Great writing, Duck. I'm really happy with how integrated all the characters are and how the writing's turning out.
I would like to take aother turn here
Year 13 is yours fivex. Duck, 14 is yours if you want it. Otherwise I'll open it up to the general public.
lolghurt, it looks like you're up! Let's keep the hilarity rolling.
I'll try, but my internet connection is recently being... slow.
like maxing at 10kbps slow.
It may be some time before I can begin ranting about various things.
EDIT OF IRATE FEELINGS.
I START THE DOWNLOAD AT 6:01:35 AM FORUM TIME.
IT FINISHED AT 5:20:12 PM FORUM TIME
ELEVEN HOURS TO DOWNLOAD A NINE MEGABYTE FILE.
OUR CIV HAS NO IMPORTANT LEADERS.
TIME FOR STORY NOW (narrated to the scribbler):1st Granite
I have been re-instated as leader. With my command, we shall be unconquerable.
but first.
WHO KEEPS OPENING OUR GLORIOUS FORT TO THE ATROCITIES OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD!?
Also our GLORIOUS FORTRESS needs MORE CYAN.
AND MORE FLOORS.
Several days later
WHAT IN THE MERCY OF ARMOK DID THOSE MORONS STICK ON TOP OF MY MEGAPROJECT IT IS NEITHER CYAN NOR DOES IT HAVE ANY AXES OF SYMMETRY.
If we weren't so damn understaffed, I'd drop whoever was responsible off the edge of his or her own blasphemous monstrosity.
An hour later
If we weren't so damn understaffed, I'd be able to tear down that stupid bloody corkscrew. Or at least make it cyan.
28 days later
Forsooth, it has become apparent to me that there is a GIANT FUCKING HOLE IN THE WALL IN ONE OF THE CAVERNS.
WAY TO GO GUYS YOU NEARLY LET A FORGOTTEN BEAST IN.
Also I'm "fixing" the remains of my GLORIOUS MEGAPROJECT.
seven days later
IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT WE ARE SWIMMING IN FOOD AND DRINK. I SAY THAT THIS IS A GOOD DEVELOPMENT.
14 days later
My scribe, write a memo to be given to the next overseer, for I am too busy to deal with this issue myself, what with the restoration of my GLORIOUS MEGAPROJECT underway. "Figure out what to do with the fucking animals. They are filthy. Their reproductive spores cover every surface. They must be purged from this earth if we are to keep it clean and smooth, and above all, cyan."
7 days later
3 days into summer, eh? Interesting. We shall celebrate by expanding what i managed to build of my megaproject. That pattern was gonna loop, but NO, SOMEONE HAD TO BUILD A FUCKING CORKSCREW ON IT.
3 hours later
Scratch that, we can build on top of that corkscrew, can we not? The atmosphere doesn't mysteriously vanish above that level, does it?
17 days later
I have ordered the beginning of another cross, on top of the corkscrew. This time it had better be left alone. Everyone shall be drafted as a mason, except our miners, so we might be able to finish before it is interfered with. AGAIN.
10 days later
I hate summer.
We have run out of adamantine threads
Scribe's note: I will add dates from now on, as I wasn't expecting Lolghurt to not say the day nor the time.
24 Timber
Traders left some objects outside our fortress. These items are slowly disappearing.
Intriguing. We have a thief outside.
Obsidian
I am terribly sorry to be writing this, but Lolghurt has been shouting incomprehensibly all month.
Something about a new leader, ruined projects, and variants of "I'll kill anyone who interferes with my megaproject"
I advise the next leader to leave the current top level of the fortress as it is. He seems to have completed all plans.SAVE (It's on the 28th of Obsidian, last day of the year)
I received at least two "your fortress has not attracted any migrants this season" message. We are fine, even if we have no civ.