Tales From Overguilds, Part 12

Alright... where were we?

21st Opal, Midwinter, 1053

My miners are still carving out bedrooms and removing a few surface ramps. I'll take the time to start beautifying the fortress. And as admiring a tastefully arranged statue goes along way towards improving a dwarf's mood, I have asked my manager to have twenty rock statues constructed. Later these will be place in various high traffic areas. 

Now, which of my idlers should I set to engraving duty?

I set two unemployed hunters to engraving duty and designate a section of the bedroom wing to smooth. Soon one of the two loafers show up and gets to work, but to my surprise, so does my broker. And he smooths FAST. Investigating, it turns out that he is a legendary engraver. Nice.

Ghosts are cool.

I look around to see what else is going on... It seems on the surface I've gotten a chunk of the ramps dug out (finally) and a series of walls underway (again, finally). And I spot... a ghost!

My sprawling catacombs.

Who am gonna call? Nobody at the moment. But if it does become a problem, I'll just call my engraver and have a memorial slab carved.  But that does remind me, what ever happened to that plan of mine to put in some catacombs?

 There's my catacombs, and they need some work. But, that'll have to wait until my miner finished digging out the bedrooms. Otherwise, I'll never get anything done.

I let things run for a while- I make sure my workshops are still operating. I set one of my jeweler's workshop back to encrusting furniture, my engravers continue smoothing things, and my farmers complain about being out of plump helmet spawn again. Then I get the following notification:

It seems a bunch of troglodytes have arrived, too. Anyone wanna bet it's a troglodyte werelizard?

The Werelizard Akul Icgasom has come! Who the heck is the Werelizard Akul Icgasom? It'll find out next time (I promise, it'll be less than a month till the next update). Seeing as it's almost Christmas, I figure I'll upload a copy of my save game for any readers who wanna pull Akul's tail off to see if it'll grow back...

Quit yer yappin', I wanna torture me a Werelizard! (Dwarf Fortress File Depot download link)

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