Åblelishlum (Bustnut) at the twilight of her 15th year.
Founded in a rocky desert beside an open magma pipe, Bustnut has struggled against a near-total lack of water, absence of flux, absence of iron, sparsity of trees, and seasonal goblin and elven ambushes. No sieges have come thus far, though all the magma-containing rooms in the entire fortress have been paved with iron flooring by the good grace of narrow iron armor from our green-skinned friends.
Great effort was put forth to create the microcline-diorite checkerboard pattern here. This hallway wraps around the magma feed for the Patchwork Forge above, and connects to the sheriff's office, prison, and arena control room.
The sheriff died of a failed fey mood many years ago, but his beloved bismuth supports still stand and a new sheriff was never chosen. The fortress now desires 5 fortress guards and a guard captain, so I may end up having to redesign the office to support more activity and add a guard barracks.
The prison stores 7 roasts and 7 barrels of liquor on either side of 6 comfortable and well-decorated cloth ropes. The 7th is an artifact turtle shell chain made by the mayor's wife.
The small barred rooms to the north and south store metal chains and cages, but I haven't finished organizing their stockpile settings.
The black bronze hatch cover is a 3-story drop into the arena, a place where it's normally bad to have broken legs. In the past, mechanisms here allowed me to deliver combatants to the arena without injury using a second hatch cover one level below. The arena is in disuse and being redesigned. - Noble Digger
There are 8 comments for this map series, last post 2009-09-11
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Submitted by: Dakira - 2008-10-19 to 115 Late Winter
Very Interesting fortress. I enjoyed reading all the details and it makes we look back on my desert city.
Ah memories of riots.
Also, why do the elves hate you so?
Submitted by: Ambivalence - 2008-10-19 to 115 Late Winter
Nice fortress! You maintain the wasteland splendidly. The vault is cool, and I'm going to steal your trade depot layout.
Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2008-10-19 to 115 Late Winter
Please steal everything you like! I stole a bunch of it myself. Just put your own spin on it, improve on what you see so we all get smarter!
Thanks for the comments.
Submitted by: ^^atte - 2008-10-19 - Removed
Submitted by: C File - 2009-01-09 to 115 Late Winter
I got a kick out of your jewelers' names.
Submitted by: Jebraltix - 2009-01-24 to 115 Late Winter
Looks like you spent more time on those POIs than you did building the fort itself. Favorited.
Submitted by: Riffraff - 2009-07-28 to 115 Late Winter
The text of "The Vault" has the potential to offend; might wanna tone it down a bit :P
Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-09-08 to 115 Late Winter
Tis all in jest, I kid because I love. Furthermore, those are the actual names of those two dwarves ;)
Submitted by: ajr_ - 2009-09-11 to 115 Late Winter
A mark of excellence.