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Voting closed: January 19, 2012, 06:50:05 pm

[Ieb]

As far as I recall, the landscape is all tundra, no glacier anywhere.
Luckily we do have an aquifer. A pretty big one too, I think a lot of the stone walls on the first cavern layer are just waiting for some foolish miner to swing their pick and cause another FPS-destroying flood.

[Gizogin]

As far as I recall, the landscape is all tundra, no glacier anywhere.
Luckily we do have an aquifer. A pretty big one too, I think a lot of the stone walls on the first cavern layer are just waiting for some foolish miner to swing their pick and cause another FPS-destroying flood.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[ThatAussieGuy]

As far as I recall, the landscape is all tundra, no glacier anywhere.
Luckily we do have an aquifer. A pretty big one too, I think a lot of the stone walls on the first cavern layer are just waiting for some foolish miner to swing their pick and cause another FPS-destroying flood.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Gizogin, if you channel down into the aquifer from above (breaching it in at least two places), hang water wheels over it and pump it once with a screw pump, you'll never want for power again.

[Gizogin]

Journal of Gizogin, Rawman Sir:

5th Malachite 209:
Despite the lack of magma-safe materials, work continues on the pump stack.  Most of the shaft is dug out now, along with the tunnels for the power train.  With the number of dwarves I have available, it makes much more sense to fully support each pump and provide the power through a series of gear assemblies and axles.  That way, I can have several pumps being built at once.

7th Malachite 209:

The water reactor is almost done being excavated.  I ordered this side shaft dug so that it could be filled once the pumps and wheels are in place.  By my calculations, it should be more than sufficient for my needs.

9th Malachite 209:


13th Malachite 209:
Asen Rakustkordam, an ordinary gem setter, just jumped up out of his bed today yelling about this divine inspiration that had apparently hit him during his sleep.  Having heard of occurrences of this nature, I ordered the construction of a jeweler's workshop to see what he'd do.  He ran to it, then bolted off to gather some seemingly arbitrary materials.

Doubtless he knows what he's doing, but I can't say I know what that is.

23rd Malachite 209:
Word just came to me from one of my dwarves of this strange beast that was just spotted wandering the caverns.  In her words:

Very odd.  Fortunately, it seems unable to fly, but I'll order one of the military squads to prepare just in case.  A rampaging toad-monster is the last thing I need, especially now that most of the pumps in the reactor are done.

26th Malachite 209:
Asen finished his project today.

I'm not sure how this is in any way beneficial, but nevermind. 
Let's see, there are goblins still fighting skeletons on the surface, at least three FBs in the caverns, and 61 dwarves sandwiched in the middle.  All is well.

[Eric Blank]

Impressive!

Journal of Eric Blank, Head Stoneworker of Hellcannon

One of the other dolts left over from the last world finally decided to consider my proposal to increase the stoneworking workforce and assign more labors to everyone. The amount of work we can accomplish should increase appropriately, and I finally have the force to deal with all the mining and construction projects that we're assigned. Hopefully none of those crackpots will get the bright idea to cut back on it, either. Now, if only they would remove the stoneworkers' hauling labors so they wouldn't have an excuse to run off for anything else, besides their legally necessary social and nutritional breaks.

Maybe I should run for election next year? I need a break from the routine and a chance to get reaqquianted with my more supernatural powers.

[Darvi]

Those FB's just aren't cutting it anymore.

[Ieb]

I blame the lack of entrances to the fort and the absence of a horrid zig-zag mining tunnels that connect to every level, from surface to the deepest cavern level.

[Gizogin]

Journal of Gizogin, Rawmancer:

1st Galena 209:
Migrants arrived today, despite the danger.  I don't know how many there are, but it's not that many.  Unfortunately, what with the goblins and undead, I'm not going to let them in.  Frankly, they should have known better than to come here.

10th Galena 209:

Construction is proceeding ahead of schedule.  All of the pumps are done, as are many of the waterwheels.  All that remains is to pull the lever and fill the trenches.  Oh, wait, that should have read "All that remains is to PULL THE LEVER and fill the trenches."  That and build the power train, which still won't serve any purpose for a while.

11th Galena 209:
Okay, so I was mistaken.  It turns out there was a bit more that needed to be done to fill the reactor.  The floodgate was in place to control the flow, but it wasn't connected to any water source yet.  I had some miners carve a fortification through to an underground lake, and water finally started pouring in.  I had the floodgate closed off before much water could get in, just so I could be sure everything will be ready.  I don't think that'll be before the end of summer, though.

14th Galena 209:
Now that most of the mining and stonework is done (for the moment, anyway), The Master decided to celebrate by throwing a party.  I wholeheartedly approve; a party would provide a well-needed boost to the overall morale of Hellcannon.  I have been happily surprised at the mood here, actually.  Despite all that we've suffered in recent years, most of the dwarves I spoke to reported their general mood as "happy or better."

15th Galena 209:
Apparently, I was a little too vocal in my support of The Master's party, because Ingiz Dedukisan just threw another one.  One was fine, but I can't have everyone getting complacent.  I "informed" him that this was not the best idea, and he seemed to get the message.

16th Galena 209:
Hellcannon has been pretty eventful recently.  A human caravan arrived today, but, as with the migrants, it's too dangerous to let them in.  No sooner had I made my decision than I was informed that goblins had jumped out and started attacking them.  Clearly I did the right thing, though I do feel slightly bad about all the death on Hellcannon's door- wait a minute, that's ridiculous. 

30th Galena 209:
Well, that's summer done with.  After the arrival of the caravan, not much of interest happened.  Everything I had set out to do this season is done, though I cannot stress enough how irked I am by the paucity of materials.  Still, there's not much I can do beyond continuing to set things up and hope that something changes.

[Ieb]

Not that I'm complaining, but regarding migrants, you could just designate the walled aboveground part as a meeting zone momentarily, wait for the stupid migrants herd themselves in, seal the doors leading in and opening the doors below to let them entry to the fort. Potential gobbo ambushers won't be able to smash dem sealed doors either unless they have trolls with 'em.

The biggest threat to migrants are the skeletal creatures anyway. Armed gobbos are much slower than those are. And less frequent. Then again I got one migrant wave through by recruiting the whole bunch and they tore apart a pack of skeldeers, so the whole god damn thing is up to the RNG.

[Gizogin]

Autumn 209

Journal of Gizogin, Rawmancer:

Spoiler: Limestone 209 (click to show/hide)

10 Limestone 209:
Everything is ready with the reactor, so I ordered the lever pulled.  Water is thundering in, but the waterwheels haven't fired up yet.  That's fine, I know it could take a while.

15 Limestone 209:
I noticed some oddities in the food supply.  Namely, all of our food is tied up in "lavish meals," or whatever.  I don't really have a problem with this, except that it makes it a little bit annoying for me to figure out how much food we have directly available.  As such, and to prevent any chance of a shortage, I reactivated some of our farm plots full-time.

17 Limestone 209: 
Udil Urdimonul, an armorer, gave birth to a girl today.  Funny how they never give any indication beforehand about their pregnancies.

19 Limestone 209:
A woodworker came into my office today (note to self: my office is pretty bland; I need a better one) and told me that we were out of logs.  Between all the axles for the power train and the spikes for the traps (oh, I should have mentioned earlier, but I'm making trap components) it really isn't all that surprising.  I told him to chop down some of the trees in the caverns.
In other news, the humans finally left.  Well, most of them did.  Those goblins are getting bolder by the day.

21 Limestone 209:
I went down to the lower levels to check on things, and I noticed that the reactor was working.

It's not completely at full power yet, but even now it's more than enough.  I did notice something else, though...

23 Limestone 209:
After doing some more checking around, my initial suspicions proved correct.  The second and third caverns are still partially vulnerable.  We haven't had any trouble with them yet, but I know from bitter experience that it would only take one flying beast to destroy all that I've worked towards.  I ordered extension of the cavern walls, to seal us off completely.  It's going to take a while, however, and I pray that nothing happens in the meantime.

25 Limestone 209:
More migrants.  They can wait outside with the others.

26 Limestone 209:
I started getting reports of deaths on the surface. 

It's a terrible waste of life, but I'm really not that surprised.  Hopefully they'll get the message eventually, but until then they'll keep dying in droves.

Spoiler: Sandstone 209 (click to show/hide)

6 Sandstone 209:
Reports of death from the surface seem to have finally slowed down.  I don't know if it's because everyone's dead, but it's nice to finally get some peace.

10 Sandstone 209:
With my pump stack progressing so well, I decided to resume work on the checkerboard.  Unfortunately, I do not know the specifics of its operation, so I can't do much other than finish digging.

26 Sandstone 209:
After an otherwise quiet month, a bit of excitement.  Slime, husband of The Master, withdrew from society today and refused to talk to anyone.  I believe this to be related to Asen's earlier episode, so I will watch him closely.

Spoiler: Timber 209 (click to show/hide)

1 Timber 209:
Slime is just hanging out in the dining hall.  I'm beginning to worry about him.  It might be because we do not have the facilities to make whatever he has in mind, but I can't get any information out of him.  I have ordered construction of some more workshops just in case.

3 Timber 209:
My suspicion turned out to be accurate.  All Slime needed was a leatherworks, which he claimed immediately.  I look forward to seeing what he'll make.


5 Timber 209:
Apparently, there are skeletal polar bears on the surface.  I'm glad we have walls between us and them, because bears genuinely scare me.

12 Timber 209:
The outpost liaison arrived today with the caravan.  I know we need the supplies they have, so I now have to find a way to safely let them in.

16 Timber 209:
I went up to our surface lookout to see what I might do to let the caravan in.  While there, I witnessed a graphic sight:

I'm not going outside, ever.  The caravan are on their own. 
Oh, and a ghost popped up.  Kogan Ledkubuk, I think.

18 Timber 209:
A goblin ambush attacked the caravan and some migrants.  Then some undead wandered into the fray.  There were many casualties on all sides.

19 Timber 209:
More goblins appeared, and started chasing a duck.  It put up a valiant fight, until an axegoblin took its head off.


20 Timber 209:
More goblins, these attacking some undead.

22 Timber 209:
WHERE ARE ALL THESE GOBLINS COMING FROM?


24 Timber 209:
Slime finally started his construction today.  I had to build a loom, because he kept throwing these crude drawings of cloth at me.  Anyway, he's hard at work now, and I'm curious as to what he'll build.


30 Timber 209:
Slime finished his project:


It's a vest with some battle scene on it.  Not very useful, but pretty to look at.

Spoiler: OOC: (click to show/hide)

Yeah, Sandstone was pretty boring.  Anyway, things are moving along at a fair pace.  I dug out some more adamantine, which I'm probably going to use to make my corkscrews, because there's nothing else I can use.  Right now, the stack is completely done up to the second cavern layer (apart from the pumps, obviously).  I don't know what to do for the checkerboard; I finished the digging that was designated at the start of my turn, but I don't know what's next.

[Strategia]

30 Timber 209:
Slime finished his project:


It's a vest with some battle scene on it.  Not very useful, but pretty to look at.

I get the feeling Slime is going to start Hellcannon's first biker gang. And it'll be called "the Noble Remarkable Competition of Ruthlessness".

[Gizogin]

Okay, I'm taking a bit of a break from playing, but I can check statuses and things like that if anyone's interested.  Also, feedback: how am I doing?  I'm probably going to play through to the end of 210, because I'm moving at a reasonable pace, unless anyone objects.

[Vgray]

At this rate my Dwarf will have to try and scale the walls. Hah.

[rridgway]

Okay, I'm taking a bit of a break from playing, but I can check statuses and things like that if anyone's interested.  Also, feedback: how am I doing?  I'm probably going to play through to the end of 210, because I'm moving at a reasonable pace, unless anyone objects.

Any new dwarfs named?

[Gizogin]

I haven't done any naming yet.