I embarked in Wilderness, but there was some Terrifying very close by. O.o

Anyway, There is no lake big enough to flood my farm. The river is the way to go. In that picture, the flooding had already been done.

More migrants arrived, so we're up to 42 dwarves. We got a proper doctor AND surgeon this time, and they need names.

In the last wave, I also got a glass maker that is very adept at the military arts. I just found my guard captain.

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Well, it happened. I was digging down in search of flux stone, a material required for making steel, when I dug into a cavern. Living in said cavern were five crundles. Seeing the opening, they swarmed up through my stairwell and into the main base. The militia has dispatched one of them, but there are still four left. Crundles aren't really harmful when they're split up as they are now, but a coordinated attack could be very deadly. My militia dwarfs, however, seem to think that taking a break is more important.

Casualties so far:

• One Cat

One noteworthy soldier: Stinthad Zimingiz the Wrestler ran into combat with a baby on his back. Either that kid is going to be retarded, or have balls of steel. Or both. I'm giving him his own room one the crundle crisis is over. I want a name for both Stinthad and the baby.

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Crundles? Are those randomly generated, or new in this version?

EDIT: Wiki Magic tells me that they are just new in this version.

EDIT 2: We should tame some Crundles or Rutherers and send them into battle before our guys. Rutherers could be a good food supply, too?

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Yeah, tamed crundles would be interesting. After all was said and done, 11 crundles perished, Hit_Girl took out a troll after chasing the fleeing crundles into the caverns, and the only friendly casualty was a stray kitten. The troll is taking up two spaces in the garbage heap because Hit_Girl literally cut him in half with her iron sword. D: I look forward to making trollbone crafts.

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yay stoneworker!!!!!

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Bleck says Count Bleck

NOOOOO! KITTEN!

We should equip Hit with a Banhammer.

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Annnnnd the glassmaker got possessed. I don't think I'll be able to get a glass furnace and sand plus whatever else he needs in time.
Well, it only took two and a half years for the fortress to find a good craftable good. On the third of Moonstone in the year 128, our dwarves stuck gold. Literally.

I've had prototype smelting gold bars and crafting them into crowns, goblets, amulets, you name it. I've also had Kirshi encrusting everything she can get her hands on with her gems.

On the other side of the happiness spectrum, Thob Lorcatten went insane because we had no leather. He died from thirst a mere week before the gold find. It looks like the glassmaker may go the same route, unfortunately. THe dwarves have sealed him in a private room to keep his madness from affecting the others. Everyone hopes the merchants will bring the materials he needs, but we're not even sure they'll get here before its too late.

We had another run-in with crundles, but all they're doing at this point is sustaining our bone carving industry.

Scatterbrain made an artifact! Its a ashen cabinet with bands of willow. It will look very nice in the mayor's quarters, whenever the dwarves think its time to elect one. For some reason, they seem to think Orangebrew is the best dwarve for the job.

Update:

Finally. Now I can start lugging the gold crafts up from the industry layer. I ended up trading them every gold craft I had for all their food, cloth, sand, and seeds. I have no sand that I can see on this map, and very little that I can make into cloth. Who needs gold crafts anyway? I'm going to bang out a few statues for the dining hall, but then its back to crafting for the next caravan. This time, it will be dwarves. I've requested large amounts of meat from the mountainhome, so the next round of trading should be worthwhile.

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Dude, Balls can find the herbs, and I can Brewe us some stuff to drink. Me an ballsy, gettin wasted in the fortress. This is gunna be great.

Also- your probably farther than I am atm, I need to figure more stuff out about how to play this again, its just... so confusing.

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Inferiority is the true ascendancy.

Yeah, I'm up to 62 dwarves now, btw. I need fucking names.

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Just go to the Members section and steal a whole bunch of cool usernames.

I love your storytelling abilities.

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Breasts

Ollie, think how pissed you'd be if you wound up becoming a noble who had an encounter with Fun and was generally whined about without your permission, or were another mook fighting against the goblin horde and got killed?

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I "ask/demand" that I DeathFire Shall Be a master magic user or something cool like that

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Fear Me for I am The God of Death And Fire

He's just begging to become a master furniture hauling peasant.

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'Belgium, a country with many homos also have a pedophile party as far as i know.' - Violetblood

I think I have a baby around here somewhere. Just not the war-baby. That baby is awesome.

Actually, next time someone gets depressed I'll name him/her deathfire. That way you can have "magic" in your insane dehydration addled mind while you die.

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Is there an ignorant dwarf called Junco yet?

Lakart wants a Lakart dwarf. He must be drunk.

Pretty gems... ^-^
Name them after more minecraft people!
Without their permission.

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"This war is about colours. If you wear the wrong ones, you are going to be killed." ஜஜ۩۞۩ஜஜ۩۞۩ஜ
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║═╣║║║╔╣╔╣╚╝║
║╔╣╚╝║║║║╚╗╔╝
╚╝╚══╩╝╚╝♥╚╝
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Names List:
Vinifera
Vishnoor
Sonny Black (Bestest TF2 player ever, HE deserves the warrior child)
Fletchervand
Reload25
Destoned
DreamingInsane
AnnexOne

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Inferiority is the true ascendancy.

I vote for Mcmoist. He's the closest to be a drunk brawler in this here community.

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Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.

Whats a good profession for McMoist? Brewer?

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Feel my wrath!!!!!
(summons volcano next to the fortress)
Muhahahahaha

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Fear Me for I am The God of Death And Fire

Well, our dwarves have finally settled in. Our economy is up and running. We finally got everything up and running efficiently. The fortress is booming. What could go wrong?

Oh, that's right! This is Dwarf Fortress. EVERYTHING can go wrong.

POW:
A cyclops? Why the fuck not. I love cyclopses. This motherfucker came barreling right through my gate and over the drawbridges JUST before Ollie pulled the lever to seal the fortress. Oh he sealed it all right. WITH the cyclops inside.

Fortunately I was able to get my militia topside in seconds. They had been training in the barracks and were ready for a fight. He was only able to kill my only Animal Trainer first. Swell.

Deler struck an early blow on the cyclops, drawing blood. All over my fortress.
We finally were able to trap the beast in an old mining tunnel. The final encounter raged for THREE DAYS.
The brave militiadwarves were finally able to slay the beast, but their victory came and a great cost. Something in the creature's body sickened the exposed dwarves. They drowned in their own vomit a day after their victory.

In other news, Kirshi has a new gem cutting facility to accommodate the creation of a clothing industry. Yaaaaay...

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I am so sorry..I guess..I dunno, I just feel really guilty.

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Breasts

You can use my name. Can I be something cool? I don't like lame shit

I am also happy to be a character in the saga.

you can use "keith" for short.

cheers

I'm currently studying materials, ceramics are something I find pretty interesting, so if you want to name a glassmaker or whatever after me that'd be cool.

Edit: just read he got possessed, awwww ;( I will leave it to your discretion then, just note; I'm badass.

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a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig

Yeah, the glassmaker ended up dying of thirst before that caravan arrived.

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I say recruit em' to be mercenaries.

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Are there any interesting dwarfs who need a name?

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a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig

Is there something like the village idiot? Or maybe a jester?

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Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.