User:RomeoFalling

Carving an empire out of Sand and Cat Bone

My current load-out, inspired by finding a nice thickly-forested, heavily populated space of Black Sand with a magma pipe in it, and then discovering that the randomly-chosen name for the group was The Infamous Cat-Sacks.

Clearly, I've been playing for far too long.

The Dwarves

1. The Guy With The Bright Idea

• Novice Miner
• Novice Judge of Intent
• Novice Appraisal
• Competent Consoler
• Skilled Pacifier

Since the top couple of layers are sand, anyway, he'll have plenty of time to level up in his actual trade skill. Ideally, he ought to be proficient in Persuader, but then I thought to myself, "No, that's going too far."

2. Cat-Into-Sack Stuffer

• Novice Butcher
• Novice Tanner
• Proficient Leatherworker
• Competent Mechanics

Hey, he can't kill cats all the time. He also spends a lot of time devising cruel torture implements and death traps. Uh.....why do we want him along, again? Oh yeah, he's the whole reason we're The Infamous Cat-Sacks.

3. Three Words: Cat Bone Armor

• Proficient Bone Carver
• Skilled Stonecrafter
• Novice Record Keeper

Need I say any more?

4. Not The Weaponsmith You Were Looking For

• Competent Bowyer
• Average Glassmaker
• Average Cook
• Novice Wood Burner
• Novice Organizer

Despite magma somewhere on the map, I trade a point of Bowyer for Wood Burner, for the early game. He's an essential part of my plans for an army of cat-bone clad marksdwarves armed with cat bone crossbows, shooting cat bone bolts at our enemies! He also makes a pretty nice cat meat biscuit.

5. Outdoor Dwarf

• Novice Wood Cutter
• Proficient Carpenter
• Novice Herbalism
• Novice Hunter
• Novice Axe
• Novice Armor

He still thinks we're just going camping for the weekend. Don't tell him!

6. Farmer

• Proficient Grower
• Competent Brewer
• Novice Miller
• Novice Thresher

Because you can't make beer out of cats. Yet.

7. Chief Architect

• Proficient Mason
• Proficient Architect

I figure this is somebody's kid brother. Maybe I'll call him Junior.

Their Stuff

• 4 Copper Picks
• 1 Steel Axe
• 2 Hunting Dogs
• 2 War Dogs
• 2 cats
• 1 pig tail rope (for the sentry cat)
• 1 Lead cage (for the rest of the cats)
• 21 units each of the 4 kinds of alcohol
• 31 Seeds of Plump Helmet and Pig Tail
• 11 Seeds of the others
• 11 turtles still in their shell
• 1 each of all the food we can get (10gp and less)

Which should leave us enough for nearly 40 cats! If we end up with anything left over, we can spend it on cat leather, cat meat, or seeds.

New Version: 2 muskox, 2 cows instead of cats for a more generally carnivorous society.

Osodrigoth, Bonecrafts

1st Granite, 201. Early Spring

We have arrived. The site is a gently sloped dune surrounded by forest, with no flowing water (at least, not above-ground). What is visible, to our dismay, is the demon-infested mouth of a volcano, on the southwest side of the dune. A few murky pools shall be our only source of water, so I note that I must build some kind of cistern system for catching as much rainfall as we can from the pitiful supplies available.

Thankfully, our menagerie has arrived in good health. I will, I suppose, need to find somewhere to store them besides the barracks.

18th Felsite, 201, Late Spring

I've had to curtail the zeal of Uvash Zonibmat, our outdoorsdwarf. It seems he felt that the best way to ensure the success of our fortress was to perform animal sacrifices. First, he hunted down a unicorn, only to leave the bloody carcass on our doorstep when he realized that we didn't have so much as a statue of Akil, much less a temple. As Akil is the god of volcanos, he decided to hunt down one of the imps and slay it while screaming "Blood and Souls!"

I certainly appreciate his piety, but I would prefer him to wait until we've at least dug deep enough to find some stone to replace the wooden door that is our only protection currently.

Also, the well construction will have to be delayed until the next caravan. One of our war dogs has taken to wearing the one piece of rope we brought with us, and none of the pig tails will be even planted until next season.

==25th Sandstone, 201 Mid Autumn

I can't tell you how many times I've heard dwarves tell me that behind ever caravan is a horde of kobold thieves. Did I listen? Did I post guards? Did I stop my dwarves from aimlessly wandering the countryside looking for a fire imp to slay? Of course not. And sure enough, one of those buggers jumped up and done shoved a dagger straight into old Catsacks SackRealms' eye! My crazed genius, the apple of my eye! No one knows how to use catgut the way Catsacks does! I'm not sure what to do with the poor guy. He insists he's fine, but he keeps passing out while in the middle of butchering some beasty. All my meat is going to rot because of him, and the winter snows are about to come upon us. I doubt we'll get any replacements this soon.