I was only able to play a few months, enough time to try a project and fail, but I have to pass it along now as I won't be able to play it again for a few days.
Here it is!
21st Opal, 10"The screaming's stopped."
The others looked up. It was the first time Inod had spoken in years, ever since he lost his family to the madness that had claimed so many. Inod, a miner, had been away when the madness hit, and the loss of his loved ones had a devastating effect.
"Uh, yeah, there's no more screaming." Datan was cautious to agree; Inod had that faraway look in his eye that usually preceded those strange, irresistible moods that brought visions of exotic artefacts.
Instead of locking himself away or making insane demands, he just said: "I have an idea."
4th Obsidian, 10"What are we building?"
"Beats me, but Inod seems to have a pretty clear picture in his head. At least he didn't take over a workshop, this time."
18th Obsidian, 10"Huh, so there's a water pump over to the left, and we have here a huge chamber now filled with magma..."
"... A super-forge?"
1st Granite, 11"A floor with grates on them, above the magma."
"A... heated floor?"
17th Slate, 11"Where were you?"
"I was busy building a corridor that'll pour water into the magma. What were you doing?"
"I was... attaching these ropes near these grates... uh..."
19th Slate, 11Inod had ordered goblins be tied to the ropes and then pulled all the levers while confused and terrified dwarfs worked the pumps. Magma slogged into the lower chambers as water poured in from the side, the two of them colliding with a hiss as super-heated steam shot upwards through the grates.
Unfortunately, Inod had miscalculated. His intention to cook the goblins alive with super-heated steam was ineffectual; there was only enough steam to create a sauna, and a crappy one at that.
So what else was there to do but kill them then and there?
So that was my little project: attempt to create a room where steam would shoot up and kill whoever was above, but all I did was create a really crappy prison over an obsidian-generator.
There were few notable events in my brief time here: a miner went kooky and built a throne, but otherwise, it was business as usual.
It is now 5th of Felsite, year 11.