I didn't have the time to construct them, nor the metals and bauxite. We'd need to pump lava through the tunnels I bored (and along the channel I constructed to land it right above the entrance).

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'll take next available slot.

Begin Diary, Year 204, Geti Onulthusest.

I've started a little late on my Diary this year, as it is already Mid summer. The previous commander, Ms Zimeshzuglar has handed me control of the fortress, she claims that she needs to get back in touch with the people.
My first movement is to Redesignate an area of our currently unused block and bar storage as stone storage, to make use of the 22 idlers.
I notice that there is a destinct lack of smooth stone around the fortress besides in the bedrooms, so I start a smoothing project at the sculpture garden that will eventually lead down to the rest of the fortress.

I take it upon my self to appoint a sheriff, Zon Shaligtulon, and give him one of Big Cheese's Extra Dining rooms.
I also Decide that having twenty idlers at a time is rediculous for a fortress of our size, and draft the peasants into the army under Lobos.
An animal caretaker by the name of Solon has gone into a fey mood, however we do not have the workshop he requires. I pray that he doesnt go insane.

As I construct one of the many Workshops we're missing (apparently we arent actually at the point where we need to make anything useful, even though we have magma furnaces and the like), a craftsdwarfs workshop, Solon runs downstairs to it and wont let anyone near. He works furiously at a... Hematite bracelet. I question his sanity. The cat that just adopted him doesnt.

As mid summer approaches, I question the direction of the previous commanders. We're lacking vital production facilities, so i set up a large workshop area near the storage areas for these, and ponder weather to set up more farms. With food stocks as they are though, I doubt we'll need the latter.

I organise a party to celebrate my romance with the hot woodcrafter in the new dining room, and get those who decide not to come to set up an area for the new recruits to spar in.

As the recruits spar, Lobos manages to mangle one of the new guy's lower body to the point of vomiting and an extended rest. I feel for him, but regret the amount of time he's going to kill and all the practice he'll miss.

I find myself wanting for wood, HyperKultra just used the last logs to make barrels, so we can have some new booze. We're all sick and tired of beer, and we just ran out anyway.

An Ambush occured in early autumn, the engravers discovered it as they were smoothing a road through the boulders to our depot. The wrestlers got their first taste of goblin blood, and we got some trading goods.
Speaking of trading, some merchants arrived just as i finished the accessway (though it still isnt anywhere near perfect).

Of note, I traded for two anvils, iron and steel, a lot of cloth, a cow, and a lot more food and booze. The goblin's clothes came in handy, and the cloth (including some giant cave spider silk stuff) should be able to be made into goods worth twice as much. All in all, I'd call this a successful trading session.

A theif, caught as soon as it gets in the door, manages to evade our armed forces. I need to improve the accessways around this place if we hope to catch anything.

Iden Oshoshmorul is the first in the military to become a champion! Hail to him.

Some migrants arrive, and make it to the sculpture garden in one piece. I promptly draft a few into the military, and as autumn draws to a close, another one of the wrestlers hits champion.

The cook gets taken by a mood, and again takes, the addlebrained dwarf takes over the craftdwarfs shop, and starts work on something made of gold. It's a ring. I curse the gods for sending me these useless ideas to my dwarves, but I cant do much about it. Whoever first wants a bracelet or ring is going to be very pleasantly surprised.

I feel almost bad for the diplomat chasing around Duh. He only just managed to have a meeting about trade organisation, and even then only got as far as "hello" before she ran off to plant more seeds. In the end, they decided they want seeds, goblets, and prepared meals, the last of which being the only i plan to prepare.

Foil Engraved his first masterpiece!

I've almost finished construction of our first outpost, at a nice choke point. Built entirely of microcline, I'll need to train some marksdwarves to make the most of it but it'll support quite a few men for quite some time if the need arrises. I'm happy with it.
With winter, I build the wall that will prevent us from getting ambushed effectively from the north. All the other directions are very poorly defended, but our fierce military should keep them at bay. With the wall's completion, Lobos becomes a champion at long last.

Some dark gnomes were pestering my masons, so i set the military on them. Stubby limbs littered the canyon. It was a nasty affair.

The Gem Cutter has been posessed, and is making something of moss opal. I've started planning out a water tower to flush away foes from our gates.
The posessed dwarf constructed a perfect opal, worth a massive 24000 bits.

The water tower poses problems to construct. Some elves have also arrived, diverting labour. This annoys me to no end.
However, In the middle of the hauling process, an ambush arrived, with many archers. One of the champions sustained major injuries, But should be fine. Noone died except the traders donkey, but the traders left.

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More soon, with the save. I don't have enough time to keep going much more, but i will try to get a screenshot of everything important, and give you a plan of the water tower.

The water tower is nearing completion, and I have constructed many a craftdwarves shop to help clear away all our bone refuse.
On top of this, we have also now got enough people for Duh to be known as mayor and Zon Captain of the Guard. I have inducted some of the new peasants into the guard.

Duh demands more furniture, and has mandated that we make things from lead. I've decided she's a tad whiny, but give her what she wants. Besides the lead. As we have none.
Zefon the stonecrafter has been posessed, and is grabbing adensite and bones and taking them to a craftdwarf's shop. Eventually, it becomes an amulet, worth a measly 4800 bits.

As summer begins again, I get ready to relinquish my control of the fort. The water tower is complete though there was a mishap with my installing of the floodgate (i absentmindedly locked myself inside, and had to wait for the lever to be hooked up), all it needs

now is to be filled with water (i pray that the pumps do not fail). Adjacent, I have set up an area where our soldiers and anyone working with water can learn to swim.
As my reign ends, so does Duh's. The Dwarves prefer an animal trainer for their mayor, as per the election. She wont be pleased.

ENDNOTE:
YOU'RE CURRENTLY TRADING WITH THE HUMANS, A SHITTON OF STUFF IS GETTING HAULED THERE. SUGGEST FOCUSING ON THAT FIRST, THEN ASSIGNING SOME JOBS TO THE LATEST MIGRATION WAVE AS THEY'RE CURRENTLY HAULERS.

Sorry guys, no screenies still
Having some issues with my image editing stuff, so i cant save printscreens.
Save is getting pretty big..

Enjoy!
Also Jesus, the map layout is fairly horrible. I suggest carving some of the cliffs away to give us more security, if we get attacked from the south currently we'll be in strife.

Some time in summer, I don't have time for this crap.
I have been at the damn fort for too long. Seems like the military are the only ones who actually work. I got put in charge after that Geti guy. He was one of the first seven to start this shithole. He seems like a pretty decent guy as well. I heard rumor a while back that the seven of us were sent here because we were criminals, which is probably a load of bull♥♥♥♥. Back at the old mountainhome I was the captain of the guard. A great fighter, the practically ♥♥♥♥' worshipped me. One day that bigol' dipshit of a prince decides that he was angry about my cat Urist killing his purring maggot, and he thought it would be funny to break my friends leg. I got that little ♥♥♥♥♥ good. I hope he never ♥♥♥♥ walks again.

Mid-summer I guess.
♥♥♥♥ this place is even more dysfunctional than I thought. These lazy bastards don't want to do anything, because constantly having their ♥♥♥♥ parties at the microcline tables. I think it's time that I start using a mace to spar, since a good soldier needs to be versatile with his weapons. I was ♥♥♥♥' amazed when I realized that we had no well, and that I didn't have a tomb. I the leader of out great military. Speaking of military I'm trying to make this shithole safe at least. The whole southern side of the fort was open to attack, so after finally getting those lazy bastard engravers to remove the slopes in the mountain, I ordered a siege workshop to be built. It's time we got some proper defense up for this place, especially if those ♥♥♥♥' pointy eared elves show up.

Late-summer. I think I'm gonna start figuring out the date soon.
Today I decided that I need a tomb to be remembered by, so I had a metal forge built so I could get some guard dogs to rip apart anyone who decides to enter. That was until I realized that we didn't have any ♥♥♥♥ chains. I ordered a magma forge to be built, and some chains to be made. Looking through I had realized that the Elf sympathized "Hyperkultra" hasn't done anything since I took over. That'll change now since he is going to be the one to forge the chains for my tomb.

Early autumn.
Well that "Hyperkultra" guy is the laziest son of a ♥♥♥♥♥ I have ever seen. He has been on break for the better portion of two weeks, and things are not looking good for my tomb finishing in the next year. If he doesn't change I think he'll find himself as my sparring partner for the remainder of his life. He seems to be good friends with about a fourth of the fort though, probably because he's spreading his elven propaganda to them while he stands around and does nothing. Some traders also showed up recently, and some guy went ape ♥♥♥♥ and decided that he wanted to make a ♥♥♥♥ earring other than that it's been pretty uneventful, and I think the rest of the year is going to be smooth.

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Alright so I'm gonna add pictures and whatnot later, the save should be finished tomorrow, then I'll upload that and finish the "diary" entry.

Elves?
ELVES?!
I AM BY NO MEANS AN ELF SYMPATHIZER.
The only reason I even allow the dirty useless treehuggers in my fortress is because they have wood, and lots. Fine then, I'll be constructing a new drowning chamber then, to match my Kobold Den Flooding System.



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Pros use giant cave spider silk ropes.
Oh god I know, right. And the statue gardens.
Have you filled/attempted to fill the water tower yet? I Have no idea how much pressure it'll make, so it could be an idea to test it and see if it's viable, or if it'll need a few more Z levels.

So I'd like to join but I fear that I wont have time when my turn comes.

Instead, could the current ruler send me on a "Dream Vacation" and name one of the Dwarfs after me? I'm not picky about who, so long as I don't go insane.

Sorry, I wasn't paying attention and left the save running, so I had to save scum to back to mid winter, the save will be up later today for sure.

edit: i'm far enough past the deadline as is, I'm just going to upload it in early spring, some goblins attacked a month ago and were crushed by my dwarves military fist. Some dark gnomes were lobotomized by flying rocks, and the water tower doesn't work. (I used Hypercultra's dwarf to check it in case it was a drowning chamber.)

Robo, you're up. Areku, am I allowed to go twice?

okay, unfortunately it's 11pm, so I'll start it tomorrow... well I just took a quick look at the fort and I have to say it's a big mess with a HUGE area completely open to attack, also I need to read other peoples logs for some reference to projects and stuff going on.

Eh, I think so, yes. I'm gonna move this into a thread of it's own, I think it has grown big enough for that.

unfortunately my computer crashed and I didn't save, it was about 23 hours after I received my turn so I decided to forfeit my turn, I couldn't get on DRL to post it until now.

okidoke. I'll take my turn now I guess

Hate fire imps.
So much right now.
So much.

I'm lucky: My lava chute is open-air, but with a drop to get in. Imps can't climb out, and my tunnel for magma gathering is also down a sheer drop. The worst thing that can happen is I make a mistake when pumping it up.