Utterly Mad

"I know what kobolds like!" Said saltmummy, striding into a private conversation between Chaosvolt and Apatheticexcuse. She didn't much care for what they were talking about, though she understood that it was probably important. Apathetic looked deeply annoyed. "Fine, you can be in charge now." Saltmummy looked at apathetic with suspicion. She didn't really want to be in charge again. "What about caconym?" She asked, putting aside her "wonderful" idea for a moment. "Caconym doesn't know how long a year is." Said Chaosvolt, "No one bothered to tell Caconym when to pass on the reigns to someone else. I've been running things since... midsummer?" Apathetic nodded. "I guess you hadn't noticed though." Saltmummy scratched her head. "Nope! Anyways, kobolds want zoo!" Apathetic placed her palms on her face and began screaming into them. While Chaosvolt simply cocked her head at an angle and stared at Saltmummy with incredulity. "How Saltmummy." Asked Apathetic when she finally managed to reign in her temper. "How are you going to capture animals and put them in cages." Saltmummy hadn't thought that bit through. "Maybe small animals then? You catch? Yes?" Apathetic struggled not to raise her hands to her face again, but found that she couldn't avoid that AND prevent them from throttling Saltmummy at the same time. "That's a stupid idea." She shouted after having another good scream. "No it not. You got army of rock-bolds. Rest of us want zoo. Why rock-bolds but not zoo? Zoo more interesting. Why big coffin room but not zoo? Since I in charge now, we build zoo." Apathetic immediately regretted telling her she was in charge.

OOC: I just got an idea.

Oh this is gonna be good. I predict the lack of mechanics will screw us over again. o3o

I will build the greatest zoo the world has ever seen, and I will do so without mechanisms.
also, the stair configuration was a bit off, so I fixed it.

And a single Z level below that, is another one. We have ourselves a shallow embark gents.

Not sure how, since you can't tame wild animals unless they're in cages. D:

And...uhoh. Hope you're ready to be drowning in troglodytes.

Oh, you will see mr. dragon. You will see
Also, a single unarmed kobold just wrecked the shit out of a giant olm before it fled in terror from him. Then the military got there and wrecked it's shit even harder.

Heh. Compared to goblin-raised elves, that's hardly a threat. I hope that the squads are finally sporting some refitted metal armor by now. <3

Some of them yes. It looks like they are about to run out of things to refit though.

Also dragon, might I suggest for the mod making it so kobolds can build stone fall traps? Removing the mechanism requirement I mean. Stone fall traps seem like one of those things kobolds would use.

Down in the second cavern layer, I spot a pair of blind cave ogres and a troll. Fortunately, the stairs are too high up for them.

This would be nice, except traps are hard-coded. If I could, I'd add cage traps using a rope instead of a mechanism, and maybe rock traps too. But those can't be altered. Closest thing to a trap would be upright spears, which can be propped up without a mechanism. But you'd need a way to coerce enemies to fall onto them...

And yeah, not a lot of goblinite available because there were only 10 of them. ;w;

I'm not sure what this is about, but for now I'm sealing it and rerouting it's access through the fort proper. Kobolds going through here to collect things is slowing the works up. I'm already in the process of sealing the caverns, so it shouldn't be that big of a problem.

I assume Apathetic did that, but I did seal part of it so enemies can't get underneath the fort from outside. Most likely the kobolds are pathing into the part of the tunnel on the other side of that wall, which thus can only be accessed from outside.

I recall even examining the string dump to see if I could parse the trap's name using raw building tokens, but that fell through. :V

And now to fumble with the squad-move order until one of them blunders into the room. o3o