Sparkgear 4 - 207 Late Summer by _nil

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Sparkgear 4 after nil's turn. The year was pretty uneventful other than a couple artifact creations, but the fortress expanded in several ways.

Point of Interest: Tower of the Watch

Holds the new jails, which are in the portion that goes above ground for maximum unpleasentness, some bedrooms for members of the watch (currently rented out to the public since no one in fortress guard is legendary) and Captain Nil's personal quarters down in the bottom. Dwarven justice is now fully functional in Sparkgear (just had a hammering even), which should help reduce the risk of a catastrophic tantrum spiral. Hopefully.

There's also a barracks here; use with caution as anyone who gets injured will generally die of dehydration. This problem does not apply to prisoners unless you let the drink stockpiles by the chains go empty. - _nil_

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There's also a barracks here; use with caution as anyone who gets injured will generally die of dehydration.  This problem does not apply to prisoners unless you let the drink stockpiles by the chains go empty.</poi-description>
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Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-08-06 to 206 Early Summer

Why is there a huge area hollowed out under the mountain?

Submitted by: _nil_ - 2009-08-06 to 207 Late Summer

One of the earlier players was going to build a big temple in there, but I guess he was interrupted by orcs or a tandrum spiral or something and lost the fort. One or two reclaims later and its just another entry in Sparkgear's long tradition of "half-built and/or looted vanity projects that dwarves never use and other players just build around."

Submitted by: Nahkh_ - 2009-08-07 to 207 Late Summer

Yeah. What he said.

Submitted by: kein - 2009-08-16 to 211 Late Summer

Pretty cool how huge that miasma is you can see it from the side view well. I'd like to see this in Visual Fortress.

Submitted by: skaltum - 2009-08-28 to 214 Early Spring

*shoots a hole in the magmarine* anyways good job guys

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Points of Interest

¶ 80. Tower of the Watch
Holds the new jails, which are in the portion that goes above ground for maximum unpleasentness, some bedrooms for members of the watch (currently rented out to the public since no one in fortress guard is legendary) and Captain Nil's personal quarters down in the bottom. Dwarven justice is now fully functional in Sparkgear (just had a hammering even), which should help reduce the risk of a catastrophic tantrum spiral. Hopefully.

There's also a barracks here; use with caution as anyone who gets injured will generally die of dehydration. This problem does not apply to prisoners unless you let the drink stockpiles by the chains go empty. - _nil_
Δ 23. Secondary gate
In case the main entrance is ever clogged with magma when a caravan needs to get through this can serve as an alternative entrance. All the bridges are hooked up to labeled levers in the control/statue room, with all the big ones being hooked up to a single lever. Marksdwarves will be very effective here, and you can drop enemies to their deaths pretty easily with the right timing. Notice you can also see the squad of humans here, tried to kill them but they only seem to be attacking when they see a dwarf outside so it was tricky to draw them in to either entrance without getting guys killed. - _nil_
Δ 22. Slums
Since the bedrooms on the lower levels are fit only for the rich and the legendary, Sparkgears lower classes have carved out some shantytunnels in the wall of the old chamber. The views of the strange and mysterious construction in the center of this giant chamber help to keep land values low. There is a smaller community on north wall.

Don't engrave this like you people always engrave everything else I build! - _nil_
Δ 18. Garbage shoot
Pull the lever by the entrance to this construction and the bridge will open, sacrificing anything on it to the magma gods. I prefer to use this instead of just chasming stuff directly since I lets me make sure I don't toss anything I don't need. There is a TON of stone on there right now, whoever is next should go ahead and drop it. - _nil_
Δ 18. Main gate
Right now the magma cannon is a little slow and doesn't have much area, I only killed a since orc with it. If you don't use the floodgates, abandon and empty the pillboxes (you don't want to loose all the bone bolts in there) and make some sort of blockage and/or drainage for the secondary entrance path it may be more effective, although it probably needs some sort of reservoir as well.

You'll also need to repair the stuff pointed out in the POI "Repair this!" - _nil_
Δ 18. Repair this!
I had to cannibalize some of the wood from these axles for artifacts. A caravan from the mountainhome should be coming soon with plenty of wood, be sure to use some of it to fix this back up. - _nil_
Δ 10. dungeon masters secret
it would appear that the dungeon master (named after me) has a fetish for stone mugs - skaltum

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Fortress Name: Sparkgear 4
Map Year: 207 Late Summer
Author: _nil_
Submitted by: _nil_
Date Added: 06/08/2009

Sparkgear 4 - 207 Late Summer by _nil_