Alright, finishing the year today. Apologies for how incredibly long it's taking. The first year went fine because I started the fortress during an expected lull in workload. Then the schedule changed and the daily grind of reality ramped up to normal, and there have only been minutes here and there to click around the forum or play a simple game here and there.
Edit: And within seconds of loading the save, the Hill Titan Icemì Ociimaza Enefirifafa has come! A huge feathered sauropod. It has two narrow tails and it moves about carelessly. Its dark olive feathers are patchy. Beware its deadly spittle!
ARM THE BALLISTAE, ME LOYAL DWARVES.
Edit2: It's firing frozen extract of itself laced with water at a ranger.
Edit3: The Lone Ranger is tearing the guts out of the hill titan with copper bolts. :blink:
Edit4: He killed it!!
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Pictured: Rtyh-12.
Tetrahedrite! There's a large mudstone deposit at Z + 51. Hopefully it will have more ore deposits. Finally time to begin the arms manufacturing industry, even if it's only copper.
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The metals industry is about to start up - just waiting for these louts to carry the copper ore up to the smelters. One of the immigrant metalcrafters has begun a mysterious construction.
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A large, serrated silver disk which menaces with spikes of silver. Cool.
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Rtyh-12 has a 'major wound' status icon blinking on him, and has 'Pale' on his wound screen. I read that this means he is about to bleed to death, but I can't find anything in the reports screen. :idk:
Edit: He's collapsed in the dining hall.
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A vile force of darkness has arrived. The military is, naturally, unprepared.
Edit: FIRE AT WILL!!
Edit 2: Damn!! Only one bolt was fired before the siege operators abandoned their posts, and it ploughed into the wall immediately. The invaders are in the upper fortress now, and the main doors are blocked with hamster remains.
Edit 3: The carnage begins. Invaders have seized the upper fortress and are now slaughtering civilians.
Edit 4: Nooooo! I'm dead!