Lorbam is saved, and UristвЂ™s gambit has worked - while lookouts peeking through the fortifications at the cavern entrance have reported the winged worm embarking on a horrid killing spree out in the dark (it seems to be straight up biting the heads off of everything it sees, chaining instant kills), it canвЂ™t access the fort through the new well channel.

The well that will save Lorbam is tainted with her own holy blood. Release the lake! Oh, and that smear of red in the filling passageway? That's the haunted blood, tracked in on a miner's feet. Reaching the stairs at the far end, where a well has been built, they are clapped on their backs by Bembul, the doctor, who has a bucket ready to dip into the new, icy torrent. The miners turn and run, just as the ceiling gives way altogether, and they are pursued down the tunnel by a wall of rushing water. A hair-thin jet at first, and then a curtain, filling the cramped space with the stink of ozone. There water springs from the tip of NilвЂ™s pick. Any second now they will break up through the silt of the cthonic waterway, but thereвЂ™s no time for caution with their friendвЂ™s life hanging in the balance. They are deep below the estimated floor of the underground lake, and the air is thick with chill moisture. In a narrow, pitch-black tunnel, miners Ineth, Nil and Uvash dig with demonic speed. And besides, if her plan works, the flying worm wonвЂ™t even see the dwarves coming. Once LorbamвЂ™s hated rival, she is now the beastmasterвЂ™s most fiercely loyal friend, and she wonвЂ™t let anything so petty as a forgotten beast from the dawn of time get in the way of saving her pal. you're welcome.Дespite her reputation for prudence and caution, however, Mayor Urist wonвЂ™t be dissuaded. This is Eunice Aphroditois (with wings added), and it can grow to 3m long.

Bristleworms are absolutely horrifying btw. And it just so happens that, since the first day of winter, those caverns have been inhabited by a gigantic, flying bristleworm. And while the goblins are occupying the forest above, the only place to get that is in the wild, monster-haunted caverns beneath the deep mines. Since sick dwarves donвЂ™t drink booze, Lorbam needs fresh water. She is far into the liminal space between life and death - the threshold which the dwarves refer to as the Interesting Door - but the fort has not given up on her. All around her, a pack of shivering dingos lick her blood from their haunches, waiting for their queen to recover, or to die. Lorbam lies in the hospital bed, half-flattened by masonry and drenched in mud. This one was heavier than most: despite an attack from within the enemy ranks by a shapeshifting Werepanda, the blockade remained all season, leaving the fort without a supply of water - and its founder slowly dying of thirst. Last time on the BoC: After a wild summer in which the fortress was revamped, a ghost wrestler arrived, and the Bird Hole was finally bricked over, autumn arrived with its traditional goblin siege. This is The Basement Of Curiosity, a weekly Dwarf Fortress diary chronicling Nate Crowley's attempts to build an illegal, underground zoo in everyone's favourite text based dwarf management game.

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