Whitegold - 170 Mid Autumn by Darkflagrance

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A progressing fort with significant development and megaprojecting both above and below ground. It has just celebrated its 52nd year of existence, but is on the brink of collapse.

Some notable features about this fort include the fact that the player race was modded to live only 12 years at max and had litters of 1-3, the number and dangerousness of all animals were increased (groundhogs could rip your head off), and nine civs existed for the purpose of sieging my fort, resulting in one siege per season.

The purpose of this fort was to observe the dynamics of a race with a short lifespan over a long span of time. The building was the result of boredom.

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Submitted by: Steve - 2010-06-19 to 170 Mid Autumn

Wicked fort, 52 years is pretty impressive, especially with short life spans.

Submitted by: Darkflagrance - 2010-06-23 to 170 Mid Autumn

I think some of the current inhabitants of the fort are the 10th or higher generation of their families to live here. I've begun to give them special names to keep track of bloodlines.

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Points of Interest

Δ 20. The Royal Dining Hall
Seats 64. - Darkflagrance
Δ 20. Tower of Whitegold
Every rope on display in the Tower is worth over 3000 dwarfbucks. In the Tower are also imprisoned the war-leaders of many enemy local civs. Some have already died of old age. My favorite of these is the Elven master swordswoman, who led a human siege. - Darkflagrance
Δ 19. The City Apartments
There are enough rooms above-ground to house 200 commoners. - Darkflagrance
Δ 19. The Southwestern Guard Fortress
The allure is made of steel bridges instead of floor in order to save on material. The entire structure is made of either steel or iron. - Darkflagrance
Δ 18. The Temple of Forbidden Beasts
I increased the number of megabeasts in the world by increasing their clustersize to 2 or 3. I've killed many of them, but I decided to capture a few to use as decoration. They are put on display here, in the Temple of Forbidden Beasts.

Also, the blue "B"s on silver are Behemoth Elephants, ten times the size of a dwarf, with four tusks. Truly to be feared. - Darkflagrance
Δ 17. The Aboveground City
This was walled off in the first five years of the fort's life, before the first expedition leader died. The buildings were completed over the next three to four years. The rocky outcropping at the center of the central plaza is completely natural.

Every one of the statues has at least a page length of decorations. - Darkflagrance
Δ 17. The Arena
I used it to give my expedition leaders and captains of the guard titles before I made them members of the military. There are currently a bunch of captured humans and trents waiting for death inside. The eight coffins contain the corpses of some of my best soldiers. - Darkflagrance
Δ 17. The Royal Palace
The way to the palace is lined with columns of gold, rose gold, steel, and marble. The palace itself is 11 stories tall, and houses two gold store rooms, the royal dining hall, two throne rooms, the residences of the royal family, the royal bed chamber, a private royal food stockpile, the statues of former rulers, and numerous other rooms with no specific purpose. - Darkflagrance
Δ 16. The Dwarven Caravan
The dwarves were originally one of the fort's trading races. However, in the first year of the fort, fifty years ago, the dwarves became insulted by my paltry offerings and began packing up to leave. So, I deconstructed the trade depot from under them and walled them up. To my surprise, the merchants went insane, but their guards killed them, and remained sane. Then, the horses began breeding. Did you know that horses have no max age in Dwarf Fortress? - Darkflagrance
Δ 16. The Last Battle
The Darkling Emperor and his valiant knights have just been torn apart by a horde of great demon spiders, a kind of civilized giant cave spider that attacks in great numbers. The ground is covered with demon spider silk. - Darkflagrance
Δ 16. The Town of Exiles
As a guard against tantrum spirals, given how often my workers and soldiers die, I isolate some of my population in a separate settlement. I've had to repopulate only once thus far. - Darkflagrance
Δ 15. The Boneyards
The fortress's main industry is the reprocessing of the bones of the invaders who fall to its military into decorations for the loot they drop. A nearby statue stockpile ensures that statues become completely encrusted in the bones of all kinds of fell creatures, including goblins, orcs, humans, elves, werewolves, and behemoth elephants. - Darkflagrance
Δ 15. The main dining room for commoners
There is a 1x1 meeting zone here. This is the fort's original dining hall, and I left it as the current one so that tantrums don't destroy furniture in the royal dining hall. - Darkflagrance
Δ 13. Magma Forges
Self-explanatory - Darkflagrance
Δ 13. What happens when you mod Giant Olms to breed
They clog up the plumbing. I have guards stationed 24-7 near wells and other places where water reaches the surface. - Darkflagrance
Δ 8. The Audience Hall
This is the Ducal throne room, so visiting diplomats have their meetings with fortress nobility here. - Darkflagrance
Δ 8. The Hall of Leaders Past
When an expedition leader dies, I put a note on a statue with his or her name. All of the statues now possess names. - Darkflagrance
Δ 8. The Underground Hall
Inspired by the cavernous pillared hallway in Moria in LOTR. Temporarily being used as an overflow flood stockpile. - Darkflagrance
Δ 6. The Catacombs
Unfortunately, nearly all of the coffins are full. I've been making plans for expansion. - Darkflagrance
Δ 4. Unfinished Deep City
If the surface fort and city fell, I would have retreated the remaining population here and sealed everything else off. With an underground river, access to magma, and towercap farms, the citizens of this final frontier would have lacked for nothing. - Darkflagrance

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Fortress Name: Whitegold
Map Year: 170 Mid Autumn
Author: Darkflagrance
Submitted by: Darkflagrance
Date Added: 18/06/2010