Utterly Mad

You sure that maybe Apathetic's status army didn't grant us the favor of Armok? o.O

"SEE! I FUCKING TOLD YOU IT WAS THE MOST POWERFUL OF SUPER WEAPONS EVER SEEN BY BOLD OR MAN!"

-Apathetic the Warmaster

>Chaos and Apathetic

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But in all seriousness, that's pretty awesome, man. Love the stories you guys put into your turns. Been too long since I've read a good succession game.

Here's the save, packaged with a copy of dwarf fortress, just like last time. This time though, the init files have been altered to autosave seasonally and pause when it does so. Also, the FPS counter.

I'd like to note that although I set perigrin to start churning out shell crafts and decorate with shells, the FPS never dropped below 20. At the moment spring arrived, I was sitting at 29. I imagine our number of shell crafts is through the roof and almost everything in the fort is adorned with hanging rings of shell or spikes or whatever.

The statue zoo
Yes. 390 statues of each animal in the game. Except honey bees, I realize that I skipped honey bees for some reason. The only exception to the statues is as I stated (in character I think) no giant animals and no manimals, there are a few exceptions but these are for giants/manimals that existed prior to the massive influx of creatures to dwarf fortress back in... 34.XX was it?. For example, giant rats and giant slugs, to name a couple. Also, no randomly generated creatures. Just most of dwarf fortresses basic critters. No forgotten beasts, no titans, no night things, no bogeymen, no demons, and no angels. Also represented in the 390 are the races of dwarf fortress. All of the statues are "statue of *animal* and a cage. The cage is embracing the *animal*" There are a few exceptions to this. The megabeasts are all showing some kind of emotion and the races are all performing an action with/against a kobold. For example, the elf statue has the elf cooking a kobold, while the dwarf statue has the dwarf shooting a kobold. There are a few easter eggs hidden among some of the statues as well. Just little details. This whole process was tedious in the extreme, but I think it was well worth it. Inside the "zoo" is also a single sarcophagus. It has been assigned to our resident shaman, it's area only covers the 3x3 square around it, so you don't have to worry about it being too grand for her blood. I am a fucking master of customizing statues at this point.

Some shit to worry about and some other notes
Holes in the ground. Fuckin trees growing up over that giant stockpile room I dug out in my last turn have proved to be an issue. Nothing awful yet, but it only takes one locked hatch to make goblins or megabeasts pick the path of least resistance. I patched up all the holes I could find. Along with connecting it to the inside of our fort and sealing it's old entrance, I also made a massive expansion to our graveyard. All the dead are buried, and there are vacant coffins in case they are needed. Last years merchants are still here, though at one point I saw one of them walk up to the trade depot and load a bunch of shit onto his horse. He then walked up to a wall and stood there. The merchants are slowly, sloooooowly wandering in the directions of the map edges, and I do mean wandering. Finally, keep on the lookout for traitors. I am quiet certain the cascade has ended, but anything could happen. Be vigilant.

The entire endeavor was dick shrivelingly tedious, but it was still better than doing fucking laundry in cataclysm.

((OOC: Seriously, that was brilliant - Boldest zoo ever. Have a North Korea. Can't wait to look through it, or maybe try and drag an adventurer through if I can ever figure that out. Also can't wait to see what poor RD thinks, haha.))

I can't wait either XD.
Also good epilogue. I laughed pretty hard.

I'll bold you up if no one else wants next. I imagine there should be a few citizens running around unnamed. If you feel like adventuring through there/writing here, whatever, I don't think anyone would object.

I didn't realize you could customize statues and shit to that degree - this is seriously one of the coolest things I think I've seen in a community fort, ever. Armed with that knowledge, *I* have an idea now that fits into the "story line", but might not put it into play on my next turn simply because I should do something beyond churn out more statues. I think our fort value is likely scary high right now.

One other thing of note - I'm updating the OP to help us find turns. If you guys could keep updates to under 10 posts (or edit all the fort/story stuff into a couple big ones), it would be appreciated - it's a fucker to go through as many as I have, and try to weed out the important stuff from the other discussions with a small mention of what's going on.

Awesome! If you want us to wait, I have no objections, personally. I need a little time to play around and see if I can actually do what I'm hoping to do anyway.

Ok, so I don't want to spoil the zoo for everyone, but I had to laugh at this:

...I knew it. Salt confirmed for master of pranks. ;w;

That is indeed one hell of a statue setup though. I'd be annoyed enough just trying to order a fuckton of identical statues (and one sharkbold) like Apathetic did.

And yeah, I think I bolded every forum regular I could think up, so re-bolding Forrest and the others that died seems sensible.

Holes in the ground. Fuckin trees growing up over that giant stockpile room I dug out in my last turn have proved to be an issue. Nothing awful yet, but it only takes one locked hatch to make goblins or megabeasts pick the path of least resistance. I patched up all the holes I could find.

I saw that on my second turn. I pre-emptively cut down every tree growing over that space to generate a hole, then patched it up. Trees aren't SUPPOSED to grow over ground that lacks solid ground underneath it, to prevent this bug from being a constant annoyance, but I don't know if that's true.

I have something to "top" it, but don't think I can do it in just one year without a big population, or with the space available.

You'd be surprised. The kobolds are surprisingly efficient in their work. They seem to move slower than dwarves with the statues, but they seemed to make the statues quicker. That's prolly just my imagination though. Our fort is also filled with masons, so there was no shortage of bolds to work on statues, even after the cascade. Wilson is the fastest and most skilled of the masons. I also drafted three peasants as stone detailers so I could get the room done on time, but I don't think they ever actually touched the room.

TL:DR
we have a lot of capable stone workers.