Dwarf Fortress Succession Game III:Jawmetal

Just so you guys know, I'll be roleplaying a power mad, immensely paranoid dictator. Remember, happiness is mandatory, and insufficient happiness will be taken as evidence of treason.

This will be fun.

As long as we get our characters, we shall play our parts. :)

"As the new Glorious Supreme Leader for Life of the Fortress of Jawmetal, I, Infinitus of the glorious fortress of Jawmetal, do decree that the peasantry, (i.e. everyone not named Infinitus) shall spend the next few days dropping all of the accumulated trash of our young fortress' front lawn into the fiery depths of the Jawmetal Volcano."

That was the first order given by Infinitus Inodïdath, a layabout noble known for being particularly grating at the best of times who had, for some reason, been appointed to the position of fortress overseer by order of the Mountainhomes. Already the assorted dwarves of Jawmetal, from the lowly chef Gand Aand R, to the fortresses previous overseers could see that this year was going to be an interesting one. This declaration was followed shortly thereafter by an order for all of the fortress's stoneworkers to begin the construction of a "glorious, hundred story tall spire as a monument to my greatness atop the volcano.", a decree which was met with a great deal of discontent from the Jawmetal stoneworker's guild. After being told that such a task was impossible to complete within a week, the new Overseer settled for the construction of a "lavish summer palace." in the depths of the fortress. For undisclosed reasons, Infinitus also banned the export or import of toy hammers.

Less than two days and assassination attempts later, Infinitus ordered the formation of an "elite bodyguard to protect me from the rabble." Lacking any proper military dwarves, what Infinitus received was little more than a half score of untrained peasants given promises of weapons and armor.

edited 29th Jun '13 3:30:37 PM by Archereon

So guess what? I was doing some exploratory digging on the forge levels, and guess what I find?

2 veins of raw adamantine. The fuck?

We are truly blessed.

Our glorious leader now has a throne room lined with dozens of golden statues, two of which are of himself.

Minor Update: Tarsen was just found dead.

edited 29th Jun '13 6:55:27 PM by Archereon

..."Lowly"?

edited 29th Jun '13 7:27:37 PM by GandAandR

Complaints regarding one's status shall be taken as evidence of treason. Treason shall be punished by being tossed into the volcano henceforth. All hail our glorious leader.

>.> Well, at least we know some of us have been Dorfed. Can we get some kind of info about who is what and something of our personality?

Gand Aand R has high empathy for one. I'll report back on everyone else later. Phoenxiator is a surgeon, and Condorito is a boozesmith.

Told you guys this region was a bit glitched and had shallow veins of adamantine.

Oh, massive treasure-pile rooms will be happening. Beigeknife was always so practical, I think it's time we start flaunting our immense wealth.

And the streets shall be paved with adamantine.

If nobody else does it, I shall make a Museum of the Obscenely Gauche.

It's prized item will be a masterwork adamantine toy hammer. Menacing with spikes of gold and alpalca leather.

Make them in lines leading to important places like the booze stockpile and the hospital. Then there will be no excuse for getting lost.

edited 30th Jun '13 8:13:13 AM by Azreal341

The volcano should be converted to boiling booze and the sides to masterwork meals. ONLY THEN SHALL ALL THE WORLD KNOW OUR WEALTH

Veins of adamantine at the exploratory digging level? I think we all know that they're going to be hollow, and one square thick.

Nah, they were only one level deep, though pretty large, i already dug both of them out in their entirety. I'm gonna make some nice armor for the squad of military dorfs I've assembled. Since they're hammerdwarves, I'm giving them silver warhammers rather than adamantine hammers, though i may make an adamantine warhammer for the hammerer.

If you have some free time, would you also be able to find a dwarf that doesn't like any particular items? If we have a baron that doesn't keep putting in annoying work orders, there won't be any reason to kill them.

Our glorious leader has already claimed the position of mayor. I'm doing everything in my power to give future overseers incentive to have him killed. You'll be happy to know that a dorf was possessed, and there is now a Durza in the fort.

Can we put Noble rooms over the volcano? After all, it must get really cold in the Fortress.

Not enough time in the year, so I settled for an underground palace with tons of gold statues. Several of which are of our glorious leader.

Ooh, what did I make?

Something from a craftsdwarf's workshop; nothing super good.

Just checked, it's a Larch mini-forge

edited 30th Jun '13 1:20:43 PM by Archereon

Pff. Strange moods seem to be designed to get the worst possible thing. If half the population of your fort are weaponsmiths, you'll still get a smart arse kid making a toy axe out of your adamantine or something.