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[Quicunque]

Chapter 2:

I build a carbon copy of the submerged hospital. This time I test the drawbridge before I connect the 2nd cistern to the 1st. Works perfectly. I send my Legendary Miner, one of the Seven founders, to knock out that last rock to connect the cisterns. I figure she could do the job quickly enough to run up the ramp & through the door to safety...

Never realized how powerful water pressure can be (*facepalm*). The 2nd cistern fills nearly instantly, drowning poor Etur Mistemadas. Now her body is permanently sealed into the cistern.

At least the hospital is finished.

[TD1]

As with everything, production required a death sacrifice.

[RWARO_GNARL]

I found a kid in hospital with mangled left hand. So, I looked around for blood.

Found blood spattering in the minecart repeater room, on the track, and a dwarf trying to scrub it off, but failed because the minecart interrupted him.

The cleaning dwarf then decided a minecart repeater track is a good place to take a nap. Before the minecart was stopped...

The dwarf survived.

[snow dwarf]

Wants to build a dwarven Alhambra with bricks.
Has 8 dwarfs making bricks non stop.
-300 bricks later-
Finds out bricks aren't red.
*facepalm*
Alhambra is going to look wooden.

[Fleeting Frames]

You could mod to change that. Though I think the clay bricks come in shades of gray.

[Pvt. Pirate]

You could mod to change that. Though I think the clay bricks come in shades of gray.

<insert joke about a popular overrated BDSM-fantasy-novel here>

[Fleeting Frames]

Only three shades, there. Even Dragonmaster's set has only like twenty shades, half of them unsuitable for building.

[Dowly]

Whenever I start a new fort, I like to name the first seven, usually using some dwarven name generator.

In my current fort, I chose the name 'Lavaminer' for one of my starting miners. He became legendary among his peers.

One day, 'Lavaminer' Asmelethab was digging deep underground when he came across a wall that felt suspiciously warm.

As he was about to turn around and head back up he heard a cryptic voice in his head: "(d)-(d)".

Shortly after, a craftsdwarf heard an equally cryptic voice: "alt+s"

(I'm an idiot)

[Eschar]

As he was about to turn around and head back up he heard a cryptic voice in his head: "(d)-(d)".

Shortly after, a craftsdwarf heard an equally cryptic voice: "alt+s"

Now I want to believe this is how dwarfs get their orders.

[Senator Jim Death]

As he was about to turn around and head back up he heard a cryptic voice in his head: "(d)-(d)".

Shortly after, a craftsdwarf heard an equally cryptic voice: "alt+s"

Now I want to believe this is how dwarfs get their orders.

Makes sense. I guess insane dwarves stop taking orders because they've decided to listen to one of the other voices in their heads. Maybe THIS voice won't have me go dig into the mag--"go dive into the magma"--Urist McMelancholy burned to death.

[Truncatedurist]

went 7 months into fortress didn't smelt anything until I found the magma sea.

[Pvt. Pirate]

used marking mode channel designations to mark where my roads shall go... later found a boulder in the path and designated smooting - which activated that tile for channeling. so the caravan's wagons went by without going to my depot

[doublestrafe]

used marking mode channel designations to mark where my roads shall go... later found a boulder in the path and designated smooting - which activated that tile for channeling. so the caravan's wagons went by without going to my depot

My latest caravan got almost all the way to my depot, with two wagons not quite there yet, and then stopped in its tracks for no discernable reason.

[Rockphed]

used marking mode channel designations to mark where my roads shall go... later found a boulder in the path and designated smooting - which activated that tile for channeling. so the caravan's wagons went by without going to my depot

My latest caravan got almost all the way to my depot, with two wagons not quite there yet, and then stopped in its tracks for no discernable reason.

Did a tree grow somewhere on its path suddenly or a wall get finished that blocked their path?

[doublestrafe]

used marking mode channel designations to mark where my roads shall go... later found a boulder in the path and designated smooting - which activated that tile for channeling. so the caravan's wagons went by without going to my depot

My latest caravan got almost all the way to my depot, with two wagons not quite there yet, and then stopped in its tracks for no discernable reason.

Did a tree grow somewhere on its path suddenly or a wall get finished that blocked their path?

Nope, the depot's still accessible. I should make a road, though, it's pretty foresty.

In other facepalm news, I just learned that I actually have two Baronesses named Stinthäd...and I convicted the wrong one for punching my legendary mechanic to death. Twice. Oh well.