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[d3c0y2]

yeah just wall up that river and either wait for the autumn dwarf caravan and buy a new pick, or try and make a new one.
its an easy salvagable situation.

Atip though, when you next try to break into the river, build you're water works before hand, and put a grate/fortification on them, then if possible channel from a safe position to it, or cover you're miner whilst you channel.

I know thats what im gonna do when I find the water source.

[Haven]

Well, you don't actually get to see it until you've dug into it, and the Bla-Men are amphibious. A door should work all right to block it off.

[d3c0y2]

well usually I breach once to find out what it looks like, then wall of tht breach and breach again inthe way described

[Gaulgath]

Owch, Gaul... Well, at least you have an anvil and a hammer.

The thing is, we've only mined out some casseterite which can only be used to make tin unless you have another ore type. You can't make picks out of tin!

So it looks like we'll be waiting for a migrant miner or the human caravan. (They carry picks quite often, if I recall correctly)

[Gaulgath]

Gah. I thought the "quote is not edit" thing was something I'd never have to post again with the new forum software. I was wrong.

[d3c0y2]

d3c0y2s Universe

Journal of Gaulgath, 22nd Moonstone, 53.

It is with a heavy heart that I inscribe these words, the oldest of our original seven, and one of my long time friends, Jennifer was struck down today.  Three squads of goblins, numbering near 45 goblins attacked us, jennifer was outside installing a trap during the ambush and was chased away from the fort. Me and my squad soon were armoured up and rushed out to save her, but found ourselves hemmed in by the two remaining squads, fighting them on the trapped entrance we soon saw them down, I myself failed to kill any Goblins, but Dantan struck down two with his bare hands. Alas by the time we caught up to jennifer she was dead, torn into 4 peices and the goblins had retreated, seeing what had happened to her friends.

It is a heavy day for Okabushul, and the original seven is now 5, atila having perished in an earlier attack, the poor sod had been outside mining the ditch to a moat covering our outside farms when he was shot in the back. Now he lays at the bottom of the ditch rotting.

Your's Gaulgath.

[Haven]

Haven's universe:

Spoiler: First year, part II of II. (click to show/hide)

12th Malachite

Well, no luck finding the water just yet, but we had the fortune to find coal embedded in the rock. Baughn's been put to work refining it, so hopefuly we can do some metalworking without burning our precious tower caps.


16th Malachite



Finally broke into the river, inside a cluster of bauxite to the east of our outpost. One of the frogmen living in it tried to take me for lunch, but the others had been following me to inspect another discovery of ours, a ruby cluster. After Gaulgath beat the sense out of one of the slimy things, we blocked the river off again with a locked door across the rather narrow passage. In the future, maybe we'll clear it out, but for now we'll see if a bucket on a rope provokes them overmuch... We could use the water.


14th Galena

Well, no sign of any company yet. I imagine it's possible the expedition postponed it's trip due to the unyeilding heat, but either I'm getting used to it, or it's beginning to cool down. It's not so bad under the mountain, but the spire has the weather and the forges to contend with. I don't envy Baughn's work. At least I get to stay cool. Also, it would seem we have a solution to the water creatures beating on our barricade door. I dug away a side passage, then knocked some small holes in it, too small for even the snakemen to get through. From here, Gaul decided to take some target practice, netting us a few less critters and a much safer barricade, for now at least.


7th Limestone

Well, I decided it was time to mine out the platinum to make into crafts for the caravan... And Baughn assumed I'd told him to do it, so now we have enough usable platinum for maybe a bead or two... Guess we'll have to use the stuff in the spire, but in the meantime I took Baughn's pick and had him keep on the fuel production, and I'm just too tired to do it myself...


14th Limestone

Too late, at any rate. The caravan arrived, and we don't have a lot to trade just yet. Hopefuly they'll stick around a while. Also, turns out they led a few kobolds along with them, which may explain the missing bolts. Gaul's got bone bolts now, courtesy of G, so if we see them again...

Turns out Gaul found one in the river tunnel... Which leaves another unaccounted for, but I think anything we have of value is up at the trade depot right now... Found a bag made of giant cave spider silk, should net us something.


28th Limestone

The caravan is taking on some of our water while it stops to recouperate. Turns out they misjudged the heat here, and ended up having to drink their trading supply just to make it this far. Meantime, we've mined out the last of the coal vein, so now my plans have turned toward getting the water closer to our fort... I'm fairly sure a screw pump or two would be useful, both to keep the flow going and to keep the critters out of our water supply. For now, though, the plan is to make a tunnel connecting to the river's source and punch another small hole into the end. But before we do that, we'll need to move all the raw coal away from the area. Just in case...


16th Sandstone

The caravan is about ready to leave. Good for them, and I hope they have a better time of it next year. Meantime, we're slowly getting more done. G is beginning to write up the books for our settlement in the administrative building I've carved out for him. It'll house the future mayor in it as well, or possibly the sherrif, alongside the clerical office. Also, I've dug out the magnetite at the spire's top - It runs pure all the way through. Quite a sight, and with a tip of red Bauxite at the top... Hm, that gives me an idea, but I'll have to think on it later.


18th Moonstone

Some of the rubies we gathered have gone missing. Gaul's on sentry at the entrance to watch for any kobold activity now, and an entrance more to our liking is currently being outfitted while we wait for Aqizzar to finish the designs on our water system. I wish we had more people.


13th Opal

G has taken to stonecrafting during the short periods he looks up from his books. Can't hurt, I say. The caravan from last year had requested them, and G seems to have a knack for most things. Also, we've laid some simple traps across our new entryway, and work has begun on the water system now. It's about as cold as I've ever known it to be here, hopefuly it'll stay this way a while longer when we go to put up the mills, assuming we get a shipment of wood... Wishful thinking.


24th Opal



Aquizzar had gone missing for a while, and it took us a bit to find him. A day, in fact, the dwarf had managed to get himself stuck behind the first screw pump he'd made. When I broke in to free him, the walls were covered in tic-tac-toe games, and he had the nerve to chide me for interrupting his commune before rushing off to get a drink of brew. Guy must've gone sober in there.


17th Obsidian

It seems the year is almost over, and while we haven't progressed as far as I'd like, we've managed to make a half-decent outpost in the blast-furnace of nowhere. Still no sign of others, so I suppose we'll be going this alone. I suppose if we've made it one year, we can make it more.

Baughn is getting on well with the forges, and we have a surplus of iron bars and coke fuel that would do a mid-sized fortress proud, although some concern has risen about all that fuel being stacked around the smelter. For now I've decided he should get to work making a few crafts for next year's caravan, practicing with a few iron bars until we can find some proper craftsman's metal. He's also pretty happy about the gems we've dug out, being a follower of Ral and all.

Gaulgath has been skulking a bit lately, having spent most of his days (and several nights) just outside the entrance to the fortress. Heat's probably getting to him, he seems more at home in the mountain itself. Once we train our dogs properly, he'll have some relief, and for now he seems content enough.

Antila has been quite happy lately, having had a good deal of free time in between the farming cycles to play games. He's been going on about his idea of having a giant chessboard set up in a cavern by the meeting hall, 'for the veneration of Igoth'. Sounds harmless enough, and the masons have been getting tired of doors and tables by now, I imagine.

Jennifer has spent a lot of her time in the farms lately, and seems to be less familiar with most of the others. When she's not farming, she generaly keeps to her room, though her added brewing duties may serve to change that a bit, brew doing what it does.

Aqizzar's been doing fine, working without a lot of complaint. He's also been meeting with Antila about her idea, as they both follow Igoth. He's been giving me pictures and sketches of what they want the chessboard and pawns to look like. A sort of montage of dwarven history, with figures from various ages. Interesting enough, though I've suggested that we commission a few different sets when the time comes, so that dwarves can pick and choose their own army. Seemed to make him happy enough.

G-Dwarf has been spending a bit much time in his books lately, and when he's not there, as I've said, he's stonecrafting. Got his mind on our wealth, it seems, but Lanlar wouldn't have it to let him stay underground without so much as a glimpse of the moon and sky, so he's been off his books for the winter. Once the weather heats up, I think a discreet hole in the ceiling will have to serve - It's just too extreme out there.


Well, here's hoping for a better year.

Din-Dan Spearbraided, Expedition Manager of Okabushul.

End of year 51

[d3c0y2]

ive been toying with the idea of digging out the sire, just been struggling with how to do it, if I dig through th eroof'll drop on my head, so Ill have to channel it out from above.


anyway: my update. Now with no jennifer.
D3c0y2's universe


Journal of Gaulgath, 19th hemanite., 54

Well the Population stands at near 67 now, alas we've had 5 deaths. the most recent being an immigrant who fell asleep on our newly installed weapon trap. Seeing a dwarf ripped shred to shred by automated daggers is something I don't wish upon my worst enemy. In other news we're digging into the mountain now by way of a large tunnel we built connecting them. The lower levels of the spire are completely carved out now, and a defencive wall is being built on top, with the idea of eventually creating a fortified spire-fort.

Our artifact collection grows, we now have a fire agate bucket, though without water its sort of useless. The dwarf who made it, Samson, cut a few Emeralds we found to an exceptional quality. I've had my squad grown to five men, as two hunters came in the last immigration wave, though we never really need to do anything, With two legendary mechanics the traps we've been pumping out can take up to 60 goblins before finally being overrun.We finished the outside farms, surrounded by a wall and moat with the only access being from underground, makes for safety, though alot of our farmers have never had to farm outside, so the amount of vomit is sickening. No Pun intended.

People keep engraving pictures of G-dwarf surrounded by dwarves everywere, something that has made him a little big headed, he declared himself mayor and now demands lay pewter items. We started digging a bigger bedroom, and it sort of shut him up, though he spends less time making mechanisms now, and more time checking his chest, or eating or drinking.

Search continues for this elusive river, but every mining prob has ended in initial failure, though we did end up with lots of coal and emeralds from one probe. We'll find it eventually.
Your's Gaulgath.

[Gaulgath]

I have completed my first year at Brokenrealms!

Could we get a DFMA map from each person? Just to compare.

2nd Granite, 52

To commemorate the (mostly) successful establishment of their outpost, G-Dwarf had Baughn make a tin statue. Some considered it a waste of their wood since they had to make charcoal, but once they got a sight of Baughn's impressive handiwork, glimmering in the desert sun atop the hill where the entrance was located, their complaints ceased.

28th Granite, 52
Jennifer was ordered to use her talents as a cook to render all the fat from the butchered animals that Gaulgath had brought in and to make some simple meals. Antila continues planting sweet pods.

[d3c0y2]

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-3349-brokenrealms
thats my fort.

EDIT: thats a pretty nice design. I never really have oval rooms if I can help it. Also I've never really put metal forges up in my first year.

[d3c0y2]

actually I was looking at it and realised you've got an etrance room with a statue in the middle, with a two story pathway and stairs. its pretty damn impressive.

[d3c0y2]

D3c0y2s Universe

Gaulgaths Journal, 1st moonstone year 55.

its been a strange year, earlier on in the year Din dan our legendary miner fell 30 foot whilst channeling and ended up with a wounded hand and spleen. Knowing without water he was surely a gonna we set off to find the river with quickened speed. only two days after Din Dan became bedridden we hit the water.
Me and my men moved slowly forward, fear on the edge of everyones conscious, any sort of monsters could rise from these deeps. However as we got to the edge we realised the river  has 3 water falls in it, and that no monsters are on the top level, just incase we walled up the first shaft and from a second shaft built a well above the river. No chance anyones getting in from above it. However as we dug the shaft to the well Din-Dan turned up with his pick in hand. the crazy sod had only gone and healed a punctured wound in less than 3 days, and soon put the rest of the miners to shame digging the rest of the shaft out.

the top of the mountain is currently being supported by pillars as we mined out all the iron from the midtop level, I dont like the idea of a thousand tons of rock being held above us by 5 pillars but ive been ensured by the two top mechanics its totally safe. Something was disconcerting about that as they were wearing hard hats as they told me.

G-dwarf is becoming a good trader but is getting more and more reserved from every day dwarven life. I worry for him sometimes.

For some strange reason people seem to have an affixiation with trees, and engrave them onto many of our walls. Though a few great histories of our defeat of the goblins have been carved on occasion.

Yours Gaulgath.

[Cajoes]

Here's my archive map, took me a while to figure out what I was doing.

[d3c0y2]

pretty impressive cajoes, I have no idea how it works. it looks as though your base is all on different levels with stair ways going everywere. looks impressive, will look better when smoothed and engraved.

[Aqizzar]

Aqizzar's Universe

Yeah, I'm way behind.  This slipped my mind for a while when I got sucked back into Liberal Crime Squad.  No big RP thing for me, kinda burned out, and I don't have the time.

Anywho, here's the Aqizzar Dimension's version of Brokenrealms, at the beginning of the second year.  I'm turning the whole hill/valley area into a giant castle, with the big southwestern hill as a military stronghold.  Not much done except a lot of, as yet unless, walls.  Though none too soon as it turns out - a tribe of snakemen exodited through my exploratory mineshaft to the cave river, and have set up camp next to the eastern wall.  That big hall next to the riverhead full of spiderwebs (hope I get a weaver soon) will be a farm once I clean everything up, and find a way to deal with the 30ish cave critters right inside.

Population 17, two of them woodcutters.  I've reappropriated their axes, plus a spear I bought from the caravan, for a security squad (still in hand-to-hand training).  The squad leader, in the grand Dwarven tradition, is a soap maker.  Only real difficulties yet are a complete lack of fuel (one piece of coke in reserve) and the giant eagle playing hell with my masons.