Crownhall the City of Stone, c. 24th Limestone 798The latest merchant caravan had returned from its travels, bringing with it unexpected news. The normally inhospitable dwarves of Datanzalis Stinugosh had broken from their insular ways to offer the caravan a tribute of some form: a great chest sealed with iron chains and locks, which the merchants had been instructed to deliver to the ruler of Adilatír in person.
The various nobles of the dwarven court were already seated in council by the time the tribute arrived, manhandled through the door by a pair of the caravan’s armoured guards, their . Behind them marched a third dwarf, clad in iron armour that bristled with bony nodules and barbaric war-trophies, a well-worn iron war hammer at his side and a scratched shield on his wrist.
As the three of them reached the gathered dwarves, the messenger inclined his helmed head sharply to the gathered nobles and monarch.
“My lords,” The dwarf began. “I come bearing tribute from the fortress of Datanzalis Stinugosh.”
“Oh?” The noble raised an eyebrow, peering at the chest carried between the two armoured dwarves in open curiosity. “Do tell.”
The two dwarves carefully set their burden down onto the polished stone of the floor, before the first carefully unfastened the heavy iron chains and locks. A quick heave from the second raised the lid.
The reaction among the gathered dwarves was immediate. There were hisses of indrawn breath, a general murmur of shock, and more than one thunderous oath – within the chest, a half-dozen finely-crafted battle axes lay, each and every one forged of shining adamantine.
Save is up.My official submission to the museum is the colossal steel breastplate and helmet of Handbane the Legendary Slayer of Bugs.
- There should be a couple hundred new ghouls all over the place, along with a few new intelligent undead and several sites of reanimated skeletons. Good hunting.
- Ketas is retired in the camp of Ghoulcreek, located near the Razorbridge Isthmus (originally wanted them to retire in an all-ghoul settlement, but that only gave the ‘Give in to starvation’ option). Kosoth is dead and awaiting resurrection due to the above issue, guarded by Ketas.
- Curiously, blighted thralls seem to be capable of showing up at your fortress as part of a migrant wave, upon which they will immediately turn hostile and try to eat other migrants. This only seemed to happen around ~1.5-2 years after Ironwards was unretired, but it’s still something to look out for if unretiring or founding a new fort.
- Ironwards has breached hell and begun establishing a foothold there. The site may have some FPS issues (not ‘freezing the game’ bad, but definitely slower than average) due to a large amount of overall detritus and a fuckhueg amount of liquid tiles, but a number of adamantine weapons (and some wafers, for the advforters among us) are there for the taking if you wish to claim them.
I'll write up and post the turn over the next few days, as I'm going to be preoccupied moving house (again; yay for university?) tomorrow. As always, I would like to be put down for another turn.
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Topic: Museum III, adventure succession game (DF 0.47.05) (Read 421421 times)