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.
Last time on the BoC: Fort founder Lorbam has lost her mind, and ordered the whole fortress – once a thriving tourist destination – sealed off from the surface so that she can breed her beasts in the safety of the Great Beneath. During preparations for the move underground, the fort was very nearly breached by a Werepanda: only the bolts of a sharp-eyed hunter – and the harrowing resilience of a war tiger – saved the day.