Turn was hastily done in last moment possible, so report is a dateless hodgepodge.
Year started off with three thieves trying to steal an artifact and running off, visiting gorlak monster hunter and human caravan. From the latter i bought some books (which were mostly stolen by visiting scholars as soon as they were bought) and iron stuff to smelt.
Then came giant wielding a slab with secrets of life and death (lucky that dwarves can't read those).
I stationed woefully underequipped military inside, hoping that giant will run into human caravan instead. After killing a milker and few animals on the surface, it came down after a visiting scholar. Only for military to see him through open door, charge and kill him without injuries.
During all this ruckus gremlin snuck in through one of the hatches in farm floor, making me fear that local tribe of swallow men will rush in, Forgetting that they would do so before if they wanted to, because i last played DF few years ago. By the way, those hatches are murder. When i thought i closed them all, new one revealed itself, and when i finally did close them all, it turned out that someone was wandering the caverns at the time, like this web gatherer. I'm pretty sure i left someone for dead second time around.
Seven migrants arrived, few of them immidiately drafted.
A bunch of troglodytes went through a hatch
to the third cavern layer and mauled a child before getting slaughtered themselves. Child was patched up after... i turned on the relevant jobs for someone?
although for some reason not fully.
Baron, yeah, agreement, what agreement? Artifact, okay.
Forgotten beast has come. For the time it was seemingly content with massacring troglodytes (who were actually damaging it), but then went in, killed someone and got killed by military.
Gorlak monster hunter went into caverns and got killed by a giant bat. Dwarves immidiately went into caverns for his socks.
This message (Revealed the presence? It's right there in meeting hall!) made me move one of the soldiers to position of captain of nonexistant guard and start digging out his quarters.
A siege too! Of six archers (unarmored, unlike sprites show) along with two snatchers, all killed without injuries of note.
Finally someone useful petitioned.
Construction of captain's quarters revealed a large vein of iron ore. Bronze begone! I expanded smeltery a bit and ordered production of 10 steel armor sets.
Visiting demon. Is it the same one as in crashed turn?
Bought some food and quickly stolen books from dwarven caravan. Outpost liason that came with it made fortress into a county.
AvolitionBrit and another dwarf became students of a visiting geographer. AvolitionBrit, oddly enough, only gets more anxious for all his
pondering!A gang of dingo men on the surface has beaten up yet another scholar, and when killed produced an unlikely collection of blood pools.
Someone finally stumbled into swallow men. Don't remember if he was killed, though.
A thief who earlier received "information" about artifact crossbow tried to steal it. This one got caught.
With another bunch migrants arriving, i decided to expand bedrooms and smooth some floors and walls along with them.
Another artifact crown to place in the meeting hall for thieves to steal.
Child that was mauled by troglodytes suddenly dropped dead almost half a year after attack, still having open wounds.
There is a zombie scholar in the library. She doesn't do anything and doesn't feel anything. Evidently, she could read, if there was something to be read. Library still has no books on bookshelves.
Monster slayer zombie. Start with yourself, mate!
At last, someone applied for citizenship.
Someone went into strange mood, demanding bones. I slaughtered few animals to satisfy him.
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Save for 1st of Granite is here. Because of all the petitions, all accepted, fortress population swelled from 119 to 199. Consequently, my FPS dropped from 30 to 15, and food storage is steadily dwindling. I suggest atom smashing their worthless lot. And since i forgot about nuances of cooking, there are no plump helmet seeds either.
Fortress is now metropolis, so if the requirements on the wiki are still true, monarch can be made to arrive by giving 5000 worth of stuff to the dwarven caraven.