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Leperflesh posted:It is entirely possible for the thread to "elect" someone overseer. All you have to do is be completely unanimous. You accomplish this by not signing up on the sheet, so there's only the one person you want signed up. Can we vote by putting our own entry in as 'Bad Munki'?  Or Internet Kraken? Shoot. I need to figure out who I want to commit voter fraud for! I better vote for it. ... Wait.
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Leperflesh posted:It is entirely possible for the thread to "elect" someone overseer. All you have to do is be completely unanimous. You accomplish this by not signing up on the sheet, so there's only the one person you want signed up. Quick, we need to kill the fortress before he gets a chance to run it! Dig more adamantine! 
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Hey Internet Kraken...we should totally co-run for overseer. We could both be vice-overseers. 
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Bad Munki posted:Hey Internet Kraken...we should totally co-run for overseer. We could both be vice-overseers. Even better: The overseer MunkiKraken has multiple personalities. You send the save to each other after every update. One of you has to be the evil twin though.
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Bad Munki posted:Hey Internet Kraken...we should totally co-run for overseer. We could both be vice-overseers. I support this! Swap off every month.
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Munki, you definitely should start posting journal entries from the point of view of a "real" overseer.
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 28th Obsidian 242 It is dusk when I approach the fortress.  The paved granite road I have been following ends at an open drawbridge spanning a dry moat. A symphony of creaking wood greets me, the song of a great array of windmills, the silhouettes of their rotating vanes peering at me from behind the battlements of the great limestone wall on the far side of the moat. Yes, this must be the place I was told about. I am halfway across the drawbridge when a gruff voice calls out from within, "Halt! Who goes there? State your business!" I freeze. "Well? Are you deaf, or just stupid? State your name and your business!" shouts the voice. "I am Jazzimus, and I have been summoned here on the order of Queen Sankis," I reply. "Oh, so you’re the one we were told to expect," answers the voice. A military dwarf steps out from the shadows and regards me with a scowl. He wears a mail shirt of steel, and his greaves, shield, and axe are of a blue metal that seems to gleam with power in spite of the fading daylight.  "So, Jazzimus," says the military dwarf through his teeth, "your timing is impeccable. I don't suppose your meeting with the Queen could possibly wait for the few minutes it would take for me to say my final farewells to the only true friend I’ve had in this accursed place." I am not sure how to respond to this, so I simply nod.   The dwarf kneels. A frail dog lies on its side next to him, its body covered with terrible scars. In silence, he strokes the dog's back for several minutes, until the animal finally breathes its last.  I wait patiently. I feel it would be unwise to interrupt this moment. The dwarf continues to kneel silently for a time, then removes a piece of rope reed cloth from his backpack, unfolds it, and covers the dog's body. Finally the dwarf stands, and solemnly turns to me. "Follow me. I will show you to the Queen's chambers." Jazzimus Prime fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Oct 17, 2012 |
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Well, that's one way to start an overseership. 
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Somebody should mow that lawn. It looks undwarfishly green.
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 Urist died today. He was a good dog, and probably smarter than half the idiots walking around this blighted place. Now I'm trying to think of what reason I have to still be in this lovely fort. The only good one is figuring out a way to take over and then kill everyone. I'm not sure that is realistically possible at this point though. This place was supposed to wage war against evil, not bloody worship it. That stupid noble bootlicker Leperflesh was a coward though. He didn't step in to stop the downfall of this place. At some point these idiots went from rightfully fearing the murk to worship ping it. The goblin prisoners were sentenced to death by being turned into zombies. Am I really the only one who sees how stupid that is? The fort that is supposed to combat evil is creating more evil to get back at the red eyes? And of course the mining of accursed adamantine continues. I've been given some of the stuff as equipment. Yeah it is good but people seem to forget that it is loving cursed. It will be the downfall of us. I can already see it happening. No doubt that devilish queen intended for this to happen. She is probably in league with evil, it all makes sense. She picked a cowardly gently caress like Leperflesh to found this fort because he would do nothing to stop everyone here from being corrupted. It's to late now. Far to late. Not to late for me though...maybe. I think. Some stupid gently caress named Jazzimus showed up today and wanted to speak with the queen. I don't know him, but he is probably another idiot so gently caress him. gently caress everyone. I HATE THIS PLACE gently caress! I WANT MY drat DOG BACK! I need a drink.
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That update reminded me of that passage from I Am Legend. 'Within a week the dog was dead.'
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Internet Kraken posted:Leperflesh Who? Also: Internet Kraken talks tough, but it's all a facade.  Deep down where he can't admit it, Leperfish is his friend.
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1st Granite 243 As I leave Queen Sankis's throne room, the meeting having concluded, I am met outside the door by a bronze-armored military dwarf who introduces herself as Gnu Sheriff. "I'll lead you to Leperfish's office, and he will give you instructions from there," she says. She leads me back through the stairs and hallways of the fortress towards the entrance. The other dwarves of the fortress seem to regard me with some suspicion, whispering to one another and watching me closely. We eventually arrive at a small office just inside of the entrance to the mountain, and Gnu Sheriff quickly takes her leave. A short, round dwarf with a greying double-braided beard sits at a desk there, working an abacus and marking on scattered papers.  “Are you Leperfish?” I ask him. He looks up from his work with a forced smile, trying his best to hide his irritation at the interruption. "Yes I am, and who are you?" "I am Jazzimus." He nods. "Oh. We heard that you would be here. It seems the Queen has requested that you oversee the fortress for a term." "Uh, yes." "I'm rather busy now, but I should have some time later to update you on the status of the fortress. For now -- " Leperfish pauses, then motions to a dwarf passing through the hallway behind me. "Excuse me, Bularin! Would you be willing to give our new overseer a tour of the fortress?"  I turn to see an ancient female dwarf, who nods. "Bularin is one of our miners, and she knows the fortress as well as anyone. I look forward to speaking with you again later", Leperfish says as he returns to his papers. --- "You are the new overseer?" she asks. "Yes, I was instructed by Queen Sankis to oversee the fortress for the time being." She frowns. "I guess the Queen knows what she's doing, but I don't understand why we keep bringing in overseers from outside. There are plenty of capable dwarves here." She looks back up at me. "No offense meant, of course. I'm sure you're capable. Please, come this way."  "You passed the trade depot on your way in here already. As we head south from Leperfish's office, we’ll pass through the barracks of the One Way Outs, which is now shared by the Rainy Boots and the Walled Skies. To the east are the animal cages and a food and booze stockpile, to the west are the military stockpiles, to the southwest is the well and the gem and goods stockpiles. Now, as we take the barracks ramp downwards...  "...we come to a stairway that will give us access to the rest of the fortress. To the east of here are the old fortress bedrooms that were carved into the dirt when the fortress was first founded; they were abandoned once we reached stone.  "Heading down another level, you'll see two passages leading away from the stairs. The former overseer, Thadius, had intended to make the northern passage into a heavily trapped alternate entrance to the fortress, in order to kill or capture any invaders who tried to make their way in. However, this passage remains incomplete for now. "The other passage, to the east, leads to the Loden Taylor Memorial Concert Hall.  "And continuing to down to the next level, behind that door to the south is the barracks of the Gnu Order and the Golden Barbs. Moving on...  "...this is one of the busiest levels in the fortress. You can see that the room here contains the old forges. To conserve fuel, we have shut down most of these older forges down, and moved the forging operations down to the magma. The magma forges are accessible by going down that ramp on the north end of the room. "Star Guarded Memorial Hospital is directly to the northeast of us, and the Crypt of Heroes is to the east of that. To the south is the great fortress dining room. To the northwest are several nobles' offices and bedrooms, and west of that are the dormitories, and also a stockpile of things that haven't yet been catalogued and organized.  "Continuing on, the next level down houses most of the workshops." She points out each workshop in turn.  "This next level will serve as a crypt for those heroes who fall in battle, or who otherwise meet an untimely end in the fortress. Several dwarves have been put to rest here already, including the legendary musician Loden Taylor.  "And finally, we have Her Royal Majesty Queen Sankis's palace, which I believe you have already had the privilege of visiting. So, do you have any questions before we visit the magma forges?" "Uh, I think I’d like to see the concert hall you mentioned earlier, if you don't mind," I reply. ---  "This is Loden Taylor Memorial Concert Hall," Bularin says. "Unfortunately, in the year since her passing, it hasn’t been used nearly as much." "I can see that," I reply, noting the thick layer of dust on the furniture here. "It looks like the stairway here goes further down. What else is down there?" "Nothing except for a large natural cavern, which has been locked off," Bularin replies. "Mind if I have a look?" "Well, if you insist, but there isn't anything interesting to see." ---  At the bottom of the staircase is a hallway which ends in a closed door, with a cage trap in front of it. "We put out the traps so that the cave creatures don't sneak into the fortress," Bularin explains. "Is the cavern dangerous?" I ask. "Well, the deeper caverns can be pretty dangerous, but this cavern is the closest to the surface, and isn't usually dangerous. Although..." she says, thinking out loud to herself, "we probably should have a fortress guard with us for this. But it will probably be safe just to take a quick look." "How many caverns are there?" "Three," she says. "That we know of." She walks around the trap and opens the door. Several more cage traps are clustered around the other side of the door. Bularin walks over to one of the cage traps and frowns. "Hmm, looks like this one needs to be reset," she says, and begins to make adjustments to its mechanisms. Suddenly, a hissing sound comes from the darkness nearby. Startled, Bularin drops the trap she had been working on.  I look in the direction of the sound, and see three of the ugliest creatures I have ever seen staring back at me, their sharp crooked teeth bared. 
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Great to see an overview of the fortress with labels and stuff - it's been a while.
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Who designed this place? Where are the perfectly aligned floors with identical layouts? Where are the maximally efficient stockpile/workshop arrangements. Where is my symmetry?!  Just kidding this update was pretty good. Love the stonesense images; I wouldn't mind each major area in stonesense if you could be bothered.
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I will admit, it was nice to see the array of Screw Windmills in glorious Stonesense, along with all the fortifications I had carved towards the end, and even the base of the portal. Eagerly looking forward to your updates.
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 Who's a Good Ghost Dog Hunter of Internet Kraken? Who's a Good Overseer-Heeding Goblin-Fighting Kobold-Chasing Murk-Avoiding Ghost Dog Hunter of Internet Kraken? You are. Yes you are. Let's go scare the Fun out of a Bad Cow.
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That's certainly an interesting layout you guys have made for the fortress...
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2nd Granite 243 "Help! We're being attacked! First level of the caverns! Send help! Get the militia" I yell. Bularin and I run back through the door, slamming it shut behind us.  The creatures are unable to come in through the closed door, and in a matter of minutes, several of Bronzestabbed's soldiers rush to the area. The dwarf who had met me at the gates when I had first arrived accompanies them, cursing and grumbling.  The militia makes short work of the creatures. 3rd Granite 243 Ramcorz gives me a tour of the bustling magma forges.  "This is where we've moved the metalworking operations of the fortress,” she explains. “We have eight smelters, five forges, and a glass furnace here, as well as a couple of stockpiles for ore and finished bars. The level above has more stockpiles for ore, as well as finished metal goods, and the raw adamantine is stored on the level above that." I look around the great room, and note its natural, unfinished looking state in places. "Did you carve this room out of a natural cavern?" I ask. "Yes, this is carved from the third and deepest of the caverns we discovered here. Only way to get at the magma." After thanking Ramcorz for her time, I return up the long stairway to the fortress entrance and Leperfish's office. This time, he is expecting me. "Hello there, Jazzimus. There's a few more things I wanted to go over with you. First, I don't think that I had mentioned. Yeol, the overseer before last, had begun work on a tower that was never completed. He didn't intend for this to be a defensive structure, but rather," Leperfish says as he leans forward, whispering, "he meant for this tower somehow to be a means to assault the Gods themselves."  I raise my eyebrows, dumbfounded. "How?" I ask. Leperfish shakes his head. "I don't know. Also," he says, his voice back to normal, "the previous overseer had begun work on a trapped second entrance to the fortress, to discourage those who would attack us."   "Yes, Bularin mentioned that to me." "And the last thing," Leperfish says, "is that the overseer from three years ago had segregated the Ugath-worshipping population of the fortress from the rest, and had forced them to live in a different part of the fortress without allowing them to interact with the rest of us. Fortunately, this was stopped before Queen Sankis arrived -- for she worships Ugath, as I'm sure you know-- and the Ugath worshippers are free to interact with us again. Some of them choose to continue to make their homes in Ugathville, however.   "So, Jazzimus, what are your thoughts?" I think to myself for a moment. "Well, there are a few things I'd like to work on for now. First, I'd like to install a magma kiln, since I don't think we have one yet. Second, I'd like to map out the unexplored areas of the caverns, so that we can see what resources are out there. I'd also like to look in to whether any more adamantine is recoverable, and also try and chart the magma sea, in case there might be more recoverable adamantine out there somewhere. Beyond that, I want to keep everyone in high spirits, so I'm willing to listen to whatever the residents of the fort have to say." 5th Granite 243 As I sit in the dining room looking over the plans for the first order of business -- the magma kiln -- I am interrupted by a group of noisy children that dash into the room. They are throwing a birthday party.  6th Granite 243 I show the plans to Vim Fuego and Shorter than Some. "Here's where we'll put an additional magma channel for the kiln. I'll need you two to mine it out," I say.  "Are you sure you don't want to shut down the forges before we do this? It would probably be safer," says Vim Fuego. "No, I don't think we can afford to lose any time churning out metal bars, weapons, and armor, with all of the enemies that I hear we typically have to deal with," I reply. "What's the point of all this again?" asks Shorter than Some. "With a kiln, we can make pearlash," I reply. "What do we need that for?" asks Vim Fuego. "So we can make clear glass. It's valuable, and it can be produced pretty much for free." The two miners nod and get to work. "I really think we should have shut down the forges first," says Vim Fuego. As the channel is nearly complete, a section of earth collapses into the magma, bringing an empty minecart with it. There is a splash. Everyone jumps back. A nearby hauler, Red Mammoth, was not quick enough to jump out of the way, and is splashed on the legs and feet with molten rock.  She screams as her clothes are instantly set alight. I scream for a medic as I look around for something to smother the flames with. But before anybody can react, Red Mammoth, daughter of Hostile Rabbi and Natty Ninefingers, has bled to death from her wounds. Oh no. Oh, no. I could have shut down the forges, but I... no. How could I have let this happen? 
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That the entries are spread over multiple days makes the tense a little awkward.
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Wubbles posted:That the entries are spread over multiple days makes the tense a little awkward. Hmm. Anyone else feel this way? I've used the present tense on these before and didn't think it was a problem. Also, although I've played about a month and a half ahead of this point and have yet to write those parts up, my dorf meant what he said about being willing to listen to the ideas of the other dwarves. Even if your dwarf has already died or hasn't arrived yet, any suggestions for projects, completing unfinished projects, and the like are all welcome.
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The tense seems fine to me. I'm really liking the format of your updates so far - very readable and easy to figure out what is going on.
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Well, if you are open to suggestions, a lady can never have enough magma pumps.
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Jazzimus Prime posted:Even if your dwarf has already died or hasn't arrived yet, any suggestions for projects, completing unfinished projects, and the like are all welcome. Well, my wife made a big adamantine mug, and now everyone's oooohing and awing about it. I want to singlehandedly make a mug a thousand times that size, made of solid obsidian (or adamantine, I'm not picky) and full of magma.
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This is the kind of ridiculous project I wouldn't want to try and do myself, but it sounds neat! I suggest the Bronzestabbed Historical Museum. It should be a long hall or halls leading off to rooms or alcoves holding 'exhibits' appropriate to famous Bronzestabbed figures (past Overseers, military heroes, that odd surgeon who got a mansion built for him) and particularly noteworthy events (Kovest's attack, the procession of inbred minotaurs). Along with statuary there could be, I don't know, tourmalines for Leperfish, disassembled Mister parts for JamieTheD, soap pillars and turkey roasts for OhCrap, figurines of faithful dogs for Zapdos (since I don't think the masons can be convinced to carve naked dwarf statues), an Ugath chapel for Rawkking, toy boats and something made of adamantine for TildeATH, a blood-spattered mace for Yeol, a booze stockpile for Thadius, fifty ballista arrows for Her Obsessive Majesty Queen Sankis, stuff like that. At least part of the museum should be designated a statue garden so dwarves can hobnob and get some culture. Or throw keggers. Same thing! Kai-dwarf would further suggest there be a Hall of Mayors and/or Managers and that it have furnaces in it.
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HiHo ChiRho posted:Well, if you are open to suggestions, a lady can never have enough magma pumps. Better yet, magma pumps that lead into the queen's chamber.
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This fortress needs to be a torch in the darkness, a beacon for all dwarvenkind. An entrance of fake edit: Noxin has been happy lately. He admired a Minotarr trapped in a legendary adamantine cage lately.
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The water here freezes for a little in winter doesn't it? Make a pit, with a shallow layer of water on the bottom, where you can throw goblins and other prisoners. When they've turned into popsicles, mine them out and make statues or something with the blocks.
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I like the ideas so far, keep them coming. As for Red Mammoth's death, that was just the typical  behavior where the dwarf just so happened to walk across the square right as it was being channeled. Bad timing.7th Granite 243 Losses during wartime are expected, but this was preventable. I will have to be more careful giving orders in the future. Nothing can replace Red Mammoth to her friends and family, but I can at least resolve not to let such a thing happen again under my watch. As I walk through the workshops, I see Teim carving a memorial stone for Red Mammoth, whose body was consumed entirely by the flames and was unrecoverable. It reminds me again of how it had all happened so fast.  With the magma channel complete, meanwhile, the new kiln is put into place. The fortress can now create goods made of clear glass, which is two and a half times more valuable than green glass.  9th Granite 243 On my orders, Munk loads more adamantine from a mineshaft near where it was first discovered. I have ordered the miners to be very careful to mine only the approved areas. Anything else is too risky.  I leave the lower parts of the fort and walk back up the stairs to the barracks near the fortress entrance, where members of the One-Way Outs and the Walled Skies are sparring. I clear my throat. "Gentledwarves, I have a request to make of you." Internet Kraken looks up at me and scowls. "What is it this time? Terrified of a few more little rodents, or maybe your own fuckin' shadow? Or do you just want to get us killed like you did that girl a few days ago?" drat, this dwarf is harsh. I almost forget what I was going to say, but then recover. "To secure the fortress from the caverns, I'd like for the Walled Skies to patrol the first cavern level, and for the One-Way Outs to explore the third cavern level for threats to ensure that the magma forges are safe." 11th Granite 243 I return to the furnaces to place Red Mammoth's memorial near the entrance where all can see, an eternal reminder of her life, and of both the power and the danger of working with magma.  Once the memorial is in place, I look around at the forges. Humanspy, Kaishai, and M are busy smelting malachite, Steelion and Tag Plastic are producing more adamantine wafers, and Vox Nihili is forging ballista arrowheads of bronze. As I watch the bustling furnace operations, Internet Kraken and his squad the One Way Outs return to the forges, having finished exploring the surrounding caverns. "Well, what did you find?" I ask. "Nothing," Internet Kraken says. "There's nothing out there but water. This was a complete waste of our time."  "Well, at least now we've got a better idea of our surroundings..." I begin, but he has already started up the long stairway back to the barracks. Jazzimus Prime fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Oct 17, 2012 |
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That is a lot of water. Did we tap into an ocean? Is our magma tube penetrating one of the few islands there is in this underground ocean? Also, I really hope Jazzimus is good at minesweeper. As for suggestions to a project you could do, while I would love to see the Siegebreaker be completed and actually break a siege just by existing, it feels wrong of me to suggest that, seeing as how it was my half-baked project in the first place. Instead I suggest this: Find and slay our forgotten beast!
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Drain all of this water and store it on top of the tower.
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Yeah... that is a lot of water. I say finish the siege breaker, since all that work was put into it. Name it after Thadius. Then hunt down and kill any and all forgotten beasts. Remaking the TRIBUTE would just be trite at this point. Zebrin fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Oct 17, 2012 |
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I have an alternate proposal. Mr Kraken noted that there is a lot of water down there. Water that hides, perhaps, the (non-Admantite) mineral wealth of Bronzestabbed. Thus steps should be taken to drain the underwater caverns and add the water within to the surface stream by whatever means the overseer sees fit. Whether as part of a siege defense system or what, I don't know.
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Jazzimus Prime posted:Also, although I've played about a month and a half ahead of this point and have yet to write those parts up, my dorf meant what he said about being willing to listen to the ideas of the other dwarves. Even if your dwarf has already died or hasn't arrived yet, any suggestions for projects, completing unfinished projects, and the like are all welcome. JimmyTheD's Magnificent Memorial Magma Mister. At the very top of the tower. Thadius posted:Find and slay our forgotten beast! One forgotten beast in all these years. I think we all know what the Minotarrrs are eating.
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OhCrap posted:One forgotten beast in all these years. I think we all know what the Minotarrrs are eating. 
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Pump that water! We need to create Bronzestabbed Municipal Water Tower and Siege Annihilator.
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Weaponize the Murk! You know you want to! 
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Just really read this post:Kaishai posted:This is the kind of ridiculous project I wouldn't want to try and do myself, but it sounds neat! I suggest the Bronzestabbed Historical Museum. And then I got to this part: Kaishai posted:...a booze stockpile for Thadius... You overestimate me. Make it a barrel of mead if you make this, and say that you're saving it for me to come back and have 'One last drink.' Bonus points if John Dough makes it. Otherwise I very much agree with this idea.
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I have an even better idea. Use all of this water to get the mister working again. It was a proud work of hygiene which was destroyed by a mad Ugather, who prefers to soil in the dirt. She really liked soap though. Use the tower to sprinkle the water all over the fortress. What could go wrong? But then again I am not dwarfed. So what ever.
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It's great to get a proper overview of the fortress again - as a layperson, it was getting a little impenetrable. Good updates so far, Jazzimus.
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