Snake Eater joined the legendary club with this piece of junk. Well she can have it. I'll stick it in her dining room I guess.
Finally got my first forgotten beast. The webs could be an issue. I think I might station both squads near the cavern entrance for this one. If The Barricaded Libraries get too webbed to fight then The Sly Lanterns could potentially take it out from range. Let's see how this goes.
While setting up for the attack I got this lovely message. I honestly haven't taken down that many trees so I don't know what they're all pissy about. They're in for a rude awakening if they decide to assault me, assuming my military doesn't all get devoured by Hode.
Their trade caravan showed up a short while later and I basically unloaded all my trash clothing on them. It was probably about 7k worth of clothing, but at least I got a couple more giant wolves and a giant cougar out of the deal.
It turned out the Hode is hanging out in the lower caverns which I didn't have an entrance ready for so I had to mine one out real quick. Everyone's positioned and Tigress is about to take down the last wall. This could potentially break my fortress if this goes badly. I don't have any bridges set up or anything to seal off the cavern if all my soldiers die.
Interesting. Created by one of my swordsdwarves. She likes peach cider and her skin is peach so I named her Peach.
Hode isn't playing ball and charging directly into my fortress when I want him to so I sealed off the entrance for now and I'm building a proper draw bridge and a potential capture chamber. We'll see how it goes.
A human diplomat just showed up... at the top of a tree! Wonderful. Really hope he comes down on his own. I can't deal with human stupidity right now.
Here's the new and improved lower cavern entrance. There's a trap area up top where you can see several giant wolves and that one giant cougar hanging out, along with some statues. The idea is Hode should come and attack the wolves and probably topple some statues and while he's preoccupied with that I can close the drawbridge on him. There's also some fortifications carved into the side so if everything goes as planned I may end up with a source of forgotten beast silk.
Well the stupid human diplomat wasn't coming down so I had Snake Eater come out there and give him a hand down by chopping down the tree. What a wuss. He's literally crying over a couple of bruises.
It took quite a bit of time but Hode finally showed back up. My giant cougar decided to wander off and got in a fight with it. The cougar died, of course, but looks like it got some hits in before Hode ripped it to shreds. Under normal circumstances I would consider sending my soldiers out after it but it's positioned itself in a very inconvenient location. Without exploring the caverns further, it looks like my soldiers would have to take the scenic route to get to it, if that's even possible.
Well, looks like Hode will have to wait. My first siege! This is the day The Barricaded Libraries has been training for. I should note that along with the population decrease I also decreased the number of invaders to match. At no point should there be more than thirty of these guys. To my disappointment there's only three of them this time.
Yeah, the battle is hardly worth mentioning. The morons filtered into my fortress one at a time and were immediately cut to pieces. I don't even know why I bothered sending out any soldiers. The traps would have been more than enough.
Hode is still hanging out in that same spot. Every once in a while he'll move a couple of tiles but he's been sticking to the same general area. I even lowered the drawbridge a couple of times to try to coax him in but he seems totally uninterested. It may come down to sending my soldiers out to meet him in the cavern. I don't relish that option at all. I'll let him stew there for now.
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