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[Itnetlolor]

You have to ask yourselves why all these dwarves leap straight into their deaths again and again.

Because it's the will of the ship.

[GrafZeppelin]

That makes sense: the possessions that occur all the time? That's the ship trying to communicate.

EDIT:
I sort of want to know what the artifacts are now, so we can try to piece together what the ship wants.

EDIT: This is just a theory, but perhaps whatever the Bloodfist will become, or turn dwarves into, will be so powerful that nature itself is conspiring against it. The Caveswallows, the goblins, the earth not yielding her bounty...

Perhaps it is defending itself, or...

Perhaps it is defending dwarf kind. Or maybe it is like a clingy mother, wanting to keep her children from the skies.

It is time for the dwarves to grow up and leave home. It's like they try to pack their bags but Earth unpacks them.

We cannot give up. We have to show the Earth that we don't need her.

EDIT AGAIN: Also, I think it'd be badass to have a "living" energy source, maybe a bunch of cats or something, because biological energy sources make something that much creepier

[Itnetlolor]

HUZZAH! Because I left early enough in the previous season, I only had to "wait" a short time before the next reclaimers arrived. Sweet!

Anyway, I seriously reconsidered what I was bringing with me, and holy crap, did I reconsider. I seriously limited what I was bringing with me, and followed my own advice, and it worked like a charm.

Of course, I was naturally going to clean out the chasm and bottomless pits first thing, but I always ended up either losing 1 or 2 dwarves which would then put a stranglehold on my reclaiming party just as it arrived. And yes, I considered both options; same result. Alternative solution? For one, keep attention inside the fort, only clean it and several meters away from it, no further; restock the seeds the hard way instead of foraging the outlands where the giants are many. Plus, with armies of novices, no wonder I lost the few. Basically, getting seeds the hard way means eat and brew, eat and brew, and repeat until I have thousands of my own. Of course, to get an adequate supply in short time, I would have to hire half my team with remotely any skill to farm, and rely on my hungry-ass dwarves to eat damn-near everything in the fort, and choose to eat in the dining room on the ass end of it if they want something more snazzy than a dirt wall. The results were surprising.

And as if the titles aren't enough, just guess who I have on the task of engineering the remainder of the ship and it's engines and working on the computer.

Spoiler: Y10S1: Chronic Trigger (click to show/hide)

I got your word Mustadio, I rallied my team and gathered as many useful goods (food if I heard correctly) including 2 breeding pairs of livestock to keep a constant production going on. I mostly invested in seeds just as you instructed while keeping a decent supply of food. Any excess items we can live without have been scrapped to make more room for our wagon. Here's hoping to seeing you soon. I'll lend you a horse from the wagon so yuo can head back home. If I heard correctly, you must've been through Hell.

Alrighty then. It seems as if this fort isn't too bad off. I think the remaining psychopaths manage to ravage a few things, but noting to out of hand. My only concern is how that ship stays in the air without any engines or support. Heh, only if Spekkio could see this; I can imagine his reaction. "Truly a chariot for a god of war." I know he'd state, or words to that effect. I'd like to take my spare time in researching this phenomenon, and rig up a way to use this to our advantage. This could make rigging and engineering some nifty ideas much easier.

Well, regular protocol is being administered. we're surveying the areas we'll most likely tread, and minimize our encounters. After cleansing the fort, I am curious about that chasm, it seems most of the problems (if my knowledge in biology is correct), stem from the caves of the chasm, not the cave of the nearby pit. Plus, it seems somebody already thought ahead, and rigged a nasty surprise for any creatures with the gall to escape. After clearing out things, I'll issue a few more traps to be installed there just to be safe. I mean, yeah 1 is nice, but a small handful more would feel even safer.

Onward!
Just as I suspected, not too much to worry about in the base camp. Thanks to most of the place being locked down, encounters and scattered goods have been reduced to a minimum, and from what I could see looking inside from the busted bridge, the ship is mighty clean. As for the nearby bottomless pit, I believe that weapon trap installed as well as the bottleneck cut our work out for us. No wonder the base was nearly empty. All the cowardly creatures didn't want to leave because of that menacing trap. The caveswallowmen however, they came from the north, not the pit like the bat- and ratmen.

We'll just get that bridge made, and I'll have our collectors worry about the remaining red stones, and begin clear-cutting these woodlands; our farmers (with more than enough seeds to fill a granary) are going to put their full-ass into the farmlands and prevent any drought whatsoever from occurring. Mustadio told me the whole story as we were heading in, about halfway to the fort we encountered him. I'll take his word for it, and for what it's worth, I'll mind the odor bellowing out the halls. Too bad he's not willing to join me, then again, he looked ready to break as it was; he didn't want to drag me down with him.

And so goes like the rest of my report. Here's the short story of what happened. We made sure nothing, and I mean NOTHING will leave from that bottomless pit/cave. Got the rocks, built the bridge, planning on finishing the deck and the emblem, and got the farms on full-cycle. To be safe, we're using any spare potash from the glassmaking forge to fertilize our plots to make them yield more/better crops.

Let's hope this is a piece of cake, otherwise I'm going to kick some ass around here. They say I have a fiery passion, it could also mean I have a passion for fire as well.

Scars of Time

--Chief (Pyro)Technician, Weaponsmith, Kel "Lucca" Stigazkadol

PS- I've decided what the logical route would be in regards to the food issue is to spend at least half a year completely focused on farming; any able-bodied dwarf is assigned to get to work using up as much farmland as possible, every plant will be proccessed in as natural or profitable (seed-wise) method as possible. Sure the quality may be lacking for the time, but if it means we'll gain a high-yield of food, then we may yet avoid total disaster.

It may be a bit of a damper on the project, but learning from past mistakes (thanks Mustadio), I'm keeping everything as local as possible, at minor expense to the project. Let's try and stay here ALAP (As Long As Possible).

I'm actually confident that she might actually finish this damned ship once and for all.



Oh, and sorry about the delay and a lack of rapid-fire updates. I was pretty busy yesterday, today, and might be busy tomorrow; plus, I tried opening up in a few different ways (savescumming to find an ideal beginning, who'd think that weapon trap cave-sealant would be of so much use? That rocked.

I'm going to have to remember to do that any other times bottomless pits and magma pools/enclosed pipes are involved. Especially if a project site is going to be reclaimed many more times than this sucker. Reclaiming was actually many times easier, and it was rather shocking to see that those millions of rats and bats stayed where they spawned from.

I might have to have another go at this fort in Adventure Mode if I can, provided traps still work against creatures, but not on the adventurer. Otherwise, I'll just have to hire some fools to check out the ship with me, or at least, make sure I have plenty of happy, healthy, godly-skilled dwarves at the site when I abandon it to check it out later.

EDIT:
Considering success regarding fixing the food issue, I can't help but to think this theme as I play this leader now: link

[Itnetlolor]

I am rather amazed at how well this is going. I didn't expect that plan to hit it off so easily and so effectively. It's gotten so bad, I'm actually running out of space to keep fresh stuff. To be safe, it's now time for my chefs to show their stuff, and process it along with the brewers (since they should have enough seeds extracted by now. Which reminds me, I forgot to add the essence extraction to their tasks.

Spoiler: Y10S2: Green Dream (click to show/hide)

Alright, progress is going like no tomorrow. Ship is going up quicker than I thought, but more impressively, is our food stores. It's like a cornucopia. We're actually getting so overstocked, we're relocating our surplus into the dining hall; as was probably the intention of this site's design. I think we came in at a good time to do our part. Of course, respects to the dead.

Here are the numbers I racked up: (m)eat (f)ish (p)lant (s)eeds (d)rinks (o)ther
Start: m62 f20 p97  s869 d50  o18
End:   m40 f9  p171 s668 d101 o18

All in all, I'm really impressed with the turnout. In fact, in less than a month we already saw more income than we ever expected, food-wise. Considering all the heavy drinkers of the place, I'm rather impressed our brewers out-paced them. All 3 stills in station have been in constant operation, and to keep up, we've been producing more than enough barrels to keep up. I was also just as surprised to see the base get cleaned up so quickly as well. The only problem we came across were those damn monkeys. Fortunately, a couple got smashed by rocks, whereas we have a few caged as well. One also got smashed at the work site by one of our carpenters. Maybe with some animal sacrifices like that, we should be able to remain safe for at least another season.

Speaking of which, considering this is usually where things crap up according to history; screw that. Everyone is more chipper than ever, and progress has been booming. Our food stocks are to the point that farmers ignore some of the crops that have grown in order to keep room for our supply (plenty of plants went to waste however). But considering we now have tons of booze and tons of raw materials, I think we can ease up on the farming, or at least make use of the excess and cook us up some fine cuisine. Seeing as we still have much meat leftover, we have some fine eating to have; and in such a beautiful dining hall (and the ship don't look half-bad to eat in as well, now there's a roof over the heads of the future passengers.

Right, just as well, we have just finally finished that bloody glove emblem (which is rather approriate phrasing now I think of it), and surprisingly enough, the engineering has been a cinch so far. I just helped install a pair of forward engines in Deck II, and made sure that everything is secure. I don't know what Mustadio was thinking that they'd be tricky to install. We're on the verge of installing the other sets of engine links. I issued a master-lever trigger to be installed for the forward engines, it may take a bit of time once they're installed. The more agonizing issue is linking ALL the triggers for specific functions. But the main issue for me that's the greatest concern (then again, considering I have seen the ship float sans engines) is engineering a master kill-switch for the upward engines. How about making them boilers work? Once I understand the blueprints for those boilers, I might be able to make things work out. I can maybe install the upward engines in a way that they'll provide some uplift even with the boilers down, but with them being rather loosely placed, a good gust of wind can cut us down to our knee-equvalents. The bridge s also being a little more troubling than we expected. We're under-stocked in materials (namely wood and glass windows). I've made sure to assign a clear cut of the nearby valley. Hell, while we're still in peace with the locals still (apparently), why not? The only people who'd mind would be the elves most likely.

...Yeah, I have much work ahead of me, and thank Armok mercy has been shown towards my team and me. Oh right, speaking of boilers, it seems we're short-stocked, but fortunately, one of our scouts have seemed to locate a meterial that may require a bit of refining, but is known to contain mostly copper, and trace amounts of silver. May not be native like the stuff we've been using, but it's plentiful, and that's the important thing, and more importantly, it's nearby where it's safer.

Before mining that stuff out, I'm going to test our miners out with extraction by mining us out some extra space for both rooms for our men, as well as room for our excess food and crap.

Uzzi Punch

--Chief (Pyro)Technician, Weaponsmith, Kel "Lucca" Stigazkadol

I'm confident these guys may actually last longer than a year now, provided they don't get depressed (with half the fort ecstatic? Really?) or decide to go exploring (which I'll have an eagle-eye on, thank you.). One thing's for certain: Nobody's going to raid the merchants' wagons anymore, and maybe I can finally clean up on the sales for some materials for once in ages.

Lucca is, by far, my favorite reclaimer so far. She's just plain epic at this rate. She built the engines, finished the emblem, is nearly done with the bridge of the ship, and prevented fort hunger/sobriety.

[Cheddarius]

Sounds excellent. I sure hope it doesn't fail. Stock up on food (just in case it does, you'll need plenty of good food to keep the reclaimers happy), and
TRAP EVERYTHING.

EDIT: Actually that seems a bit presumptuous. Obviously you are much better than I, a mere newbie with only one or two successful forts. These are merely things that would be really cool to have; of course, I cannot presume to give you advice.

[Itnetlolor]

Here's last night's update. Sorry about the delay. I finished late, and today was a bit rough. Here it is. And hopefully, I should get today's done as well.

Spoiler: Y10S3: Epoch of Development (click to show/hide)

We have made some decent developments with the ship. We finally got the bridge built, we just need to cap it off with the deck on top of it. We're also in need of some windows, so that's being worked on.

We had some merchants visit, but oddly it was brief. They didn't even bother dealing with us. I am clueless as to why. Nobody was stampeding towards it. What gives? Oh well, we seem to have one hell of an economy going on. It seems all that food that has happened to be grown and made sent an odor other than sulpher and miasma across the land. We had some brave souls come in; 8 if I'm not mistaken.

At that same moment, we had one of our herbalists withdraw from us for a moment. It seems all that time was spent making a wooden earring. It looked really nice. That's some serious talent there. She's our new resident woodcrafter. Incidentally, we've been getting monkeys raiding our place lately. That's a good sign we must be getting rather valuable.

Things couldn't be going any--- What do you mean our guard dog's hurt? WHAT DO YOU MEAN PLANTATION A's ON FIRE!!!! WHAT BY THE BLOODY FIST IS GOING ON HERE?!?!! EVERYBODY THAT'S OUTSIDE, CODE 403! OUTSIDE IS FORBIDDEN UNTIL SAFE AND SECURE!!!!

Dammit! It's too late in the season to worry about it now, and the fields are completely ablaze. Thanks to the meeting pool, the blaze going across the hole has severely cooled down the fort. Incidentally, it smells alot better now. Anyway, according to the scorch and claw marks on the dog, and a sprain and confused expression on one of the worker's faces, it happened to be a lone fire imp.

I'll rally the troops and get some marksmen to take that thing out.

As an extra bit of work, I'm making a call to get the mausoleum constructed; starting with capping the magma chamber with a sacrificial pit to allow sacrifices, and to keep those damn imps away from our project. If I only knew how to cast ice... Oh well, priority over-ride, kill that bug, and keep them trapped like those rats.

End Result of Flare

--Chief (Pyro)Technician, Weaponsmith, Kel "Lucca" Stigazkadol

Oh, and thanks for the support. 20,000 views! Woo!

[SkyRender]

Methinks our noble designer likes Chrono Trigger and possibly Chrono Cross as well.  Just a hunch.

[Itnetlolor]

Just working with a theme per leader. I figured the engineering parts would be most fitting for the last reclaiming parties.

EDIT:
I'm probably going to take a short hiatus for tonight and tomorrow. I'm just not in the mood right now to handle the situation. RL crap. Maybe the day after as well due to celebrating my birthday.

[Vieto]

This ship has inspired me to make a dwarf-ship of my own

also, I see why the imp escaped: you have a ramp leading from the pit to the outside world, which is unguarded. it is on the left side of the pit. Put some cage traps there for the future, or at least a locked door.

[kilakan]

imps can actually open locked doors, they are glitched like that

[Itnetlolor]

Can't imps fly?

It'd be pointless. Plus, making a rock dome/mausoleum/sacrificial pit is more dwarfy.

[kilakan]

Imps cannot fly,  they should be able to, but they can't

[Itnetlolor]

Well, that sucked. Define hubris for me please? Oh wait, let my report tell you instead.

Spoiler: Y10S4: The Fated Hour (click to show/hide)

The ship is coming along fine. Finishing up filling out the windows and upper deck. We finally took care of that pesky imp and made sure to seal the way out (for the time being as a placeholder; at least, prevent an easy-out). It seemed the configuration to the boilers was slightly botched, and we've been realigning them together so that the gears and pumps interact with each other.

It seems we had some visitors come by, and they were goblins too. I thought they were peaceful in these parts. Maybe we were living for too long. Anyway, we finally got to test out our flingaway drawbridge. Unfortunately, it seems we had a planter caught in the updraft along with a goblin. But when he awoke, he watched as a goblin was futily making his way out of that maze. Considering how short the venture was however, as well as that it took until they were at the rear gate for us to notice, I issued that we finally commit the bridge system to be 2-way exclusively.

It seems a dwarf has gone fey, and decided to spend some time on a brilliant idea. Turns out a turtle bone scepter was made. Nifty. Too bad I don't know how to place a value on it, but it looked rather nice. I would like to talk about it more only IF THERE WASN'T ANOTHER DAMN IMP!!! WHERE'D HE COME FROM?! AND WHY IS IT HEADED TOWARDS THE SHIP? GET IT! GETITGETITGETIT!!!! SONOFABITCH!!!!! WE LOST SOMEBODY TO THAT IMP!!! On the bright side, the ship didn't burn down. The flames were mysteriously absorbed by the ship itself, and the goo that came out of the imp was literally drank by it as well.

I'll see what I can do to quell... aw damn it all. ANOTHER ONE! And this one came from the archery range. I sent more after it but we lost more to it's fiery glory. Now I'm pissed. And you know what? So is everyone. Whoever insisted that these bastards don't fly is gonna get smacked upside the head with my mallet.

Everyone has lost it, just like (I assume) every other reclaiming party. So far, the death spiral has collected 20 souls. Or is that the ship. WHAT DIDN'T WE DO? WHERE DID WE GO WRONG?! I thought I got everything settled. :whimper:

I have called one hell of a meeting/gathering in the grand hall. Think of it as a mass intervention. So far, success has not been as much, but I did permit, if anyone goes absolutely mad (especially the kind for bloodlust) we must execute them on the spot. In case we don't last long enough as the reclaiming party; we at least have some migrants that can at least handle things in case we don't make it. I'm personally instructing the migrants on what to do, educate them on what we've been working on (it was orientation at first, but now I mean business).

If we're lucky, we can maybe last another half-year if we can quell the situation in time. After all, we do have the food, we have the booze, and we have the quarters.

...May Armok have mercy on us; and may his mighty fist not fall upon us. We've been doing our best, but apparently it's not enough.

Casualties in this report total: 20 dwarves

Red Pin

--Chief (Pyro)Technician, Weaponsmith, Kel "Lucca" Stigazkadol

I mean really. What the hell?! I thought you told me these things don't fly! I capped off the only entrance it could've come from, and I got ambushed by 2 more of them after the slaughter of their friend near the end of the season.

Really, this sucks big time.

EDIT:
Copy-pasting from HAPPY thread (since it's more relevant here).

Finally found the time to get an update done with the Bloodifst (and discovered a disturbing truth while at it). My project is possessed.

I noticed that everytime I either work on it for a dwarven year, or make plans to work on it, it doesn't want me to finish it. My freaking project is yandere towards me (It's clinging to me, and wants to last as long as possible). The good? Why I'm happy? I managed to take notice of it. Hopefully I can now plan accordingly so I can finish the damn thing once and for all.

Oh, and I might finally have a way to at least prevent everything from being destroyed (bridges and such) during the obligatory tantrum spiral in my project. I have all my drafted troops (every resident inflicted with raeg) gathered in the grand dining hall where it's stocked with food, and above the living quarters. If I'm lucky, I should be able to continue the project with 25% of my reclaiming team still intact.

As added security, I'll have my only sane residents work on sealing all entries into the fort (including the trapways), so I won't have to go cross-country to gather lost goods. Why not?

[Cheddarius]

Dang. You have a wave of crazy-free migrants, though, right? Even if all the first waves die they won't be affected.

[Itnetlolor]

Okay, I finally found time to work on this beast. Personally, I'm surprised with the turnout.

Spoiler: Y11S1: Frozen Flame (click to show/hide)

I decided that since things haven't been developing too well with my original method (too many pointless kills, and the tension was like ice.) I decided having our vengeance would be a more suitable way to go if we are to perish here. If we're going down, we're taking as many down with us as possible. Those of us who are still sane will slowly patch up the ship and rig it so that nothing will be moved from their spot in case we have to close this place down again.

If I live through all this, and I still have some sane people left, despite my inner rage, I'll see if we can still work on it while underhanded.

Not much else to report aside knocking the population of those damnable imps in half. As well as an elven caravan (or one of the traders) got barbecued near the doorway, as was a few builders. The Chenjesu is actually underway. Our gem cutter/setter is making use of their purpose of this project. At least now, the spirits of the project have a gathering point, according to lore with crystals and such.

It seems some people heard the call and the news of the location being a little safer, despite the curse that's in action. Brave souls these are. I welcome them. We need all the help we can get. Head count shows we got 15 more muscles to repair this place again with. Fortunately, I suppose, few have close relations with each other. Maybe these fools might be immune to the curse, unlike us. Among them is also a dungeon master. I've heard news about these psychos. I heard they are so crazy, they can whip a dragon into shape and make them live amongst us. That'll be the day.

Of course, he'll be borrowing the mayoral suite now that the old mayor has been impeached. I don't care what that shmuck thinks. Thanks to some of his mandates, despite the rage, more lives have been lost to reckless ruling. If I could, I want this bitch to rule us instead. Kubuk Nazomiteb (Dreampost). I hope she can tame the new blood, as well as what remains of us.

It seems we got a possession going on as well. This time an armorer, and he is using the smelter. This can only spell good. Hmm... some tin chain leggings? Not entirely useful, but pretty nonetheless. I hope these skills can be put to good use. At least a soldier should look snazzy in them.


New Migrants: 15
Casualties: 38
Artifacts Made: 1

Dragon Tear

--Chief (Pyro)Technician, Weaponsmith, Kel "Lucca" Stigazkadol

Now let's hope she can keep her head on for another year.

I'm open to mural ideas for the cap/tomb.