Let's Play Dwarf Fortress - Skeletal WHAT?!

[Loyal]

We've already got a smoothed road. All we have to do is get some master engravers on the scene and set up walls so that the caravans HAVE to pass through it.

I am pleased to see the progress Loyal is making.

Also, if I remember right the second floor of that tower, on the other side of the grand pit, has some fortifications + archery towers made out... that or it was supposed to but I ran out of time. Just something to think about for when they start packing their own range.

[Corel]

Originally Posted by Loyal

Also, if I remember right the second floor of that tower, on the other side of the grand pit, has some fortifications + archery towers made out... that or it was supposed to but I ran out of time. Just something to think about for when they start packing their own range.

Yeah, I did have them stationed up there originally, then I realised it would be a large pain taking screenshots/it would look much clearer for readers if they were all on the same level.

Will see if we have any master Engravers and try get those stories up!

[Flarecobra]

What next? Tamed undead?


And somehow I could see Dwarf-Loyal poking that maimed-yet-still-alive goblin with a stick, just for shits and giggles.

[Wigmund]

We should have the crafters build dozens of obsidian swords (lord knows we have enough obsidian for that) and build more lines of weapons traps on the arch-bridge and the area between the bridges in preparation for larger invasion forces.

Originally Posted by Loyal

We've already got a smoothed road. All we have to do is get some master engravers on the scene and set up walls so that the caravans HAVE to pass through it..

Unfortunately the engravers can't carve on constructed surfaces, the blood-soaked trap field and entry way should be message enough to all who enter Workgill that we are not to be fucked with.

And the arm lodged in the fortification wall doesn't hurt either.

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

And somehow I could see Dwarf-Loyal poking that maimed-yet-still-alive goblin with a stick, just for shits and giggles.

Probably nothing Loyal could do to that goblin would be worse than what it was experiencing at that time. The poor soul had just watched all of its comrades get captured, get shredded by pop-up weapons, get crushed by boulders falling from the open air, and then the archer barrage. It would have been merciful if Loyal had choked the life out of the creature.

The goblin was probably lying there, bleeding to death, watching dwarf-Loyal stand over his dying body and he probably had the realization that his fate was to become a skull totem and bone crafts to be sold to the next caravan.

[Loyal]

Wait, that's a paved road?

What a wasted opportunity. Can they be deconstructed? :\

[Wigmund]

Originally Posted by Loyal

Wait, that's a paved road?

What a wasted opportunity. Can they be deconstructed? :\

Sorry, mis-understood you earlier, the road is just smoothed from the obsidian field out there. I thought you were talking about building walls and having those carved. My bad.

Engraving the road would probably be a bad idea though. It would just provide goblin ambushes convenient targets far from the fort.

[Corel]

Originally Posted by Wigmund

Probably nothing Loyal could do to that goblin would be worse than what it was experiencing at that time. The poor soul had just watched all of its comrades get captured, get shredded by pop-up weapons, get crushed by boulders falling from the open air, and then the archer barrage. It would have been merciful if Loyal had choked the life out of the creature.

The goblin was probably lying there, bleeding to death, watching dwarf-Loyal stand over his dying body and he probably had the realization that his fate was to become a skull totem and bone crafts to be sold to the next caravan.

And that's not the best part of it. This is what the Goblin saw:



Loyal is wearing Plate Armour with is completely covered in blood along with his face. I think all the blood came mostly from the Undead he's been chopping to pieces but some of that is also Dwarf blood, and he hasn't been injured.

Oh Workgill, you certainly are starting to shape some personality.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by Wigmund

Sorry, mis-understood you earlier, the road is just smoothed from the obsidian field out there. I thought you were talking about building walls and having those carved. My bad.

Engraving the road would probably be a bad idea though. It would just provide goblin ambushes convenient targets far from the fort.

That's why you assign dogs to the engravers, if your military is too occupied to provide an escort. Was never a problem with me.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Journal of Shyria

4th Hematite 59, Early Spring

Corel's ordered a mass culling of the pack, apparently for "safety" reasons. Idiot. What's the point in keeping a bleedin' wolf trainer around if you keep killing all our wolves!? Just think, all those pups growing up, getting bigger, learning the ways of war, ready to lay down life and paws to keep this fort safe...All thrown away for what? Safety? Honestly, I more scared of some of my fellow dwarves than these furry lugs.

Besides, I already made Wuffles apologise to that craftsdwarf for that incident last week (I don't know why he was so upset, he's still got one working one hasn't he?)

[Thadius]

Diary of Thadius, Mayor of Workgill

4th Hematite, 59

The book...

It is angry with me.

The prediction did not come true...

Unless I find another to take the punishment...

I fear for my own safety...

15th Hematite, 59

Goblins. What do they know of darkness? In order to appease the book, I have told all the metalworkers that no nickle silver is to be exported.

17th Hematite, 59

My 'contributions' to various 'funds' has insured that I remain mayor. This means I will remain in a place where I have the power to act on the book's predictions.

6th Malachite, 59

Ooooh...mY heaD...doN't reMemBer whaT i diD laSt niGht...

17th Galena, 59

Apparently we've fended off a goblin siege. What'll we do with the ones in cages?

...As if we really didn't know. In Armok's name! To the fiery pit with ye!