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Expedition Leader's Log, Day 23: I hope that damnfool duke knows what he's doing. This terrain certainly doesn't look like the mineral rich mountains I was led to expect. Still, the landmarks match my map, and I can't complain about the surface resources. We've made camp at the base of some cliffs, near a small river. Plenty of trees for fuel, and flowing water for power. If this area is even half as rich as the duke's survey claimed, we should be set to make a proper outpost.

Not a sign of wild carnivores anywhere, either. Not that I'm counting on that. I want picks striking earth for temporary shelter as soon as possible. It's too quiet here. I'd almost be relieved to see a panther stalking the hillside. At least I wouldn't have to be worried about what kept them away...
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That's right, I'm at it again. I'll be doing a bit of survey this time to make sure this one won't get stalled by a horribly broken map. Magma oceans dumping into the pits of hell tend to kill framerate rather quickly. <.<

I won't bother redoing my introduction to the game, as the few people not familiar with it can glance at the previous thread. I'll repost the important info here, though:

In addition to those listed above, Dwarf Fortress now has skills for pottery and beekeeping. I intend to pretty much ignore the latter entirely, but pottery is useful, should we find ourselves in a location with clay. You can find a complete skill-list here.

Unlike last time, I don't have a location picked out yet. The one I was eyeing initially turned out to be "serene", which would be boring. We're dwarves! We're looking for fun! In any case, everything is up for discussion... within reason. You want to start on the sides of a mountain because there's a volcano? Want to search for the best combination of minerals, regardless of danger? Want to hunt unicorns in the bright serene forests? Put your vote in.

I'm also not going to drive myself insane trying to name every dwarf this time. People can volunteer like before, and I'll simply name dwarves as they distinguish themselves, or do something worth noting. There's no reason to waste audience participation on random laborers, I figure.

SO, who wants in? Step right up! Volunteer to raise a fortress that will dominate the world! Or at least volunteer someone else. We need workers!

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Expedition Leader's Log, Day 23: I hope that damnfool duke knows what he's doing. This terrain certainly doesn't look like the mineral rich mountains I was led to expect. Still, the landmarks match my map, and I can't complain about the surface resources. We've made camp at the base of some cliffs, near a small river. Plenty of trees for fuel, and flowing water for power. If this area is even half as rich as the duke's survey claimed, we should be set to make a proper outpost.

Not a sign of wild carnivores anywhere, either. Not that I'm counting on that. I want picks striking earth for temporary shelter as soon as possible. It's too quiet here. I'd almost be relieved to see a panther stalking the hillside. At least I wouldn't have to be worried about what kept them away...
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That's right, I'm at it again. I'll be doing a bit of survey this time to make sure this one won't get stalled by a horribly broken map. Magma oceans dumping into the pits of hell tend to kill framerate rather quickly. <.<

I won't bother redoing my introduction to the game, as the few people not familiar with it can glance at the previous thread. I'll repost the important info here, though:

In addition to those listed above, Dwarf Fortress now has skills for pottery and beekeeping. I intend to pretty much ignore the latter entirely, but pottery is useful, should we find ourselves in a location with clay. You can find a complete skill-list here.

Unlike last time, I don't have a location picked out yet. The one I was eyeing initially turned out to be "serene", which would be boring. We're dwarves! We're looking for fun! In any case, everything is up for discussion... within reason. You want to start on the sides of a mountain because there's a volcano? Want to search for the best combination of minerals, regardless of danger? Want to hunt unicorns in the bright serene forests? Put your vote in.

I'm also not going to drive myself insane trying to name every dwarf this time. People can volunteer like before, and I'll simply name dwarves as they distinguish themselves, or do something worth noting. There's no reason to waste audience participation on random laborers, I figure.

SO, who wants in? Step right up! Volunteer to raise a fortress that will dominate the world! Or at least volunteer someone else. We need workers!


Current crew and volunteers:

Dwarves:
♂Knight - Expedition leader, mason
♂Jon - Miner, stoneworker
♀Mike - Miner, cook; reprising his role as "Michelle"
♂Carmichael - Brewer, farmer, doctor
♀Mordain - Axedwarf, military trainer
♀Notty - Cheerleader, Broker, Diplomat, assistant medical dwarf
♂Nifar - Woodcrafter/carpenter
?GJ - Hunter
♂Ou Des - Mechanic
♂JayDee - Jeweler
♂Zap - Potter
♂Luke - Woodcutter
♀Algasir - Bonecrafter
♂MFD - Beekeeper
♂Immy - Weaponsmith
♂Kiwi - fisherdwarf/Axedwarf
♂FZ - Engraver
♂Trek - Engraver
♂Luppy - Milker


Dwarf draftees:

Axedwarf squad 1:
♂Bullseye
♂Newb
♂Draco
♂Silvers
♂Cyrus
♂Kiwi

Mining Crew:
♀Randa
♀Spriteless
♂Ryu

Craftsdwarves:
♀Meagen - Stonecrafter
♀Anna - Clothier
♀Belle - Adamantine Strand extractor
♀Yue - Armorsmith

Other:
♀Nefi - Herbalist

My vote is for a densely forested area with an aquifer.

As for a job I want to be an animal trainer.

I vote for head Miner man again. Someone has to make sure these shortbeards keep on track!

HUNTER

Assuming you go to an evil area full of elephants.

But I guess even if not.

Want to reclaim my position as social skiller-er!

Brewing, if you don't mind. Mostly because it's the closest to a bartender that those tiny bearded heathens have.

I'll take the same position I filled last time if it's still open.

Fuck you Knight I want to be a beekeeper.

Ou, Aquifers are out. I hate punching through them, and it's just an unnecessary annoyance and artificial slowdown at the start of a game. I file this under the "ford the river" category.

Nifar, anything else you'd be interested in? Car sorta has seniority on "bartender" around here. <.<

MFD, I'll probably mess with beekeeping a bit later on. I just don't properly know how it works yet.

Edit: Also, reminder. We need a fortress name. Or I can just go with whatever mashing the random button a few times gives me. That's what got us "Catknives" last time.

Our fortress name shall be...

Proletariat Compound for Greater Dwarfdom.

Also 5 Woodcutting, 2 Marksdwarf, 3 Beekeeper.

I can be that guy who moves that cage with the bear in it but just the cage leaving the bear. Guess mine will be on the job training.

And for name "The Base" seems fine.

I'll be that dwarf that does that awesome thing. You know the one.

Also I don't recall the fortress name creator having the word "Proletariat", and it definitely can't do something as simple as "The Base".

I'm up for whatever.

... you know, now that I think about it, it might be able to do this.

Crater in Training

Any Gemcutters/bookkeepers yet?

If so, I'll take engraving.

calling dibs on the black smith/armorer/weapon smither.

As for the fortress name.... Yeah, I don't have any good ideas.

The beards of your ancestors wilt in shame.

In that case I suggest a desert with at least one level of clay.

Edit: And coal or lignite deposits. Those damn caravan's never bring enough fuel.

So far:

♂Ou - Animal Trainer
♂Jon - Miner
?GJ - Hunter (unfortunately, elephants seem oddly rare these days)
♀Notty - Cheerleader
♂Nifar/Car - Brewer/farmer?
♂MFD - Beekeeper (eventually)
♂Luppy - Random Laborer #487
♀Mordain - Awesome thing (Militia Captain?)
♀Algasir - Squall (whatever...)
♂Jaydee - Bookkeeper/gemcutter
♂Immy - Blacksmith
♂MikePB - Miner

And Ou, I'd have to embark and use dfhack to reveal the map to confirm coal/lignite presence. Normally, I just make sure to embark with someplace with plenty of trees to murder, but someone is set on dooming us before we start, it seems. :P

Dammit, MFD beat me to Beekeeper. Mainly to spite Knight :P


I think I'll go for Miner, though.


And I'll say "Boozy Dome of Hate" for the name.

Naming format, since the link is somewhat unhelpful. "[Front][Rear] the [Adj 1] [Adj 2] [hyphen compound]-["the" Noun] of ["of" noun]"
I.e. "Boatmurdered the Bloody Annoying Coffin of Screams"
The [Front][Rear] part has a LOT of flexibility, but that's the core component of the fortress name.

I'll go for appraiser I guess.

I suck at names so I won't suggest one.

I'll go for Negotiator/Intimidator/Judge of Intent, and volunteer my myriad previous names and alts for cannon fodder.

You know... there's not really all that much use for social dwarves, beyond the Broker...

I can also go for whatever is neccesary, so long as its paradoxially opposed to my general character and disposition.

Woodcutter I guess. Then I can blame the filthy inferior humans for cutting down our forests.

Social dwarves make good draftees for the military. Especially if all training is done by fighting enemies!

Is nobody going to comment on starting location other than Ou (who wants to ford the goddamn river)? Maaan, deserts suck...

Evil, very wild location. Pick something with actual trees though.

I agree with no serene zones; that's just boring. Otherwise... someplace with clay so you can mess with pottery (although knowing DF it just makes useless barter-bait and not anything actually useful, while requiring three separate workshops to make anything), and a river OR volcano, a reasonable number of trees, and an interestingly craggy landscape so that you can do fun things with valleys.

And no bees. Fuck bees.

The one place I ever found coal without hacking to find it was in a desert. And if you have clay you don't need wood for booze barrels.

Besides, tree and dwarves go together like elves and sense.

Clay can get you almost anything glass does except trap components and it doesn't require bags. I don't know if it even requires a heat source if you're not using it to store liquids.

Also, pots/jars etc. are a fantastic new thing to use clay and glass for. No need to deforest the landscape to stock the boozepile so long as you have magma now.

Name the place Facestab. As far as location, I don't know what the hell any of the locations do. One of the places where the military won't glitch. With hookers. And blackjack. In fact, forget about the glitchy military. And the blackjack as well. Just start the kingdom in a brothel. Named Facestab. Gotta keep it classy.

As far as my last position, I think I filled Bookkeeper, farmer, and brewer since the starting team is 10 dwarves (if you start with Forever Zero we'd have 19 dwarves though since he's 10 dwarves on his own), but if JayDee wants bookkeeping then that's okay. I'd always be willing to take over if he gets too many gems to carve, though, heh.

(Dear Chrome: 'dwarves' is a word. Deal with it. *Shades* Love, CM)

FZ should be our entire military.

Every military dwarf has his name.

I second this.

Shouldercrunch the Forlorn Exiled Compound of Traitors.

Frostflakes the Delicious Treat of Kids

Okay, done some looking... any objection to me just jacking the mineral composition of the world up to original levels (before this wonky new mineral distribution system) and then settling in the Untamed Wilds on the edge of a terrifying forest?

Fishbleed the Doomed Abyssal Timesink of Destiny.

edit: no objections here!

I hope we get lucky. In my most recent fort there was enough gold sitting in surface veins that I built a lake bigger than my fort out of it and then fought goblins upon its shores.