Part 46

So. My laptop screen broke. Yeah. Makes it kind of hard to play Dwarf Fortress. I have managed to upload the save (and make this post) using the unbroken top corner of my screen, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to bother doing all my fancy screenshot editing like this, so I'll have to bow out after only a couple in-game weeks.

And so here's a really short update using pictures from the alternate reality where my laptop crashed, that happened anyway:

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Considering there was the whole of mad West Headshoots as well as a large pool of  WEAPON 's lava between us and the main entrance, I figured we should cave a new entrance to allow new migrants into East Headshoots:


As a warning, this means that once  WEAPON 's lava dries out, there will be no barrier between East and West, which would undoubtedly result in a huge influx of Western refugees coming after our food... or else a humanitarian exodus of well-meaning East Headshooters looking to feed the crippled in West... either way, we should be careful about that... I've locked the door anyway as a precaution.

Already the division has begun to tear at us. Just the other day I saw Whitecloak listening at the food stockpile door:


It turns out poor Manuel Calavera, one of the last two sane dwarves of the West, was pleading for his life. I was so touched by the scene that I authorized the door to be unlocked... Unfortunately things did not go as I expected...



Whitecloak fled to the West! This is terrible, we need to recover him somehow. How could we possibly...



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Well, it took all of five seconds before Whitecloak got hungry and came back to eat. Manuel Calavera was following him the whole time complaining, and so is now a happy resident of the East.


And what of the Last Sane Dwarf of the West, Professor Bling?
[Insert picture of Professor Bling's wounds list, his left foot is yellow]

I'm not sure how, but he seems to have broken his foot. Maybe he ran into a tantruming invalid, maybe he got nicked by lava. Either way, he's now a hopeless cripple...

There is now no longer anything worth saving in West Headshoots. We're on our own.

Unfortunately, all this leading and choosing who lives and dies is rather tiring. I am but a simple tax collector after all, this leadership business is a bit above my pay grade. I'm sure there's someone more responsible over here in the East... like maybe that random child who snuck over here and keeps whining about everything.

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It just occurred to me that everyone on the East is named, so the next overseer would be in a bind... so I very carefully let a child with no name in. So yeah, the next person could either be a constantly tantruming almost insane child, or try to make do with something else.