Razorcrypts--a DF AAR

[MadImmortalMan]

1st Opal 115, Mid-Winter

Admiral Yi makes the breach he was hoping for.




Unfortunately, he has breached it at ground level and not in the ceiling as we hoped he would. We'll have to wall that off for now.




12th Obsidian 115, Late Winter

The evil that inhabits the northern wastes has taken another soul. When I went to ask Barrister about the strange devices, I found him in a state of madness.



He promptly removed to his workshop and will not speak for now.

"Tonecat the Disembobeled Jaw", a limonite mechanism (value=57600)

This is a limonite mechanism. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of cushion limonite cabuchons. This object is adorned with hanging rings of limonite and menaces with spikes of limonite.

Wow. That's expensive.

[MadImmortalMan]

Awards:

Granite Star-for meeting and killing the enemy:

Pedrito

I didn't even know I was arrived! I think in your last report about new arrivals you've posted double Benedict arnold's profile and did not post mine.

What's the profession of my dorf?

L.

He's mostly a fighter, but also animal trainer while Neil is off in the dojo.


He notched one kill in that last goblin fight. The goblin's name was Nguslu Seducedfaithful. 

[Octavian]

Cool I wasn't aware I had arrived as well. Hopefully many Goblins will be slain be my hand before I die with honor in the service of my fortress.

Don't let me be killed be a zombie sheep please!

[Barrister]

Cool - my namesake did something! 

[Syt]

What's Syt-dorf up to these days?

[garbon]

What's Syt-dorf up to these days?

Like garbon, he must be dead!

[Pedrito]

He's mostly a fighter, but also animal trainer while Neil is off in the dojo.


He notched one kill in that last goblin fight. The goblin's name was Nguslu Seducedfaithful. 

L.

[Grey Fox]

I believe we are in need of a full update on the status of every Languish Dwarf.

[MadImmortalMan]

I believe we are in need of a full update on the status of every Languish Dwarf.

I am going to do that for some. Some of them are not children anymore--Mono, meri, Hans I think at the beginning of 116. We have more dorfs now that are not Languishites. Lots of nobody vampire food dorfs. So I can certainly add more Languishites who want to be in. I think I may have taken babies and gave them different adult dwarves later.

I'm sure I made a bunch of mistakes and the dwarves were never 100% accurate. I've also noticed that sometimes when I change the nicks in therapist, not everything in the game quite gets transferred. For example, a wall carving about a languishite dwarf I renamed in therapist will not show the nick of the dwarf. But then I go to the dwarf in-game and change the nick again, the same carving will have the correct name. I would report it as a bug, but since therapist is technically a 3rd party app, I guess it's not Toady's job to fix that.

[Jacob]

Yeah, but the vomit is washed off. The description now says "this item is showing signs of wear".  I don't think it is getting thrown away though. 

Moving to Razorcrypts is a way of coping with the breakup. The vomit being washed off is the first part of the healing process. Let me know what happens next

[MadImmortalMan]

1st Granite 116, Early Spring


The new year has arrived, and we haven't had a battle for at least six weeks.




We are a metropolis now, and worth half a million of whatever our currency is, so that's impressive. Impressive to would-be attackers, particularly.

The masons have been working on the topside a bit this year. By that, I mean only Slargos and Syt. Brain prefers to stay downstairs with Katmai making furniture, doors and coffins. Unlike Katmai, he's not in the military, so he doesn't get outside much. I think he's becoming myopic. There is another larger tower going up over top of the main stairs. We got tired of birds crapping down into the fort, so we figured we'd cover it up. Give the dragons one more door to break down. I wish one of those stupid keas would crap our warhammer back.

Barrister wants to do something or other with catapults or ballistas or somesuch on the roof. I don't know how useful that might be. I'll ask about it in council. We need a law enforcement officer too. Anyway, the new tower is bigger than the archery watchtower and has several floors we can make into things like barracks and...hell I don't know. Stuff.






Tonitrus dug a small rudimentary jail area just above the crypts. Nothing but some alcoves and ropes at the moment. We don't have much crime anyway. We're all to busy trying not to freeze to death.



We've trapped a number of goblins in cages. Another thing to bring up in council. We can't just put them in storage forever. We should think of something for them to do.


Berkut's construction of Rochester Castle is coming along nicely. He's smoothed most of the stone in there already, and built a bunch of furniture. He's beginning to plan out his room layout and has even built some of the walls. It's going to be luxurious. We went ahead and placed fahdiz' epic statue of the outpost liaison who got fired in the middle of our meeting hall. Everybody likes it, and maybe it will make future liaisons treat us with extra deference. Plus it has a dragon on it too.





Yi's digging expedition has found a second level of caverns beneath our cistern level. While the first seems to be populated mostly by tower caps and fungiwood (we saw some sparsely-scattered cave spider silks about), the second one is full of goblin caps, blood thorns and tunnel tubes. We saw quite a number of crundle tracks in the mud there as well. Again, lots of water. The diggers are again probing as much as possible without breaching an opening. Yi is already talking about continuing down beyond this level as well.


There are a total of 42 legendary dwarves. They say a hard life makes a hard dwarf, and our frozen icedwarves of the north are certainly hardier than your average southerner.

Miners:
Tonitrus
Admiral Yi

Engraver:
Ed Anger

Metalcrafter:
Zoupa

Gem Setter:
Malthus

Woodcrafter:
Norgy

Stonecrafters:
Wags
Queequeg
Brain

Bonecarvers:
fahdiz
Kleves
Monoriu

Mechanic:
Barrister


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Too many to list the military so I'll just post the grid.





Bigger squares=more skill. Diamond=legendary.





Some dwarves finally came of age, including a legendary child prodigy.

[Syt]

The masons have been working on the topside a bit this year. By that, I mean only Slargos and Syt.

I'm useful.

[Razgovory]

Huh.  A Raz the Dwarf appears to be a farmer, I'm curiously one of the few Dwarfs who leaves his subterranean home.

[DontSayBanana]

I'm apparently a legendary macedwarf, shield user, and fighter, yet I never see myself going out to actually fight.

DSB: All talk and no action since 2004.

[Valmy]

Valmy Dwarf was all kicking ass there for awhile what happened?  Is he taking a nap?