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Total Members Voted: 11

[IronyOwl]

I could make the gods despise me, and have the dead go to war with me if it counts for anything. I am the anti-priest.

... Are you sure you don't want to lead us?

Our job is to be so hated noplace else gets attacked...

[Shade-o]

Tell you what. If you can find a way to incite the gods worshipped by the goblins and all the rest, you win a cookie.

[CoughDrop]

I would be very happy to lead everyone. Though, I'm not sure I'm a match for Denrhymes...

[Shade-o]

I'm not sure if I can guarantee your survival if Denrhymed gets elected. It's bound to be very interesting, though.

How does everybody like their profile images?

[Lillipad]

Well, I've already got the goblins and trolls as an enemy, the Mountainhome has exiled me, I'm pretty sure that everyone else in this game is going to try and use me as a meat shield, and the RNG gods despise me, so I'd say I'm about half way there.

Shade-o: Meh, not much fits my character. It'll work I guess.

[Rolan7]

Mine is the bestest!

But, um, I accidentally voted for the charming doctor Zerg before I noticed Denrhymed on the list.  I probably shouldn't have a choice in the matter, so, I guess Denrhymed is in the lead.  Uh oh.

[Nirur Torir]

How does everybody like their profile images?

Perfect. Just imagine the knife as a strange mechanical trinket, and it suits the dwarf perfectly.

I'd like to change my vote. I'm not sure what strange force made me click on the last option.

[CoughDrop]

I can still vote for myself if I have to... Errr, I don't know... having a kitten leader would be quite interesting... Choices, choices; how do people live?

[Shade-o]

If Lillipad and Denrhymed share the vote, we could be living the dream.

[Lillipad]

In the eternal writings of Dave's brother, "where doing this man, where making this hapen."

[Rolan7]

With that quote, the Lillipad-Denrhymed ticket has 100% of my vote.  Though I represented this by choosing Denrhymed because, you know, she's on my head.

_{(My actual cat has my lap pinned.  I don't dare move.  Send help.)}

[CoughDrop]

With that quote, the Lillipad-Denrhymed ticket has 100% of my vote.  Though I represented this by choosing Denrhymed because, you know, she's on my head.

_{(My actual cat has my lap pinned.  I don't dare move.  Send help.)}

"911, what's your emergency?"

[V-Norrec]

I voted for my childhood friend Lilast of course.  I have no desire to lead, only to make enough money to make my life and that of any offspring I may have comfortable.  Regale Lilast with with tales from yesterday as we leave on the caravan.  Use the whittling knife in the crafter's tool set to begin whittling on a stick I pick up off the side of the road.  Attempt to turn the stick into a small figurine of the Dragon, Hipobis Giltgold.  I think whittling would count as something you can do without a proper set up, right?

[CoughDrop]

Talking to Norrec while toying with my knives: "You're WHAT turned into a WHAT?... That's quite... strange. Any idea how that happened?"

[Nirur Torir]

Since we're on the caravan now, let's also talk about future defenses and fortress layouts.

Since we want to attract attention, we don't want our fortress to appear to be obviously impenetrable, even though it naturally will be. Thus, perhaps we should mix my plan with Litast's idea. The lift would have to go, as well as the stairs, but most everything else would remain relatively unchanged.

More towers though. At least two on each cliff.

A defense idea for our Fortress.

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Gray Lines = bridges over water
Red Lines= wall 1-3z levels high
Red Circles= Ballista
Black X= Staircase
Brown Line= Bridge several z levels above ground
Black Circle= True Fortress Entrance

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Not to scale. Probably. It's not as though we can do anything exact until we know where we'd be building, anyway.

First, the first floor of the towers. There would be a thin wall around the stairs, protecting dwarves on them from stray arrows that slip in through the arrow slits. Not shown: Pit traps surrounding the towers.
Each tower would have a ballista on top. The platform at the bottom there is a crank-operated access lift.


Next, the entrance.


By having the barracks at the front of the fortress, the military would be close to any invaders. I'll make noise traps or something, alerting the military to the danger.


And here's where the towers would be accessed. Ideally, the stone walls would go down through the soil layers.