Why not? They can be soothed by the lovely stench of burning hair.
While not a total loss, my current fort required the use of seven insane Armok-blessed(no eat, sleep or drink) miners and the removal of about 150k pieces of stone before I could start on it.
It wasn't so bad. Until I forgot about a ledge that I had left for some reason or another, which then fell down.
Into the future fort entry tunnel.
Where the liaison was.
So, now without a liaison, right off the bat, I knew things could only get better.
And of course, they did. During the removal of a level access stairway, Bim the Miner went BAM when the entire staircase fell down on him. Several others were injured, but I kept on working. This place was nearly finished externally and I could then move on to work on the towers.
Of course, things are never easy when you are a super dwarf. Especially when Itod went very unhappy, and insisted that she had to talk with the expedition leader. While tantruming. And throwing rocks and god knows what all around the place. The whole thing ended with her beating the crap out of the guy, getting better and going back to work. So I was down to three able dwarves now.
It was at the point where I had started to finish off the last layer, that the kobolds attacked. Two squads suddenly jumped on a miner, and despite the heroic efforts of a legendary miner, seven kobolds proved too much.
They were now marching relentlessly towards the bottom floor, where the expedition leader laid broken, and the other two were now very unhappy campers over the loss of their friend.
There was only one thing to do.
I finished the work extra fast, ignoring smoothing the ground level because it wouldn't matter anyway, and then, I mined open the magma pipe, from all levels.
The miner who finished the task didn't make it, caught on fire and was swept down eventually what with the torrents of magma now flooding all over the place.
And the remaining dwarves?
They kept the kobolds busy, long enough for the magma to reach the only way into the lowest level and cut off any exit.
And then, they fought to the bitter, horrible, agonizing and burning end.
So I reclaimed the place, because hey, I don't want to mine this thing out again.
The lava is flowing, and from the looks of things, it'll take a loooong time for the levels of the pipe to rise back up to it's former glory until the entire city is submerged within magma.
It's a good thing, means I have enough time to install those doors in the towers that are the only thing keeping out the magma, for fun, you know?
That and steel bridges to work as blastdoors. Obviously they are located in the level the door was broken at. If no one is close to pull it in time, TOO BAD.
It's gonna be fun until the next version comes out.
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