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[nahkh]

No, I'd rather not risk winding up with no nobles again.

Hm... There's a lone migrant who's stood aboveground for like a year now. He's totally unskilled, and has so far been entirely content in staying up there, sleeping in the grass, drinking booze the elves left. I'm gonna bring him down to the refugee camp, to try and save the kid.

[nahkh]

Well, screw everything. I was in the process of letting the dwarf in, when this happened.



They are boned.
So totally boned.

Lessons learned:
1. You CANNOT live in the underground without an outstanding militia and defensive fortifications. Completely airtight fort might not be necessary, but at least have only one entrance where your soldiers can take down the fort.
2. Having two 'forts' in the same area is fuckhard, mainly because so many things need nobles and depriving one fort of them is pretty tough.
3. The Underground is FUCKING AWESOME. Never again am I building a fort aboveground.

So, with the refugees about to be wiped out we're down to our original fortress. It's been sealed pretty tight, the only possible accesses I can think of being the well and the bridge, if flying building destroyers can destroy stuff while flying. I'll need to think up a more permanent solution.
I also need to expand the quarters and build a bigger dining hall, and perhaps start mining that adamantine.

[dwarfguy2]

my dwarf would be happy to install a magma cannon for you...

[nahkh]

I'm sure he would.

In other news, goddamn DemonicSpoon and Placeholder popped out yet another twig.

[dwarfguy2]

now as for the well...

*lays plans out on war room table*

if we can build a small shrine with statues and maybe a waterfall around the well, and set up a food drop, we can conceivably engrave that, and station a permanent yet happy militia.

[nahkh]

Nah, I'll just create a large reservoir for us, using the water from the second cavern. No forgotten beasts roaming around there, yet.


Edit:

D'OH

I've had our food/drink manufacturing off for ages now, since we were drowning in food. I checked the z-screen occasionally, and we always seemed to have plenty.
Then I noticed a lot of the dwarves were complaining that they haven't had alcohol in ages. Well I thought "this can't be right, I have like 800 units of alcohol".
Upon inspection, our drink stockpile was full of empty barrels.
I'd forgotten to reforbid the stuff on the surface. We were in fact, out of booze. And have been for some time.
Put my braumeister to work. This won't stand.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Quite

D'OH

indeed.

[nahkh]

Yeah rub it in why don't you.



I've been building and blinging out the individual tombs for a while now. I plan to place a statue depicting each dwarf in the appropriate tomb. The problem is, they only get those when they do something noteworthy. For instance, Brak's tomb contains a masterful coffin made by himself, and a statue of himself holding a masterful coffin. Relating to, of course, the creation of said masterful coffin.


EDIT: Whoa, just notices a whole bunch of dead skeletal elephants. Apparently this band of migrants is fairly badass. I better unforbid some food for them.

[nahkh]

'Nahkh' Uristurist                           Sleep



While I'm gone, tell me what you think of the "story" so far. And give suggestions/comments on long-term strategy.
My current one is this:
1. Seal the fort. Air- and monstertight.
2. Build ridiculously blinged out quarters for everyone. (While breeding like crazy)
3. Wait for the next generation to mature.
4. Assemble adamantine military
5. Retake caverns.

[Urist Imiknorris]

4. Assemble adamantine military

Take only from the edges. I cannot emphasize this enough. The gooey center might be safe, it might not.

[abculatter_2]

I look forward to Nahkh's first encounter with the new HFS.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I look forward to Nahkh's first encounter with the new HFS.

As do I, I just want to see little Urist live to adulthood.

[Krimson]

>.>  Breeding like effing rabbits,  I vote there be created a children militia,  They shall use toy axes and be the first wave into any battle/un scouted territory.

[ajar]

The story is absolutely stunning with Grunk the Refugee Messiah and all the gloom aboveground.

Speaking of which I will possess now a dwarf that has NEVER stepped on the bewitched aboveground of Deepspark and doesn't know what it is. I will be the next son (or daughter) of "Chaos" and be called "Lapse".

The strategic suggstion I make is to build a large cavern for a tower-cap forest, if neccessary, under our forge before magma is found... And well... utilized.

I would prefer, if Deepspark main complex wasn't so much in the caverns filled with monstrous life, but deep deep on top of the molten core of the earrth. Of course we should consider harnessing the caverns as a resource and a defensive factor against our "worse than forgotten monsters" enemies.

[nahkh]

What the FUCK is it with these goddamn refugees?
I have almost seven pages worth of dead dwarves in here. SEVEN PAGES.
Not to mention all the other dead stuff.

And still they come.



This latest batch of migrants had a bunch of fighters in there, they managed to take some zombie elephants down. The whole surface looks like this:




Argh.