-= Fikuk Urdim =- Turn 2: Urdim FikukAh yes, please to meet you. I understand you're in need of an overseer.
Well, I just so happen to be one of the best. Yes, I've heard all about your project. "The Tower of Fields" - quite a lovely title. I hope you don't mind, I prepared some blueprints even.
Oh? Sorry? What's that?
The Field of Towers?
Well, this is quite embarrassing. So you say that the project is, in fact, to create
many towers. You see, I understood it as to create a tower full of...well...fields.
Well, no matter, my good dwarf! The plans will still work splendidly. Why don't you show me around this Field of Towers.
My oh my indeed, you seem to have some sort of
bird jail.
Not really my sort of thing, but certainly won't complain. I suppose if you like peacocks, that room is a delight like no others! For everyone else - well it's smelly and depressing, to be blunt.
Ah, and what's this?
5 spears stuck in the soil? Clever, my good man, clever indeed! You're already up to six towers, then! But, of course, these won't do. We'll need to make something quite a bit bigger than a spear.
To work, my good fellows!
A travesty! Dig, you dwarves, dig! We must go deeper to reach higher, as I always say. Get to it!
Well well well! I do say, you run a tight ship around here! Just look:
The peacock training seems to be going quite well! They're perfectly synchronized! Astounding!
By jove! Lor has claimed the throne! Your majesty, if you had only given us some warning - an entire tower for yourself! Blast. Hopefully a humble temporary stead will suffice.
The Tower of Fields is coming along quite well. The front gate has even been erected. I place the lever in the most esteemed of all positions: right next to the kitchen.
Alright - it may not be the safest or cleanliest position - ignore that water coming down the stairs. I assure you, that's intentional.
Hmm... Worrying news from the taverns. Someone is whispering about the artifact contained here. In fact... I'm not even sure where that artifact is. No matter, it's barely ours.
No matter? No matter at all! Sodel is wandering with the look of a dwarf bewitched!
If all goes as poorly as possible, we'll at least have Sodel's new artifact. Now... to set up a glass furnace...
Ah... Your majesty - gauntlets are hard to come by. You see, the Field of Towers is blessed with copious gold and silver, but rarely a trace of the combat metals. Perhaps you'd prefer a pristine door? No, no, of course not. We'll see what we can do.
It seems we're completely out of bags. We may have had some, but in my...enthusiasm...I may have produced a few hundred seeds, and the bags are already occupied. Yet Solon screams for raw glass.
Someone was spotted walking toward the bird jail, muttering dark things to themselves about stealing The Lamentation of Notching. I was quite happy to give it to the miserable fellow, but it seems one of the many monster hunters in the fort decided to practice his spear work on him. Old chap looked like a pincushion by the end of it.
Well, that's that. A pity, but the raw glass never could be made - not enough bags, Sodel. I'm sorry.
Ah... It seems... Sodel immediately murdered the queen. Well. I can't say I'm relieved - that'd be too morbid, but I can't say I'm entirely displeased either. No, no. No use crying over spilled wine, the Tower of Fields is nearly complete! Some floors are even prepared for farming!
Curse my damnable luck! Four more buckets of water and we'd be done! And yet - just at the worst time, a Forgotten Beast in the form of a crocodile enters the caverns!? Seal them! Seal them up and seal my hopes with it!
I see we have about 70 doors in the fortress. I may be able to make this work still.
Behold, my fellow dwarves - the world's most secure well!
(Someone left a bucket in the 3rd door.)Plenty of time to wall it off in case some miserable wretch comes flying in, looking to pilfer our beautiful towers!
And finally, It's done! It's perfection in tower form! 9 levels of farms! Two plots of 13 dwarfometers
2 each! The Field of Towers shall never hunger while the Tower of Fields still stands!
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This was quite a slow process on my little laptop, but we endured! It seems bringing water all the way from the cavern to the top of a tower was what some people would call "a bad idea". I built quite close to the peacock tower just to make it a bit quicker - there's plenty of real estate for bigger, grander projects. I had dwarves making blocks for quite a while, so the next overseer should have a bit of luck with that, as well as a good stockpile of stone.
Warning: a few dwarves were assigned to farming just to plant some of the fields to "finish" my turn before the end of the year. You'll certainly want to turn those labors off, or set some of the fields to fallow, because otherwise they're never going to do anything besides plant and harvest.
We are certainly good on food for a while.
I made a small atom smasher, and also a dormitory. The "fortress itself" is quite poorly set up - ideal for abandoning and building a new fort under a new tower somewhere else. Best of luck! Save is
HERE!These are the would-be-queen's quarters, now completely useless. Someone can surely put some use to those.
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