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[kisame12794]

umm dwarfs clean the mud off the smoothed floor so it would not work. plus where would you get that much water

[dragonshardz]

River. Pumpstack. DFhack. Pick an option.

Also, yeah, dwarves clean the mud off of smoothed floors.

[Triaxx2]

Hey, Triaxx did get a couple of kills in that first fight, where he was wounded. I just happened to notice it wasn't listed.

[Paaaad]

Ok, scratch step 2. And I was thinking the cavern lakes myself.

[Scaraban]

Alas most of them are draining, the last we heard.

[Paaaad]

Even just a few should do the trick, and it's not like it's going to be permenetley flooded or anything. Only long enough to muddy the floor.

Edit: Starting to put this into practice in a private fort right now. I hit the first cavern at only 10 Z-levels below the surface. With 2 visible lakes.

Edit 2: Well, mabey not quite. Hit an Aquifer. Hopefully it's not too big.

[Battlecat]

Cog’s Journal, 19th of Timber, 321

Aparently Rashem the Heron-marked didn’t feel inclined to report that he had shattered his arm during the battle.  Might have been nice to know when I was writing up the battle report.  So that’s two injuries from this battle. 

Cog’s Journal, 24th of Timber, 321

No caravan from the looks of things.  I’ve told Thatdude to stop wasting bolts.  As much as she’d like to kill it, that appears to be impossible.  We’re going to drop a section of cave down on it.  Only the second time we’ve been forced into that through the entire history of our fortress. 

Cog’s Journal, 8th of Moonstone, 321

As we suspected, the remaining water in the military swimming pools froze this week.  I’ll have to redesign the pools to allow magma heading to keep that from happening.  IT should be as easy as carving a few new channels since our old magma supply is close by. 

On a separate note, in the interest of finishing the dining hall before I die, I’ve redesigned the mural to use gems of a more common type in our stockpiles.  Waiting for the amount of medium blue gems I need appears to be an exercise in futility.  So we’ll be using some darker blue gems instead.  I’ve ordered the next row of windows installed and we should be done the north side next year.  I’m also getting the excavation work done to prepare for the west face project since that will mostly use metals.

Continuing the list of things to do now, the dining hall water feature is also on the list for the upcoming year. We have all the materials we need in place, it's just a case of mechanical work to install and power the system. 

I’ve been putting these off for far too many years.  It’s time to get some stuff done. 

 OOC: It’s been a busy couple weeks so not a lot to update today.  I expect it’ll be like this for at least the next while.  But I’ll still sneak in updates on occasion when I have time.  As you can see, I’m getting the dwarves to knuckle down and try to finish a dining hall project.  I won’t make it for this year, but for the next year I should be able to show you all the finished mural. 

@ dermonster: Yeah, one squad actually buggered off as soon as they saw you coming.

@Paaaad: Your artifact was made way back in 307.  It is a microline scepter.  The hyperlink will take you to the post back on page 10 where it is revealed.  As for farms, I’m actually farming directly in the first cave level.  It’s working fairly nicely so far but I might set up a second farm some day in the distant future.  Minus the floor smoothing as cautioned!

@Triaxx2: You slept through this fight sadly. 

@Scaraban: Yeah, seems they start doing that as soon as I start pulling water from them.  I blatantly cheated to keep the water supply constant for the fortress but hopefully I can refill some of the lakes in the future.

[Paaaad]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-Snip-
A Pantheon Temple and Artifact Vault:

    *Temple:
          *Fully engraved by legendary engravers.
          *Adamentine block retracting bridge(s) for sacrifices.
          *Thrones for each God Worshiped at Towersored.
                 *Masterwork Adamentine.
                 *Armok's throne should be the Artifact Gem throne.
                 *Neiches or elevated platform?
                         *If platform, all in a row, or with Armok's throne in front?
    *Vault:
          *In rear of temple.
          *Should also be fully engraved by legendary engravers.
          *Used to store all non-equipible/buildable artifacts.
    *Detication/Other:
          *Both areas should have their own quadruple lever controlled doors.
          *All magma safe components, masterwork if possible.
          *Detication should be with captured Goblin-Kobold seige, prefrebley with the entire population of the fort in attendence.
          *Both the Temple and the vault should as close to the magma sea as possible.

Reposting since Balta seems to not mentioned this to Cog.

[Triaxx2]

I figured, but that first fight in which he was injured by the psycho with the crossbow, he had two kills that weren't mentioned in the after battle report. I was just curious if you'd forgotten or hadn't done it since you weren't sure if he was going to survive.

[Thatdude]

Cog’s Journal, 24th of Timber, 321

No caravan from the looks of things.  I’ve told Thatdude to stop wasting bolts.  As much as she’d like to kill it, that appears to be impossible.  We’re going to drop a section of cave down on it.  Only the second time we’ve been forced into that through the entire history of our fortress. 

But wasting bolts is FUN! Maybe it would have fallen apart eventually......

[Karakzon]

could always resort to the good old bait em and bag em trick.

ie: section that can be sealed off from caverns, inside this section theirs a chain for a suitable sacraficial creature, ie kittens, beasty comes, you lock it in, then procede to eather flood with magma, or bolts inna face.

[Battlecat]

Cog's Journal, 13th of Moonstone, 321

I had an interesting visit from Balta today.  He had a few new project ideas to add to the fortress list.  First up was a temple to all the gods worshiped in the fortress, including Armok.  Certainly an interesting plan and one I'll add to the list.  He also thought the area should include a vault for all our unused artifacts.  I told him I'd put it on the list along with the farm idea he was kicking around.  Hopefully we can build it in the near future. 

Events of the 22nd of Moonstone, 321

Crifmer, the legendary weaponsmith was drinking quietly in the dining hall when he felt something pushing on his brain.  "CREATE IT FOR ME!"  He screamed out in pain and against his will found himself walking off towards the workshops, completely unable to control his body.  He watched in confusion for a moment before the presence in his body drove him to unconsciousness. 

Events of the 27th of Moonstone, 321

With a rumble and a thud a block of stone collapsed into the second cave level.  The beast was crushed under the block and not even a bit of salt from the creatures body survived the impact. 

Cog's Journal, 28th of Moonstone, 321

It's been a good month mostly.  Crifmer is gathering materials to make something although I'm not entirely he's all there.  On a more positive note, another floor of the military tower is done, although the roof isn't in place yet.  Work will begin soon to convert it into the marksdwarf training area. 

Cog's Journal, 16th of Opal, 321

We were all struck speechless when Crifmer entered the dining hall carrying it.  He calls it Anirborush or Sisterraked in the common tounge. It is an adamantine crossbow, the likes of which none of us have ever seen.  Its value is incredible at 751,200 urists.  We could purchase an entire kingdom with this one crossbow. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I expect I'll be hearing from our marksdwarves about this one.  My personal opinion is Thatdude is the only one with the skill and prestige to wield this weapon if she wants it.   

OOC: Slowly moving through the year.  Quite the epic adamantine crossbow Crifmer produced. 

@Paaaad: Thanks for reposting that, it was the right call.  I hadn't exactly forgotten but I might have missed adding it to the master projects list.  It's been an out of focus couple months to say the least. 

@Triaxx2: I did forget to mention that.  Your dwarf is credited with two kills at this time.  In most battle reports I only include dwarves who participated/got kills. 

@Thatdude: I know, I didn't want to do it either but you've gone through 10 quivers of bolts and your dwarf is actually getting mad about the long patrol duty so I had to let it go.  Plus I really want to get our dwarves back into the second cave level.  Will an adamantine artifact crossbow help make up for it? 

@Karakzon: That's a decent approach.  I just wish this monster wasn't so inconveniently placed. 

[Karakzon]

Feel free to ahve my dwarf suggest it to you during a slow RP turn.

[Thatdude]

 

Me want! Me want my precious! Giveitgiveitgiveit....

Yeah, that is an epic crossbow. As far as I know, the quality of the crossbow only affects the melee attack with it (which is blunt so this'll be useless) but I don't care. I want it.

[Triaxx2]

Ah, cool.

That is indeed an epically epic crossbow. Cool.