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Oh boy oh boy oh boy! I've been waiting for this since I found Gemclod last summer. By then it was way too late to participate, so I've been keeping an eye on the progress of the new LP - and it's finally here! Too bad Leperflesh posted this thread when it was over 1:00 in the night over here. I could've stayed up of course, but I really didn't want to keep my girlfriend awake because of an Internet dwarf game. Luckily at 4:00 I had a dream in which this LP was already started and everybody who got dwarfed played this game on a common server with an FPS view. While I was dreaming I realized DF doesn't look like Minecraft which made me wake up and check out the forums with my phone - and the LP was up for several hours! 122nd place on the dwarfing list isn't at all what I had hoped, but that's probably before the game reaches its midpoint (if 300+ dwarves is really expected). Hopefully I'll get assigned to military as requested and my dwarf gets to do something impossibly unprobable and noteworthy.  I gather that's my most likely shot at becoming anything else than a background figure. Probably I'll get killed by wildlife though.Anyway, I'll be enjoying this LP mighty much! Haven't read the prologue yet, I'll be riding on a train for eight hours after an hour and decided to save it for that. I have an exam on political and diplomatic history from 1500s to the present day three days from now, but eh. Dwarf Fortress. Rurik fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Jun 24, 2012 |
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Shorter Than Some posted:Yeah but could we have a thread rule of not pointing it out if someone notices an obvious giveaway?
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Jun 24, 2012 13:27
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Ugh, I've been sitting in the train for five hours now and what I need is an update. I crave my fix!  Of course Leperflesh should really concentrate on quality instead of rushing, but it's really awesome to have this finally going.By the way, I'm for that idea that proposed building the fortress at least partially in the caverns. Would be different. Of course Leperflesh can also level entire parts of map in order to build a keep. Build the fortress across the brook. Or a butchery. Flowing water will keep the diseases and miasma away. 
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Jun 24, 2012 14:58
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Farecoal posted:I'm confused by the writing style, what happened in the prologue?
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Jun 24, 2012 19:17
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Cool, the first actual update! It's nice to see the earth being stricken and the first foundations of the future dwarven metropolis being laid. I just hope Bad Munki doesn't end up comatose this time. Leperflesh posted:The kestrel soars over the tainted land across the brook. Bad Munki jokes perhaps it hunts ghosts but it is not funny. The pantheon is really great. Tithleth and Ugath have especially appropriate names.
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Jun 24, 2012 20:06
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Internet Kraken posted:
By the way, I imagined what would be if civilizations in DF entered modern era at some point and developed nuclear weapons. At first point it might seem wise to nuke evil areas, because their objectively evil, but instead of a corrupting, poisonous wasteland you'd have a corrupting, poisonous and radioactive wasteland.  Imagine all the mutant zombies and dust husks.The addition of the undead actually expands the possibilities of what might kill this fort. Should we hold a lottery? Everyone could bet if it's the undead, Forgotten Beasts, goblin sieges or demons that do it. Somehow this conveys the feeling of space under ground much better than actual DF screenshots from much larger fortress areas do. It's eerie.  Oh, and a DF LP with dinosaurs in unforeseeable future would be really cool. Jurassic Fort.
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Jun 25, 2012 08:45
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Wow, Over There is really dangerous. I didn't think such poisonous clouds could cross the brook Over Here though.  I wonder what it does. So far no animals have strayed into it, but it's only a matter of time.Can undead husk kangaroos carry deadly dust in their pouches? Deadly kangaroo undeath strike corps!
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Jun 25, 2012 20:14
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Leperflesh posted:A Dwarf Tile is 2m square What were you doing all that time?!  Leperflesh posted:Also I say "x kilometers square" meaning, a square of x kilometers per side. Loden Taylor posted:I wrote a piece in commemoration of this fortress's founding and in anticipation of its inevitable horrific end. Dr. Demon posted:Personally, I'm imagining it being played over a slow-motion montage of dwarf after dwarf dying in increasingly horrific fashion. Camera zooms out. The Overseer is alone playing the piano at the very end of the piece - and surrounded by the husks covered with the blood of the dwarves they fought against. The Overseer looks at the piano, but knows they are there - not moving, only listening. The piece ends. The Overseer sighs and looks down. Lights fade out. End.
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Jun 26, 2012 08:05
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Someone should accuse Toady of lack of realism and demand realistic sized worlds in next updates. That should nicely postpone any changes into an unforeseeable future.
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Jun 26, 2012 10:33
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That was amazing.  If only our histories would be like that. "In 1066, the human William de Normandie became a king in England." "In 2008, the human Barack Obama became a president in USA."
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Jun 26, 2012 19:17
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Cool, first migrants! A surprisingly small wave though, but that's no problem. If this gets going slow, it means it'll be longer.Fitzy Fitz posted:Ha! Hope you can keep that up when you get 50 dwarves at once. Triskelli posted:Hah, going to try my hand at writing a journal entry. A husband and wife with their freshly hatched Guinea Fowl. Apparently this is what a keet looks like: Boing posted:
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Jun 28, 2012 10:42
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markus_cz posted:Okay, so we've already established this was a false alarm. Still, let me just say... Which reminds me... Leperflesh posted:Naturally anyone who grabs the save is exposed to massive spoilers and is strictly forbidden from ruining the fun by posting details or even oblique hints about anything in the game that hasn't been explicitly exposed by Overseers. No "oh ho ho just you guys wait" or "oh man Leperfish really did a number" or "OMG I can't wait till what happens next month". That poo poo is really really annoying to the audience. And updates delayed by a day or two every now and then are fine.  What shall we do now though? Talk about the dwarven pantheon?Sotsa's journal entry was really great by the way. What do people think, was that (avatar of) Ugath or some his disciple? I like to think the former - in which case taking that book was even worse idea than in the case of the latter. Fadedmaggoty is a great piece of music, even better than Loden Taylor's first. I wonder what kind of piece you could make about Ugath. 
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Jun 29, 2012 08:08
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OrangeSoda posted:...Since when did link get a sex change? 
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Jun 30, 2012 07:40
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Triskelli posted:
Actually the only winning condition of this LP is that the keet is still alive while every dwarf is dead. And not caged. Rurik fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Jun 30, 2012 |
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Jun 30, 2012 19:44
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm rooting for Urist the dog. 
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Jun 30, 2012 21:33
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Wow, to think that this kind of procedurally generated game now has this kind of setting and story. This LP is no longer about dwarves just doing stuff in a fort and about emergent gameplay, it has a purpose. Though there are no scripted events so it's really unlikely the Necro King will appear to us at some point. Also, was this planned? Leperflesh posted:
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Jul 1, 2012 09:48
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Jul 1, 2012 15:21
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And thus the first year has come to pass. Excellent writing, Leperflesh, and greatly built suspense regarding that kestrel. Not to mention your world building, which has already been praised. This fortress has a purpose! I wonder what kind of turn the fate of the fort will take next. Every overseer is different and I'm getting the feeling that Leperflesh is the more careful kind. We've avoided disasters thus far, but what if some jingoistic Internet Kraken gets elected and decides to charge into the murk? Actually, that would be badass! Anyway, now we really know that Over There is dangerous and what it actually does. Though does anyone care to enlighten me what's the actual difference between a dust husk and a fiendish murk zombie? Vox Nihili posted:They are not beyond redemption, though- perhaps some sort of cleansing atonement is in order?
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Jul 3, 2012 08:28
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Making fun of elves is fun, but I'm seconding the request that we don't piss elves off on purpose. I want to have the exotic animals they bring (so they can run off into the murk...)
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Jul 3, 2012 18:32
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Yeah, zero tolerance for spoilers.
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Jul 4, 2012 13:36
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Grittybeard posted:If it helps any I missed the opening of this by somewhere around 18 hours and ended up in the 300s for dwarfing. Everyone loves a DF LP. Dedicated like a dwarf!
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Jul 5, 2012 17:47
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Fargo Fukes posted:Dedicated like a dwarf means going to bed for a week just as the LP goes up. Then once you get up you drink, eat and go on break. Then someone organises a party by the *Schist Table*. You eventually get around to reading the LP in November.
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Jul 5, 2012 18:06
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Boing posted:Oh god everyone's undead
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Jul 6, 2012 19:18
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Bad Munki posted:Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck Three-Phase posted:
A nice update! It's cool to have so much babies in such a short timespan, it fits with the theme of a young fort. Now it's just important to keep the babies away from the murk, lest we get zombie babies sieging us.Revenant Threshold posted:I think dwarf me is going to grow up to be one of those people who blathers on and on about their favourite subject. I hope you all like hearing about voracious cave crawlers!
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Jul 8, 2012 18:44
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Wow, action! I wonder how Nomikos will handle this. Will a tantrum be thrown? Also waiting for John Charity Spring's post. Too bad we can't have a werebaby overseer, but a ghostly baby overseer is still a possibility...
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Jul 10, 2012 08:59
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JamieTheD posted:Interlude 3: An Excerpt from Understanding the Beast, by James Imagefishing, 320
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Jul 11, 2012 15:44
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Internet Kraken posted:So my two soldiers are a teenager that can barely hold a crossbow straight and an incredibly old man that could keel over 3 years from now. Fun times.  Ugh, this crossbow is WAY too heavy! When I was young, the world was half the age it is today.Internet Kraken posted:
 Also, apparently the elves didn't bring any exotic animals? Or didn't you JamieTheD purchase any from them? I'd really have loved some giant scorpions. Leperflesh, I checked the dwarfing list and didn't find Sankis from there. I also can't recall someone named that posting. Is that dwarf someone you just made up or is it a goon like us? And also, could you please modify my dwarfing preferences? I wanted to be a militarydwarf, but what I want to be now is either a noble or a militarydwarf. So please add noble there if you could, I'm 122nd on the list. Actually, I just went and look and now I'm 124th. Have some dwarves been secretly added into the front of the queue? Not that it's serious if so and even more less if an overseer wants to be dwarved or something, but I thought I'd ask.
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Jul 12, 2012 08:13
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Kennel posted:I suggest everyone forgets the Pony-chat ASAP before it devours the thread.
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Jul 14, 2012 15:53
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JamieTheD posted:EDIT: Also, ENGRAVE JCS' TOMB, DAMMIT! I wasn't able to in the reload, so that's my own mandate... WE MUST REMEMBER JOHN CHARITY SPRINGS! HIS NAME WAS JOHN CHARITY SPRING!
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Jul 15, 2012 12:11
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FinalSin posted:I can imagine few things more unsettling than having an army whose cloaks all bear an image of a dead child on the back. Clothiers, get to work.
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Jul 15, 2012 13:49
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Pozzo posted:
That's because nobody reads technical drawings in their spare time for fun (at least nobody who's not a bit weird). Things that are meant for fun on the other hand are representative. For example, blocks of legos that represent grass are green and look like grass. You won't find some grey legos with "GRASS" written on them anywhere.
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Jul 16, 2012 07:49
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LeJackal posted:I agree. I would hate to see this devolve into a popularity contest that shuts out new, possibly awesome overseers.
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Jul 16, 2012 15:49
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TildeATH posted:Speaking of which, where the hell is OhCrap?
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Jul 16, 2012 18:30
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The quality of this LP is simply spectacular. It occured to me, how do people pronounce Ugath? Does 'u' sound like 'you'? If that's the case, the name sounds eerily like Yuggoth. 
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This has been really fun. I've been away from the Internet connection since monday (well, I went to a public wifi hotspot a few times) and there was a lot of great reading to catch up. Also, yay, about 12 dorfs and it's my turn! I finally remembered what OhCrap's style reminds me of.
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Jul 20, 2012 18:08
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Pretty soon we should rename the fort Babymurder. Or Babymurder-by-mythic-beasts-of-nightmare. Imagine the stories the dwarves tell to their children. There can be no consolation about monsters not really existing. The parents can't tell the children that no boogeymen exist. Not in a world where werehyenas tear babies apart after stealing them from their mother's arms.
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Jul 22, 2012 07:38
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 What a massacre. Well, I should arrive at the next migrant wave and I wanted to be a militarydwarf (or a noble, but doesn't seem likely now). I just hope I have some skills (and armor!!!) so I don't immediately become target practice for goblins or something else.
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Jul 22, 2012 18:11
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:slowclap: I've liked all three overseers thus far, but your turn, OhCrap, really was magnificent. It's because of your style which was funny and natural, it didn't feel forced in any way. Thanks for a great turn, it was really entertaining! It's a shame I didn't make it in time to see the Overseer Who Cries Heed. I'll probably be in the migrant wave that comes at the beginning of the next overseer's turn though, so I'll arrive at a fort with very weird atmosphere as OhCrap's overseeing will be a very recent memory for all. e: gently caress, apparently if the last migrant wave had but one dwarf more, I'd already be here. The frustration!  Oh well, eagerly waiting!
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Jul 23, 2012 08:49
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OhCrap posted:The only reason you didn't make it was that you specified adult male dwarf. I did try to hold to people's preferences in that regard, as much as possible. Then it doesn't bother me at all.
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Jul 24, 2012 20:35
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Haha alright! Lets get this party started! (Tomorrow, I go to work in about 30 minutes)