Flamegate - 213 Late Summer by Greenbane

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Points of Interest

• Δ 16. Fortifications
  The first floor of the gatehouse, where my 15 marksdwarves would deal death to countless greenskins. Its proximity was deadlier than a bunker's on the beaches of Normandy. Some broken bolts from the last siege can still be seen.
  The upper floors contain stockpiles of ammo, food and drinks, so to help keeping the marksdwarves near their post in the event of a long siege. - Greenbane
• Δ 15. Caravan remains
  Humans appeared during the anarchy, around the same time goblins did. Here's the wreckage of their ill-fated merchant caravan, ambushed by the dastardly greenskins.
  And yes, that's the dreaded Hammerer to the southwest! He survived the chaos almost unscathed, and was now happily appropriating items from the massacred traders. - Greenbane
• Δ 15. Chalk-paved road
  Built for the merchant wagons, it stretched all the way to the eastern border of the map. A three-tile-wide ramp led them underground, through a trapped passage and into the trade depot itself. - Greenbane
• Δ 15. Common apartments
  I spent a while building these. The wounded dwarves that managed to escape the murderous riots found refuge in their rooms, only to die of thirst or starvation due to nobody being able to look after them.
  Once a happy, lively place. Now an unintended, miasma-filled tomb for all those dwarves that hoped to recover and move on with their lives. - Greenbane
• ¶ 15. Gatehouse
  The main gatehouse, unfortunately without its bauxite bridge. Enemies would be guided down the stairway in the center of that 3x3 floor area north of it, partly obscured by goblin armour remains.
  I had designated a single soldier as 24/7 gatekeeper, given that particular wrestler had reached hero status, but suffered (light grey) brain damage during sparring and couldn't train any further. He was too experienced to return to civilian life, so, besides send him charging to his death in the next goblin siege, I couldn't think of any other job for him. - Greenbane
• Δ 15. Urist Kolnunok
  The last sane worker of Flamegate.
  She would later escape the doomed fortress having reluctantly asked the elven merchants for help, go on report Keshaninod's fate to the Queen of Katakzuglar and write A Flame Extinguished, which'd relate the story of the barony's downfall. - Greenbane
• Δ 14. Bedrooms and offices
  These special rooms were assigned to the dwarves that needed them, and some notable citizens that I chose to reward. The most luxurious room is the Baron's bedroom/office. His artifact chalk bed was enough to shoot the room's value through the roof.
  The Baron himself was still alive and sane, but very depressed at that point. I believe the bones in his room are his consort's.
  General Greenbane confronted the Hammerer in these miasma-ridden corridors. However, a former brother-in-arms struck him down before Greenbane could put a finger on the notorious executioner. - Greenbane
• Δ 14. Elven merchants
  For some reason, these elves stayed behind and didn't leave with the rest of their caravan, which is odd since all doors were unlocked and the way clear.
  Did they prefer to hang back and sadistically enjoy the slow, painful destruction of a dwarven fortress almost-first-hand from the comfort of their mule/camel saddles?
  They'd later help Urist Kolnunok flee from Flamegate, but damn those elves! - Greenbane
• Δ 14. Execution shaft
  Five Z-levels deep. Rarely used.
  Two of the dwarves dropped down the shaft survived, despite grievous wounds, eventually recuperated (after 2-3 years) and went on to become distinguished soldiers. - Greenbane
• Δ 14. Former refuse area
  Refuse was once hauled here, and was also the site of bonecrafting. Connected to the small, eastern entrance of Keshaninod, its narrow corridors would promptly seal at the pull of a lever in the event of an attack. - Greenbane
• Δ 14. Lower moat
  The lower level of the moat was built almost entirely from scratch given the soil couldn't be as nicely smoothed as chalk. In the moat itself rest used iron bolts and greenskin armour and bonely remains. - Greenbane
• Δ 14. Snaky trapped path
  Technically, after greenskins were led down the stairs, they'd have to follow that deadly snaky path if they wanted to get to the dwarves. However, in practice, the system was deadlier to us than them. No matter the traffic restrictions I put on the area, dwarves would go out through it to meet the invaders, given it was the only available exit during siege lockdown. This resulted in at least two dwarven deaths.
  The plan was implemented after the previous one (chaining a war dog in the white room west of the snaky path) didn't seem to produce any results. The goblins just weren't lured towards it. Perhaps I should've chained a recruit as bait... - Greenbane
• Δ 14. Trade depot
  Protected by a trapped corridor and a last-resort, lever-triggered barrier, the trade depot was Flamegate's wealth's primary output point.
  The fortress' legendary bone carver tirelessly worked day and night in the craftsdwarf's shop nearby, not only sculpting the remains of beasts into appealing crafts and totems, but also decorating the loot gathered from countless goblin assaults.
  But once the riots ensued and he fell, his workshop went silent. Soon, there was nobody left to reload the half-sprung traps nor scrub the blood-stained wagon passage. - Greenbane
• Δ 14. Unfinished memorial
  Tried to make this engraved cross after all my engravers were gone, in an attempt to produce a few pieces that'd immortalize Flamegate's tragedy. However, the only (at least temporarily) sane, economically useful dwarf left in the fortress was Urist Kolnunok (the fortress and later chronicler), and she's not much of an engraver.
  Most of the engravings turned out to be too simple to tell anything, and those that were intricate enough didn't show anything relevant, so work on the cross was abandoned. - Greenbane
• Δ 13. Fortress centre
  Meeting area, close to the workshops, barracks, archery range, food stockpiles and legendary dining room.
  By the amount of blood, corpses, bones and miasma, one can tell it was the epicentre of the tragic riots that devastated Keshaninod.
  The few surviving champions are sane and ecstatic, in fact, but given they cannot return to civilian lives, they won't be of much help to the fortress.
  The dungeon keeper and philosopher are new, given their predecessors died horribly in the turmoil's most furious stages. - Greenbane
• Δ 13. Inner entrance
  This trapped, bridge-equipped corridor would've been the last line of defense against an overwhelming siege.
  Even though it barely saw any use, an unfortunate dwarf might've fallen unconscious on one of the traps during the turmoil, perishing instantly, crushed by a massive chalk stone. - Greenbane
• Δ 13. Jet boulder
  This mysterious, blood-stained boulder lies in the middle of a crimson trail.
  Coincidence or evil instrument of death and suffering? - Greenbane
• Δ 13. Main well
  Drawing water from the specially-carved reservoir below, the fortress' well provided a fresh drink to thirsty and/or wounded dwarves.
  
  During the final anarchy, not even this room escaped the bloodbath. - Greenbane
• Δ 13. Plump helmet farm
  The main food source of the fortress in its early days. Plump helmets firmly remained on the diet of Keshaninod's dwarves for several years, before the overabundance of prepared meals and both local and imported meat led to the discontinuation of plant farming.
  The irrigation system was designed to wet the floor for planting every few years. The room would be partly flooded, and the water then drained to the lower floor, to spread and eventually evaporate. - Greenbane
• Δ 13. Prison
  Seems that in the unlikely event a dwarf was arrested instead of killed during the riots, they were condemned to a slow death at the hands of starvation and dehydration. - Greenbane
• Δ 12. Lower storage areas
  Home of the armour, weapons, ammo, finished goods and metal stockpiles, along with the smelter and metalsmith's forge. There's also the reservoir used by the well on the upper level.
  Seems death wasn't a common sight in this area. Just... blood. - Greenbane
• Δ 11. Common catacombs
  The intended final resting place of most of Keshaninod's population. Most dwarves killed before the riots were entombed here, but once the unrest escalated, hardly anyone was sane/safe enough to do the burial work. That's why many corpses littered the core of the fortress.
  Urist Kolnunok was interring some of her former neighbours by the time I told her to engrave the cross-shaped attempted memorial. - Greenbane
• Δ 11. Hall of Heroes
  Destined to the valiant soldier dwarves who would fall in the defense of Flamegate. Unfortunately, the buried's belongings somewhat disrupted the otherwise harmonious aesthetics of the exceptionally-engraved place. Not all champions found their peaceful rest here once the riots intensified. - Greenbane
• Δ 11. Special tombs
  Reserved for distinguished citizens (not necessarily lazy nobles). Some of them were successfully laid to rest in their respective rock coffins before the violence forced the burial tasks to grind to a halt. - Greenbane

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• Fortress Name: Flamegate
• Map Year: 213 Late Summer
• Author: Greenbane
• Submitted by: Greenbane
• Date Added: 09/03/2009