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[Spriggans]

Early disclaimer :
I didn't built much in this turn. I actually only build (dug) 25 squares. But what I did was much mire valuable (or not).


Okay. Some fresh news. Things are going well ! =D




I started my play as an adventurer. Went to a temple, toppled a statue, and got infected with a were-curse !

Spoiler: Were Kangoroo (click to show/hide)

After that, I used legend viewer to find a vampire nearby. I made him bleed and gathered his blood (a werebeast cannot be a vamp, so I just gathered the blood).

Spoiler: Fresh blood ! (click to show/hide)

And finally, I raided a tower. It was easy, the corpses were harmless. Found 3 books and one slab.

Spoiler: Secrets of Life and Death (click to show/hide)

I'm here to steal the books ! Necro man !

Then, I walked all the way to the fortress. Retired the adventurer here.

Shots :

Spoiler: Screenshots (click to show/hide)

I sealed the adventurer in a little box. He will not die of thirst or hunger (because necro). He is the first were-kangoroo of his kind. We will need to "breed" him.

note : For some reason, he has hauling labors turned on. He can't do shit though. No military, no nobling, no jobs.
So, I used burrows to make him go into the box. Otherwise, I can't control him.
Yes, there is a dwarf with him in the box, I know.

All our booze got lost ! It happens when you retire a fortress... We'll make more, it's no biggy.


Also, I think something went wrong with my adventures because we have tons of merchants now belonging to us.

We should probably kill them because they can't take any jobs...

I put the necromancy books in the cathedral. They are forbidden so no reading just yet.


Sadly, the vampire blood desapeared...
We will have to wait for a vampire migrant if we want a vampire fort.

I DECLARE I AM FINISHED.

Here is the save


For the next ruler, here are some thoughts :

- I think we can start dividing the fortress into two (or three) kinds.
The necros, sealed in their librairy, they are on their own;
The were-kangoroos (destroying all buildings every month, but still needing food to survive);
And the vanilla dwarves, trying to clean the mess, feeding the were beasts through dumping of food/drinks.

- I'm not a great builder, so maybe someone can carve goods hallways and rooms for the castes.

- We need to do something with theese useless merchants. Ideas are welcome. I thought we could feed them to the were-beasts.

- Have fun !


EDIT : Ok... Ok... You were screaming at you screen from the start, I just noticed it... It's "Kangaroo", not "Kangoroo".
Well, I'm french, so who cares, I won't spend more time correcting typos

[thriggle]

That's amazing! You're a mad man...

I DECLARE I AM PLAYING

Update One:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I think you picked a good test subject, Spriggans. She seems committed to the experiment.



...but unfortunately, nothing seems to be happening. After transforming, the werekangaroo is completely ignoring her!



They're just... hanging out. And unfortunately she's starting to get hungry!

Meanwhile, I'm preparing a special home for the lazy merchants.

Update Two:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well, I was unable to get the lazy merchants to move to the murderhole, since they seem to be ignoring burrow restrictions.

So instead I converted the murderhole into a library. A library carved from ice, built around a pillbox containing a giant cave spider.


Our test subject was starting to starve, and our werekangaroo seems surprisingly peaceful, so I released the test subject, though I'm still keeping the werekangaroo under observation. I might drop in some other test subjects to see if I can provoke the beast.

Update Three:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There's miasma everywhere. Looks like the merchants that were here when the site was unretired dropped all their stuff in massive piles throughout the fortress. Now all their spoilable foodstuffs are rotting.


Also I got a message that a section of the cavern collapsed, and was brought down to the magma pool:

How long have the caverns been flooded with magma? What's going on down here?

Update Four:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I found out how to get the lazy merchants into my murderhole!

I built some beds in the murderhole and then created a dormitory.

The lazy merchants IMMEDIATELY flocked to the dormitory and collapsed on the ice and went to sleep. (They didn't even bother going to the beds!)

I believe that they'll stay there now, since I've got a burrow set up to confine them there.

In other news, I'm trying to get us some paper so our smart researchers in the murderhole can write down their great ideas, but we seem to have a pig tail shortage. I might need to investigate making vellum for my first time. Armok knows we have plenty of animals we can butcher!

Update Five:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aha! The werebeast's second transformation was successful. I think it was because this time a non-resident was in the test chamber with the werekangaroo.

This interloper was present because I'd designated the test chamber as a temple, thinking it would make the werebeast a bit happier if he could worship at will. I didn't consider that the temple zone would attract a bunch of other worshippers who'd be there to witness the were-curse...

And the best part is that, by happy accident, the original test subject happened to be worshipping in the chamber at the time of the transformation!

Update Six:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well... that didn't work as well as I would have hoped.

Things might have gone fine if the werekangaroo hadn't decided to raise any fallen corpses as zombies, which proceeded to attack both the werekangaroo and the other test subjects.

The werekangaroo survived, but the other test subjects did not.

Also, the lazy merchants are really being awful. They're thirsty, so our dwarves are using up all the buckets to bring the lazy merchants water. This has interfered with the operation of our dwarven water reactor.

Hmmm... NEW PLAN. Move the werekangaroo to the murderhole.

If things start to get out of hand, I'll lower the drawbridges on the Giant Cave Spider pillbox.

Update Seven:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sadly, the werekangaroo is no more. He was dogpiled by merchants.

It all started when he transformed in the middle of the murderhole.


He started killing merchants and raising them from the dead, then fighting both the merchants and the zombies. To try to calm things down I released the giant cave spider.





The GCS started shooting webs at the zombies and merchants. I'd hoped it would help put an end to combat so that some combatants might survive and carry on the werebeast infection, but it seems like it instead made the entangled captives vulnerable to their foes. Merchants started dying left and right.

Suddenly, the tide shifted, and the werekangaroo began running around the room, terrified! I checked his description and confirmed that he'd transformed back into a dwarf... but the merchants were still assaulting him.

He eventually found himself entangled in a web that the GCS had shot at a zombie, at which point the surviving merchants ganged up on him and kicked his head in.



Rest In Peace, Necro-Were-Kangaroo.

The good news is that we have a viable silk farm!

[thriggle]

I DECLARE THAT I AM FINISHED

The save: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12089

[Spriggans]

Wow... WTF ?

I'm gonna need time to analyze all the crazyness that happened.
Amazing turn btw

RIP, Adventurer Kangaroo :')
It's weird that undeads attacked him though. Probably some kind of loyalty cascade I'm unaware of.


Edit : After loading the save, I realised the notes are all messed up !
The lever room is not very usefull anyway.
IIRC, the top right lever is for cavern acces, and the second top one is the outside-bridge.
The three other ones are kinda useless.




Hoo, and btw :

Spoiler: Curse is still on ! (click to show/hide)

The purple lines are cursed creatures. They are the merchants.
Four merchants got bitten and survived (at least for now...) !

They are, though, in very bad shape...


That one lost an hand


That one has his lung pierced


This one is "ok"


Subject number 4 looks like he could make it through.
We should try to keep them alive, so we don't loose the kangaroo curse !

[thriggle]

Hooray!

And yeah, resident necromancers get attacked by zombies that they raise: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=9315

[eva_sieve]

i signed up just to get in on this!

I DECLARE THAT I AM PLAYING


UPDATE 1

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pretty much right after unpausing, The citizens of Letterbearded discover the aftermath of the carnage


I let them clean up and then have a look around the fort. We have no real libraries, so I decide to make one. Let's start with obtaining books-- as it were, the fort is full of several travellers such as this one. That is to say, they're lugging around a book or two that they made.


I bet they're just dying to get them published. I send in the military to pick them off one by one, but that doesn't really work and a tavern brawl ensues.


At the end of the day, though, we get a few books for our brand-new ice library.


I honored Timeless Bob's request to be dorfed. You go, little guy!


Besides the home improvement, we got a crazy dwarf. Don't worry, it'll be great.

UPDATE 2

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

...You know how I was all optimistic about the moody dwarf? The results were kind of...mediocre.


Meanwhile, a forgotten beast wanders into the caverns. Lacking a way to path into the fortress, it seems to be bumbling around and injuring itself.


Late autumn brings a caravan and a few migrants. The migrants have to fight their way through the ice wolves to get in. Not all of them make it.


The were-kangaroos are still locked in the murder hole. I'm still scratching my head on what to do with them when one of them drops dead.


Looks like it was just a little infighting. The other two continue to coexist peacefully.


The constant slaughter of tavern-goers pays off. We're currently sitting on at least 13 books in the library (a total of 37, including copies).


One of the scholars is acting kind of strange and hanging out in the restricted section a lot. Who is this weirdo, anyway...?


Oh. Okay, carry on.

[eva_sieve]

I DECLARE THAT I AM FINISHED

Have to do some stuff IRL. Here's the save back--

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12094

I didn't accomplish much except for making the library. Sorry about all the miasma!

[thriggle]

Haha, that was excellent! Good job turning the mooching tavern goers into a source of reading material!

[Spriggans]

So  guess we now have a legendary armorsmith
Time to use that magma for good armors then !

[Timeless Bob]

Huzzah!  I Liiiiiive!

Highly analytical but with low empathy?  Oh my, this little guy (should he ever survive) might make a wonderful scientist or even possibly book-keeper some day.

[thriggle]

Huzzah!  I Liiiiiive!

Unless somebody died, I think you've actually got two dorfs now, haha... I noticed a baby named "Timeless" when I last played.

[eva_sieve]

Actually, I'm looking again and I think you died. Maybe it was all the tavern fights, but "Timeless Bob", DYNASTY PATRIARCH is listed as deceased. So is a completely different "Timeless Bob."

So is "thriggle."

Oh crap. I'm looking at the save again and that fb somehow got into the fort. It's dead now, but I don't know how I missed that. I blame the people who designed the fort.