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I read that in the voice of George Takei.
Minecart science going well, though not without minor snags. One unfortunate wood burner is stuck hurtling around a piece of test track too quickly to exit safely. Ah well, can't win them all.
15th Opal: Instead of doing the necessary work, Rotpar has decided to ride the prototype around in circles for a few days. He is now nauseated, although he insists that this is merely due to spending too much time in the sun. Ha! As if the sun ever shone on this dismal place.
16th Opal: After being sternly ordered off the prototype (which has been dubbed CAROUSEL (Circular Automated Revolving Operation for Unifying Science in Elliptical Loops), Rotpar proceeded to collapse URANIUM's entire power train.
17th Opal: The first gloom of my administration. I is a small one and far from the fortress. How boring.
21st Opal: I have decided that this place needs more proactive management. I have therefore appropriated the old Danger Room as my office, and installed a trap door directly in front of my desk. Rotpar did most of the work, and evidently it was Take Your Daughter to Work Day, because the first thing Rotpar did upon completing it was shove his daughter Ustuth into the pit to test it. No serious harm done: kids these days need a little adversity anyway. Besides, I hadn't even installed the buzz saw yet!
27th Opal: The duke continues his obsessive concerns that we might deplete our flask and battle axe supplies. On a somewhat brighter note, the repairs to URANIUM have been completed and we now have power access in the testing lab. CAROUSEL is now fully self sustaining. One joy-rider has started begging to be let off. Serves him right for neglecting his work to goof off.
Also:
D'awwww.
On a more practical note, the turkey worked like a charm.
edited 4th Jun '12 10:19:54 PM by EdwardsGrizzly
<><This project is going to be the death of the fortress. From now on I am always including a kill switch.
8th Obsidian: Noaqiyeum's spouse got stuck on CAROUSEL, and it appears Chief Engineer Fishsicles neglected to provide a way to turn off URANIUM. Master Miner Tuefel made a heroic attempt to stop the out-of-control cart, but all he got for his trouble was one smashed foot and a bruised pancreas.
9th Obsidian: The only person who appears to have cared about Tuefel's plight was a little 4-year-old girl. It is somewhat pitiful to see her stagger along trying to help him to the hospital.
14th Obsidian: The fortress's children all decided to go on a field trip today. While they were looking at CAROUSEL, one of them appears to have dared the others to put a penny on the track. One by one they all stepped up only to be sent flying across the lab and into the wall when the cart came around the loop again. Several were hospitalized. That said, I see great potential here: perhaps with some modifications this design could provide an improved form of danger room, or perhaps a kitten rail gun. That last option sounds much more interesting, actually.
16th Obsidian: Stupid dwarves. A mother carrying her baby decided to run across the track, and got pummeled. The mother will probably recover, but she dropped her baby when she was hit and well...
19th Obsidian: This is getting ridiculous. Today Count Dorku, for whatever deranged reason of his, deliberately steeped in front of the speeding minecart. He is currently being carried to the hospital while babbling something about "what a rush".
21st Obsidian: Finally, some good news. Rith finished his work on a magnificent copper helm, suitable for use as a king's crown or an especially impressive fruit bowl. I have set this newly discovered talent to work on refitting us with masterwork steel armor. Also, the runaway minecart was finally stopped by a heroic effort on the part of Chief Engineer Fishsicles. I suppose it's fitting seeing as how he's the one who got us into this mess.
edited 5th Jun '12 11:31:35 AM by EdwardsGrizzly
<><You know, it says something that clouds that cause anyone caught in them to bleed from literrally everything at once, which come around several times per month, are less impressive than a perpetually spinning minecart, which the overseer who installed it considers the fact that it hospitalised a large number of children insignificant in the face irrellevant when compared to it's usefulness launching cats at enemies which we have yet to find, and for training soldiers, again to fight an enemy we have yet to encounter. That, of course, is ignoring the fact that most of us consider the fact that there has yet to be a seige a large problem than the death clouds. of course, considering that Count Dorku complained that the fog actually did not touch the Cages he set out to run experiments on, Im actually pretty sure I shouldn't be surprised everyone is contemplating killing an elf caravan just to have someone to fight. but i am.
Because "Crazy in some way" is the entire dwarven way, according to Dorku
XD
Logistics and sound documentation: we has it.
I came in here expecting to read about how all hell broke loose, and seeing every tropers involved scrambling to find a solution to the never ending sieges and self-destructive defences burning your entire fort down.
Instead I find a fort growing along nicely while y'all talk about how boring massive-hemorrhage inducing clouds actually are.
What is wrong with you people!
Who's an angry moth? You are! Yes you are! You're the fuzziest and angriest moth! Original pic.Hey now, do not blame us; our continued survival is not for lack of trying, sometimes things just go right.
(also, C++ all the way)
edited 5th Jun '12 5:52:55 PM by fishsicles
Not nearly a good enough singer for the Choir Invisible, and the Basement Room With A Synth Invisible is much less prestigious.It was a lever that was going to fuel the LOB device. The Linear Object Bomb. But between the fogs and finding aquifer space below it was abandoned. The lever it does nothing.
Hmm I need to remember being belted in the gob by a mine cart is painful. I should have used a pick axe on it.
Who watches the watchmen?Mister, I don't think I like your attitude.
Some foes, unfortunately, cannot be slain with pickaxes alone. Explosives work pretty well tho.
I suppose you could fill a minecart with lava and crash it in something at high speed, same effect. Or at least, same entertainment value.
Who's an angry moth? You are! Yes you are! You're the fuzziest and angriest moth! Original pic.

@Edwards: How's Adil holding up? No murderage yet, I hope?