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[MobRules]

2nd Obsidian

Something quite unexpected has happend as i wrap up my stint as overseer, and I'm not exactly sure what to do about it.

I don't know if this is relevant, but a couple of weeks ago:

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And then today:

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Followed by:

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Was it an accident? Was it intentional? It's not usual for me t'be speechless, but I really don't know how to react to this.

When I asked the others if they saw anything

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And took a good look at the mace

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 I talked to Ragustongith:

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Everyone at the sparring session was continuing on as if nothing had happened. Ragustongith, the dwarf that Luna had been sparring with when she had her "accident" was giving a wrestling demonstration



I asked her what had happened,

No one else seemed to know much about the sparring victim

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Captain Awesome, a potter, and a gelder said they were on friendly terms with her, but didn't really know her well. Everyone else seemed to have no relationship to her at all, either positive or negative -- including the member of her squad who killed her during the sparring session.

...really not sure what to believe here. I'll just be glad to finish up my final month on the job, write up my final report, and pass the buck torch to someone else.


OOC: I seriously have no idea what happened. I got the alert message, and this is the best I've been able to puzzle out.

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looks like maybe someone was on to you after all?

[MobRules]

I finally found another witness who was able to tell me what happened:

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She fell off the tower while sparring.

Looks like we need to set up some safety rails, or build some walls.

I still find it rather suspicious that no one on the sparring floor of the tower noticed her going over the edge.

I've suspended sparring practice until the situation can be addressed.

[Bearskie]

Well... there goes that one. Apparently I'm just as cursed as RedMageCole.

It could be because of the infamous military dodging through walls glitch... in that case, the barracks area has to be downsized to not go near the tower's edge, or the walls reinforced by double layer walls.

Aw well, what a shame.

[MobRules]

Well... there goes that one. Apparently I'm just as cursed as RedMageCole.

It could be because of the infamous military dodging through walls glitch... in that case, the barracks area has to be downsized to not go near the tower's edge, or the walls reinforced by double layer walls.

Aw well, what a shame.

Yeah, I really liked what you were doing with the character, and hated having that storyline cut short .

[Taupe]

Yeah, I really liked what you were doing with the character, and hated having that storyline cut short .

Or rather, splattered.

[MobRules]

General Notes, before posting my final entry:

• "Lord Brassroast" Abanestun is a legendary mechanic
• Sorry for the slowdown at the end -- real life got a lot more demanding, and I sort of lost steam.
• We've still got a bunch of adamantium burning a hole in our pocket.
  
• Spring has arrived, so I'm working on my final post now. It should be up shortly.
  

[MobRules]

1st Granite, Year 54

So, my year as overseer is complete. It's all someone else's problem now.

Luna

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Soap: We have soap! I finally got the lyemaker to make some lye, and thus soap was finally made.

Well: We have no well, because the ice beneath the one built by the previous overseer didn't thaw out all summer long. I tried to build a new one one space over, since there was liquid water that was still underground and now there was a roof over the spot where the new well would be, but as soon as I canneled away the earth above it, the liquid water froze:



Moving Everything to the Tower

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We've completed the Queen's edict to move all buildings into the tower.

First, Sanju's rooms:



There was supposed to be a drawbridge there, but it was made retracting instead of raising. Since Sanju was already moved in when we discovered this, it was safer to just build a wall rather than take the time to make another drawbridge.



Her office, since as the Captain of the Guard, she requires one.



Her dining room, complete with enough food to last for quite a while.



Her bedroom, which you will notice is lacking a bed. I had hoped that any furnature she destroyed while in her werewolf form she'd be able to rebuild when she transformed back, but apparently, she completely splintered the bed. She still recognizes it as a bedroom, but is complaining that she no longer has a cabinet, as required by the captain of the guard.

Sparring Grounds

We've moved the militia practice area indoors:



However, I've temporarily suspended using the area, after Luna's tragic (and in my mind, still rather suspicious) fall.

Achery range also moved indoors:



Pottery kilns moved indoors:



Clay is stored on the left, kaonolite on the right. We've just hit a bunch of kaonolite, which has slowed down our stone block productionn, but we should take advantage of it to make porcillin.

Noble Rooms

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With the removal of the minibedrooms from the Queen's tomb, she is now happy with her suite, despite the fact that the furniture has not all been cleared out yet:



The mayor is now happy with her rooms as well, once I had some statues brought in, replaced some of her furniture with better-made furniture, and removed a wall to enlarge her office:

Construction

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Due to the edict to get everything inside as quickly as possible, I've done things in a bit of a haphazard way. The new overseer should feel free to rearrange things once the space is available.

I mainly filled in the floors that had already been outlined.



I've filled in the floor of the tomb level, and temporarily made it the everything-level. It should probably be redesignated as a tomb-only level at some point. Dining area in the NE, archery targets in the SE, bedrooms in the SW, storage in the NW.



There is not yet a floor for the NW of the sparring/kiln level



This next level up, we've only just begun building a floor, in the SW



Added furnature storage in the NW of the stone level, as well as a stonecrafter in the N. As you can see, stone storage has filled up with kaolinite, so I've disallowed kaolinite here, so that it can be moved down to the kiln level.



More filling in of a floor that previously just had a couple of storage platforms. I forget what I built the rooms for.

The summer human caravan freaked out and left when they saw the remnants of our "goblin" "seige", (and the other dwarves weren't to keen on seeing all the bodies either), so I created a separate refuse pile for sapients, and walled it off:



(save to be posted shortly!)

[MobRules]

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11071


(Oh, I also expanded agriculture a bit. Forgot to do images of those.)

[PyroTechno]

Well: We have no well, because the ice beneath the one built by the previous overseer didn't thaw out all summer long. I tried to build a new one one space over, since there was liquid water that was still underground and now there was a roof over the spot where the new well would be, but as soon as I canneled away the earth above it, the liquid water froze:

Well: Built a roof over the top of the well, 'cause a well ain't much use if it's frozen. Still hasn't thawed yet, even had the miners mine it out, but it just remained ice. Hopefully now that summer's here it will finally thaw out, and hopefully the roof will keep it from freezing next year.

It doesn't matter what construction you make. The tile has been exposed to the open sky at some point, so the game will always consider it to be outside from now on. The only way to secure a ice-free well is to build a second, underground one, or pump magma all the way up from the magma sea to a reservoir 2 z-levels below the well you have now, with the magma-heated water stored on the level above that.

On the bright side, if you do build a magma pump stack, that's most of the work for a magma cannon done. Just make sure to power that stack with windmills or something instead of actual dwarves - it would take the entire workforce and the pathing lag would be fairly ridiculous.

[Bearskie]

Nice work . The tower looks plenty industrious by now. Thanks for finishing the turn even with all the real life stuff going on; I know how stressful that shit can be. Also the save was still in CLA, so I took the liberty of converting it back to ASCII for the next turn's immediate convenience.

ASCII version

Next up in the saga: uber pye takes over Constructivory! So many spooky deaths so far - I'm pretty sure we're either haunted or there's a serial killer in our midst.

[MobRules]

It doesn't matter what construction you make. The tile has been exposed to the open sky at some point, so the game will always consider it to be outside from now on. The only way to secure a ice-free well is to build a second, underground one, or pump magma all the way up from the magma sea to a reservoir 2 z-levels below the well you have now, with the magma-heated water stored on the level above that.

On the bright side, if you do build a magma pump stack, that's most of the work for a magma cannon done. Just make sure to power that stack with windmills or something instead of actual dwarves - it would take the entire workforce and the pathing lag would be fairly ridiculous.

Yes, but the second tile has NEVER been exposed to sky. It was still underground when I built a roof over the well; I didn't think that chaneling the dirt out from above it AFTER I built the roof would cause it to freeze. (Also note that I'm not the one that built the original well)

Also the save was still in CLA, so I took the liberty of converting it back to ASCII for the next turn's immediate convenience.

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Oops, sorry about that (I had the nagging feeling that I was forgetting something...) thanks for fixing it


Oh yeah, there was one other thing I wanted to mention -- I set up glass furnaces and was trying to get pipes and corkscrews made for a magma furnace, but it didn't get very far. (First, I kept running out of charcoal, then it got kind of pushed to the background as I scrambled to finish other things up.) Actually, I'm not sure if the glass furnaces are still there; they might have gotten lost in some of the reshuffling.

[PyroTechno]

Yes, but the second tile has NEVER been exposed to sky. It was still underground when I built a roof over the well; I didn't think that chaneling the dirt out from above it AFTER I built the roof would cause it to freeze. (Also note that I'm not the one that built the original well)

This means that the tile you channeled out counted as light/above ground, thus making the newly exposed tile below light/above ground, and therefore frozen. The mechanics for lighting and above/below ground monitoring don't account for constructions at all - the ceiling might as well not even be there as far as the oddly specific freezing rules are concerned. It's an understandable mistake to make, don't worry too much about it.

[DDDragoni]

Journal of DDDragoni Floordrink, Investigator and broker of Constructivory


The goblins must have thought their little infiltrator was more effective than they were, since they had the nerve to attack.

But they were no match for the brave fighting dwarves of Constructivory!

Unless... This must have been a scouting force, meant to test our defenses!

Now that they know where our strengths and weaknesses are, the traitor is going to target them!

I must redouble my efforts before something bad happens!


Later...

Something bad happened.

Luna fell from the tower during training. I examined the training room myself, and the walls and floor are both solid.

This is worse than I thought- not only is there a traitor in our midst, there's a reality-warping traitor!

That explains the well, too. By all accounts it should have thawed during the summer, but it remained frozen.

This is even bigger than I thought...

At least the Overseer knows what he's doing. With everything inside, we'll be much more defensible. I can't believe I didn't think of it...

[Dumbestdorf]

Regarding Luna's unfortunate demise, it might be a good idea to build a second, inner wall on the soldier's training floor, with doors so soldiers who teleport through the wall can get back inside. (The better they get, the more likely they are to do that; also, they're quite capable of sending an unfortunate passerby through the wall as well).

[Gwolfski]

i didnt know dwarfs could use the power of the warp.