24th Slate, 200
Warning: Booze AND Food depletion next update!
COMPLICATION: Animal Movement
The Mountain Goats move to the eastern edge of the map, skirting wide around the entrance of Cloisteredtombs.
The solitary Deer does not move.
The Zombie Ocean Sunfish suddenly lumbers into motion, lurching up the mountain. Its ultimate destination will remain a mystery, as the behemoth spies Modul "Tweak" Mostsilver as he chops wood and lunges to the attack!
For reference, Cloisteredtombs is under assault by
this, except it also happens to be a slathering zombie mindlessly seeking to rend the flesh of every living thing in its path.
Rodicurst Onyxbone, Chief Medical Dwarf
JOBS: Update Stockpiles
You have done enough work to attain High Precision!
One phase's worth of labor will take you through High precision to Highest precision.
+150 Record KeeperXP
Modul "Tweak" Mostsilver, Mechanic
JOBS: Fell Tree Job Canceled: Interrupted by Zombie Ocean Sunfish
Modul equips his trusty axe, and heads east to do battle with the coniferous men-OH I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS! Modul knows nothing in the ways of warfare, and so decides to flee the abomination lumbering towards him. [3]+1(agility) Dodging the shrubbery in his path, Modul easily outpaces the creature and returns to the safety of the Fortress. From the sounds of things, however, it is clear that the zombie has not lost the trail.
NPC Vismil Blackhoof, Militia Commander and the Zombie
JOB: Defend Cloisteredtombs
He has no weapons. His armor is a copper mail shirt, the only surplus the Mountain home had when this expedition began. His only companion is a wardog he trained himself. But he has a duty, and a mission, and now... now he has a target.
Vismil was waiting for his hammer to be forged when he heard the hue and cry from the east. Looking to the treeline, Vismil saw Modul pelting toward the entrance, pursued by an enormous undead bony fish. Vismil knew that there would not be enough time for everyone to get back inside, and so he did what had to be done, what any Commander would do. He charged.
Not that he charged very fast, mind you. Vismil was abysmally clumsy, and his wardog easily outpaced him. The wardog attacks, [5]+1(war-trained)+1(charge) vs [1]-1(zombie) and bites the Zombie in the throat, [5]+1-1(toughness) bruising the fat and tearing the muscle! The wardog latches on firmly!
The Ocean Sunfish [4]+2(size) vs [1]+1 breaks the grip of the wardog.
Vismil arrives on the scene, [2]+5 vs [5]-1 striking the Zombie in the left side fin, [6]+3-1(toughness)-3(unarmed) bruising the fat, tearing the muscle, and fracturing the bone! A nerve has been severed!
The wardog [5]+1 vs [6]-1 bites the Zombie in the tail, [3]+1-1 bruising the fat and tearing the muscle!
The Ocean Sunfish [3]+2 vs [1]-4+3 slams Vismil in the head, [6]+2-2 and the severed part flies off in an arc!
Vismil Blackhoof has been struck down!
The wardog [4]+1 vs [3]-1 bites the Zombie in the right side fin, [4]+1-1 bruising the fat and tearing the muscle! A nerve has been severed!
The Ocean Sunfish [5]+2 vs [1]+1+1 slams the wardog in the head, [6]+2 crushing the skull and jamming the skull through the brain!
The Wardog has been struck down!
Thikut Itdunkul, Militia Captain
JOBS: Construct Tower
Thikut sees the Zombie approaching, and decides that this would be a VERY good time for the fortifications to be completed.
-10 Sandstone
+10 Sandstone Fortifications/Floors
Tulon Lensstream, Hunter
NPC JOBS: PARTY!
HERE WE GO NO-
JOB CANCELED: INTERRUPTED BY ZOMBIE OCEAN SUNFISH
Fuzz Oiledsparce, Farmer
JOB: Brew Hide Root, Craft Bone Bolts
Fuzz gets the very first barrel off of the production line, takes the hide roots and begins t-
JOB CANCELED: INTERRUPTED BY ZOMBIE OCEAN SUNFISH
Kib Koganobul, Miner
JOBS: Dig
Kib digs out some more rooms. What are these rooms for? Who knows? Who cares? The DIGGING is all!
+180 Mining XP
+16 Sandstone
"Dan the Man" Cowbridges, Swordsdwarf
JOB: Make Barrel
Dan had so much fun making barrels last time, he keeps on wit-
JOB CANCELED: INTERRUPTED BY ZOMBIE SUNFISH
-2 Cedar Logs
+2 Cedar Barrels
+60XP Carpenter
Signun Robermeng, Weaponsmith
JOBS: Burn Wood, Smelt Galena Ore, Craft Copper Warhammer Job Canceled: Interrupted by Zombie
Signun creates another piece of charcoal and sets to crafting. Smelting the galena yielded only a lead bar, so it would seem the warhammer would have to be made out of copper. Before he can start, though, the attack of the undead forces him to seek shelter below the earth.
-Pine Log
+Charcoal
-Charcoal
+Lead Bar
+30 Wood Burner XP
+30 Furnace Operator XP
NPC Metalsmith, Milker
ENABLED LABORS: Hauling, Metalsmithing
The NPC's harvest the Quarry Bushes today.
+18 Quarry Bush
Well that was one hell of a complication. Is, I should say, for now there is a giant angry zombie fish thing who doesn't have the ability to move around very well but is certainly good at crushing heads. Currently, all dwarves are inside as well as the food, but most of the produced goods and workshops are outside. The zombie cannot see any dwarf right now, and so will not charge the fortress, but any dwarf to stick his head outside will attract the creature. If necessary, I will pinpoint the exact position of the zombie and the corpses on the map.
Speaking of the map, I'm going to indicate that the former Quarry Bush field is unplanted now, as well as update the constructions built by Thikut. Stocks and so forth tomorrow.
The fortress now lacks a Militia Commander. Traditionally, dwarves grant names, epithets if you will, to any creature that manages to slay a dwarf. It is a way of honoring the might of the creature, and by extension the victim. If you guys come up with a good name for the Zombie then that is what it shall be called, otherwise I'll just randomly gen a name.
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