Alright, naming!
Myself:
WorkerDrone:
Jackrabbit:
Barbarossa:
Duke 2.0:
RAM:
Strife/Trife:
And the entire Line-up:
Alright, time to get down to business!
The dwarves dig deep, down FOUR layers of solid ice before finally hitting rock. Apparently, in all the commotion, I had forgotten some rule that stipulates that you can't make staircases between ice walls and rock walls, and I'm left stalled without a clue before I finally rig a solution involving stairways and ramps and encyclopedia brittanicas and Lucy Burns and ham sandwiches and hoveround personal scooters and the movie Animal House that finally gets my dwarves to the rock layer and I can finally sink my teeth into the Rhyolite and Obsidian.
After something like 15 days, I finally have the our lodgings dug!
Ain't that a beaut? I'll have to find ways of using up that rock, and I have just the craziest scheme! I'll get back to you on that, right now it's time to start our search for the elusive magma pipe!
I choose a good solid obsidian layer, and deduce that this is the best place to start looking, so I branch out in all for cardinal directions, hoping to maybe snag it with one of them. Too bad I only have two miners, Duke and myself.
Yeppers, and if that doesn't get it, then I'll just make the search pattern increasingly more complex until I do hit it! Lord knows we won't survive without the sweet sweet magma.
While the miners get a diggin', I have everyone with spare hands put on mason duty and get to building a solid wall of fortifications around our main entrance, with a pit and drawbridge, and Workerdrone pumping out tons of mechanisms for totally non-nefarious purposes.
Those raptors could attack us at any moment, the construction of these fortifications is vital to our survival. The Raptor threat has no long range attacks, and if we separate us from them with this arrow-permeable wall, we might have a chance of defeating them without taking casualties.
It's shaping up nicely, if I say so myself.
I have a contingency plan for the possible goblin threat also, but that will be substantially harder and more costly to erect, and will require constant work should it be completed before my term is up.
The basic defense is completed, as you can see, we have a retractable drawbridge to allow our trading dwarf to cross over to the unprotected wasteland and into the trading depot, should the dwarven caravan care to visit us for any useful length of time, this'll prove highly useful. The lever for the bridge is right inside the entrance, and is excellently constructed by WorkerDrone himself.
Also, as you can see, I've begun placing a number of floodgates along the inside of the fortifications. My plan is to place a solid wall of these along the inside of the fortifications, and for each of these to be rigged to a single lever, so that arrow cover can be toggled off should Raptors attack and back on should goblins attack. The number of mechanisms required for this endeavor will be great, but if WD works around the clock, I'm sure he can do it before next new-years.
Summer is just arriving as the basic defense is completed, so let's look at our status thus far:
My, that's not good at all, look at how miserable our food stores are! I had not anticipated it would take this long to find the magma, and by extension, make the land arable. When asked what to place onto the wagon when our trip first began, I remember rabbling "Oh, toss on as much wood as you can, do not worry of the food and drink, for we will reap from the bountiful icy wasteland when we get there!" and now look where we are, with our food cache almost depleted and starvation only a hop-and-skip away! Don't end up like me kids, take plenty of food and drink when you embark on a glacier.
We will persevere though, if we can find the magma soon and I manage to jury rig an ice melting device, perhaps from the copper we excavated recently, and irrigate the land, we will prosper, most assuredly. Why, if only we had some...
Eureka! My prayers are answered! I will contrive a way to deal with the pesky imps later, I must get to work extracting from our planet's lifeblood the heat necessary for our survival.
I depart now, to update at a later date.
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