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Ahah, the incorporation of the in-game legends is great. edit: Also, Pure Kamikaze's song sounds like Majora's Mask in the best way. Star Guarded fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jun 26, 2012 |
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That History lesson, such dwarfness. I can't even keep History uncapitalized, now. Well done.
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Jun 26, 2012 20:40
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I can't wait for the inevitable weather-related incident.  I am amazed at the history system in this game. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jun 26, 2012 |
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Jun 26, 2012 21:34
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I just realised we're still only into Hematite (April). The quality of the updates made me think a lot more time had passed for some reason. I'm always terrible at using time properly, the first migrant wave just sits and does fuckall while I muck about with arming two soldiers in some kind or armour and steel weapons. What I should be doing is put a pick or an axe in every new arrivals hand and get those fuckers to work. Future planning is not my strongest trait.
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Jun 26, 2012 21:41
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Demiurge4 posted:I just realised we're still only into Hematite (April). Hematite is the first month of Summer so technically it's more like June 
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Jun 26, 2012 21:52
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Boing posted:Hematite is the first month of Summer so technically it's more like June There's 12 months in a DF year, and Hematite is the fourth. Therefore April 
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Jun 26, 2012 21:55
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^^^ keep in mind that the DF year starts on the first day of spring, not midwinter like the real calendar.Demiurge4 posted:I just realised we're still only into Hematite (April). The quality of the updates made me think a lot more time had passed for some reason. I'm always terrible at using time properly, the first migrant wave just sits and does fuckall while I muck about with arming two soldiers in some kind or armour and steel weapons. What I should be doing is put a pick or an axe in every new arrivals hand and get those fuckers to work. Have one of your starting dwarves be a squad leader - give him 2-3 points of skill in fighting, a weapon, and shield use, and the rest in Teaching. That gives you a solid base for a military since he'll be able to train other recruits up to basic competency with those weapons fairly well. Do not recruit tons of miners as a single legendary miner will go faster than half a dozen dabbling ones. Extra dwarves should be recruits, carpentry/masonry construction drones (assign workshops to your high-skill dwarves), haulers, and similar.
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Jun 26, 2012 21:57
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Absolutly loving the way you weave the quickiness of DF into the story. the integration of the history, down to the wording was great thinking. You're setting the bar high for future overseers! 
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Jun 26, 2012 22:36
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Leperflesh posted:There are over 100,000 dwarves living in Omon Atho, which is the name of our world (it means "The Realm of Soul). We've already had two great musical contributions, but if this isn't begging for a different sort of song I don't know what is. I've been sitting here for 10 minutes trying to figure out what Dwarf Soul would sound like.
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Jun 26, 2012 22:47
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Well obviously it would be metal.
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Jun 26, 2012 22:49
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 Tithleth Dreamyriddles the Subtleties of Mist, Dwarven goddess of dreams, the night, and darkness. Bad Munki posted:Well obviously it would be metal. No, no, it'd be rock.
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Jun 26, 2012 23:11
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That was an amazing history lesson leperflesh. So some captured goblins just bred and bred and slowly took over the fortress from within. Wow i had no idea that could even happen in worldgen. Congratulations on finding such an incredible event in legends mode. Also, i wonder if that one goblin who took over might be a vampire, but i guess that will remain a mystery for now.
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Jun 26, 2012 23:14
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Ayana posted:
Not dwarfy enough. Where is her beard?
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Jun 26, 2012 23:20
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Captain_duck posted:Wow i had no idea that could even happen in worldgen. Congratulations on finding such an incredible event in legends mode. The craziest poo poo happens in World Gen if you really start digging through it. Probably the most famous example is Cacame Awemedinade the Immortal Onslaught, High Elf King of the Dwarves and legendary Hammerdwarf. I've seen the reverse of the current situation before: a dark fortress entirely staffed by the descendants of human captors with only a dozen or so goblins remaining.
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Boing posted:Not dwarfy enough. Where is her beard? On her knuckles.
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Triskelli posted:The craziest poo poo happens in World Gen if you really start digging through it. Probably the most famous example is Cacame Awemedinade the Immortal Onslaught, High Elf King of the Dwarves and legendary Hammerdwarf. Oh i know legends mode is amazing. I Haven't read that cacame story though. Guess i got even more reading to do.
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Demiurge4 posted:I just realised we're still only into Hematite (April). The quality of the updates made me think a lot more time had passed for some reason. Yeah, between a prologue and the interlude, and the effort and detail of getting a fort started, I've not gone very fast in terms of in-game time. Going forward I need to get things moving better, for no other reason than I have a hard deadline of Thursday (I'm flying out of the country Friday and really don't want to have to try to do updates from my work laptop while traveling, although I can do so in theory). Ayana posted:
Very nice! She is mysterious and subversive. Tithleth Nazomnokgol Ozor Sod is all about loving with your head when you're trying to get some rest. Boing posted:Not dwarfy enough. Where is her beard? In creature_standard.txt: pre:Now we'll declare the specific castes. [CASTE:FEMALE] The gender tag lets it know how breeding works. [FEMALE] [MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE] To add beards, put square brackets around the following: BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:FACIAL_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS [CASTE:MALE] [MALE] [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:FACIAL_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS]  Captain_duck posted:That was an amazing history lesson leperflesh. Well, to be completely honest the game is silent about exactly how or why the goblins show up. Actually legends mode only tracks "notable" historical figures, so only a tiny fraction of the denizens of any particular area are recorded there. You have to kind of surmise what was going on and fill in the blanks. That said, every single legend/history I quoted is genuine, and I did not add anything that is contradicted by the history. But Legends does not say specifically that the goblins got there in the first place by being captives. That's just the only possibility that makes any drat sense.
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Isn't that the only way they can get into a different civilization?
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Leperflesh posted:I have not placed the brackets therefore girldwarfs do not have beards. Nthing the love for the latest post, by the way. I know it's silly to have favourite moments of Dwarf Fortress LPs but it's definitely up there with the way Jazzimus (I think) ended Gemclod.
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Diploid posted:Isn't that the only way they can get into a different civilization? I think it is possible for a dwarf civilization to be at peace with a civilization of goblins (the same way dwarfs can sometimes be at war with humans or elves). If you have peace with a goblin civ they can send trade caravans. Maybe that allows immigration too?
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They don't immigrate to my knowledge. AFAIK there are two ways for these things to happen: 1: Captives are stolen as a result of war or kidnapping and eventually become freemen (End result: Dark Goblin Fortress with humans and dwarves in it; Dwarven Fortress with goblins and elves in it) 2: One civilization outright conquers another civilization's city in war (End result: Dark Human Fortress; Dwarven City) I know I've seen more than a few Dark Human Fortresses conquered by humans in Legends.
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Whereabouts is Bronzestabbed on the world map? Is it marked on here?
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395 people waiting to be dwarfed  .
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And somehow I managed to be #3. I guess that means I get to die sooner!
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JoeCool posted:395 people waiting to be dwarfed
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Colon V posted:Do those of us who pick up the game after you get to push ourselves further up the dwarf list, Leper? Look at this. Look at this sentence. You really think you have what it takes to be an overseer, asking permission like that? A real overseer just does whatever they want, whenever they want, and more importantly to whoever they want.
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YeOldeButchere posted:Look at this. 
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Colon would lose interest and abandon his turn a month in anyway. 
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Haha, I haven't really played DF for months, and just hearing your dulcet tones again, Captain, has brought enough of a flash of nostalgia from when I learnt it that I'm going to go and fire up Fortress Mode for the first time in 2012
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Where's Sirocco this time around? Has he posted? His mspaints are always a good time.
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This is looking amazing so far. It almost makes me feel masochistic enough familiarize myself with the latest version of DF. Maybe, just maybe, I'll even see about taking my turn as overseer at some point - especially if things start going bad enough that I couldn't possibly make them any worse.
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 Urist Painteddaggers was the oldest sheriff in Ripewhips, but not the most senior. The latter was by his own choosing, but the former he was sensitive about. Once, at breakfast beer, a rookie beardling with not two months on the force made the mistake of joking to his face that "Old Paint" probably had to lift his ancient beard to piss before wiping his rear end with it. Urist smashed the beardling's mug in his face, breaking his nose. Urist got three days suspension for wasting beer. The beardling got assigned to the Cavern Ward. Urist wasn't happy about it, but the nickname "Old Paint" stuck. Old Paint was offered his fourth chance to be reassigned, and he turned it down for the fourth time. The Brewery Ward could have been all his - a small militia under him, a quiet patrol amid the youngest dwarves running back and forth between the stills and the plump helmet farms - but he didn't want that. He wanted to work where he lived, and that was the oldest Ward in the fortress, the Dorm Ward. In one way, the Dorm Ward hadn't changed much since Old Paint was a beardling. It was still defined by a collection of several large rooms and two dozen or so tiny apartments shared by dwarf families. Old Paint and his wife were lucky enough to have a larger space than most: a good friend of theirs, legendary among the miners at Ripewhips, had, years ago, spent a solid day expanding their quarters to more than twice their original size. Old Paint was well-liked in the fortress and no one minded that the miner had "misread" that day's orders. Back in Old Paint's day, the Dorm Ward was a peaceful, orderly place. Despite there being a dozen beds to a dorm for six or more families, Old Paint remembered a sense of pride in the quarters - his family had chosen the Ngalak Room, intricate frescoes of eagles in flight lined the walls - otherwise tidy except for the occasional heap of clothes. He remembered the trouble he'd get in if he and his brothers played at their anvils too loudly while others tried to sleep. He sparred with a woman for the first time in those dorms. She'd given him his first concussion. All of that was before the goblins. Being old and crude, the Dorm Ward was the first space offered up for the freemen greenskins, and most of the dwarves living there were happy to move further below to more spacious apartments carved in the latest, most proficient styles. The goblins made themselves at home. Where a dozen beds for six families seemed cramped to a dwarf, it was a luxury to the greens. This morning, on his way to work, Old Paint walked by the old Ngalak Room every day. The door open, he peered in as he passed. At least twenty goblin babies wailed unattended on the floor. A goblin couple off in the far corner were loving, oblivious to the nine goblins sleeping in the bed next to them. A piss miasma filled the air, and they had painted the talons and beaks of Ngalak red and black with Gods knew what. Old Paint cursed and walked on. Arriving at the Sheriff's hall, Old Paint entered to find his senior, Melbil Regzat, sitting at his desk, feet up, sipping his pre-Breakfast Beer. Melbil looked up as Paint entered, grinning, obviously already a bit in his cups. "Paint!" he barked, eyes twinkling. Old Paint knew this wasn't good. "What is it?" Old Paint asked, hesitating. Before Melbil could answer, Old Paint followed his eyes to the doorway to the weapons rack room. There stood a slight, green skinned figure, barely managing to hold a Sherrif's hammer nearly half his size. Melbil stood up into an air of formality. "Urist Painteddaggers, meet the newest Dorm Ward sheriff. Er...I think he said his name was Kutsmob." Kutsmob nodded and made a grunting noise. Old Paint felt like wasting another beer.
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Ripewhips is overrun with goblins. Pagetin? Turkeys.
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SynthOrange posted:Ripewhips is overrun with goblins. Pagetin? Turkeys. One war at a time.
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Poor Old Paint. That greenskin is going to take his jerb!  ...is the Noble Work's True Ultimate Wonderfully Horrible Secret Goal to "fix" Ripewhips by linking it to an evil biome?
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TremendousMajestic posted:Where's Sirocco this time around? Has he posted? His mspaints are always a good time. I PM'd him. He's busy with work but sends his regards to the thread. I'm secretly hoping that he eventually gets drawn into things in spite of himself, like last time.
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So I had a moment with the 3rd post, and have organized it into catagories. (no pretty banner for them of course.) I feel that its easier to view like this, but I'll understand if you want to keep them as they are submitted.Leperflesh posted:
As for my own contribution, I plan on expanding the map once the save is availible, and will try and keep it updated with the external changes to the area.
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Grumio posted:Whereabouts is Bronzestabbed on the world map? Is it marked on here?  At the green star. Colon V posted:Do those of us who pick up the game after you get to push ourselves further up the dwarf list, Leper? Overseer's Prerogative applies in this LP as well. Which is to say, yes, if you're overseer, you get to skip in front in order to get your dwarf actually into the fortress for narrative purposes (although you are not required to do so). In some cases if an Overseer happens to get a migration just before they're planning to finish up and hand off to the next person, I'll ask them to keep one dwarf un-nicknamed for this purpose. I'm on my way to bed so I'll update the OP with TremendousMajestic's journal entry and TildeATH's improved graphics tomorrow morning. Also thanks Gray, I was thinking about categorizing but hadn't committed to the idea yet.
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TremendousMajestic posted:Old Paint felt like wasting another beer. This was great. I have a good feeling about this LP.
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