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[Xonara]

I've always preferred reading community and succession forts journal-style, for some reason. No reason in particular. I think it's good either way though, so just write however you feel is most comfortable I guess

[Haika]

Well, the reason I tried to do something different this season was there wasn't a whole lot that went on. some animal and dwarven births, I built the road and wagon funnel, and the guard died at the end.

I thought that using a story type post for it would be more interesting than a very short update that little happened in.

I'll probably go back to the journal style, as that's what I seem the most comfortable in, but I'm glad to get feedback from you guys.

[Haika]

Spring Year Four, POV Haika

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I never thought I would be desperately hoping elves show up with a lot of goods. With being unable to trade the meals away last autumn, some of them have started to rot, and we've had to throw them away.


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I've noticed a lot of dwarves standing around doing nothing today. Even those ignoring the party that's going on in the dining hall. So I went ahead and drew up work orders to add more fishing and farm work for several lazy dwarves. I'm letting the party go for now, no reason to stop it right this moment, until the hoped for elves arrive(not at all just because I'm enjoying it).


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OK THAT'S IT. All military dwarves are on duty, and the guard is relieved. I'm tired of this foolishness. The speardwarf will be buried, and if I hear of any more military deaths without seeing at least an angry rabid groundhog, I'm going to start entombing corpses in glass and letting them rot to bones before closing up the tomb.

Endok will be missed, he leaves behind a wife and child. And several friends.


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The Elves are here, finally, ordered ALL of our meals to the trade depot. These elves are going to be very happy. I hope they at least brought some lumber. Finally time to trade for some wood... right after this plump helmet.


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Ten times what their items are worth. That better bring some more next season. A handful of logs, a barrel of strawberry wine, an empty barrel, several bins of cloth, and even a wooden scepter was the haul, maybe one of the kids would enjoy playing bash the monkey with the scepter. Should be amusing.


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Joy, more goblins. Luckily for us, most of them were away from the walls, and the one bowman they did bring with them, was the one trying to lead the others into the wall, and ran into an axe dwarf at the door, with the remaining speardwarf not far away, and the crossbows ready up above. This should be over quickly.



HA! Did I say crossbows, nah no crossbows. They were on the other side of the wall at the time, and within seconds of spotting them we had goblin-ka-bobs, so they didn't even manage to get over the wall.  The spear dwarf went into a trance, and killed three wrestlers and is gleefully skipping behind the last one with a spear raised.



I'm not even sure what happened to the bowgoblin. I think there's an arm over there, strangely enough still wearing bone rings, bone amulets, and clutching a bone crown. Odd, maybe we slaughtered some goblin royalty. I almost feel like we made a mistake... almost.


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After the fighting, I went to talk to the speardwarf about his heroic defense, and found him in a corner of the wall, complimenting one of his spears on 'her stabbyness'.

I decided instead to ask Neo about the dwarf.



Apparently his name is Shikon to his friends, a former ballista operator and designer who has taken his love for ballista bolts to the next level. Of holding them in his bare hands and poking things with them.

He has named each of the two spears he holds in either hand. The copper spear is name Zat, dwarfish for stab, and the maple spear is named Rashda'k, or Death Tree. And apparently Zat is male, and in love with Rash who is female, but Rash is too cool and collected to talk to him, and has a crush on Shikon and...



my god...

This is far too interesting, its beginning to wear me down, I almost asked if Shikon had a crush on someone other than the spears... It's about this time I noticed he was wearing a dress.



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ANYWAY, as long as the dwarf keeps on protecting the fortress so well, I will be happy to listen to his stories... maybe after I count all the plump helmets we have... again.

After his final kill in this ambush, I have awarded him the title of 'The Laborious Confines' It's a traditional name for spear heroes. Lets hope he can live up to it.




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As we were hauling in the loot from Shikon's stab-fest, another group of goblins thought they could sneak in from the other side. This time four goblin pikeman, a wrestler, and another bowgoblin leading the charge stupidly. I say stupidly, as our marksdwarves are just waiting for targets above them.




Not to mention the stationed melee dwarves just inside the wall. Bromrek, Lorbam, and another axedwarf rushed to battle with the dogs chained to stop thieves. Goblin blood ran freely. The last spear goblin nearly bounced off Bromrek's shield, and landed several yards south of the wall.




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I hope our traders like narrow crap. We seem to be up to our beards in the stuff.



I've also noticed we have a bit of cloth laying around. I've given the order to build a craftsdwarf workshop in the cloth pit, we can start making some crafts to sell out of all that, and maybe reuse some of the bins.




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Today my friend Olon has grown to a full working age. He is currently a peasant, but I've given him the job of taking care of animals, as well as letting him handle some of the cloth craft making duties. The Lad's father is as proud as can be, and even took some time away from patrolling with his axe, to congratulate his son.


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A snatcher managed to sneak inside the walls today. He was found by three dogs, Neo, Bromrek, and an axe dwarf. Wanna guess what happened?



Did you guess, separated from head and launched across courtyard? If so, you get a cookie. This is really becoming entertaining. Wish we had some stone for mechanisms to make cage traps, we could sell tickets. In exchange for charcoal.




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Oh Amok... I'm about ready to find myself a spear and join Shikon in talking to it.

Today brought no end of trouble to our fort. Migrants arrived, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing, at their head was a silk clad Dungeon Master, wearing bright pink mittens.



Not only do we have no place to put him, apparently he is fond of SILVER, GOLD, PLATINUM, ELECTRUM and a bunch of expensive gemstones. Maybe we can somehow feed him to the elephants. Hmm, wish we still had that cougar the elves brought us. I hear his name is Asmel, and he is the precursor to more nobility 'joining' us.

I've ordered Hexed to expand the old barracks, we can use that as a noble pit to fill with them, and there are doors there that we can lock as well...


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On the bright side, as I was watching the stream of seemingly endless migrants trudge through the murk to the fortress, one of the elephants found a master thief lurking in the bushes.

The thief promptly tried to run, scattering the line of migrants and finding only a military axe to the face.




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Ugh, this game of chase the elephant is starting to become less entertaining. Two elephants managed to run off with axes stuck in various organs today. One in the neck, the other in it's liver. I want to know which one of our axedwarves thought they'd try and behead an elephant...

One of our new migrants is a ranger, I've told him to go try his hand at shooting elephants.


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Meanwhile, I've told the glass production crew to burn some of our limited wood, and start work on making some glass furniture for the noble pit.

I've also given one of the marksdwarves a title for his repeated prowess with a crossbow. 'The gloved power of sloths' ... Well I liked it anyway.




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Today Bobby got in on the goblin killing business. Cog, our new hunter was out chasing an elephant while bobby was trying to cut some trees nearby when a snatcher popped up. Bobby didn't really change much from his axe swinging, just turned and chopped, sending the goblin flying.




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The new noble chambers had a visitor today. Either the elephant wanted to say hello to our new dungeon master, or he didn't like the way the new pit looked. Either way, I've locked the animal in with the noble, we shall all gather around the window and see who comes out alive. As I'm not unlocking the doors until one or the other is dead.



Unfortunately I failed to notice that the elephant had crossbow bolts sticking out of it's neck and liver. It died shortly after we gathered around the window.


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The calendar says it's summer now. And I need to think about what projects I will do while we wait and hope for a large wood shipment from the dwarves in fall.  I think the first will be to expand our dining hall, and move the plump helmet farm to the third level with the other farm plots. As things are getting a little crowded.



After that I think we may need to do something about the main stockpile. It's overflowing with goblin gear. Maybe we can somehow pave the road with goblin clothing. That might not be such a bad idea... I will have to think on it.



We are up to a little over eighty dwarves now, and nearly as many animals running around. We've imported more than we've created, and have a fair amount of food on hand, enough that I'm not worried at all of any of us starving to death. Drinks are still limited, as we get more dwarves the drinks need to be brewed more often, and we are still limited on barrels to use. With this summer starting, we will see if our challenge to the humans about the milk will produce any barrels.



Also of note, is that our new hunter managed to kill one elephant, before he was injured and forced to rest in bed. Hunters really do have a bad trend of doing that here.

Huuge update today, with 22 screenshots! And all of it just for spring!

I must say I'm having a heck of a fun time doing this. I hope everyone approves, and I'm still chuckling at a few things that happened this season. And how's that for a debut Shikon?

[Shikon]

what can i say ^_^.

i like making a good first impression ^_^

btw is that an artifact spear or why is it decorated?

[Haika]

Hey guys, just wanted to give a little info here, no update today, and probably nothing tomorrow. Family is having a get together for commercial fest here in the states so I expect the summer update will be on monday.

As to the spear, I believe we traded for it from the elves, either that or it was a goblin drop somewhere. I'm not even sure you can make wooden spears as an artifact, if so, that would be awesome.

The only artifacts so far are the wooden blowgun, and pewter shield.

[Org]

Id like a dwarf

Name:Bowbeard
Profession:Hunter
Gender:Male

[Haika]

Summer Year 4 POV: Draconor

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Summer is Hot. Lord Haika gave instruction to dig a new pit for animals south of the butcher area. As well as removing some of the un-needed walls south of the current dining area. He also gave above ground clearing orders, for wood and plants.

Also orders for expanding the cloth stockpile, and suspending kitchen work. He seemed reluctant, but also ordered some wooden bins made.


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The hunter is healed, But doesn't seem very smart. His quiver is empty, and along with his three dogs, he is trying to wrestle an elephant. I heard he was called Bowbeard.





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Humans are here with a full five wagons of goods. We gather up the roasts and other meals along with some cloth and goblin equipment to trade.


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Goblins. Hexed said it looks like a siege. I don't think they liked the Lord giving away their armor and clothing.



Lord Haika ordered everyone inside except the military, even the Human diplomat, Lico. Who seemed quite content to chat about trading with a goblin force outside.

Bobby's war dog, one of the originals brought and trained by Ankas was the first to reach the goblins. Unfortunately, there wasn't much one dog could do, other than spread his blood onto the rocks of the brook. The rest of the military was soon there, with the marksdwarves providing ranged cover from the ramparts.




Before the tide of battle was turned in our favor, the lead macegoblin struck a powerful blow to the rookie speardwarf Sarvesh sending him flying into the wall and landing in a crumpled hump at the bottom. Bromrek and Shikon led the charge into the rest of the goblins to exact revenge for their fallen comrade.



More than half the invading force lay dead north of the castle, and the remaining goblins ran for their lives. Some of them loosing theirs before the group made it away. After the battle all clear was given, An axedwarf named Kib was given a title for his five kills in this battle. The title was "Afenakgos Asiz" or The Skinny Clinch of Flash.


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As we were hauling in the items, and moving goods to the trade depot, Lord Haika was re-elected mayor. I don't really think anyone else could keep us alive out here.

His first order after being re-elected was to send out the wood cutters again, and gather any new wood that has grown outside in the jungle. Glass production is to be started again soon, once we have some fuel to burn.


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Now that the merchants have left, the slow process of expanding and redesigning the dining hall has begun, as well as a general check on workshop building materials.

With the excess of metal bars, and even some stone blocks from traders. Lord Haika has ordered that any wooden based workshop be torn down, and rebuilt using other non-fuel items, and the remains of the old workshop used to make charcoal.

Lord Haika has also moved into the partially constructed mayor's room above the glass cells in the tower. I expect this is the reason he is trying to get the glass production up and running once more.


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Chyla has finally figured out how to farm the pool that was drained into the old animal pen. The mud must be first covered temporarily with a floor, then the floor pulled up, and the resulting clay plowed. We now have some extra above ground farms to grow outside plants inside.




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One of our woodworkers broke his arm while out chopping wood. Most likely from wild animals. Nothing big has shown up, that Bowbeard and the military can't handle with ease. But some of the rest of us can still be hurt.


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Summer ends, and we are still here. Lord Haika has finished moving the dining hall tables around and the animals are penned in the eastern half of the underground fortress.




The Cloth stockpile was expanded.


and the plump helmet farm was moved underground.


We unfortunately have had a lot of our plants rot recently because there is no place to store them. Fixing that problem and the expansion of the main stockpile is set for fall, as well as getting glass block supplies again, and resuming building above.

I'm enjoying the spoiler tag idea. Makes for a cleaner post. Not really too much happened this update, the siege was interesting, but for the most part didn't last long. I expect things to get worse before they get better. But next fall I ordered some rocks from the dwarves, hopefully I can get some traps set up, would make me feel a little more secure.

[Org]

Cool, if you can, put me into the military.

[Haika]

Cool, if you can, put me into the military.

I can if you really want me to, but you'll do more good at this point just as a normal hunter killing some animals.

[Org]

Keep me as the hunter for now, Ill probably get better with my crossbow that way. But if you get sieged, military till its over.

[Haika]

I hope people are still reading this. I got swarmped today with two succession games suddenly having my turn come up. So probably won't be another Zas update until tomorrow.

In the meanwhile, anyone have any comments, suggestions, blatent flames about the story so far? Been trying to think up what to build/create for mega projects, but we are so limited on space and resources, it's gonna be tough.

[Shikon]

i still read this =o

i just suck at the comments part as i like it how it is =o

and if i were you i would first build your castle and then think of project =p

i might come up wth  cool tower design =o but can't make promises xd

[TheMirth]

The crystal City should have a large flooded multi-z level aquarium of glass walls and floors.

[Haika]

Autumn Year 4

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POV: Haika


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The elephants are causing quite the ruckus outside today. Our paired axedwarves of Lorbam and Kib were both injured chasing the huge beasts. It wouldn't have been as much of a problem if their axes wouldn't get stuck in the creatures' thick hide.  Lorbam is in bed resting with a broken and mangled left leg, Kib is almost worse off with a broken hand, as well as a mangled lower leg. What worries me about Kib is that he refuses to stop patrolling and come inside to rest, if this keeps up Lorbam will loose a lover to stupidity.


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Meanwhile, the dwarves have arrived! As usual I have ordered the meals Chyla has made up to the trade depot. They come with much needed wood, and a shipment of green and blue stones. We trade for this, along with steel weapons and armors, food, barrels, drinks, bags, and some various craftstuffs. We trade for their bins, then give them back the cloth in another trade, so we have empty bins to use in the goblin gear stockpile. I managed to actually trade away all of the meals we currently had, as well as a bunch of cloth, goblin loot, and various spent bolts that are no longer of use.


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In the middle of all of that, Ezum has given birth to a girl dwarf. And she has asked me to name the young one. Since her mother is a marksdwarf, I've named the child 'Keskal' or 'Shoot'. Hopefully the other young ones won't tease her that much. She is the youngest daughter of three siblings, with the middle being a boy. Ezum and her husband Ingish the Glassmaker seem to have a growing family here in the castle. I wish them all well.


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I am worried now about the happiness of our fort. Many of our residents are not happy at all. The problem must stem from the overcrowding of the small area. As much as we try to expand, our limited resources make it difficult. I can only try and do what I can to keep everyone happy. But I don't think my jokes go over every well. On the bright side, Kib has finally made it to a bed under his own power. The dwarf is very stubborn, but is finally resting and should heal up eventually.


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In an attempt to make more of our dwarves happy and less complaining about lack of chairs and dining spaces, I have allowed some of our wood fuel to be used for extra tables and chairs and placed in the dining hall. I hope all of you appreciate how rare and precious our wood is.




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Also this season, I've added a mechanic's workshop, and a smelter. The mechanics workshop will be used to make some mechanisms to add some traps around our camp and maybe stop some of the attacks we've had. The smelter will be used to melt down some excess metal cages and other items clogging our stockpiles, as fuel allows.


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Another marksdwarf has given birth to a baby girl. The view from the trade depot might be considered disturbing, but those of us here have gotten used to it. She is younger sister to a brother, and thus the second child of Libash the mother, and Endok the speardwarf father. I suppose the father was spearing more than just goblins those days, I hope that's not what got him killed. I honestly don't know how these military guys do it. I do hope they aren't acting that way on duty... Oh, and the girl was named Hai. I think they may be trying to copy my name, but as it's so odd already, It is hard to follow.


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More dwarves have come to join us in our glorious overcrowded mess. Seven full grown adult dwarves. Seven more mouths to feed. At least they didn't bring any useless pets, children or nobles with them.


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I've decided to use some of our extra metal bars to pathe the road for the traders. It will be an impressive sight glinting in the moisture ridden sun. The color combinations are a little strange, but we deal with what we have, at least until we can trade for more bars. I'm rather partial to the dark greenish color of the lay pewter, and may ask the humans to bring a shipment of that the next chance I get.




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Winter arrives and I notice we are approaching one hundred dwarves in this little mudhole. It's quite amazing to me with all the troubles we keep having that people are still coming. The next season will bring us some time to try and get moral up, as well as building more on the glass construction above.

Short mini update this season, I think I'll probably go ahead and do winter as well today, since I'm in the mood. This fort is quite a challenge compared to any of the other games I've played.

I will mention that the dwarves brought a TON of stuff this time around, I had full pages in the scroll of things like ropes, metal crafts, pig tail socks and the like, let alone all the useful things I traded for. they single handedly took over a hundred thousand stone worth of items, and cleaned the meal stockpile, cloth stockpile and general stockpile nicely.

The crystal City should have a large flooded multi-z level aquarium of glass walls and floors.

This could be fun, down the line if we ever get the tower completely up and all the workshops and such inside, just bust out the brook and flood both Z levels underneath the ground. With a little glass viewing area around the stairs(and to give sand collection)

We are stockpiling glass blocks now, nearing about 30, with 50 some charcoal. I'm going to start building later on today, and try and finish the southern fortifications, and complete Haika's mayoral room upstairs.

[Haika]

Winter 4

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 POV: BowBeard


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The dwarves here are nuts. They hauled a bunch of glass blocks up the walls, to build more, got two walls up, and ran out of fuel to make more blocks. I wonder why they work so hard. The jungle isn't /that/ bad.


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Then again, I could be wrong.  I was out hunting a gray gibbon when they showed up. Three squads of goblins. Mace Lord, Axe Lord, and Spear Lord, leading mostly spear goblins, wrestlers, and some bow goblins. Haika gave the emergency order to keep all non soldiers inside, and ordered all military on duty. I even managed to wrangle myself onto the marksdwarf squad to try and shoot from the ramparts.

I didn't manage to make it to the ramparts as the goblins rushed the open trade gate, I stood near the depot and took shots where I could. Our traps managed to capture three of the goblins, one was even the Mace Lord. So far we've lost a couple dogs, and killed a few goblins.

   

The spearmaster does fly through the air majestically at least, I'll give em that. And it looks like the group just to the north of us are headed straight for the weapon trap, so I hope we get at least one of them there. Another goblin down to my bow, I wonder briefly where the fortress guard champions are, when I hear them below us, idly sparring in the barracks. What a bunch of useless flabby sober rotten mother-was-a-camel bastards.

Bomrek the swordmaster and one of our axe dwarves, Deduk lead the charge out against the southern group of goblins. It looks like Shikon is getting ready to charge into the group to the north of us with both spears. The most troublesome group though is further away, led by the master axe goblin, they are mostly crossbows and bow goblins in the group.

   

Seems I was wrong as to which direction Shikon was going to go, he decided to charge to the help of his teammates and follow after the remaining goblins in the southern squad. I heard the sickening sound of a bull being shot and killed behind me and I quickly reload and turn to shoot at the nearly full and unharmed goblin squad that has almost breached the wall north of us, while our military is mostly concerned with the southern goblins.



ARgh, goblins. Die! BLoood! That was about all I remember at this point. I am left basically alone to try and hold the back door with my crossbow, the squad leader and another marksdwarf were behind me on the stairs leading up to the ramparts, while most of the melee dwarfs were running south of the fortress after fleeing goblins. The rest of our squad, along with the fortress guards and captain of the guard are idly lounging downstairs in the dining hall, while we are up here risking our lives for them. I shall curse their children's ale.



Squad b is defeated! Most of their members are fleeing from the defenders. I leap on the last crossbowgoblin trying to reclaim the back door, when the lead forces of the final and most dangerous squad move in from the northeast. I manage to break both arms of the goblin before a bolt erupts from my chest. I look at it in a daze for a moment and hope at least someone saves my battle journal, before blackness overcomes me.






~ At this point the journal goes blank, a dark red stain covering most of the pages.~





POV: Haika




The goblins are fleeing, Bowbeard managed to turn the tide at the door, while the others were still rushing to his aid. The wound to his chest pierced his heart, and he quickly bled to death in the doorway, propped up against the glass wall still trying to shoot at the goblins invading our home. I don't know why he begged to be put into the military squad, he didn't have the training or the equipment of the others, but I allowed it. I can only blame myself. He will be given a hero's burial.


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In some odd sense of irony, the gibbon Bowbeard was hunting before the battle managed to root out a kobold thief while we were clearing the battlefield of useful junk. The thief instantly took off, but we can only give marginal thanks to the gibbon.




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Our cage traps have caught some of the monkeys we constantly have wandering around us. I don't know if it is good or bad, but one of our animal trainers has decided to try and tame them to add some exotic skins and meat to the domestic livestock.

OH! I just noticed that the gibbon we have looks very familiar. The same one Bowbeard was hunting, and the one that found our thief, has been captured and  now been tamed by the animal caretakers. I'm tempted to adopt it myself, but I know others need the friendship more than I.


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Oddly enough happiness seems to have gone up since the siege. Bowbeard was known by us all, but he was rather hardened and solitary, and didn't call any of us friend. And as I've let a rather large party by Bobby go on for a few days now, many of our dwarves are making friends and becoming more pleased about it every moment they talk to each other.


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Wow. It's not often that I am amazed, but today brings two sights that I just have to write about. The first was Lucent dragging one of the cages back as if it was filled with solid rock. She finally managed to move the huge metal cage into the animal stockpile, and that's when we all realized it contained a trapped elephant! If we can manage to find a breeding pair for these, and tame them, we will never be without bone, ivory, thick elephant skin and tasty elephant meat.

The second image was from watching the military dwarf, Rith chasing another elephant around the camp. He managed to catch up to the elephant when it tried to dodge between two pools of murky water. And while this is nothing to talk about, and basically routine, the two-handed axe chop the dwarf used to cleanly sever the elephant's left front leg, had enough force to send the whole elephant flying. Both the Leg and the corpse, of the ELEPHANT, landed on the other side of the lake, and rolled massively several meters, killing brush and tree saplings in the process. I'll never forget the look on that elephant's face. If there was ever a 'wtf' moment for elephants. That was it.




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Minkot, the war dog assigned to the fisherdwarf Dodlk found a kobold thief today. We were alerted by the pained cry being quickly cut off, as the dog slaughtered the beastman. Luckily for us, the kobold seems to be decked in cave spider silk, will make for good training fodder, as if we need more.




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The cage traps are proving immensely effective against the elephant herds. We have half a dozen elephants being tamed now, and I've ordered Hexed to expand the animal pit for more restraints. Once we choose a pair or two of elephants for breeding, I will order the rest slaughtered.


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A pair of migrants gave birth to their first daughter today. They named her Strawberry. I find it a fitting name, as the mother is a herbalist and was picking them at the time she was born. Her father is a Pump Operator by the name of Cerol. I wish them all well.

Yar, goblin seiges, a heroic hunter death, a gibbon who is EVERYWHERE, and flying elephants.

I love dwarf fortress 

oh, and I'm taking ideas for what to do with captured goblins. priority to people with named dwarves.