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[ThatAussieGuy]

I was doing some work on the quarry level and noticed this

Spoiler:  I've used quite a bit of gabbro for the walls and buildings (click to show/hide)

I think that's... a quarter?  a third of it all?  Close to half?  And you all said it was overkill...

HEY LOOK! THERE'S A FACE IN THAT PICTURE!

I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE HFS BRO
I TOLD YOU DOG

...What?

Agreed.  I mean, Hell is mine now.  The only thing down there to fear is me now, I guess.

...wait, have I made myself the dwarf equivalent of the devil by claiming Hell as my own? 




The lakebottom is engraved and I'm building a channel to fill the lake.  If I've done it right, floodgates should kick in automatically to prevent flooding.  If I'm wrong, I really hope the dwarves are quick on pulling the lever.  Oh, and there's now one pit left to floor over.  I'll do a proper update with pics soon, maybe later tonight.

[ThatAussieGuy]

This will be, most likely, the first of three final updates,  as I'm fairly certain that I've done everything to Hell that can be done.  If it were a person, it'd be curled up in the fetal position.  Dwarves would be standing over it.  And, of course, the dwarves would be laughing.


First off, here's the lakebed ready to be filled

Spoiler:  Lake No-name-as-yet (come on guys, I know one of you has a good dwarven one...) (click to show/hide)

That purple 'beartrap' is a pressure plate.  I don't have much experience with them, but I'm hoping it will close the floodgates as water passes over it at a certain level (in this case; 6/7)

Next up,

Spoiler:  The Dwarven Aquaduct (click to show/hide)

This will carry water down one of the adamantine spires and out over the lakebed.  Instead of just dropping water over the South-Street Villas

and finally;

Spoiler:  The final exposed Glowing Pit (click to show/hide)

The masons are currently working on it as I type this

As for the SWORDTHUNDERS sign, the dwarves are currently logging with an elf-hating vengeance outside to get enough wood for the border.

[Eric Blank]

May the dorf be with you, oh conqueror of the infinite armies and master of the un-tameable.

This is indeed a grand achievement. Have you uploaded to the DFMA yet?

[EveryZig]

I thought you named it Lake Eyre?

If not, there is also my suggestion on page 62.

[ThatAussieGuy]

I thought you named it Lake Eyre?

If not, there is also my suggestion on page 62.

Oh, I think I did too.

May the dorf be with you, oh conqueror of the infinite armies and master of the un-tameable.

This is indeed a grand achievement. Have you uploaded to the DFMA yet?

I actually don't know how.  I'll work it out once I've gotten everything done so the map that goes up on the DFMA will be the finished version

[Loud Whispers]

The lake of golden soaps?

[ThatAussieGuy]

I'm filling Lake Eyre now.  I had to sacrifice a kitten to do it.  Well, I say 'sacrifice' but what I mean is it got into the channel after following a dwarf in as he linked up the floodgates and I couldn't be bothered getting the little bugger out before PULLING THE LEVER.

[Mego]

Why did you consider getting the kitten out, rather than putting ALL of the cats/kittens in the channel with it?

[ThatAussieGuy]

Why did you consider getting the kitten out, rather than putting ALL of the cats/kittens in the channel with it?

....Damn, didn't think of that.


Okay so far the lake has been filled, buuuut Grath is in hospital.  He and Karakzon, hereafter known as "the dumbasses", opened the doors into the aquaduct and got a facefull of water that knocked them off the walkway.  Karakzon's fine with minor injuries, but Grath has a broken ear and leg.  He was also starving and thirsty by the time he was hauled off to hospital, so it's even-odds of him surviving.

edit: I was wrong - Karakzon's hospitalized too with a broken arm and leg.  She's also starving and thirsty.  I'll keep an eye on the pair of them with fingers crossed that someone will take the time to deliver water and food to them.  Really should move the hospital down into Hell too >.>....

[Loud Whispers]

Kittens that swim? Plus, how do you break an ear?

[Tiruin]

Do we still have a steady head-count of 19?

[ThatAussieGuy]

Do we still have a steady head-count of 19?

We do, but I'm worried about Grath and Karakzon being in hospital while starving and thirsty.  Just hoping someone will keep them fed and drunk while they recover

edit:  I just cleared Doby the Fry Cook's labor menu down to cooking, taking care of the wounded and hauling food.  He didn't have a current job, so that might get him up and tending to the dumbasses

[ThatAussieGuy]

Well, the dwarves are uncaring bastards.  RIP Grath and Karakzon.  Both died unconcious in hospital of either starvation or dehydration.

[Eric Blank]

I feel your grief. Or am I feeling your agitation at losing yet more of your labor force? It's hard to tell...

I too am about to lose a dwarf to crappy medical care; One of my rangers that caught an FB syndrome was never treated besides being cleaned. Everything is rotten, and apparently he's slowly losing blood. He's gone from perfectly fine, to faint, and now flashing pale. The end is nigh, dear Rovod.
The good news? He doesn't have any friends whatsoever, in a fortress where 2/3s of the populace is idling at any given time. I've crammed him between a rock and a hard place (some walls and a door) because he was stuck in that corner anyway, and the miasma was killing the other dorfs using the beds. Can't dig it out to drop him a z-level, or drop anything near him, because of an inconveniently placed aquifer.

Oh damn. The instant I unpaused the game, like literally the next frame, he died "of infection". Huh.
He had dog mammaries in his backpack.

[ThatAussieGuy]

All my dwarves seem to have become loners.  They don't really care about anyone else except themselves.  They're very happy though. 


Progress on the last pit is going okay, though I keep getting them to do other small tasks like mass-smoothing/engraving of areas.  I'm also making something that should give you all a small chuckle too.  Oh, and I've planned a grand ending to the fortress that DOESN'T involve magma (though I will show the magma-filling ending too), but should be deemed satisfying.  I will, of course, put up a savegame before I execute it.