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[Fishybang]

Can i get a dorf named after me? preferably a male spear dorf.

[Masked_Hunter1825]

Scout challenges kangaroo!

[varnish]

((Scout will get his chance, soon!))

From the Memoirs of Wilberforce Amber Ropenourished

The plan was put into effect today! And it was, if I may say, a dizzying, astonishing... what’s the thing that’s midway between failure and success? That thing.
The trap bridge was built, a slim span hovering over a deep chasm. Fortunately the underground tunnels have been generous with those, so there was little need for digging. The tapir didn’t seem to be interested in attacking us, so a trio of goblin prisoners were released into the magma pumps (safely walled off, of course) in order to tempt him up.



Well, the goblins ran down the stairs, shrieking in whatever their language is, and the tapir came up after them, ready for glorious battle! The fight was brief: A goblin swung at the beast, the beast dodged, found itself standing on open space, and fell all the way back down to the level of the forges!



Not quite what we intended, and not enough to kill him, but a good attempt nonetheless. He’s now lying crippled at the bottom of the pump stack. I suppose we’ve got to get down there and slay the fellow. I’m sure Neo and the Scout will be willing to lead the charge.

Unfortunately, all is not well in the rest of Oceanbridge. Professor Featherlog went “berserk”, as they say, and tried to kill all who approached her. As she was still chained in prison, this was not a large number, but Derm deemed it safer to stop her, and he did it in his own, personal way.



Unpleasant.

Still, one beast crippled, the other safely sequestered in the depths? I think we'll hold on for another year.

I think it's safely sequestered, at least.



....................

Next: It Isn't.


((You'll be dwarfed by the next update, Fishybang. Presuming anyone is still alive.))

[neo1096]

I just read the noxious secretions part of the beast's description. So, now dreading looking forward to the next update.

[Haika]

ohgodohgodohgod.... My fears have been realized on contagious stuff... XD

Is Roy even still alive after all this?

[Ishar]

It's nice to see my plan worked - at least partially. What's up with that kangaroo? I may have missed something, but the last thing I can grasp from your posts is that it arrived, and didn't really do shit.

Btw, Carila is going to end up dead reeeeal quickly, bleeding like that. In my experience, it's very hard to kill forgotten beasts with decisive, deadly blows, but blood loss is still an issue for most of them, and it seems to me that these are mortal wounds. The militia may not be needed for the task.

[varnish]

The kangaroo is coming up the stairs, but I'm not sure if he can get in. Can a forgotten beast kangaroo hop up a waterfall? We may find out.

Soonish. I got family visiting, so, busy times. I want to bake the fanciest cake..

[Ishar]

Just a yes/no question: are you alive?

[Masked_Hunter1825]

Throw things at the tapir.

[varnish]

Just a yes/no question: are you alive?

Yes!

Throw things at the tapir.

I threw dwarfs.

Edit: I am still going to finish this.

Also edit! There's a new version out? Dang it!

[varnish]

From the Memoirs of Wilberforce Amber Ropenourished:

Disaster, dear readers, disaster! Compounded by catastrophe, and stewed together with a heady blend of serious problems.

I apologize. I realize that I make little sense here. I am writing in a rush, as uncertainty rules the hour right now.

Neo led a fine band of soldiers down into the depths, ready to do battle with whatever awaited them. Of course, what awaited them was a giant monstrous tapir and a demonic oozing kangaroo, and one can only be so ready for that sort of thing.

We thought that the tapir beast would be mortally wounded from its fall, and we didn’t know that the kangaroo existed at the time. “Had we but known,” etc.

Sadly, the tapir was quite ready for a fight, and I am told that it reared on its hind hoofs and smashed Neo’s head in like duck’s egg; however one smashes one of them. Two new recruits followed him.



 Had our miner and chief medical dwarf not been there, it might have gone very poorly indeed. As it was, she dealt blow that finally killed the beast.



All well and good! The beast finally slain, cake and booze all around. Or blood and death, as the case might be.



But it was at that moment that Tuthu, the kangaroo monster showed up. He killed two recruits and a glazer before retiring to the old furnace room.



The survivors fled back up stairs, of course, where unhappiness and misery now reign. Ishar, Peregar and I have got a plan to trap him there which I hope will work. Can’t afford many more deaths here. I’m not sure I can take it, myself.

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Next: Giants, Goblins, Wolves, and The End

((Well, this is it. Abort, Reclaim, or Fail?))

[neo1096]

Remake in 0.34.01?

[varnish]

((That's one thing I'm considering! Not sure, though. Anyway: I wasn't kidding. Shit went down.))

The (Second) Fall of Oceanbridge

Recorded by Aban Brothertreaties


No, ok, I’m writing it down! I’m writing it right now! Listen, what else would I be doing with a pen and paper? What? No, I’m not going to do that!

Wait, maybe I shouldn’t be writing down everything I think.

Well, Wilberforce and the rest failed. The kangaroo thing wasn’t trapped. It hopped its way all the way up the pump stack into the fortress itself, in fact, and, in fact, it made it through the line of weapon traps without a scratch. (Surprising? No.)  To the credit of everyone, really, we tried to fight it off.



Most everyone died, eventually. Croaker, Roy, and all of them. Those of us who didn’t die, hid.

Then the Jotunar came.



And they were followed by the goblins, led by their general.



And those things called beak wolves decided to show up, too. Just for fun.



We had no soldiers left. There was no one who could even pull the levers that triggered the gate, or Peregar’s collapsing wall trap, (Peregar died too, by the way) or anything. At least, not anyone sane enough. The cage traps stopped a few, I think, but considering there were several hundred...

You don't want to know what it looked like when the broke into the fortress proper.



Giants don't believe in pity. Ishar and her surviving child were crushed, (Ishar made no attempt to run.) Derm and the Scout made a stand. They died.

Wilberforce was one of the last to die. I tried to convince him to come with us, but he just looked at me, smiled faintly, and said, “A Ropenourished never runs.”



Is it odd, or appropriate that me, Remalle and Karakzon are some of the only ones left alive? We made it down into one of the newer tombs after the goblins broke the doors holding the waterfall back. I hope the flood killed them all, but that’s probably too much to ask. I told them that I was myself (they weren’t surprised) and I explained what I’d been told. About how the god Rakust had been trapped by some ancient ritual, and how the creation of the bridge was meant to free him, and make the whole cycles of life and death work again. I don’t know if they believed me.

It’s not important, anyway. The door is closed and locked, but I’m sure that it won’t last. This is it. Oceanbridge has fallen. It’ll make an impressive ruin, at least! It’s a pity none of us will be alive to see it.

You said we were cursed, Tholtig, and you were right, I guess.

Anyway, this is the last record of Aban Brothertreaties, book keeper and founder of Oceanbridge. If you find it, remember: We did the best we could.

Ha! That's a lie. We never had any clue what we were doing. And now it's done.



..................................

((So, if it wasn't clear: Kangaroo beast escapes, goes on rampage. Shortly after, three sieges arrive within one day of each other. It was too much to take. Each one separately, maybe, but not the combination. I'm open to ideas on where to go from here, if anywhere!))

[Dermonster]

Did I at least take a lot of the bastards down with me?

[Alkhemia]

Another good run, no fortress can last forever specially with Fortress Defense so what your next plan?