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[noodle0117]

Where can I find the thread about the guy who breached hell and made a fort down there?

[Ahra]

i think its on tvtropes.

Edit: GGGGAAAAHH that alot of tropes to dwarf fortress http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=65024.0

[davros]

Awesome fort. Also, fixed typo.

[Blade Master Model 42]

12th Galena, 761: Some humans have arrived to trade today. I ordered some crafts to the depot. Not that there's anything we could possibly need. This forts could run for the rest of eternity as it is, without outside influence. Might as well show a bit of neighborly enthusiasm though. Humans are pests at war. Bleh.
I can't get any rest at all lately. I just keep thinking about the state of the team I sent down to the demon infested bottom of the fort.

I wonder how they're doing.


Inesh Imushkamuk, Swordsdwarf's Journal, Slab One: The Overseer has given us a job to do. We are to lead a masonry team down into hell, to claim it for all dwarf-kind.
I am afraid. I cannot help but think this to be folly. We will all surely die.
I dare not disobey, however.

~~

We have been down at the bottom level of the fortress for several days now. The masonry team is painfully slow. We have begun the staircase down, but work progresses slowly. We have also almost completed the floor at the site where the mad mechanic, noodle, says the demons are creeping up through the volcano from. Best to get that closed.

According to the captain's orders, we will instruct the team to build a staircase straight down, and then wall it off, so flying demons can't get in without coming up the entire staircase. We will then seal the bottom, and return to Deathgate proper.

Another team, and another time, will continue from there. If we even survive.

[noodle0117]

If the masons happen to meet any demons on their way down, post the combat logs.
I want to see how badly they can get slaughtered.

[Blade Master Model 42]

You know, it's eerie. I haven't seen any demons since the last one popped up via the volcano. I'm starting to freak out a bit.

[Blade Master Model 42]

24th Galena, 761: The team has returned from the depths of the underworld.

Well, actually, they haven't. They never got there. They spent two weeks down there, and the masonry team only managed a short stairway. I'm a little aggravated by that. Still, they weren't a very experienced team of masons, and things still got done, so I suppose it's okay.

The volcano is now sealed off from hell. So that's good. And the stairway has been started. So that's great. However, the team didn't get very far. I need to upgrade the accommodations in the demon lock system for one thing, adding beds and tables and what not, and get some high quality food in that stockpile. Some of the soldiers had to eat uncooked cat meat. Yick.

I'll give them a break while the demon lock system is shined up, then set them back down there with a bigger team. I don't want this to take the rest of my life.

In any case, the foundation is laid. The rest will, hopefully, move swiftly.

[Blade Master Model 42]

20th Limestone, 761: Not up for writing a journal today, some migrants arrived. I barely care. I'm busy with preparations.

25th Limestone, 761: The second expedition has begun. I have sent more masons with the team this time, so things should move quickly. Or, more quickly in any case.
Despite the somewhat disturbing lack of demons during the last expedition (or maybe because of it, I'm not sure anymore, I'm becoming so nervous), I sent a larger military force as well. Once the bunker is built though, we won't have to worry. I think. At least, not right away.

I've begun devising a vertical demon-lock system, once the bunker is constructed. It will allow us to expand without fear of reprisal, in theory. Much like the one I've built already. Of course, if that becomes the case, the current one won't matter much.

[Blade Master Model 42]

28th Sandstone, 761: The demons finally made there appearance during the construction of the bunker. The soldiers had gone on break, confident that the demons had all been slain, what with their absence. We lost Noodle, as well as a fishery worker who'd been enlisted to assist the construction of the bunker. Also, a long departed mason was seen, his spirit wandering hell. I will make certain the Blade Master is appraised of the situation. Whatever her other failings, she has always been sympathetic to the needs of the dead.

6th Timber, 761: The second expedition was a failure. We lost a pair of good dwarves down there. Worse, the bunker remains incomplete. More lives will be lost, I am certain.
The main issue with the expeditions is the shortness of food. I will have to devote more resources to storing additional food and drink within the depths of the earth. Perhaps even finding a system with which to grow food down there.

Everyone who was sent is exhausted. Hell seems to have a draining effect on them. Or, perhaps it was the fact that they spent more than a month, hoping against hope that the demons would not find them. Or that they did. Two dwarves in their prime being burnt to cinders must be traumatizing to watch. I must say, I am glad to have never faced such a thing.

Also, the captain's report alerted me to another unmemorialized dwarf. As of this writing, the situation has been rectified.

I wonder, when I die, will I be shown the same courtesy? Or will I be one of so many wandering shades at Deathgate?

[noodle0117]

So i died?
Again?
Like the third or fourth time?

I really am cursed.

[ouroboros]

I'd like to be dorfed, please.
As a cook. Who likes snakes, if possible.
Name of "Ouroboros".

This is a great read, and I'm learning a lot. Thanks, guys!

[Eoganachta]

Can I be Dorfed as well, please? Name as Eoganachta and as a military dwarf like a swordsdorf or as a weapon/armoursmith. Thanks. I can't wait for the demonic counterattack.

[Blade Master Model 42]

23rd Timber, 761: I just had one of our masons unload a bunch of our crap on the local caravan in exchange for food and drink. That should fill the stockpiles to bursting for the third expedition. I fully intend to recover those bodies.

I also intend to recover all the adamantine that has apparently been recovered by miners during the expeditions. The second that bunker is complete, it's going to be dwarven Christmas up in here. I hear there is quite a lot of it. I am intrigued, to say the least. We could easily afford to outfit a much larger force in the blue metal if there is truth to these rumors, which I have no doubt there is.

In other news, I promoted a Sworddwarf to Captain today. His name was Eoganachta. I have high hopes for her.


OOC: I'll get to dorfing you soon Ouroboros, I promise.

I also promise to wrap up my turn. I realize I'm taking a while...

[Blade Master Model 42]

12th Opal, 761: The bunker is finally complete. I must say, I'm glad this leg of the journey is complete. And not a moment too soon. Just after the bunker was completed, a pair of demons were heard, babbling in their insane psuedo language. We'll deal with them another time.

As I mentioned before, an enormous cache of Adamantine is now available to us. More arms and armor for the champions of Deathgate. Huzzah. I have already commanded that all the adamantine is to be processed, though I have yet to decide how it might be used. Also, I have decided that it is in the best interest of dwarven kind to command that silly pictures be carved into the floor of hell. Let's see how the dirty bastards like that.

Speaking of which, the terrain in hell is absolutely bizzare. The top layer seems to be somewhat permeable, but only to a few inches. Any possibility of digging through it is laughable, apparently. It's like worked adamantine, but instead of being light as air, it's heavier than platinum. Curious.

Also, I have left engravings of the bunker for those will come after me. I am sure that, by the time I am dead and gone, All of hell will be a testament to dwarf-kind, but for now, it is a mean little building hastily erected by frightened dwarves.

It is glorious.




EDIT: Ourobors, I dwarfed you as one of our cooks. The legendary one, specifically. Unfortunately, neither of them cared for snakes. Sorry.

[noodle0117]

Hurray! the colonization has begun.