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[Loud Whispers]

Wierd thing to note here, the caged minatour grew up in one year.

Not only that, the minatour is running around my fortress somewhere, all of the rhino's, giant badgers, giant cheetahs, giant jaguars and all the other exotic beasties are missing.
Corpses have disappeared... And a lot of my fortress is pitch black, for some reason it's being treated as an undicscovered cavern o-o

And what else...
SUCCESS!!! CONSTRUCTED ARTIFACTS DO STAY ALIVE AFTER RECLAIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the goblins, all the previous friendlies are dead, the hostiles are dead (though my dwarves had a more direct influence there) and the minatour has pretty much claimed half of my fortress. Damn.

Well that was an interesting ending. BACK TO THE TESTING!!!!

*Edit, found the hostile goblins... Well I say find loosely.
20~ levels below my fortress it says there's an ambush! Drive them out! in the pitch black that was once some nice hallways.
I feel sorry for my reclaiming 7.
**Edit damn, looks like everything that wasn't friendly or tame is living in my fortress.
The dark looks suddenly very scary.......

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I never knew >can equip< creatures would wield my stuff. Half expected to see goblins running around in addy armour :S
***Upon trying to reach the crypts and nature reserve (which covered in black looked scarily like the caverns), the Minatour appeared, blocking the single passage way through.
It cleaved a cat in front of it in two, and proceeded to literally run through and cleave all of the humans into many pieces without breaking step.
****I use modded humans to reclaim fortresses I have no intention of keeping - party of acheologists idea ^_^
*****Dare I reclaim again?
******Dare I shall, I will embark with a few more dwarves/humans wielding silver war hammers in an attempt to rediscover what has happened to the lost civilisations. I'm really trying to find those goblins......

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Armed with copper shields, war dogs and silver war hammers, the 7 humans have been sent to find out just what happened to archaeologist team 4.
The minatour is nowhere to be seen, even more of my fortress is now hidden with the shroud, and it still says there is an ambush within my fortress, which at least means there are hostile goblin villagers still in my fort.
I think I'm going to check out the nature reserve first, then look for the minatour.
I found the minatour. It's standing in the same hallway. It's got more blood covered on it, and more of it's goblin.
Hilariously, the minatour's gone from being a caged guest (as a child) to an uninvited guest that's slaughtering all of the humans and goblins that try to get into the catacombs... He he loyal thing. But I really need to see the goblin village.......
***Ps the nature reserve is empty.
No goblins.
No corpses.
Not even a sign of fungus. My fortress has become one large coffin.

[King DZA]

That sounds horrifying. Reclaim again.

[Loud Whispers]

I'll just be editing my past post to keep things clean... Man this minatour has really learnt from the dwarves. Perhaps I designed my defences too well - I did not expect them to be used against me.

The 7 human guardsmen have holed up in a burrow (miners didn't finish digging, makes a good chokepoint).
The minatour is sprinting towards something, hopefully it hasn't smelt my humans.

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Goodness gracious me, the minatour is getting stronger, faster and deadlier. A war dog for some reason decided to stay above ground, which is what the minatour was looking for.
The dog didn't stand a chance, the minatour hacked it in the upper body, crushing ribs, twisting the axe out and cutting it's head off. Before the dog even took a step.
Anyways, I've taken this chance to try and run through the passage ways while the minatour is distracted... Have to find those GOBLINS!!
*More edits
HA HA HA I KNEW BRING BUNNIES WOULD BE WORTH IT!!! The minatour is busying itself slaughtering bunnies and yaks I brought with some spare Urist dollars, I think I'll be able to reach the goblin's that have made their home in my fort.
Just hope I can get to them... They're 24 ~ below the humans right now and ALL of the wild animals are somewhere in the dark.
Wierdly enough, the bunnies have been the fiercest fighter.
One of them took 5 steel axe blows in a row before bleeding to death.
AH HAH! I HAVE CAUGHT THE MINATOUR! It chased bunnies into my ballista battery and I locked the door behind it....
Aw crap it's climbing up my scaffholding.
Ah well, I've almost reached floor 24, and there are a large armount of weapons scattered everywhere.
EUREKA! Trapped it inside a noble's bedroom when it chased a yak inside it. Locked the door behind it.
Convieniently, I put weapon traps inside it to increase the value.
If I reclaim them it's bye bye minatour... But there is a goblin thief outside.
I wonder if the minatour and goblin would fight... Can't believe I'm doing this but I'm going to let the minatour go.
Ok, the thief ran away, after trying to fight the minatour.
The minatour left the thief alone when some war dogs attacked it, the minatour was unharmed and both dogs were dispatched too quickly.
Plus, I have reached my destination.
And I see mutilated goblin corpses in the distance.

[Loud Whispers]

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This is scary. The goblins are mutilated corpses.
The animals are gone. The minatour is rampaging through my own fortress.
I am really glad I tested this out before I broke the cavern layer.

SEE?!! MY PARANOIA WAS JUSTIFIED!!!

My only regret is the minatour is hoarding the only picks I have.
If I could map this... I could snag some wafers without having to breach the caverns at all in the main save.......

[Loud Whispers]

Just think if it wasn't for the minatour, I would be seeing live happy hostile goblins chanting around adamantine spires :[

*edit
Found the sight of something horrific...
Piles of dead bodies.
Looks like in the end, the goblins holed up together (WE HAVE PROVEN GOBLIN COMMUNITIES AMONG DIFFERENT SOCIAL GROUPS!!!!!! YAAAAY!), fought with my giant cave badgers, native crundles and bugbats and the minatour was the one to end it.

Have to find out where this addy spire leads too.... This is rather peculiar.

[King DZA]

Sounds like stuff straight out of a horror movie. Hopefully my trip to the caverns will be a little more orderly, and won't end up adding any more things to my SINTGD list(like forging more sarcophagi).

Currently, the only visable living thing in there is plantlife, and a small tribe of olm people, peacefully attending their business atop an underground mountain. Who knows, perhaps the little scouting trip will go along smoothly, without any casualties on either side. And I can get to constructing that test facility.
/wishfulthinking

[Loud Whispers]

King Dza, to be honest I think most of the horrors in the fortress are my fault ;_;

But there is hope...

I found... A LIVE GOBLIN!!
A simple thief, he's friendly, but a CRAP TON of serpent men and swallow men are edging closer to it.... And my humans.
I MUST SAVE THIS GOBLIN!!!

Though I think it's just my luck that all of my caverns are particularly Fun.
It's a damn good thing I backed up my save ;P

Spoiler: yes more edits... But a beautiful sight nonetheless.
The last goblin  :'( (click to show/hide)

[Loud Whispers]

I've never been more happy to see a goblni...
SAVING PRIVATE NAKO!!

Does anyone want to see the pile of corpses?
This is philosophy in the truest sense.

[Loud Whispers]

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Looks like we know for a fact goblins learn, work together and congregate around each other for support, and will all divert their attention to doing the same task of utmost importance, that rivals on sheer dwarven zealousy.
But why would they seek demons for leaders?
Back to the theory board....

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It took an entire cave swallow civ to take him down, but the minatour died

[Necro910]

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Looks like we know for a fact goblins learn, work together and congregate around each other for support, and will all divert their attention to doing the same task of utmost importance, that rivals on sheer dwarven zealousy.
But why would they seek demons for leaders?
Back to the theory board....

So they can have a giant, three-headed, plague spewing monster has their ultimate weapon, of course!

They need something to help get through 

[Loud Whispers]

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So they can have a giant, three-headed, plague spewing monster has their ultimate weapon, of course!

They need something to help get through 

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But the goblin law giver was already inside my fortress when... Ah I see now.
I captured that goblin, and stuffed him in my "nature reserve". When he escaped he must've sought for the help of a demon to get past the minatour.
Makes sense.
King Dza, once you get your test's done we'll be able to make a solid conclusion! (I have said that so many times in this thread :S).
Plus I'll be able to re build my nature reserve in my past save, and redo the gobllin civ

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 Found another goblin, a maceman, running away from serpent men. Died of suffocation. Maybe was scouting...?
*Going to kill the law giver. Wonder if his friends will switch sides and attack the humans.
**Answer, no. And the attack was brutal. The goblin was smashed to pieces by the warhammers.
***The cave swallow that dealt the killing blow to the minatour is now friendly....??
****When I attacked the goblin thief, it struck first. Speed, or did it switch sides when I killed the law giver?
*****Goblins remain friendly even when fighting your dwarves o-o
******


At this point I'm not even going to deny it.
The goblins are trying to summon demons everywhere. There are goblins everywhere, clustering around the adamantine.
There are only 2 able bodied Humans left, and even those two are bleeding to death slowly.
There are definitely more goblins I originally put in the nature reserve....

[King DZA]

Perhaps...we have had it wrong all this time. If the goblins are really the ones in control, summoning the inhabitants of hell at their will for whatever purpose they see fit(a general, leader, lawgiver, ect.),not only would it mean that we have greatly underestimated them, or that they have mastered dark arts beyond imagination, but that they have the ability to somehow tame demons.

Then again, there,s always the possibility that they are desperate in their struggle for survival, and are attempting to releasing the fiends of hell as a last resort. but that wouldn't really explain the extra goblins you found.

Interesting...

[Wannazzaki]

Perhaps...we have had it wrong all this time. If the goblins are really the ones in control, summoning the inhabitants of hell at their will for whatever purpose they see fit(a general, leader, lawgiver, ect.),not only would it mean that we have greatly underestimated them, or that they have mastered dark arts beyond imagination, but that they have the ability to somehow tame demons.

Then again, there,s always the possibility that they are desperate in their struggle for survival, and are attempting to releasing the fiends of hell as a last resort. but that wouldn't really explain the extra goblins you found.

Interesting...

They have fat guys sat at dwarven computers running Runesmith. Goblin's are just examples of THE AI IS A CHEATING BASTARD

[Loud Whispers]

Well, it looks like we now have a justified reason to building doomsday weapons to kill all sons of goblins.

The goblins are building their own doomsday weapons.

THOSE GOBLINS!!!!

*Edit, a goblin maceman just singlehandedly took down a goblin bowman ambush and a swordsgoblin ambush, with a copper mace, without getting a single scratch.
Bat Goblin does not want the evil goblin's plans to come to fruition.
**Remember the law giver I found in the addy spires? Well I found him in my previous save.
Rather, I caught him. Two ambushes have just gutted two dwarves (a hunter and a peasant), and my militia commander was injured but has healed quickly.
The Goblin Maceman is still kicking ass.
***3 goblin lasher ambushes just attacked right when my minatour had gotten loose again. Going to have to savescum to continue testing, and this time it's not on purpose :/
[I should be more careful with putting semi mega-beasts inside my fortress, and then arming them]

[Loud Whispers]

Err, guys, I think I've just discovered the greatest goblin killer since toasted magma.

Hostile goblins do NOT attack goblins of their own civ, even if they're friendly.
Friendly goblins on the other hand, are all too happy too.

Spoiler: DAH PROOF OF DAH !!SCIENCE!! (click to show/hide)

*edit, fixed broken img