-11- [Spearsold] (3) Behold, Adamantine!

Granite

Oh my gosh what the heck is going on here. The previous overseer QuestionQuality, though I don't doubt his greatness, certainly didn't leave me in a comfortable position here.

I've never led a fort this large, at least not for long. Not only am I overwhelmed with the magnitude of the fortress itself, the task in front of me right now is daunting . A

siege is at my gates. Here's hoping this won't be the last year for Spearsold. Luckily, I came on the same caravan as the therapist, let's see what she has to offer me in terms of consolation. 102 dwarves, between them almost all labors covered. Maybe

QuestionQuality didn't leave me in such a bad position. 1 squad of marksdwarves is our entire army. Our captain's only kill is a giant emu. This(spearsoldgranite1.jpg) is my

challenge. I don't think it's time to fight yet. At least the Outpost Liasion is locked in here with us, not out there with them.

I release my Time Powers to see what happens. The goblins seem content to just stay far away from us, and my dwarfy budies are all happily working. So far, so good! I ordered

the miners to dig deeper, and found semi-molten rock. I think I'll leave this alone for now.

Limul Olinamal has claimed a craftdwarf's workshop. He seems to be posessed by unknown forces! I'm following him around for a moment to see if it's anything important. He's

taking bones, wood, gems, and silk cloth. Limul is muttering Taronodom. Turns out that Taronodom(taronodom.jpg) is just a pair of leggings, not some legendary weapon destined

to defeat the goblins that sit right outside our fortress. They can never just make it easy for me

It seems as though the miasma from spoiled food has started to disgust many of my dwarfy friends. I have ordered the doors to the offending areas to be tightly closed in an

effort to mitigate the problem.

Also, through random digging, it seems as though I've found magma. A lot of it. Raw adamantine as well. Luckily, where we dug into is the space over the magma, not the magma

itself. Oh boy, there are magma crabs down there. Let's see here, what does the overseer's guide say about all this stuff.

The magma crabs don't seem to pose a threat. Avoid the lava and I can avoid the m. The adamantine is scary though. It's right over the lava, and from what I understand, can

mean the end of the fortress. Well, lets see what happens.

Slate

The lava is making me do some weird mining things to get around it. People keep giving birth. 21 idlers. Still under siege. The liason agreed to export weapons and metal bars

to us, which I'm very grateful. All this means nothing if we can't end the siege though.

I found the tomb of our first great leader, 'ChalkFace'. I've ordered the tomb to be engraved.

Adamantine requires a few steps to turn into weapons and armor according to the overseer's guide. What a pain. At least with this equipment my military ought to be able to

slaughter those goblins. I don't want to do a magma forge, too risky. I'll just stick to a regular forge powered by charcoal.

Felstite

The adamantine is going slowly. I have the buildings built, but no efficient method of transporting the raw adamantine, which is at -155. Oh geez, i accidentally stranded some

miners down in the adamantine vein by digging too many channels. I shouldn't be too greedy. Maybe I can make some stairs in an attempt to save them. Not much room to work with

when it's surrounded by magma. Hatch covers? they've been down there for a while, hunting small creatures.

Apparently there was a diplomat who attempted to visit me, but he failed because he couldn't get in. Damn goblins! Elven caravan came too. They're just staying at the edge of

the map though.

I finally figured out what stairs to construct to get one of the miners out of that hellhole. Lets get her some food and drink! There's still one down there, but at least I

know what to do to extract him. Also, now that I've made that area accessible, my adamantine industry has begun!

Hematite

The dwarves are deciding to fight me on building one the staircases (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Stairs see bugs section). I've assigned somebody who will

build the stairs to a burrow right above the stairs I want to build. Also got rid of the normal meeting place and set a meeting zone right above the constantly suspended

stairs. I'm really trying my hardest to constantly unsuspend these stairs, but it doesn't even matter.

The trapped miner died. one adamantine mace made. I have no idea what I'm doing. still unsuspending that gosh darn stair. (cancels.jpg). I don't think I can make that stair to

get access to the rest of the adamantine. The only thing left is to try to dig around it or drain the magma. I made a pretty big room, and opened the magma to it. The

overseer's guide said that as long as the room is big enough and the opening small enough, the magma will evaporate at a slow pace and drain the pool outside. This may take

years. There's no way to dig around that adamantine vein, so this was my only hope of making it minable again, besides getting that gosh darn stair to actually contruct.

(badmagmaroom.jpg) I think i made the room too small though.

Finding that other batch of adamantine also meant finding more caverns. I've closed these off as well.<

Then migrants, and an angry human child? (angrychild.jpg). What the heck is going on here? At least he's friendly. The siege ended at some point, so I got rid of the burrow

and pulled the lever.

More adamantine?! Where?(moreadamanine.jpg)

Limestone

Migrants. Babies. 159 dwarves. WTF.

Sandstone

Merchants showed up. Apparently the merchant's guard said something to upset him, and the merchant tried to fight the guard. Super bad idea buddy. The maceman just left after

that, leaving behind all of the humans goods for US to use! I am excite!

More adamantine (adamantine3.jpg). jeez!

Timber

Making a larger magma cooling room. Maybe this time I'll get there. I also have digging designations going to the other 2 veins, but those probably won't be done until I start

magma extraction.

A couple caravans have arrived and left cause they couldn't get in. Not sure why, my gate is down and the migrants can get in...

Gimme a break! (darkness.jpg). I really didn't want to have to fight anything else. Siege. (Siege2.jpg) We're doomed. Nothing to do but pull the levers and wait. There's a

speardwarf left outside who has already killed one goblin swordsman. Sadly, he was killed shortly thereafter. A fisherdwarf was also caught outside.

My hunters are having fun killing crundles underground, so we at least have that for meat. Opened up my second magma room. Maybe this one will fare better. Man, I'm having so

much trouble with these goddamn dwarves! Didn't lose a dwarf when I opened this magma room though.

Moonstone

Another child has a fey mood. She claimed a craftdwarf's shop, which is fine they weren't doing anything anyways. Finally got to another one of the adamantine veins! Digging

that ore up, and sending it to the surface! Holy crap, an adamantine breastplate is actually being made! oh, and a child is throwing a tantrum.

Oh my goodness. Tantrums and berserks and what do I do. Shoot! All the adamantine stuff is getting made but too late, everybody is going crazy! Also, questionquality,

congratulations, you're a mother! (mama.jpg) Another person goes start raving mad. I think this is the end, folks. Not really sure what to do with everybody trying to kill

each other! (theend.jpg)

Obsidian

I'm sorry to say that I don't see a way to drag ourselves out of this. Everybody is just killing each other and none of them will listen to me.

oops. I let it run until the 17th of granite. I'm sorry about that. Honestly, this went so poorly that I wouldn't be surprised if you wrote this off as an alternate timeline.

Man, this place is effed up, and I don't think there is any saving it! Although, it would make a nice reclaim with all the adamantine that has already been dug to.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2568822/Spearsold.rar Here's the save. I will add the images to the post later.