damnit. sign me up for the next available slot then, i'll be able to fit an hour in somewhere.
if someone could PM me at the point when it's posted, that would be awesome. probably duh, considering you'll be posting it.
EDIT: oh yeah, screenies and stats of the area would be nice, as well as a smattering of stats for the dwarves.

Actually I forgot to mention, can you sign me up for the the next turn?

Very well then, uploading the save, pics and log. Turns will be as follows:

1- Areku (ended)
2- Duh102 (5pm EST today)
3- Geti
4- Shadow

And now, the location:



It is a terryfying mountain range, as you can see. It's got a brook, an underground river, magma, HFS, and, despite what the site finder says, quite a bunch of trees. As long as we steer away from the magma men, I think we should be OK.

And now, the seven suicidal fools, I mean, brave heroes:



The first two are proficient miners, with john also being an engraver and FoiL a mason. Hyper is a woodcutter/carpenter combo. Big Cheese (me) is a proficient weaponsmith, with a bit of mechanics too. Duh is our main farmer/brewer/cook, Geti got all of the leadership skills and a bit of swimming, and Lobos is a wrestler/axedwarf.

And now, the log.


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Taken from the logbook of 'Big Cheese' Arrowholds, weaponsmith:

1st Granite 203, early spring:

Eh, we are here. Here in this ELFING CARP of world's end. Sure, I was extactic when I was told that I was being released from prison, but to be thrown here, in the middle of nowhere, with orders to "carve out a stronghold to protect our civilization from the goblin sieges from the west". My elf. Not even the goblins dare come to this hellhole, with all those magma men and giant eagles wandering around. I bet they just wanted to punish me even more. I really should not have mentioned that the king looked a bit tall to be a dwarf. I was too sober at that time to notice that he, king Fíma Lamaamala himself, was right behind me (I'll never know how he does that. He is way too stealthy to be a dwarf, too). But oh well, here we are. In future fortress of PaperSacks. Lousy name, too.

Most of the dwarves in the wagon were also sent here because of some crime or the other, the only exception being Geti, this fella who was "sent by the King himself to put some order on this mess" and says he's "got all of the several qualities of a natural leader". Dunno if that's true, but he was really sad when the others chose Duh102 to be their leader. Maybe because she's the only gal in the group. Most likely because she's the only brewer in the group. At any rate, she's asked me to run the show while she "starts planning the extremely complex architecture and decoration to be used in this fortress-to-be". Hmph, I bet she's just gonna lie around for a few months resting her lazy back while I do all the hard work.

I've chosen a small grotto by a brook as our fortress' entry. Should provide a steady source of water, in case we *gasp* run outta booze. Sent both miners to carve out space for stockpiles and so on. They seem pretty competent, but this FoiL fella seems to be on a permanent state of melancholy. He is a good chap, but seems always to be on the verge of breaking down. Gotta watch him carefully.

2nd of granite, 203

Gah! Cursed elfing carp outta this piece of elephant! I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY DID THIS TO US!
As I was looking through our records to see if we had really received amount of plump helmets we had hasked for, I found a sealed envelope with the King's seal on it. I just couldn't hold my curiosity, and opened it. It read:
"My loyal servant Geti:
By the time you read this, you'll be beyond the point of no return. The other dwarves should suspect nothing, but you'll have to tell them eventually. They were exiled, because they knew too much. My secret, our secret, must never be revealed. And I'm afraid that includes you. You are now a slave, sold to the queen of the Oaken sword, along with those other six. The plan of creating an exile fortress was a fake, I'm sorry to say. May you serve queen Alath as well as you have served me.
Farewell.
Fíma Lamaamala, last Elven King of Dwarves."
That carping elf was a CARPING ELF! I've told the others, and we've come to a conclusion. We ain't gonna be no slaves to no carping queen. We're gonna build ourselves a fortress, and it's gonna be the best. Elfing. Fortress. Ever. We will show that elf who are the real dwarfs here, and send him back to the dirty forest from where he crawled off. Mark my words.


15th Felsite, 203.
Progress on the fort is going at a steady pace, though slower than I would prefer. The food stocks have already been moved inside, and everyone's got their own rooms now. Some complain that mine is bigger than the others', but hey, I designed the whole thing, I gotta have some kinda privilege. Geti kept barking about how he would take his revenge on the king for exiling him, so we just gave him a chair and told him to update our records, to keep him quiet. I've also noticed some big metal veins on the surrounding hills, even a bit of native gold. I would like to make something out of it, but we've got no anvil, so I guess I'll do a bit of mechanics and build an irrigation pump so that we can get our farms started.

17th Felsite, 203.
The pump has been built. A mighty good job if you ask me. I've told Duh to start operating it, so that she'll just stop lazing about. Now, I've got workshops to build, so gotta go.

21th Felsite, 203.
Frankly, I think that Duh is my worst enemy ever. Last night, while I was checking our stockpile records along with Geti, a faint splashing sound was heard. As I opened the door to see what it was, a whole ocean of water poured into the office. I though the river had flooded or something like that, but then I figured out what had happened, and yelled "DUH! STOP PUMPING THE CARPING PUMP!!!!!!". The water immediately stopped rising, and when I managed to get to the surface level (Geti was already there, did I mention he knows how to swim? Creepy.), Duh was just standing in front of the pump, with the most innocent face I've ever seen on a dwarf. When I asked her what the unicorn she thought she was doing flooding the fortress, she just looked at me even more innocently and said "I was just doing what you asked me to, mr. Big Cheese!". I think she is actually an undercover assassin hired by the king, trying to murder me and make it look like an accident. Gotta watch her really, really carefully.

13th Galena, 203.
Stuff is going smoothly now. Duh started complaining about how the andesite still we had had the wrong mineral composition, and how it would ruin her booze, and so on. I just shrugged and made her a microcline one. Actually, we had a ton of microcline, so I've started the construction of a microcline tower. It's even got an open shaft in the middle, so we can add a windmill on top of it when it's finished. The dining room is also finished. And Duh finally started brewing, and she's a mighty good brewer, I gotta admit. Nothing else worth of notice happened.

14th Galena, 203.

Argh. I though my room was looking a bit barren, so I told John to decorate it with some engravings. First he made one of us seven travelling, to show our origins. I said it looked good. Then he made one of a seven-headed hydra, and said it would be our group's emblem, simbolyzing the seven of us working for the wellfare of a single fortress. I said it was really cool. Then, I looked away for a few seconds, and he had engraved no less than three portraits of Duh. Now that's it. If these guys are so fond of her, then they can have her as their leader. I am retiring. Gonna go fish a bit, fiddle with mechanics, but I'm done making these fellas work as a group. Though it was pretty fun, while it lasted.


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And that's it. Duh, it's up to you now.

Save downloaded. If I read the rules correctly, I have to post my save within 24 hours of now or my turn is skipped?

Absolutely correct.

I sign up... for great justice! I want my turn either fridays/saturdays

fairly cool sounding place. keen to see what you've done with the joint.

sign me up too!

Whoops call it all off it's all going to go to hell and crumble now

Very well then. Robolee, your turn is right after shadow's, and weasel's comes next. (sorry it took me so long to answer, I had some time fuse trouble.)

Here's my log and file, I'm squeaking in JUST under the deadline.


14th Limestone, 203
Ugh, why is Big Cheese so mean to me? I'm just a simple mountainhome girl, haven't even been beyond my village's walls until I got caught poisoning Farmer Heslorek's rum... What a creep, he deserved it.
And now I'm stuck with a bunch of leery old men who keep STARING at me. Yuk. But enough of that, I just have to grin and bear it like Pops said.

Big Cheese, the lump, got tired of shouting us around and handed over power to me, so now I'm in charge of the lot. The place is disgusting! Rocks strewn about everywhere, muddy floors (though that's partly my fault ;D), and only a hint of engraving in Big Cheese's room. I set about cleaning up immediately, creating a stone dump and ordering everybody (including myself, I practice what I preach) to dump stone. Within a few days we had gotten most of it up and I stopped bothering the guys about the stragglers. They'll get taken up eventually.

As for the mud, I suppose that can stay. It'll dry up into dirt eventually, and it's not hurting anybody. I told FoiL and John to get to engraving the rest of our quarters and the dining hall.
I hope John doesn't carve any more nudes of me, the guy is seriously creeping me out >_<

20th Limestone, 203
There's a trade caravan coming from Kindastot, I ordered a depot built under a small overhang. I think I'll have to make some doors though, we have a straight hallway right into the fortress for any goblins to walk right in.

I widened out the tunnel to 5 and put some pillars in the middle to make two two-wide openings, where I had some doors mounted. Now we can be as safe as we want, just add lava to the outside
I also carved a channel to later mount a waterwheel, perhaps I can finally stop turning that confounded pump. I don't mind the work so much as the inefficiency. It just takes so much of my TIME to turn that damned contraption, when I could have the water itself do the work.

I'm starting to wonder if this trader is from the Mountainhomes after all...
"Greetings from the Mountainhomes. Your efforts are legend there. Let us Trade!"
He seems a liiiittle too eager to assure us that we're "legend" back home, when to my knowledge I never heard anything of colonies besides detailed accounts of their demise.
Blast, we have nothing to trade with enough value to buy the anvil he's hiding. I suppose I'll have to let it go until next caravan. Not that we have any metal ores yet anyway.

24th Limestone, 203
I don't know how Big Cheese expected Geti to keep records with just a chair. I hastily had some tables, cabinets, and coffers made for all of us and installed some creature comforts into all of our rooms. Statues will have to wait, but at least we'll have somewhere to store clothing. Which reminds me, if any of the guys comments ONE more time about my boulders, SOMEONE's going to get a boulder dropped on their head.

5th Sandstone, 203
Maybe we'll be able to trade for that anvil after all! With keen eyes, John (whom I will admit is a very good miner, despite his personality faults) found some citrine in the rock hills to the north, and by chance FoiL found rose quartz while digging the cavern for the gemcrafting station.

Scratch that hope, the Mountainhomes apparently are swimming in gems. They're worth a paltry 6 bits! Now if only Big Cheese McFatass would get working on the gemcrafting that he said he'd get to doing, maybe we could find out if they want cut gems more than rough ones.

1st Timber, 203
Well trading failed miserabley. None of what we had produced thus far was of any interest to the Mountainhomes, and the traders have left just as rich as they came. However, I have hit upon one resource they can't refuse- processed metals. Looking at the maps which I must grudgingly admit Big Cheese has kept well, there is a lava tube slightly south and very west of our fortress. I have ordered the construction of a tunnel to take lava from the tube and guide it right under our noses to reduce the trip necessary to smelt metal. Many nefarious ideas occur to me that I could accomplish with this resource. I shall have to keep them secret, Big Cheese was looking at me funny while I sketched plans for lava falls in front of the main gates.

23rd Timber, 203
We struck gold! I was in my room after ordering the mining of a tunnel to get lava for our smelters, getting ready to sleep. Without warning, John excitedly burst into the room with a chunk of rock I couldn't identify at first, since I was yelling at him to at least knock first. After we both calmed down, he thrust the chunk under the lamp on my desk and it sparkled like the sun itself! I've stalled final connection of the lava tube until we've mined and carted the vein into storage. It should prove a useful resource.

19th Moonstone, 203
I've commissioned John the Shrubber to make engravings. I suspect I'll regret it, but the other dwarves will like it. Our ranks have doubled in size now, an additional 8 dwarves have come in from the Mountainhomes. Most of them stink, I suspect they came straight from the jails. At least there are women though. In fact, more than half are. Maybe this will keep the guys off my back...
In the meantime, I've had the lava tube opened and it's currently making it's way to the waiting smelter and glass furnace.

4th Opal, 203
As I suspected, I regret ever letting John put chisel to stone. Geti's study is covered floor to wall in lewd pictures of myself and the other female dwarves. All over the hallway and in John's bedroom too. I had FoiL do my room for fear of John, and while his craftsdwarfship isn't as good, at least the gauntlets and abstract shapes he carved don't have exxagerated anatomical features.

21st Opal, 203
Sometimes, I just enjoy the simple pleasures of brewing. Pops taught me how while he was recovering from a cave-in. It was just me and him, father and daughter, and the still. Big Cheese doesn't know it, but I have to have a microcline still because that's what my Pops taught me on. The familiar feel of the stone takes me back to when he was still alive...

4th Obsidian, 203
A quick quip before I go back to farming. The other dwarves seem to have one-track minds. I told FoiL to make stone statues, and when I came back in a few minutes he had made a good twenty to thirty statues, and was busily making more. Suffice to say I put a stop to his madness immediately, and he just went about his business like he hadn't processed twelve tons of stone into statues in five minutes.
I made a statue garden out of the bulk of them, out in the open sky to combat cavesickness.

28th Felsite, 204
I've begun thinking for the future. I only have so much time left in the mountain, and so I've prepared a burial place for myself and taken care of paying my burial costs. I've been melancholy lately, I'm not quite sure why. Maybe I miss the attention of the men? They're all looking at the other women, especially the provincials who came in with the latest group of immigrants. I don't know where they found these girls, they're built like cliffs of basalt and have tracts of land to match. I have a sneaking suspicion the king sent them here to placate the men. It's working. Maybe I'm just feeling lonely at the top. I think I need to step down and find a nice dwarfenly dwarf to settle down with. Maybe Lobos, he's a good dwarf, always ready to take down the nearest Giant Eagle. In either case, I've appointed Geti the scribe to take over for me. He's been leering at my office for a long time anyway, he can see how he likes it.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the status.

Awesome, I'll get my turn in tonight, should be fun. Imma build me some towers, and get a military going.

Lawl, I'm a perverted engraver? Epic win, I say.

;__;
What, have I just faded into obscure dorfdom?

Heh, I admit it is looking pretty epic so far. Even with that shabby story about us being exiled by the king - I made it up on the last minute when I noticed I had chosen the wrong civilization!


EDIT: Also lava falls? I was gonna make that!