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[Mulch Diggums]

I would like an imagrant please!
Name: Mulch Diggums
Title: The Engraver
male:male
job:Engraving
Give me a peasant and set him to engraving. He'll be the forts enterior design guy.

[mainiac]

20th of Hematite
Enjoying my new office!  Well, technically, it's just some furniture in the corner of my bedroom, but hey, it's the thought that counts.  Sadly, with great furniture come great responsibility.  I don't have any excuse to delay the paperwork any more.  Nose to the grindstone....
For starters, I never wrote up Mulch Diggums staff evaluation.

And we finished the bridge a few days back, which I should have mentioned as well.  It's retractable and the water makes a natural moat, for the best in defense technology

Anyway, time to delve into the recrods.  For instance, we apparently only have 14 meals worth of food left.  I think I'll look into that a bit more...

[Mulch Diggums]

Eh...that isnt an imagrant is it? What skills does he have?

[Duke 2.0]

Yes! I'm a dude!

And nothings quite as fresh as aquifer mud. Of course, you city-folk wouldn't know nothing 'bout that.

And a bridge? What we really need are large, serrated blade disk traps! A REAL dwarf's defense!

And good job! Keep it up!

[mainiac]

quote:Originally posted by Mulch Diggums:
<STRONG>Eh...that isnt an imagrant is it? What skills does he have?</STRONG>

Yeah, that's the seventh of the starting dwarves.  He doesn't have any honed skills yet, lack of foresight on my part ment I set off with a peasant when I really could have used a carpenter or second planter.  Right now he's a farmer, but as soon as I can spare him I'll switch him to engraver.

Appologies to dwarffanatic, I overlooked your first request.  You'll get the first immigrant (who after all must be quite fanatical.)

As far as serrated blade disk traps go, I must confess I don't know how to make 'em!  Apparently siege academies these days are failing to teach their students some basic skills!

[Dwarf Fanatic]

I know...

Only glass or metal disks.

here: For glass you need: at least 1 bag, 1 sand collecting area, and 1 person with glassmaking on with a glassmaking workshop. Collect sand. Then go and scroll down the green glass. If you can't read it all hit tab until  you can. Build glass stuff. (forgot coal source!)

Metal: ore or bars, metalsmithing of some type. coal, anvil workshop.

Make'm strong! Sliccen up!

[mainiac]

I think I'm going to play around with magma today.  I want a magma forge, so I should be able to set up a glass workshop too.

It's not the components that confuse me however.  It's the construction.  When I try to make a trap above a pressure plate I'm told I can't build there, since the pressure plates occupying the spaec.

[Istrian]

Erm, boss. Weapon traps don't need pressure plates to activate. They automatically shred to bits any enemy that tries to step on them (except kobold thieves and goblin snatchers)

[Greiger]

Yea, all the basic traps operate without a lever or pressure plate.  The only traps that need a lever or plate are the spike traps, which although cool, I don't really see the point(pun) of using anywhere but the bottom of a death pit.

By the way, I'll take an immigrant too.  This thread reminds me of back when I was still learning.

Name: Fred
Job:Swordsdwarf  Fisherdwarf if you don't want/need a military yet
Request: Male, liking a type of sword a bonus but not a requirement.

[mainiac]

Roughly etched on a rock wall with deep etchings patiently done...

1st of Limestone...
Work on the magma channel continues.  The channel currently runs just short of the magma vent to just short of the fortress.  But before we complete the channel we're going to set up safety measures.  The first of these measures, an impenetrable bauxite barricade is in place.  It's about five yards west of here.  As a result I have a few hours on my hands as I wait for my crew to dig my stairway out of here.

       

3rd of Limestone...
Have they even noticed I'm gone?

5th of Limestone...
I think they're trying to tell me something.  Bastards.

Writen on a bloodstained page
6th of Limestone...
I got out... With my bare hands.  Bastards.

7th of Limestone...
Things have gone downhill during the week I was working my way through a stone door with nothing but blood and sweat.  For instance Kuli turned out another 6 Limestone floodgates.  Those will hold back magma real well.  I explained to her that we were needed to use Bauxite, to which she said "you can't tell me what rock to use!"  I was forced to admit she was right.

[ April 24, 2008: Message edited by: mainiac ]

[Kuli]

You can forbid the stone that you don't want to be used.  You could also make a stockpile for bauxite right next to the mason's workshop and the mason will most likely use it.

quote:The only traps that need a lever or plate are the spike traps, which although cool, I don't really see the point(pun) of using anywhere but the bottom of a death pit.

Actually menacing spikes don't work when a creature falls on them.  Personally, I use them as a noble execution device.  Fill a room with spikes, attach them to a lever, build a table in the room and set it as the Baron's dining room, then pull the lever repeatedly when the Baron goes in for his last meal.

[mainiac]

8th of Limestone...
I tricked Kuli into using Bauxite by setting up a pile right outside the workshot.  She smugly replied that she'd tricked me into hauling stone around for her.  I had to admit she was right.

11th of Limestone...
I've decided to put my homocidal wishes to better use.  I've constructed a catapult and will rain death down upon the imps who are holding up our progress.

11th of Limestone continued...
The imps have hidden.  Bastards.  Well, at least progress can continue the magma channel.

23rd of Limestone
With those silly merchants out of the way, we were finally able to get work wrapped up on the magma channel!  Today Amost opened the last segment!  He did so while I was standing in the channel, finishing the safety floodgates...  I've decided to keep an eye on Amost from here on out.
... also I'm keeping an eye on Mulch Diggums, or as I like to call him, Mulchy Darlin'.  He's everything a dwarven lass could want, bearded smelly and an artist to boot!  Or aspiring artist or something.  I've told him to start engraving our exploits on the walls and am looking forward to the results.
We've got a bunch of new recruits.  This Dwarven Fanatic guy and I are kindred spirits.  In our very first conversation he said "uh, I'm not really looking forward to a new crowd.  I always feel like someones watching me."  I darkly agreed "Yeah, the bastards are just waiting to slip an axe in your back.  Or stick you in a channel full of magma..."  I find his constant paranoia to be quite liberating.  I recommended he hang out with Amost for a while.  Ha!

I haven't really figured out the other recruits yet.  There is one fine specimen of dwarfhood.  Our first conversation he gives an angry grunt and sucker punches me and seems overjoyed when I sucker punch him right back.  The other immigrants explained that he has an uncontrolable internal rage.  I explained that we had found the perfect swordsmen for our new military.  Oh Fred, if I were a single dwarf.

The others I don't care for.  A bunch of useless layabouts who expect to be fed and a bunch of theiving sluts who'd heard that I have the largest stockpile of eligable dwarves under one roof.  The worst of the lot is named, of all things Amost, who's supposedly very friendly.  Yeah, I'm sure she is.  I'm watching you, tramp.

[Greiger]

I just like the idea of spikes at the bottom of a pit.  Functional or not.  Besides, when they are at the bottom of a pit you don't have to hurry to have somebody turn the meat grinder on.  The goblin isn't going anywhere.

And I love the constant state of internal rage.  Just dumb luck to get a quality soldier like that.  I wonder if he will martial trance more often...

[Haven]

Constant rage.. Socially crippled... Sign me up!

Rin Ran Runderun, hopefuly male, and dedicated to whatever you need done. Probably something dangerous. Or made a Mason to work on overland walls... Overland walls are fun.

[Lemnx]

Heh Heh... that whole Nist Akath bit was hillarious!