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[Bombyx Mori]

Welcome to the dwarven fortress of Eshtansazir, or Smithbridges!
Join our dwarves as they set out to construct a great bridge over a mighty river before the undead hordes (and giant fuzzy spiders) can destroy them.

Overseer list:
Year 1. Bombyx Mori (Part 1,Part 2)
Year 2. AvolitionBrit (Report)
Year 3, part 1. Obsidian Short Sword (Part 1)
Year 3, part 2. AvolitionBrit (Part 2)
Year 4. Salmeuk (Part 1,Part 2,Part 3)
Year 5. Brewer Bob (Part 1,Part 2,Part 3,Part 4)
Year 6. AvolitionBrit (Report)
Year 7. Bombyx Mori (Part 1,Part 2)
Year 8. Brewer Bob (Part 1,Part 2,Part 3)
Year 9. AvolitionBrit (Report)
Year 10. AvolitionBrit (Report)
Year 11. Brewer Bob (Report)
Year 12. Salmeuk (Report)
Year 13. AvolitionBrit -- Current
Year 14. Brewer Bob
Year 15. Open!

Rules are as standard for succession games; 2 weeks or 1 year of in-game time per turn. If you want to be dorfed or join the overseer list, leave a reply!

Spoiler: Bridge construction guidelines (click to show/hide)

• There should be a gap between the surface of the river and the bottom of the bridge of at least 1 z-level. Overseers can decide how many levels above this the bridge will consist of.
  
• The material used for the main structure should be slate blocks. Other materials, such as gold or bauxite, can be used for decoration as overseers see fit.
  
• The bridge should at least be wide enough to accommodate wagons crossing.
  
• Steps should be taken to make the bridge somewhat defensible so that our enemies cannot cross unhindered. This may involve including traps and retracting drawbridges at points in the construction to drop foes into the river below.

Spoiler: Original post (click to show/hide)

Hello everyone!

I'm going to start a new succession game, but before I begin I've decided to add to the chaos by having forum members decide the professions of 6 of the starting dwarves.
We're going to be embarking next to a major river with a nearby necromancer tower. The towers in this world do have some interesting literature as well, if you know what I mean.

Please describe what skills you want your dwarf to have as well as any other preferences, and I can hopefully start soon.

[brewer bob]

One dwarf should have all points put either in critical thinking or logician. No other skills.

[Salmeuk]

please design a dwarf with 5 points in leader, and architect . they should have a certain kind of stone as a preferential type, if possible. doesn't matter what stone, but the more rare the better!

[Bralbaard]

I'd like to be dorfed as well. Points in swimming and pump operating please. Have to make good use of all that water.

[AvolitionBrit]

Dwarf me in, all into singer. Someones got to entertain the dwarves in these trying times.

[Ulfarr]

If possible I'd like a herbalist with a large dagger for self defense. If getting a dagger proves too difficult, I'll leave it up to you whether you'll give them a short sword or not.

[delphonso]

I'll take a dwarf. Five points each in animal handling and gelding.

[☼Obsidian Short Sword☼]

5 points in organizer skill, And Consoler if you can.

[Immortal-D]

That is all 7 founders.  You do not have a single crafter, miner, farmer, or doctor.  Ulfarr the herbalist could reasonably cross-train in farming & cooking/brewing, but all the others are far too intellectual for such menial tasks as mining or chopping trees.  Assigning any of them such peasant work would be a true crime.

[Salmeuk]

alright so we got Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson (see this article, apparently he was an architect or something? who knew), Michael Phelps, David Bowie,  some guy with intense fear of shrubbery, a self-proclaimed "animal handler" (the sheep give that one strange looks), and finally a dwarf whose job description can be best described as, "I WILL ORGANIZE YOUR SADNESS."

yeah we're fineeee

We'll just recruit the first migrants into. . "the peasantry"

[delphonso]

I've never been more excited to see how a fort goes.

[Bombyx Mori]

Thank you for providing me with 7 useless nobles brave dwarves!
Thankfully the world I have has custom embark points that should allow us to arrive with a good amount of supplies while we wait for more menial laborers to arrive.

There is one oversight though. There's not space in the expedition for me to choose a dwarf!
Sadly someone might have to volunteer to sit it out and arrive in the next wave of migrants.

[delphonso]

As potentially the most useful of the lot, I'm fine to sit out.

[AvolitionBrit]

The wagon ride on the way must of been something to behold. Really curious the state of the dwarven settlement they originate from and the way the world is.

I think this this is appropriate to Salmeuk comment

Dig Everything

Also you could make it an 8 embark

[Bombyx Mori]

Understood Delphonso. I'll make sure to dorf you as the first gelder or "animal handler" I see.

With all that settled, I should be good to get going. When I've made it through the spring and updated the original post I'll provide some more information on the world. Maybe then we can figure out why these dwarves were chosen to found a fortress.