Fenceskull - 327 Late Spring by _nil_

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• Δ 151. 20a. Side view of the floating towers
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• Δ 112. 2. The skulls

  ( 327 Late Spring to onwards )
  Flanking the ramp just before it meets the dome, two skulls serve as both an identifier and a final warning to enemies. - _nil_

• Δ 108. 3. The water gate
  This all-green-glass structure (save the foundation, mechanical parts and some copper pieces) brings massive amounts of water above the highest point in the entrance path. There, I should be able to direct it either way, using a wall of water to either flush down (and hopefully bunch up) units coming up the ramp or to flush in, trapping anything in the dome and moving items onto bridges. Need to build a drain before I try that though. - _nil_
• ¶ 102. Side view of the dome
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• Δ 101. 1. The ramp
  This ramp is the first section of Fenceskull's entrance. Under normal conditions, this section is uneventful for both friendlies and enemies; the refuse littering it is from caravan guards and the occational champion chasing stragglers. The road up to it is lined with granite block pillars topped with exceptional obsidian statues, while the ramp itself is mostly lined with exceptional steel statues. There's a walkway underneath where marksdwarves can shoot at enemies who might otherwise be shielded from the dome by the water gate, although there are very few situations where I would want to do this. - _nil_
• Δ 32. 17. Top chamber
  The only access to the central oculus. Hopefully if I ever get a suicidal dwarf they decide to jump from here. - _nil_
• Δ 31. 16. Duchess's dining room
  The table is adamantine, the chair clear glass. - _nil_
• Δ 31. 3a. Holding tank
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• Δ 30. 15a. Champions marksdwarves
  Here dwell the principle members of the Fenced Unions, the legendary marksdwarf squad. - _nil_
• Δ 29. 15. High champion bedrooms

  ( 327 Late Spring to onwards )
  Although the two to the south are recent additions (placed there mostly because some strange bug was causing dwarves to climb on top of the drop chamber ceiling and promptly starve to death) and house relatively anonymous champions, this level is home to some of my deadliest and longest serving champions. To the left are the four sworddwarves that lead my secondary melee squad; they came with the fifth migration and have 223 kills between them. To the right are the dwarves who head the primary melee squad, the Citadels of Death. Dashmab is the greatest among them, with 133 notable kills, Curlanguished the artifact steel gauntlet and masterwork admantine sword and shield. His lover Melbil is similarly armed and boats 53 kills, while the third, Vucar, also holds masterwork adamantine. He has 111 kills and 16 children, which makes the Vucari clan the second most powerful in the fortress. Dashmab and Melbil came in the second migration, Vucar the third.
  
  Right now there's a hole in the wall of Alath's bedroom, used to provide access to the top of the ramp's walls for statue installation. It will be replaced when I am done. - _nil_

• Δ 28. 14. Statue garden
  Boasts a bituminous coal artifact statue and a masterwork raw adamantine statue, among others. This level also holds the main barracks and the chamber that melee champions can drop to the top of the road from. - _nil_
• Δ 27. 13. Frontliner plaza
  The bedrooms to the left and those on two levels below house various champions. The bedrooms to the right, however, house the "Frontliners," soldiers too scarred to spar up to legendary but too skilled to waste on civilian duty. They are led by Bim, a grand master sworddwarf with one eye and 96 kills. In order to exempt them from rent, I used the swimming pool in the middle to train them to be legendary swimmers. Every winter it freezes, and when it thaws in the spring it is replenished. I drain it to a safe level using the chamber one lever down, which in turn provides some of the worst tasting well water in Fenceskull. - _nil_
• Δ 27. 4. The road down

  ( 327 Early Spring to onwards )
  At the flip of a switch, my three champion melee squads drop into the chamber on the left. They spend a moment stunned, then go down the ramp and kill everything in their path. Invariably, a few champions weren't quite standing on the drawbridges and don't get dropped; they start heading up the spiral road killing everything in their path (even after they all meet in the middle these guys keep going all the way to the top). Any enemies in between have already been devastated by the marksdwarves. Except for sieges so large or spread out that routing enemies escape from the dome before the the last squad enters, nothing survives entering the dome. - _nil_

• Δ 24. 12. Governor's office
  This well lit room serves as the 'governor,' or mayor's office. Well aware of the disaster that could be caused by the failure of a single floodgate, she keeps a private, emergency stash of food in a chamber above. - _nil_
• Δ 22. 10. Chapel
  With a vaulted ceiling, plenty of seating for parishioners, and a large supply of idols dutifully collected by the Priest (i.e., the philosopher), this room provides for the dwarves' religious needs. - _nil_
• Δ 22. 11. The zoo
  Since the elves' animals are almost always dead by the time they bring them, this zoo has monkeys, one giant olm, and a bunch more monkeys. The dwarves don't seem to mind.
  
  The two levels above this are, so far, mostly unused. - _nil_
• Δ 19. 4a. Kill zone
  Here, Asob leads a squad of 20 legendary marksdwarves (some are at the next two fortifications to catch those who break through here). One of the two surviving original soldiers from the first immigrant wave, he has 153 named kills, wears artifact leather armor and wields an artifact crossbow. Only the violet xelics make it past here with any regularity, even they only do so in small numbers. - _nil_
• Δ 19. 9. Shopping levels

  ( 327 Late Spring to onwards )
  This level is filled with general stores, while the one above it has clothing shops. My method of preventing the construction of more useless shop types is detailed in the "fairground" POI. - _nil_

• Δ 18. 8. Founder offices

  ( 327 Late Spring to onwards )
  Here are where those of my founders who need offices and dining rooms (or ever did) get them. One level down is the mayor's dining room, some other miner noble rooms, and the archery targets. Green glass windows overlook the dome floor. - _nil_

• Δ 15. 18. Residencial city
  The dwarves of Fenceskull live in towers that rise out of a lake in a gigantic underground cavern connected by walkways made of green glass.. The ovals on the left are "inns" (i.e., booze storage with some beds). The towers to the north and south of the rectangular "old town" house most of the civilians. - _nil_
• Δ 15. 18a. Old town
  Here my founders enjoy personal palaces, while other important and old legendary civilians live along side them. The founders also have storage rooms and a small tomb beneath their multi-room dwellings. - _nil_
• Δ 15. 18b. Noble estates
  This structure houses the bedroom of many noble children and of the duchess. The latter has a double bed made up of two raw adamantine artifact beds. Just to the north there's a similar structure housing the duke consort and his dining room. - _nil_
• Δ 15. 19. Zuglari estate and 'fairground'
  To the west sits the personal fortress of the Zuglari family. The family patriarch is Zuglar Flagmoistened the Death of Feet, commander of the Walled Counselors and the oldest melee warrior. He has 62 named kills and wields Strangerbeasts, a bone mace that was the first artifact in Fenceskull. His kills include Mad King Vabok, who was lured by adamintine, then driven to a berzerk rage because his bedroom wasn't ready. Zuglar proclaimed a republic under his wife Lorbam, who would now be known as the governor, although the construction of the Zuglari estate was the only thing that really changed. Some of Zuglar's 7 adult children--most of which are champions--live in bedrooms around the atrium. I eventually want to have his whole family in here, but I might need to expand it to fit in all 17 and counting.
  
  Every few years, I build several shops on the open space to the east. Since Fenceskull has a dozen general stores and clothing shops, these all end up as exotic and craft shops. The dwarves are free to shop at the 'fair' while I rebuild the regular shops; to keep the balance, they will come back as clothing and general stores. Then I tear down the useless shops, and enjoy having twice as many good shops in the same amount of space. Underneath are the tree farms. They are full because I barely need wood anymore.
  
  The floodgate in the center is a raw adamantine artifact. - _nil_
• Δ 15. 19a. Old well
  The original well, kept here for historical value despite its lousy location. - _nil_
• Δ 15. 20. The floating towers
  These submerged towers serve as Fenceskull's tombs. There is only one access point; the other towers can only be entered from one another through either bridges or underground catacombs. One of the few projects I have left is to set up a three-lever-lock using water and floodgates for the tomb of Mad King Vabok; the levers will be positioned in a way that forces an adventurer to go through the entire tomb complex before entering the final mausoleum.
  
  Rapidly scrolling between z-levels here looks pretty cool, although it works better in DF than it does on the map archive. - _nil_
• Δ 15. 5. Dome floor
  Friendlies and extremely lucky enemies who make it to the bottom of the spiral road will come to the dome floor. When the bridges on the road are opened, the gear on them falls to collect here, where it can be quickly and safely collected for trade or melting. I'm hoping to put a cool design here later in metal blocks; what I have now is made out of obsidian, hematite, cinnabar, brass and copper. While the idea of a dome with an oculus was ripped off from the Pantheon, the idea of putting something cool and shiny (in this case a masterwork crystal statue encrusted with every precious gem, type of glass, and a number of metals, set on top of a crystal and clear glass block platform) was ripped off from Markavian. Thanks for the site dude!
  
  I also put my outdoor farms here. More crystal statues keep the wagons from driving over my sun berries. - _nil_
• Δ 15. 6. Dining hall
  The blue table is an raw admantine artifact worth 728,000 and named "The Snarling Sound." The statue is one of my first artifacts, a fire imp bone statue. The rest is high quality obsidian. Green lever on the left is for the auxiliary entrance, red one of the right opens the spiral road bridges. The levers at the top left control the water gate, while the one just below them drop the champions at the top of the road.
  
  The prepared food stockpile is one level down. - _nil_
• Δ 15. 7. Throne room
  Artifact green glass chair, one artifact millstone, imported native platinum block supports, and a nicely placed patch of native aluminum floor. Ever since the death of Mad King Vabok, this has belonged to the Duchess. - _nil_
• Δ 14. 5a. Plant processing
  This level produces food and booze for Fenceskull, as well as its chief export--plant fiber crafts. To the south are extensive stockpiles, eventually, the metalworks. Finally got this level to stop looking like a penis, horray! - _nil_
• Δ 13. 5b. Animal processing
  Here is where Fenceskull's bone carvers, butchers, and leatherworkers ply their trades. It also holds the gym. The levels below are mostly furniture stockpiles. - _nil_
• Δ 13. Strange "open space" from ice cave-in
  A couple years back, I had a strange cave-in kill a legendary, destroy a bridge on level 18 and punch through the floor on levels 14, 15, and 16. At the time I couldn't figure out what had happened, but after finding this--a square marked as "open space" in 'k' but with a raw marble wall underneath--I'm now pretty sure I know. Water released from the swimming pool drain reservoir/well was at a sufficient depth somewhere to freeze, creating a solid square of ice. Apparently it was unsupported and then caved in, destroying the bridge, the dwarf, and several tiles. The strange thing here is that I still can't figure out exactly where this could have happened, as I am positive it only destroyed one bridge yet that tile is supported until above level 19. The only answer I can think of is that a tile created on level 22 somehow didn't destroy the bridge there. Perhaps ice can freeze into floors at a certain depth and collapsing floors don't destroy bridges built over them? That would explain level 13--maybe it was a raw ice floor but melted in the following summer, forcing the game to come up with the strange floor/not floor for that tile. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious? - _nil_
• Δ 12. 20b. Mad King Vabok's tomb
  Not visible from the surface, and soon to be rendered inaccessible except by switching the proper sequence of levers, this tomb holds the body of Mad King Vabok, who was slain by Zuglar. Except for the coffin itself, every item here is an artifact. - _nil_
• 15. Auxiliary entrance

  ( 310 Early Autumn to onwards )
  This entrance is for when I need easier access to the outdoors. - _nil_

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Fenceskull
• Map Year: 327 Late Spring
• Author: _nil_
• Submitted by: _nil_
• Date Added: 15/04/2009