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[shadowclasper]

It's a pity the empires update isn't ready. Where you can leave your fortress and come back to it, also build things like roads and such. It would be awesome.

[Akigagak]

I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS NOW.

Now, to write them down while the slots fill up.
I'm thinking of doing a few short stories to explain the circumstances of how a few of the dwarves came to be here.

[TatersAndTots]

you gotta make sure my dorf has no jobs at all. Unselect all his labors, so he talk to everyone and gets all awesome with talking. Hell, maybe even he can talk the elves and get them to bitch less about the trees

make him spar in his spare time. Just think:

A trio of orcs have sneaked through an unused entrance! They are about to slaughter everyone in the dining ro-

*instert hammer ownage*

Then Sythun goes back to his -kitty tallow roast- and discussing political theory with Urist the mason.

[Akigagak]

Current Dwarves.
Me: Ginji: Reclaim Leader
Lyrax: Mad Mardigan: GREATEST SWORDSDWARF EVAR!!
Tehstefan: Fred McOrcbait: Axedwarf
Metal Militia: Metal Militia: Any soldier
Darkflagrance: Darkflagrance: any soldier
Jervous: Jervous: Any soldier
Abclatter: Abclatter: Any soldier
Servu: Servu: Any soldier
Soviet Travolta: Augustus: Grower/Miner/Mason or soldier
Scuba: Ascubis: Miner/Mason, then Soldier
Vieto: Cazador: Marksdwarf
Funk: Funk: Mentally retarded marksdwarf
Shadowclasper: Hetros the Bold(!): Speardwarf/wrestler
Zifnab: Emperor Urist: Hammer/Macedwarf, then hauler/mason
Frogwarrior: Frogwarrior: Soldier(?)
HFS: Xanthius: Axedwarf
Genoraven: Genoraven: Macedwarf/strand extractor. (you know that there is no HFS, right?)
Lawec: Lawec: Hammerdwarf/Carpenter/Bonecarver
Marinuzz: Bob: Axedwarf/mason/hunter
MrLobster: Lobsterbeard: Hammerdwarf
Taters: Sythun: Hammerdwarf (I generally set the leader dwarf as all admin positions, for simplicity)

Have I missed anyone? That's 21 so far.

EDIT:
Magua: Magua: Hammerdwarf/engraver.
Sonerohi: Wok the Perforator: Marksdwarf.

[TatersAndTots]

Do you give your bookeeper enough time to record shit? I split all my admin jobs and I still dont :/

[Akigagak]

It only takes a couple of seasons constant counting.
But I usually make him mine for the first half of spring so that there is a decent-sized hole to live in.

[shadowclasper]

Speardwarf/wrestler.

[Akigagak]

Apparently, I fail at counting.
It's 9 groups of 7, not 10 groups of 8.

Still 63 dwarves, though.

Short story soonish.

EDIT: To let you people know; the reclaim is made of 3 groups of marks, 3 of hammers, and 3 of axes.
And what is this desire to be speardwarves? Spears are nearly useless against orcs, as they don't feel any pain.

[Genoraven]

Oh, no hfs.... Thought there was. Well make me a Macedwarf then the fort's armor smith please.

[Akigagak]

Here is part one of part one of 'The Lost Dwarves'

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Cazador looked over the orc camp, hunting for a largish group of dwarven slaves that he had heard rumors about. Usually, these orcs kept their slaves in a too-small tent in the centre of the camp, but today they had guests, orcs from a far-away tribe, who were there to barter about an alliance against a rival tribe, so the dwarves had been moved.

'Where are they? This is unexpected.' muttered Cazador 'Funk?'

'Bos?'

'Go find Xanthius and Lobsterbeard, tell them that I can't see the slaves, but I've narrowed it down to two possible locations: The animal pens and the... the midden.'

'Roight.'

'Repeat the message.'

'Find Sanfius and Lobsterbeard, tell 'em tha' you can't see teh slaves, but tha' they might be in with dogs, or in shit heap.'

'Close enough.'

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Lobsterbeard tended to his grandfathers' hammer. The steel was old, nearly as old as the history of the dwarves itself, but it had seen no historic battles, had had no great victories, no righteous cause. Maybe today, it would...

'Lobster! Over here!' Came an urgent whisper from the bushes. Lobsterbeard jogged over, keeping his head low and his hammer ready.

'Yes? Who's there?' He said as he approached the shrub he heard the sound come from.

'It's Xanthius. We've got news from Cazador. Bad news.'

'Damn. What's happened?'

'They've moved the slaves. It's not all bad, though.'

'Oh, really?'

'He's narrowed it down to two locations; the animal pens, and the shit heap.'

'Why have they been moved?'

'Remember those new orcs from a couple of days ago? I think that they were... envoys, I suppose, from another tribe.'

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[Magua]

I'll take a dwarf.  Magua.  Gender doesn't matter.  Hammer would be the preferred weapon.

When not hammering, Engraver, as is my wont. 

Magua's tribeclan of dwarves was wiped out while fighting another tribeclan of dwarves who had decided to ally with the orcs to save their own skins.  Now he/she has been driven out from his/her homeland, seeking the means to get revenge on his/her family's enemies -- the orcs, and the traitor dwarves.

Magua's secondary objective is to keep the memory of his/her clan alive, and to continue the family line.  Hence, the engravings, and hopefully children.

[MrLobster]

Oh man I'm so dead. I hope I get some good smashing in.

[Akigagak]

This is just background fluff, you'll at least make it to the first winter of the reclaim.
Speaking of fluff:

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'What are they talking about, Ginji?'

'Shhh! I'll tell you if you shut your mouth, Ascubis.'

'...kîxatuvu mëx'th?'
'...seer?...girl.'

'Fyvuru! Jysokijatnsh kath oguze akÑsÅrÑ.'
'...never!...desertbeasts, clan name?...haven't heard that before...bear...head.'

...

'...ësò mëx'th.'

...

'What's going on Ginji?' whispered the nervous Jervous.

'Tell us. What are they saying?'

At this the rag of a door flew back, an orc barged into the room, grabbed her by the rags she was wearing, and dragged her, screaming, outside.

'Ginji!'

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Cazador could hear the scream in the camp from his vantage point on the wooded hill. One of the orcs seemed to be hold a young dwarven girl aloft, and the other orcs were jeering and howling at the top if their lungs.

'What in the deeps?' He growled, readying his human-made crossbow, and signaling his squad of marksdwarves. All freed slaves and freeborn dwarves who had fought for their survival for years.

'What are they doing, Caz?'

'I have no idea, Urist, But I think we're going to have a fight.'

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Magua and his dwarves were the other side of the camp, and were well on their way towards it. Suddenly, they heard a loud scream coming from the camp, and the sound froze them in their tracks.

'What was that?'
'I don't know.'
'Sounded...like a female.'
'Dwarf?'
'Yeah.'

'Settle down, damn it, we're pretty close to the camp, and there are probably sentries around.'  whispered Magua.

'There were.'

All the dwarves jumped around, looking for the speaker, their hands grabbing their hammers.

'Who said that?'

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[sonerohi]

I'll take a marksdorf! Wok the Perforator, if'n you please.

[tehstefan]

Well, I'll go for axedwarf then, though don't spears normally destroy internal organs better?