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[Rose]

my turn is done! finally. -_-

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we have a few bleeding dwarves, nothing major.

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[Sizik]

Next up is Microcline.

[Rose]

whoops, messed that post up.

fixed now.

[Lafiel]

we have a few bleeding dwarves, nothing major.

...wow. What the hell happened to them??

[Rose]

beats me.

my guess is that we have a lot of dwarves with minor bleeding, and the keep walking around, dripping all over the place, and it all adds up

[Microcline]

Downloading now

[Microcline]

1 Granite 1060

It seems that four years after my initial reign, I have once again come to be the leader of the tower-fortress Skyscrapes.  It has changed drastically in this time.  The population has grown from 48 to 136, the magma stack is functional, the first cavern layer has been sealed off and deforrested, and the tower now has a six-story tall spire on top.

Some of the changes are more mundane; we are still besieged on the surface by a titan, but this time it is the cyclops Iya Firiade Thelaenore.

On the other hand, there is a genuine emergency:

I will have the brewers rectify this problem immediately.

Unlike my last term, this will not be a year of recovery and reorganization.

This year, we strike the heavens!

'Microcline' Degeltad

[Graebeard]

the first cavern layer has been sealed off and deforrested

I'm not exactly sure how the whole forgotten beast immigration works, but it seems to me like there are a couple spots something could come through.  Can they swim or fly in?

[Meanmelter]

Following, might join, but I dunno.

[Microcline]

the first cavern layer has been sealed off and deforrested

I'm not exactly sure how the whole forgotten beast immigration works, but it seems to me like there are a couple spots something could come through.  Can they swim or fly in?

Anything that can go underwater can get in.  From there, the defenses are a line of cage traps and a set of doors, so anything with trapavoid and building destroyer can bypass those.  I'm thinking of modifying it with a drawbridge system.

[Microcline]

1 Hematite 1060

We had one mood this season: a mason named Kol Oramlokum was possessed and produced Arzeskes, a native gold weapon rack.  The disappointment of a possession was tempered by the value of the artifact.  It contains three gold nuggets, a turtle shell, maple and tunnel tube logs, yellow grossulars, rough chrysocollas and topazolites, and silver bars.  It is the second most valuable artifact produced by the fortress.

A migrant wave brought about 15 dwarfs.  Unfortunately, the wave also brought the Ettin Igest Kenisstelmith Avan Vundis.  I brought as many as I could into the tower while Igest and Iya were busy chasing individuals, but it seems that there are about five still stranded outside.

After five years, it is finally complete.  On 23 Feldspar, I flooded the first floor with magma, switching the power source of the metalworks and glassworks on the floor above.

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It was satisfying to see all of the dirt and blood finally washed away.  Filling it drained a small area of the magma sea.

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I have not neglected the growth of the tower--my plan should be ready for implementation by the end of Summer.  The current highest point is a utility staircase that I built 21 stories above ground level.  If all goes according to plan, the roof of the tower should be 20 stories when I finish my term.

'Microcline' Degeltad

[Microcline]

25 Malachite 1060

It is finished.  Dwarfs will no longer have to journey into the depths of the earth to find stone, and large-scale masonry will be a thing of the past.  We will finally have stone walls on which we can engrave images of cheese and mayoral elections.

I am about to run the obsidian generator.

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'Microcline' Degeltad

[Microcline]

1 Limestone 1060

The initial operation was a catastrophe.  I underestimated the speed of the pump stack and overestimated the speed of the magma, so it piled up and went over the wall to the east.  This dumped it into the forge floor.  Ordinarily, this would not have been a problem, but the magma exploited several safety oversights in the pump stack design.

The main problem was that not all of the pumps were completely sealed off.

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A sealed level of the pump stack


An unsealed level of the pump stack

After exploiting this, the pumps above would collapse (because they were stacked on top) and the magma would flow through the open hole onto the vulnerable space of the pump below.  Furthermore, none of the pumps were made of magma-safe blocks.  The final flaw was that the reservoir on the forge level was not separated from the stack.

In short, a small initial amount of magma fell onto the forge floor, destroying a pump and allowing the reservoir to flow downward.

Five dwarfs died in the tragedy, and several more were injured.  We lost forty magma pumps, and the power generator is at reduced capacity due to obsidian forming in the reservoir.

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But it was not a complete loss.  Before power was severed by a broken pump, we were able to pour some water on the magma in the obsidian generator.


The obsidian generator performed as expected.  I have only used up half of my term so far.  I need to spend the next season rebuilding the pump stack and putting in the additional safety features (sealed pumps, hatches in the pump tower, separating the forge reservoir, building the pumps out of magma-safe blocks, and raising the eastern wall of the obsidian generator).

'Microcline' Degeltad

[Sizik]

Five dwarfs died in the tragedy, and several more were injured.

Eh, not so bad.

We lost forty magma pumps, and the power generator is at reduced capacity due to obsidian forming in the reservoir.

OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE‽

[Microcline]

Our leader is dead.  It began with the arrival of a forgotten beast.


We sealed up the second cavern layer and thought that the matter had been finished.  Unfortunantly, Ngedlu found a way into the first cavern layer and entered our fortress.  Before he was slain by the terminator Onul Catteninal Etomziril, he killed several dwarfs, including 'Microcline' Degeltad.  He was interred in his tomb, which will be sealed at the end of the year.  He appointed me as his successor, so I will carry out the end of his term.

'Microcline II' Olonfikod

1 Moonstone 1060

Iya the cyclops died due to mysterious causes and Igest the ettin was captured by a random cage trap in the northwest corner of the map, so the dwarfs are now free to go outside.

'Foolish' Gikutlor, Joshua's "aid", went berserk.  Fortunately, he was already chained in jail for tantruming.

I only need to build three more pumps to complete the repairs on the magma stack.  The new tower is sealed with doors and hatches and the pumps are made of magma-safe blocks.  The magmaworks was drained and outfitted with a floodgate separating it from the pump stacks.

I should be able to cast new floors by the end of the year.