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.
Took a little stab at making some not very good photo collages? of the forgotten beasts I've seen so far. undecided if I want to put more effort into these.
I like being inspired by the randomly generated nonsense in Dwarf Fortress. I don't know if I like doing this kind of art yet.
(what's it called when someone makes photographs all grainy, so it's easier to stitch them together? people do it for "zines" and there was a tutorial going around a while ago, and I can't remember what it's called)
I really tried to keep track of my starting dwarfs, but there's been so much going on, and so many visitors
Our expedition leader Lokum, “the heart”, Avuzlised. Makes friends quickly, pretty good mood. She likes chickens, and took all the starting chickens as pets
her boyfriend, our numbers guy, Iteb Abuluzol
Fish Eater, she's got fishing skills and would rather eat raw fish than vegetarian prepared meals
the Carpenter
one of our miners, nicknamed Gravel
resident crankypants. Getting proficient at bludgeoning with her copper crossbow. Worships Zim, a dwarven god of mountains, takes the form of a mountain goat
not pictured, our other miner, calling her Rock Mover
The two miners are also a couple. It turns out setting out in a biome that doesn't pelt everything in blood is more conducive to starting relationships.
Some others that joined early
Datan the manager
and Rith Knowingcrystal and her husband Aban Daggerwilts, our now baroness and gem cutter.
I had the expedition bring copper crossbows, because i keep reading the ammo issues are fixed, but so far they've only been used for bashing. (I think I keep messing up the order of commands, or stockpile assignment, just have ton of
Fortunately we've only fought with stray animals that got annoying.
Only had to have 2 dwarfs visit the hospital after this. We did lose a good shirt, however.
Elk birds keep charging into my fort and fighting with my dogs.
I'm kind of mad that no one in my fort seems to like dogs, and the only one that's a pet is one I assigned as a hunting animal.
However I did find out about and figure out how to enable Dwarfvet which lets animals get treatment at the hospital.
Got a few of the elk birds trapped and tamed. Also sent the military squads after a few that got annoying, and a giant olm that bit Rock Mover.
Found some kind of cave horses
they're called draltha, and they are really big but skittish. They all have ecru skin and yellow hair so far. (I haven't learned much about the DF specific creatures, or spent much time in the caverns, so some of these are surpises)
Also got some of them tamed, they had a baby
Beneath the caverns, I finally found some mostly dry stone!
Then Immediately found a spider hole.
and almost, almost got it sealed up before some non-spiders showed up.
That's a swarm of rutherers. Big blue and grey beasties, seems like they move around in family groups.
The flooding on the level just above is sort of the worst, and responsible for our only dwarven casualty so far.
should I have sent dwarfs down to smooth a drainage hole? It turns out no. But I still don't know why he didn't just walk off the upward slope tile.
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.
(I feel like throwin' in a quick disclaimer that the game Dwarf Fortress randomly generates words and titles, and I think it's successfully made fantasy nonsense, but y'know, any resemblance to words that mean things is accidental)
Had what I thought were some very close calls with the cave trolls that are wandering around,
but the wiki tells me they currently don't attack dwarfs.
I did get to see one attack a cave crocodile
Then the crocodile found a giant mole to fight with
One of my military dwarfs killed the crocodile, and the mole and troll both wound up in cage traps.
The mole is tamed and just wandering around. I still don't know what to do with a caged troll.
Then some slightly higher drama.
(Then we didn't fight a weremouse, and then we also didn't get kind of weird battle messages about the cyclops getting thrashed to pieces by a weremammoth that wasn't showing up on the list of creatures)
It turns out cyclopses aren't the worst.
Even though I've been struggling to get equipment on my military squads
We did have a dwarven convoy visiting the trade depot at the time, and one of their mercenaries got her teeth knocked out.
(I don't know that much about the other civilizations in The Past Universe, except the Brass Decisions, which are dwarven civilization led by a necromancer, who are conquering everyone. )
This fight was more challenging.
Four people got significantly injured.
The starter dwarf I nicknamed Cranky, a human citizen named Udi, a goblin citizen named Cadem, and Ingiz, another dwarf got "bruised".
I built a little hang out for the ones bleeding injuries
It turns out Udi just got punched with a sock hard enough to bust up his leg, and wasn't infected.
Cadem and Cranky transformed, and gotta hang out in the Ape Corner once a month. I tried to make it nice, but it's a little rough being isolated.
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.
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.
