'Unluckiest' being specifically unlucky during the turn; Markus was pretty much the unluckiest dwarf in the history of the world.
The Keg:
I'm confident that it would've looked like this if DF could handle it.
A different take on The Keg:
Public Opinion wrote :-
Bene Elim, who had the fort fall apart due to unknowable forces:
'Unluckiest' being specifically unlucky during the turn; Markus was pretty much the unluckiest dwarf in the history of the world.
The Keg:
I'm confident that it would've looked like this if DF could handle it.
A different take on The Keg:
markus_cz wrote :-
Welcome to Gemclod
A lot has changed since the last time we've visited. Now, five years later, Gemclod is a different place. With an estimate of 80 dead dwarves in last 6 months only, a goblin siege currently in progress and a magma flood setting fire to the grass near the entrance, Gemclod is far from the mythical heaven of dwarvendom it once used to be.
If you look close enough, you'll see dozens of goblins riding beakdogs around the map. The visualiser doesn't show multiple units per tile but rest assured, wherever you see a beakdog, there's usually a goblin riding it, and the other way around.
For some reason, the visualiser also shows some dead dwarves and animals hanging around the map. But don't worry, there's not a single living dwarf or animal on the surface.
What the visualiser doesn't show, however, is the astonishing blood and gore around the whole map. Look at this in-game screenshot. Each brightly red tile is a corpse, each white heap is a heap of bones:
Most notably, Pozzo's bath has been converted to a corpse pile, and has been filling up with bodies nobody had the time to bury properly. It is now, of course, inaccessible due to the siege.
If you wondered what the hell happened during Bene's turn and how the beak dogs got onto our roof, see this picture. When the siege hit, Bene was building a project that was supposed to pump the magma from the reservoir to the roof and down on Mr. Vile's pumps, thereby stopping the vile flood. He build some stairs to help with the construction, not realising he was giving the greenskins an easy access to the fort.
But now, Gemclod is in a total lock down. All the entrances have been walled off and there's no way in or out. Here you can see the former entrance, now blocked by a wall. The baron's hôtel des invalides is still accessible by Gemclodians (notice the entrance stairs hidden under the aquarium). The stairs in the corners lead to the ramparts but have been walled off on the floor above.
Down in the fortress, fresh recruits are training hastily to prepare for the inevitable battle with the siegers. The rest of the populace is mostly chilling, mingling in the Great Hall or in the cloud bar. The halls are crowded with animals who're steadily growing more and more restless, because there is nothing for them to eat. All the grass is above and unaccessible, and the dwarves haven't stored any hay. A mass starvation or stampede is to be expected.
You may have noticed on the pictures above that the checkerboard room has been flooded, most probably a result of random level pulling. It is only one of many water-based problems Gemclod has been experiencing in the past months. The vile flood, for example, is still going on. However the only harm it does is wetting the floors near the forges and in the graveyard before vanishing in the undercaves. Most dwarves have grown used or even fond of the waterfall it creates on the main staircase.
For his accomplishment, Mr. Vile was allowed to keep his 'V' tomb.
During the great chaos in the first weeks of the siege, a slightly bigger and faster flood has killed about dozen of various dwarves, mostly children. Their bloated corpses are still lying in the former refuge in the undercaves.
The sheer amount of unburied bodies everywhere means the spirits of the dead have been growing restless. For some reason most of them seem to be attracted to the Great Architect and his new project - the cloud necrobaropolis. Fortunatelly, seeing as he has no further hand to spare, these ghosts are of the benign type.
These are tough times for Gemclod and it remains to be seen whether the dwarves will perish or endure. There is one dwarf, however, who doesn't have to be concerned.
Deep below the fortress, emperor Yeol the first waits for her time to come.
