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[Cheveux]

I wonder what you have in mind for my character slowly going insane.


Also, concerning the poll, I propose you make an arena or something like that and pit them against whatever you want, but give them training weapons and if they get enough training (Something like talented or adept) they get to live and join the military.

[Firelordsky]

 Can I be dwarfed as the bone doctor please?
EDIT: Also how about we execute the heretics(migrants) by placing them outside and after 9/10 of them die bring the survivors in.
Survival of the fittest ftw.

[katana]

Problem is we have easy access outside. So, firelordsky as the bone doctor?

@Cheveux, just from overwork atm. For now.

[katana]

7
OOC: noticed that last chapter had no quote.
Cheveux's diary
Limestone, yr 3 of Starwound
I appreciate being the fortress' weaponsmith and all, it's nice to be recognized. But it's just so painful to know that any blade must be a masterpiece, or the metal will be wasted. I'm not sure if Katana was joking when he said he'd lock me out if I failed to make that aoryl longsword. The pressure just gets painful, really. Nobody makes perfect masterpieces every time... Nobody. At least I'm only screwing up with the serrated disks.
Should I have been a farmer? No, that would just make me expendable. I guess everything good comes with a price. Plus I wouldn't get to work with atyl or longswords... Maybe if I had been a carpenter I'd at least get to work with blood thorn... No... Being a weaponsmith was a good idea.


Sandstone, 3
We'll build the "atom smasher" that jaxy proposed, and then a sealed off area where any "migrants" will be isolated before being pit against a variety of enemies. Cheveux will make a ryl longsword for them to use. Dsarker is actually producing quite a few masterpieces, but we all agree she's not quite ready to make armor for the soldiers.
Near the end of the month, the "atom smasher" designed by Jaxy was complete.

Timber, 3
Rith the hunter had his right hand bitten off by a giant olm. Which he then killed. Well, brought extremely close to death. He basically ignored the wound and carried on hunting. He even helped dump items. When we finish, we'll be able to begin on the migrant "arena". An ancient ettin was spotted, and quickly killed. Suddenly, ambush! Bowmen! Civilians, get inside or get shot!

Right. Stay calm, it's only a squad.
ANOTHER AMBUSH!
Oh great, now there are lashers too. Let's get out th- and there are more. And more. And more... Hopefully the caravan guards will help! They're too far. This is going to be hard. And to think I slept through it all...
Ilral (mechanic/siege operator) was killed, and many of the military wounded. A caravan guard was also killed. It was a painful month, but Starwound lives on. Then, NRDL picked the perfect moment to go fey.

Moonstone, 3
OOC: sudden FPS drop is worrying D: On the bright side atom smashing brought the FPS up by 12.
A deadstone millstone. How nice. The first baby of the fortress has grown to be a child, Atomic Avocado and Califier's son. Cheveux has now made a ryl longsword, masterwork of course. This, along with a gryl breastplate, will be given to any migrants.

Opal, 3
Mid winter. I'm expecting some more of those ryl things to arrive.
Cheveux's diary
Opal 3rd,
I'm so scared. I messed up on making aoryl battle axes! Katana mustn't know that I wasted the precious metal. Melt it, quickly! Agh! Why can't I get this right? I give up, I'm not ready to handle that metal... Longswords are the only thing I can make really. Katana's too busy sparring, maybe he won't notice the smaller amount of aoryl in the stockpiles.

Opal 7th,
I can't believe it! I couldn't even make a perfect atyl battle axe! But I thought I knew atyl so well... I envy the hunter. He can shoot all he wants and nobody cares as long as he brings back anything. And everything I have to do has to be perfect. I hope I'll get something out of this.


Dsarker gave birth to another child, a girl this time. We've been promoted to a barony! I'm recommending Cheveux for all his work. One of my bolts disappeared, probably due to a bad shot by the hunter. It was a masterwork, but I've made more... Conan now has another child, a girl.
Strangely, a sapphire man diplomat arrived, said we had carved out a nice place, and left... Through the caverns. Although they do live in caverns, so the last part isn't that strange. But still... Was he implying something?

Obsidian, 3
Was that something in the distance? Or am I just being paranoid... Then I heard NRDL scream TROLL! It was quickly dealt with. Cheveux asked for more stuff, a child grew up, life went on...
Then we found a plump helmet man holding a bag and wearing a mask inside one of the entrance cage traps. Followed by:

My squad goes to meet the swordsmen, Conan, you lead the defense. If they ever reach that. And then we were ambushed by... Plump helmet men. Wow. Next time we should try to kill them closer to the entrane so there's less hauling. And then...

and upon its death...

And then an ancient ettin ambush. Which, surprisingly, was the most normal thing to happen this month. I've been feeling uneasy, and Ifeno seems to agree... As expected, another ambush. Or two. They always seem to attack while I sleep. One hammerdwarf died, and another was wounded. And a... cavy... died of old age.

[Firelordsky]

 Yay i get to be a surgeon the most life-saving job.

[katana]

8 A troglodyte decided to try and attack Jaxy, who promptly smashed its head in (WITH HIS DAMN BARE FISTS). He then decided to clean the mess, very angrily.

Granite, 4
Our glassmaker just went fey. Cap gold, jasper opals, tower cap, and a masterwork slik cloth made by our now dead weaver, that's all he took. Meanwhile, the pastures are being expanded and armor is being made for the military. Most soldiers will have ryl, while I personally have a set of ethyl. All elite soldiers will also get one aoryl chain hood and one chain cloak. BrickT and our legendary door maker are now officially married. Then suddenly, we get this random crappy glass earring. At least the guy is now legendary.
Some time later, a girl was born. NRDL now has a daughter. Always a good or a bad thing. Thing is, I suddenly felt uneasy.
OOC: a sudden 20+ FPS drop does that to people.

Slate, 4
It seems one of the children was caged along with a plump helmet man, who was quickly executed to free him.

OOC NOTE: You may name your children, and decide what job they get when they grow up. If you chose not to, they will be available for dwarfing, and/or will be given a job by me. Current children:
Onol (male)
Owners: Califier/Atomic Avocado

Ingish (male)
Owners: Conan

Logem (male)
Owners: Dsarker/Cheveux

Ushrir (female)
Owners: NRDL

Sibrek (female)
Owners: Dsarker/Cheveux

Uddil (female)
Owners: Conan

Kol (female)
Owners: NRDL

Felsite, 4
Sapphire men have arrived! Then,

Whaaaa... Why are we using aoryl cages anyway? They should be m-Ettin ambush. On the bright side, the sapphire men effectively brought a squad of soldiers to guard the caravan. Libash the axedwarf's left foot was cut. The merchant's guild representative was killed, and collapsed into what seemed to be a star sapphire. And for some reason, elves came. Didn't they get the message? We were then ambushed by ryl beasts...

The sapphire men had noticed them too. When Conan came back saying it was easy, all they said was it wasn't over yet, that was only just the beginning. The ruby men too.

Hematite, 4
Then they noticed the slade anvil. Then they started looking at the adamantine by the volcano... Out of nowhere, more ryl beasts ambushed us. Easy to deal with, but somewhat unsettling how they fought. Always mechanical, the same actions, and not caring for their own safety. Just charging mindlessly towards the cages... They're not even alive, are they? Why the cages? Were they looking for something?
Jaxy's diary
Hematite 1st,
Ryl beasts are interesting... creatures? I was allowed to observe one of our caged ones, and it looks like they're made entirely of mechanisms, with a thick layer of metal plating on top. Looking at some of the dismembered fragments, there was a lot of complex machinery in there, and strangely, a small amount of ruby, at least I think that shiny crystal-thing was ruby. If we had a jeweler, we could look more closely. All I know is that these things were made by something, and that something is better than us with machinery.
Maybe when everyone finishes hauling stuff, we can ask people something. Their actual weapons, I think I can ask Cheveux about.

Cheveux's diary
Hematite 3rd,
Jaxy asked me about the swords and spears that the ryl beasts (we decided to call them that) were carrying. They were "poorly crafted", but more like worn down and blunt from overuse. Nothing like the gremlin's weapons, which are a result of sucking at weaponsmithing, and using impure metal. These looked like above average quality weapons, just overused against hard surfaces.
Now the slade anvil... That's just weird. I mean, why did we call it a slade anvil? Probably because records show the only substance that heavy is slade. But what IS slade? It just doesn't look like a metal... A stone? No fortress has ever found any while mining. It's obviously not wood.


Quick count of our weapons grade metals:
1x silver
12x copper
4x bronze
10x steel
3x bismuth bronze
29x ryl
6x gryl
12x gryl
17x atyl
8x cap iron
24x aoryl
42x cap gold

We have a lot of cap gold. Let's make it our armor metal. We can use that slade anvil for now, but if anybody complains, it will be removed. Then our metalcrafter went fey. We were having a troglodyte issue, but I was determined not to let it end like last time. There were troglodyte bits everywhere afterwards. Luckily for our metalsmith, we actually did have yarn.
A troglodyte decided to try and attack Jaxy, who promptly smashed its head in (WITH HIS DAMN BARE FISTS). He then decided to clean the mess, very angrily.

Oh great! I forgot to mint last year's lead coins!

[ztyler]

My son needs to live up to his daddy's reputation.
TO THE MILITARY!

[katana]

What weapon?

[katana]

9
Sorry for the lack of updates, I blame minecraft.

Malachite, 4
Things have been going, well, normally! There's a lot of hauling going on, and we got this:

There's a lot of food and stuff. Yeah. Armor is being made, lots of great work from dsarker. Cheveux has banned the export of longswords. Well that's nice, we don't export them anyway. There was a slight troglodyte issue, but that was quickly taken care of.

Galena, 4
The humans have arrived.

And found this? Then there were a then huge amount of ambushes. With less food-like enemies.

At first, my squad went out to meet the enemies. Things went well until Libash was incapacitated, when firelordsky went to rescue her. However, an archer had shot him in the foot. Meanwhile, the recruit squad of the military were somewhat injured, but capable of fighting.
Just as the archer was about to shoot firelordsky again, Sarvesh the speardwarf attacked it from behind, and then killed it. As the remaining enemies retreated, the sapphire men came agian. Cheveux's cheek was grazed, but he's alright. Some soldiers are in the hospital, but none dead. One of the humans had a fractued kidney. The human law giver arrived as well.
The moment he arrived, he did everything possible to insult us. Does he think he can avoid death just by being in a high position? Well, he's wrong.

Limestone, 4
A ryl beast ambush was spotted by the hunter, who luckily had been smart enough to practice dodging attacks. We reached the site quickly, and suffered no losses. A ruby man was killed, and strangely, collapsed into a star ruby similarly to how the ryl beasts collapsed into a mechanism.

Strangely, Firelordsky had effectively given up on life. He refused to eat and drink. So in the end, he threw a tantrum hopelessly.

Sandstone, 4
In the middle of all the hospital chaos, Dsarker gave birth to another boy.
OOC: He was dragging a dwarf to the hospital when shot. Then when he was dragged to the hospital, he was basically ignored, not even on resting status. Ah ffs.

Amazingly, Firelordsky started to regain some sanity, and accepted some water. He felt terrible and threw a tantrum, but also accepted food. By this time, everyone else was out of the hospital. Our armorer was possessed, and after we made a few stone blocks, began gathering materials.

Suddenly, Cheveux mandates the construction of mittens.

[Firelordsky]

 Cold-hearted people they didn't feed me.

[katana]

For some reason you were "no job" instead of rest. You're lucky to survive, went like 2 months without anything.

[UristMcHuman]

Name: Urist McHuman
Gender: Male
Professions: Sharpshooter.
Skills: Crackshot (Expert) Marksdwarf, Adept Swordsdwarf, Skilled Weaponsmith.
Personality:
Not bloody much to say for that...

[Cheveux]

Mittens for everyone!

[katana]

Name: Urist McHuman
Gender: Male
Professions: Sharpshooter.
Skills: Crackshot (Expert) Marksdwarf, Adept Swordsdwarf, Skilled Weaponsmith.
Personality:
Not bloody much to say for that...

I hope you don't mind having only one hand. Let's try and make you a weaponsmith, you'll be using those bolts. Why the swords though?

[katana]

10
Black ops this time >:U
Plus, playing 40d just to watch stuff go flying.

Timber, 4
I just can't figure out what she wants. We're making more stone blocks, and cloth is wanted? I have no idea what to make of these requests... The only kind of cloth we don't have is yarn, so let's see if that was the request. Sadly, we don't actually have any weavers after the troglodyte incident.
Firelordsky finally regained sanity, and while unhappy, actually went to get his own food instead of being fed like a baby. Meanwhile, NRDL is (badly) attempting to create some sort of tangled mess that could pass for yarn. I think. I hope his beard doesn't get mixed up with the yarn.