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Author Topic: [Scrubbedcreams] Terrifying Glacier (Community Reclaim) - Needs Overseers  (Read 32103 times)

Farmerbob

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Hrm, Iggy might have died to FB blood and I didn't notice, things got a bit hectic when I had 5 dwarves die in the space of 5 minutes with their feet falling off.
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SolPyre

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Journal of Scrubbedcream
12th Moonstone 1068

A horrible accident has occurred in the adamantine mine, one of the miners breached the magma sea and magma is now slowly flowing in flooding the mine with molten rock.
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A mason managed to wall off the flow before it flooded the lowest levels but the Adamantine mine is now completely filled. Luckily the aqueduct that I had planned can be adapted to deal with this.

[Entry not dated]

The Aqueduct is now finished and the magma cooling has begun.
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Elsewhere in Scrubbedcream a stone crafter has made a tetrahedrite crown.
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With the magma flooding under control I have turned my attention to making a room of my own. It will be on the same level as Former Overseer Farmerbob's huge quarters, though nowhere near as large, directly under the barracks. In the main living areas I am having empty rooms furnished and the rubble removed.

13th Obsidian

The Mayor Conan Cilobil came to see me in my new room today. He has become accustomed to my appearance and no longer averts his eyes in my presence.
"I wanted to talk to you about Asen the Liaison, she has been following me everywhere for months and I finally agreed to have a meeting with her. She says that the mountainhomes want us to become part of the nation, whatever that is supposed to mean. Scrubbedcream is the last Dwarf Fortress. The mountainhomes are ruins! Our people mostly live in hidden caves, for Armok's sake! It's ridiculous for her to talk about the mountainhomes and the royal family as if they still have influence."
I do not respond, Conan breaths out through his clenched teeth. "As you can see our meeting was... frustrating. Asen has been enjoying herself talking down to me because I wouldn't meet with her for so long. Anyway, the point is she wants me to recommend someone to be Baron of Scrubbedcream."
"What would this baron do?", I ask.
"As far as I can tell not much except meeting with diplomats." Conan shrugs, "Asen thinks I should recommend myself because I'm the only founder still alive and I was an Overseer, but I don't want the job. The only foreign diplomat the baron would meet with would be if the elves ever sent a diplomat. I kill elves, I dont talk to them and I dont ever want to. So I'm here to ask who you would recommend to be baron. You are the Overseer now after all, I shouldn't have to make responsible decisions anymore, I retired."
I think for a moment. "Well Shorast Rabcog is the earliest living settler mentioned in the Journal of Scrubbedcream besides yourself."
"Good, I'll tell Asen that I recommend Shorast. Maybe she'll finally leave now."
Asen did not leave and continued following Conan around trying to get another meeting.

[OOC] Any requests for something to request of the traders? Conan is going to meet with Asen again soon.
« Last Edit: July 17, 2011, 08:48:37 pm by SolPyre »
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Hrm, Iggy might have died to FB blood and I didn't notice, things got a bit hectic when I had 5 dwarves die in the space of 5 minutes with their feet falling off.
Check out the year. The reclaimed Scrubbedcream started in 1060 after a couple of failed reclaims, so this is an early Iggy.
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A post that was not thought out and has now been deleted. Have a nice day  ;)
« Last Edit: July 17, 2011, 08:02:07 pm by SolPyre »
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Hrm, Iggy might have died to FB blood and I didn't notice, things got a bit hectic when I had 5 dwarves die in the space of 5 minutes with their feet falling off.

Noooooooo!

Wait..... Does my latest incarnation yet live?
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SolPyre

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Hrm, Iggy might have died to FB blood and I didn't notice, things got a bit hectic when I had 5 dwarves die in the space of 5 minutes with their feet falling off.

Noooooooo!

Wait..... Does my latest incarnation yet live?
Nope sorry. 'Iggy Mcnatts' Miszon listed as deceased. That's not the same Iggy as the one in the figurine but  they are both dead.  :(
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Hrm, Iggy might have died to FB blood and I didn't notice, things got a bit hectic when I had 5 dwarves die in the space of 5 minutes with their feet falling off.

Noooooooo!

Wait..... Does my latest incarnation yet live?
Nope sorry. 'Iggy Mcnatts' Miszon listed as deceased. That's not the same Iggy as the one in the figurine but  they are both dead.  :(

Did I at least die a noble death? Or did my feet rot off, or something equally inglorious?
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Hrm, Iggy might have died to FB blood and I didn't notice, things got a bit hectic when I had 5 dwarves die in the space of 5 minutes with their feet falling off.

Noooooooo!

Wait..... Does my latest incarnation yet live?
Nope sorry. 'Iggy Mcnatts' Miszon listed as deceased. That's not the same Iggy as the one in the figurine but  they are both dead.  :(

Did I at least die a noble death? Or did my feet rot off, or something equally inglorious?

Feet rotting off is a noble death!  It's at least different and exciting, like an adamantium loincloth.  Not boring like being dropped into a pit of lava like every other noble.
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Hope the fortress has enough armour to go round then, or an immigrant armoursmith...
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I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
Honestly at the time, I didn't see what could go wrong with crowding 80 military Dwarves into a small room with a necromancer for the purpose of making bacon.

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Journal of Scrubbedcream
3rd Granite 1069

Mayor Conan has met with Asen the Liaison again. In his report he records that he has requested; Zinc, Steel, Pig Iron, Tin, Bismuth, Plump Helmet seeds (because there is a shortage), Dogs, Cheese, Gypsum Plaster, Sand, Clay, and all the flux stone the traders can carry. He also records that the merchants will be willing to buy Crossbows, Spears and Ammunition at a higher price next year. To take advantage of this I have begun to produce bone crossbows. Asen will soon be leaving, she has assured me that she will not find the hike across the glacier difficult. Conan has told me he believes she must be insane.

Tobul Aran has completed an Artifact.


27th Granite

The next stage of the magma cooling has begun in the adamantine mine. I have also added two craftsdwarf workshops in the forging area to extract adamantine strands.
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2nd Slate

Eleven migrants have arrived from the south, I have placed most of them in the militia.

12th Slate

I have ordered the discontinuation of the tree farm project. I realized something was wrong when the water flow into the tree farm area was so low. After going over the diagrams carefully I saw that the water source was not connected to any of the water in the caverns. This is troubling because the wells of Scrubbedcream draw from that water source.
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24 Slate

The magma cooling in the adamantine mine progresses.
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[OOC] breaking the update into two parts... in the second part some interesting stuff actually happens.
 
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SolPyre

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Journal of Scrubbedcream
18th Felsite 1069

The new Baron of Scrubbedcream, Shorast Rabcog, got into a fist fight today.
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Apparently his accommodations are unsatisfactory and he does not find the progress on his new rooms reassuring. He claims that the size of Farmerbob's rooms in comparison to his own have utterly traumatized him. So far he has not assaulted anyone else but it seems that nothing will placate him. All of his demands for the making of lay pewter items were completed and the resulting furniture placed in his bedroom, none of his mandates were violated. It seems that the construction of the Baron's rooms were simply too slow for his fragile ego to handle and it is now too late to save him from a complete breakdown.

27th Felsite

Despite all I could do Baron Shorast has gone insane.
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He was in the main food storage area when it happened, on the same level as the farms and pastures. He immediately attacked the nearest dwarf who ran into the nearby pen for fowl. The Baron then proceeded to chase a few unlucky dwarfs around the room attempting to beat them to death. Conan Cilobil was the first of the military dwarves to arrive on the scene, having been on his way down from the barracks to eat.
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Conan has told me that he tried to make Shorast's death as fast and painless as possible but that the Baron would not stop wriggling, even after Conan chopped off both his legs.
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I feel deeply responsible for this needless death. I suggested Shorast to Conan without checking to see if he was mentally suitable for the job. Afterward I did not make the construction of Shorast's rooms my first priority. I have decided to retire as Overseer, the traditional one year term is almost over in any case. I will have a slab placed in my room and Shorast Rabcog's coffin built in front of my desk. I will tidy up the fortress and my records. Then, on the third of Hematite I shall go to my rest.

3rd Hematite

The records are in order.

Conan has come to place my slab himself. I will leave this journal and a note on my desk for the first dwarf who enters.

-- Ubalnadak Geshud Ithodberath
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"Are you sure about this?" The dwarf asks.
"Yes. I have grown weary of the world, peace will be a welcome change." The voice seems to echo and whisper around the room as if it comes from faraway and very close at the same time.
"Well if that's what you want...," The Dwarf lifts a rock slab off the ground and carries it to where grooves have been carved into the floor to place the slab on. The slab is blank.
"Conan, thank you.... and if Scrubbedcream should ever need me... break the slab."
The dwarf nods and slowly lowers the memorial slab into place. There is a click of stone on stone and the dwarf called Conan is alone in the room.
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I just realized that I got the date when I was supposed to hand over the save wrong. I cut myself 20 df days short but thats ok. I will post some notes to the next overseer and the death total tomorrow. Here is the save, please wait to start until I post my notes.
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4688

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SolPyre

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Note to the next overseer:
 New levers: Lever marked upper floodgate opens the upper floodgate for the aqueduct to to adamantine mine. This floodgate is currently open so you'll need to close it to see where it is. it is not protected from FB's watch out.
lever marked lower flood gate opens the floodgate visible to the left
the dark blue lever next to the hospital opens the floodgate below it. this lever is unmarked.

The military:The melee soldiers are set up in two kinds of squads and alert levels. The first kind is sparing squads of three two of which are active at a time in barracks separated from other squads, this promotes sparring. Sparring squads are for recruits all soldiers who are not yet Skilled (weapon) are in sparing squads. Sparring squads are Corridors of Strife, The Bronze Dead (lead by conan), the Narrow Picks, the wilted lashes, the Geared Cusp, The Silvery Saints, the Armored Spirits, the radiant flags, the crystalline fountains and the Laborious Requirements.
The second kind are in training squads and are skilled or above in (weapon) they are in one barracks to promote teaching. These squads are the Molten Tongs 7 members axe and the clear swords 3 members sword.
the archers are in the blockaded pillars and have a barracks of their own
You shouldnt need to do anything with military scheduling until you decide to add more recruits.
There should be enough equipment for all soldiers

The water source the wells draw from is drying up you might want to reconnect it to the cavern lakes.
there is a shortage of plump helmet spawn and booze stocks are low
the hospital may be hoarding adamantine strands
thats all i guess good luck!

Dead from the unit list
157 dead dwarves
some dead animals
104 dead dwarves (appears to include dwarves from before reclaim and dwarves who went Berserk)
some dead humanoids and elves
20 dead dwarves
some elves
2 dead dwarves
some dead elves and humanoids
24 dead dwarves
some dead war animals
some dead FBs, sketi, yeti and wild animals
Totals:
Dead dwarves: 307
Dead FBs: 10
Dead others: some
Dead elves: not enough
Total Dead: lots
MATH!
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I had too much spare time, counted the dead in conan and farmerbob's saves

Sutremaine- 130 dead (277 total)
Conan- 130 dead (277 total)
Farmerbob- 154 dead (305 total)
Solpyre- 157 dead (309 total)

By the way Iggy McNatz Miszon bled to death during Limestone 1067 mortally wounded by Dastot Tiristenor who had died about two years before that during Timber 1065. How that could have happened I have no idea. Dastot killed three other dwarves, while she was alive, and died from thirst so she was probably insane.
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Sutremaine

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I went back and counted the dead dwarves at the start of my turn.

74 dead, a gap, 95 dead, a gap, 19 dead, a gap, 24 dead. (212 total)

Wait, what? I didn't even realise that DF would split up dead citizens under any circumstances. Anyway, here's the dead at the end of my turn.

130 dead, a gap, 103 dead, a gap, 20 dead, a gap, 24 dead. (277 total)

So that makes 65 deaths from an initial population of 126. I thought the initial 130 were all the dead of Scrubbedcream, I don't do reclaims so I've never encountered the gaps or the counting of previous attempts.
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Ghills

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Argh, argh. It's my turn next, but I just came up for Ardentdikes.

Do you guys mind putting me at the end of the list?
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Ye know, being an usurper overseer gone mad with power isn't too bad. It's honestly not that different from being a normal overseer.
To summarize:
They do an epic face. If that fails, they beat said object to death with their beard.
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