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[Blade_Train3r]

Been playing for a decent while and I think I have enough of a basic understanding to avoid Fun. Well, at least for a little while... The fact I'm still figuring out hospitals shouldn't affect mortality at all!

Hope you enjoy my fumbling around, and if you want a dorf just post preferred name/gender/profession and I'll adjust accordingly.

Journal Entry: 1st Granite 1051

Well, it's a lovely spring day and all is well. We've arrived at our WONDERFULLY picturesque destination and have begun to set up our preliminary dig sites. The fact I'm seeing red has absolutely nothing to do with bureaucratic incompetence and everything to do with THE WORTHLESS DIRT SURROUNDING ME. It's a good thing I had the foresight to grab some wood because there's nary a tree in sight, nor a drop of water to be seen.

Yes. Groovedbells is off to a perfect start. At least those camels in the distance should be good eating.

*Ahem* Anyway. Our noble masters in the Enchanted Hall wanted an outpost setup, and since nobody in their right minds would voluntarily come to this benighted wasteland, they gave the job to us "hardened criminals." (It wasn't my fault the damn cat belonged to a baron... shouldn't have been eating my steak... ). Seven of us were chosen:

"Blade" Uzolamud (me) as expedition leader ("Crime": Murder most foule. Of a noble's cat. )



"Flame Muffin" Zuglarlular as our miner and mason (Crime: Public indecency in the form of some rather interesting lewd statues)



"Randall" Izegiteb as our architect and carpenter ( Crime: Offending visiting elven dignitaries. He should have got a medal in my opinion.)



"Ast" Ducimesdar as our stoneworker and mechanic (Crime: Vandalising public property. I saw some of her engravings and agree that it is indeed a crime. )



"Omnigrue" Tamolzulban as our hunter/trapper (Crime: Unmentionable deeds with an elk )



"Silo" Momuzor as our general craftsdwarf (Crime: Theft and damage of private property. Apparently in a fit of artistic jealousy. )



And finally "Peasant" Ducimesdar as our farmer and gatherer. (Crime: Public indecency. Wanted to "be clothed only as nature intended." Filthy elf lover too I bet. )



And that's the lot of us. I suppose we should be grateful to be spared the tender mercies of the Hammerer but I find it hard to feel any gratitude at the moment.

Wait... WHAT THE? "GOOBALLS?" What idiot went and engraved our outpost's name wrong on the records?! AST!

(No pics for now as all the imagehosts I try appear to be blocked or something, will get that up tonight :/ )

[Blade_Train3r]

15th Granite 1051

Excavation work is going well, with space so far having been cleared for several rooms. Dodok has spoken to me about the possibility of getting some assistance but I told him to deal with it.

It's as hot as a magma pit out here. Wish he would hurry up.

[NewsMuffin]

Dodok 'FlameMuffin' Ingishgidthur
Female
Miner/Mason
Can I write my own journal? It doesn't have to be cannon, I'm just wondering. It'll probably end up really creepy (see This. Second to last post on the page in the later entries.)

[Peasant]

Tholtig 'Peasant' Uztulon, everything else is up to you.

[Randall Octagonapus]

ill take ilral
name him Randall

[NewsMuffin]

I just realized that Dodok worships a god with her same name. It's kinda funny that Dodok's last name is Bodicegrasped, and the god's name is Graspguarded. Funny.

[Riversand]

I'll take Ast, keep the name, and loves to come up with trap designs in her spare time, and loves setting up a well made trap, to find it bloodied with goblin parts, sawblades are her favorite trap component.

[Tuxman]

I'll take Llorbam Raboslam.

Name: Silo

Personality:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Silo allways wanted to be a toymaker. Back in the mountainhomes, the children enjoyed his toys very much. But one day, he saw a beautiful Diamond that was exactly the right shape, exactly the right size. At the same time, he saw a large hunk of pitchblende, the perfect stone. And at the same time, he saw a beautiful bar of admantine.

It was like he had been possessed.. He grabbed them all and ran to the nearest workshop. He toiled for hours to eventually make a beautiful toy boat, with admantine sails, pitchblende hull, and diamond riggings. It was a beautiful sight to behold, and he thanked whatever powers that be for blessing him with whatever took him over to create such a masterpiece.

But, angry, the nobles banished him for taking the beautiful materials from their stockpiles. The toy was melted down for the admantine.

His life goal is to recreate his beautiful toy boat with an even larger perfect diamond, an even larger amount of admantine, and even more pitchblende

[Blade_Train3r]

Hi - sorry this thread is kinda dead but things have been hectic in rl. I'll get things going again as soon as (if) I locate the save file again... hopefully it'll work with 31.12 but if not, meh, I'll live

Edit: Yeah... found a .03 folder, .06, .10, but no .07 which is I believe the version I started groovedbells in... I think it might have been one of the things I neglected to backup prior to my recent format... Should be easy enough to restart in a similar embark area, although that DOES mean I'll have to kill one off to get back to canon (what there is of it >,<).

Mm. Unfortunate accidents.

On the other hand I could simply restart with a fort named groovedbells and you could pick out fresh dwarfs (guys who posted here first would of course get priority.)

[OmnipotentGrue]

I guess I'll take Doren then.

I do love me some elk.

Also, I vote for a new fort with the same name, but we get the same dwarves (depending on the crime?).

Edit: OHLOLDORENDIED

[Blade_Train3r]

Right, new fort up. I'll edit the first post with the adjusted Dwarven names and stats.

Oh yes. The new fort name is "Gooballs" due to me being unable to locate either grooved or bells in the massive list of nouns, adjectives and other miscellaneous languages. The official reason is that our engraver carved the name in while he was sober.

[Riversand]

Like before, i claim Ast, the same way as before.

[Blade_Train3r]

Right, forgot to upload images last night (tbh mostly due to me being busy getting whupped in SC2 league matches). I'll do a couple of log entries and add images at another point
The first two posts are still valid, they've been edited a bit though.

23 Slate 1051
Sand, sand and more sand! I hope we get a glass-maker at some point because it looks like they'll have plenty to work with. I'll never get this stuff out of my beard. We did find some rock as we dug down - even a couple of garnet veins. Since Randall's serving absolutely no purpose as a carpenter I've told her to take up jeweling as a hobby.

3 Felsite 1051
Flame Muffin came up to me today with a complaint. Apparently Ast has been hanging around in her workshop, watching her while she works. She told me it was putting her off - something about those "beady rat eyes" freaking her out.

Considering Muffin has more muscles in one arm than Ast has in his entire body, I wonder why she doesn't just kick him out?

I believe Randall is going a bit soft in the head. I caught her lying down outside, in the middle of the day. When I asked her what she was doing she said she was "enjoying the sun."
As long as she doesn't come complaining to me when her skin is singed off.

1 Hematite
We have a basic dormitory set up, and most of our furniture has been moved to the dining room. A well has been set up as well for emergencies such as a loss of booze supply. Good thing too - summer has arrived. By Limar, I thought we were in hell before but stepping outside is like walking into a forge fire.

On the bright side, we're making good use of all our rock. Traders always fall for "locally made goods" even if they're just useless toys and jewelry.

[OmnipotentGrue]

So am I dead?

[Blade_Train3r]

Nope, but unfortunately nothing much has happened with our resident ranger aside from "being accosted by terrible vermin" lately (probably leftover fleas from the elk). I've named him "Omnigrue" Tamolzuban.

The names are up top, but due to my image hosting issues I haven't got their summary screens up yet :/