Let's Play Dwarf Fortress - Skeletal WHAT?!

[Corel]

14th Granite 59, Early Spring


Lo and behold, here come the Elves. They didn't have much besides wood and some seeds. They were more than happy to receive cat skulls for equivalent barter.

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Because of Loyal's part in taking down the undead, he's been entrusted with guarding the mine shaft entrance. His squad has been stationed permanently around the (Now tastelessly named) Corpse Bridge (Also known as Not-so-Big Bridge to those who were there, man)

I've also recruited two Peasants into the Watch; we can use them for patrolling the safer levels until they become more experienced.

Hawk also became a Marksdwarf, keep those skills sharp!

16th Granite 59, Early Spring

The Dwarven Eugenics program can start at a later date; we have more pressing matters at hand, such as the undead menace.

Taking Wigmund's suggestions to heart, plans have begun for tunnelling underneath the river to be able to bypass the undead completely.

I've ordered doors to be placed in the mining shaft to seal the undead off. The only people who go in there are people under my authority; only I have the key.

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Oh no! War Pooch got ambushed by goblins!



...Who appears to have bitten the Goblin's crotch so hard that it drew a fountain of blood. The nauseous state is also completely expected.



The Goblin Hammerers didn't take kindly to this, so they ripped out the dog's heart. The pack's partners valiantly came to their friend's defence.



..And met a similar fate. The 'd' just to the South is where the dog was punted by a single blow by the Hammerer. These Goblins mean serious business and also don't give a shit about PETA.

At least the guy who got bit in the gonads has passed out from the pain.

A few Goblins started approaching the entrance, and wondering around the dugout moat. Some of them had crossbows, so I ordered all Dwarves to temporarily stay indoors. Unfortunately some stragglers have been trapped outside.



Oh great, perfect timing; another ambush. Time to pump up our Watch for the counter offensive.

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Speaking of pumping, I suddenly remembered I had left the water pumping and oh shit.



Hmm, well it's certainly MORE full than that I was advised.



Phew, thankfully it isn't completely waterlogged yet (Each tile was 2/7 or 3/7 full). We shall see if it will evaporate in time.

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Hawk's squad lead the first counter offensive, first barrage on the Goblins brought a headshot.



Good eyes, Hawk.

Unfortunately not all were this lucky. The furnace operator, Bomrek got cornered by one of the Goblins, and was Hammer timed off a cliff to his untimely death.



...Looks like Zaneg, the Animal carer also met a similar fate.

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What is that smell?



There's Miasma everywhere! Who was transporting corpses at a time like this and dumped it in the main room?! Oh god, it's everywhere! Curse our excellent ventilation system! Damn you Wigmund!

Halting entire production of logistics inside the Fort has caused disaster. We need to resume this as soon as possible.

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Possibly against my better judgement, I have reopened access to the outdoors to workers. I have entrusted Hawk's Marksmen team to patrol the northern moat.



...And about five minutes after this the Hammerers who had slain Zanek and Bomrek came out to play. Hawk's Squad managed to get the jump on them. Armed with the safety of the moat (Kudos to whoever built that) they skewered the shit out of them with little resistance.

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This Unicorn has been just stood out the old entrance the entire season staring inwards. Creepy. Probably knows we've caged up all her buddies.

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The situation is worsening in the Mine Shaft; the Miasma continues to spread. I fear if we don't act soon it will start to find other ways to creep into the Fort.

I sent Loyal's squad in charge of clearing out the Mines; let's hope that is goes to plan and the Miners can complete the passage underneath the River Styx.

As it looks like Melfice is going to be out of commission for quite a while, I have moved his squad members to strengthen Loyal’s squad.

2nd Slate 59, Mid- Spring

Looks like the Goblins realised that this place was filled with nothing but Death and Despair, so they've high tailed it out of here.

3rd Slate 59, Mid-Spring

Thadius and Dodik have started the excavation; let us pray that is it uneventful.

Loyal's squad engaged with the undead and started to literally rip it to pieces.



Hey, we found some Galena underneath the river Styx. Score one for us.

8th Slate 59, Mid- Spring

Success! We managed to mine our way to the other side of the River Styx.



Now we can start setting up more mine shafts. That giant Miasma cloud is back, inside it are Loyals squad and a number of the Undead hacking each other to pieces.



Loyal's squad is STILL hacking that Zombie to death, it's starting to take its toll on the Captain.

16th Slate, 59, Mid- Spring

Oh? The Merchants are still here? They decided to leave.

Likot became a Sword Dwarf too.

17th Slate, 59, Mid- Spring

I've been hearing reports of a large number of undead in a nearby Ravine.



This is grave news indeed, we will have to eventually deal with them one day.

Loyal's squad continue to cut down more of the undead.

22nd Slate 59, Mid- Spring



Found another cave spider, next to the River Styx, rejoice!

23rd Slate 59, Mid- Spring

Some migrants arrived today, a total of 22 Dwarves, pushing our population up to 81. Those registered included:

2 Woodworkers,
1 Leatherworkers,
1 Mechanic,
1 Pump operator,
1 Armourer,
1 Potash Masher,
1 Lye Maker,
1 Fish Cleaner,
1 Fish Dissector,
1 Clothier,
1 Stone Worker,
1 Wood Burner,
5 Peasants (One was immediately recruited to be trained as Speardwarf, another Fortress Guard),
1 Wrestler who goes by the name of Flare, she too was recruited into Loyal's division to become a Spear Dwarf,
1 Swordsdwarf named Cog: I feel this individual has a bright future ahead for him. In fact I have such a good feeling for this dwarf I am immediately putting him in charge of a division.

They were all greeted by a Skeletal Hoary Marmot, who scattered the migrants.



Welcome to Workgill, bitches!

Flare's first assignment before she even chose a room and getting equipment from the armoury was to beat the shit out of it with her bare hands.



...And then another one in a similar fashion.

Yes, these soldiers have a bright future ahead of them...such potential...hmm.



Oh, and some guy called synkr0nized arrived. Said he was spreading some sort of game involving dice, I don't know. Was awful pushy about wanting large amount of room for his "Campaigns", whatever that means.

Anyway, with the ranks reformed two melee squads were divided between Spear and Sword users.

5 Marksdwarf, 5 Speardwarf and 5 Swordsdwarf in the works, we're getting somewhat of a well trained Watch here.

2nd Felsite 59, Late Spring

Things are going surprisingly well. Forging more weaponry and armour for the newer and improved Watch. Speaking about them, I've sent Cog's Sword Division out to clean up the area.



Most excellent.

We might have to think about clearing up those rivers sometime, but that's a much longer term goal.



Synks room is just about dug out and ready for him to dwell in.

5th Felsite 59, Late Spring

A fisherman, Atesh Ikilistdatan was engaging in friendly conversation with Queen Mauve and a Horse when he suddenly decided to withdraw from society, as you do.



Decided to claim a Craftsdwarf shop; let's hope he makes something with glue and glitter on it.


11th Felsite 59, Late Spring


Atesh created Atiristik; a mastercraft artefact forged out of raw Adamantime...which so happened to be a drum.



Good use of resources right there.

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Summer is here! Good golly this was a long update. Lots of things I had to take screenshots for; I'm pretty sure I'm missing a good half a dozen too. Oh well. Hopefully next update for Summer won't take/be as long. In the mean time I have little goodies to keep the masses subdued.