Completed I want to be an Urist - A community Dwarf Fortress LP

I have no idea how to remotely do that(or how to brofist properly), never having used pumps or pipes. Or built a megaproject before.
....If there's enough support for it, I'll do it instead of mining for the adamantine and all of the horrors that might bring with it.

EDIT: I'll start on the next update tonight, expect it tomorrow, mostly tomorrow night.

But if the Forgotten are above, wouldn't flooding it with magma kill those below? Aren't the doors wooden? If you wait long enough, won't they just die off?

Well, waiting for them to die in a wonderful murderstew is all well and good, but in the meantime, getting a magmay death to purge the forgotten is worth doing.
Most of the ways to the survivors are actually blocked by walls. The only non walled up ways down is the magma sea itself which is floored up, and the food stocks, which is going to be walled up when the food has been brought down just in case.
I don't trust doors in this game.
Edit: Turns out I've already walled up the food stock area and forgot.

Ulminati
I reckon'd something along those line.

Also it wouldn't be worth doing unless it could be made into a fortress fountain of magma that pumps back into itself, flowing onto the bridge outwards and down, back into the volcano. Somehow.

I think this fort still is too young to have a stupid premature death. And besides, there are lots of FUN things that would be missed if one happened.

Cowardice is to desire an early death to escape from the Prisoners of Ice.

[It was really difficult to pick which song to use for this update, it had to be a Tom Waits one to finish off the summer, I've stuggled to pick which one best captures the essence of the summer in the end it was between Everything Goes to Hell, Misery is the River of the World, Little Drop of Posion and God's Away on Business. I bring this up because of you don't like the one I picked, I suggest you try one of the other ones.

Misery refers 'mankind', and Dwarves don't have a single 'God' to be away on business, but they do have a hell.(Crappy logic is crappy but just go with it)]
Journal of Shorast, 10th of Malachite.

Yes, there are no sweetpods Kil, no sweetpods at all. NONE.
...
Come on Sho, think of dead elves, rainbows being destroyed, conquering the depths, digging far too deep and not dying, happy thoughts, keep calm.

I know there was no water yesterday, but I got to keep checking just in case. Maybe there will be some today? Maybe I can help them for oncI FUCKING KNOW THERE'S NO GODDAMN FUCKING SWEETP(_DIE ALL OF YOU DIE



'Brewmaster' Kil, Journal. 14th of Malachite.
[Death count: 25, Degel and Kensomething, Endok, Udil, Rimtar]

Gosh they're screaming a lot upstairs. I better take a look..


[Lol'd @Miller Alath]


'Brewmaster' NilKil, Journal. 16th of Malachite.
[Death count: 27, Ablel...]

Somebody has to do something! I can do it

The Orders of Gold will live again.


ORDER OF GOLD, UNITE!

The Inconsiderate Dale has fallen.

'Brewmaster' NilKil, Journal. 18th of Malachite.

I've ordered Atis the Insane walled up so he can't flip out and murder us all in our sleep.
And I took over William's old quarters, he's disappeared and won't need 'em.
Maybe the old coots room'll protect me through the madness.



21st Malachite, Diary of Urist "McLurker"

DIAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY

LOOK



! It's all working!

Work has started on the bedrooms.
Problem is two of the..forgotten..

have been allowed back. I don't want to take the risk but..maybe we can save them right diary? Right.

'Brewmaster' NilKil, Journal. 25th of Malachite.
[Deathcount 28, Nish]

The smell is getting terrible. I've ordered coffins built. Lots of coffins.
Everyone has been drafted into masonry.

It'll keep us all busy, we'll get through this..

[Deathcount 29: Dumed

Here's what's happening at the site of the epic battle of failure from earlier in the summer, it seems like Ben Willis Morul is hanging out in the smog. Haha. Just wow, just look at it..]


2nd of Gelana, Diary of Urist "McLurker"
[Deathcount 32]

Diary, good news! Work on the memorial hall has started. Haha, no, it's already finished remember(get it diary? Memorial hall!!)! I mean the engraving itself!

I've decided to take up engraving and stone detailing myself!!

Kind of worried about William, Tobul, Kib, and Abel.
We might need to..remove them..
As soon as one of them does something, they'll be removed.
The moronic dolts WON'T ruin this. Not on my watch, right diary?

[3rd-4th, Deathcount 36.


I have no idea how anyone could find him in there..]

NilKil's log 8th:
[Deathcount 39.]
I'm getting into this army stuff. Another fight today!
Kogan went nuts, and we had to kill him

IT WAS GLORIOUS

Someone died though. Coward.

[Did you hear the captain of the guard killed someone?

I guess you could say that *sunglasses* He's no longer Nil Kills.
...

BOOOOOO!]

NilKil's log. 9th of Gelana
[Deathcount: 41.]

Madness is overtaking us all, deaths surround us all. I need to do something for morale...

...

Morul Willis, the Hawk of Growths will die.

On my way there, another death was announced.

Some of us were sacred and tried to get out of fighting.
Others charged forwards for victory..

[11th of Galena.
Death count: 42(DON'T PANIC)]

I...Was wounded.
But in my stuggle with him, the mayor herself did it.

It was an instant kill.
Too good for such a monster, but we did it..I don't think I'll live, not with the state of things.

I tried to bring order and it led only to my death


Kil's log
[Death count: 45]

I don't know the date. Just been told Degal is dead..She was a hero, and died like the rest of us.
What a miserble existance we have..Why did we come to a volcano trapped within the ice?
What monsters would think that's a good idea.
I don't know where my husband is. He's..I don't know. Atir has been okay though.
I think I've failed in my life.

It won't be long until I slip back to a hazy dream where I'm united with my family, not in this horrible place where I'll die. What was it I was told? We would keep the north strong against the depths so those in the south would live?

Pah..
Sodel's dead.

[15th Death count: 48, Zon, Etur, Vucar]
15 of Gelana, Diary of Urist

Hi diary, did you get a new haircut? Haha.
Tobul and Chef have both thrown tantrums.

Tobul is still going, but Chef has calmed down.
They will both be removed.
..
My bed is wet, the walls are covered with blood.
Diary..that's blood on you

vucar



[Whoops, my bad. It says he was friends with Vucar, in my grief I covered the wrong dwarf]


OneKil's log
[Death count: 52[?], Lor.]

Here I am. In the dining room. Writing in my record book.

Under me is the dead body of a child.

I miss my sweetpod seeds.
There's no food. There's no booze and no water.
It's ironic, that I'll die from dehydration. I spent my life learning the art of brewing.

Oh well looks like I won't have to die that way after all.


We're going to fight them and die in battle.

Oh fuck, Atis has gone insane.

...



[Over the summer, we lost 54 dwarves(I think..). There's more forgotten with the survivors than there is with the actual forgotten.]

1st Limestone, Urist

Limestone is upon us
The forgotten have been put into their rooms



I thought we could save some of them
But they're not savable they must be purged for the fortress to survive, we must kill them
Kill them all
I'm sorry Vucar.

[That was a difficult update to do.
The summer...Could have gone better. The main fuckup I made was trying to save some of the forgotten, one tantrum downstairs set a few others off, and led to a death and a new forgotten. I should have tried to wipe them all out right away.
I think there's only three or four forgotten left upstairs, five or four downstairs. The humans came and were wiped out by the Deep Gobin fellows, they can't reach the fortress currently and there's no dwarves that can do anything upstairs around.
I don't know how boring Autumn will be, all there's left is engravement and smoothing stones, expanding a few areas and making the bottom of the fort survivable for next year.
I'm going to try and start reclaiming areas of the fortress, magma forges and gold stocks being on the to get list for the gold barrels, we're going to run out of wood soon, there's only about 30-40 left, and we won't have any trade for rather long time.
Reaching the adamantine is on the to-do list as well.]

Has the spiral of death come to its end, then? Is it possible this fortress may see another year?

The spiral is nearly over, gotta wait for the remaining forgotten to die off by the lack of booze, and see where the fortress is then, but damnnit, it'll make it to the next year even if it only survives by a single dwarf.

[1st Limestone
Another one bites the dust >.>]

[10th Limestone

NOT THE PEAHEN, NOT THE PEAHEN! That's the peahen from the first update! I remember.. I was worried about it sparking off a tantrum spirial. Good times..]

19th Limestone, Urist

William has lost it. I can hear him yelling through the door.

We've been slowly putting things to rest


Work is long, dull. Lots to engrave. Each and every one of the forgotten..
Some new ghosts come and go, and we engrave them.
Diary, do you miss Vucar? I do. I miss the Baroness too. Hopefully we can put her in her rightful burial site soon right?

[12th of Sandstone, the final Forgotten upstairs dies.

Let's take a tour around the whole fortress, eh? (ALSO KNOWN AS PADDING)

Here's the bridge. I don't know if there's more snow there because of lack of use, or that would be there anyway. The wall was put there when the elves were here back in the spring so they couldn't escape.
Useful for keeping out the deep goblins currently though.

Here's what I'm assuming is a crossbowdwarf/ballista area up at the top, the trade area there which is still full of supplies, entering into the main floor of the fortress. The slopes lead to the barracks.

Here's the rest of the fortress level. More wood than I thought, the wall area is where I was trying to wall in the crazy brooding man, who sadly didn't get all the items him needed. But the dwarves couldn't be bother to put the damn door there.

Call me crazy..But..uh..is the blood turning into ice?
Goddamn that's pretty fucking awesome/scary if it's true.

Here's the next floor up, there's the barracks, floodarea, hospital, armoury, random rooms?

Here's the bottom area of that floor. Dunno what the hell the big ass empty area is for, my money is on some optimist thinking we would ever have that much food.. Graveyard down yonder, corpses over there, random room of stone, and the area to what was going to be the magma graveyard. Maybe.

Here's the crafting level. Note the storage area; I walled it up during ITZ in order to reach it later on in the year. Magma forges over to the..whatever..west? Half of the gold stored, random storage and crafting shit.

Rest of the gold. I remember somewhere someone saying we needed more gold, so uh, I did that. Food storage for the survivors that hasn't been moved quite yet, and rest of the crafting level.

That's basically the whole fort minus the survivors' area, what you guys ought have seen/mapped out by now. Only other part of the fortress is the weird ass top level, the failure farms, and (shitty) rooms. Oh and sorry guys..

Head Researcher of the Wet Avalanches.
The only named Dwarf to survive my year so far/ITZ is...


SerratedBiz! (Sorry Sanjor, while your dwarf is still alive, s/he's a forgotten and currently dying in a locked room, I might try to save the dwarf if I can but currently it's counted as a gonner)

I fully believe that SerratedBiz did in fact kill Riramo Skullsgully the starved troll bride now.
We all doubted him.

There is seriously nothing remotely happening apart from the remaining forgotten slowly dropping off in their rooms, stones being picked up, crafted, and then the crafted item put somewhere.]


1st Moonstone, Diary of Urist

It's winter. Not like it makes a difference here. But..It turns out there was a siege going on, I don't know when it ended, but from what I gathered it barely started.
Maybe the fallen would have prefered that death huh diary?

Three new masonrys are being put up, I want the memorial slabs finished before the year ends. 44 memorial slabs have already been done. Barely halfway done.
The rooms need to be finished before the year ends as well.

Sanjor is the only forgotten to have been saved during this whole year.

It's a difficult time, we're removing all of the doors to the forgotten rooms, and burying them.
..
Removing the beds, doors, coffers and so on for reuse.
It's been a tough year, but the forgotten are all gone. It keeps us all busy, but it's tendious work.

13th of Moonstone, Diary of Urist.
Work is slow going, with what little remains, but it should be done before the spring.
I've just heard that..

It shouldn't have a way to get to us though. I think it killed the other forgotten beast or something, it's not listed anymore. Even if it does get into the tunnel down the depths, I've walled off one floor and put hatches over a secondry entry for a couple levels, and locked the hatches.
Just in case.
No more risks

[Ho..hum..Randomly checking status of some of the nations]





[12th of Obsidian

Eh. You read right, 12th of Obsidian. The only thing that's happening is basically this:
Pick up rock, do something with rock, drink/eat/sleep, bring now-crafted rock somewhere, go back and find another rock, pick up rock. etc
Nothing else of note, only the end result of all the tedious work is worth noting. Fixing and surviving is boring as fuck, let me tell you.

Sorry about the complete and utter lackluster update, but the last two seasons were me making sure the fortress would survive for next year, getting the bunker fortress perfect to expand out of. Maybe it's my inexperience, but I couldn't make a story out of what was basically nothing. Last update/epilogue and save to follow.]

I guess this is poetic justice considering I gave a fucked up fortress for Krash to fix and now it'll be my turn to fix another one that was seriously fucked up.

Unless a new player wishes to join and take the challenge of sorting through such madness himself, of course.

The fortress is actually in pretty good shape, there's enough food to last over a decade, the farms are working and have room to expand, the fortress is (sadly) safe from any threats, all of the dwarves have good rooms with good rooms spare, all of the ghosts have been put to rest. Most of the surviving dwarves have military training in some form, we've located adamanite, supplies are overflowing.

Whoever gets the next year will have the job of cleaning up the fortress and getting the military up and running again to break any sieges to allow trade and immigrants. A lot of hauling and a lot of training awaits. The fortress isn't so much fucked up, it's more like it's been held back a couple years. Might as well be the first year again though, but there's everything the fortress needs to grow properly.

Great update yet again. It can't be FUN all the time, but it has a melancholic tone to it, like the silence after the storm. I liked it.

Should be fun to break the siege with 16 dwarves.

The spirit of the Baroness has safeguarded Virgintraded from ITZ. All praise be to the baroness, the holy Lady of magma, gold and wood burning.

Also I totally recommend building a magma pump stack, but we're kind of fucked when it comes to magma-safe mechanical components.

Except all of the Obsidian, Mica and Orthoclase we have just laying around.
Y'know the bottom level of the Baronesses' shrine/chamber? All mica and orthoclase just begging to be used.
Nearly all of the rooms are carved out of Mica. There's tons of it.
Then there's the levels of orthoclase down the stairs that were built, then the obsidian levels of it.
Unless I'm a moron and much mistaken. But a magma pumpstack to cover the land in lava is completely and utterly fesible from what I can see.

I'd much rather see a volcano 'blow up' and cover the invading armies(of which there's 46? Including prisoners of ice) with a hot burny death as a giant fuck you to the land we live in, than trying to reach the adamantine which is clearly a one way ticket to the clown car(aka our future if we don't fuck shit up). As far as I see it, the only options for something awesome we have is a suicide death against unbeatable army,, suicide death against forgotten beast, magma doomstack, magma graveyard for the forgotten or the adamantine. And after playing this year, I sure as hell don't want to see someone do suicide mission.

My vote is for the magma pumpstack.

Problem with the adamantine is it's in the middle of lava seas and it's going to be a death sentance if you dig too much of it. I reckon the two levels that we can see are reachable, anything more than that will end in the death of the fortress.
Although there should be enough there for the pumpstack.

Ulminatis brainturd,

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...e-whos-ignoring-who.72010/page-4#post-2087988

Goddamnit, that's one sexy dwarf survivor.

Kudos McLurker for pulling through with this madness. Again, lesser men (me) would've formatted our harddrives rather than load that savegame.

16 dwarves against 46 enemies outside? Sounds fun.

You should totally train these 16 into freaking monsters, and the next time our dwarven brothers try to visit you fire the magma cannon while 15 adamantine-clad raging berserkers storm out for glory (one should engrave the walls to our glorious wood burning visionary with the deeds of the battle). He will then entomb himself at the entrance of the fortress. Thats when you will upload the save so every dwarf alive can adventure to our glorious Virgintraded, makiing it a codexian Mekka. It will be Majestic.

Ahahahahahahahahahaha, you actually followed Ulminati to another thread in another fucking sub-forum to prove that you are not "butthurt", thus proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are the most critically butthurt faggot on the Codex. Holy shit, this is priceless.



Anyway, as for the adamantite-lava mining problem, I probably won't be playing DF because I suck horribly at it, but: couldn't you build a valve system to stop lava flooding the fortress from mining? Cap the well, so to speak, like an oil rig- you build a tunnel to the mine with some kind of lever/door system that could be closed behind the miners when they go in to block the lava flow, and opened if need be to let them out; maybe with a lever on either side of the door so it can act as a failsafe. Multiple break points in such a tunnel could ensure more fool proof way of stopping the magma from pouring through if just one door somehow fails.

ironyuri
The problem isn't so much the magma seas, it's trying to find a way through them to the adamantine, it won't be surrounded by lava or else it would have shown up when the magma sea was discovered; there's got to be a clear way to the adamantine somehow.

I think it can be safely reached as long as whoever does it is very careful, and makes sure to floor off the stairs if anything Fun happens, or else the fortress'll die in a matter of days.

Oh, and not only is he doing that, he's doing it on multiple threads just to prove how non-butthurt he is.