Murder Most Foul!!

A body has been discovered!

Bur Mengkonos was discovered dead in his room.  I suspected the first dwarf I saw near the room.. A farmer who I spotted running away with all of Bur's belongings.  But all he did with them was drop them in storage for anyone to use and then he went to a party.  I've locked him in his room just in case though.  A couple moved in to the bedroom and slept in the bed with the corpse.  I'm hoping that is a bug and not a sign of something icky.

I designated a place for bodies to be stored and lo and behold it was Yumi Scruumi who took it upon themselves to carry the body up all those flights of stairs.

It seems we need to start getting some law enforcement started.  With Yumi not leading the village anymore (we've upgraded to village!) she has a lot of free time....  Quick explanation:

Kylesghost: from the wiki
Kylesghost: "The captain of the guard leads the fortress guard, which, alongside its regular military duties, aids in the enforcement of justice by capturing criminals and delivering beatings"
Wade: beatings!
Kylesghost: indeed
Kylesghost: im just looking to give this guy a burial first.  not sure where i want the coffins to go for this fort.  not near the Founders floor. we're special
Wade: flush him
Wade: he was a nobody!
Kylesghost: unburied dead come back as ghosts that chop off limbs.
Kylesghost: we bury this fucker first.
Wade: Sheesh

And so a new burial chamber was arranged, the coffin filled and the body dumped.  er.. interred.  Yumi has been assigned the new rank of Captain of the Guard.  I also decided to appoint Luna Soulchild as his plucky deputy.

It was while the body was being carried by Yumi that we received a rather ominous update.

That's right.  The milker had been milked! ... of blood. ..er..  ok, so there's a vampire.  We have pretty much no weapons and no sure idea who the vampire or vampires are.  And the only ones who can save us are Yumi Scruumi and Luna Soulchild.

Winter has begun.

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Monkey goes pop!

So some of those grey langur's harassed the gang at the ole fishing hole.  So they chased it down and beat the shit out of it.  One of the few times you could actually watch some action in DF.  I saw 3 dwarves running after the monkey and then suddenly an explosion of bodyparts.  Look at all these teeth!

One of the other monkeys was punched in the head by one Luna Soulchild.  (edit!) As has Eliana Moonhaven.  One handed ofcourse.  (edit x3) Arowz did it too now!

Sad news is Brogo the kobold got away again.  I feel like Wile E. Coyote vs the Road Runner.  The great wall is complete on the top floor and the animals seem quite safe up there for now.

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Summer 252.

Work on my Great Wall has gone alright.  Had a bit of a problem as giant parrots called kea kept stealing the blocks of stone.(not to be confused with Ikea)  These things must be huge.

Yumi does not seem to mind the results of the election.  She continues to work as the manager for the fort, making sure everyone does things as efficiently as possible.

Summer has just arrived and Brogo the theif dropped by yet again.  4th time now if I'm counting right.  I think I'm going to try putting a bunch of cage traps out there and see if we can catch him.  Any idea what to do with him if we do?

The elven traders visited again.  This time I avoided any wood related merchandise and traded them some statues instead.  In exchange we got a bit of food.  It seemed a good way to get rid of some ugly statues.

Last but not least we have more alpacas in the fort... Kesu's alpaca has grown up and given birth to a new baby alpaca.  I am not renaming the guild hall to Fort Alpaca despite her insistence.

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Year 2 complete

Spring of the year 252.  2 years in and things have progressed a bit.  No real threats have appeared yet but I am doing my best to secure the fort before trouble arrives.  And it will arrive.

Currently the population stands at 55 citizens and 19 animals.  This includes 4 children and 7 babies.  The baby who kept crawling away form the fort (probably due to a bug) grew up to be a healthy child.  He will still hold on to his nickname of Baby'sDayOut though.  That woman who took over the crafting station a year ago is still down there.  Another bug I am afraid.  She gave birth to a second baby.  The 9 month old is still clinging to her back but the newborn is being ignored entirely.  This new stray baby has been nicknamed Strayby.

We have been upgraded from outpost to hamlet now.  Our expedition leader Yumi Scrumi served us well for 2 years but now we have a mayor.  The new mayor was elected by all of the citizens.  His name is Vucar Shorastgiken.  He has lived here for 6 months and works as a fish dissector.  Yumi continues to work as the local manager.  Broker Jim Shapiro appeared unfazed by the recent change.

Time for some updated screenshots of the fort.  The entranceway has not changed much since we moved in.  All of our animals tend to be kept just outside.  There is no pen so when they get spooked by monkeys we have to go drag them all back.  A bit of a pain.

One floor up is the food area.  Looking at the picture you can see both inside and out but remember none of these indoor areas connect to the outside except via that front door downstairs.

If you go up another couple of floors you get on top of this hill we've burrowed in to.  I've flattened it out a bit and hope to build a fortress wall around it.  Later we can keep our animals here in a bit of a safer area and maybe do some outside farming.  This might all end in disaster though.  In the northern corner you can see a dark hole of an area... That is the place that claimed Eliana's hand.

The only other area to see changes was the general population's bedroom zone.  34 bedrooms and a nice gathering hall for parties.  Next step.. I need somewhere to put the coffins.  That woman has to die eventually.

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Disaster!

With the recent monkey attacks causing trouble I decided to start work on our defenses.  That pesky kobold has been by a couple more times too.  So I went to work sculpting the hillside to our advantage.  Unfortunately today we had a cave-in.  Drakhen and Eliana were both knocked unconcious.  Drakhen seems to have survived unscathed by Eliana has lost the use of her right hand.

I'm happy to say it hasn't slowed her down too much.  She's back to work swinging her mining pick with her left hand.

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Monkeys!

A pack of Grey Langur monkeys raided the camp and stole what little ammunition we had left for our crossbows.  In retaliation our hunting dog ripped one apart.  Then while the hunting dog scrapped with another a Mr Jim Shapiro went out to drag the dog back to his spot outside the door.  What happened next... well, it got messy.

Hapanzee Birthday Mother Fucker.

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Lost track of time... the people keep coming

Population jumped to 43 including 5 babies/children.  Not all parents are acting responsibly.  I spotted one baby crawling around in the woods alone.  It managed to see one of our hunters kill a chinchilla so.. good education I guess.  The kobold came by again in the early summer... but no sign since all these migrants showed up.

36 extra people and I had 7 spare beds after the ones reserved for the proper Fragile Dragons.  I've started digging in a bunch of rooms and getting Tiny Belen to crank out as many doors and pieces of furniture as he can.  He even crafted his first masterworks.  A very nice obsidian door and a cabinet.

So far we have had no deaths.  We have survived on fishing and farming aswell as the luck of our newer hunters.  Behold the dead so far:

But I have an empty coffin on standby.  The mother of that first baby born in the fort has gone quite crazy trying to craft a legendary item.  It looks like she will fail and most likely die of starvation.

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What Does The Fox Say?

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Summer

That pesky kobold Brogofobrulgin tried to sneak in again.  Stealthy little bugger... I hope he hasn't actually succeeded in sneaking off with anything.

Also some elves arrived to trade from the elven land of Lini Cifano "The Cat of Angish"... but Mr Shapiro pissed them off by offering them goods in a wooden barrel.  This offended them because we turned a once beautiful tree in to a horrible bauble.  They left in a huff... but I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be enough to go to war over.  I hope.  Because really, our only protection right now is Luna.

I had commissioned some statues to be made in hopes of trading them with the elves.  They ended up in storage.  I went to take a look and found this beauty.  I'm considering putting it in Yumi's room.

In other news a pair of the settlers were married and have had a baby.  Let us welcome the fortresses first child, sideburns and all, Mr Sibrek Likotbasen.

I started digging in some rooms for our other dwarves.  I figured 8 more rooms would be plenty.  Then more migrants showed up, clamoring for our wealth and free food.

The picture doesn't do it justice.. There were 13 in all including 2 kids and another baby.  The baby crawling along slowly in the stream trying to keep up is quite comical.  I'll dig out some more rooms.

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Spring Has Arrived

Year one complete.  Aside from that thief nothing really eventful happened since last update.  I've expanded the lodgings a bit though creating a floor just for The Founders.  It will of course be called Founders Hall where there will be nice large bedrooms for each guild member, perhaps expanded dining rooms later... offices.. and eventually our tombs.

Back upstairs a nice little underground farm and food prep area has been installed.  It will later be expanded to include a butcher shop I think.  Arowz has been fishing and cooking up some pond turtle biscuits, plump helmet roast, and nice rainbow trout stew.

Workshops have come a little ways.

The barracks above are still boring but we did get that well installed without drowning anyone.

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A Kobold Comes To Visit

So we had a visit from a kobold thief who managed to get close to the door but not inside the fort.  I think the hunting dog I have set outside discovered him.  Mental note, get more dogs.

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Kesu Strangevision has Arrived!

I carefully went through those new arrivals... I knew she had to be in there somewhere.  The only single female was the carpenter so I quickly changed her name appropriately.  Kesu had arrived.  Then I read over her profile and found a few scary things I hadn't seen on any other dwarf profile.

A little scary but I figured I would leave it as is...  I then decided to be cute and try assigning the baby alpaca as her pet.  It was already done!  :o  Clearly this was meant to be.

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Day 2

A quick recap.  7 brave adventurers have set forth on behalf of the great dwarven kingdom of Tellistas. (Translates as 'The Infallible Cave')  This group of 7 called their expedition force Inglazmamgoz  (Translates as Fragiledragons) and they settled and struck the earth naming their new home.  Welcome to the outpost Iton Domas, "The Hall of Guilds".

Jim Shapiro managed to trade away some of those shiny gold rocks for some food so we should have enough to feed the seven founders and these three new slackers that showed up.

The barracks we put together with 7 beds and 6 chairs might be a bit cramped but we should be fine... except.. well shit.  More people showed up.

And I shit you not... They brought 2 goats, a lamb, 2 baby llamas and... one baby alpaca.  It is quite clear that one of these people is Kesu Strangevision in disguise.

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So Qualified

The season continued... much too quickly.  A liason from the homeland arrived with 3 new members.  Everyone of our founding members was bitchy due to lack of beds, chairs etc.  So we put together a few crafting stations.  Jim and Tiny Belen whipped up some chairs, tables, beds... nothing fancy yet.  Oh and a couple of doors so we can close the front up if we suddenly face an invasion.  I'm not feeling too confident in Luna Soulchild's ability to protect us.

Yumi Scruumi conducted a meeting with the liason that seemed to go well.  The entirety of our communicated needs seemed to be "send us more booze".  Good job.

Only thing left was to use that trading post with the visiting merchants...  After careful consideration of his overwhelming skills (see screenshot) I had to assign the task to Mr Jim Shapiro.

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The Fragile Dragons Have Arrived in Dwarf Fortress

So with the holidays upon us it was finally time for these brave adventurers to go out in to the wilderness and try to establish what Arenanet wouldn't do for them.  Create a guild hall!

When we arrived I was pleasantly surprised to see we had found ourselves a little piece of paradise.  A babbling brook of a river running down the west side of our land.  The hillside decorated by exposed opals and gems.. ore to make metals.. a nice bunch of trees for us to chop down when needed.  Then I saw it....

Gold!  Gold ore just.. laying around!  All over the place.  We are staying here and we need to dig in and protect ourselves before someone comes along and tries to take it from us.  I quickly set intructions to dig in to the closest cliffside, build a trade depot, and carry everything inside where it will be safe.  I unpaused and waited for the precision of a well trained guild to go to work.

sigh.

Drakhen and Eliana quickly dug in, discovered a bunch of gold a few feet in.  Made ourselves a storage room for all of our gear that was just laying around outside.

Luna Soulchild ran off and shot all of the crossbow bolts at a mountain goat she spotted.  She managed to break three legs on the poor animal... and then gave up the hunt because we were all out of crossbow bolts.  That was like.. 40 bolts.  The goat crawled away.

 

Arowz ran off and started fishing in a nearby pond.  She caught a few pondturtles which was nice.  But since we have no kitchen, fish prep tables, or food storage area.. they quickly rotted next to her pond.

Mr Shapiro dismantled our wagon for spare wood then watched Drakhen start carrying all of our goods in item by item.  Everyone watched.  And for some reason Drakhen went and fetched the rotten turtles instead of our food and supplies.

Eventually I got that sorted, people are helping and the trading post was built by a handy Tiny Belen.

We're off to a good start.

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