-2- [Dangletools] (3) Huge Carnage, Deep Problems
I replaced TakenakaHanbei because he lost the save file. Because of this I also had to start later, sorry for that.
Smaug Thidaskesdal
I write this report in fear, in fear for me, and the dwarves around me. No one knows about it anymore, but I do, the time that I tried to lead a fortress on my own. I was convinced that I would manage, it went well for almost a year. But as the first snowflakes fell, the screams in terror, the red-painted walls, the horror, it started. I tried to stop it, I honestly did, but it was futile. I ran away, as the coward I am. I didn't want to live among the dwarves anymore and traveled through the wilds. But after many, many years I spotted a group of dwarves traveling and nostalgia struck me. I decided to travel with them, it turned out they were traveling to a new fortress. There, I started working as a humble clothier. But then, a dwarf named Leblanck, who lead this fortress, told me he was tired of leading this place, and asked me to take it over from him. I didn't want this to happen, the horror to start again, but I couldn't refuse. So I ask you, elders, to please forgive my mistakes if I make them.
Granite.
To start my leadership, I ordered to make a huge room for me, and to fill the trench around the fortress with water. Sadly, there is not enough water to fish in anymore, so I told the dwarves to go fishing in a nearby river instead. Leblanc was happy to be exempt of the responsibilities of leadership, and inspired by it he claimed a craftsdwarf's workshop. I'm curious what he will make... Meanwhile, a high demand for tanned hide has grown, I'll see what I can do about it. Leblanc made a shale ring. oh well. Hope the traders like it. http://i.imgur.com/uPH7T.png The trench fills up very slowly, I hope it starts raining quick. http://i.imgur.com/X6BV9.png Also, it's filled with turkey and groundhog blood... I hope it gets replaced with goblin blood soon.
Slate.
WHY IS NOONE DIGGING OUT MY OFFICE!? hmpf, the dwarves are probably jealous at me for my greatness, but there could also be something wrong, I should look into it. I need to look into more things, like farming, which I had problems with in my previous for... (stop the memories, STOP THE MEMORIES) I also plan on conquering parts of the cavern, so we can have a water and treesupply when under siege. To deal with the problems, I talked to some farmers about the Farm Plot, ordered some picks to be made and looked at a map a miner made after his impressions of the cave after sealing it off. Also, some migrants arrived. 17 idlers!? those lazy dwarves need to get off their ass! So I gave them a lot of work to do.
Felsite
I started a small project on myself, in which I made a channel leading from the river to our base so we can drink out it if we are under siege (as long as the goblins lack watermonsters). 24 idlers!? hmm, maybe I can tell some to do some mining which will come in handy when I start my cavern project.
Hematite
The water project is finally finished. Some elven traders arrived, do I'm trying to make a deal with them. That lazy broker is drinking! I hope he proves himself to be worth something soon enough. More dwarves need to prove themselves this month, because it will be remembered as the month the cavern became ours. I'm concerned about this operation. I thought that the cavern creatures were far away, giving us enough time to build some walls, but miners told me that they heard a rat on the other side, but not a natural one. the miners were convinced it was huge. I will carve some fortications before breaching the wall.
Malachite Thob Ehonerib is taken by a few mood, he claimed a craftsdwarf's workshop. hope he finsishes it quick so he can be usefull again. The fool demands bone and metal, and I don’t think we can have the latter soon enough. Let’s wall that bastard in. Rakust Udibsedot was walled with him... oops. I tell the miners to free him. Just one migrant arrived. okay... Finally is Thob walled in. it took 5 tries, 5 times a dwarf walled himself in with Thob. Do they hate me or themself or something? anyway, I’m done. That a simple task as putting some walls could be this hard. Now I can continue on the cavern, I will keep building more fortifications until I can decide where in the cavern my dwarves need to be. The cavern is turning into a little zoo for my dwarves, hope they enjoy it before it starts to become their worst nightmare...
CONTINUED BENEATH
Posted May 3, 2012, 6:55 PM UTC · edited
Galena
Native gold and andesite! now I know which part of the cavern will be breached. http://i.imgur.com/Wm59v.png An Ettin has come! I'm not sure if I can handle this, but I'll try. http://i.imgur.com/RHn9i.png the Ettin Charges at a group of dwarves, and a recruit stands up to defend them. http://i.imgur.com/0gvO6.png The recruit is quickly killed, but a markdwarves who went to help him is now under attack! http://i.imgur.com/A3xaK.png http://i.imgur.com/uBaqY.png Sadly, since the marksdwarf is unarmed it is no match for the Ettin. http://i.imgur.com/qXbvv.png I left the door open so the dwarfs could get inside when the army held the Ettin up, but the rest of the army went outside instead. I didn't think this was a good idea, so I close the door. http://i.imgur.com/9OhwN.png Now are two dwarfes, a swordsdwarf and a marksdwarf, outside with the Ettin. But the Ettin is chasing other dwarves, who were too stupid to run. http://i.imgur.com/rwOhp.png Now a human caravan arrived, if the Ettin only was close enough to attack the humans instead. http://i.imgur.com/7Gsv9.png But no, the dwarves are fucked. Luckily the humans can protect another set of stupid dwarves. The fisherdwarf is getting chased by the Ettin, and the other dwarfs manage to get out of the Ettin's sight. The fisher dwarf ran far from the fortress, and is alone. The Ettin finally catches up with her, and breaks her arms. http://i.imgur.com/w3GYJ.png http://i.imgur.com/kGy5P.png GOT YOUR NOSE!!! ...And kills her. http://i.imgur.com/T0xxf.png The Ettin runs southwards (he killed the poor fisherdwarf in the top left corner), straight past an animal caretaker. http://i.imgur.com/gDLxH.png The Ettin chases a gosling, running acros a random trader who stayed here from past year's visit. http://i.imgur.com/WvFvI.png However, this gasling brought the Ettin close to the entrance of the fortress. The Etting chases the stupid trader down northwards and kills her. The Ettin spots another gassling and chases it, spotting a poor farmer on the way. the farmer runs northwards, along a canal, and on the other side of the canal is the former leader bandicoot chilling with a few others. http://i.imgur.com/xBtVe.png He better hope Ettins can't swim. The Ettin runs after the farmer, and now in the top right corner, it kills the the farmer. Now the Ettin walks soutwards, straight to the fortress, when suddenly it stops, just standing there. Then it moves north-east, over a hill the canal went through, and crashes bandicoot's party! http://i.imgur.com/DQqGU.png Oh noes, bandicoot isn’t fast enough and Ettin is right behind him, he's suddenly in big trouble. http://i.imgur.com/s5O95.png The Ettin stole bandicoots right glove and started hitting bandicoot with it! http://i.imgur.com/h3UNy.png The Ettins rips our poor leader apart like she is a doll, I’m so sorry bandicoot, and she dies of blood loss. http://i.imgur.com/WPmSc.png The Ettin leaves the mutilated corpse what once was our great leader, and goes after a piglet and a fisherdwarf. It chases the fisherdwarf to the far south and to the far north, coming by a stonecrafter in the progress. It leaves the fisherdwarf alone and chases the stonecrafter, again, to the far south and to the far north.
Limestone.
During the chase it became Atumn, this Ettin is holding up my cave project! The Ettin chased down the stonecrafter to the far south, where the fisherdwarf panicks again. Now the stonecrafter runs to the east, where it finally comes close to the fortress again. http://i.imgur.com/twF2A.png The stonecrafter and the Ettinrun past the fortress eastwards, where the stonecrafter tries to hide behind a tree. The Ettin looks surprised, but for a very short time, runs to the tree the stonecrafter is hiding behind and strikes at the stonecrafter, who tries to defend herself with a sword. http://i.imgur.com/ZrNMs.png She slashes away at the Ettin, but it doesn't help, the Ettin kicks through her skull. The Ettin goes on with his killingspree, but not unharmed. http://i.imgur.com/kRcxA.png The Ettin goes on further eastwards, where a few dwarven traders from last year were. http://i.imgur.com/TcPWq.png The Ettin harasses one poor trader with bandicoot's glove and punches her teeth out before kicking through her skull. The Ettin follows a second trader to the far north, but leaves her alone and goes after another trader. The marksdwarf left outside has decided to leave the swordsdwarf standing in front of the gate and charges at the Ettin, with an useless crossbow since we lack bolts. sigh. The marksdwarf is surprised how violently the Ettin attacks him (still using the glove), the idiot, and his attempts to attack the Ettin are easily dodged. The Ettin carves his mighty claws through the idiot's right lower leg, rippping it off. The dwarf tries to scramble away, but the Ettin picks him up around his lower body with his jaw, and shakes him around. The lower body is teared and the marksdwarf bleeds heavily, and when he thywith his crossbow before passing out it just glances away. Now I notice we are short on bolts, and order them to be made. Meanwhile, the Ettin goes after the last two dwarven traders, and after he killed one, the other one leads him to the fortress westwards. The trader runs past the fortress, and manages to run past the western border of the fortress, out of sight. The Ettin turns back, and goes to the fortress at last. ...But no, he suddenly spots another worth-for-nothing trader, chasing it northwards! argh! He leaves the trader for a piglet, chasing it southwards again. I hope the Ettin storms the fortress before the human traders leave. When the piglet reached the south-western corner, it decided to run eastwards, past the fortress. When the Ettin spots the fortress, it FINALLY runs at it and enters it. http://i.imgur.com/jGwOl.png But... what's this? The human traders left the fortress without me noticing it? I hope our defenses are enough. The Ettin kills a piglet that was near the trade depot when a lone swordsdwarf in front of the gate, Litast Rigòthgatiz, decides to charge at the Ettin. Litast drives the Ettin backwards and on the ground, slashing at him with his sword. http://i.imgur.com/YLrMs.png http://i.imgur.com/eedeH.png The Ettin stumbles backward, over the bridge, into the traps where it loses bandicoot's llama glove! http://i.imgur.com/EMog7.png This makes me feel happy, I didn't know the military could handle the Ettin, but apparently it could easily. Many lives could be saved, but that is the past, we must look forward in the future, where an Ettin corpse need to be moved. The Ettin tries to dodge the swordsdwarf's onslaught, but falls into the trench. The skull of the left head is fractured, now the right. http://i.imgur.com/aRH6z.png The Ettin becomes enraged, but I doubt he can do much harm. He has a hard time breathing and is heavily wounded so the swordsdwarf is the one who dodges his attacks with ease. At last the Ettin bled to death, so I open the gate and tell the dwarves that they are free to go anywhere again. http://i.imgur.com/KHXwN.png The fight started on the p (a pigket corpse), and the bloodtrail shows how Litast drove the Ettin back over the bridge, two traps, through the trench. The dwarves can immediately get to work, there is a cavern to be explored, dead bodies to be honored, and there is a miasma cloud in the kitchen.
Sandstone
The miasma has cleared, and I am building a tomb for bandicoot. I am also deeping out the trench, so I can fill it with water out the river (it completely dried up) Thob died in the walled off workplace, so i break te walls down at last The dwarf Medtob was caught in a cave-in when deeping out the trench, her left and right upper leg are broken. The tomb for bandicoot is almost done, the floor is almost ready... and the dwarfes tell me they can't reach bandicoot. I took a look at it, and he is perfectly accesible. I ordere the tress aroiund him to be chopped down, maybe that'll help. They just leave Thob's body lying there. why? (later it turned I out forbid his body somehow) Also, migrants! they'll come in handy.
Timber
Datan Asobfeb got a strange mood and claimed a metalsmith's forge. I was afraid we didn't have what he wanted, but luckily he is hauling things. The floor in bandicoot's tomb is finished, the only thing that lacks is his body. http://i.imgur.com/eJKxh.png (you see two images of the Ettin, and I think one of badicoot) There’s miasma coming from Thob’s dead body. Datan finished his artifact. A lead splint with an image of a laboring colossus in it... http://i.imgur.com/oV3in.png Also, I noticed my water recevoir was finally filled. there is alot of mud floating in there and it's stagnant (so is the river), but atleast we have something when under siege. http://i.imgur.com/1bnoM.png Caravans have arrived as well. and no Ettin to stop us trading... perfect. When I'm busy unloading goods, another huge miasma cloud has former. Bury Thob damnit! A snatcher tried to sneak in, the hammerdwarf who spotted him was eager to help.
Moonstone
I was fairly new to trading, so I was quite confused by the trader’s talk. I think I bought a shitload of weaponary, metal and beer for a shitload of crafts. Now it's almost winter, and the trench is almost finished, I can go on with my cavern project. To speed up the mining, which is going very slow since there is only one miner capable of working, so I told some others to start mining. Another part has collapsed, and there were a lot of victims, one died. Almost at the same time the Giant Tudosp has come, great. I hope this time the dwarfs actually get inside. http://i.imgur.com/DClqQ.png The giant chases some guineaecocks while a hunter shoots arrows at him (and misses). I think almost anyone is inside, so I close the gate. The Giant chases a guineaecock down into the deepened trench, grabs it and chokes it so hard that it crushes the neck, opening arteries and the poor gainaecock bleeds to death. Thanks to the deepened pit the Giant is forced to go through the traps, instead of trough the trench on the bridge like the Ettin did. The traps rapidly attack the Giant, which dodges into the trench. http://i.imgur.com/N1YJa.png http://i.imgur.com/ihANr.png http://i.imgur.com/GU5u7.png There he lies vomiting and almost every bodypart is broken, so I unlock the door and allow anyone to go on with whatever they were doing. The patethic Giant still scares people, so I tell the squad to finish him off.
Opal
Oops, the slow Giant still got hold of a farmer somehow and killed him, why aren't the soldiers killing the Giant? I ordered them to do so! Instead, the hunter attacks the Giant, who left the trench through the drained waterpool, and kills it. worthless militia. http://i.imgur.com/60m3K.png I go on with my cavern project, I plan on breaching the before my turn is over, but it probably won't happen. The lakes and river are frozen outside, and everyone tells me that my perfectly fine water recevoir isn't a proper water source. Well, dehydrate to death then. I spotted more novice gold, and an underground water source as well! I'll quickly tell my dwarves to open it. I will carve a fortification, my follow ups can handle the waterlevel.
Obsidian
I got a letter from the Elders. They heard of my ...mistakes, so they want someone to replace me. This will be my last month to finish some projects before the follow-up will take the leadersip. In that time, I’ll try to breach the cavern and get access to the new watersource. Kel Uzollorbram is taken by a mood and claimed the craftdwarf's workshop. He made a shale earring... http://i.imgur.com/PY0kX.png I let the miners dig a channel near the underground lake, when done I’ll carve a fortification and we have water whenever we want. I also told them to breach the cavern wall and dig a way to the gold. We would wall the connections with the rest of the cave off. But when trying to do that the cavern, one dwarf walled himself in from the wrong side so many times, I let him stay outside. My follow up can get him back in. Because of that stupid dwarf taking my attention I could finish the water source! So the follow up needs to carve the fortification.
End of Report
They found someone to replace me. That’s fine, he can go clean the mess I left while I go back making clothes, that’s what I’m good at. I left them a dead former leader (sorry bandicoot), a drained pool, two cripple legendary miners, a dwarf in the cavern, some tragedy, and a whole lot of problems I probably don't know of. What I added to the fortress is a deepened trench so every invader (except if it can swim) has to go through the traps, fortifications next to the gate so you can shoot arrows at anyone who wants to break down the door http://i.imgur.com/S7qW3.png, (almost) two water recevoirs in case you’re under siege http://i.imgur.com/eCADj.png http://i.imgur.com/yu6CM.png, a start at mining in the cavern, and a shitload of fortifications so you can see better what is going on in there (so far I have only seen one giant rat) or, if you something, kill it with arrows. http://i.imgur.com/eUMqk.png You can also have my office (The giant unfinished room left of the other bedrooms) http://i.imgur.com/HvQTP.png.
Record Keeper's notes
... Learning from previous mistakes. Water (is a z-level below the fortifications) and ramps (don't work from all sides - they're made of rock, not magic) don't seem to be a force, though. But he's leaving the room for the next in line. I like that, it seems maybe there really will be a place for him in the militia. Noted.
Record Keeper's notes
Competent militia, incompetent leadership, noted. Good dwarfs died because of this! (Never mind the humans..) Great observational skills, though, maybe smaug has a future as a student of war? I'll be sure to tell his successor....