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[Martin]

Hey Martin, I made a fortress the other day on the Dwarf Heaven site

It was called "MorulTost" one letter off "MorulToast"

Even the very ground that Morul walks Toasts to his name!

LOL - that's pretty cool. This really is a great site to build on, too.

[crash2455]

The last surviving dwarf in Boardwhip was named Morul.

[Sensei]

Interesting note: Recent research (I went into the language raw and used crtl+f) shows that 'Morul' means 'Page' in the common tongue. Interessant.

[pbheadtemp]

NOoooo the end of the thread.... I just read through all 44 pages of this EPICNESS.

oh, did morul get legendary alchemy? I didnt see it on your list? but it was in the list of jobs... a while back in the thead. kinda too late now though... cept with your "will do later" crossbow hax.

[Martin]

Yeah, alchemist records as 'Soaper' and he made legendary soaper.

[Christes]

Interesting note: Recent research (I went into the language raw and used crtl+f) shows that 'Morul' means 'Page' in the common tongue. Interessant.

Sehr.  But does that mean a page out of a book or a page like a boy training to be a knight?

[Sensei]

I would presume paper, since it is more commonly used in that sense, but I am afraid that Toady's mind is not my own- at least not until I get that scrying stone I ordered on Ebay.

[Bloogonis]

seeing as its a fantasy setting, and it is a common name for a faily war happy bunch I would think it was the knight in training, I guess we will know when paper is added and we see on Morul 125 is an image of a dwarf the dwarf is burning

[Grendus]

Page as a boy training to be a knight, I believe. Or it could be like in english, can mean either depending on how it's used. The boy training to be a knight is more accurate, considering that Morul's entire life has been nothing but constant training in one profession or another.

[Jim Groovester]

[ENTITY:MOUNTAIN]
   [CREATURE:DWARF]
   [TRANSLATION:DWARF]
        . . .
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:ARTIFICE]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:EARTH]
       . . .

Dwarves like naming themselves after things that can be made, which comes from [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:ARTIFICE], much more so than anything else available. Which is why you get dwarves named Rigoth (craft) and Sarvesh (furnace) and Dastot (sword) and Urist (dagger) and Cog (boot) and Kogan (boat). So I'm fairly certain Morul means page, as in the pages of a book, as opposed to one training to be a knight.

[Sizik]

Page is also under THOUGHT, so it's probably a book page.

[Martin]

Okay, another siege.

5 squads of size 25/damblock 25 orcs, but with reduced speed to try and get Morul's weapon skills up. He didn't have any real trouble with them - they did take a little while to take down, however. His axe skill went up, but not as significantly as I hoped. What did surprise me is that he picked up another attribute by mid-winter - only 3 seasons after the last one - which is much faster than the previous attribute. He had as many as 4 orcs on top of him, with a total of 11 in striking range, so he was still stuck doing a lot of wrestling, but less than before. He never seemed to tire, however, which is another big change.

Here are the last 4 attribute snapshots:

Autumn 244, he had the following stats:

1,549,133 xp
42 wrestler
40 shield
26 armor
24 str, 25 agi, 26 tough

After 3 sieges (1 little human one), at the end of the year (Autumn 245), he was at:

1,586,001 xp
44 wrestler
43 shield
29 armor
24 str, 25 agi, 27 tough

After a year of just sparring, in Spring 247, he was at

1,617,297 xp
45 wrestler
44 shield
30 armor
25 str, 25 agi, 27 tough

In Winter 247 after a single siege of 25/25 orcs, he was at:

1,680,838 xp
49 wrestler
46 shield
35 armor
25 str, 25 agi, 28 tough

That's a fairly significant increase in skills by upgrading the orcs to be slow-moving, but highly resistant to damage. 5 armor levels in 3 seasons is huge, IMO. I think I might upgrade the orcs to 25/50 and see how that goes next.

As for the fortress, the bottom level of the moat is now being dug out. The pumpers are barely keeping it from overflowing which is making the whole thing a bit exciting since the only way for the miners to get in and out is through a passage on the bottom level. The lower 3 levels of Morul's suite are constructed, but not furnished, and work on the 4th from bottom level is proceeding as fast as materials come available. Construction should speed up once the mining is done since they're doing double-duty. Lots of orc armor to haul, after all.

[Slogo]

Woo nice to see the slow orcs is working well for him. I can't wait to see what his finished suite looks like.

[Sensei]

Definitely the most interesting dwarf in the world by now, I think...

Can we get an exact number for his progress in axes?

[Martin]

Yeah, I didn't record his axes skill before the last siege. I'll record it before and after the next one.

And some people have asked about my tileset. I've now uploaded it to the wiki.