Time to die in Dwarf Fortress.

Let's see, what would be a nice place to embark at? Oh here's one! A spot where the Useless Hills(haunted tropical savanna) meets the Impure Wastes(terrifying badlands)!
Truly the best place in the world to start a thriving fortress at!

I guess with six people signed up I can grab the 7th spot and we can just get started, that's what people want right? I'll be the Armorer, we're gonna need some armor after all, haha!

Without further ado, here's our 7 brave souls!

Shotgun, Blacksmith/Weaponsmith.
Mr. Sebi, Miner/Stonecrafter.
DigDog, axeman.
Cial, hunter/crossbow(wo)man.
Tim Hortans, Brewer.
Erik, Miner.
Ieb, Armorer.

And with that done, LET'S GET SOME GLORY!
HERE WE GO, TO MAKE THE FORTRESS OF-



Fluffyfluffybunny?

...whatever. Also, I swear I did not pick that name by myself. CURSE YOU, RNG!

So far so good, we didn't come across a bazillion undead right at the start, there's some actual living trees to cut down to make stuff out of and the only thing on the map is a giant louse.

It's actually pretty goo-

I spoke too soon.

This rain is causing some minor discomfort on everyone. Meaning everyone suddenly got a fever. Oh well, at least their heads didn't rot off or anything like that, right?

...and all of a sudden, it's raining harpy blood as well. God damn this weather.

The brown spots are where the muck is falling, the red? Harpy blood. All the red X's you see are our brave settlers, down with the fever.

I ordered our miners to dig deep into the rock, and it looks like we hit some siltstone. Here's to hoping we find some iron-ore. Flux is pretty common as far as I've noticed, so as long as we get iron, we can get steel.

DigDog is currently putting his axeman skills to the test by chopping down trees for our use, I think I'll tell Cial that they can be a dabbling carpenter until a better one shows up. Wouldn't want to sleep on the dirt, right?

26 days in, the giant louse finally buggers off(GET IT?) and an acid spitter crawls up. They immediately notice Tim Hortans, who is participating in the current project of building a nice entrance with big, sturdy walls to keep nasties out. The order is given, and Cial and DigDog team up, soon beating the crap out of the acid spitter. We've showed them a lesson they won't soon forget! A bunch of giant kangaroos hop onto view, but they're not a big deal right now. LET'S GET THAT ENTRANCE BUILT UP, COME ON GUYS!

With Spring nearly at an end, the most threatening thing we've seen has been that acid spitter, although I didn't like the look of that giant snail. Oh well, we're doing pretty goo- HARPIES

OH GOD WATCH OUT TIM!



Cial and DigDog get their hustle on fast, and engage the harpies in mortal combat! Okay, mostly Cial did that. We sort of forgot to buy a crossbow, so they have no weapon or bolts. I'll just have 'em make their own out of wood and bones!

Cial dispatches the whole herd by punches and kicks, most of which crack skulls and tear brains.



Maybe they should have been a martial artist instead.

Tim is taken indoors to safety, but it looks pretty bad, they took a good hit on their spine on their way down. Since we lack anyone with medical abilities, I appointed Cial to work on Tim for the time being. Construction on fortifications must go on, even if we have 2 workers less.

With Summer on the way, we are finished with building a nice protected area for farming. With the roof on top, we don't have to worry about harpies either! Now we just need to do the same on the entrance. Wouldn't want traders getting a fever, right?

Tim's situation however looks grim. There's no water anywhere on the surface, and even if there was, I'm sure that harpy blood wouldn't do much good. We need to dig deep, dig greedy, if we're to save him! Cial's diagnose regardless does not look good. Total paralysis, they say. Tim will never move his legs or hands again.

Lucky for Tim, we find water in one of the vast caverns below. It took a while, but we now have a crude well area for water. It doesn't look that bad either, although the fact that the guy breaching the wall had all the harpy blood and putrid muck on 'em mixed into the water makes me wonder how sanitary it is.

On Malachite, two migrants showed up. A hunter, who actually has not ever held a weapon in their life, and a brewer with some basic military skills.



So, IS THIS EXCITING ENOUGH FOR YOU PEOPLE YET?
From the look of things, this evil biome doesn't have the effect of raising undead to terrorize us relentlessly. There are those harpies, I saw a few ogres walk about, and then there's the whole "raining blood" and putrid muck, that upon further examination also causes minor blisters where the muck hits.

Or do you want an actually evil area where everything killed raises up as an undead until we're all dead?

In case we keep this one, what sort of a fort do we want? Underground one, like a normal dorf outpost, or BUILD WALLS AND TOWERS AND SO ON outside, screw the blood and muck rain?