I watched the horizon... there used to be trees, rocks, animals. Now I could see none of that... Hordes of green bad-asses were approaching the fort from all sides.
SOUND THE ALARM!
I love when ambushers come in at the
wrong right time...
turns quickly to:
Priceless, and this, alongside some doors, also buys time for our outside-working dwarves to quickly (in dwarven terms of course) come inside the fortress.
As I said, bid farewell to doors:
But don't panic just yet, even in the worst of dangers, one can always find the light of divine blessing:
Rejoice with me.
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With this visit from the vile forces of darkness... I re-examined the map of our fortress, and found out two important vulnerabilities and a very interesting landscape mark:
Firstly, the old entrance to Lesser Ardentdikes (now closed) included the intricate working of pressure plates to operate floor hatches. A very nice solution to keep those nasty monsters away from the fortress... but not all that useful when building destroyers come along... specially if the holes under the hatches are right above the Dormitories!
Luckily for us, these highly trained, "intelligent", warriors know not of the hidden powers of "jump". Had they practiced this ancient technique, we would be doomed (again).
Secondly: Dariush has been very concerned on the finishing of his project. Well, now I give my congratulations to each and every ruler of Ardentdikes who has NOT advanced it...
I will elaborate:
Trolls broke yet another door... this one was holding off the magma pump of the tower used to cleanse/drown Ardentdikes in magma:
As you can see they also got rid of the windmills. But this is all just a nuisance, please watch what happens just a bit north from here:
Yep, they now have a good place from where to shoot and kill dwarves on the interior of the walls, but had we advanced the project JUST ONE MORE LEVEL [ie: just a bit] trolls and Gobbos would be cooking baby dwarves just now.
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Now... to sweeten up things a bit, I'll confess I just found this landmark, and I will take the liberty of calling it "The Llama"
It is located on the North-western edge of the map, and I think we could make something out of it, it must be a message from Armok!
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To conclude, I will tell you that I find it very improbable that our warriors can take up the enemy army, so I will just close up until we figure out a way to move the enemies to a weapon-trap arena or something.
Best regards.
Oh, I forgot to mention, no dwarves were left outside the fortress, but one peeked a little too far and was impaled by a few arrows, and another one died naturally of severe bleeding due to an infection.
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