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Fortify the mountain!

Build a bigger-volume magma cannon!

Build a massive jail for stopping the inevitable tantrum spiral.

Construct the city in the cavern!

Start a new megaproject.

Hail Discordia!(fnord)

[nil]

You should do something like this (relevant part of the video is 1:05 to ~2:00), only instead of having a intricate series of small aquaducts lining the walkways delivering water throughout the city, you use magma.

[The13thRonin]

Who built so many cage traps at the front of the fortress?

This is the reason that Orcs have TRAPAVOID in Dig Deeper. It just isn't fair on the poor critters.

[Demonic Spoon]

It was me and I know that, but we also get attacked by goblins and kobolds.

[Blast]

Ok, so here it is. In-character story of my dwarf with a little bit of background story too. I'll use the spoiler thing because it is kind of a long story. Hope you have fun reading it.

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Before SparkGear

"Day" 304 under seige

We are still under seige, so many days have passed and those orcs won't leave the gates...

Also, the excavations are not going well, another cave-in this day took three of our best miners. Good thing we could salvage theyr pickaxes, we need all the metal we can get to forge weapons. Cant afford to waste it on other things...

"Day" 450 under seige

Another caravan slaughtered. Dont know why they keep sending them, they should know that if the caravans dont go back to the city, it is a bad sign, but they just keep sending them... At least they took some orcs down with them..

"Day" 584 under seige

This is it, I'm tired of this. I like to live underground, but being trapped on a hole is not my idea of "and he lived happly ever after".

I started to train all the capable dwarfs, good thing I was part of the royal guard is the past, all that training will prove usefull now. I hope...

"Day" 600 under seige

Today we will lower the bridge, and may Armok bless us so we can make an offering to him later, all the blood spilled by the orcs. CHARGE!!!

"Day" ...

We did it, can't belive we did it with only forty casualties, after all we were eighty six dwarfs against more that one hundred armed and savage orcs.

Today we are going home, finally. No more excavations trying to find adamantine. That "hole in the ground" is cursed. Mountain Homes, here we go.

King reception

The king ordered a banquet, as soon as he heard about what we did on the fortress we had, maybe he's not as bad as I thought.

And it's a big one, lots of food, and most important, alcohol.

Cow meat, pig meat, chicken, perch, carp, cave crocodile and... is that cat??

The bad news...

Now I know why the king was so happy that we survived, he wants to send us back!

I hate that tiny, fat and beardless dwarf. I should know that no good dwarf shaves his beard...

He asked (ordered) me to take place as the leader of a fortress that is going through a rough time. He says I have nothing to worry about though, the experience that I got from the past fortress would be sufficient to be a good leader.

I leave with his promise of visiting me and the fortress in a near (probably never...) future.

SparkGear

The new fortress

As I'm leaving, I remeber what the king said, "With your fighting skills no one will give you troubles there. And the journey should be safe too". I just hope he wasn't lying, or he will regret it when he comes to visit the fortress...

When I arrive at the place all I can see is two huge towers rising from the inside of the mountain, like fingers reaching the sky. Crazy dwarfs if you ask me, all that a dwarf needs comes from below the ground, not from above.



As I get closer I start to hear noises and bashing sounds. Where does it come from?

Orcs, but these ones are in cages. They eye me furiously and start bashing the cage again. How could Armok alow something like this to live? Are not the elves allready a curse on the world, along with the kobolds, goblins and trolls?

Hmm... a bridge lifted, blocking the entrance... Why does this seem so familiar? ...

"Anyone there?" I shouted, though it would be hard to hear anything inside, but I noticed that there are some fortifications arround here. Maybe they have guards up there watching the entrance?

From up there: "A dwarf is outside?? Is he mad???" "Ohh, not one of ours.. Must be the new "leader" I guess.. Well, what are you waiting for? Lower the bridge, quick!"

In a matter of seconds the bridge is lowered. As I start walking to the fortress a dwarf screams at me "Go inside! NOW!". I started running as fast as I could, didn't even have the time to look back. When i got in and the bridge was up again I asked "What was behind me? Some orc got loose from the cage?"

Unknown: Nothing was behind you, but we never know what may be lurking outside. Better safe than sorrow.

Just as I thought, crazy dwarfs... Well, time to take a walk arround the fortress I guess. So here is the... FOR ARMOK SAKE! WHAT IS THIS!!???



I like to live in a "hole in the ground" but this hole is too damn big. One more reason to call these dwarfs crazy... They even made towers and houses inside the mountain, not just outside. Do they think they'r humans now? Too much sun on theyr heads if you ask me...

"So, who was the last in charge here? Is he alive and capable of speaking?"

Unknown: "Alive, yes, capable of speaking... maybe not. Come, I'll show you where he is. By the way, my name is Dakost Treatyblades"

Hmmm, I like that name. Maybe this dwarf is not as crazy as the others, seems a nice dwarf to me.

Dakost: "Here we are. Try your best, but dont know if it's worth your time."

Well, if I don't I will never no. "So, you'r the former ruller of this fortress?"

Nill: "Shiny.. So shiny..."

"What's so shiny?"

Nill: "The pump, oh marvelous pump... My... My precious!"



Now I know why they needed a new leader... I wonder if he was the one who ordered to build the towers? Maybe not, all he cares is about pumps, or so it seems.

"Ok, no need to spend more time here, could you show me the rest of the fortress?"

Dakost: "Yes, come with me."

What's that smell? Looks like there is something rotting... "Where does this smell comes from?"

Dakost: "Ohh, it's from that corpse over there."



"You have dead dwarfs on the corridors???"

Dakost: "Well, we have them pretty much everywere. We ran out of coffins."

"We have to get rid of them before they actually rot. Any way to do this before we make more coffins?"

Dakost: "Hmmm, you could allways use the magma incinerator..."

"If it is the only way to get rid of them fast, then that's what we will use."

I ordered everyone to move the corpses they found to the magma incinerator system. Not a propper burial but this will have to do.



Time to talk to the mayor. I hope that at least he can talk a bit, because Nil...

Ohh great... When I get to know the mayor name I find out he's dead. Died not long ago, went on a berserk rage and was killed so he could not harm anyone... I'm starting to think that the last fortress I was in was not the only one that was cursed.





..."My baby, my baby!"..."If i can't have my baby then no one else can"...

Where does that come from? Above I think, time to climb that tower.

Fighting sounds, hope I didnt come too late.

Yes, I did come too late... A dwarf looking for her child had lost her mind and killed a kid that was near, and was struck down not much later by a farmer that saw what she. Two more deaths.









More corpses. Every day we have more corpses on the ground. Many of them die from thrist, strange dwarfs... Only ask for water when they'r injured, and we have no such thing on this fortress. They refuse to drink wine or beer, must be a new kind of desease.

The rest of the corpses are from strange deaths. No one knows how they died, but they seem to appear near the towers built on the giant hall. Suicides if you ask me. Can't blame them though, this is not the best place to live in.





As I was walking through the fortress I heard some noises from a hole. Hot as it was, maybe filled or surrounded with magma. "What do you have down there?"

Dakost: "Uhhh... Hm.. Nothing. Really, don't worry about it. Nothing intresting to see down there."

I did try to take a look inside, but with all that miasma I couldn't see much. I swear it seemed like someone said "Yes we can" from down there. I must be hearing things. Well, lets keep going.



..."The orcs! The orcs are here!"...

As I heard that, I rushed to the entrance, taking a look from the fortifications. An orc seige, or maybe not. Looks like it is a small group...



Small group... How I was wrong, someone (Demonic Spoon... Strange name. Demonic Fork would be better) on top of the towers saw the rest of them (maybe not as useless as I thought, those towers). It's a real orc seige. They started moving to the entrance, "camping" there, just waiting for an opportunity to come and slaughter us.



I can't sit here and wait untill they go away. From the past experience that
I had, I know they can wait as long as we do. Time to prepare to fight. Time to train the dwarfs to kill the orcs one more time. As from now on I am not the leader anymore, I'm a soldier prepared to die for the dwarfs that live in here, particularly one dwarf.. (Dakost... <3)

I wish the best of luck for the next person on the king's black list. May Armok bless us once again.

Hope you enjoy it.

[Demonic Spoon]

Hey! What's nil doing with my personal gold pump? Grr  . Good story 

[ToonyMan]

So is The13thRonin doing his turn or what?

[Demonic Spoon]

No, you were supposed to do stuff today... which is nearly over.

[ToonyMan]

Well, I was sleeping.  It was dark.  When does the turn end?  In a few hours?  Wow, I didn't have this problem last time.

[Demonic Spoon]

Turn ends in about 5 hours. But since no one seems to want tommorow you can continue tommorow, unless someone actually claims it.

[ToonyMan]

I must do atleast a month then!!!  ONWARD TO THE SAVE.

[Demonic Spoon]

Turn ends in about 5 hours. But since no one seems to want tommorow you can continue tommorow, unless someone actually claims it.

Added some text you might have missed.

[Demonic Spoon]

3d pics! 

A view of the tower of armok fomr the base, unfortunately the viewer seems to believe obsidian is green  :

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A view from the top of the tower:

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The cave city:

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[nil]

It's too bad Dwarf Visualizer doesn't do a better job on those inside-the-cave shots, I might even fire up my old coper of 3dwarf to see how that looks.

V edit:  Heh.  "Fell."  V

[ToonyMan]

It's almost Mid-Summer.  Food and booze is up.  There's like 5 dwarves that are crawling around with broken everythings though.  I think they might have fell off the cave city's roofs.

EDIT:  OK, I'll continue playing for the next day too.

[nahkh]

Has someone claimed the 30th already?

And as a small note, I'll be away next week (visiting a friend in Prague).
I guess I'll appoint DS as the official vice-Nahkh while I'm gone. He's by far the most active Gearhead anyway, and seems to have kept things rolling while I was otherwise occupied (ie. boozing and womanizing).