u/TheGarbageGamer

Unfortunately couldn't reach all the way down to the sea floor. Whenever I tried to flood the layer below this with lava, the ocean would instantly refill this layer. So I decided to cut my losses and just accept that this was as far as the support for my bridge was gonna go.

Along with Rigoth and the others (two of them are actually still alive even over 40 years in), I even placed steel statues for each of the monarchs throughout history of The Rare Swords. The one that visited Ritankivish and made us the capital was the 10th monarch of our civilization, and she's been dead for at least 30 years. (Not our fault she couldn't handle a Goblin invasion.) The 11th monarch for some reason has not decided to follow in her footsteps...

I'm probably still gonna add a few more legendary Dwarves down there, like the random soldier that solo'd the Dragon that invaded us a few decades ago...

Well, I didn't expect that plot twist 40 years in. That's on me for carelessly cleaning out the caravans' supply of books every single season they arrive.

...Guess now I have to try and remember how to trick necromancers into reanimating. Some (friendly) zombie Dwarves could do this bridge some good...

I'm not at all surprised that dual wielding exists in DF, but I have never once noticed that a dual wielding sprite actually exists. Also, she's not dual wielding swords, she's dual wielding war hammers.

https://preview.redd.it/0z4usrctlmah1.png?width=1455&format=png&auto=webp&s=578fb3eb542e726e70904b8a424731e240202583

https://preview.redd.it/2uruice9mmah1.png?width=845&format=png&auto=webp&s=d828fc725f698ca2fd8ce620d2620a4dee03f669

Both hammers are even splattered with manera blood, so it's not even in doubt that she's actually using them both.

And like the ocean's waves, the goblins still keep arriving...

The overall mood of the fort always plummets for a while after an invasion because the Dwarves have like a month or so ahead of them of just going out and picking up and cleaning all the viscera. That's not even getting into the matter of smelting all the goblinite (currently redoing my forge just to keep up)...

It's not a pretty tomb, but every dwarf has a coffin and a slab. Except for Sigun, who decided to throw a tantrum and start a fight that injured over 40 Dwarves and killed 10 others.

Sigun's corpse was promptly thrown into the atom smasher and her slab thrown outside.

Bridge may technically be complete, but fort's still a work in progress...

With tonight's invasion, I actually have more dead dwarves in my tomb than ones living in the fort. Lost our Queen and Duke as well. Took a decade to build the bridge and then another five years to fully deconstruct and move the fort to the other continent. (I'm on a 1x16 map so the bridge is actually way longer than the section the image shows.) Thousands and thousands of blocks... actually ran out of siltstone, so I had to start using gypsum and shale. To stop Dwarves from drowning themselves while battling, I started adding fortifications to the sides made of conglomerate.

I was gonna start making the bridge look fancy, but I should probably start with these hundreds of corpses...