. So says I, and so say everyone else. We all agree that I am good at making and drinking booze, and that is what I will focus on for the rest of my life. I wash my hands of governance...actually I just rub my hands on the base of my still. Cheers everyone and happy partying to all!

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So what is my legacy as overseer? There is way more unhappiness now than when I took over.



Population is up from 88 (22 children) to 108 (15 children).
Wealth is up by 14% from 4413839 to 5033475 (*)
Non-Dwarf Kill count is now  around 675(**), in 131 notably 6 Elves, 28 Trolls, 38 Goblins - the rest is livestock.

And now, booze: At the start of 131, we had 1595 urists of booze. Now we have 3658. Yay me!

(*)   The current broker has no appraising skills, this figure was obtained by appointing someone with appraising skill as broker after the year-end save.
(**) Not certain how to accurately count dead dwarves

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

Have put notes on all lever/contraption combos I built and named the lever and the thing it operates on identically (e.g. lever "T Front Door"controls drawbridge with the same name).

Also put other notes here and there e.g. in the designated Draltha pasture.

An 1x1 Garbage Dump zone has been designated on z=140 with a Note "Garbnage Dump" on top.

Autobutcher manages the Draltha population

Several productions are now set up using the Workflow manager from DFHack. So turn on Workflow if you got it.

I've not released anyone from the loony bin after putting them there, you may want to do so when (if) they improve. The loony bin inmates are assigned to burrow "R&R".

The courtyard improved defenses are done except for one piece of (to be fortification-carved) wall at z=150. There are some chert blocks in the way that I have not been able to remove. At z=151 the wooden scaffolding is in the process of being removed - which is not strictly necessary except for purposes of recovering the logs.

Sodel Thobsherik and Alåth àlilasob may need to be re-scheduled for diagnosing (there's a known bug with this across save/load).

Also you may wish to read my predecessors notes.

Save file: http://dffd.bay12games.com/download.php?id=11801&f=Parallel%20World%202.zip

[Daniel the Finlander]

Thank you for finishing your turn, Tournesol. You could've done worse, don't worry.

It's now Gwolfski's turn to run fortress 2.

Edit: Gwolfski said that he might be able to play next week. I'll wait until then.

[palu]

Spoiler: Fort 1 question (click to show/hide)

Which minecart track is causing the problems? I don't want to shut down all of them, and if possible, I'd like to fix it.

[xub313]

Spoiler: Fort 1 question (click to show/hide)

Which minecart track is causing the problems? I don't want to shut down all of them, and if possible, I'd like to fix it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

All of 'em probably. The cats don't respect traffic designations, so they walk on the tracks and get killed. Then a dwarf has to walk on the tracks to pick up the cat corpse, which is why they were all forbidden at the end of my turn.

Maybe I should have mentioned that to my successor, or maybe that was the plan all along.

[palu]

Spoiler: Fort 1 question (click to show/hide)

Which minecart track is causing the problems? I don't want to shut down all of them, and if possible, I'd like to fix it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

All of 'em probably. The cats don't respect traffic designations, so they walk on the tracks and get killed. Then a dwarf has to walk on the tracks to pick up the cat corpse, which is why they were all forbidden at the end of my turn.

Maybe I should have mentioned that to my successor, or maybe that was the plan all along.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I've shut all of them down anyway, just to be safe. I'm trying to set up a magma pump stack to help replace them for metalworking

[palu]

First of all, sorry about the late update, I've been a bit busy this week, and this fort is a drag to play, even when it's not running at a silky smooth 20 fps. And to top it all off, the game crashed, erasing a good bit of play.

Spoiler: Fort 1 spring (partial) (click to show/hide)

3rd Granite:
I’ve started work on happiness improvement. I‘ve designated a new corpse and garbage pile, to hopefully get the corpses out of public view, and serve as a buffer against future deaths. In addition, I’ve begun work on a waterfall system for the dining hall. Unfortunately, the designers of this fortress failed to include space for the necessary plumbing, but I think I’ve set up a path that should work with minimal disruption. And finally, I’ve shut down the Fortress’ minecart system to prevent accidents.


Some idiot made a mole bone amulet. It’s covered in leather spikes, and has a picture of some puzzlebox on it. Great. I don't care.

Elf diplomat showed up. What does he want?

6th Granite:
Some axe lord named his shield. Why is it so important that he dragged me all the way from where I was supervising the digging of new plumbing all the way up to the barracks?

I’ve decided to requisition one of the empty jail cells for an office. It’s close to the work, and tastefully engraved, and I feel it's appropriate.


16 Granite:
I cant take it! Everyone here is crazy! Nothing gets done! So much to do, so little time!

I really need a drink.

24 Granite:
Waterfall running, but I was too late for poor Sazkul. Can I drink yet? Also elves showed up. Didn’t seem to have anything I wanted, so I ignored them.

9th Slate:
More and more, I find myself stumbling obliviously around the fortress. Not enough dwarves happy. Can’t drink yet. Renovating the dining hall with silver furniture.

12th Slate:
I’ve discovered a half-finished magma pump stack, no doubt begun by some previous overseer, then forgotten when his term ended. I shall see if I can finish it. This could be a great benefit to the fortress’ metal industry, especially with the minecarts shut down

19th Slate:
Some fire imps got into the pump diggings. I sent the military to deal with them, but they killed somebody. Not sure who.

I'll try to replay the rest of spring tomorrow, and update then

Spoiler: EDIT (click to show/hide)

Well, my dwarf got depressed. Great. I'm assuming I should redwarf myself. I suppose It's my fault for picking one of the most depressed dwarves in the fort. Editedit: NVM. I could have sworn I got the announcement.

Spoiler: End spring (click to show/hide)

Well, not much happened except for a few depressions. I've decided to just run without a dwarf, as that's easier and I just want to finish. I did engrave the forge quarters, and I'm working on more of the fort, hopefully that'll help

[palu]

Alright, here's fort 1 summer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So, there goes summer. Things seem to go by so slowly. Anyway, I haven't had the chance to write a day by day log, I've been too busy moping around the fort.

So, the first thing that happened, right as summer started, was a goblin seige. I locked the gates, and brought out the military. I set up a few traps at the west gate, but it turns out I didn't really need them. Our military is frighteningly effective. I don't think they took a single casualty. I even saw a marksdwarf out there in the middle of the fight, holding off four or five goblins, in meele, without taking a scratch.

For some reason, a whole bunch of them tried to stand in the same spot. Is it some new defensive formation?

The real danger from the siege was the dwarves freaking out at seeing goblin corpses, and getting upset. We had a few depressions from that, but nobody important that I saw.
On the morale front, I've built a new statue garden, hopefully that'll please the people.

And finally, there was an attack by a rather... interesting werebeast. Killed one kid, then transformed into a human and was beaten to death by a trap full of wooden swords.

[Tournesol]

Spoiler: Fortress 1 (click to show/hide)

What's with all the depression? Dwarves are such emos.

[Daniel the Finlander]

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

[Zuglarkun]

I am afraid I will have to postphone again. Have my hands full at the moment and I'm also running Breadbowl.

[Daniel the Finlander]

Very well. Have fun running Breadbowl!

It's now Nep Nep's turn to run fortress 2.

[palu]

Spoiler: Fortress 1 (click to show/hide)

What's with all the depression? Dwarves are such emos.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

They've all wimps about goblin corpses, I think

[palu]

Spoiler: Fortress 1 (click to show/hide)

Well, it looks like we have a bit of a problem. Something, I don't know what, happened in the barracks, perhaps a tantrum, I'm not quite sure, and, well...

I count at least 11 dead, and more wounded. The entire mace squad, all but one of the lashers, some other military dwarves, and a few civvies who were working on construction. Something happened, I have no idea what, maybe a tantrum?

The reports clearly show dwarves hacking eachother to death, though



It seems to have stopped now, though, at least I hope