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Gluttongloss
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Shurikane |
Project Glass Tomb
I was hoping to make something far bigger, but after taking in the requirements for making glass in the first place (let alone clear glass!) I downsized things a little. Might as well, because making the glass pieces took a heap more time than I had anticipated. In retrospect, making a two-floored building could've been affordable, but I was getting restless and wanted the damn thing done fast.
BONUS! The lever in the center of the room, which controlled the floodgates diverting the water towards the tomb, was broken when a fight erupted after a dwarf figured out what the hell was going on.
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-09-08
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Outpost Underground
The place lays completely deserted. There used to be signs of life: stones, barrels, bins and workshops, but the people using it are gone. A few stranded animals roam the place, and a few child-sized bones sit near the door of a well that just wouldn't budge...
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Shurikane
- 2008-09-08
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Barracks & Training Room
If noise occurs outside, the guards are sure to wake up and answer. Fortifications aplenty to pelt the enemy with a rain of arrows, while a solid roof protects the soldiers from return fire.
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-09-08
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The Immigration
Refugees stare helpless at the inaccessible fort, wondering when someone will come around and pull the drawbridge down for them. Little to they know, that there is no one left. Fortunately, there's a small goblin raiding party prowling around to keep them busy.
Funnily enough, the migrants manage to survive long enough for another wave to come around. Makes one wonder how far this fort can be taken before being declared fully abandoned - hopefully with corpses everywhere around it for seemingly no particular reason.
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-09-08
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Under the Tomb
Those few who couldn't make it in time simply sat down near the single pillar that supports the whole building and waited, patiently, for orders from their new squad leader.
The squad leader said "We've been ordered to stay here. And we'll stay here."
And they did.
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-09-08
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Supaminah's Commemorative Statue
Before the Project, a clear glass statue celebrating the expedition leader and mayor Aban Limulumåm (Construct Goldsoar in our tongue) but mostly known by his moniker "Supaminah", was built in his honor. It was to be his last hurrah (and final insult) to the budding dwarven town he was to entomb. Forever, thanks to a small plaque at the foot of the statue, shall Supaminah be remembered, as "the dwarf who founded Gluttongloss, proud home of The Crystal-Crystal of Crystals, and unsung hero in its infinite glory."
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-09-08
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| Fortress:
Liontower
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Shurikane |
The Drop Tower
Deduk Inethmafol writes in his journal:
"Although the engineering was simple, the execution was anything but. We've actually had to stop at this level because the scaffoldings were starting to shake around in the wind. We quickly laid down a foundation of obsidian and proceeded to build the walls.
The end result is a top-feeding drop shaft with two drawbridges. The first is meant to flush the current batch down one level when the pansies who handle the beasts get too scared of the screams coming from below. The second performs the actual job. I ended up giving in to the demand of a hatch to shield citizen eyes from 'those horrible, horrible goblins.' This led to this unsightly third lever on the far end. I will kick down whoever pulls this lever without my express authorization.
We also built an auxiliary shaft in order to safely and quickly discard enemy weapons."
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-11-24
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Cage Alley
Deduk Inethmafol writes in his journal:
"As I found the first iteration to lack enough traps to contain even a medium siege, I commanded the fort to fill the empty spaces and produce a variable quadruple set of corridors each filled with about seventy cage traps and mechanisms. Using judiciously placed levers, we can thus close one corridor for maintenance and retrieve our next sacrifices while our harmless foes run into the fresh traps of another corridor. Stupid goblins! Stupid humans!"
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-11-24
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The First Drop
Deduk Inethmafol writes in his journal:
"Success! The first sacrifice has ended magnificently. Blood and chunks flew everywhere as over twenty goblins and a dozen humans, whom I had witnessed together talking like best buddies with the former. Sacrilege! Liontower will not allow that. I ordered the lever to be pulled, and for Liontower to swallow these wretched souls. The screams of terror as the entire group plummetted to their death will forever remain engraved in my memory as the very best music I have heard in all my years of life. I immediately told the engravers to immortalize this moment into a mural."
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-11-24
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Meditation
Deduk Inethmafol writes in his journal:
"This is a late addition, but one I felt was necessary. Here, a set of gem-encrusted copper thrones sit overlooking the bloodied pool that rests under Liontower. Here, the citizens may sit and meditate as they gaze upon the chunks of our foes that have escaped the bowels of Liontower and massed at the bottom for us to admire. The smell is pugnent, excellent to clear the sinuses. The citizens are also summoned to this room every month in order to gaze at the history of our victories engraved upon the inner walls of the meditation chamber. I am planning on mandating the construction of additional copper chairs in order to completely surround the pool."
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-11-24
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| Fortress:
Liontower
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Shurikane |
Cage Alley II
Deduk Inethmafol writes in his journal:
"At last! Cage Alley has been completed, filled from one end to another and with enough spare ammunition to keep an entire siege's invasion behind bars. We're no longer going to need to buy wood from those merchants much longer.
Speaking of which, the visitors ran into a goblin siege coming from all sides. I wouldn't have bothered in normal circumstances, but the lowly pukes decided to use their army to fight back and kill our sacrifices! It's a shame we couldn't afford to catch up with the last remaining wagon. I wanted to murder every last one of those bastards for defiling Liontower's sustenance.
Ah well. I can't satisfy every demand. I have bigger fish to fry. Much bigger fish to fry..."
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-12-20
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The Grand Trading Hall
Deduk Inethmafol writes in his journal:
"I had been meaning to make a meaningful trade depot. One in which I would get pleasure from conducting business into. I ended up ordering the old depot be torn down and a new one placed more in harmony with the rest of the design. The depot itself is constructed out of pure silver, the most valuable material we could find in this neck of the woods so far.
It's a rather successful work of art, if I may say so myself. Caravans even leave us gifts before they depart in sheer admiration of our craftsdwarfship."
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-12-20
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Preparing for Nobility
Deduk Inethmafol writes in his journal:
"I don't know what to do. I'm expecting some upper form of authority any minute now. I've been digging some rooms to accommodate him but I can't find anything uniform enough to suit my tastes! It's in times like these where I curse the presence of gemstones in this rock. You think you've got it all covered, then BAM! Some ugly-ass green jewel with a name I can't even pronounce. And the microcline in the hall leading to the meditation chamber? Ugh! I can't stand the color blue. Makes me feel queasy on the inside.
I'm about to give up. I'll give that set of rooms to the baron, and if he isn't satisfied, I'll send the little prissy and his whore straight into Liontower's maw!"
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-12-20
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That Other Statue
Deduk Inethmafol writes in his journal:
"I don't like statues. But I figured I should put something on top of that welcoming slope to make it pretty. I had a mason quickly make some rough alunite thing. It looks barely human but I don't care. It's not like any of the idiots will go and look at that from up close. The only visitors we get are sent elsewhere and the appearance of that status is, to put it bluntly, the least of their worries.
This marks the second statue I've been placing in this fort. The first is on top of the access shaft leading to Liontower, placed there for pretty much the same reasons.
Some worker down in the shops told me the slope on top of Cage Alley made it look like 'an airplane'. Whatever the bloody Armok that is. I'd normally send dwarves making those sorts of comments straight to the hammerer, but since we don't have one... much less any chains or jails for that matter... I let him be on his way.
...On second thought, he's right. It does look like an airplane."
Submitted by:
Shurikane
- 2008-12-20
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