So... the game has been running on 4-5 fps for the last day or so. The moleweasel kits and dew-beetles nymphs are killing the frame-rate. I've taken the liberty of naming the youngest child "Miss Timeless", then renaming her parents "Mr" and "Mrs Timeless". My turn will be from her two-year old viewpoint. I initially didn't intend to do anything to the city during her turn, just let it function for a year without direct interference and see what happened.
So, we were attacked by a band of goblins, but they were all captured by the cage trap bridge over the river. Likewise the force of Ferric Elves. A Ruthertaur somehow made it through the traps but was quickly dispatched by the force of dogs gaurding the front gate.
Then, in the seventh month (about eighteen hours after I started it up and just let it keep going without pause), an army of Nagas showed up, about thirty strong. They apparently are trapavoid, so I stationed archers up on the battlements and the Gaurd just inside the gate by the shops of the Marketplace. That was a pyrric victory since nine of the ten Gaurd and seven of the ten Rangers died in that fight holding off the invaders. It got so bad that I had to use the Ballistas (What a waste of Ballista bolts - the bolts caroomed off the road after ten paces, they were so badly aimed! Note to future City admins: the ballista crews shoot like a bunch of rookies with their thumbs firmly up their asses!)
So, I've decided to add a prisoner's oubliette and "endless passage" to the City as my contribution to the madness. I've also marked all of the moleweasel kits and dewbeetle nymphs to be slaughtered. So far, the fps has continued to hang around 5-ish, so we'll see what happens in day of so. There has already been an artifact made: a leather helm I think. It was a leather something. I didn't really pay it much mind. Also, by forbidding ammo, there are all these piles of bullets under the practice area that are fired once then let lie. I've unforbid retrieving ammo then put ammo stockpiles under those piles, so they can be quantum stored there for later reloading by riflemen automatically.
So far, so good.
Oh, there's this steel "Pen and Paper RPG" that little Miss Timeless seems to play with a lot. Sounds like she might become a mercenary when she grows up, hey? (That or a book-keeper. Isn't that usually the way of things?)
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Year 194 dawns on a tragic occurance: Little Miss Timeless and both of her parents perished during a quickly contained escape attempt by a murderous Ferric Elf as it was being transferred from the West Gate cages. The city has gone from 105 to 74 citizens in the past year, but there may be as many as fifty peaceful visitors of various stripes who have come through the gates. As several invaders (and a few citizens) have found to their dismay, the Oubliette and Endless Passage have been completed.
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