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If possible, I would like to be a a hunter/animal trainer. An oddball dwarf who likes the outside.
Some of the players who have requested a particular class of Dwarf might end up waiting for the next wave of immigrants, if they don't get a reasonable match in this wave. The players who are willing to settle for any Dwarf at all will probably enter the game a bit earlier.
I like reading about Dwarf Fortress, even though I am terrible at playing it.
Dwarf me, if you would be so kind, as a soldier (crossbowman maybe? I don't really mind).
Dwarf me, if you would be so kind, as a soldier (crossbowman maybe? I don't really mind).
Given my place in line, I will most likely have to wait until next time anyway. If taking any type of role will get me in this round, then go for it.
If I recall correctly (I'm at school, the game is home) there is in fact a Hunter / Animal Trainer in that first wave of immigrants.
Just to put it out there, I don't care what kind of immigrant I get. Put me down as a lowly peasant if you need one!
I remember in the last game some people were talking about lanching a dwarf out of the top of the map, into space, never to be seen again. I, for one, think we should build this Dwarf Space Program, and I wouldn't mind being the dwarf lanched 
Dwarf can into space!
Dwarf can into space!
I remember in the last game some people were talking about lanching a dwarf out of the top of the map, into space, never to be seen again. I, for one, think we should build this Dwarf Space Program, and I wouldn't mind being the dwarf lanched
That sounds like a noble endeavor, if we can stay alive long enough. Project approved!
The first post has been updated with seven new immigrants and the new volunteers.
It sounded like a good idea at the time.
Lord Strange came up with a plan... we could breed those four female and two male Helmet Snakes he brought, by giving them nest-boxes and making sure no-one touches the eggs. After all, the little buggers ARE mildly poisonous, and they're one of the few pets that will attack instead of running away. Maybe we could even extract the venom from them and weaponize it.
This sounded pretty good to me. We're in a tough spot, and can use all the help we can get. So I gave him the go-ahead to set up some breeding nests.
A few days later, the four snakes started laying eggs. And laying more eggs. And more eggs. And then more... nearly a hundred of them! And that chuckle-head Lord Strange was planning to hatch them all! Taking a firm grip on my temper, I pointed out to him that if each female snake lays twenty or so eggs every season; and if half of the new snakes are female, then after two years we would have over ninety-seven million bloody snakes slithering around inside our fort! That's not a breeding population!... it's a Gods damned thermonuclear snake-splosion!
I had him send all the snake eggs straight to the food stockpile, except for ONE nest of twenty eggs that I said he could use for breeding. We'll have to see how it all works out, but I've already got a bad feeling about this.
One piece of good news is that some immigrants arrived, and along with the usual gang of useless idiots that the Mountainhome always unloads on these frontier outposts, there were a couple of Dwarves that were actually useful.
Capt Kiwi CrimsonGorge is an even better shot with a crossbow than our Drill Instructor is... in fact, he picked off two Hoary Marmots on his way to the fort, and brought the meat in with him. And MadImmortalMan CraftOil is a trained doctor. That's a skill we might end up needing. I appointed him Chief Medical Dwarf... but he can't set up practice until we can dig him out an office and a clinic.
The rest of the immigrants have no skill that will help us right now, so I gave them some jobs to do. I had Noco hand over the lumberjack's axe to Sneaky Pete GoldenPractice, and Noco is helping Polar Mongoose BrassTribute set up the smelter and forge, to make a good steel war-axe. Now that we've got shelter and a bit more manpower, we can start making a few weapons and some armor... helmets and shields, at least. The other immigrants are Deadhaigh NightFloors, Aedan ChanneledStockade, and Tappscot OceanDoor. Tappscot is only eleven, so he doesn't come under my orders until next year. Aedan has a bit of military experience, so he'll be joining our Militia once it's set up, and Deadhaigh can read, write and count... which is more than most of these chuckle-heads can do... so I made him the Bookkeeper.
The best of the immigrants isn't even a Dwarf. He's a tame Giant Cave Spider. I asked these chuckle-heads who he belongs to, and they all just looked at each other and shrugged. "He just sort of tagged along with us", one of them told me. They're lucky he didn't get hungry. I was bloody glad to see him, anyway... if I can't figure out a way to weaponize a Giant Cave Spider, then my name isn't Blue Emu.
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I remember in the last game some people were talking about lanching a dwarf out of the top of the map, into space, never to be seen again. I, for one, think we should build this Dwarf Space Program, and I wouldn't mind being the dwarf lanched
Way ahead of you... see post #35
Take a ticket and get in line.
Yes, we now have two volunteers for the Astro-Dwarf corps. No doubt the Astro-Dwarf corps will soon become the Astro-Dwarf corpses.
Of course, it will be a long time before we complete a launch complex. In the meantime, we could consider using our Astro-Dwarfs as Shock Troops... launching them out of our fortress in a mine-cart, straight into the advancing enemy army. Good training for them...
Of course, it will be a long time before we complete a launch complex. In the meantime, we could consider using our Astro-Dwarfs as Shock Troops... launching them out of our fortress in a mine-cart, straight into the advancing enemy army. Good training for them...
Nice, a crossbow dwarf
Your Dwarf is somewhat over-shadowed by that Giant Cave Spider recruit that showed up in your group.
Does it drink beer? What kind of creature deserves a fuss if it doesn't even drink beer?
