In Progress Let's Play Towns, or I want to be a Human Fortress!

[Ashery]

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[dextermorgan]

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[Modron]

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[Urist McLurker]

Managed to knee and crash my PC while I was playing for the next update, fucking over my Towns LP seems to becoming a tradition of mine.
I'll be playing again tomorrow/later today, and it's 2131 for the voting, iron, bananas, dedicated military, and a proper town that isn't begging to be destroyed. Which will be easier to do 'cause there's now traps in Towns.

 

[dextermorgan]

Hnnnnghhhh

 

[Urist McLurker]

"Bryce my boy, don't let Catty die damnnit." Several of the townfolk rush to deal with the Frogman, led by Duke Halacre

Though the old Duke attempted to avoid the combat, leading from the back, it sometimes couldn't be avoided. Frogmen are everywhere.

Peter Le Cordier, Juliana Sept, and Leonie have been commanded to become the military to fight the hordes of frogmen, being the most powerful, strongest, and skillful fighters.

Duke Halacre and his son Bryce command over the new hamlet. Catherine de Baileul the aide, or should that be the late aide to the Duke came here with those two..

The three of them recruited us, the Duke was tired of others failing, he's always been known for being..hands on. I wish I had gotten to know him better.
The first day, it was a flurry of activity, but one we all know well. Chop the trees and plant the food, same as everywhere else. The next day, I remember how he stood, he didn't cry. I thought they were married until then, the young woman and the old rich man. I never did ask about Bryce.

But the Duke didn't come here just for the land, spreading into the lands of the frogmen and brownies, merely so he could? No, he always wanted what the jungle could offer. Bananas weren't cheap, and the birds, they sold for a lot.
I like to think he didn't trust anyone else to do this job. The prices on those animals and fruit were just too high.

I spent most of the first couple of days planting banana trees, picking up roots, and cutting trees down. He made us till land for just barely one blue radish and green mushroom. He said he wanted to make sure they survived in the jungle. Why I could never work out.

Leonie died and another person was moved to the military. We spent the rest of the day underground, searching for flint. The old Duke watched us work all day. He didn't do anything after Catherine died.

Not until he got a new aide. Why Bryce didn't do it, I don't know. We needed the flint for cooking. Cooking those bananas. We were there to gather them, to create a trading town, just for the bananas. But we could still have them. There was no rush to get the town up and running. Bryce shouted about cooking the bananas constantly, baking them. Just like how his mother used to.

The graves were set and dug for Catherine and Leonie. We should have all been there, gathering around them in respect.
Maybe, not for them, but for all the ones that would die, when we wouldn't have the chance to give any respect.

Fires were sparked into life, and food production was already going. How long the fires would last, we didn't know. But we had a lot of flint to use.

And the birds were fenced and bred very quickly. The banana groves are expanding rapidly, surprisingly quickly. The Duke knew what he was doing.

The military already started making demands, bone armor. I tried to convince them it wouldn't work, and it didn't. The birds couldn't be harvested for bones, they needed to be killed specially, something no one wasn't sure how to do.

It made the kitchen look impressive, and it allowed some of the birds to be killed and cooked, but the Duke loved his birds.

Only one was cooked.

More fighting, always fighting, the Duke was wounded, and a hospital was designated by Bryce.

He rambled all day long, the new military was earning its keep.

He was up and about as soon as possible, limping to the birds, he stared. All night.

It took until morning until they were convinced about the bones.

The spears were gathered from the frogmen, the bushes were gathered for the farms, the jungle trees were being farmed for dedicated wood.

Baked Bananas. We had them by day four and we would never run out of them.


Surprisingly quick on everything, I don't think this is the patch, more that I know what the fuck I'm doing. Searching for iron is next, I skipped most of the basic gathering stuff for this update since we've been over it before. Gotta make the town more defensible too.

 

[dextermorgan]

Update?

 

[Urist McLurker]

I've got about 3-5 updates lined up for this, but for some reason I just haven't been able to go get up and actually update it, had them done before I even did this last update and I don't know what it is, I just haven't dragged myself to update it.

When I've finally done the final update for the worms reloaded thing(update attempt 6 currently ongoing! Woo! Go me.), I'll make sure to update Towns.

 

[Urist McLurker]

The mining started, the Duke told us that we'd mine the width, the breadth! Of the area. Until the river.
To say we were excited about this.. Hrm. It seemed crazy to us.

Yet again Halacre got stuck into the work personally.

Coal was uncovered and the series of tunnels grew and grew, eventually to criss-cross the local area.

The frogmen..They aren't smart in groups or on their own. A few of started to enter our lands, we were getting worried, but the Duke announced calmly and clearly that they wouldn't mount a proper attack on us.

Juliana was sent to deal with any Frogmen that got into our encampment, but we were still worried, again the Duke announced that there wasn't anything to worry about. We didn't believe him, only Bryce did.

Things were expanding rapidly, we might not have been sure on our directly, but we all knew wherever the minecart was taking us, it was taking there as fast as it could.

Copper was found and I remember wanting to stop mining because copper was good enough for tools and weapons, The Duke laughed and told us all it was for magic.
Magic?

Magic's not something any of us knew about. We knew we had the bananas baked, the trees farmed, and the birds bred.
And that we needed to mine. A lot of mining.

The Duke finally agreed that perhaps there was too many Skootenbeetens about, that we could spare a few.
They were to be cooked, to supplement the bananas. We were up and cooking earlier than even the Duke expected, so we convinced him that expanding the food choice slightly was a good idea

We weren't going to starve, that's for sure.

Slowly the Skootens were to be thinned for now, there were a lot of them and without the ability to deport them, it was pointless to have them getting in the way needlessly.

Areas for rooms were set out, and the masonry was expanded do cope with the wall workload that was to come later; the mines gave us all the stone we needed.

The wood was farmed easily, the tree farm gave us a lot of wood.

Fires had to be relit after a while, I was surprised that they lasted so long. Bryce seemed concerned that didn't last longer..

More tree farmland was set up...

...the jungle was too dangerous still to be the source of wood.

The Duke Halacre Hospital saw a lot of use in those early days.

Immigrants came.
Immigrants here? So soon? The Duke announced it to us one afternoon, a letter had came, informing us that they were coming. After he read it out, he looked directly at me "Lad, dig some graves."

They walked right into the Brownie encampments, without the Duke to guide them around such pitfalls, it was a slaughter.

I've been through many horrible experiences here, but I'll never forget the first time I heard screams piece through the jungle. Juliana ran out of the camp towards them, none of us could stop her.

The screams would stop suddenly.. and start again later.

Alianor chased after Juliana and died in the jungle. It would be a very long time until we recovered the body.

Juliana made it there, that much we know. She didn't make it in time.

She was on her way back, I know she was.

She must have killed at least 5 of them frogmen on her own

All she had was one spear.

Juliana wanted to save lives but she died needlessly and Alianor died because of her. Was it heroic, what they did? Stupid? There's no difference between bravery and stupidity here.

It was decided that we'd all be given a mace, we lost the small military and the Duke wasn't going to risk lives needlessly.

Only the Duke managed to sleep that night. We made maces all night long.

The Duke kept talking about how the Brownies had magic, wands of fire. He told us all we needed magic to fight them.
We didn't even have iron and he wanted to do the impossible? Ha..

The people weren't armed in time, another one died.

We all knew what we needed to do.
More Bananas. Maybe the old man was eating his sorrows away, a lot of deaths so quickly must have done him no good.

Weapons and Bananas.
And the mining. That was life then.

Bryce was the first to test out the new weaponry, and it worked. Very well.

The party we had afterwards, after his victory, made a small change away from the endless mining. We were going to find iron one way or another.

After the Duke saw one of the skootens sitting on his baked banana breakfast meal after looking away for a moment, it was finally decided to cut down on the animals.

Iron, iron was found. Not enough though, but it was believed that more would be on the next level, enough to handle a mine.

Suddenly, everyone wanted to pick up the pickaxe and mine, all of the other mining orders were unnecessary, only the iron mattered. It was an iron rush.

We had enough iron for a few mineshafts.

Torches had to be made for it, though.

Even with the focus on mining, the bananas, just kept on coming. The Duke ordered even more of them to be baked, we had so many and only 6 to feed as it was.

We checked the area around the iron just to be safe. We had to go down.

Because we had enough for two mineshafts, the first one was decided to be coal for more torches.

Area was set apart for stone, we still needed more. The Skootenbeetens started spreading, as well.

The Mineshaft was impressive to look at once it was done.

The next layer was breached, and there was enough space for an iron mine there.

On top of that, the first of the walls were made, and a stone spear was discovered, local frogman legend was later discovered. The spear had been used in the froggy-tiger wars; stabbed through the eye of the last tiger to ensure their a frogman victory.

Peter Le Cordier took the spear as his own.

The first coal had been mined, a sign of great things to come.

Ghosts, I never thought they were real. Seems like a silly thing not to believe in, those corpses were a gateway into the other realm, and the ghosts, they started to flood through...

The ladder was set up and it was time.

Food was never going to be a worry again; there wasn't a single thing holding us back.

Juliana Sept was the first down. I knew spiders grew big underground, but until you see them up close..You simply don't get what they mean by 'giant'.

Peter 'The Tiger' Le Cordier fought the spiders while we set up shop.

Helmet made from dragon bone? Aw man, aw yeah

Slimes, I'll always hate slimes with a passion and it started here.

The site was set up and finished in due course.

Bryce was assuring us that the iron mine would give us as much iron as the coal mine gave. Him and the Duke worked on them both personally, but it was Bryce's baby.

It only took 16 days to secure iron and perfect the food production.

Peter took the spoils of war, it was a good thing too.

The dungeon was discovered, the spiders would be angry.

Area was set aside for the iron we would be hopefully getting.

More of the Dungeon was being uncovered, and Peter charged right in there, I heard him yelling about how he was simply the best around; the dungeon couldn't harm him.

The dungeon had different ideas.

Somehow he survived. Barely survived.

The first iron was collected from the mine.

Things are going too well for my liking to be honest. Not a struggle so much as it just waiting, despite some hiccups.
Gave up on updating my other LP after it dun goofed again and switched to Photobucket(? I think) for doing this update. Hopefully that won't be shitty for me.

We've got food, we've got iron, just got to make the town defensible, and you might notice the start of that in the last screenshot.

After that, we need to start killing enemies, if immigrants keep running right into them I don't see how we're going to get anywhere..

 

[Smashing Axe]

Interesting game, I'll follow this.

 

[dextermorgan]

You should tell Pete he only needs to smile at his enemies and they'll turn to stone.

 

[Urist McLurker]

As the supply of iron starts to trickle in, the question of what to do with the leftover iron arose quickly.

The Duke pointed towards the copper, claiming it was the key to magic. I remember hearing someone complaining at the time, after spending so much time getting iron, he claims that it was copper that's the key?

For now, however, the iron was required for an anvil to start a forge.

A good thing too, the basic salvaged armour wasn't doing its job in keeping Peter safe. With a forge, we knew we could improve what little army we had left at that time..

The Duke decided that the area around the iron mine needed to be kept clear, and in sight from the ladder.

Holes were dug into the ground near the iron mine, Bryce came up with the idea. He believed that, like the copper, the iron would not open into a cave, but rather the walls of a cave, from which another safe mineshaft could be constructed.

The required items and iron were gained, and the anvil was constructed.

Anastas started to complain about the banana production; it was really taking off.

The plan of Bryce started to pay off, not only did the Duke believe in his plan, the rest of us did

Now a stove could be constructed with ease, then armour for Peter..But then? Heh, I remember all the ideas we had. Paving the roads with iron was one that was suggestion.
We didn't even have roads.

But what we did have was a bridge, and a moat of water. One way in and out of the town, and it was that bridge.

It was clear that there was enough room there to create at least another mine without disturbing the dungeon level below.

The first trap was made, spikes on the ground made out of simple wood. Some of the skootenbeeten came across it and a strange thing happened: It did not harm the skooten, but rather, slowed it for a time.
We wondered what effects the other traps would have..

But the time for experimenting wasn't now, a stove had to be built to streamline the kitchen.

Though the iron had ran out for the time, it was only a matter of time until more was unearthed.

The iron came at the same time the hospital was completed, a blue roof to signal out the medical nature of the place.

With the stoves complete, banana production truly exploded...

And so did the population.

Unsurprisingly they came from enemy lands.

Peter was sent to help them straight away.

But it looked like, for once, an immigrants would live.

And luckily for us, Donald had knowledge of magic and with Bryce and the Duke, constructed an ITE smithy.

A new jungle tree farm was created, we needed the wood for more wooden traps.

A side effect of the new moat was uncovered. The Skootens could not wander out of the town anymore, but were instead trapped within the town..

Peter came up with the idea, I remember that. Using the skootens as test dummies for the new traps that were going to be made. It did a lot more than that for us in the longrun though.

The first harvest from the tree farm proved to be bountiful, though it wouldn't last for more than a week..

The first red roofs were popping up, the rooms were being completed slowly. The Duke was concerned about how much space was required for just one person, I argued that we needed more space, more than one room, proper housing. He didn't speak to me for a week. Bryce didn't speak to me again until Halacre's death.

The first Bear Trap, made purely from Iron, was built.

By the next day? Hah, we had two more. It wasn't much, but it was a start.

Soon the full extent of the bear trap's ability was found by the skootens. A small stun and bleeding, combined with the spikes made for a reasonable stun.

More immigrants. More deaths.
The early days were very dark, and the ghosts were very bright..

None of them survived.
But history repeated itself, sadly..

Before we knew what had happened, Peter was already halfway to the site.

Into the very heart of Froggy controlled land he charged. Recklessly, without any support..

Surprisingly, he managed to escape them.
We knew he went to the dead immigrants.

And he started to return home.

Bones were mysteriously found by the traps, we were too worried about Peter to notice what this meant for us at the time.

When we finally reached it, we found out where his body was left. Halfway back home, he stumbled onto a Froggy, nearly dead, Peter attempted to fight.

When he didn't return back that night, we knew what had happened to him.

We named the ITE smithy in his honour, once it was complete.

With this, new, better armour, could be made.

There wasn't enough skootens to test the traps, so more were caged and bred nearby the traps.
It was the beginning of our defensive knowledge, something Peter didn't live to see..