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[cahocachi]

Yup! It's coming on pretty nicely; got sieged twice but the damn battledwarves seem indestructible!

I'm already in mid-Opal, so I guess I'll upload it later today. Exams and other crap have been taking my time from this beast of a fortress.

On a side note, would it be against the rules that I dwarfed myself??

EDIT: Ok soooo... I already finished! Save Here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4532

It's been a nice route, although I didn't have much to solve. I did some building however:

·Finishing the main building.
·Adding an spiral staircase.
·Adding a room on top (unfinished due to time constraints!)

[Daetrin]

Yup! It's coming on pretty nicely; got sieged twice but the damn battledwarves seem indestructible!

I'm already in mid-Opal, so I guess I'll upload it later today. Exams and other crap have been taking my time from this beast of a fortress.

On a side note, would it be against the rules that I dwarfed myself??

EDIT: Ok soooo... I already finished! Save Here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4532

It's been a nice route, although I didn't have much to solve. I did some building however:

·Finishing the main building.
·Adding an spiral staircase.
·Adding a room on top (unfinished due to time constraints!)

Aww, no writeup?  Ah well.  At least we didn't get another plague or something :p

Looks like we're on to malkomk!

[tryrar]

........

*poke* *poke*

I say if we don't get a response in another day, we move on

[Zeocin]

........

*poke* *poke*

I say if we don't get a response in another day, we move on

He looks like he's got his hands full with Failcannon, but I can't speak for him.

[Daetrin]

Yup, he PMed me to ask for a bump to the bottom of the list.

Looks like we're on to darkrider2!

[ignatzami]

Move along... nothing to see here

[Daetrin]

All right, no reply from darkrider, on to hitto.

[hitto]

"Hey, Mister Bomrek, over 'ere, I t'ink I found'a rest o' dem yearstart ingraved slabs or summat.
-Is it now, Bifur? Last time it was an engraving about cheese and... Armok's bloody lava beard, you FOUND IT!
-So, we get paid, now.
-Hrm, soon, soon. This is evidence that the fort didn't collapse during winter 1072... This means we have a LOT of digging to do! Just imagine the goods... You and your lads keep on searching physically, I'll um, search for clues in those tablets!"

And so, the sun set on a now-maybe-profitable archaeological dig. We'd set out with hope and booze, like the embarking heroes of yore! But now, I was going to show them all, back home. I would be rich. Ardentdikes produced (and hopefully still protects) some of the most valuable artifacts to ever exist, and I was going to claim them!

"So, accounting tablet from... Obsidian '72... As specially handled by Deler Amselfikod, Broker..."
The tablet was worn from damage, but the text was intact.

So, nothing fun happened this year. Nor did last. Everyone was focused on production, throwing away things, and suspending constructions. This will not do! I can't fire the bookkeeper, but I am going to motherdwarfing ASSESS the situation or my name isn't GEEEEERKL WHAT IS THIS DOING UNCOOKED AND UNSOLD


I'll just say that this is a bit of a sorry state for our main entrance.



So this year, I'm taking over and planning a referendum. Ever since we started rotating overseers in such a chaotic manner, we've been spiraling down, down, down... We need a tiny bit of order.
Some stranger left us a message in our lowest level :



I didn't get to my vaunted position without having learned some lying and deceit politeness, so we kept a neutral, but firm stance.



I am conflicted between looking for more of the "good stuff", or launching a global cleansing. Not on our fortress (again), this time we would *GASP* use our powers for good! We could deal with the true problem : the cavern and its foul sea filled with uncouth beasts! Anyway, I will ponder this later. For all its entrances and deathtraps, Ardentdikes still has no gazebos. Wonder what cousin 'Rocco would think."

"And there does this tablet end", thought the archaeologist. "I got probably a whole year's worth, with the other undamaged ones the laborers picked up and cleaned. Oh, wait, they didn't approach the 1072's on my orders because the batch of '71 reports was smashed to BITS by those unrefined fools. We'll never know what really happened during those lost years... Guess I'm going to have to do this myself."

Bomrek readied his tools, and meticulously, slowly, cautiously stripped the ages of dirt, grime and dust from the stone tablets.

[Daetrin]

I think everyone was frightened by the rhesus macaque meat.  It appeared from nowhere, and mystery ghost meat usually doesn't turn out to be delicious and nutritious.

[DuckThatQuacks]

Friends,

It has been one year, now, since Daetrin founded the fortress of Ardentdikes. In that time, the fort has been overrun by goblins, struck by plague, decimated by megabeasts, shaken by riots, haunted by ghosts, and flooded with magma (repeatedly).

And it has been awesome. To all involved in this glorious fortress: I salute you.

Happy birthday, Ardentdikes.

[SethCreiyd]

Cake for everyone!  This was a triumph!

[hitto]

Oh, how nice, the neighbors came for a visit.

And they *will* claim their due. When I say "due", I mean "tarrying losers outside and their offspring".

Meanwhile, a wave manages to pass through the north bridge before it is lowered, enabling the heroics of a serf, fighting underlava with a troll!

(sadly, this could not be capped, as the serf managed to swim out of the lava and die four steps further)

Before this siege turns into a complete catastrophe, the north and west entrance bridges are finally operating. Things may turn out...

Disaster strikes! A horde of goblinkind creep from some monstruously (and unnoticed until too late) FUN attempt at channeling the river on the southwest walls, leaving a gaping hole right into the inner walls.

The military sprang into action, but too late for more than a dozen poor dwarves.

Yet, Ardentdikes has repelled another assault! To celebrate, we shall put to test our new "can't be trained can't be butchered well you gonna burn" platform.

It works, but suddenly...


And at this point, I have to give up! I have searched and looked for an hour, but cannot find WHAT lever was pulled, or if it's thawing water overflooding the well from which the flood comes.
Also, I will not be able to finish my turn before the end of the week, so I might as well post the save : http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4582

Sorry folks, I wish I'd had more time to dedicate to this sprawling clusterfuck!

[DuckThatQuacks]

I've diagnosed the source of the flooding: pressure.

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Z-level -1


Z-level -2

Pressure is forcing water from the river through the "u-bend" and out of the well. I imagine the river had been frozen, which is why it only just now started flooding.

In other news, from looking around the fort, it appears that my second turn did not, in fact, actually happen (somebody must have used the wrong save). Oh well -- I suppose it was all just a product of McDuck's madness.

[da_nang]

Downloaded the save, while swimming around in magma. It's so hot today...

[Daetrin]

Wow.  I never expected this to last a year.  I never expected it to last a month.   You guys are amazing.

Turn

I love it.  "Everything is going okay SUDDEN FLOOD FROM NOWHERE!"

In other news, from looking around the fort, it appears that my second turn did not, in fact, actually happen (somebody must have used the wrong save). Oh well -- I suppose it was all just a product of McDuck's madness.

Aw.  That's probably my fault for not updating the front save fast enough.  I guess you'll just have to take another turn to make up for it :p