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[Spriggans]

Nice addition to finally having securised the swamps access. That moat to clean one's feet is a nice thing as well.
Maybe the swamp fever will be under control one day...

Hooo, and Nogood reminds me of Bane. That instrument-mask is kinda cute in its ways.

[delphonso]

nogood looks amazing! Super cool, nogoodnames!

Yeah, great to have that corner under control. I'm hoping we can seal it off totally - and if any migrants arrive there...well, the goo take them.

[recon1o6]

this has got to be one of the best fortresses I have been in. Year 9 probably being the best we had.

Look at it from the mountainhome's POV

Year 1: At the behest of the possibly no longer sane queen, 7 of the smallest dwarves are sent into the middle of evil to build a fort for no other reason than expanding the queen's domain so she has something to do other than grieve

Year 2: The first migrants are sent, and the diplomat reports back that smallhands is prospering, however the diplomat claims he saw the dead walk when he left.

Year 3: Smallhands is last seen being stalked by the dead and a great maze is constructed.

Year 4: The dead have invaded. The diplomat is also killed. Traders report back that smallhands has likely fallen or burrowed underground. There are curses in the air and evil echnidas stalk the land. There's still signs of life though...

Year 5: Human mcstuckwagon due to his stuck wagon doesn't get killed by the undead when the rest of his trade convoy continue to smallhands. He reports back seeing caged and defeated undead and the necromancers leaving. The report reaches the mountainhomes who send some armed migrants to reclaim smallhands.

Year 6: Traders come back home and report that smallhands was unable to trade and was otherwise quiet. When pressed the trader admitted he got cold feet. In response the traders are jailed, news of smallhands' survival led to several volunteers migrating to smallhands with dwarven optimism assuming everything was underground

Year 7: Elves report gaining good profits from smallhands. Queen sends lots of migrants once the news makes its way north. Smallhands is prospering

Year 8: Goblins and necromancers invade. The necromancers eventually leave and the invaders are driven out by the smallhands military. Its a proper fortress now! Smallhands begins an ongoing revitalisation program to clear the corpses and detritus.

Year 9: Smallhands destroys cactushexes and Glimmersanctum, ending a century long war. Or should have...the flow of time is still convulted, with two Nogoods appearing. The Queen does not care though and seeks to take advantage of this by sending some migrants to set up some hillocks near smallhands. Smallhands continues to become a formidable outpost, raiding goblins, kobolds, elves and necros alike, even capturing a cyclops

Year 10: Baron Salmeuk and Overseer Amara give the elves the boot. The Smallhands legal system is in uproar, with kingzultan taking charge. The humans prove to have a knack for tactics keeping the necromancers away from smallhands before coming to trade and slaughtering some werepigs.

Year 11: Due to outstanding legal issues, the overseer election ends up being mixed up with the animal pasturing list resulting in an Alpaca taking over. Nonetheless traders report that Smallhands has begun central heating and magma pumping.

Year 12: After successive repelled invasions necromancers were captured, however one of them, the infamous Spriggans had another card to play and enthralled most of the population. A tower is begun to build but thanks to the resistance of Zultan, the tower turned into a tomb for Spriggans ending his brief reign. Nogood the undying ends up taking over the fortress just in time for a giant to invade, a slab of necromancy in each hand. The mountainhomes never learns what happened to the slabs.

Year 13: The elf prince arrives, once more demanding limits to tree cutting amidst rumours of him sneaking where nobody should be going. Suspicious, the queen sends more migrants out to establish new hillocks just before dying. The new queen however immediately elevates Smallhands to a duchy. The greast asylum is furnished. The aftermath of the necromancer's hold is laid bare- most of the dwavres are infected or fevered for life. Smallhands seems to begin experimenting with reviving the dead as murder and crime begin to soar...

Year 14: Smallhands' latest overseer causes some legal trouble for the mountainhomes by executing the elven prince who was on diplomatic business for trespassing, attempted theft and necromancy. A monument is started amidst a wide ranging industrial and legal overhaul where nothing of any importance other than sock production was finished. A surprisingly stable year after the first month

Year 15: Alas, the previous year's peacefulness was shattered as much as the windows in the half finished monument when goblins invade. Smallhands also discovers the human representative was in league with the goblins.

Year 16: The latest overseer of smallhands condemns smallhand's population to a year of murder, zombification and ghoulification under the guise of dwarven !!science!! amongst the many incidents, smallhands military is decimated over time.

Year 17: Unrest and a strangely empty overseer candidate list leads to smallhands having another year without an overseer. It doesn't help matters that rumours of a ghostly alpaca stalking the halls are abundant. The dwarves finish the magma system and do little more than make the fortress tick over giving the Mountainhomes great concern given previous incidents of unrest... Fortunately as time goes on the Dwarves start getting less fearful, complete with a candidates list leading into

Year 18- our current year

[Murr2]

I think I'll do a round after the next one is posted. And after I figure out how the pics work.

[delphonso]

-snip-

Thanks for doing this, recon - I'm going to post this on the front page somewhere.

[nogoodnames]

The inner thoughts of an Undying Overseer
Winter 167


1st Moonstone

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Goblin invaders, and two construction workers caught on the surface! To arms, dwarves! We must save Olin and… Olin? I guess if one of them dies, it’ll at least make keeping track of people a bit easier.

Several trolls and their unarmed elf slave are pushed out in a mad charge, but they quail at the sight of our elite warriors!



This is chaos, but we are winning.

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2nd Moonstone

Perhaps I spoke too soon. A second wave has arrived, riding beak dogs. This could get ugly fast.

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We’re too spread out. Tosid’s liable to get overwhelmed if she doesn’t retreat. Recon’s out of the fight after getting stuck between two trolls and a sword-goblin. Meanwhile, I caught Murr2 slinking back underground after barely contributing to the fight. Get back out there, you coward!

Our soldiers have met the approaching wave. There’s no calling them back now. I can only hope they manage to break the enemy’s resolve before succumbing to the overwhelming numbers.

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3rd Moonstone

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It’s a slaughter out there… We killed dozens, but they still have an entire army of goblins, trolls and beak dogs. Too many for one legendary soldier and a handful of rookies. They fought well but were ultimately only mortal.

We have no other choice. We need to seal off the surface. Salmeuk makes the call.



But wait, what’s that? I thought I told the surviving militia to retreat and defend the staircase. Who’s that barrelling through the gate… Murr2!

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I appreciate your spirit, but it would have been much more effective earlier in the battle. This is little more than a suicide charge.

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4th Moonstone

This has been an unmitigated disaster. Every melee dwarf in our militia is dead, and the Swamp Hunters have been reduced to two members. At least one of the Olins managed to esca-

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Oh, come on!

…

Wait, something is changing on the surface. Are they… retreating?

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Murr2, you mad bastard! You’ve done it! Now we have a chance to recover the bodies and bring them back!

[Murr2]

yey .u.

If nobody else is queued up, I'd like to take a shot at doing a round.

[delphonso]

At least recon died next to the giant tankard, as I presume he'd have wanted. Murr/Dumed died doing what they loved - chopping up goblins. RIP in eternal life, militia.

Sal knows what it takes to stay alive.

If nobody else is queued up, I'd like to take a shot at doing a round.

I chucked you on the turn list - you can find it on the front page. About 4 people before you. Let's hope it's not a repeat of Numbercurse.

[Murr2]

probably not, as the numbercurse incedent was more of a flabbergasted meme turn (I was fairly confused on how to make the fort work and had probably zero chance of winning.)

Being behind four people is probably fine, plenty of time to work on my personal fort, Gemsinged.

[Spriggans]

What a massacre...

Let the 3rd of Opal be known as a Sad day from now on... 

EDIT : on the plus side, I'm sure new migrants will come, and they'll be fever-free !


Do you think we could we somehow "recover" our legendary warriors captured during a mission years ago ?

[applet]

..or just raise the fallen we just lost

[King Zultan]

I say we raise them, as in smallhands the dead don't stay dead for long.

[recon1o6]

Thanks for doing this, recon - I'm going to post this on the front page somewhere.

oh wow that's an honour. Do bare in mind this is the mountainhomes version of events, the true history is a little different

At least recon died next to the giant tankard, as I presume he'd have wanted.

She died swinging, determined not to let the goblins desercrate her tower a second time


The last will and testament of Recon the Tavern Keeper Overseer

If this scroll has been opened, it is because I have joined the ranks of the dead here in smallhands. Whether by murder, invasion, drawbridge or worse- my experiments trying to brew magma into alcohol resulting in catastrophy, I am now departed and leave this as my final message.
I wish to have two memorials, one in the ranks of the overseers, and another in the Tall Bar. While I do feel that I am the only dwarf with a sense of monumentality in this fortress, I at least hope the tower is completed after I have departed. I would also prefer a bronze statue, as high quality as possible in the tankard memorial.

Regarding my possessions I, Recon, do hereby declare as follows
To the current overseer: Unless you had me deliberately killed there is a bottle of Armok's Finest hidden in the central emblem on the base floor of the tankard. It is strong enough to get even the furthest gone ghoul drunk a few times.
To Rigoth, hammerer: You get my bronze hammer. Hopefully you can learn to execute better with it.
To Olin, legendary glassmaker: I am sorry I could not get a statue of you during my reign. Please accept my last pair of masterwork socks that I ever weaved

Finally to anyone who thinks about using that terrible necromancy on me.

Don't bother.

I have another way


Edit: wait...the siege broke? damn how many did we take with us?
also good news- I passed my exam! so I'm free to pick up the save now

[Spriggans]

@Recon : if you are raised as a dwarf as an undead as a living-undead-ghoul sucessfully, you will engrave these memorials yourself !

But since you explicitely specified not to be necro'ed....
I wonder what is this other way ... :/ Guess we'll see soon enough !

(btw Congrats on Exam ! Free drinks for everybody !! )

[delphonso]

@recon, true that it is mountainhome POV but it is also a good intro to the fort in a succinct way - appealing enough to encourage reading more but more approachable than the giant wall of spoilers and links we have now.