One of my very old forts, over a year old. I lost this save in a hard drive crash, but it stands here for all to see.
There are many legendary stories about this fort, including the legendary child Meng who became mayor and governed the fortress up to its horrible catastrophe deep within the mines, which killed 60+ dwarves.
The survivors, mostly children and farm workers, would have much to engrave about when I eventually drained the volcano and allowed them to smooth its insides.
( 1063 Early Summer → onwards )
A horrible thing happened here, and the fortress' history was forever stained with blood and gore and tears and thenceforth, the skittering of rodents in the stone halls fell on the unrestful ears of the survivors.
The mess and the pain accompanying the tragedy were eventually washed clean, and in honor of the dead and in the spirit of living on, the entire level was smothed and converted into a stone bank, designed to preserve native species of lovely stone from catapulting.
As the catapults here were built earlier than those in The Mine, a great, great deal of stone was eradicated in this deep underground hall.
The lone, smoothed rectangle of stone to the upper right covers the eerie, glowing hole that was discovered when this level was being quarried. Most dwarves would rather forget this place, though much work was once done here.
To speed up work, food and drink were once kept here, as well. This did not prove much faster, as the time wasted on dwarves leaving here to eat or drink was wasted on dwarves hauling food down here, often dropping it on the ground mid-way to go upstairs and...get something to eat. Forcing another dwarf to pick it up, return it upstairs, etc, etc, etc :( - Noble Digger
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Submitted by: Katsuun - 2009-03-24 to 1063 Early Summer
I find this fortress to be epic.