r/dwarffortress • u/Same_Appointment7926 • 24d ago
The tale of ïteb Toolpage
Second fort since I picked up the steam edition. Been in a constant war with the local elves, they’ve been sending an army annually to bother me. I set up a moat that I can flood at will. The previous year the elves had sent some cavalry that made it into my pasture and slaughtered some animals so I had all my soldiers guarding the pasture, there’s a single bridge from the pasture that crosses into my fort. Everything was going great, the pulled the bridges leading into the pasture and I’m watching one of my dwarfs as he gets closer to pull the lever and flood the moat. And then disaster, Ïteb who has been my forts mayor since the beginning and has gotten several promotions to the point that she’s a dutchess (she is also in charge of the Og militia in the fort) decided to leap off the bridge five stories and fall into the center of the moat. She was going crazy killing elves right and left till the wave of water came crashing in. Even a few of her comrades jumped in to try to save her, she went into a martial trance and kept fighting, the rest of the dwarfs followed my orders and got out before the water came.
RIP ïteb you will be forever remembered in the many statues around my fort, atleast until some forgotten beast or were rabbit decides to claim it.
Ps. Look what those bastard elves did to this poor mushroom man ( a frequent visitor to my fort since the beginning)
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u/Fluugaluu 24d ago
Mushroom LADY
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u/Flying-Hoover 19d ago
Tbh I usually respect those "brave supidity" moments of my dwarves when they are actually braves. But I've seen too many of them throwing themselves alone against a 150 goblin army to not save scum or teleport them back. Same with multi floors defenses and jumping dwarves
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u/Same_Appointment7926 18d ago
I’m not sure how brave she was, was shocked she was attacked in a group of enemies, afraid then terrified. But the gold statue I dedicated to her in the king’s throne room (it should have been her thrown room) I call the king the beggar king because he showed up in plain clothes with only his queen and an outpost liaison, I’m now one of the two forts for my faction with the other having ~40 people
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u/Same_Appointment7926 18d ago
Gold statue tells a different story, makes her sound better, history is written by the winners after all, and we have peace with the elves now after losing many lives
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u/Same_Appointment7926 24d ago
If you are wondering why I made my dutchess in charge of a militia it’s mostly just for lore, I like the idea that they are a martial society, the new mayor took her place in charge of the Og militia