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C. Zircon

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I live in Portland and sometimes I make video games if I can find somebody who will pay me to do it.

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@czircon

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It's been pretty much business as usual in Mightymountains the last few seasons. No big projects happening at the moment, so I've just been trying to keep the citizens happy. To that end, I built a shrine to Cando because there's one miserable goblin bowman who wants to worship them (it doesn't seem to have made him any happier). I also started building a bigger zoo because we've got so many keas and giant wrens in cages thanks to the traps at the fortress entrance; might as well put them to use.

The dwarven child Enure Piliciri drowned in a pond. Tragic. I didn't want anybody else to drown trying to retrieve the body, so I forbid it and engraved a memorial slab. Enure will never be forgotten because I'll see that mangled skeleton in the pond forever.

Meanwhile, another dwarven child, Datan Mengolin, better known as "Jerk," is in a strange mood. (He got that nickname by throwing tantrums.) But I'm not sure what items he needs. He's sketching pictures of a forest, stacked cloth, shining bars of metal, cut gems, and skeletons. He already went and got some logs, but now he's just sitting there sketching. I definitely have cloth, metal bars, and cut gems, and I tried slaughtering a dog to produce a skeleton, but he didn't do anything. So... I don't know what to do. Maybe I don't have the right kind of cloth? I have plant cloth and yarn cloth, but no silk. If that's the problem, I'm screwed because I have no source of silk available, unless I get lucky and a caravan shows up with some, quickly.

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I paused and quit because I didn't know what to do, haha. I could try the caverns, but I haven't found a good entry point yet and there's also a forgotten beast wandering around down there somewhere. Might not be worth the risk...

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does the beast have any unusual material properties* or special abilities? if not theyre pretty much pushovers.

(*metal/rock/gem are the dangerous ones. liquid or gas beasts can die in one punch from a child.)

if it does, you could try trapping it in a corridor with drawbridges at either end (not actual traps, theyre immune unless theyre webbed or unconscious). it could take too long though, esp if you dont already have mechanisms and a mason... and there is critical timing on closing the drawbridges after a successful lure.

or if its wingless, make an opening out of its reach and hope the cave spiders spread into your fort in time.

speaking of which, please double check that auto collect webs is on in standing orders - its possible they have spread already.

another option is to bypass that cavern layer and try to find the next one

side note: you could drain the pond to retrieve the other child's skeleton, either with channels, a screw pump, or designating it as a water source and designating a pond elsewhere!

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