Osor Adel, Kingdom of Water - 207 Early Winter by Tiogshi

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A few years on, and the humans and orcs are still sieging me seasonally. The current camp of humans you can see on the surface have been around since the first week of summer, and winter settled almost a month ago.

In terms of fortress progress, I've swiss'd up the whole interior courtyard ("swiss cheesing" is my term for caverning by carving stairs and then channelling them out), smoothed its walls, and have started swissing out over what will eventually be the outer walls. That should show you how high the walls will extend, knowing that the exterior ground level will be shaved down to the courtyard level (the level with only upward stairs, and my forges at the south).

Point of Interest: Work, Work, Work

Here my dwarves have just started digging out the space over the fortress walls; the walls will be 6 sheer z-levels high, and all natural stone. - Tiogshi

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In terms of fortress progress, I've swiss'd up the whole interior courtyard ("swiss cheesing" is my term for caverning by carving stairs and then channelling them out), smoothed its walls, and have started swissing out over what will eventually be the outer walls.  That should show you how high the walls will extend, knowing that the exterior ground level will be shaved down to the courtyard level (the level with only upward stairs, and my forges at the south).</map-description>
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Submitted by: ajr_ - 2009-10-14 to 205

Nice underyard.

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Points of Interest

¶ 17. Work, Work, Work
Here my dwarves have just started digging out the space over the fortress walls; the walls will be 6 sheer z-levels high, and all natural stone. - Tiogshi
Δ 16. Trade Entrance
This entrance is currently just one level above the forest floor out front, but eventually the forest floor will be on a plateau of its own, with the mountain dug down around it, and this entrance will be on a high ramping bridge up from the ground to this same level; the trade depot will stay in this suspended bubble high above the inner courtyard. - Tiogshi
Δ 11. Unfinished Courtyard
Man, would this ever look messy in 3Dwarf.
Anyways, I'm using a technique of digging stairs and then channelling them out to create the hollowed-out fortress courtyard, and then probably use the more traditional one-at-a-time layers of ramps to flatten out the ground outside the fortress, to bring the outer terrain down to this level, for at least 20 or 30 squares out from the fortress walls. - Tiogshi
Δ 10. Underyard

( 207 Early Winter to onwards )
Where my farms, early coffins, and the start of my natural-esque cave river are. The levers on this level cut off the river flow so I can use the flooding system for the pedestrian entrance, as well as in case of emergency. And as of year 207, only about a third of those coffins are filled; I just feel like being prepared. - Tiogshi
Δ 9. Tower-Cap Farm

( 207 Early Winter to onwards )
This chamber, and the two below it, were flooded by capping the river and letting it overflow into this side course, and then resuming normal pumping operations. It took a few months for it to dry out, but now we should have a thriving farm in a few seasons. I'll probably set up another, similar farm on the opposite side of the river if this one doesn't bear enough tower-caps for the next few years' needs. - Tiogshi
Δ 8. Pedestrian Entrance

( 207 Early Winter to onwards )
Moderately trapped at the moment (only rock-fall traps of varying quality). All the walls fortified out to allow liquids through; I have a flooding system above, and a drain trench below. All the invaders' items get washed down to the entrance here for easy retrieval; you can see a few trinkets here washed down in the test of the system, the leftovers from a former orc invasion. - Tiogshi
Δ 6. Dining Chamber

( 207 Early Winter to onwards )
The only finished dining room so far, this chamber overlooks both the lake and the waterfall (through the gem window at the north). I'll be using my usual tactic of engraving a row of tiles each year or two, to get a sort of walking history of the fortress. - Tiogshi

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Fortress Name: Osor Adel, Kingdom of Water
Map Year: 207 Early Winter
Author: Tiogshi
Submitted by: Tiogshi
Date Added: 17/11/2009