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[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

28th malachite
The inside of the abbey looks almost complete now.
The roof is a mess and most of the eastern wall is still not constructed,
but it looks better. That doesn't make me any less bored of concentrating
all our labour on this damn great folly for that pipsqueak king.

2nd galena.
I looked in the hammerer's rooms today.
They are carpeted wuth hundreds of dusty skull totems of various species.
I know there's a dragon one in there (can't miss it, it's four feet long and
permanently warm) I swear I saw a few elf and human skulls in there as well.
Jool's room is still full of huge gems and the weapon traps still work.
The tax collector is still trying to fit into goblin clothing, which is
ever more futile, as I see she has made use of that bed in her dining room.
The first tier of windows is finished.

5th galena
We have just over 400 animals roaming free now.
A great improvement. We also have 920 joints of meat.
It's merciful really, because if I don't slaughter them, they
die of old age.
That means that I end up walking over old corpses.
Eurgh.

OOC:
Not a very big update because I was busy again.
Having the two largest and most insane community forts under my control at the same time makes for lots of fun.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

6th galena
The second tier of the window is half-done. I want the floor in front of the window paved
in microcline to emulate the sky. But on the floor. Obviously.
I found a giant tiger in my room today. Those things really are GIANT.
Not quite as bad as finding a Hydra in the dining room, but not exactly a normal
thing to come home to.

8th galena
I estimate that the abbey will be fully paved by the 20th, and the windows
will be finished some time in early to mid autumn. At the moment I'm
still pretending tot to notice the roof, although I have heard some mutterings
about the folly of wooden roofs.
Personally, anything that antagonises the elven hippies is a good idea
in my experience.
Including a Fuck The World machine.

10th galena
I found out about plans for an enormous dining room.
I found the room.
Hideous. Truly hideous. A soulless expanse of tables, with no flair or
true form. It is not the Dwarven way!
I think we need a better one, the kind that is supposed to exist in the
fabled mountainhome of Reinhammers.

13th galena
I heard Kaziri talking about some projects today.
Worryingly, I think she took the mechanical library idea seriously.
I'm going to learn how to snorkel to improve my chances of survival.

14th galena
I'm considering training up another 2 or 3 full time butchers to try
and make a dent in our vast stray animal population, although I doubt
an army of hungry dwarves armed with shovels could really make an effect
on our animals.

15th galena
Happily, the floor of the cathedral is finished 5 days before I predicted.
This should free up a lot of labour for any other project I might deign
to undertake.

17th galena
I have noticed that the water in the swimming pool is getting very high.
As far as I know, it was supposed to remain at a level of four feet deep,
deep enough to force a dwarf to paddle, but not deep enough to drown them.
The water level is now fluctuating between 4 and 5 feet deep.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix this (nor do I intend to.)

19th galena
We really do need a new arena.
The old one is more of a goblin concentration camp than an arena,
and it is very small.
And above ground, which is a problem. Even weak sunlight can set this lot
puking like seasick sailors.
Decided to have more of the gatehouse paved.

21st galena
The second tier of the Great Window is finished, and the walls are being
set in place for the next tier. Only 3 more to go.

OOC:
Think of this as the rest of the last update

[Keldor]

The swimming pool is only 4-5 deep now?  That means it's down from when I adjusted it up to around 5-6 deep.  It still never seemed to be deep enough to swim in, but still shallow enough for dwarves to enter no matter what I did, though.  Maybe the pool should be the only entrance to a mead hall, so that dwarves have to swim across it whenever they go to eat?

[Keldor]

Yikes!  How did I manage to forget to update the turn list for so long??

Kazindir, you want another turn, right?

[Kazindir]

Sure.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Ach, how did I end up with so much work.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Never fear, update soon.

[Keldor]

Update!
Update!
UPDATE!!!!

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Update!
Update!
UPDATE!!!!

maggarg was accosted by rabid forum dwellers recently.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

22nd galena.
I feel the need to go on a short holiday.
(Due to time constraints because of school work, band work and the
Eternal halls I'm going to skip all of autumn to try and finish this off as fast as i can.
I apologise, but I can't really do anything else.

1st limestone
Still enjoying my season's holiday.

9th limestone
Note: need more white gems.

14th limestone
The caravan arrived, interrupting my nice holiday.
I shall send the trader to liaise with the merchants, although
traditionally here the trader NEVER TRADES EVER AT ALL.

12th sandstone
la la la I can mine all day and no-one will interrupt me.
I love mining. No, I don't, I hate it, but at least I can't be bothered
to death by everyone who thinks I care about dead cats and job canceling
because they just saw a kobold thief.
Wait what. Oh, a kobold got splurged by a wagon but isn't actually dead yet.
His brain is poking out of his ears, so it shan't be long.

19th sandstone
The wagons ran the kobold over again when they left.
Happy days. My huge window now has the "blade" finished, and needs a
hilt and pommel.

22nd sandstone
I was just walking around today when I saw that there was a large figure
on the horizon. A large bronze figure.
Naturally, I ran down to Issha's cavern. He was still there.
I then ran all the way back up to the surface. Yep, definitely
two colossi now. As I caught my breath(It takes quite some catching nowadays.
When I was young people never had to catch their breath, oh no...)
this mechanical monster spoke in the deep bass boom characteristic
of his blasted kind, he announced his name and purpose.
"Behold, O dwarves of Kulettogum, it is I, Ivire Rofanefethi, the
bronze colossus, and I come to free my brother in metal, Issha Neltiamec,
who you have kept cruelly in a wooden cage stuffed with a leaf which smokes!
I shall revenge his capture and free him!"

This impressive moment was marred somewhat by Kaziari smirking when the colossus
mentioned *my* tobacco.
Her fault, she captured Issha in the first place.
 
23rd sandstone
Our predicament worsens, as it turns out that Ivire is not only a
giant bronze man, but also one of the biggest, 'ardest and generally
nastiest giant bronze men ever to have been forged by the mad dwarves
of Olonkulet.
Endok, activate the deflector shields!
What do you mean they don't exist?
When I was a lad...
Oh nuts, we forgot to empty the cage traps.
There is now a 5 in 6 chance he'll stomp into the fort and mangle the lot
of us.
On a lighter note, there are now only 375 animals left in the fort.

24th sandstone
The giant bronze chappie is still standing there on a hill,
gleaming menacingly.
Time to empty those damn cages as fast as fast.
I'm building some near the place i suspect he'll come round to the
gates.
They'll also be useful for those sneaky siegers that try to
avoid the bolts.

25th sandstone
A kobold was thoroughly dismantled by our champions.
Well and truly so, we'll be cleaning the bits up for
ages. Years, knowing the average efficiency of these damnabble
lowlanders. Our towering metal adversary is still standing in a very
impressive pose.

26th sandstone
Oh no, he moved.
He's moving incredibly fast as well, you can hear the sounds he makes,
like a huge gong or bell. Each stride is about fifteen yards long.
He's only about a mile from the gates, so he'll be here
in a few minutes
(Four. Frames. A. Second. Next time I sign up I'm getting a damn supercomputer.)

27th sandstone
Someday I'm going to have someone clean up every last scrap of rubbish
from the fortress and then I'm going to smash it up into tiny little pieces
so small you can't make them any damn smaller. Then I'm going to smash them
some more just to see if they really can't get smaller.
And then I'm going to sell more of it.

28th sandstone
Today we captured another gigantic bronze machine-god in a six foot tall
wooden cage.
I hope you're happy now, reality.
The king consort is incredibly happy now that we have two vengeful and
almost invincible metal monsters in aged wooden cages.
I think I'm the only sane dwarf.

OOC:
Two of the most dangerous creatures in the world are now stuffed into tiny cages in the second most badly managed fort in the world. (third if you count catfortress.)

[Keldor]

Don't worry about that - the cage is Endok's crafting, so it'll work just fine.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I'm now desperately trying to finish the world's slowest fortress tonight.
I'm obviously insane because I still want another go when round whatever opens up.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

29th sandstone
Well, with all that finally over I can go back to my holiday, and this time
I'm not being interrupted!

21st timber
Someone woke me up from my nap to tell me that one Lor Melbildeler has
trained to such absurdly high levels he is now considered a legendary
champion.
In MY day a champion had to go out and behead his own troll, not like
nowadays, oh no...

1st moonstone
I have but three months remaining to accomplish what I have been asked to do.
Eh, I can do it later.

13th moonstone
Another cowardly Kobold was dismembered by our champions, leaving
a rather nasty mess over Nist Akath yard.

21st moonstone
The work on the "hand-guard" part of the window has begun, along with the construction
of the steeple.
I hope I'll be able to roof it with copper or bronze.
(For the record, the tower is 5X7)

25th moonstone
Only 360 animals wandering around now, a decrease of some 200 animals.
Unfortunately, I think the butcheries are a little clogged with decomposing
animal matter

28th moonstone
Apparently all the kobolds who hate their dead-end thieving jobs and
their miserable lives come here to commit suicide.
Another one of the little vermin decided to stroll past a champion today,
and for his pains was flung into a wall.
Then he was throughly mauled by a pet hippo or something.
For creatures so large and squidgy, they're rather vicious.

1st Opal
Only 2 more months of strangely slow time left in which to govern these
soft lowlanders. I shall be glad to be free from rule again.
I received a letter from that babbling lunatic nephew of mine,
Oddom the Odd. It was, of course, all backwards and in some archaic
dialect of Deep Mountain Old Dwarvish. Probably one of his damn voices he
claims to hear. He was asking me for advice, so I told him never
to write to me again unless he's sane.
Damn youths, in MY day insanity was a real problem. Not for the maddwarf, but
for anyone in the near vicinity, especially if the said bonker was a woodcutter.

5th Opal
Work on the first floor of the spire is going well.
I think it will be about four or five levels of diorite wall, followed by
however tall the bronze/copper roof will be.
Even from here, I can see that the roof of the abbey is a hive of activity.
Speaking of the abbey, it is really more of a cathedral or church, as
an abbey is a large dwelling for monks or nuns to live, whereas a cathedral is a
large centre of worship where the administration of a local area's religion
is housed.
This means we need a Bishop of Rakust.
Either that or we make underground cloisters for monks of Rakust.

8th opal
The second floor of the spire is starting construction, along with
the hilt of the "Sword" After this, there is only one levels left,
the last being a single window in red.

9th opal
I just realised I haven't obeyed a single mandate or demand this year.
Jools is predictably fuming, along with the other nobles, as they all
worship a different god. The King is pretty happy though.

12th opal.
A marksdwarf just had a baby. Great. Another dwarf who'll never see the
honest granite of the mountains, nor feel the freezing gales and heavy snow.
Oh well, twelve years and I'll have them as a hauler or something.

21st opal
Just over a month left until I finally get to hand this place over.
Then I can get back to stockpiling tobacco whilst Kaziri is busy.
Mwahahah.

3rd obsidian
Not long left to complete as much of the spire as I can.
Twenty-seven days, I think.

12th obsidian
The dwarves are working slowly to infuriate me, I know it.
I haven't even got any scaffolding up.
At least the window on this level is finished.

15th obsidian
Only a half-month left now. Just over a fortnight, amusingly enough.

20th obsidian
I'm beginning a countdown, that's how happy I am to be free of this leadership.
Next time I get asked I do hope I don't have to keep building something.
I doubt the odds are in my favour.

24th obsidian
the second floor of the spire is finished, and my scaffold is finally going up.
More good news, I'm ready for the cartographers.

25th obsidian
CAN THE LAZY DWARVES OF ABBEYVERSE DO WHAT I WANT IN 5 DAYS?

27th obsidian
YES, THEY CAN!

1st granite
My rule is finally over, and the messengers and cartographers arrive soon.
Wonderful. Time to start mopping again.

Finally finished.
map and save up soon, I hope.

DAVE THE SAVE: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=889

[Kazindir]

And the map:

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-4989-abbeyverse


In dire need of Points of Interest! 

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I added some, pointing out everything I achieved in the Great Snooze of '68.