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[vertinox]

After 4 attempts my fort, Ibeshavuz, has finally grown into a grand metropolis , nicknamed "Roastedmine" for some reason.

My economy is solely based on the massive amounts of goods goblins drop as they suicidally charge into my trap hall which are sold to caravans to buy wood to build bins to store more of the troll fur socks the goblins seem to loose as their feet are sliced off in the hallway of iron serrated discs... well if they make it past the golden statues which means the made it past the hallway of menacing wooden spikes... Well usually only one or two make it to the discs depending on how many bodies have gummed up the spikes.

I'm currently building a room to target practice capture goblins as the other torture rooms have outgrown their usefulness. I wish I  could do something useful with all these goblin corpses though.

[orius]

Winter.  The fort goes through a baby boom in the month of Opal with 8 births (like I don't have enough kids sucking up the booze), with 5 kids born on the same freaking day (4 almost simultaneously; massive Soundsense spam there)!  Some of the oldest kids grew up, but I'm still going to have all these brats underfoot in the dining hall.

Then the goblin mount another seige.  This time they're starting to get serious, 3 or 4 units of goblins, all mounted, and a unit of trolls.  However, my outer defenses are enough to keep them at bay now, they can't get through my walls.  And even better, I have a level of fortifications where I can station my marksdwarves:

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Course some of those marksdwarves haven't bothered picking up bolts...or quivers.

Spring has arrived too, and this map is somewhat warm.  It may be amusing to see the seigers fall into the pools out there when they thaw and drown.

[Ross Vernal]

No vampires. Hundred and sixty odd dorfs. The only one who doesn't take a name when given a nickname in his personality screen has been seen sleeping and has taken time off to drink.

I guess I'm glad?

[nenjin]

Bom Anil, the Home of Glory has being going on longer than I intended. Originally I'd planned it as a small contract job paid for by the town of Flutelanced, in gratitude for all the adventuring services of my adventurer. The original schedule was roughly 3 years. But the manor has kept growing and growing into more like an adventurer's academy, and after breaching the caverns to create a small underground staging point for exploring...it's going on 6 years now.

I turned invaders off because I wasn't really doing this for FUN!, so things have been very quiet. I capped the fortress population very early so no necromancers or vampires or silly stuff, and after the first few mandatory waves I have about 23 workers and 10 children. The only real disturbance is the occasional flock of Ravens or dingos. One of the Ravens actually pecked a war dog's face in, so I'm hoping that shows up in the art somewhere.

Anyways, some pretty pics through Stone Sense. Hopefully it will mostly have been worth the effort once I abandon it, as I built to it house all the adventurers and loot for this world.

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[prim]

Dwarf cancels dump item. Interrupted by giant cockatiel. Sounds dangerous to me.

[Vehudur]

...

I just got solidly owned by the HFS.  Sigh.

[!!Urist Unfortune!!]

not awhole lot is going on in my fortress, i cant stay off the forum long enuff to play!

[Raikaria]

I just worldgenned a new world, 550 year history. I've not even made my fort but this already looks FUN.

The outcome... is interesting to say the least.

The dwarves have only had a SINGLE KING, Rith Dolekuzol.

In 1 Rith became the King of True Iron

In 1 Rith married the Dwarfven Vampire Zefon Bookcloister. So the king is married to a vampire in Year 1 ._.

In the early autumn of 31 Rith became obsessed with his own mortaility and sought to extend his life by any means.

In the midwinter of 38 the kappa [modded in race] necromancer Tesum Wadedflash taught Rith the secrets of life and death.

That's right, the Dwarfen king is a NECROMANCER married to a VAMPIRE. Dear Amok. Both are still alive from Year 1.

He then went and settled in a place called Wheelscaught, and took a Kappa apprentice. All he's been doing since is createing artifacts, it seems. For over 450 years.

[Imp]

He then went and settled in a place called Wheelscaught, and took a Kappa apprentice. All he's been doing since is createing artifacts, it seems. For over 450 years.

I suspect there's a story in this, one we already have the clues to understand.

Why'd he name it Wheelscaught?  Cause he got stuck there.

What's he been doing?  Trying to get unstuck, of course.  If you'd let world gen run long enough and he'd have made something-free and made his escape to another place!

[ZzarkLinux]

Lost: RabbitHut the Grass-Devourer
07) The Sponge has Spoken

Current: RabbitHut the Holy House
01) Start
02) Dwarf Down, Population Up
03) Light at the End of the Tunnel
04) The Big Wave

So I finally survived long enough to see a huge wave of migrants.

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They picked a great time to arrive too.

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And a good time in my fort.

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You know, large migrant waves on Terrifying biomes isn't so bad.
All the buzzards and ravens make everything scrambled eggs,
but only a few migrants get murdered and the rest just come right in to the fort.

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Gotta put these guys to work. Hopefully we can start walling up the outside world and hiring additional militia.

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[Reudh]

Yeah. I had a force of sixty divided between a siege and an accidentally unsealed HFS, sending 30 to each. The ones who dealt with the siege came off far, far better despite the siege having greater initial numbers and fighting weaker dwarves.

[Raikaria]

More WorldGen fun; same world as the Necromancer King married to the Vampire:

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Zefon Bookcloister [Currently known as Zefon Thikutoddom].

Dwarf Vampire.

Accomplishments: Became General of True Iron in Year 1
Married the King in Year 1. So she's a WARRIOR VAMPIRE QUEEN.

Fends off a Goblin seige in Year 2

Makes a journey to the dephs of the World in Yr 4, tameing the giant frogs. When she returned True Iron was called Lustersabre, unless that's the fort name, with True Iron being the Kingdom name.

She became obessed with her own mortality in Yr 6.

In 23 she lead an assult on an elfen civilisation, and won.

In 25 she went underground again and tamed Elk Birds, with her taming Giant Olms in 34.

In 46 The True Iron attacks the Assulted Theif, the Goblins from Yr 2. They seem to have failed, as they try again in Yr 57.

In 62 Zefon tamed voracious cave crawlers in the depths of the world.

In 77 another attack upon Assulted Theif occurs. Same leaders on both sides. This Strodno Doomstrees might be worth a look ._.

In autumn of 88 Zefon profaned the Golden Sanctum in Lustersabre, and also was cursed to prowl the night by Akest the Key of Rapidity shortly afterwards. She was cursed right at the end of her lifespan I think ._.

In 91 she aroused suspicious of murder, and fled Lustersaber to Channelroars, becoming a Ranger in 92.

In 94 she fled to Bowelbrooks, being a fishery worker in 95, before in 97 doing the same in Chantedfountain.

She keeps moving, tending to be a ranger or Fishery Worker, until 152, where she does something of note, in Sprayedfurnace, she 'begins hunting Great Beasts in the Dunes of Strength'. Sounds like she's returning to being a badass again.

In the early summer of 168 she took up residence in Peacecaves of the Council of Flutes in Shadelures. She's not moved since, so I think she's either been undectected for almost 400 years, or it's an abandoned fortress she's made her home. Seeing the kills makes me doubt that...

Over the 550 years, she has amassed 2731 kills.

Durning her time as General, she amassed:
2 Trolls, her first kills
7 Elves
6 Dwarfs
6 Goblins
6 more Dwarfs
3 Goblins
Not sure how she got the Dwarf kills. Maybe there was a civil war? Mad Dwarfs? Snatched Dwarfs?

In Inkymysteries [She stayed there for 7 years], she managed to get a kill count of over three hundred dwarfs, and fifty kappa!

Then I saw Shadelures kills:
466 humans
8 Dwarfs
436 Humans
461 Elves
463 Elves
5 Dwarfs

Dear Armok. And she was hardly a slouch elsewhere! She's probobly nigh invincible by now.

Thus is the far more interesting tale of the Vampire Queen of the Dwarfs, married to a Necromancer King.

Oh, and Zefon [General Vampire Queen] and Rith [Necromancer King] have had 14 kids. All of them are LONG dead, with the shortest lifespan being 6 years, and the longest being 168!

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Rakust Trustcopper
Race: Dwarf Vampire

Born: 101, unknown parentage.

Became a Fishery Worker in Plannedmachine in 172
Married Zasit Staffhush in 173
197 becomes the General of True Iron. Why does that feel familiar?
Moves to Lustersaber... by this time Zefon and Rith have already left.
Tames Cave Crocodiles in 200
217, Profanes the Mighty Abbey, and is cursed by Akest the Key of Rapidity.
Tames the Voracious Cave Crawlers in 219.
Flees Lustersaber in 220
Looking at the number of kills of Dwarfs in Lustersaber, there's certainly some Dwarf on Dwarf killing going on. Over 120 kills.
Is attacked by a Megabeast in 225, but gets away.
Takes down a Megabeast in 240! Albeit, it's only 7 years old.
In 267, she arrives in Inkymysteries, where Zefon was before. She only stays two years.
In 278, guess where she ends up? SHADELURES And she's still there. In Peacecaves. Like Zefon. She's an ex-general of True Iron that resided in Lustersaber. Like Zefon.

Those two are probobly best pals by now. And citizens of Peacecaves: YOU'RE MORONS.

I might see what else I can dredge up. Just looking at the crazy lore this world I've made has is... wow.

EDIT: Found out they replaced the Necromancer after he moved to his new home. Still, that means there's a dwarf still alive, the first king of the dwarfs. And the first General.

[Hippoman]

Just got my first migrant wave on a new fort.

They came in twos, each person married to the person after them, they each have long lists of people they knew prior to coming here.

Do I have a vampire problem?

[Broseph Stalin]

Just got my first migrant wave on a new fort.

They came in twos, each person married to the person after them, they each have long lists of people they knew prior to coming here.

Do I have a vampire problem?

If you have an old world most of your migrants will have a long list of relations and ancestors you'll know you have a vampire if they've been thrown out of alot of civilizations.

[ZzarkLinux]

Lost: RabbitHut the Grass-Devourer
07) The Sponge has Spoken

Current: RabbitHut the Holy House
01) Start
02) Dwarf Down, Population Up
03) Light at the End of the Tunnel
04) The Big Wave
05) Garbage Improvement

Well I still got a ways to go on the garbage chute after all.

Firstly, I'm trying to design it as a crab-trap, so that when the time comes to handle fliers they won't escape.
Besides, it's not exactly functional yet, I need to rework the hatch to mechanisms and place the hatch one z-level down.

Also, it doesn't want to smash things, it prefers to delicately balance them...
Not sure how to fix that yet.