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Dwarfing list is 47 long so far so that's like one migration wave Great OP! Already nostalgic just from reading your writing style again.
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Personally I'm not too worried about the little evil corner we have next to the site. But then I don't know if evil beasts and whatever else are going to roam outside of that area. Hopefully we'll get to see! And man a lot of people want to be adult male dwarven sheriffs. I propose trial by combat
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I doubt that identifying vampires from updates will be a problem. Even if it's evident from the dwarf stats screen, by the time 30+ strong migrant waves start coming, overseers will have better things to do than to screenshot every single migrant's stats.
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Looking at the embark site again. There's not much flat ground to build a Gemclod-style keep on, so I'll be interested to see what Leperfish decides to make the fort look like. Normally I try to carve my entrance into a rock face but all the slopes here seem to be mainly soil, so we'll certainly be going down a few levels.
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Jun 24, 2012 14:37
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I really like how you take niggly game mechanics and turn them into flavour, where it's dwarves being stubborn or traditional or whatever. Like this:Leperflesh posted:Bad Munki also informed he will lead the squadron 'The Stormy Lancers' which is a good military name but I do not understand how one dwarf can be a squad. Also, am I the only one that's a bit worried about our animal situation? e: Igest is the best god. POETRY and STORMS
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Rurik posted:Am I understanding you correctly, the latter ain't x km2? So for example "10 square kilometres" would be 102 kilometres which is equal to 10*10 kilometres which is equal to 100 kilometres? Or do you mark the square kilometres in the US differently than here in Europe? I think Leperfish uses "10 kilometres square" to mean the area of a 10km * 10km square, which is 100 square kilometres. That piece is amazing, Loden. I've started trying to compose music recently and I wish it came to me nearly as easily as that.
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Leperflesh posted:I interrupted because I owned details. This is remarkable. Again, the way you take Dwarf Fortress's clunky Legends madlibs and run with it and make it sound dwarfy as gently caress is just perfect. Boing fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jun 26, 2012 |
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Jun 26, 2012 18:21
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So The Rare Ship must have basically dominated a lot of the world in conquest, since we've been able to absorb so many other races into our cities. Are we totally imperialist badasses? Because that would be the upshot.
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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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Ayana posted:
Not dwarfy enough. Where is her beard?
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Jun 26, 2012 23:20
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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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Jun 27, 2012 08:28
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 The sound of picks. Muscled arms sweat from labour, toiling endlessly amid the depths of the earth. Ever deeper they plunge, ceasing not for thirst nor fatigue, for there is no prize greater than the riches beneath.  (Disclaimer: This is the first actual song I've ever composed, I have literally no formal music training, I haven't a clue how to write for other instruments, I don't know the first thing about how to make MIDIs sound good and failed spectacularly at trying to export it as an mp3. But all that aside, I hope someone likes it!) edit: Updated, now with 100% less midi Boing fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jun 27, 2012 |
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Jun 27, 2012 21:23
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I bet you also have a great need for people to like and admire you, and you tend to be critical of yourself.Flavius Belisarius posted:Do we need to wait until we get dwarfed to post journal entries, or can we post stuff from where we are currently (i.e. Ripewhips)? I don't think anyone will hold it against you if you jump the gun. Nothing wrong with journal entries even if you won't ever be dwarfed.
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Vox Nihili posted:Not sure if that really applies to the dwarf personalities. They tend to be more specific than horoscope-type descriptions and often pretty extreme, "He is not easily moved to pity" and the like. Personality traits are generated on a 0-100 scale for each factor and are normally distributed around a mean of 50. Those that fall in the completely neutral segment of a given personality factor aren't mentioned at all in the description, but nonetheless the majority of things that get included are fairly mild. "Calm demeanour", "self-conscious", "can handle stress". You get a few that are extreme, like you say, but most will fall within a reasonable error distribution for any average response on personality questionnaire items. 
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I have this idea for writing a song at the end of each year in roughly the same minimalist staccato style, based on the achievements and circumstances of that year, while still keeping some thematic cohesion. For me at least it'd be good composition practice. And if it got to the end it'd make for a nice album to play Dwarf Fortress to (because I always had trouble finding music that sounded dwarfy enough for my taste). However I know I'm nowhere near as good as Sirocco or Loden, so I'm hesitant to just go for it in case someone else wanted to do something similar and do a better job of it. Let me know if this is something that we want.Cthulhu Dreams posted:I actually really like this. One tedious nitpick, can I suggest reducing the stereo separation on the mix because it sounds like you physically have your head in a piano when you listen to this with headphones. This is.. off putting. I was playing with the MIDI sliders and I didn't realise it'd be so jarring. Lessons learned, right
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I seriously have no idea how anyone is going to follow Leperfish after this. Bravo.
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Amazing epilogue. Really looking forward to the next instalment.
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Leperflesh posted:It was a momentous occasion and I had all of their attention. Year One (Leperfish)  (maybe if I do this enough I'll get decent at it) Boing fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jul 3, 2012 |
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Loden Taylor posted:This is cool. It conveys the feel of the first year of a fortress; mining, building, and relentless labor. Thanks! I'm glad that came across. Quality of writing aside, not much really happened this year so that hopeful sense of establishing an outpost was all I had to go on. Future overseer years might have more concrete themes that should be easier to write around.
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Jul 4, 2012 00:19
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Oh god everyone's dead
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Jul 6, 2012 18:56
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It's gamey but I like having a mister, it gives us a fighting chance against the kestrel of certain doom or any of its ilk. This owns so drat hard
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Jul 7, 2012 01:17
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Oh wow
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Jul 8, 2012 19:08
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The inevitable child overseer will have a lot of potential though.
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I guess it actually was pretty deadly, and probably would've killed Nomikos if it wasn't so distracted by trying to break her baby. Crazy hyena really wanted to kill that baby. And Nomikos only took it out once (presumably) the full moon had passed and crazy hyena became a crazy naked human which isn't much of a threat. I am leaving fishy in my quote on the last page for posterity, never forget 
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Loden Taylor posted:I've been sitting on these two for a while, waiting until something like this happened. I continue to be awed by your talent for these.
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JamieTheD posted:
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Hey I just got back from holiday, time to catch up on BronzestJamieTheD posted:Dearest Boing...  (actually this is pretty nice)
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Jul 19, 2012 00:26
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I had started to associate 'Bad' with 'murked' so as soon as I saw Bad Spider webbing up the fort I thought we were done. i poo poo trains is going to have the badassest scar. And a good story to tell. Is the cavern hatch outdoors? That's sensible I guess but was a little confusing.
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OhCrap posted:Markus_cz diagnoses that i poo poo trains has "great big bloody spider bite in Head you great gallumping idiot". I had to explain to my officemates why I was laughing 
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DrMelon posted:If the soap managed to clean his wounds before the paralysis syndrome took hold, he should be safe I think. One of the many benefits of soap! The syndrome took hold immediately because he was paralysed in the spider's grasp, but I think it wore off before he had enough time to actually suffocate. I'm picturing i poo poo trains with a big bloody bandage tied around his head, already up and chasing kobolds around without a second thought.
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Looks like musclebaby's all grown upOhCrap posted:I was fully expecting him to die. His head was pissing blood. If he ever oversees there is a perfect opportunity for a literally brain-damaged overseer
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I'm not exactly sure what the 'Toughness' attribute does. Does it improve the material density of your flesh and bones? Or lessen the force of the blows hitting you, or improve your tolerance to pain (which I thought was willpower)? Or does it just give you more blood? That would be a pretty gamey way of doing it
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I really like this update schedule. OhCrap is a Good Overseer.
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Daktar posted:There once was a dwarf who shat trains 
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Loden Taylor posted:So I started over with this: This could easily be Final Fantasy battle music, tell me the influence is there.
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Zapdos is miserable which you see very rarely so I'm looking forward to him going insane and narrating overseer updates as a gibbering lunatic or hopeless depressive.
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That ending was metal as gently caress. Nice job!
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Aw poo poo e: Given how much trouble we had with one fire-breathing titan and one murk coyote I definitely don't think engaging this lot is a good idea on any level
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markus_cz posted:Withdraw all civilians to the caverns, lure the goblins into the fortress proper, wait till their forces separate searching various rooms and keep ambushing them in the labyrinth of hallways and workshops! This is actually a really good and sensible idea, teams of archers are much less effective in cramped corridors with lots of corners which gives our melee teams a chance to Stelas posted:There's your answer. Loose the coyotes! no wait hold on this is perfect DO THIS gently caress. DO IT
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