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So, that tower used to be ruled by a Marmot Man necromancer, but it's now Dwarven...? I don't remember if it was that way before, but does that mean that somehow, our bugged team accidentally defected and formed a new civilized location? Is that what happened to them? PurpleXVI posted:I gotta admit, I can never tell when these fuckups are the AI throwing a cog, the interface being too obscure for a normal human to parse or the overseer actually screwing up commands. That's just Dwarf Fortress in a nutshell, really. There's no way to really know what you're doing is going to work, and there's never really an explanation why a soldier heading out for duty decides to take multiple days in storing a sock that is not only not owned by him but also tattered to pieces.
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Go with Geshud, crazy goblin.
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Mar 18, 2020 10:41
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PurpleXVI posted:I gotta admit, I can never tell when these fuckups are the AI throwing a cog, the interface being too obscure for a normal human to parse or the overseer actually screwing up commands. So I think at the very last, I figured it out mostly. First, soldiers do not obey civilian alerts or burrows, and I may not have been setting squad burrows properly always. Second, they will abandon an order temporarily to go pickup a better piece of equipment (or store a tattered sock apparently). That's why we saw soldiers run out, or attempt to, when the traps were opened to bait zombies in. Suddenly there was a path to some amazing equipment outside. I was trying to forbid all these attractive nuisances, but it's extremely tedious as there is about 40 z-levels of volcano slopes dotted with the remains of the steady stream of visitors we have gotten over the years (some of whom brought very good gear, even artifact quality) . With TheCog the final time though, I was aware of all this. I ordered her back inside, I set a burrow on her squad, but nope. She even got up to the exit despite me being 90% sure the hatches were locked and maybe even with a missing staircase. Geshud obviously told her there was something outside that couldn't wait. I hope she found it, or at least maybe the next Overseer might get a chance to recover it or just figure out what it is (now I think of it I have a hunch it's an artifact copper crossbow I noted was up there).
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Mar 18, 2020 12:24
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I think I'll stay dead, pity it was fun to see how long I'd last. Any hope of some fitting epitaph?
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Mar 18, 2020 12:48
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Any hope of some fitting epitaph? Foul Ole Ron Drain Wanderer Zombie Botherer Cat Wrestler Farm Plot's Bane May the glowing blood of the mountain sweep thee to final rest And you not climb back up into the fort and run around on fire Amen
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Mar 18, 2020 13:00
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IPA Regulations posted:Foul Ole Ron May you also not come back as a ghost and rip any hard working suturer's legs off, amen.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:33
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So that makes me the lone dwarf on this insane expedition? To what do I owe that honour? Incipient mental breakdown I presume?
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Mar 18, 2020 21:30
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Pharnakes posted:So that makes me the lone dwarf on this insane expedition? To what do I owe that honour? Incipient mental breakdown I presume? Correct! You were having regular mental breakdowns that made it seem you were imminently about to kill yourself, or someone else. Mostly about witnessing death and attacked being by undead iirc, made me think military life wasn't for you... but on the other hand, you missed martial training and were a skilled speardwarf. So you get to come with me on a little trip to the necromancer tower where the last squad never returned from! With your beloved goblin
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Mar 18, 2020 22:48
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I like how I'm already referred to in the past tense.
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Mar 18, 2020 23:16
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IPA Regulations posted:Foul Ole Ron I condem my soul to any god that would find it. Also regarding me not coming back from the dead, I only promise to try.
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Mar 18, 2020 23:32
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The Flying Twybil posted:So, that tower used to be ruled by a Marmot Man necromancer, but it's now Dwarven...? Missed this: I'm not sure. I noted it a while back. I'm not sure if it's possible for the raiding party to have become necromancers while there? I'd really like to know though. I think the group in control of the site is listed as a different civ from us though or maybe they just called themselves something different when they settled the site. Can you imagine if we somehow got those dwarfs back after all those years(in game and irl at this stage)? I'll probably check legends at some point if we don't find out another way. Pharnakes posted:I like how I'm already referred to in the past tense. I might mix up tenses a whole lot while writing but it's a pretty sure thing everyone in this expedition is very much so past tense, yes Foul Ole Ron posted:
Thank you for your service! Edit: just to reiterate for any potential Overseers out there lurking; Valleysilences needs an Overseer. Gnoman already offered to take a final turn to close out the fort on the discord and I've put the save up. So if anyone else wanted a crack at managing this volcanic hell trap before its inevitable glorious end, now's the time! Or forever hold your peace. Tiocfaidh Yar Ma fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Sorry this has taken so long. I've had a ton of other projects going. Journal of Mangno, Bard 1 Granite 575 There are voices in my head. Not the usual ones - the ones reminding me of the horrors of this place - but something else. Some great and powerful presense. This journal's filling up faster than it should, and I don't understand why. 1 Granite 575 The traumas of this land are increasingly driving the residents here mad - and in this vessel's madness, she percieves my presense. So far, I have blocked her from reading these words, but that will not last. I only hope that it will last long enough.  Time grows short, for the end here is near. The dead grow ever more numerous, and the careless attempts to eliminate them have only increased the trauma here, and that is the real threat. Trauma draws Him like a lodestone, and soon he will feast. I have no other choice.  I will seek the depths. We shall go to Him.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:07
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Instead of going out with a whimper, going out with a bang, wise.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:53
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It begins... 
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Apr 23, 2020 17:41
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Gnoman posted:
There's a hidden connection here, I'm sure of it. Mangno.. Man... Gno... Man... Aha! This bard is secretly a paid mangosteen shill! Excited to finally die horribly
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Apr 23, 2020 20:15
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Gnoman posted:
Date. ?????? I'm not dead, but I'm not alive. None of us are. Oh gods help me. Please. He has me. He has us all. 
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Apr 23, 2020 22:15
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Date. ?????? 9 Granite A perfomance troupe has arrived for a visit. Their deaths will only worsen our problems. 11 Granite In this labryinth there are many paths to the outside, and even I do not know them all. The Dead have found one such, and entered the fortress.   Several are dead, and the survivors are beginning to break under the strain. Danny Glands is but the first. 
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Apr 28, 2020 10:56
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Oh no! I'm guessing the door wasn't locked after our little expedition sallied out. Did they get off-map or die horribly? Also did the human maul-donkey carrying Subtleshowers splat any undead with it?
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Apr 28, 2020 12:26
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No idea. I was ignoring the combat reports because a bunch of guests were outside, then it started being named dwarves found dead. That's when I spotted them getting in.
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Apr 28, 2020 12:47
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16 Granite. The military has been destroyed. Those few that remain in the ranks are too wounded to fight. The sutiation is hopless. 18 Granite We must flee this place. Even as I turn to face the dead and go to my doom, I give the order. The fortress has fallen, and those that remain are to seek the relative safety of the wilderness.  _________ Interlude: I pass out of time, and space, until I begin to feel life in me once more. Another dwarf, in another world. Strange. My hands are bound, and I am tied in place as the wagon advances. Somebody speaks, seeming to notice that I'm stirring. "So, you're finally awake." I did not expect the fort to reach this point so quickly (in-game, it actually took a while due to FPS). A new fort in the most recent version will be coming soon. Join the discord to discuss the setup.
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May 18, 2020 22:31
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Goonbless!
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May 19, 2020 00:09
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Another successful fortress!
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Whimper ending it seems. Pitty was hoping for some exposition.
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