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[darkrider2]

JestedPassage
A Succession Fortress

I just picked up dwarf fortress again, downloaded version 0.39.19 (legacy), and started my latest fortress, JestedPassage. I'm very glad I did this, the first two months in game were just, well, I was unprepared for what happened, and the badassery of my expedition leader. But now I've reached spring of next year, the 1^st of Granite, and I think it would be fun to see what other people do with this.

I'm going to keep playing the fort, but I won't reveal anything that happens in my game on this thread. So it's kind of like an alternate reality, what if this were a succession fort? hehe, anyway on with business.

The Embark

JestedPassage was set up in an evil desert biome, for the most part camels and buzzards are the only thing around here, but every once in a while you get nightwings trying to pillage your neck of its blood. To be more accurate towards the biome, it's described as a 'rocky wasteland', either way, there are very few trees outside. On the West side of the map, the ground is all fire clay (for pottery), and there are no trees, to the East, it's all various colors of sand (for glass). The north has hills, and the south has a river running through it.

The World / FPS considerations

It's a medium world, I created it with three caverns, magma sea, and the spoiler level, I know many people think three caverns and the spoilers hurt FPS and are unnecessary, so take note that FPS may not be completely optimal. The magma sea is only about 43 levels down though, so its not all bad.

This is version 0.39.19 legacy (see above), it was slightly modded by me, the only thing I did was mod out aquifers because I hate them (there's a mudstone and conglomerate layer, I'm betting one would have been an aquifer if the soil layers didn't do that). I've got weather and temperature turned on, you can turn those off if you want.

For passing saves, I'm uploading the whole game file, not just the region, that way you can either find the region and extract it or unzip the entire thing if the former doesn't work.

Also, I used Dwarf Therapist, so all the jobs are very organized, people who sign up can use it too if they so wish.

First year Journal
written by Asen, the expedition leader.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

3rd Slate, 151
   We lost our carpenter, Sazir Showeredmountains today. He was felling trees when a nightwing came screeching out of the sky at him, he ran as fast as he could but it… it terrifies me just to think about it. I’ve told everyone to stay around the mouth of the cave for now, so if… it… comes again they can run inside, that’s all I can do for now, other than continue mining out the carpentry spaces in honor of Sazir, first lost at JestedPassage.
   It sickens me to do this, but I’ve told everyone to try to ignore the corpse for now, we can’t bury it as we have no caskets, and Sazir was the only one capable of making them. Armok will look down upon me for letting his beard rot in the desert soil, but I must think about our protection should it come again, Sazir had the only weapon too, someone will have to go retrieve it… Armok please forgive me.

7th Slate
   Damn you Kekimisan! First Sazir now you come back for the blood of our flock! By Armok I swear I will kill you, with all my might, and all my cunning, you will die by my hand, and my hand will drag your petulant corpse to the grave.
   I’m going out there to collect Sazir’s axe myself.

18th Slate
   I did it, I killed that monstrosity. I could feel Sazir’s spirit guiding my hand with every swing of the axe. Burying Sazir’s axe deep into its wing and limbs, grounding it. I could see the engineer and one of the miners cheering me on. May you join the spirits of hell Kekimisan! Now I must wash off as there is nightwing blood all over me.

18th Slate, engineers journal excerpt
   Holy Shit! Asen is fucking insane! This… thing came out of nowhere and attacked her, so she swings a fucking axe at it. It barely even responded to having an axe embedded in its wing, it continued clawing at her, when she backed up and dropped the axe, we thought it was all over. But no, Asen went batshit on that thing, topples it to the ground, and punches it through the skull.
   She stood over it for a solid minute, her right hand still in a fist, covered in nightwing brain, just staring at it. I tell you what, I’m never going to tumble with her, not if she takes that much joy in slaughter.
   I’ll be surprised if the miners keep their picks, it would be shameful to carry a weapon that can’t even compare to our leaders fist.

((out of character : I think I’ll build a mega project where Sazir’s dead corpse is, it will just be a fist that punches the heavens.))

1st Hematite
   We finally built some bedrooms so everyone can stop being so edgy, especially our engineer, he needs some rest, Sazirs death affected him badly. On the other hand, I feel better than ever, with this axe I’ve been rejuvenated, my arm even stopped throbbing.

20th Malachite
   Oh Armok, another nightwing is here, I shall kill it as well. Those poor immigrants don’t stand a chance, and that llama can only distract it for so long.

26th Malachite
   Strangely enough, everyone got inside safely, and the Nightwing just left the llama alone after a while. Now he’s circling in the sky waiting for some unlucky soul to travel beneath him.
   
   …

   I don’t want to report on this because it… well I’m not sure exactly what I saw. I went out to help the immigrants get in the cave and, there was something floating around in the fog that’s cropped up by Sazir’s corpse. I don’t know what, but it could be even worse than nightwing raids, so I’m putting doors and traps at the entrance and no one is to go outside.

19th Galena
   The Nightwing outside left the area, guess it lost its patience, just camels out there now. Overall our situation is improving, more rooms are being built, a dining hall is set up, food and drink are in good supply, and we’ll even be able to bury Sazir by next month.
   Some of the migrants have reported seeing strange figures in the walls, yeah, they actually believe there’s something in the walls. I’ve told em time and again, its nothing but solid rock past the walls, there’s nothing to be worried about.
   After building all these beds, the wood supply has gotten low, I’m afraid we may have to resort to some bartering to get more logs.

1st Limestone
   Things are still running smoothly. Most notable however, I’m building a gravesite to the north, at the top of the highest land we have available, so that the deceased may watch over us from the peak and guide our progress. Sazir will be buried first, we must put his spirit to rest.

7th Limestone
   On this day, Sazir’s spirit no longer wanders this desolate wasteland. All has passed, the tragedy of Kekimisan no longer burdens this outpost, we may move on.

21st Sandstone
   Four newcomers came from the NorthWest hill today. I assigned one to be the new work manager, we did build the offices after all. I greeted them at the door. This one in particular, a potter, looked at my arm and started telling me all sorts of things that I can’t even understand, so I made him the C.M.O. (Chief of Medical Operations), he seems pretty smart, it shut him up for a bit too.
   We don’t have any surgeons or even a hospital, but I figure it’s best to have a system in place should I build one, my arm doesn’t need it at all so I see no reason.

15th Timber
   Explatory mining has begun, we’ve already discovered 3 caverns and a sea of magma. Praise Armok! There are enough trees down there to replenish our woodworking industry. Unfortunately we found no ores, I’ll continue the search, but with all this sand, glass can easily make up for some of the things metals are used for.
   Also I traded all the gems we had collected (about 25) for 5 wood logs. Goddamn traders wouldn’t give up the picks we need.


New Years, 152
   Everything is running great, despite the foliage growth everywhere. Just past carpentry, there’s a huge room, that’s the indoor outdoors, we’re keeping all the animals there and eventually using it to resupply on logs, though it will take time, I would suggest taking advantage of one of the caverns if a short term demand for logs crops up.
   Also, there is a mid-sized room very deep in the earth for future smelting operations, but the only ores we were able to find are tetrahedrite, nearly useless, but it’ll have to work for now.
   We have a broker now, combined with the CMO and Work Manager, we’ve got everything but a stock keeper, so I can’t tell what’s in the damn fort, I gotta go find everything myself, but I’m much too busy now setting up the hospital anyway, so I’ll probably just promote some random shmuck to that job.

Yeah I'm not the best writer.

Anway...

Turn List
(Completed)(In Progress)(Passed)(Skipped)

• Darkrider
• billybobfred
• Ringmaster
• Ahasver

link to the jestedpassage save

edit: Almost forgot. Normal succession rules. You play a year in game, and if there's no reply in a week we pass it to the next person. Turns can be extended by vote of the players waiting if necessary, depending on the individual level of awesome that that turn has shown so far. If a player completely screws over the fortress, then the next player can choose to go off of a previous save, or be in charge of the reclaim.

No walling yourself off from the world. No DFHack.

[billybobfred]

I'll take the first year. Second. Whatever.

[billybobfred]

(So I haven't been able to actually play yet. Stuff came up. I might be able to crank out my year today, though.)

from: billybobfred, Fortress Optimization Technician
to: the Mountainhomes of Mosus Sezuk, "The Room of Slapping"
re: status of outpost Lumencustith, "Jestedpassage"
date: 1st Granite, 152

First thing I notice as I enter the fort is that the farms are all lying fallow. There's no way the fort survived a year without planting anything, the orders must have been lost in the transition of power. So I issue some new orders. No biggie. Weird, though.

The second thing I notice is that there are plans for a bride just outside the entrance. Thing is, the bridge in question covers nothing, connects nothing, and will block nothing when raised. Also weird. So I cancel the order, and tell them to build a different, more useful bridge.

The trade depot is outside, which is unacceptable. I'm not sure what to do about that, though. Is that wave of anti-wagon sentiment still running rampant? Cause if it is, I can dig out a spot just inside the entrance. If that's ended, though... Hrm.

The food stockpile and stills are right next to the farms, which makes sense, in a way... but in another way, is the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Well, we can have a stockpile chain thing.

The first level of the fort proper is a generic stockpile.
The second floor is a generic meeting area and some generic closets rooms.
Third is bedrooms. That at least makes sense.
Fourth is some workshops, some offices, and a dining room that has never been officially designated as such.
Starting on the fifth floor, a shaft goes down, through the caverns, and to a room right above the magma sea. For magma forges, I guess.

The entrance is protected by cage traps, so there's at least a measure of protection there. But there are no more cages to reload the things once they're triggered. It's a stopgap measure at best.

As for plans, I'm going to build an Optimized Military Training Facility, get a bookkeeper on counting all the crap this fort has lying around, utilize the magma sea which the previous leader fortuitously located, and hope not to get anyone killed. I'll send my next status report when the season changes.

[billybobfred]

from: billybobfred, Fortress Optimization Technician
to: the Mountainhomes of Mosus Sezuk, "The Room of Slapping"
re: status of outpost Lumencustith, "Jestedpassage"
date: 1st Hematite, 152

So, a troll managed to kill two dwarves. >:(

It's now known as "Pointedsnarls", just to get the point across that YES, it IS dangerous.

But all it does is stand in the cavern area that I dug out for the fort's usage. It's weird. If all it wants to do is stand around, why stand there?

I admit, I forgot that some creatures can knock down locked doors. I though it was safe.

Migrants arrived. Yay. Drafted one. Let the rest sit around because I'm terrible at managing dwarven resources.

A metalcrafter is taken by a mood and claims a mechanic's shop... He has made a mechanism with an image of our king's ascent. As artifacts go, it's medium-tier at best, but the sentiment is good.

Um, I, uh, accidentally the only water source. I think that's bad. (i guess i will just make a new one? i dunno how bad it is if i threw a rotten corpse in the reservoir TOTALLY BY ACCIDENT GUYS particularly since this reservoir is still directly connected to the river)

Some elves arrived, I traded masterwork mechanisms for berries, and that's all that happened this spring.

[Ringmaster]

Sign me up for turn 3.

[billybobfred]

(in this memo, i use swears based on community lingo... well, really just the one two)

from: billybobfred, Fortress Optimization Technician
to: the Mountainhomes of Mosus Sezuk, "The Room of Slapping"
re: status of outpost Lumencustith, "Jestedpassage"
date: 1st Limestone, 152

We have no Armok-damned metal. How the circus are we supposed to take down Pointedsnarls if we don't have any weapons? argl blarg foaming rage oh wait we can take the axes from the lumber industry

Making an outdoor farm now. Hope the nightwings don't spore it up for us.

my migration is pastede on yey

AHHHHHH A GHOST

(he scared one of our legendary miners to death! i'm making you a memorial, i swear! i just need a little more time! ;_;)

I've just been asking around, and the miner that was... that died, was the lover of our other legendary miner. Sure hope he doesn't tantrum over this.

Aaaand a nightwing killed a guy. And our military killed a nightwing. Hopefully that's the end of that (ahahahahaha yeah right)

Pointedsnarls has been slain. Sporing finally.

A furnace operator has claimed a craft shop. He wants body parts. Who am I to deny him?

EVERYBODY PANIC

oh armok the burning oh spores this is not good this is not good

help

[darkrider2]

I guess you could say he's a... (wait for it)... flamer!

ba-dum-tish

[billybobfred]

from: billybobfred, Fortress Optimization Technician
to: the Mountainhomes of Mosus Sezuk, "The Room of Slapping"
re: status of outpost Lumencustith, "Jestedpassage"
date: 1st Moonstone, 152

I apologize for the panicked tone of my previous communication. Mothi had set the floor fungus of the cavern on fire, and it was a very distressing sight.

One of the masons, acting in my, ah, temporary absence, walled off the stairway leading down to the caverns. We're completely safe from Mothi for the time being.

He then hit me over the head with a rock and told me to pull myself together.

I intend to research the best methods for dealing with shelled humanoids made of flame and dispose of Mothi as soon as possible, but as he is a forgotten beast, this will likely take some time.

In the meantime, I'm having the miners dig an alternate passage to the magma foundry.

I'm receiving a lot of reports of dwarves panicking at the sight of Mothi, even though he can't get to us. Damn up/down stairways and their providing visibility. >:(

OH ARMOK NO

HE GOT IN

and then he died

???

As far as I can tell, he didn't even kill anybody. Just lit us up a bit.

Oh, no, wait, one of our military dwarves died. :(

Ohay, we still have no BOOZE because all our barrels are full for some reason. >:(

Oh. Huh. That moody guy still wants crap. Rock bars? ... He means metal, I think. Of course, we don't have either of those things. Aaaand he's gone berserk. Good thing I walled him in.

Brewer cancels Brew Drink: Needs empty barrel x10912348091238 ARMOK DAMMIT I KNOW I AM WORKING ON IT OKAY


Heyyyy, migrants, I DON'T NEED YOU GO AWAY

And, look, someone got killed by a nightwing, WHAT THE ASS WAS HE DOING ALL THE WAY OUT THERE ANYWAY HUH

A child has been possessed by forces unknown!

Another one killed by a nightwing! These things are supposed to be weak!

A caravan! Yay, I think!

More nightwing interruptions, WHY ISN'T MY DEATHSMITH KILLING THEM ARGH DON'T REST, YOU'RE NOT INJURED

Merchants unload their goods. I take all their wood and food.

GAHH MORE DEATHS WAKE UP MILITARY IDIOT YOU

A diplomat has left unhappy. SPORE YOU, DIPLOMAT.

we have a cave crocodile in the basement. he's eating us.

[Ringmaster]

Ohboyohboyohboyohboy!

I can't wait for my turn!

[Ahasver]

Sounds fun, sign me up.

[billybobfred]

Ohboyohboyohboyohboy!

I can't wait for my turn!

Yeah, you can have my winter. I'm really not good at dealing with hostiles like this.

FYI the only available metal ore is tetrahedrite, in the caverns.

Save.

[Ringmaster]

Yeah, you can have my winter. I'm really not good at dealing with hostiles like this.

Neither am I, should be FUN.

Downloaded and playing.

[Karakzon]

signing up to watch. -not take a turn-

dorf me if you like. good luck, this seems amusing.

[darkrider2]

just watch out for the cave crocs, I had one kill 23 dwarves before. (this may be due to me mass recruiting them, with no weapons other than their bare hands and then zerg rushing them at the thing...)

[Ringmaster]

Spoiler: Update: 1st of Winter -> 1st of Spring (click to show/hide)

1st Moonstone, 152, Early Winter
Current Fortress Layout

Hello everyone! I'm the new administrator, I took over a little early, I know, but hopefully nobody minds that! Now, let me see what's been going on around he-



Well, that's quite good, a little thin on the ground as far as exports are concerned, but...



Huh, well defended entrance, I don't understand all these complaints about nightwing attacks, can't people just go ins-



Ah, a sizeable stockpile, I like it. Now, about these animal attacks-



Yes, yes, I've seen the farms - a little concerned with the bones mussing up one of the plots, but we have more important things to discuss.



I must say, I quite like that layout, three stills next to each other? Wonderful.



Another good stockpile, but really, we must get on to the more pressing issue at hand.



I- Hm, and he only mentions the name of whatever he is thinking of? Puzzling, does he have the necessary materials to begin construction?



Heavenly, that's the neatest bedroom organisation I've seen in months! Where's mine?



Ah, now, this-



-is a big problem. It's killed at least four dwarfs, you say? Well, then, it's time we remove this threat.

But first, we have a big bunch of dwarven brethren in the trade depot who require someone to swap goods.



Oh, let joy be unconfined. We have a bin.

Aw, crap, the crocodile got in the coffin room and it's smashing shit up, someone stop her!
Waitaminute, didn't she have a cut on each leg earlier?
Great, not only is it capable of ripping every single one of us apart in her jaws, she can also regenerate. That is utterly brilliant, really.

Wait, I know how to fix this! IMUSH! GET YER AXE OU-



Why are you unconscious? OhArmokthisisawful



Oh.

I can hear screams downstairs! The crocodile's coming up through the fort! The miner, Kib, just ran down there to pull some rock out from the mining tunnels, I hope he's alright



I just ventured downstairs, the entire rampway down is covered in crocodile and dwarf blood. We found Kib's desiccated corpse lying next to his left arm and left foot. His throat was torn out by that monstrous croc. On the good side of things, his pick was intact and covered with crocodile blood. We can only hope he fatally wounded it before he went off to join his beloved (A fellow miner, I understand that the two will be buried together in the lower crypts.)



WE CAUGHT HER!

We caught that cave crocodile as she was chasing the last of us out on to the surface!

Sadly, her capture came at a great cost: As she was charging up to the surface, she took down several pets, including the Trapper's billygoat, she ambushed Imush as he was sleeping and ripped his head open. We can't save him.

To stop this happening again, I've ordered the creation of a military. One of the cheesers apparently was a Master Hammerdwarf, he stayed behind to aid the rest of our escapes, unfortunately we have no hammers and he died fighting the menace. I haven't counted all the casualties yet, but those were only the most important deaths so far.



It's been a few days since the crocodile was captured, miasma is filling the halls but we have no coffins for the dead. It is bringing down everyone's mood. One of the women, a processor, just snapped one day, started screaming and charging down a corridor. Someone who witnessed it said her once calm eyes were blood red.

She was quickly, but ineffectively put down by our brand new Militia Commander, Sibrek. He didn't have time to grab his equipment so he resorted to punching and kicking the poor woman to death.

The fortress is on the brink, and I've only been here a month. Winter's not over yet and I get the feeling we have something much, much worse in our future.

5th Obsidian, Late Winter

It's been a busy time, we've mostly been recovering from the attack by the cave crocodile. I've assembled a basic militia of four randomly selected dwarfs (I made sure their professions weren't being used at the time) and they seem alright. Lead by Sibrek, the man who put down a berzerking dwarf two months ago, I have some faith in them.
...
It seems we will have our first test of the new militia's abilities: A giant toad has crawled up from the depths to plague our fortress! Sibrek's leading the men to battle now.
...
Alright, it's after the battle, Sibrek was the one who laid the killing blow on the toad, but we lost a spearman. The toad ripped her lower body off, she had no chance.

On a more upbeat note, the Hunter had a baby girl! As one life is extinguished, another is created.

As I speak, I'm building a second line of defense - stonefall traps, lining the mining tunnels that lead up to the fort.

1st Granite, 153, Early Spring

Spring is here! Praise the Gods!

Work on the traps by the crypt is complete, I've done work on allowing the dwarfs to move and bury their fallen brethren (We've built several more coffins) and one of the militiamen is now an Axe Lord, what we need now is proper, metal weapons that will do a little more damage and look a little more dwarfy than the tiny wooden sparring weapons we have now.

Here's to a brand new year, hopefully it'll do better than my (so far) disastrous Winter.

One last note before I close this entry, I've notived that every time I go to sleep, I keep hearing hissing coming through the floor, what on earth could it be?

Spoiler: Brief Summation (click to show/hide)

• Cave croc was captured, she took down at least three in her lust for murder, among them Imush.
• Militia formed, brief troubles involving bad moods after the cave crocodile attack. The militia beat down a giant toad, taking one loss in the process.
• Coffins and beds built, we can now house and bury all of the living and the dead.
• To do: METAL FOR WEAPONRY.