EoFF Dwarf Fortress Time!

[Dignified Pauper]

Someone needs to create a great hanging room and put windows in it and make it the current leader's apartment. SERIOUSLY.

perhaps I can consider it once I am done with the defences, I could since Iceglow is a marksdwarf holding the gate give him a state room at the top of the second tower at somepoint.

Oh and Shlup, so long as it ends in blood eh? Well if I get my way the next goblin ambush will end up getting massacred or it'll be set for that to take place.

Not a state room at the top. I'm talking about an actual hanging room to where nothing surrounds it and it just hangs over the top of the Great hall.

Really depends on how many levels we have above the great hall. If there are few, looks like we need to dig a new one!

[Loony BoB]

We have a great hall?

[Marshall Banana]

BoB, don't forget to update the map archive. Let us know if you need help with that.

I'll probably need help with that... I can't view that page at work, but I'm guessing it's that thing you did with the HK map and so forth. I've no idea how to do that, unless it's written up on the website or something...

1. Download the Dwarf Fortress Map Compressor.
2. Open your game again. Press Escape and choose to "export local image." BMPs will show up in your Dwarf Fortress folder.
3. Open the DF Map Compressor and choose one of the images you just made. The program will create a map file from all of them.
4. "Add a map to this series."

=D

[Psychotic]

We have a great hall?

Our entire fortress is one big hall, and I happen to think it's pretty great.

[Loony BoB]

Towntwinkles - 23 Early Spring by Loony BoB

Did I do it right?

EDIT: Dammit I missed a gem at the bottom right of the mining map. I never miss gems! Bad Daniel.

[Dignified Pauper]

All I want to see is the greaT excavation of terraced walkways and hanging rooms.

[Necronopticous]

Did I do it right?

Yep--even if it is in that vomit-inducing tileset.

[Loony BoB]

Sometimes I think that you would rather see everything in standard ASCII letters/numbers/symbols.

[Dignified Pauper]

... Let's just start a project to build a home out of materials formed like ASCII!

If someone had know-how, we could make ASCII furniture for Schlup's Sims 3!

[Shlup]

D:

[Iceglow]

second update post should come tonight

[Iceglow]

ok, firstly I kinda didn't have time to write a proper update and as is it is currently Autumn in the game thus my turn is 3/4 complete. So far my turn has seen no deaths amongst the dwarves but winter is still to come and anything can happen.

So to finish off spring here is what happened:

Spring:

I wasn't impressed at all with our defences, in a bid to improve the state of our fortress after the mishaps of Loony BoB's rule I immediately dispatched the military to secure the entry point of the fortress. Immediately leading my squad up to the first floor of the tower so I could stand overwatch I noticed Shlupquack moving erratically. I made a mental note, have her pay a visit to a doctor or a butcher, whichever you prefer to call them. Since I had perfect overview of the killing fields in front of the fortress I decided to call the masons over and give them their directions. Below me Psychotic and Shlup secured the entrance that lunatic loony bob left in the hands of the enemy. The masons quickly got to work and before you know it the fortress began to look more like this:



The fortresses new defenses were fast becomming something to behold you have an entirely new corridor linking the trading depot to the rest of the fortress. The plan is for the corridor to be a defensive position, there will be a grate surround for the marksdwarves to shoot in to the ground floor from which in turn will be full of traps when finished. This will be hard for any enemy patrols to penetrate past especially when we lock the doors sealing an enemy squad inside and position our archers in either the towers or the catwalks above. This building construct should help protect the castle with on a few warrior defenders needed at a time. As you can also see I expanded the rear of the trade depot to encompass a new room to provide an entrance to the second lower tower. I also sealed access to Necro's trap to keep the fortresses reputation good incase that would stop migrants comming.

Unknown to me I had accidentally (I failed to see where they went and remembered them when they announced they would depart soon) trapped an Elvish caravan. My response to this was "well tough you've sealed your fate, shouldn't go through small gaps in walls that are being built when you arrive." I was going to leave them there for a while but Necro the child predator decided to activate the levers causing the following mayhem to occur:







I thought about it for a while and whilst I dearly wanted to shoot the damn Necronopticus for his treacherous act there against my wishes that the trap not be used for a while I saw the benefits of his actions. He'd saved the masons and myself a good deal of time and effort of trying to free the elves and keeping them away from the rest of the population if they went mad in the underground prison they found themselves in. I let it lie for now at least it couldn't happen again and the materials they brought would probably prove useful if only to trade with other people.

Thats the spring over with

Now for Summer:

Following on directly from Spring...

I was impressed however by how much gore the elvish caravan produced as witnessed by looking out of my tower at the refuse stockpile:



As you can see, the end of Spring saw no new Migrants, after so much death and destruction at the hands of the lunatic BoB I didn't really expect that many to come for a while. However excusing the miasama from the remains of the dead kobold that attempted to break in to the fort, inside the new fortifications however was Psychotic's squad on guard duty the thief did not last long at all, I think they tore it apart in about 2 seconds, angry that a creature even dared to come forwards after the blood shed of the last year my military comrades and myself were chomping at the bit to get to grips with the enemy and give them a pasting.



The above shows, the building on the surface in Stonesense the purple cloud like area is a miasama created by the thief that was killed by Psychotic's squad, the elves were still being cleaned up at the time and none of the other dwarves seemed to take notice of the dead kobold until it rotted. Note there is also an extension to the curtain wall so that the north side of the strawberry fields are protected from enemy archer fire. I will possibly consider a southern curtain wall at a later point in time or leave it up to the next person.

That covered most of what happened in Spring and the first few days of summer. It was not all of the things that happened in Spring or summer for that matter...

Straight off at the start of summer we had 2 weddings take place Momiji II stole the heart of Zeldy and Raistlin decided he'd love some of that Lekana ass...



Celes was taken by a Fey Mood which is nothing unusual though what exactly is a fey mood I wonder?



We'd just finished clearing up after the thief and the elvish caravan and we faced a much bigger threat: AMBUSH!!!!

The defenses weren't ready but a quick locking of all outer doors and the positioning of one of the two squads of melee (sorry I forget which one was on duty now) in the new entry chamber meant that I could afford to order the few dwarves outside back indoors and then secure the doors behind them. My squads that weren't on duty at the time including my own raced to their positions in that entry chamber and the tower. Thanks to the new defences my snipers moved out on to the top of an unparapeted wall in an act of brazen valour to shoot at the goblin ambushers taking 2 of them down whilst the Goblin crossbow carrier managed to shoot anything but dwarves, I think he even managed to shoot a strawberry plant!



The ambushers arrive (the hill to the south of the tower)



Our valiant millitary in position to react.



The goblins were cautious the fortress was a lot more prepared to repel invaders than before.

Shoeberto was the first to exit the safety of the fortifications and shoot at the greenskins, seeing the stout hearted dwarf the goblins began to move towards the wall shooting, I quickly followed suit between us we slaughtered 2 of the goblins with bolts before Shlupquack decided she wouldn't let us have all the fun and against orders unlocked the door and charged out alone even her squad never left the building to follow they merely stood guarding the doors yelling at her to come back...Cursing I stepped out further to shoot more accurately the shots were on target as were shlup's fists and we smashed the remaining goblins down between us one of which seemed to have got propelled backwards 3 or 4 tiles by the force of a crossbow bolt to the face! I don't unfortunately have screen shots of this event but it was pretty awesome.

During this ambush randomly a thief stole a sock that had not been claimed yet from outside the walls, I didn't get him but I suppose the mangy kobold couldn't return home empty handed...

After the battle Shlup was shaking uncontrollably and I remembered her awkward and clumsy movements back at the start of spring after speaking to her and to others I discovered something I wish I hadn't, our indominable warrior Shlup had suffered a nervous system injury and needed to be replaced as leader of her Squad. Well that was it I was saddened but Psychotic was gloating eventually I convinced her she needed to come down but she agreed on conditions...Theundeadhero takes command and the squad consisted of the following 3: Fujiko (who had deigned only to use her fists in homage to Shlup her mentor) and that was it. I am friends with the mad wrestler and so I decided accept her terms rather than give cause to end up with a fist up my rectum whilst sleeping.

Christmas ended her term as mayor and Momiji II took control of the city mayoral role...And immediately mandated the construction of certain goods.

The Migrants, Psychotic promised his father would send never made it, I began to believe they were ambushed by a bigger party of Goblins, I considered this in a dark mood a good time to go out hunting goblins however the rest of our forces and the new mayor forbade me from enacting my thoughts. Psychotic practically begged me not to because it would bring his father here to discipline me and he couldn't hide from his own father no matter how much muscle he gained.


Remember I said Celes had been taken with a Fey mood? Well she had during the mini war going on through our gatehouse she had claimed a crafts workshop and what she decided to produce during this was:



I'm sure it'll scare the children to sleep nicely if you don't behave and Necro gets to take you to visit this menacing idol and what he does there, well only he knows and he aint telling and we're none too keen on asking!

Then a couple of things happened to bring some more joy than our recent victories over our enemies brought us (and ofcourse the two marriages from the start of the season which is a sure sign that our town is recovering from BoB's time in control) Foa and Yars married and then merely a day later in a really rather surprising move Necronopticous and Sir Lancealot married too!



I wish the best of luck to the 4 happy couples!

And so we begin Autumn....

[Psychotic]

Hahahahah but god damn did those Elves produce a lot of blood.

[Iceglow]

and so it is done:

Autumn:

There wasn't really anything that took place in Autumn it was all together too quiet! The only thing I noticed of interest was this:





So Raistlin gets possessed and then immediately siezes a magma forge...ok you go there brother, you're a champion of the military and yet you sieze a forge...

Winter:

We began winter with an ambush, unfortunately Shattered Dreamer and Shiny were online. Shattered managed to hide from the Goblins however Shiny got cornered. I quickly activated her as a soldier so she would stand a chance to fend off her attackers, with her bare fists she ripped a goblin apart who was carrying a spear. Unfortunately her surprise victory was short lived, her actions made the rest of the Goblins pick on her, she faced down a spear user and 2 archers but unfortunately the archers put a few too many shafts in her and she fell to the ground never to rise again.



Shattered dreamer hid here, right next to the entry point of the ambush.



new recruit Shiny with her Goblin kill nearby, the archer to the top of the screen was the one who eventually killed her



Shiny's killers standing tall, I meant for her to get a proper burial in a soldiers tomb since she died in combat and took at least one of her opponents with her against odds which even for shlup or psychotic would prove insurmountable.

The Goblins went on to kill a fair few of our animals.



the horsie got it...



and the mule... the dead goblins here are actually some of the goblins from the ambush shot down by my own squad.

They also got this doggie



The Goblin died soon after for his trespass and the killing of the doggie it was my friend so we shot him full of holes for it...



We hadn't even finished clearing up after this ambush when a second ambush kicked off, thankfully during the cleanup of an ambush I keep all forces on alert. I immediately began sniping at the second squad of Goblins whilst all dwarves from outside, including Shattered Dreamer made it back indoors and hid. Not having any archers to return fire the Goblin squad almost immediately fled with just 1 casualty and withdrew from the combat zone leaving me to return to cleaning things up and plotting my traps in fact the second ambush was over so quick I only got one shot of them fleeing...



I knew winter was drawing to a close, I hope that whomever takes over next will complete my new gatehouse, there are plenty of things being made to lay traps with in the main chamber there and the flooring needs completion due to one tile giving me problems. I was so focussed on clearing up I never noticed that Raistlin was still in his magma forge, he'd become consumed with a feeling of melancholy and then because he refused to leave the forge he siezed he died of thirst....silly dwarf!





So we got no new migrants in my year, though I started producing some mechanisms which will help increase the odds of us getting some (see the wiki for facts), I also had to bid farewell to Shiny and Raist, I'm just grateful I only managed to lose 2 dwarves, I had visions of me screwing up and ruining it all. I finish this post with a stonesense shot of the new gatehouse as it stands now though I am slightly miffed I didn't finish it:

[Iceglow]

Ok, so I'm done and the game is saved and ready to move on to the next, however according to the list it's meant to be Rye, since I am not sure if she is available to do her turn atm and afap/ik (as far as psy/I knows) hux is the same boat, what shall we do, shall we put it down to the next person after those two and then let them do 2 years apiece on their turn?