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[MrGimp]

Phew! Finally I made through whole story, and must say it's briliant!
I even missed old good 40d times...

Are there any unnamed dwarves left?

Plenty.  They breed em as fast as I kill em.

What do you want to name them?

[peregarrett]

Name him PereGarrett. If you're going to set up military - put him as speardwarf. We definitely need one at Blockedlance!
If no - let him be miner or whatever...

Oh, I have a though. He can be exiled Khamerite, and after wooden caves are build, he can violate Queen's order and dig down from cave's floor - guards won't see him! Well, ony if they have a pick...

[MrGimp]

Spring 284



Despite the deaths and the tantruming and berserking, there are still 106 bipolar dwarves living at the great capital of Blockedlance.  The 106th was born this new year.



He was named NobodyPro, an ancient moniker of great meaning in an old dwarvish tongue long since dead. 



By all accounts he is a calm and unassertive child, taught well what his rank was from an early age.  It would be dangerous for him to have delusions of grandeur as he was last in a growing line of Princely inheritors.





There were other newly named faces in Blockedlance this year.  Urist had spared the lives of two legendary Khamerite armorers, Who Two, and Vucar.  Vucar is an ardent worshiper of the Blood God, and revels in chaos and disorder.  In Spring, to celebrate his continued loyalty, the Empress renamed him Nahere.





Having two armorers that were Khamerites worried Urist, and so she decided she should teach one of the Kurkish peasants some blacksmithing skills so that the knowledge could not be monopolized.  The peasant was named Berndarmin, and she was a shy dwarf, socially crippled by paranoid thoughts that everyone was speaking about her behind her back.





Another member of the Kurkish clan - a dwarf named Giovanni - has also stepped forward to take a leading role in the construction of the growing fortress.  There were plans in the air to build a new entrance to Blockedlance, and Giovanni had an artistic vision of creating a large tower over the main entry way....a tower that would reach the heavens!  Nevermind that it had been an old dream of the Khamerite Imhotep, Imhotep was playing with wood now.  The Empress was not very eager to start another new construction project, especially one which she may not even live to see finished...but perhaps the confident willpower of Giovanni would win her over in the end?





(NOTE - Fuzzybeard, I havent forgotten you, you have the next royal baby)

[BadSyntax]

Did my dwarf die already?

[Nahere]

Hee hee. Knowledge triumphs over accusations of treachery.

[Tradanbattlan]

Giovanni should have his own little Team Rocket secret army.

[MrGimp]

The deaths of so many grandchildren has begun to wear on the mental health of the Grand Duchess.  She had given the testimony that had exiled most of her family to the surface, after all.  She was very unhappy.



Not only was it hard to erase her family from her memories, but the Kurkish clansmen did not seem to accept her fully.  She would always be a Khamerite in their eyes.  Slemsvamp tried to distance herself from her pagan son-in-law.  She would often point out that she was not related to Khamero in any way, and that he was the mistake of a daughter she had now disowned.  Slemsvamp even went so far as to give her family a separate name from the Khamerites.  She named her clan after herself (naturally) and called her family the Slemites.  Whenever she heard a murmur or whisper of dissent among the Kurkish dwarves, she would label them anti-Slemitic, and threaten to charge them with hate crime if they did not recant.

Urist however, seemed content to have the Grand-Duchess in place as a lightning rod that would attract any anger away from the Empress.  Urist even subtly and secretly encouraged the anti-Slemitic behavior just so she could keep both clans from uniting against her rule.  The two clans would need to remain somewhat balanced.  The Kurkish clan was larger than the Grand Duchess and her 4 remaining loyal children, and so the Slemites would have to be given more power to compensate for their small numbers.  Urist called for another 'election' to replace the old Khamerite mayor.  Duke Travolta happened to win.



Urist has been siphoning vast sums of fortress wealth to her palace and tomb construction projects.  In fact, it's safe to say that most of the fortress wealth is directly owned by Urist in some way.  Millions of dwarfbucks have been lavishly bestowed upon her and her family.  This has resulted in the mayoral treasury running constant deficits.  The Empress had set up a Royal Reserve Bank in order to loan money to the fortress government.  However, this only resulted in ever larger debts since all loans came with an interest payment that the taxpayers of Blockedlance were forced to pay as well. 

Therefore, as would logically follow, Duke Travolta's first act as mayor was to cut the pension benefits of the craftsmen of the fortress so that he could balance the fortress's terrible annual public debt payments.  This angered the Kurkish craftsmen...but the Duke knew what he was doing.  He immediately began a propaganda campaign that targeted the younger Kurkish peasants who did not yet have the skills required in order to get the little extra pay and perks that the craftsmen got.  He told the younger Kurkites that they had been cheated by these damn guildsmen....and that the guilds rights to collectively bargain should be abolished.  Even Urist was amazed at how quickly the less paid workers turned on their own family out of jealousy over a marginal increase in pay and benefits.  The Empress was delighted at the roaring debate that followed.  While the Kurkish clan fought bitterly over a few copper coins, Urist bathed daily in her own private cave river, surrounded by golden statues and her own private underground mushroom forest.

It's good to be the Empress.

[powpow]

i wonder what happend to those two in the void?

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Are you still "under siege"?

[nil]

ha a godwin and a go-wisconsin, I love it

[Javarock]

Huh I wonder when my dwarfs going to request a audience with queen urist.... For permisson to construct the tower.

[MrGimp]

Did my dwarf die already?

After searching through this thread, yes I think your first guy died.  But you requested another dwarf named Chuckles...like, a year ago....and I forgot to add him.       Ill put you in now.  lol....my bad.

i wonder what happend to those two in the void?

Theyre just wasting time until Ragnarok.  Ill have an update on them shortly.

Speaking of this....Tradanbatlan and Christes, if you want another dwarf you can have one.  Your old dudes will remain in the story till the end, but since they cant influence the fortress, you can have new dudes if you want.

Are you still "under siege"?

Yep.  Forever.  Which sucks.

[peterix]

Are you still "under siege"?

Yep.  Forever.  Which sucks.

Which DF version are you using again? I might be able to fix that after some poking around in the save

[Ze Spy]

DF 40d, or atleast what he told me in a PM

[MrGimp]

Yeah I started in 40d.  Then updated it to 40d16, then 40d18.  For the past year or so Ive been swapping it back and forth between 40d and 40d18 because tweak and dwarf companion only work with 40d.

Im not sure when the error occurred but Im pretty sure it was in 40d18.  What do I need to do to fix it?