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Still haven't entirely gotten a handle on the aquifer situation.

What even is this mess. I tried putting in some drainage channels, and also let in some baby rutherers that are running around freaked out.

hm, Just now occurring to me how many of these walls are not smoothed, and they will pour less water on us if I have them smoothed.

I've been trying to feel like drawing, and mostly not.

any ways.

I tried to get some statues made of Urvad, skilled head chopper, made and folks are just jazzed about the good mugs that she makes.

Rith making the Elvin Diplomat chase her around while she gets some radish wine. She is not bothered.

The elves say we can have 28 trees this year.

Poor Cadem "socializing" alone, in the ape corner

She's in pretty good spirits everything considered.

I forgot to turn off the micro "tavern" in there, and someone claimed Cranky's old bedroom, and I had some stress this month. Cadem did get to a brief moment to share a poem with our chief medical dwarf.

Seen here out in the second level caverns for no discernible purpose.

I don't quite know how to "satirize a journey" and I'm bad at counting syllables or I 'd write my own version of her poem.

I'm real tempted to make her a performer, but like, we really don't want a were-ape in a crowded tavern.

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The Butters of Whipping has been a huge success

So many performers and visitors.

I'm getting a petition for long term residence every 4 minutes.

The demographics are interesting. Two human women moved in and had babies.

There's very few elves, but several goblins visiting.

umm...

He immediately started to get to know our expedition leader. He doesn't seem to be doing much. I'm actually a little suspicious he's not actually a criminal, I don't think they have masters...

Furthermore,

He seems to have left and come back naked??

It seems not unusual for performers to be nudists.

A couple of performance troupes have visited.

It seems we have no idea what their deal is.

This guy was scampering all over my fort, and sorta creeping me out.

Dingo woman with a crossbow. I think I accidentally sent her away while I was clearing petitions, but she came back and I let her move in.

There's an eagle man in the library.

We've even seen an intelligent undead

He has a legendary mace with him.

Not sure what it means that he's a chieftain... Just noticed he's only 35.

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Our civilization is called The New Crystal, and our symbols is called The High Diamond, it's a picture of an anvil.

note book paper drawing with the words "THE IVORY GALLEYS" and two geometric beasts

The local government calls itself The Ivory Galleys, and has an image of a forgotten beast as it's symbol. I'm kind of annoyed at the lack of specificity, so I kind of riffed on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki creature scale illustrations and tried to make 'em out of ellipses and triangles.

Uvrad [Snakemine] got into a fey mood, made us another mug. only about 2000 moneys, but it's still neat.

Then we got a visit from a were-coati, and Uvrad! chopped it's head right off. No sweat, not a scratch on her. (I really need to get more steel weapons made)

I accidentally let an untrained baby rutherer out of a cage, and one of my pet dogs picked a fight with it, and then lost the fight badly :(

My dingowoman resident!

She doesn't do much. Mostly just drinks wine and worships a human's god called Tomca. She has little green socks and gloves and tiny sandals.

I love her.

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Checking in with the fort mayor.

Girl, how did this even happen

is it stairs?

Odd little mystery.

There was another dwarf, I think a visitor, one level bellow her, and there was an "attend meeting" activity there at some point.

Neither of them had anything combat logs, and there was no apparent danger in the area. It's a pine tree, and it isn't even in a fruit gathering area.

Just the newly elected mayor, up a tree, demanding shields.

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amber titan

We spent a while burrowed. (violence and pixel gore to follow)

All my citizens managed to get underground, even managed to clear out most of my surface pastures.

The titan stomped around. Got hold a rabbit, and two or three sorta aggro dogs. Unfortunately, I had a cave floor pasture, just bellow the surface, not connected to the rest of my fort, and Monal got in.

We lost some grazers, including named pets, but a stray reindeer managed to smash up it's arm.

An unfortunate visiting scholar got caught, and Monal picked up his silk shoe.

An even more unfortunate visiting scholar, got chased into the river, webbed and slowly shoe beaten.

While this was going on, a performance troupe asked for residency.

We have enough performers, and denied their petition.

What I hadn't considered, is that with the surface blocked off, they decided to exist by way of the second cavern layer and ran into some troglodytes.

If any of the performance group survived, they fled the screen.

silver lining: notable kills.

eventually I built this "airlock" hallway, and managed to lure it in with animals.

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dorf fort

we had another forgotten beast, A big ol' scorpion.

It fought with a draltha. If my math is right, the beast is about 3 elephants big, and the draltha is about 1/2 an elephant big. Pretty unfair fight, but the draltha managed to destroy the beast's tail stinger.

Urvad was so nonplussed she went up and started punching it in its legs.

girl, you have an axe.

Eventually Cerol(? my notes contradict the "notable kills" listed) went up and decisively smashed it's guts.

We had barely cleared the "civilian alert" , and hadn't even moved Stuzang's corpse before our first above ground beastie arrived.

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Df: invasions

I forgot to take screen shots and I keep wanting to draw fight scenes, and then not actually having the patience to figure out 3-d shapes or what a crossbow looks like.

We had another wave of rodentmans from the caverns.

15 total, I did scum save after i feel like I messed up directing dwarfs around tunnel walls and pillars and stuff.

Then I got caught in a loop of game crashes, and got pretty annoyed, and lost track at least a bit of what things actually happened.

The Heart has her whip, and she's pretty good with blocking attacks, and fighting. Urvad Snakemine showed up with her axe and got to chop some heads off. Fish-Eater also got some hits in.

Two casualties, Igniz, I think the one that was slightly bruised in the were-ape attack, and Zulban. Udi, the human got his arm stabbed, and hi foot bit pretty bad.

The year rolled over to 181

We were just getting the rodentmans corpses hauled out, when we got our first Vile Force of Darkness.

It was only 3 dudes.

There were also two snatchers, but they barely made it on screen before getting scared of combat and fleeing.

The three dudes were a human, and elf and a goblin. Armed with cross bows, wearing sets of leather armor but iron caps.

The human got scared pretty early, and I ended up letting him escape. I don't know if that's bad.

The goblin turned out to be Lord Consort of The Strifeful Nightmares Dostngosp Ngebzoobxog.

I peaked in legends mode after this, and he's the 5th husband of Usbu, who's had 21 kids and is older than the world.

The elf rolled up and starting shooting at some of my elk birds.

Hesitated to send out a squad, they're not very well set up yet, and still reeling from the rodentmans.

Lorban happened to be in the area. He's been on my first military squad for awhile. He's got a copper crossbow he uses for bashing.

There was also a recruit from my newest and least experienced squad, a goblin named Lulush. He had a spear and a coat.

Lorban and Dostngosp dodged each other's attacks for a while. Lulush took some crossbow bolts.

The fight was pretty brutal, I think I'll come back to it in more detail later.

The vile force was defeated, but Lulush succumbed to his many injuries.

Then the elves showed up. The nice ones.

Their diplomat had to chase down Rith while she was up getting radish wine. We get 25 trees this year.

The elven caravan didn't have that much good stuff, but we didn't have that many animal free, wood free goods to trade out.

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Bunch of things happened in a row, in game time, but also, I got into Tears of the Kingdom and took sort of a long break in real life time.

Our first forgotten beast, Bomrek, was a giant salamander.

It had poison gas, but I don't think I saw any effects from it.

It was scary, and skulked around our cavern lakes for a long time, but ultimately not too bad.

Uzol FIghtsteel got to finish him off. I gave here the nickname "beast basher" (that's who has a bunch of family heirlooms, I'm still not sure why exactly)

Some other stuff happened, made deals with Elves, Humans and Dwarfs.

Finally starting to get down to dry stone. I'm still struggling to get things built and equipment crafted.

I think here is when we got our first hostile goblins

I don't remember, I think we had one or two waves of sad little thieves, and at least one got got by the swarm of dogs I have out front.

Next forgotten beast was a terrible shrew.

This one gave us some trouble.

We bruised the hell out of it, but just weren't getting enough damage.

Two things that didn't work out,

1 is, I had an idea to have my two were-ape citizens tucked away in a little hideaway personal tavern, and then send 'em out

Timing didn't work out at all, we engaged way sooner than I expected.

Azstrog ate a recruit I'd lost track of, pretty much everyone rushed in haphazardly. Cranky with no equipment, just biting and clawing. Valiant effort, did not survive.

2, then This guy

intelligent undead, monster hunter, talented mace dwarf, visiting my fort,

start heading down towards the fight, gets my hopes up

but no,

he's just he's just leaving. Walks right past the commotion, exiting through the caverns.

Multiple casualties, I sorta lost track of some things.

Numbers' memorial slab says he bled to death, but I'm pretty sure what actually happened was he got beast sickness, and then later fell out of a tree and drowned. I forgot to take screenshots.

We also lost Carpenter, and I don't remember which forgotten beast took off a chunk of FishEater's leg.

Then,

Rodent Mans

These dweebs had Steel Weapons

They charged in from caverns, and decapitated some chickens

then some stuff didn't happen*

I don't think we lost anyone there, but we took some hits. Rith, our baroness, in particular had it pretty rough.

She hasn't let it slow her down. She was pretty quickly up, drinking wine, instead of getting the bronze spear** lodged in her chest diagnosed in the hospital.

Then, up on the surface,

A goblin siege.

It was only a small number of goblins, but they had cross bows, which they could actually use as ranged weapons, and it's not fair.

The got Rith's poor husband, Aban

Also two humans that I felt bad for sending to their deaths, but they were cranky and kind of bringing down the mood of the fort.

*the rodent mans didn't cut both hands off my expedition leader, and then they didn't interrupt a strange mood making me have to send a squad to murder a citizen.

**I might have messed things up for a moment by forbidding the spear... I do not remembered why that seemed like a thing to do.