Let's Play Dwarf Fortress - Skeletal WHAT?!

[Flarecobra]

Meet the Thadius?

[Loyal]

Needs more beard.

I'd volunteer, but merely looking at that image for too long makes me uneasy.

[Wigmund]

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

Meet the Thadius?

Like this:
Meet the Bookkeeper (Thadius)
Meet the Sheriff (Wigmund)
Meet the Dungeon Master (synk)
Meet the Knight (Loyal)
Meet the Marksdwarf (Hawk)
Meet the Wolf Keeper (Shyria)
and so on

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I like this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it!

"Shyria: Honestly, I don't know why Loyal's such a baby about them. Feed 'em well, give them a good scritch on the belly, these critters are like little angels."
*cue clip of messy goblin castration*"

[Corel]

Originally Posted by Wigmund

Like this:
Meet the Bookkeeper (Thadius)
Meet the Sheriff (Wigmund)
Meet the Dungeon Master (synk)
Meet the Knight (Loyal)
Meet the Marksdwarf (Hawk)
Meet the Wolf Keeper (Shyria)
and so on

Yep! This is what I was going for. I'll probably only do a couple though and let other people do some on their turn.

Originally Posted by Melfice

So, what DID happen to Melfice?
How bad is it?

He's unconcious with a damaged left lower arm. Just seems to need bedrest, I'm sure he'll recover in a few seasons or so.

[Kerensky287]

What makes me a good Metalworker?!

If I were a BAD Metalworker, I wouldn't be SITTIN' here, DISCUSSIN' IT WIT' CHA, now would I?!

[Loyal]

Probably a line better suited to the miner, or hunter.

[Corel]

Update later today Boys and Girls.

What I thought was going to be an uneventful seasons became incredibly awesome near the end.

Spoiler: There is blood; lots of it.

Stay tuned.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

We should really start a full scale engraving program, to record the forts history of goblin attacks, undead attacks and skeletal goat attacks. That's what they did in Boatmurdered and it began to look like Gieger had gone mad(er) and carved the Necronomicon onto all the walls.

I want people terrified when they walk into Workgill!!

[Corel]

4th Hematite 59, Early Summer

Why are there so many Wolves hanging around the entrance stairway?



It's making me a bit uneasy, so I did the natural thing of slaughtering and eating them before they can do the same to us.



Allo allo, what's all this then? One of the Fortress guards is seen dragging Obok, a Metalsmith by his feet. Obok is both screaming and flailing wildly whilst carrying the remains of an Olm.

Let's see what he did.



Looks like Thadius wasn't too cheerful about his Mandate not being completed in time; 26 days in the slammer you go.



Oh well, enjoy prison! You're our first visitor, let us know how it goes.

8th Hematite 59 Early Summer



Things seem to be running smoothly, construction of the reverse screw pump is underway and excavation proceeds to plan.



Hey! You bunch of drunks! Get back to work!

Apparently when Cog (Pictured bottom left) gets completely trashed out of her face she starts to slur her name as 'Bob', we decided to keep it as it's a much more uncommon name.

We're also now a Town, we're going up (Or down) in the world.

13th Hematite 59, Early Summer




Never a dull moment.

15th Hematite 59, Early Summer

Thadius banned the exporting of Silver Nickel items, no big loss really.



The Goblin Horde still outside around the border, at least it hasn't turned into another Targos just yet.

17th Hematite 59, Early Summer



...What?! How did Thadius get re-elected? Who would ever vote for him? Screw this fort.



And screw you guys too! What's the point of making a Siege if the fort is 100% self sustained and you don't even attack?

27th Hematite 59, Early Summer



Oh, how lovely.

Started decorating the newer Dwarven rooms with furniture, some were just rooms with beds in. I'm sure they'll appreciate them.

2nd Malatite 59, Mid-Summer

Goblins spotted near the entrance, let's see what their next move is. They've got quite a gauntlet to run if they try the main entrance.

Also, recruited a Peasant into the Fortress Guards, bolstering it to now three members.

5th Malachite 59 Mid-Summer



Dammit, this is not the time to be partying! :gonk:

10th Malachite 59, Mid-Summer



They're inching forward ever so slowly now. It might help them if they were actually facing the right way.

I swear they are goading me, they want me to send troops out. I won't fall for that, I'm onto their game.



In the mean time I'm going to try finish off building this wall around the Perimeter of the fort.

18th Malachite 59, Mid-Summer

Oh, the army is actually on the move. I may have to do something like move the Watch to the Walls and Gate entrances and actually you know, defend the fort.

24th Malachite 59, Mid-Summer



Looks like some of the local animals died of boredom waiting for the Goblins to attack, came back to life and decided to have a go at the Goblins.



You probably could've guessed what the outcome was going to be.

27th Malachite 59, Mid-Summer




Alright, farmland area is now drained. All we have to wait for now is the rest of the water to evaporate.



We've had a few Undead wonder into our lands in the last few days, I've sent Hawk's squad to handle it.

Loyal also became an Elite Wrestler. Congrats!



Badass new armour, easy to recognise Loyal for the while at least!

6th Galena 59, Late Summer



Just your friendly neighbourhood Skeletalcave Swallowman.

Wait, what is a Swallowman? A thing that swallows men?


(Pictured bottom left)

Oh, well it kinda looks like it does. How does anyone even know about it or what it looks like? At least we got some fuel for nightmare stories for the little Dwarves when our citizens finally start romping.

Along with that, they also started naming EVERY undead creature in that chasm. Sucks to be the overseer whoever tackles that problem with these new childhood nightmares.

9th Galena 59, Late-Summer

We got our first official Speardwarf, Vabok. Today is a proud day for Workgill.

15th Galena, Late-Summer



Whoa! They moved 10 feet forward! That's almost threatening! To battle stations!

In fact, let's look at them.



The Overseers really did plan for such events. The Goblins have to approach through the West entrance through the first killing zone of traps, a second killing zone over a bridge being fired upon by Hawk's squad (Pictured North of the Bridge) only to meet Loyal's and THEN Bob's squad; this isn't even taking into account that I can make the bridge disappear.

This is going to be delicious.



One Lokum decided to wonder out and decided to play bait, here we go!



First wave of Goblins pours onto the traps, trapping two of them in cages (One being a Maceman) another gets crushed by a Stone Trap and the rest getting flayed and knocked out.

Bosa Foldterror with a primal scream destroys the cage he inhabited.



...Only to find the next trap reduced his arms to little stumps. I do hope he tries to engage to Hand to Hand. What is he going to do, bleed on us?



First wave was horribly destroyed. I think the next wave is feeling a bit apprehensive about the whole thing. The red skull and crossbow icons represent Bosa's arms and elbows being scattered by the trap.

I can just imagine what the surviving Goblins are thinking now; you just saw about six of your comrades go into the entrance and then immediately hear the sounds of screaming Goblins getting flayed in a variety of different ways only to see someone's left arm go hurling through the air and land at your feet.

Welcome to Workgill, bitches.



After a brief pause to consider the potential loss of their elbows, they proceeded to send the second wave full steam ahead.



As expected, it's another massacre. Some of them were smart enough to walk over the spaces where their comrades fell just seconds before.

Oh hey, out of the fifteen or so Goblins that assaulted the fort, four made it past the first killing zone.



...Into the waiting arms of Hawk's Sniper Squad.



Like shooting fish in a barrel.



Ah ha ha, geez. An arrow right in the Pancreas. Sucks to be him.



The Goblin furthest to the East lying on the bridge unconscious with their entire lower body shredded by arrows is in fact the leader, how symbolic of this whole attack.



After the fourth barrage the second kill zone is covered in blood, some of the Goblins realised NOW that perhaps assaulting this place wasn't the best idea, and proceeded to flee.



...Right back into the traps not set off first time around.

One Goblin managed to stay alive, and that's because the trap rendered him unconscious the first time he ran through; time to send in Loyal's Deathsquad for cleanup.

Guess who was the first one onto the scene?



Unlucky, Goblin.

In fact Loyal didn't do anything, except watch the Maceman bleed to death. Talk about a cool blooded Solider.

Final result:



A complete massacre on the Goblin's side. Nice defence, guys.

17th Galena 59, Late Summer

What's this?



Turns out one was smart enough and didn't blindly run into the Kill Zones. He was routed northwards, probably to tell his Goblin buddies what a failure it was. Maybe they'll bring a larger army next time.

Maybe.

Gregness cast off his Peasant type clothing and became a Mechanic, good on your sir. First job he did was to replace all the traps that were set off.

Anyway, let the mass looting commence. Gimme gimme gimme!



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Summer has come and gone. This turned out to have more pictures than Spring I believe, half way there now! This one was an awful lot of fun when the Horde started advancing. It was sheer luck that one Dwarf wondered out when he did.

Oh, and when I read what Hawk wrote:

Originally Posted by Hawk

I want people terrified when they walk into Workgill!!

Gave me many laughs when I was putting this together.