Dwarf Fortress: The RP (Dead)

[Zacharine]

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Group Name: Ironbrow

Week 4 of July, Year 767 of the Fourth Great Count

The promise of a grand hall, with victories and great deeds of your clan carved to its walls as they are done, makes their picks swing all that much faster.

They begin by carving a set of double stairs, sloping upwards, from the main hallway. Then, they begin digging a two-stories high, wide hall, with your mason hammering, grinding and chipping to rock into smoothness. The project will take time yet with the hard rock, but the start is good and once done, it'll be a grand sight indeed.

Every evening, the dwarves sent out to gather the plants return with buckets and arms full. There is some soil attached, but not that much;it'll get you started underground with a fairly small farm, or you could plants most of these closer to the forest, into the hills where bare rock is not the dominant visible soil type. Mostly the plants are of the outdoor variety, though there are Quarry Bushes that don't as such need light among them.

Your own seeds and mushrooms spawns, albeit meagre they are, would be with standard harvests enough with these to keep your clan fed and happy with varying plant foods. You've even heard rumours that some of these herbs are used as secret ingredients by the more brewing-oriented clan of Mountainhome, to give their drinks an exceptional taste. But this might as well be misinformation, as clans rarely talk of such secrets openly.

The dwarves sent to examine the small river return after a two days. The stream continues west towards the plains, getting stronger as the elevation lowers, but ends in a very small pond at the western edge of the forest, where vegetation gradually begins to turn more into a grassland. There is no way for water of those quantities to form barely a dwarf sized pond, so it must lead to an underground reservoir of some kind, or flow into an aquifier. The pond itself is roughly half-a day of brisk walking away, and there are no other streams going to it, or exist holes for the water to flow out of, visible anywhere near it.

 

[cnordskog]

Remind the dwarves that we must conserve our resources untill the first plump helmet harvest in which we will have freslhy brewed Plump Helmet Wine. Expand the chanall I was digging from the river so that we always have a source of fresh water, both for sanitarian reasons and emergency drink reasons. Send out two dwarves armed in whatever armor I have ( hopefully leatherish ) and whatever tools of hunting we have to try and bring some food to the fort.

Someone should try to make a few crude tools out of what we have, as we have no meatall we will make a some chisels ( and whatever the heck they use to engrave smooth stone ) and have dwarves engrave their bedrooms on their spare time.

 

[KronosTalon]

Ironbrow:
Let the dwarves continue work on the staircase. Send the dwarves from the river and the ones that brought back the plants to go out and find a viable patch to farm them in. One dwarf will start working on the herbs to make brew with.
Sorry for the short update ive just been busy.

 

[cnordskog]

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snip ? Thats how it works?

 

[Zacharine]

Sorry for my absence.

Been having a bit of a hard time. You see, my uncle was a few weeks ago in a surgery to remove a brain tumour.

Second time, in fact. The first time it was concurred as cancer. This second time, it was more along the consistency of scar tissue according to the doctors, and they removed (what they could) two weeks ago.

However, in the monitoring, they saw the tumor was growing back.

Diagnosis: untreatable. My uncle is 52.

And my fucking favourite cousin is his daughter.

And he's already lost all movement in his right leg, his arms are a bit wobbly and speech is about on the level of my 90-year old grandfather who's had two cases of inter-cranial bleeding from strokes.

My uncle's days are literally numbered.

At this moment, I can't positively say what I'll do in the next month or two, if this RP will die or if I even take a really long hiatus from the Escapist altogether. Keeping up with my Uni work is hard enough during these circumstances.

I just... don't know. So please don't think to badly of me.

Anyways, just thought to write off a quick message. You guys deserve better but this is the best I can do at this time.