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[Canadark]

A book with a cryptic message (playing with dig deeper, of course)

We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the Bridge and second hall. Frár and Lóni and Náli fell there ... went 5 days ago ... the pool is up to the wall at Westgate. The Watcher in the Water took Óin. We cannot get out. The end comes ... drums, drums in the deep ... they are coming.

    The Fellowship of the Ring: "The Bridge of Khazad-dum," p. 336

[Doomshifter]

"What's with all these random tunnels? They don't go anywhere, and they're erratically dug. Not to mention, absolutely every single piece of it is smoothed AND engraved..."

In my current fort, I decided to use the mouse to create random tunnels to dig. And then my horde of immigrant engravers smoothed and engraved it all.

[uran77]

Many many layers of obsidian

[Cypress]

Towers. May not seem very dwarfish, but these towers are quite literally rising out of the ocean. No human would have the engineering skill to pull it off, and no elf would ever burn the trees necessary to make all that green glass...

[Heliman]

If my fort and dwarves was all destroyed and an archeologist came back to look at it after a half a century they would find a room at the very bottom of a pit filled with dragons that have been breeding like rabbits in a room made of solid adamantine for 50 years.
He would then find that he is on fire and his lower half is no longer attached to his upper half.

[Karnewarrior]

  While traversing the Peaks of Ire, you come across a lone wooden hach in the side of the mountain. The wind can be heard moaning through the mountains, and rough basalt pebbles crunch under your boots. The hatch cover is covered in dried blood, and the brass handle is cold. You brush the snow away from the solid oak barrier. In worn Dwarven runes it reads:

Welcome to DankHaven.

Make peace with your god.

[Rankaisen]

Most of the fortress appears to be flooded with water from the nearby undeground river and you can see something moving down there, better leave it be.

The only unflooded area appears to be a massive hall, filled with goblin bone totems.
In the middle of the hall stands a lone pillar that is completely engraved, apparently describing the heroic exploits of a lone dwarf. Most of the engravings are about goblins being killed by the certain dwarf.


- He was my greatest hero.

[The Mad Engineer]

Nothing remains of the fort except a single quern.

I made sure of it.

[Spaghetti]

"I am making a disertation that dwarves were once extremely violent before these years. You see these pictures of a dwarf thrashing goblins about causing their limbs to fly about? THey say his nickname was "limblauncher."

[o_O[WTFace]]

Lots and lots of stone crafts.

[Eric Blank]

Well, if it were Avaltosid (looking down there v), then it would have to be the temple, a crude, small temple compared to what I'm constructing now. My fortress right now will also have a multi-level, 30+ wide/long pit as a courtyard, surrounded by two sets of walls and towers, though I don't think I'll use all of the towers... all to go alongside the temple and riches.

I've modded kobolds to be playable and have all the professions/omnivorous, so they too will have a society, but still start out from their usual caves and only have a couple of extra tools. I was thinking a less organized, random placement of rooms, a different style of temple with only one level and altar, put together by randomly clicking with the mouse. No walls, bridges or any kind of mechanics allowed, only channels and doors.

[SkyRender]

 Explorers who stumbled across Towerscrape in its distant future would find the ruins of a tower, the top half appearing to have toppled long ago due to being built entirely out of green glass in total disregard for the safety of such an endeavor.  Beneath the tower they would find catacombs housing about two hundred dead Dwarves, some in private tombs, others in a communal burial chamber maze.  No engravings adorn any of the walls, and no records remain of the history of this fortress.  Only their vast stockpiles of now-rotting food and drink, and the myriad of scattered metal bars and countless goblets, give any hint as to what sort of place it was before its untimely demise.

 But man are there a lot of steel goblets lying about...

[Beanchubbs]

Archaeologists who stumbled upon the forts of the dwarves would be quite distrubed. Scratches and nicks in the entrance and meeting hall indicated great battles ensued. Dwarven and Orc bones lied around eachother in their final positions of death, some with weapons in their hands, and others with arrows in their skulls. A great dungeon occupied the lowest level of the fort, with bones of withered animals and creatures and other beings lying around. As they were going to leave, they noticed a message scratched into a wall:
"Racklash..... no hope... no hope."

[silhouette]

thousands and thousands and THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF GIANT DESERT SCORPIANS!

[dogstile]

A giant fort. Made entirely out of wood, with the pathways covered in shrubbery and trees. Vines growing everywhere, and at the top, in a small room locked by a lever...
3 fire imps in a cage, in which the level release's as well as the door...