Post with 3 notes This is the winter of our disco tent At the risk of sounding extremely anti-climactic… During the winter, nothing happened at all. There was snow, ice and boredom. I’m just gonna go ahead and skip a little bit ahead to spring. At some point, I began wondering what that mysterious “Other” -category was my broker kept marking up in the food stockpile. I shall investigate. Oh. Okay. Eggs. That’s cool. Wait a minute HOW MANY?! Oh well, it’s omelette party, and everyone’s invited! At this point, the fort is 24 dwarves strong, should make a decent egg-fest. Not a single kid yet either, I think I might be cursed. Someone blabbered about the annual eggfest no doubt. Let’s see how many of you are there this time. 36. What. Oh well, we went ahead and well over doubled the population. Right, gonna need some more beds. I’m glad the slums are done. After this massive wave of migrants, we’re at 60 dwarves. I really hope we don’t run out of booze. (I secretly might hope a little bit we run out of booze.) Speaking of beds, I hate my carpenter. He has his own 3x3 room with a bed and cabinets and even a chest for his belongings, heck, he lives like a king, but he still chooses to sleep in the wood stockpiles for whatever reason, and, get this, has the nerve to complain about sleeping on a rough floor lately. NO SHIT, YOU SLEPT IN THE FUCKING STORAGE ROOM YOU ASSHOLE. Next time:

Post Rise and Fall Due to the increased amount of migrants, there’s a lot to be done. We got lucky, there was only a couple of children among them, most of the migrants were able-bodied youngsters, barely 100 years old. There is a lot of digging to be done. After all the digging and hard labor was done, we bathed in the glory that was our new bedrooms and offices. It was tough, but completely worth it! …Wait a fucking golden minute here. What fucking moron designed this?! The bedrooms are supposed to be 3x1, not 2x1! Shit, have to improvise, and fast. There. That’ll make a good statue garden and a grand dining hall. Completely intentional. Yep. Gonna make a good architect some day! … I’m never going to be an architect. Oh well, it’s going to be the dwarven slums anyway, nobody gives a hoot about the poor folks. Who are the orphans going to complain to, their parents? While all this scrambling around in the construction department is going on, some dick keeps having his supper in the bookkeeper’s office. Hold on, is that Marley?! God damn it Marley, go eat in the storage like everybody else. Dining room ETA Winter of 642. Now scram. Oh, a supply caravan? About time, we could do with more seeds. Yes, happy days and salutations, live long and pros— wait, what do you mean fall? Hey, don’t walk away from me! WHAT DO YOU MEAN FALL?! (Hehe, Fall, autumn. Hee. Funny.) Next time:

Post The summer of ‘569 Well, at least the snow is gone. Ponds aren’t frozen either. We get water, yay. We’ve made some good progress with the first floor too (Dwarves count up from zero, ground floor is 0, first floor below that is F1 and so forth.) as can be seen from this crude drawing. Here are the workshops, at least the first wave, dug right into the stone. Path leading south leads to the inside farms and a small underground lake which is our only indoor source of water. (in case of siege, or worse…) We also have finally gotten every single citizen dwarf their own bed! No more sleeping out in the rain or on rough rock floo— … God damn it. Fine I guess, get in here. More the merrier fuckers. Let’s see if there’s a single decent worker in the bunch. One of them introduces himself as a good presser, another one expert milker, but this one guy takes the cake. He identifies as an artisan herbalist. Well, listen up everyone. You are going to forget everything you know about everything, and I’m re-purposing every single hairy motherfucker into something useful. More farmers, fishermen, carpenters, masons and forge operators. Now, since that’s taken care of, how abou— WHAT Next time: Also some design flaws.

Post In The Mountains of Radness Heading out, our brave group has already made a scientifically relevant discovery. It’s fucking cold in the mountains. Where there’s cold, snow usually follows. The campsite seems to be at very high altitude, but at least there’s trees a-plenty, quite a blessing. The whole area seems to be made completely of either Rock salt, also known as Halite, or Kaolinite, also known as china clay, with the occasional Limonite and Lignite deposits speckled along the walls. At least we will have some natural coal and iron right from the getgo, no need to sacrifice wood for charcoal, usually a good sign of a fort location. I do not like the looks of this cold climate, though. Water might be scarce the first few winters until I make it my business to move some water masses around and get myself an indoor well, or get lucky enough to have a water deposit somewhere below future digsite. As for wildlife, this mountain seems to be pretty quiet. Nothing but the thousands of ducks we brought with us. Might be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on whether we can establish a renewable food source from farming alone. Only time will tell I guess. If all else fails, it’s gonna be Beijing Duck on the menu. Our caravan consists of 6 females and one male, (un?)lucky dude. At least he’s going to be popular. At least the snow melted quite rapidly, and we started construction/digging immediately. As usual, you can find the pictures in full size here. Next time:

Post I guess I’m a lazy newb. I went the path of Lazy Newb Pack this time just to avoid all the hassle of installing graphic packs and finding new version of DwarfTheRapist etc. and hooooly shit. It’s come a long way since I last saw it. What the hell are all these? I’ve only used Dwarftherapist, soundsense and quickfort before, I’ve heard of isoworld but never got it working properly, and DF story maker is worth a try I heard. Well, I guess I got meself some testing to do. Last time I saw LNP It was literally just the first two tabs, options and graphics. Speaking of options and graphics, in case you were interested, I’m going to be using Pheobus graphical pack (Because most people hate the ASCII for some reason.) and my settings are pretty default fun-mode with all the fun stuff enabled (Aquifers, cave ins, weather and so forth.) Oh well, let’s create a world to start with. There, sounds good. Go! Now I’ll just chill out for about 15 minutes listening to Emancipator, waiting for the world to render. Atileecamo, “The Absolute universe”? I like it. I like it a lot. The Scalded murk in the Violet Continent looks like a charming place to settle. Tons of trees, vegetation and other neato stuff. Fuck yes, this is going to be the best duck orgy ever. inb4 cat… I mean duck-splosion. Hammerseizure sounds like a song from Cannibal Corpse. Anyway. Strike the earth! You can find all the pictures full sized here