#mountainhome

getting the throne made was either find enough material from angels to smelt into a chair a process that would take farming angels, getting the 7 artifacts also could be done during the same time period as getting the material for the throne but still a bit risky adventure mode wise. the risky part being either burning time scouring the tunnels for angels or artifacts, or burning a +15 to +30 minute time loss to making an ghostly adventurer as this requires a detour to getting necromancy to set that up. the other snag is monarchy won't stay still at a retired site and will move to seat of power, this probably changes if the player fort becomes a capital but I landed on getting the adventurer to stand still. which I realize wait I could just embark on top of the waiting adventurer and pivoted to making a gremlin(playable in fort mode if considered tame) the monarch instead given like it still possible to get the population and items and artifacts all in fort mode if you just embark over the spot everyone is waiting at. which leads to the other snag, 109 tame gremlins and one gremlin monarch would require a whole lot of meat or meat related plans to keep them fed long enough to finish building the monarch's royal rooms to get the game to consider the site being a mountain home.

oh and the whole ghostly adventurer being a murderous ghost will cause the rest of the open to fear followers to die if one take control off the ghost, and the process of doing the ghostly route being faster but prone to deaths and time lost navigating several magma pockets with a horse hauling all the artifacts and divine metal items and leaving them stuck in a rock. the other snag related to monarchy is finding them, so knowing where they are in a site will still take time scouting the place to find the one civ zone they are residing in and it often not in the center of the fortress entrance.

the other other snag was golden salve is really expensive if the broker knows it expensive other wise it's capped to 2000 if no one knows appraisal and 5000 if someone barely knows appraisal so having more golden salve might cover for faster site value before the broker realize they are swimming in 2,000,000 value of blended valley herbs. Any way said all this just to show off that I prove it was possible to this :

so I learn from this is one could just cut out fort mode up to the embarking on top of the monarch and just set up a smelter to smelt all the angel gear into a throne and have the already existing stuff drop on the floor for the player to be used for building the royal rooms(if one does not do the ghostly adv route). having done this it made me feel like this example goal does it's job well on being an example of a goal one could tackle in many different ways in dwarf fortress... than just waiting for monarchy to show up. another interesting tidbit about doing this it seems like getting a monarchy to stand around in your fort doubles for getting wagons? so one could skip getting a barony to gain access to wagons showing up.