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[Sensei]

No, no structure can fly or land or move, only pancake- and caveins are turned off to prevent that, so it's totally static. There's drawbridges connecting it to the nearby land, to simulate landing. When he's done, he will pretend it can fly (and post awesome pics). It's basically a big model though.

But then anybody can go and pretend that they're doing cool stuff, even when they actually aren't doing so at all. That could lead to a lot of...rather strange stuff to occur...gameplay/story segregation FTL.

Well, the point of this is the awesome ship itself, as an object. There's even a thread with a "boat" in the hall of legends, so it's not like you can't make a good story out of it.

duuude....
make a large statue of bowser on the top deck.

also, make some obsidian-cast cannons.

Dude?

[Itnetlolor]

Also, why haven't you simply set up a total quarantine? In a year you could have done enough landscaping and wall building to never have to worry about goblins again. And yeah, I still think this warrants doing- abandon and reclaim to get more guys if you have to.

Well, if anything, I was trying to keep up a sort of story with the builders; or in this case "Cid" alone, and his story of this behemoth.

Basically, none of the original 7 thought of doing such things (as you could read from the earlier notes), they were simply engineers for the project. And to make matters worse, none of the "immigrants" sent to the site had any military experience, so the idea never came up. So yeah. They brought it on themselves.

Let's not forget the location itself. I was surprised it didn't get worse earlier; but the recent catastrophe hit me hard enough it made me stop playing for some time (not even working on another fort).

[Sensei]

You should probably create a seal-able bunker and maybe some pillboxes for defense. You obviously need a way to turtle down for these sieges.

[Itnetlolor]

Ironically, Those implements were being worked on, and nearing a good enough level of completeness to be functional. That is, until I was triple-ambushed.

[Goinstadi]

Well whenever you get back to it, I'll go ahead and build a Dock for the Bloodfist.

[Neyvn]

Hopefully I will be able to Build my Harbor soon...

Even thinking of having it build a sister ship if I get it up safely...

Epic location, all that is missing is Flux and Pitchblend I believe. That and a GCS...

[Itnetlolor]

I appreciate that there's still interest in this project.

I'm going to be somewhat busy this week, but I'll see if I can find the time to do something with it.

I'll test what would work better. Hopefully, if I do get a reclaiming party in, the survivors will still be alive. Especially "Cid". He's our protagonist. We can't lose him.

Plus, it would also count as the latest arrival of backup that "Cid"'s been asking for for the past 2 years. I'll see how I can weave that into the story as well. What will be nice about it would be that I'll have a competent military that can build/rebuild the fort and it's defenses that were cancelled, and serve as a defense.

It's still my intention to keep the fort small and relatively unguarded (aside the mandatory tower or 2). You gotta remember, this is a project site. It's still up to "Cid" what to do with it. It's not a fortress, it's a building site (according to where it is on the map) at least a week away from the mountainhome of origin. Chosen because of the resources, and distance from home. Once finished, it can easily fly home in less than 1/8th of a day.

[Neyvn]

Create it on Cid's arrival to the fact that some defense is needed in the construction of such a ship. You have had sieges and ambushes, so that means the Gobbos have discovered the construction site. It comes to Cid's attention that he will need to order some defense from the Mountain Home for help to finish the project...

[Goinstadi]

Walls in wild areas are common.  Don't be fooled, today's world would not have been possible without walls against the marauding animals and barbarian hordes.

You don't have to wall in the entire site, just your living area.  Leaving the Bloodfist "open" could make for epic boarding attempts by the goblins later.

[Quantum Toast]

It's a shame you can't make metal fences, they're more the sort of thing you'd expect around a shipyard.

[Itnetlolor]

Well, I took a crack at reclaiming, and everyone died upon reclaim (the original dwarves). Basically, no storyteller, and a bunch of newbies at their crafts (and no appraisal), outside of military skill; and clothing and such all over the place, yet the structure is still intact.

I did gain 70 dwarfs besides that, and all of them are alive and well, despite some batmen and such possessing the outpost.

I still have the original save with the last of the 7 though. I'll see if they can recover regardless.

From the looks of it, I'll probably keep both as parallel realities.

[shadowform]

What can I say? I'm the dwarven Jules Verne. BTW, I'd like to see anyone develop a weapon capable of reaching this HFS (Huge F***ing Ship).

Oh, that's easy.  Create another, similar ship with a series of open bomb bays on the bottom.  Have them, say, 3x5 with a bridge built partway through to make them 2x5, then order construction of floors in the 1x3 center part of the bay.  I'm pretty sure that floors won't 'attach' to bridges, so it should cause an immediate collapse that sends a unit of stone hurtling downward, and if their ship happens to be above yours at the time, that would punch a hole in you.

[Itnetlolor]

As a 10000+ view benchmark reward, I just refined the OP to make it a hell of alot easier to navigate and read through.

Didn't take too much effort, aside from the linking.

As further reward for the popularity of this megaproject, I've been motivated to attempt to continue this from Cid, and the remaining team.

Unfortunately, I might have to use DF Companion to at least keep our storyteller alive and sane enugh to keep up with the updates; or at least, not die yet.

EDIT:
TOO MANY DISTRACTIONS!!!!

I'll see what I can do to get something done either tonight or tomorrow.

I always have this crap happen at the worst times (or best times for me to work on it).

[Itnetlolor]

Spoiler: Y4S1: R&R- Recovery & Redemption, or Reclusion & Remains (click to show/hide)

I'm having trouble here. After the siege happened, I just can't keep my head cool or level anymore. I'm all that's left of the original core team, most of the survivors are incapacitated, and I feel like crap. I'm beyond miserable, and the only thing that can maybe help me get in a better mood would be a new team of migrants to come along. Oh, and I forgot one other detail. It seems we're out of booze. ... --==-=-=----=-=~~~


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Sorry about the message being sent in 2 pieces; my anger had the best of me. Catten has lost his mind and stripped down to nothing, and thinks nothing of it. I wouldn't mind it as much, had he not been wearing the blood of our comrades and become a babbling fool. I'm too delirious to knock sense into him. If we only had more hands, I could get everything back in order, but I don't even count on that likely happening. *sigh*

If Armok was really pleased about the blood let before, he'd be willing to send more vessels our way. By his fist, we shall rise up.
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Happy CARPING New Year. I'd raise up my glass in celebration, but most of our mugs are broken amidst the corpses, and it would be in bad taste to use the skull of a fallen comrade; but most of all, what IS there to drink? Aside muddy water?

Springtime has been a minor improvement. Catten is still naked and clothed in dried blood; essentially, He's useless to us; however, some of us have gotten a little more levelheaded, and decided the best way to work around our issues is to focus solely on the tasks at hand, and keep ourselves occupied without having anyone out of order dying on us.

The original plans that were made to beef our defenses up have been slowly coming into fruition, despite the lack of hands. Whenever any of us has the free time, we're going to take turns crafting mugs, since our resident crafter is a little off-kilter (if you catch my drift). Anyway, we're making progress balancing things out. We'll just leave the bones out since the flesh has rotted off, and our nose-hairs are scorched off anyway; let's just leave that for the poor fools that have the balls to come in.

Heh, what do you know? Elves... CARPING bad luck Elves. I'll be shocked beyond reason if we don't get mercilessly killed because those tree-humping goblin lures decided it was a good idea to come to our fort. They better damn well have some booze and maybe some defensive animals to help us out, or by the fist of Armok; their blood will be the varnish for our hull.

...Scratch that; well an ambush team with a human took care of that. Hoo boy. I really don't count on any migrants coming anytime soon if this keeps up. You know what. Screw it. I heard Catten's scream echo throughout the fortress. Despite a case of madness, he's snapped into place enough to shout a warning of another ambush. If this message reaches you; by Armok, I caution your next troupe, be weary of stragglers hanging out within our... fine quarters.

I believe it's as good a time as any. I'm hiding all my plans, a legend, and how everything must work together. Everything will be hidden within the quern inside the Farmer's workshop. If I remember how heavy that sucker is, No goblin would dare attempt to haul it across the terrain; as for the ship itself, thank goodness we got the framework taken care of. Let's not forget, that thing is built to last. I don't think the goblins would have the balls to tear down such an opportune spot to strike from, as well as dare damage such elegant dwarven engineering. Especially when they come across the nameplate, and how far we've gotten despite interference. They know that'll be continued, even if it's the last thing we do.

Zas... *sob* a mere child, has died. I know that scream of pain. I've been hearing cries of death and pain from our animals as well. I know it'll be our end soon enough. I have an idea though, Armok willing it will have a chance to work. I'm going to stand ground near our traps, and head for the Bloodfist, hopefully tearing the goblins to shreds in the process. I might as well take some of those bastards down with me before I die. Our last stand will be aboard the ship. If it ever gets finished, let my spirit, along with Catten and Kogan watch over those who fly it.

Catten... that naked psychopath has just gotten really level-headed, it's got me a little freaked out. Is he in a trance? He's... Catten, You crazy sonovabitch... Where-- If that crazy bastard returns alive wearing the skins of our trespassers, I will bow to him like a messiah. ...Damn! Heading for the Bloodfist, I saw his corpse. DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!!! In my fleeting moments before I die; I send to you my eyes and what I can crudely make to give you a good understanding of the situation. Tell Fikod that had things gone better, I would have had a ring crafted for her as a trinket of our time together in the past (before this Armok-forsaken project). This bird can teach you much that you need to know, as well as Zas's toy ship, if you can find it. Aside my instructions, schematics, and etc. Find those objects, and you should be able to continue with haste.

I bid you adieu, and I hope to Armok a carp will chew on your soul for eternity for not sending proper soldiers our way.


    With dismay and demise,
--Foreman, "Cid" Kalrethdakost


My Final Stand


PS- Alas, I am somehow still alive enough to add one last note. I wasn't able to reach our ship in time, but I understand what took hold of Catten. My gods, what a rush; those 3 goblins didn't have a chance, although one took a lucky shot and damaged my spine pretty bad. I don't know if I can get back up, but damn, I can die happy now. I got my revenge, though I now feel unbelievably lonely now. Hah; and it looks as though one has passed out from the excitement. If I get back up before him... Ho, that bastard will be my new mantlepiece.

I'm taking my leftover time to add final details as I bleed my last energy. Behold what I have left to see.

PPS- Oh yeah; I was able to walk still, apparently, for what it was worth. Here's the details of what I would call Armok's apparently merciful side:

As I was starting to fleet away, I saw that fiend wake up again, I mustered up what energy I had left to stumble away from him. He took some swings, and eventually gave into pain and passed out as I was blocking with my broken arm, so I could get a good shot in with my good arm. I hit him square in the forehead, and he collapsed like the weight of his armor; with my last moments before passing out, I stomped on his helmet after I poked through his eyes with my fingers. I wake back up alive. I'll find more proper quarters to recover in and try to live on my own. If I die, the bird knows what to do. The coast looks clear for the time being. I'm taking a rest. But I suspect there may be more coming. The guys we took on were at the back door, many came through the front, if memory serves correctly. I'll try to be ready for them. For once, in ages, I feel fine. ...I hear th---

Spoiler: Post message report (click to show/hide)

He managed to kill one more goblin before becoming a dwarven pincushion. His legend will be placed soon enough, as well as the history of the fort/project.

PS- 1100th post!!!

[Neyvn]

Can I get a copy of your Blueprints???
I will be building one myself in My harbour. With a few differences...