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[Terrahex]

okay okay, I see it, it's my turn!! I accidentally forgot about this so I didn't read any of the logs, but that leaves more for the madness!!

[Ahasver]

tl;dr for the captains log: We tried to make an automatically refilling elven washer without an aquifer or river. This is the only military related advancement that has been made.

[Terrahex]

tl;dr for the captains log: We tried to make an automatically refilling elven washer without an aquifer or river. This is the only military related advancement that has been made.

I've actually found that out around 2nd slate. it failed horribly just so you know. it didn't fill up in time and it drained most of the lakes while all the water evaporated. staying in character, I ordered the abomonation destroyed (sorry)

I'll post an update to the log tommorrow maybe. not sure. thursday more likely.

[varnish]

What the hey, it's been a while since I tried one of these things. Sign me up for a turn.

[Terrahex]

What the hey, it's been a while since I tried one of these things. Sign me up for a turn.

WOOH!! madness buddies!!

[Ahasver]

I've actually found that out around 2nd slate. it failed horribly just so you know. it didn't fill up in time and it drained most of the lakes while all the water evaporated. staying in character, I ordered the abomonation destroyed (sorry)

That's quite all right, it was a bit of a stretch with only ponds, and being automated with windmills it probably would've been annoying in the later stages with FPS drops. At least it managed to be illusive.

[Terrahex]

Okay, I've gotten through spring

sorry for the small pictures. my computer doesn't have internet so I have to use my mom's office computer. for some reason when I paste the pictures onto the paint program, they shrink. 

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1st of Granite

   When I came to this hole in the ground, I was expecting work as a siege engineer. Guess what I found. No siege workshop in sight. I was slapped with an embarrassing hauler job. But now… I’ve taken command!!!

   The old overseer was clueless about what everyone wanted, same with the one before that, but I know what I must do. I have to fix this place up.

   And get some siege weapons up of course.


   I never noticed while I was living as a hauler before, but this place is very disorderly. I talked to a lot of people and they all said that their jobs were everywhere, as if someone was randomly telling dwarves to do things regardless of their skills. Actually with how I got this job, that might not be far from the truth. I need to fix this. I found that people with no skill at all in the gem cutting business while a legendary gem cutter was stuck hauling stones.

   Pretty much all the noble slots are filled by this guy named “aramco” that might have been good at the beginning of the fortress, but not now. I’m putting some other useless dwarves in charge.


   After a ton of work, I’ve got it all sorted out, but then there is the food crisis. We’re strapped for food, but we only have a tiny farm I’ll fix that right away. But it’s no surprise we don’t have much food. Our stockpile is extremely small and whatever we make that didn’t fit would just rot anyway. It’s like these guys lack brains or something. I’m a simple siege engineer and I see the problem.

   Then there is the problem of our military, or lack-there-of. I always thought the reason we didn’t need siege equipment was because we had a good military. Well, it’s actually just three guys waving sticks around. I need to draft more people.

   And then I notice that we don’t have a decent dining room, or workshop space, or… anything. Boy, if I had known how cluttered this place was before I became the overseer, I’d be miles away by now, but now it’s my responsibility to fix it.

   First is the food problem

New farm up above, new stock below.

Although it looks like someone tried to fix it earlier with all the pumps and stuff outside, my way is much better.

Someone also went around caging everything in sight.

And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. There are pages and pages of these in the records and we’re feeding all these! No wonder we’re having a famine. Well, I’ve designated a butcher. She’ll be legendary by the time she finishes.



Then I’m going to make a large central staircase below this that will house new stone stocks, wood stocks, workshops, and all that.

34rd of Granite

   Well today I noticed a whole bunch of people slacking off today and I barked at them to get to work, then they said that they had no work scheduled. That’s weird because most of them were just specialized forms of the chaotic job strewn mess they once were. So these guys had so many jobs because the old overseer just gave them more jobs whenever they came up and never bothered to erase them.

   Oh well I’ll fix that problem.

   Oh and


   One more thing…

   WHAT THE HELL IS A GRACKLE?



10th of Granite

   Remember that old irrigation thing I talked about earlier where a previous overseer had decided to irrigate an outdoor farm using overcomplicated methods? Well it turns out there were standing orders on that project. I caught it though, after it drained an entire lake.

   And another party.

   Why?

20th of Granite

   As if I didn’t have enough problems, there have been reports of people seeing specters in the night while hauling stones. Its as if this place literally hates us.

[Terrahex]

sorry, accidentally pressed enter when it wasn't inside the text box.

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 (continued from 20th granite)
Anyway, I want to get started on operation siege, but I’m not sure if I’ll even have time in the next season, let alone this year!

2nd of Slate

   Okay, I’ll admit that I was kind of dumb assuming that the above ground water reservoir was a soon to be farm, but I didn’t notice that it was near a floodgate next to the trade depot. That’s because there’s no way that it could ever get filled. It would all evaporate before long. I’ve cut anything having to do with it.

9th of Slate

   While I was walking down the hall today, a member of the new military suddenly came out of nowhere, plowed right through me, and ran into the workshops


   Angry that he wasn’t training for any elven invasion that may happen at any moment, I angrily picked myself up and stormed into the workshop area only to find that he kicked everyone else out of the craftsdwarf shop and was now collecting materials for an artifact.

   If you ask me, I think he just doesn’t want to train.

   The food stockpiles are already finished, or should I say finally finished? The work on the new workshop area is progressing smoothly as well and I plan to have it done by this time next month.

   I’ve also ordered a siege workshop to get built so I can finally start making siege engines. Nothing calms the nerves like a nice death machine. Once I make some catapults, some peasants will start training with them to become the best siege operators an untrained and unpaid dwarf can be.

10th of Slate

   While wondering outside today, a dwarf was interrupted by a fox. crying like a baby, the dwarf ran uphill, away from the entrance to where the above ground reservoir was. This wouldn’t be so bad if…



That’s right. One of the military ran from a fox. I’ve been too lax with training lately, this guy just earned his entire squad an extra hour of drills.

   I forgot to activate his squad so they’d start training. My bad.

13th of Slate

   That guy finally began working on his construction today. It had better be something good, because if it was a waste of time, he’s doing push-ups until he passes out, and when he wakes up he’s doing it until his arms fall off.

17th of Slate

   Some new migrants arrived today seeking a new life and opportunity in a new world. what these 21 dwarves found was a confusing disgrace of a fortress that now has a population of 75.

   Among them were some useful dwarves. Imagine my delight when I heard that for once, a dwarf who excelled in the military turned out to be a potash maker.

   Just as the migrants were arriving at our door however, that dwarf finally finished his artifact, held it up high above his head and ran around the fortress saying it was finished, making everyone cheer, even me. at least the migrants will have a good impression.

(Limonite ring. lost image. sorry)

Its value is 25200

18th of Slate

   With the growth of our population and our military, I’ve decided to enlarge the barracks.



   In other news, I am completely clueless as to what the levers do in the room near the dining room. I tried asking Aramco, but he just told me to pull and find out.

28th of Slate

   I’m not entirely confidant with the number of bedrooms we have right now, but I can’t be bothered to make more with the construction of the workshop space going on. I’ve decided to build a place for them to stay temporarily.

   Here will do.


   While they’re doing that, I think I’ll go make some catapult parts in the recently created siege workshop.

Later

   Of course, we don’t have a wood stockpile yet (actually we never did) so on my way outside to get some wood, I see that we still have hundreds of animals that we aren’t able to tame stuck in cages in our stocks. I didn’t look at them for very long because a mountain gnome started yelling that he was going to cut my beard off.

   He’s just jealous.

   I’ll have to make an arena as well to “deal” with this problem.

9th of Felsite

   Well I’ve finally decided to reconnect the depot to our fortress so we don’t have to go outside to get to it. I’ve also made plans for installing doors. After construction is finished with the workshops, a moat will be built hopefully to be filled with the blood of the mountain someday.

   I’ve also changed where the temporary rooms will be.



13th of Felsite

   While I’ve made leaps and bounds with the food problem, we’re starting to face a serious drought now.



A lack of barrels and wood that is too far away is to blame.

16th of Felsite

   Everyday I go to the mechanic and tell him to hook the lever up to the floodgate so we can finish the farm and he always says that he’s “Almost done” with his current project. I let him be as I respect one’s duty to his job, but he’s been “Almost done” for two months! We need the farm now!

   I go to him and discover that the previous ruler has installed cage traps all over the country side. These traps get triggered often and it’s his job to take care of reloading it. That’s why he’s never working on the farm!

   Either that or he’s always on break. I think that this is the more likely.

   I would never scatter traps like that haphazardly, but since they’re already there, they might as well stay.

17th of Felsite

   Today Conan II came into the dining room with his shield. not once did he let it go. Thinking this odd, several of the others and I tried to separate him from his shield. several noses were broken, and I received a black eye. Oh well, he’s not hurting anyone by keeping his shield, though it is getting annoying eating next to him while he stroke his shield saying “My precious…”



   Oh yeah, and catten onaligam, trainer, has apparently canceled storing an item in a barrel.

Later…

   An Elven caravan has been spotted on the outskirts of our cage trap circle. I guess I now have a play thing for the new military.

22nd of Felsite

   Today, the miners found a cavern deep underground. I’ve heard of these caverns before. Legend says there are three caverns all together. The first cavern actually pierces the surface layer at places, but the 2nd and 3rd levels usually are only uncovered by the hands of dwarf. I believe that the cavern we found is the 2nd layer because it’s way too deep to be the first.

   Under the third layer is the magma sea. I’ve heard of dwarves tapping this earth blood and using it for amazing things, but I wonder what’s beyond the magma sea. The core of the planet? The realm of Orshar, god of darkness, and his wife Bisol, god of healing? Or perhaps something else entirely. Maybe we shall one day find out.

26th of Felsite

   Thief!


That Kobold right there thinks that he can steal from us! Ha! We have a state of the art military that will rip you to…



It’s running away?

…

I hope you step on a cage trap on your way out, bastard.

   Oh well. There is some good news, the first catapult is built and I’ve ordered a peasant into the siege engineer life.

   I can imagine this place as a sparkling fortress filled with ballistas and catapults covering every possible angle, whose citizens all are legendary in either operating or engineering. It’s the dwarven dream!!! Or its mine at least.

27th of Felsite

   When the elves arrived and all the pandemonium was over from the thief incident, I decided that blood would be shed, Elven blood.

   Then this guy shows up:



The soldiers chase him out the door and across the land, but the kobold is quick compared to its armored chasers. I order them to abandon the chase and head to the elves. That’s the second one to get away. I won’t let a third escape.

But first the elves have some fun to experience.

Summer

[Aramco]

I... I don't know what those levers do. I didn't build them. (At least I don't think I did...) Maybe you should ask Ahasver?

[Ahasver]

It's attached to the gear assembly that powers the uppermost pump, no surprising Fun. You've probably torn it down already.

[Terrahex]

There probably won't be another update until the weekend. I'm busy tomorrow

[Terrahex]

sorry haven't had time to update I'll update soon.

[Ale Explosion]

Cool, looks like it won't be too long before my turn. I plan to put in some elaborate death (or perhaps maim) trap, any suggestions? Also, any little side projects (or preparations for your own projects planned for your turns) to add in?

[Aramco]

Terrahex, you going to finish your turn? It's been a while since you've updated.

[Ale Explosion]

Anyone mind if I just grab the last save available and play a turn over the weekend?