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[sonerohi]

So long as I hold the necromantic powers of bump, this story shalt not be vanquished.

[LegoLord]

Heh, sorry.  I've been playing, but it's just been a little slow (despite 40d11) because the ram on my computer is a bit low.  Not too low, just mildly cripplingly low for DF.

[death]

Who gets the artifact? Me?

[LegoLord]

You're the only hero status guy I know of, so I suppose yes.

[LegoLord]

23rd Malachite, Summer 147
   A herd of rhesus macaques have been harassing the dwarves here – and by that I mean stealing our goods.  And not just any goods.  A silvithril short sword was stolen – some negligent nincompoop left it lying outside near the magma pipe!  It’s gone now, though, and there’s nothing that can be done.

1st Limestone, Autumn 147
   Autumn has arrived and yet this damned wound from that guard still plagues me!  Ah, well.  At least all the mechanisms necessary for the vault have already been constructed.  At least, enough for all those parts that must be of incredible quality.  It has taken quite a bit of though and effort, but I have finalized the design for the vault, and even have the beginnings of a riddle going.  I normally don’t do that sort of thing, but that in mind, it seems fine so far.  However, I will not disclose it here; it is not done.

   Booze stocks are finally up.  Apparently, the reason no woodworking was getting done was because there were no woodcutters.  So I drafted a few peasants, and up went the barrel and bed supply.  Unfortunately, one of the dwarves more skilled in health care suggests that alcohol - contrary to all logic - will not help me get better, and tells me I must drink water.

   Heartly has started wearing that single adamantine high boot with his suit of iron armor.  Whatever foul enchantment lies on it, he deserves it for hiring a guard so vulgar as to attack a citizen.  Of course, regardless of the curse, with his silvithril sword there is little that can harm him.

[LegoLord]

13th Limestone, Autumn 147
   A lone siege operator rushed up to Heartly’s guard post from the outside, hauling a single log, panting.  “Heartly,” he started, pausing for breath, “there’sagoblinsiege,” he took another breath, “yegottadosomethin’!”

   “Just goblins?  No worries then.  Not with this:” he gestured with his sword.

   “The tunnel wall?” the operator asked.

   “No, stupid!  The sword!  It’s silvithril, remember?”

   “There’s a lot of them.  I’m gonna go an’ ask Lord Lego if he wants us to use the drowning trap.” 
   
   He fled quickly, before Heartly could say: “What, that jerk?  He’s better off not even knowing.”  He turned towards where the siege operator had been, and frowned.  “Aw, shit.  I was going to get some goblin heads.”

3rd Sandstone, Autumn 147 (Lord Lego’s Journal)
   Well, there’s some good news and bad news.  The good news, the drowning trap managed to totally destroy two goblin squads, one of which contained a hammerlord.  It wasn’t too quick, but that’s solely due to a flaw in the original design that I failed to notice when I revised it. 

   Now for the bad news; a trapper went fey and claimed a crafter’s shop.  Armok knows what he’ll make, but I don’t think I’ll like it.

[LegoLord]

7th Timber, Autumn 147 (Lord Lego’s Journal)
   Ugh.  I must have passed out again.  Well, it looks like the siege has long been over, no thanks to Heartly. He just left his post for a nap while two soldiers valiantly defended us from death.  They both lived.

   In other news, the fey trapper managed to collect everything he needs to make his artifact.  He now “works furiously,” as the dwarf who reported this to me put it.  I’ve got a bad feeling about it.  At least he didn’t take any adamantine or silvithril.  Speaking of which, I feel that our current equipment should be sufficient to defend from future sieges, and that further processing of silvithril into weapons and armor should wait until we have legendary armor and weapons smiths.

11th Timber, Autumn 147
   Well, the trapper’s done with his work: Vudnisnotlith, “the Tenacious Ruin” – it’s an orthoclase earing valued at 56400 copper.  It is decorated with alder (what is that supposed to mean?) and encircled with bands of horse leather and iron.  It’s covered in spikes of alder, birch, and steel (at least it’ll make a good throwing weapon).  It has a picture of a cloud in Orthoclase and a picture of some dwarf named Ustuth Cudgelblankets in turtle shell.  And, lo and behold, we have another legendary engraver.

I have no idea why I write as though my dwarf hates Heartly.  On the other hand, I do know that the new vault should be complete by the end of my turn, and then this succession game will have a complex mechanism in it, rather than just something big that breaks the laws of physics (which are good, but everyone has those).

[death]

Im sorry. I was tierd. I just went to a big party the night before, and well lets just say... I think I may have liver damage.

[sonerohi]

This being related to...?

Also, livers are important. Go to ze doctor.

[LegoLord]

Him taking a nap during the siege, I think.

[LegoLord]

12th Moonstone, Winter 147 (Lord Lego’s Journal)
   Pardon the language, but: MERDE, MERDE, MERDE, MERDE!

   We’ve got goblins!  Again!  Why won’t the damn thing’s just leave us alone?

   Bah, I’ll just send out Heartly and Asmel out.  Asmel is our newest elite; he is incredibly good with a crossbow, but hasn’t had much practice with anything else.  On the other hand, he carries that artifact goblin bone buckler around with him all the time, so I doubt he’ll have to worry about much.

1st Opal, Winter 147
   Hah!  Those stupid goblins stood no chance against our military might!  A mere four dwarves, wearing mostly iron armor, repelling an entire five-squad goblin siege!  Honestly, I think those weren’t fair odds.  They would have needed at least ten more squads to even have even a tiny blip of hope at overtaking us.  Eight if they had bows.  I think Heartly should try to take the next siege by himself.  That should even the odds.  I mean, really, four dwarves is just excessive for any military.

4th Obsidian, Winter 147
   A clothier is gotten secretive and the legendary blacksmith has decided to take time off just when we need him.  Well, when the vault needs him.  Lazy idiot.

10th Obsidian, Winter 147
   Well, whatever that clothier is up to, he’s got everything he needs for it.  Three spools of pig tail cloth, a handful of yellow grossulars, some maple and ash logs, two handfuls of rough bone opals, and a goblin skeleton, minus the skull.
   
   So much for his “secrecy.”

13th Obsidian, Winter 147
   Well that was fast.  The clothier wound up making Desgirlaz, “Goadscaled,” a pig tail left glove.  It is generically “decorated” (I suppose would be a nice way to put it) with pig tail.  It is encircled with bands of pig tail (somehow - it’s the same color as the glove!), maple, ash, bone opal, and goblin bone.  The dwarf who told me this saw fit to then say “it is made from pigtail cloth,” as though I couldn’t figure that out when told what it was.  It is adorned with hanging rings of yellow grossular (I wish our jewelers could make those - it’d make them more useful), and it menaces with spikes of pig tail and bone opal.  I’d hate to get in a fist fight with the dwarf wearing that.  It’s worth 61,600 copper.

Hm . . . not so sure if I'll get the vault's lock done.  The vault itself is done, though.  Just have to finish smoothing it out.  Then, once the project for draining our artificial lake is done, it'll have a waterfall, too.

[sonerohi]

Well, seems another week and we'll finally have year four, hmmm? Only a month so far... Impressive speed.

EDIT: Not trying to be a dick about it, just reminding Lego.

[LegoLord]

Sorry.  I'll see if I can't get this done in the next day.

Edit:  Okay, tommorrow looks busy, but hopefully I can find the time to get the map and save up.  I think I've got everything set up so that Deathstar can pick up where I left off with the vault just from my (N)otes, if he so desires.;  he'll need to make more mechanisms first, though.

[deathstar175]

Wont be able to start until monday but i'm looking forward to it.

[LegoLord]

I've got the map up:  http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5711-lancerworked

And the save:  http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=995