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[ajr]

You know what would be cool? If we mined out a drain chasm to some part of the caverns that would have steel drawbridges connecting parts to each other and both sides would have their own farms etc. so we could seal up the chasm if something big and flying approaches. The other side would be for the good people and the other for the nameless and immigrants and visitors. All wealth would be placed on the shining side.

[Jilladilla]

Actually roofing off a structure will have absolutely no effect on it freezing--once a square is exposed to the light of day, it is forever outside and will definitely freeze.  I learned that the hard way with a glass tower in a tundra once.  It was supposed to dispense icy death.  It dispensed free icy pumps.

huh... well we can just pump magma up under the trench so it will remain operational during winter, well i think we would eventually do that anyway so... (for magma floods/convient magma forges)

[thegoatgod_pan]

I wish I could but I owe an adviser 20 as of yet unwritten pages by the 15th, so I am rather looking forward to the 16th when I can be free to devote all my time to the Inn of Drowning.

[ajr]

if you like you can sign for double turns this month

[thegoatgod_pan]

I think I will just make my turn (16th-19th)the full (de jure) three days--I will be traveling to a conference throughout, so I doubt I will go beyond the de facto year-in-game-time limit by more than another year (or two).  Still I promise lots of pics and much writing in character, and the like. And probably a working drowning trap by the time I am done. Ideally one that uses the remains of the pump assembly properly.  It will be the golden age of the Inn of Drowning, or its demise, or something.  My bet is on "or something"

[thegoatgod_pan]

Specifically I am thinking of building a second, shorter access entrance opposite the dodge-em walkway.  This one would drop below into a hallway wired to flood (or freeze) and then drain automatically (if frozen it would need to be dug out), leaving only one goblin alive (the one that triggered the pressure plate, ideally also the one caught in a cage trap after the plate). The flooding would presumably sever that route into the fort, forcing invaders to reroute past our archers into the already hard-to-cross dodge-em. The only problem with this design is ghosts, who will cause impromptu floods by opening the water-holding doors/floodgate, but I will try to iron out the kinks in the design in the process of building it.

[Jilladilla]

use bridges instead of floodgates? so its cave croc proof and awesomer

[thegoatgod_pan]

Bridges would work, trouble is bridges have a delay, which means the hallway of hostiles, might clear before it floods--i never even used floodgates in the design for this very reason. Hatches would work too, don't think ghosts fiddle with hatches.

[Jilladilla]

Bridges would work, trouble is bridges have a delay, which means the hallway of hostiles, might clear before it floods--i never even used floodgates in the design for this very reason. Hatches would work too, don't think ghosts fiddle with hatches.

floodgates have a delay too... most lever things have a delay...

[Loud Whispers]

Bridges would work, trouble is bridges have a delay, which means the hallway of hostiles, might clear before it floods--i never even used floodgates in the design for this very reason. Hatches would work too, don't think ghosts fiddle with hatches.

floodgates have a delay too... most lever things have a delay...

Masterwork mekkies should solve the prob... To a certain degree.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I think bridge delay and floodgate delay is much longer than hatch and door delay, esp. with pressure plates, which don't depend on a lever being pulled at just the right moment.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Paper is done, time to pass out, expect first post tomorrow after midnight 

[ajr]

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[thegoatgod_pan]

Journal of goatgod_pan, Shaman.

A year has passed and I yet live, the Inn of Drowning blossoms, children are born in dozens, there is plenty of booze and each season our fortress guard is greeted by a shower of viscera as yet another group of goblin snatchers discovers that being dodgy is not always a good thing.

But not all is well.

There is rebellion brewing in the fort.  The last overseer has expanded his mission.  The surface rings with the hum of machinery and his engineers grow fat and rich.

The masons guild, however, has lost nearly all.  Their workshops were striped off, limited to burial duties. Craftsmen too complain, for there is nowhere to carve bone and rock.  Even my shop was taken.

The wealthy dwarves grow in power, even as hundreds sleep in the mud.
Rabbits, cavies and other vermin swarm the halls. Levers have sprung up, as if overnight, and only the engineering caste knows which open a door and which floods a tunnel.

The nobles built a dining room, small enough for an elite, with somber walls of dark stone.  Peasants rarely linger there.

Many turn to religion.

Many turn to drink.

A few desperate fools turn to sobriety

Somehowever have begun to foment something more sinister.

The masons and miners guild have presented a proposal--a dining room built for the peasantry.  To work effectively, they asked for a large stalactite for themselves, a stonecutter's lodge, if you will.  In return they began to carve smaller stalactites for tiny peasant rooms.  The mayor and his cronies agreed, on the condition that hunting ground be opened to the third cavern, and that a drowning trap be assembled on the surface.

Thus spring began.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Oh and traps are for elves*, so I will be taking down the deadly-jump trap in the interest of giving the goblins a chance and keeping things fun.  Drowning trap still in the works.

*In case any elf lovers are offended by my comment, I do recall that I built it in the first place