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[MuonDecay]

Just wait until you get a siege led by a goblin Cocklord.

[woose1]

Cockdwarf.
Dwarfcock?
 

[Deathworks]

Hi!

It is not that awesome, but I still paused seeing this decoration on a totem created in my fortress:



It may seem simple enough, but I was put of by the description saying something about a possible involvement.

That diplomat simply dropped dead because of old age, it seems, right on the stairway to my trader's office. There was no trap or other foul play involved. The humans also understood this, and trade with them did not suffer at all (okay, I don't have a replacement diplomat, but they still come and by and large bring the things I need).

In addition, this decoration was done by one of my dwarves who was living in the fortress at that time. He should know that we are innocent!

However, I can kind of understand why he would do this. Mosus is the sole cat-dwarf in my fortress, and as he did this decoration, he was very unhappy because of yet some more of his cats dying of old age (make a guess where that skull comes from (^_^;; ). So, I guess he needed to vent some frustration. But did he have to do it by doubting the trader??

Deathworks

(EDIT: Typo fixed)

[Vactor]

So, I guess he needed to went some frustration.

something tells me German is your first language..

[Jackrabbit]

Or it could have been a typo

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Actual, you are both right :) :)

German is my native tongue and this was an absentminded typo. Usually, I wouldn't mess this up, but it was late at night when I wrote that, so the weak distinction (from a German perspective) between 'v' and 'w' had my brain mix up the vocabulary.

Anyhow, I guess we should not distract this thread further (^_^;;

(No new reports on my side as my dwarves are in reduced activity as I seriously need some breeding in my fortress ASAP)

Deathworks

[Cheshire Cat]

Rith was involved in two battles against elves. In the first one he killed eighty-eight of the bastards. He and another dwarf (Fikod Workedglaze, who despite having fifty-five kills is significantly less popular in engravings) fought off 300+ elves and won.

Sadly Rith lost the second battle, a 225 vs 3 slugfest in the jungle. This was the final battle of his civ, of which he was the last to die.

hahaha, that is awesome. i really need to check on the goblin gozru i mentioned over the page, who is engraved all over my fort. hes in every second engraving in the new set of tombs im digging out. i dont think he killed nearly as many things as your dwarves did, but the engravings seem to detail every last little bit of the fight he had with each thing he encountered. ive just gotten a new engraving of him having his OTHER leg ripped off by the eagle diamondblame, whom he kills in the same fight. no wonder after all his deeds he was slain a few years later by a measly sasquatch, he had no legs!

though this does beg the question, if he had no legs, how on earth was he wandering around the place getting into brawls with sasquatches?

its really weird how engravers seem to fixate on a small number of figures or events and make engravings about them endlessly.

also, im not sure what to make of that artifact decoration deathworks has. its pretty nifty. perhaps the trade liason died from exposure on the glacier? i can recall in adventure mode getting injuries to my extremites due to the cold, which persist after going inside. so perhaps he got injured from the glacier, and died from either that or actual old age.

[Jackrabbit]

though this does beg the question, if he had no legs, how on earth was he wandering around the place getting into brawls with sasquatches?

Simple. He drags himself around the wastes until he finds a sasquatch and proceeds to bite its kneecaps off.

Also, old age isn't a factor yet save for world gen. Living thins survive as long as you have a fort or adventurer. So it musthave been exposure.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

The problem with the exposure theory is, I am on a temperate map. The brook and pools do not even freeze during winter (the fortress is now more than 20 years old).

As far as I know, age does work in the game - within the actually simulated site. Weren't there the stories about whole towns dropping dead when a late adventurer showed up? And I think I also heard about the problem of diplomats dying of old age before.

I don't have any dangerous material (magma) on the map it seems and there was no trap nearby. The wagons were still there and he died while I traded with the merchants, so it can't be insanity due to long wait.

This leaves basically old age (unless my trader disliked the diplomat stalking and killed her while I wasn't looking (^_^;; )...

I just found the implication part weird.

The dwarf who did this is one of the two craftsdwarf my fortress has, so he does a lot of images. Still, I find that one he did a little while later fits very well its attitude: It is a standard one of the expedition leader surrounded by bats - and the expedition leader detests bats.

I know that is a standard image, but still, in this context, I find this quite amusing.

My other craftsdwarf is also improving. He tended to created images of toads (which he himself detests). Now, he has began doing images of "2 toads" ... looks like a serious expansion :) :) :)

But I am confused about the first dwarf recently decorating a marmot (could be goat) skull totem with cat bones depicting "two cheetah skulls".... Why? I don't think any of my dwarves has anything to do with cheetahs or cheetah skulls. And I never had cheetahs on my map - bears, wolves, mountain goat, marmots, a sasquatch, but never a cheetah.

Well, let's hope that my catdwarf will be able to relax enough to get married with someone. I need some breeding here - pronto!

Deathworks

[Awayfarer]

Rith was involved in two battles against elves. In the first one he killed eighty-eight of the bastards. He and another dwarf (Fikod Workedglaze, who despite having fifty-five kills is significantly less popular in engravings) fought off 300+ elves and won.

Sadly Rith lost the second battle, a 225 vs 3 slugfest in the jungle. This was the final battle of his civ, of which he was the last to die.

hahaha, that is awesome. i really need to check on the goblin gozru i mentioned over the page, who is engraved all over my fort. hes in every second engraving in the new set of tombs im digging out. i dont think he killed nearly as many things as your dwarves did, but the engravings seem to detail every last little bit of the fight he had with each thing he encountered. ive just gotten a new engraving of him having his OTHER leg ripped off by the eagle diamondblame, whom he kills in the same fight. no wonder after all his deeds he was slain a few years later by a measly sasquatch, he had no legs!

though this does beg the question, if he had no legs, how on earth was he wandering around the place getting into brawls with sasquatches?

Yeah, that's a pretty hardcore gobbo. I picture him swinging around on his hands like a gorilla. Surprising to see engravings of a goblin fighting and questing. I don't think I've ever had an engraving of a member of a non-dwarven race unless they were being attacked/killed by (or attacking/killing) a dwarf. Sounds like you've got some pretty creative dwarves.

[Faces of Mu]

Ha! I loved the sceptre "The praise of bowels" by those norti monks!

Allas Ucat, "The Seas of Beer", depicting the founding of Inklight, my fort (currently at 2000 drinks).
Ogik Egur, "The Camp of Sorrows", depicting the creation of the one-humped camel leather high boot (a very sad production indeed!).
Ngutegletom, "The Cyclopean Convenience", depicting a dwarf shooting a goblin during "The Sixth Attempted Adbuction at Inklight". I hope he got him in the eye! (and I just love the sound of the title, like a Grisham title!).
Zamnuth Inen, "The Excavation of Hills", depicting the founding of Inklight. Fantastic because to make my fort I've had to completely dig out my fort from eight levels of mountain (meaning strip mining the entire mountain down to ground level). Another was "The Subtlety of Sinking", which just sounds like a movie title! And finally, "The Ugly Stigma of Garnish", which may be the reason for their migration...!
Titthalid, "The Playful Rocks", depicting one of my dwarves killing another.
Zethruk ertong, "The Enchanter of Gerbils", depicting a goblin that killed an elf in a previous war, "The Sieges of Riddling". There was also another titled "The Sugary Smear".
Thetdel Koshmot, "The Hare of Weeds", depicting the creation of the Swords of Wetting, a rope reed rope artifact.
Dustik Dostik, "The Boar of Smut", depicting a dwarf laughing over a goblin making a plaintive gesture. I don't know who the boar is in this picture!
Fimshel Etom, "The Persuader of Sacrificing", depicting the ascension of my longest running mayor.
Govulkathilkin, "The Untrustworthy Wet Oak", depicting a Larch tree.
Sizir Mamgoz, "The Vice of Dragons", regarding one frogman.

And a final tribute to Toady One, Idithstegeth, "The Systemic Organization" depicting a toad.

[Cheshire Cat]

hah, cyclopean convenience. turn on full history, you may find the goblin is actually being shot in the eye.

nearly all my fighting ones are mr gozru werecircle having his limbs torn off by creatures he later kills, and it details exactly which arm, leg, finger or toe. i just got another one on an artifact mechanism of him striking down the eagle that took his other leg. my only other fighting ones are my champions chopping goblins up, and one fairly funny one of my hammerdwarf laughing mercilessly as he beats a peasant huddled in the fetal position to death. i think i mentioned that one a few pages back.

also, deathworks, your engravers can aparently engrave anything from the entire world history, or any creature present in DF, even fanciful things that arent yet represented in the game, like wizards.
i did a lot of checking around when my fortress walls were first being plastered by the adventures of some random goblin who died 50 years before my fort was founded. im still really curious about the glacier, though.

on an unrelated note, the artifact mechanism means i now have a well made of one adamantium block, an adamantium artifact bucket with yellow diamond, an epic raw adamantium mechanism covered in sasquatch bones and leather, and a somewhat anticlimactic artifact pig tail rope. its in my dining room. happy thoughts all round!

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Cheshire Cat: Yes, I remember seeing some wizard engravings occasionally. But I found "cheetah skulls" to be very specific.

Anyhow, as for world history, my experience is that you are limited to the subregion(s) the fortress belongs to, but the event can be from any time, a year before your fortress was founded or 2000 years before its founding. Thus far, all my tries have confirmed this; settling in a single-tile swamp left me without any historic engravings at all, while settling in a jungle inhabitated by elves gave me lots of engravings about elven history and some about goblins meeting animals in that jungle.

At least if my assumption is correct, that goblin probably died in the same subregion (for instance, if your fortress is built in a mountain chain, somewhere in that mountain chain). Note that in my experience, actual distance is not important. As long as it has the same subregion name, it is considered a unit, it seems.

It would be nice if you could check up on that goblin and see whether I am right or whether the mechanism behind historic engravings is different.

And, that is one awesome well you have made. A really good idea (and a lot of luck with your artifacts (remembers scores of artifact loincloths).

All you need now are artifact/adamantine chairs, tables, and statues, and you can do whatever you want in the fortress:

Urist: They just killed my wife, my children and my 200 pet cats. I will ... Oh, what a beautifully sublime statue. What a great well. Ah, isn't that the life? (Complacent sigh)

Deathworks

[Vlynndar]

Govulkathilkin, "The Untrustworthy Wet Oak", depicting a Larch tree.

And a final tribute to Toady One, Idithstegeth, "The Systemic Organization" depicting a toad.

The first one is both true and awesome. As is the second. I'm going to call larches untrustworthy oaks now.

Man, that dwarf... "I need some larch for this bed! Ah, there's one. Hang on... Oy!"

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Govulkathilkin, "The Untrustworthy Wet Oak", depicting a Larch tree.

And a final tribute to Toady One, Idithstegeth, "The Systemic Organization" depicting a toad.

The first one is both true and awesome. As is the second. I'm going to call larches untrustworthy oaks now.

Man, that dwarf... "I need some larch for this bed! Ah, there's one. Hang on... Oy!"

Mmmmhhhh, well, it says untrustworthy wet oak, doesn't it? And you want to make a bed out of it? Sounds like an unsafe waterbed to me. Maybe a new way to kill nobles?

Deathworks