So I'm the new overseer. funny how that happens.
First order of business: Messing up Nord's very fine and functional labour system. I'm sure it works great and keeps the fortress working like a well oiled machine. But I can't make heads or tails of it and I am far too set in my ways to learn now. Better to have an okay system that I understand perfectly than a perfect system that I don't. Sorry Nord.
Okay, well it turned out to be more of a small modification than a true overhaul. I do really like the "smith" and "Hand" system. Though I take huge offense that brewing doesn't even register as a "Hand" profession. That has been amended. Unfortunately, under this system I find myself as a mere peasant, destined to do nothing but menial hauling labour for the rest of my life.
Now to finish the minecart magma transporter. That should be simple enough, right? Not like it can flood the fort with magma or anything. Just gotta carve some tracks so we don't have to manually carry minecarts full of magma up hundreds of flights of stairs.
I assigned a Beasthand, to tame and train our beasts. Train our Forumech, giant doberman, trabant, motorcycle, and our dogs for war. Built a kennel and designated a small training area outside.
The hippies threatened us. Ha!
5th Granite, 5 days into my Overlordship, and we get ambushed by Haxxors! 8 of them. Jasro, save us! No sooner can I get the orders out when a second haxxor ambush shows up. 23 of them total. Our two squads stand ready at the gate, joined by a sharpshot forumech. I hope they're enough.
They're more than enough. They fight beautifully. Lead by Apiks, the squads hack and saw through the haxxors like especially soft butter and don't suffer a single injury. Soon the only Haxxor left is an especially cowardly recruit who was the first one to flee. I send a couple members of the chainsaw squad after her. She is faster and leads them on a wild goose chase, nearly circling the fortress before running away. It's good exercise at least.
Suddenly our friendly fortress necromancer peasant Erush arrives and decides to reanimate all the haxxors. Oh Erush! The haxxor zombies get cleaned up almost as easily except one of the chainsaw forumites gets a badly twisted ankle. Nothing that won't heal. I personally brought him to the hospital when the battle was over.
The sharpshot forumech did not live up to its name, bashing heads with it's laser cannon and never firing a single shot. It got it's upper body plating fractured. Maybe the AI needs some work.
A Hipster caravan arrives. I always get confused between hipsters and hippies. they are both equally insufferable.
(I'll edit in some images and maybe proofreading later. NAV is very busy but here's something at least.)
(NAV is busy because he just got a new job fixing the machines that make Covid test kits.)