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[Kazindir]

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Who are you and what have you done with the real Maggarg?!

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I fed me to the alligators in the pond.

[Keldor]

Endok demands the construction of 3 cages!  (Look at your last screenshot XD)

I thought there were a couple gold statues lying around the furnature stockpile, though.  I seem to remember specifically NOT choosing them for the statue garden so that they could be used for something special later on.

Oh, you said that the Countess has a baby now??  I thought that Jools' relationship with her was purely business related.

Also, I added Christes to the list ;-)  Christes, your turn should come sometime around next Easter, assuming everything goes speedily.

[Kazindir]

Hmm, I thought Jools was the "spare" consort? As we've got a count and a countess consort, but the first count vanished and was replaced by the countess. I can't remember though, thinking about it I've no idea when the count disappeared or what happened to him!

I'm going to blame the Cursed Bridge. Or possibly the haunted tombs. Or the carp. Or goblin hordes. Actually, this place is a deathtrap!

[Jools]

I am not the "spare" Consort. I have no idea what happened to the first Count, but he was replaced by my charming wife - leaving us to deal with his grieving Countess Consort (the one who likes mandating things and setting the Hammerer on defenseless Legendary Planters).

As for the child, well, this is one of those aristocratic arranged marriages whereby the mother of an aspiring Countess grabs the first chap who comes along with an upper-class bearing, unpronounceable surname and claims to be in line to inherit half of Yorkshire (me), and foists him on her daughter before she's old enough to start batting her eyelashes at the stable boy.

So we met at our wedding, and haven't really had much to do with each other since. We may be married, but I have my Law course and revenge to inflict upon dresdor to occupy my time. She meanwhile occupies her time caring for her many many donkeys. Enough donkeys that she seems to need a stable boy to look after them all.

So how she came to have a child is a bit perplexing given we last met at some formal dinner over a year ago. Still, it's all officially legitimate and above board, and any resemblance of the child to the stable boy will be politely overlooked. What would we all do without etiquette, eh?

I'll have a quick poke in the legends, see if I can spot what killed the last Count... Bah. He's not in there. Sigun TourLabors, if anyone else wants to look, or indeed let me know if there's any way of revealing all the legends so we can find out everything.

Keldor's death at the hands of the Hammerer is stored in there, though. As his only kill, at least in the save file I just glanced at.

[Christes]

Also, I added Christes to the list ;-)  Christes, your turn should come sometime around next Easter, assuming everything goes speedily.

yay, sooner than I expected.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I am not the "spare" Consort. I have no idea what happened to the first Count, but he was replaced by my charming wife - leaving us to deal with his grieving Countess Consort (the one who likes mandating things and setting the Hammerer on defenseless Legendary Planters).

As for the child, well, this is one of those aristocratic arranged marriages whereby the mother of an aspiring Countess grabs the first chap who comes along with an upper-class bearing, unpronounceable surname and claims to be in line to inherit half of Yorkshire (me), and foists him on her daughter before she's old enough to start batting her eyelashes at the stable boy.

So we met at our wedding, and haven't really had much to do with each other since. We may be married, but I have my Law course and revenge to inflict upon dresdor to occupy my time. She meanwhile occupies her time caring for her many many donkeys. Enough donkeys that she seems to need a stable boy to look after them all.

So how she came to have a child is a bit perplexing given we last met at some formal dinner over a year ago. Still, it's all officially legitimate and above board, and any resemblance of the child to the stable boy will be politely overlooked. What would we all do without etiquette, eh?

I'll have a quick poke in the legends, see if I can spot what killed the last Count... Bah. He's not in there. Sigun TourLabors, if anyone else wants to look, or indeed let me know if there's any way of revealing all the legends so we can find out everything.

Keldor's death at the hands of the Hammerer is stored in there, though. As his only kill, at least in the save file I just glanced at.

Etiquette?
I'm an old miner, remember. I spend my days banging rocks together and saying how they aren't as good as rocks were when I were a lad.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Oh, actually, updates will be a bit more sparse.
I'm starting 6th form lessons as of monday, so I'll have much less time.
Never fear, however, for I am a man of my word, and I'll finish this fort in the next few weeks, if not less.

[Jools]

They won't expect you to really learn anything in the first week, so you can probably get away with playing through a couple of game months in classes.

[Kazindir]

To misquote Mortal Kombat.....FINISH IT! 

[Keldor]

The first Count went melancholy after I was unable to engrave his room fast enough during Keldor's final year as leader.  No wonder the countess had it in for Keldor!

[Kazindir]

Ohh yes, I remember now. He was the one who turned up as a Baron, waited until his rooms were almost done before declaring they were no longer good enough as he'd just been promoted to Count.
Self inflicted really, if he had kept his delusions of grandeur under control he could have moved into one of those 5x5 suites dug specially for him and been a happy dwarf, but no.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

2nd limestone.
The humans have asked me what I would
like them to bring next year.
I think that I will have some metals that the nobles like.
Much as I dislike the surface-dwellers, prejudice must not
cloud my judgement.

4th limestone.
The 1st floor of Nist Akath yard is complete.
All we need is a roof and crennelations, then it will be
finished.

8th limestone.
The gate towers are in place, so the gatehouse may begin.
I doubt I shall finish it, so I shall leave instructions.
A floor shall run across our gates. Fortifications shall be placed on the edges.
Pillars will be set up to support a roof, which may or may not be
angled by ramps.
A structure like this with a working drawbridge will surely
aid our defenses, and it will avoid incidents like the battle of the 12th of haematite.

16th limestone.
More construction. I eagerly await the arrival of the traders.
In fact, I might finish most of the gatehouse by the end of the year.

17th limestone
The caravan has arrived!
We shall pile it high with our goods, and they shall fill our stockpiles with things we want, as this fortress progressed beyond need long ago.
The carp traps are a most dismal failiure.
I have had the building locked up in case anyone feels a need
to have a look.

18th limestone.
Another day, another crippled dwarf.
I blame the wet floors. Smoothing them made it worse.
The merchants are at the depot.
We shall sell them fantastic crafts...
Oh hell, I'll just sell all the narrow crap the goblins left.
I hope my predecessor ordered something sensible.

19th limestone
Incredible!
apparently, this fort gets multiple caravans.
The child I sent up to watch them say there are perhaps
five caravans.
I shall need more narrow crap.
I will also sell the toys and instruments
There was never any need for them when I was a boy in the mountains

22nd limestone
The trading is indeed the fiasco I was told about.
The trader, dresdor, is having a meeting, his deputy is carving
a totem, and our goods have not yet been loaded on.
*later*
I spent the best part of the last hour shouting at the trader and
threatening to throw her to the carp if she doesn't trade.
Eventually, she decided to stop carving her totem.
I shall wait until we have loaded enough junk on.

24th limestone.
Trading begins today. Or rather, it would, but the caravans are still unloading.
If I were in charge, they would be unloaded, and indeed, trading.
Oh, they have just finished.
We shall buy up the cheaper steel toys to melt down, among other things.
We will obviously buy the booze and plant products that we do not produce.
Many, many tower-cap logs.
Most, if not all of the metals and weapons and armour.
Unsurprisingly, we have enough surplus to make an offereing to the king.
Not yet. I have not forgiven him for sending me here.
(actually, I just can't offer things. Dunno why.)
Our trading is concluded.

25th limestone
The roof of Nist akath yard is complete, and we now only require the
crennelations. Once it is complete, I shall start on the gatehouse.

26th limestone
The Hammerer has done his job.
A surly woodworker has been beaten to a pulp because the
dwarves responsible for the failiure of the mandate had run away, and a dwarf
had to be punished.
The woodworker is still alive, however.

28th limestone
A Kobold theif has been found.
Kill the vermin.

1st sandstone.
The end of my tenure is finally in sight.
In 4 months time I shall be able to move away to govern in a good honest
mountain, under the stone.
Hello, what have we here? There is an extra envelope in my
assignment papers.
I don't believe it, I simply don't.
Because of my age and "old-fashioned" views, I have been chosen to stay here
to retire in this fort.

3rd sandstone
The captain now has an office in Nist Akath yard.
The fortifications near completion.

5th sandstone
Nist Akath yard is as good as finished and furnished.



I do indeed have time for the grand gateway.

7th sandstone
Starting the plans for the gateway.

OOC
I forgot to take more pictures.
Again.

[Jools]

All you need now is a rotating triangular sign outside the entrance.

Oh, and I can't even remember if pigs are in the game, but using the place as a gigantic pigpen might be amusing.

Don't worry about not having many images. I've played two years full of intrigue, battle, giant constructions and bitching about dresdor, and not stuck a single image in there, so if nothing else I've set a precedent for getting away with it.

Though in all honesty I do have to admit that a picture does tell a thousand words, and even in the absence of images my verbosity more than makes up for the shortfall.

<Having looked at the images a bit more> Is that blood and vomit on your new construction?

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

What else would it be?
Dwarves bleed as if they were balloons full of blood and puke as if they just ate a deep-fried sausage kebab.