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[ProtoZoa]

Hi ProtoZoa here im here to start spring 3 of Dikepast: Last stand!

Bedroom time is the best time to start a new year

WAAAAT

nononono

ok XCOM ABILITIES ACTIVATE ok so ima set every1 to a burrow get some 1 to pull le lever.

THEYRE HERE!
ok I have all civilians in their burrow and the drawbridge is closed should I attack?
they left...?
They even ignored one of my guys... wieeeerd.....
noice fire drill ANYWAYS
back to bedroom construction
oh cool one of my kids is now an adult
so heres gonna be the real kicker: Ima build a sacrificial pit with iron spikes at the botom to kill some prisoners. Its gonna be in the temple for 'religious reasons'.
while that happens

oh shit lets send XCOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClChdixjwUs
letsa go

NOOOOOOO
MURICHA FUCK YAH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrjbeE90vVY
hes drowning the weaver took the bat down with em FUCK YAH
hmm the leather worker just died he just  dropped...
Well, a child has a FEY MOOD!

lets see wat dis beetch builds
this kid wants gems so now i make gems
I am mass producing iron spikes for my pit

shitfuck
Back to making bedrooms and iron spikes

THAT SOUND HORRIBLE TIME TO SEND XCOM

ok the cave bear couldnt handle xcom
oh its spring.

[Fleeting Frames]

Read the thread and jotted notes:

- What's with the  8-square black space in first screenshot? Missing downstairs?

-Bees?

-No flowing water & temperate climate?

-Large world? Very active.

-Poultsplosion?

-Layout is very horizontal.

-Wall, even 5z tall wall is relatively quick compared to ceiling's time-consumingness.

-Check if your depot is accessible.

-Magma?

-Why not cheer for elves? They're winning anyway.

-Are you playing on 43.05 or what? 40x1 burrow, nicknames and macros to give labor setup help in vanilla.

-Send a child into caverns.

-Tried farming for thread? Aboveground farming is great for it. Though just ask elves for leather or something...oh wait you killed them.

-If moody dwarf is running out forbid 1 thing to reset timer.

-Secure  caverns? Armor your web collectors?

- Elves can bring you animals.

- Your traps don't defend wagon entrace? I haven't seen that design before though.

-Gather anyway.

- three large staircases? Curious.

- Speaking of last stand, are you at war with anyone?

- "Nice bone stockpile" thought necromancers.

- I think the giant bats outnumber dwarves 10 to 1

- memorialize leatherworker to find out why they died if not in combat reports.

- Why is your marksdwarf wearing spear?

[ProtoZoa]

im a new player this is my first rel fort

[ProtoZoa]

Why is your marksdwarf wearing spear?

Thats cuz i was makin him a spearman sorry man i wanted more melee guys in autumn or winter ill make crossbow guys

As for magma, im not sure when to go to the sea i will probably soon.

[ProtoZoa]

NOW its spring 3 sorry last season was winter 2 sorry for the confusion  .

Lets continue on (if your still there im not sure if anyone still reads this i hope so i assume so as well.)

Time to make more bedrooms and wait for the pit to finish (ik a little boring for you so sorry.)

I got a foreign guy and as soon as I get another melee dwarf he will be in the new squad the Foreign Hammers.
ELVEN CARAVAN!!!!!!!!


these guys are screwed

#rekt
while they are hauling, i have caught a helmet snake, a giant olm, and a giant tode (time to tame and put em in the battle cage.)
the merchants had a giant cougar, a giant recluse spider, so i put them in the battle cage.
The spikes are done and I have just built the pit.
Before I could test it, migrants arrived.
THE ARRIVED:
weaver
future warrior
hunter
Armorsmith
Metalcrafter
child
herbalist
cook
Jeweler
Beekeeper
Stonecrafter
child
Future Archer
Future Archer
child
Hammerer
Brewer
Butcher
Weaver
Mechanic
'Malakor' chief medical (redwarf)

Im now at 97 dwarves wow thats alot.
The human bard attacked someone!

but i sent the military.  The regular bartenders just crowded the bard and everyone was punching him.  Head ,chest, arms, legs, everwhere.  Then my speardwarf SHOVED the spear through his brain and his head collapsed.
I am now shoving more random animals into my battle cage.  Pythons, enchidnas, you name it, it goes there.
Time to test my pit tho.  I will use a giant toad.

goodbye giant toad hes about to fall

it was too fast couldnt get a pic of him but he definitely suffered.
damn that was fun
Now im just preparing more people for the military (only got 6 right now soon ill have 9 melees and 4 archers).
Im throwin another frog down the pit.

here he is

BRACE FOR IMPACT

HOWD HE SURVIVE THAT
oh well nuthin a military cant fix
ah he bled out or sumthin

the mayor has done this about 5 times and they are always with bins
dont know why dont care
Now im gonna do beekeeping cuz there is a honeybee colony
BEEPOWERS ACTIVATE
SUCCESS!
now im gonna make another hive, then destroy one and split again I will always have 2 hives 1 thats destroyed and 1 that is used to replenish the other1.


Ok here is what we have been waiting for.

I will send my regular guys cuz i havent fully equipped my foreign guys yet.
XCOM GO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClChdixjwUs

hes attacking a bard
the bard is defending himself hoplelessly



i expected that
the furnace operator is gone

WE CAN STILL WIN
my axedwarf is puttin up a good fight, its bout even.

SHIT THE AXEDWARF IS GONE NONONONONONONO
ah the lizard was lozin the axe guy got bit in foot and he is shooken to death ah shucks.
i realized all my dwarves only wear one boot fucky fucky
damn the 4 guys surrounded em and gave him a buttsexin
all unschathed except axey
My transcript of the fight:
Axey did good until he died like achilles, his foot got em.
Then the military commander got there and it was a deadlock both dodged and blocked shots.
that is until the other guys came.
The speardwarf stabs through his spine nervous tissue which instantly causes him to fall over.
The dwarves bend over and prepare to give em hell.
Axes, spears, and hammers rain down on him as they beat the werelizard to death.
Aliens killed: 1
Alien corpses recovered: 1
Alien artefacts discovered : 0
Civilians killed by aliens: 3
civilians saved : 94
XCOM operatives killed : 1
Rating: good!

ok now i was think back to the necromancers so i think ima build atom smasher to dispose of corpses. 

Now im gonna build more bedrooms as well.
oh its summer

[ProtoZoa]

To answer more of Fleeting Frames questions

- What's with the  8-square black space in first screenshot? Missing downstairs?

man I put hatches over my downstairs they are just very black in my tileset

- Elves can bring you animals

I take the animals from the elves.

-Why not cheer for elves? They're winning anyway.

Ya know, you sure love elves.

Are you playing on 43.05 or what? 40x1 burrow, nicknames and macros to give labor setup help in vanilla.

yah its 43.05

-Bees?

I just did bees in  spring 3.

"Nice bone stockpile" thought necromancers.

That scared me so 1. I moved all bones and meat and what have you underground and 2. Soon an atom smasher will destroy the corpses.

-Layout is very horizontal.

Thank you? why do other people build multi z level rooms?

-Tried farming for thread? Aboveground farming is great for it. Though just ask elves for leather or something...oh wait you killed them.

You LOOVE elves for some reason mate.  I guess they are good trade partners but their ETHICS KILL ME.

Speaking of last stand, are you at war with anyone?

The other dwarf civs i think are but i cant say with certainty.  My civ is not at war (sadly), but i hope to start one.

Your traps don't defend wagon entrace? I haven't seen that design before though.

sadly they dont what im think bout doin is (just an idea idea) building a bridge that covers the depot in event of an attack.
Cuz the depot is seperate from the fort but still in the same walls.

- three large staircases? Curious.

thanks.  My idea was that the other staircases branch off the fort itself and are not their own individual staircases.  The staircases are very limited and only take you to several areas.  For example, a housing complex is on a staircase that brances off the fort.  They have to go thru the main floor (full of traps) to get to housing. So in my mind it was easier to defend that way.

[Fleeting Frames]

- Melee is generally far quicker to kill anyway, assuming can reach (not flying/AoE damage)

- Take your time. I only recently did my first real (101z) minecart elevator.

- I read it, decent quality and really quick updates.

- Foreign Legion?

- Perhaps set up few bridges so to prevent victims from escaping?

- Giant recluse spider...Nice, web industry...Expect merchant animal so hard to control. Leave out a corpse on a cage trap and hope necromancers come back?

- billion migrants, ikr. Megaconstruction time?

- bartender eggs on fights

- Yeah falls are less fatal now. Magma/Minecart grinder/drawbridge on bottom? Can't eat parts that way though.

- Might want to adjust your container distance settings in init.txt (or was it d_init?) to make dwarves not take bins everywhere.

- Werelizard quarantine?

- I think you can't train animals or order specific ones if you don't let caravan leave.

- Yes I do like elves. Awesome, interesting animals, relatively easily to constrain, immortal, no booze dependency, no cave adaption problems, overall better spread of attributes, only ones with legendary scholar skills....Goblins work better in some roles like mining, and they don't have [TRANCES] or [STRANGE_MOODS], but they're quite potent.

- Horizontal is easier to look at(especially without twbt or visualizers, I should do entirely horizontal fortress sometime to better understand dwarves and how they take jobs, how to notice idlers, etc.), but it takes lot more walking time. 10z of stairs/ramps × 10x × 10y piles/workrooms/sleep areas hold more than 1 max size pasture, yet the average travel distance from center is only about ~40% and worst case is only ~39%. Lot of time, dwarves spend walking - especially if moving something heavy like furniture or rocks.

Close to most efficient layout is somewhat complicated thing depending on local advantages, but mathing it out I can't help but conclude that majority of short walking distance layouts have stairs/ramps and raw materials both pressed against the workshops.

- Yeah humans often hate killing people and eating them. They're only good trade partners till you've gotten what animals and instruments want from them though, mostly.

- Maybe give each staircase their own hatches?

[ProtoZoa]

Melee is generally far quicker to kill anyway, assuming can reach (not flying/AoE damage)

Yeah I assumed that.  Some Kisat Dur made me think bout that.

Take your time. I only recently did my first real (101z) minecart elevator.

Will do

I read it, decent quality and really quick updates.

  Thanks a helevalot! but when school starts, ill try to do at least 2 seasons a day, but dont expect more.

Foreign Legion?

The foreign legion is gonna be a melee squad with a dwarven commander and the rest being mercenaries (humans)

Perhaps set up few bridges so to prevent victims from escaping? 

Im gonna assume ur talkin about my pit of death. Yeah ill do that someday.

Giant recluse spider...Nice, web industry...Expect merchant animal so hard to control. Leave out a corpse on a cage trap and hope necromancers come back?

What I heard on the wiki, recluse spiders only live for 1-2 years and they barely make webs so yeah. No webs there.
I could leave a corpse to lure them, yeah guud idea.

billion migrants, ikr. Megaconstruction time?
 

Maybe its time to build a wall around every edge tile of my ground level and never get anything sent to my fort.  Can that even work???

bartender eggs on fights
 

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! FREE DWARVEN ALE TO WHOEVER BETS RIGHT!

Yeah falls are less fatal now. Magma/Minecart grinder/drawbridge on bottom? Can't eat parts that way though.

ill do magma once im comfortable doing work with magma (never have before).

Might want to adjust your container distance settings in init.txt (or was it d_init?) to make dwarves not take bins everywhere. 

thatll  happen on next fort i dont like editing the files i dont wanna break anything!

Werelizard quarantine? 

Hahah i lost a small fort (15 people) to a weregoat apocalypse.  1 guy got bit, then he spread it to all the people in hospital (many were injured).  All the bedridden patients rose out of their beds to ambush the doctor and he got buttsecksed.

I think you can't train animals or order specific ones if you don't let caravan leave. 

I just realized they were already tame.

AAAND of course u like elves mate.  Some would be ashamed of that. IF YOU LIKE ELVES SO MUCH WHY DONT U MARRY ONE.
inter species relationships are just like long term ones. You just gotta make the 'pieces' fit. uhauhahahahahahah best joke 2016 that joke was soo good, it should become some1s thing that they leave at the bottom of every post they make.

Of course horizontil is better, but i got best of both cuz of my stairs.

and hewmans are good traders.

[Fleeting Frames]

What I heard on the wiki, recluse spiders only live for 1-2 years and they barely make webs so yeah. No webs there.
I could leave a corpse to lure them, yeah guud idea.

I was thinking of using the corpse to make spider spray webs.

Don't think different giant spiders sling different amount of webs.

Old age is chance by spring, so you should be able to get perhaps thousands of webs when it sprays them every step (just make sure to fall-stack the webs or you'll just get like 15).

Maybe its time to build a wall around every edge tile of my ground level and never get anything sent to my fort.  Can that even work???

With raising bridges, yeah.

Below ground can also build walls right up to map edge, so it's easier in the caverns.

ill do magma once im comfortable doing work with magma (never have before).

You won't get comfortable with magma without learning how to work with magma

Some would be ashamed of that. IF YOU LIKE ELVES SO MUCH WHY DONT U MARRY ONE.
inter species relationships are just like long term ones.

I'm not sure why anyone would be ashamed of that, but that's not possible. Dwarf Fortress is massively more stricter about marriage than even the pope.

Of course horizontil is better, but i got best of both cuz of my stairs.

I said the opposite of that ...I will, however, say that lot of fun design fortresses I've seen don't really care about walk distance, instead liking to build something grand.

and hewmans are good traders.

More stuff, but not as good choice in animals. Iron, whips and large swords are nice, though.

[ProtoZoa]

Sorry I have been out of town guys, ill try to get a few seasons done tomorrow (if anyone still wants it (which i assume at least a few do)).

[ProtoZoa]

Summer 3 127:
As i started I got this message:



There's a Shitton!
Im gonna close the bridge and not engage.
There are 8 dead guys and two necromancers. 
I couldnt dispose of my corpses and stuff so i guess i got extra enemies.  This is goin to hell...
Im settin it so that everyone can still roam free but cant go over ground.  If they get in im doin emergency. 
THERES LIKE 40 OF THEM!!!!

I must get some defenses on the way. I hope cage traps can capture them.
SOME GUYS ARE VISITING NOW!!!!

ok a warror and a lady consort came. Time to see them fight one of my killed giant cave toads.
it died.  So they have to fight this.

They are starting to lose against a zombie cavy boar.
Now im gettin some archer towers up and Sodel, a hunter, is gonna be the leader of the archers.
I will make the archers target the necromancers first.
I am making silver bolts (i dont have any other metals).\
Argh theyre killin mah animals.



Im surrounded.  Im tryin to get everyone equipment right now for the inevitable battle.

they climbed! a few guys died, and only soldiers are now on the surface.
Damn, its a bloodbath.

The necromancers are dead. thats good.
My regular infantry is doin good, but my foreign guys are takin some blows.
Only my foreign commanders still goin and i lost some civilians.
Bless them.
I am making some rock coffins. Many.
Some of my dwarves have jumped the wall and are attacking.  Time to Open the gates and ATTACK!!!!!

HELL IS GOING DOWN!!!!

My militia commander is taking damage to the arm.  A zombie crossbowman is just sniping guys in my main fort.  This is not going too well.  I made the mistake of not goin with lazy newb pack, and i am ok if this fort dies.  It wont tho.
MY MILITA COMMANDER DIED!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I am making a ton of hammers tho.
My numbers have dropped to 70 now. Its bad.
Only 3 SOldiers left. Shit Shit Shit !!!!
I am creating a last stand army called the Rebel Yells.
I am debating wether or not to open the Battle cage.
Might as well, but that might add 30s to their numbers.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.  Im shuttin the bridge and locking the hatches. I am sorry everyone.
(im ending here for now.)

[Fleeting Frames]

Necros sure can come early. They look weird with that tileset. So large skulls!

Nice hell you have there.

Cage traps should capture them, and bridges can  crush them, but...do you have enough cages, overseer of dikepast?

I wonder if your archers will jump down the toward and hit the necros with their crossbows?

Warned you about the roof bro.

Zombie crossbowman wasn't disarmed? Ouch.

Battle cage will be hilarious, but unarmed civs can also add to their numers.

Truly, last stand.

[ProtoZoa]

Ok the deed has been done.  Women, children, the Rebel Yells are lcoked on the surface, going to die on the surface.

I am sorry.  He was the kid that made the ring.
Only one soldier is left, the leader of the Foreign hammers.  he is in the hospital with grave wounds on his arms and legs.
I am sending sending some helldivers to go to the surface, get the child, and get some undeadite weapons.

Some guys are trapped on the outside , running until their very deaths.

My new fort. 28 guys. What Fun!!!
Gwolfski is now my lone soldier, known as a Last Stander.
I am equipping him now.
Hes a skilled Axedwarf.
I am going to make a stone statue to commemerate what happened.
Gwolfski died.
He was beat by a Yak skeleton, he jumped the wall.

This is how Dikepast dies.

I want to see what is on the statue though.
Fikod, the mechanic etches a very quick memorial out of stone.
It is a picture of two dwarves.

If anyone wants to try and save it, give it a go.
Its out of my hands now.
I have failed.
I have failed you.
OR have I?
BATTLE CAGE IS A GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*xcom music is a go*
Im tryin to link to lever but it wont work (beefore battle i destroyed pressure plate).
Fleeting Frames hears the crys of pain and takes up armor.
With everyone else in the hospital, Fleeting frames, with his Silver hammer and  Hazel shield, is ready to make THE LAST STAND.
A goblin axe corpse ambushes fleeting frames from behind.  He swings his shield, deflecting the axe and bashing the corpse in the corpse's armored head.
Frames swiftly dodges each shot with ease.
Several more corpses join the battle.
Fleeting Frames enters a martial trance!
He pushes the other two into a wall and decides to attack a marksdwarf.
Fleeting Frames Grabs the marksdwarf's arm and starts bashing his upper body in.
Swing after Swing after swing,.
A lasher comes up around him and whips him in his left lower arm.
Frames screams in pain and agony.
A pikeman bites the wound and shakes it around.  Fleeting frames is brought to his knees, his helmet gets removed, and the trio of zombies start start punching, kciking , and stabbing him in a big circle.
Even the bravest of warriors get knocked down.
Even the strongest of people die.
Even the hardiest get weathered.
Even the most determined fail.





That is the story of dikepast.


A pikeman and a marksdwarf are on top stabbing the last child into submission.
With a roar, fleeting frames charges into battle, hammer in hand ready to bash some skulls.

[ProtoZoa]

i plan to do another fort.  This was a great first fort.  I love this game. I want to show you pictures of what has become.


Ground level.



Farming and defense.


housing and bolts.


Main fort.


Storage.
Thats most of it, the rest are rooms for the mayor and unimportant stuff.

I have had a great time on this adventure with a wonderful community, im glad someone noticed and im glad someone cared.

I have had one of the best times of my life.
Thank you.
See you in the next fort. 

[Fleeting Frames]

Shame about sacrifices. You will get migrants, but...Will the undead stick around and kill those too?

*chuckle* @ the wall jump into undead beast ten times gwolfski's size.

A third...Fourth last stand? This will go terribly!

Martial trances are the main reason I consider dwarves best fighting race, provided one avoids cave adaption penalty.

...Huh. Toady did say that only intelligent beings should remove helmets, but that non-intelligents beings are doing things they shouldn't.

You know, I'd probably have camped it out and built a trap to catch the undead with puppy bait :v Less glorious, but ahtacched to life.

Going to make next fort in same world?