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PetraCore posted:Even better - everyone but the children are skilled combatants. It's not Dwarf Fortress until you have a tantrum spiral run through the entire fortress, leaving the survivors permanently inured against further misery. Even if only a quarter of the original population are still alive.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's not Dwarf Fortress until you have a tantrum spiral run through the entire fortress, leaving the survivors permanently inured against further misery. Even if only a quarter of the original population are still alive. ah, the russian method
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's not Dwarf Fortress until you have a tantrum spiral run through the entire fortress, leaving the survivors permanently inured against further misery. Even if only a quarter of the original population are still alive. Not sure if you mean a quarter of all dwarfs, or a quarter of each dwarf  Do animated limbs count as 'alive'?
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It has begun. My masterpiece. A few dwarves came to see me in my playpen/office. They tried to convince me that their job was vital. Imagine that, a farmer thinking he was important. I sent Deadmeat5150 away. Next a dirty looking dwarf, Rincewind, dressing in long robes, told me he was a "wizzer". He could think about things and they would happen. Good, exactly what we needed! I directed him towards the barracks. He ran away in the opposite direction but Osroct reported the "wizzer" ended up in the barracks anyway. A formally unnamed dwarf introduced themselves to me, Dog Kisser. He wanted to seek honor and death and was happy to be assigned to The Hells Bells. McGibby wanted to know if she was still fit for combat. Her left hand has two fingers still smashed apart, and the left and right wrists were still infected. Can you hold a hammer? Good, you're fit for duty! Finally, Drakenel was confused about the nature of The Brass Wishes. They will see heavy combat once they are well trained. Back to playing with my figurines. News of my exploits must have traveled fast, because a Hammerdwarf visited us the next day. He brought his own gear. Very valuable gear. For his sake, I hope he joins our military. I will not let that gear leave this fortress.  Summer has arrived. The first official shift change. It went well. The miners are hard at work in the barracks, spending half their time hitting the rocks and the other hitting each other.  As if a sign from the gods, some goblins showed up on Hematite 3rd, 567. A scout report said they were not well-trained. They even had a weaponless recruit tagging along with them. I sent out the squads with equipment. The Icy Portals, The Fiery Portals, Helmed Spears, Large Metals, and The Rough Toes. Not the appropriate squads for dealing with invasions, but it will have to do.    First one out was Yeol, completely naked except for a silver war hammer. Within his first few steps outside, the sun made him nauseated and he vomited everywhere.   He died bravely! I will ask the statue makers to honor his charge in stone.  Commander Keene also showed up near the front, but without any bolts in her crossbow. Reports say she did well but eventually it was too much.  Camoes pushed her steel spear straight through the head of a goblin axeman.  Enemy Input did great work, punching and grabbing the goblins so others could get easy kill shots.  neogeo0823 pushed himself to his limits. He collapsed from over-exertion but Camoes was there to finish off the goblin before much harm came to him.   I heard good stories about theshim. They say he danced through the goblins, tearing them to pieces.  Some spoke of Fuubi as part dog.   HardDiskD arrived near the end, late enough to get one good hit in before it was all over.  PhallicPhalanges has much to live down after slamming into Neddy Seagoon, almost costing him his life.  A psyche evaluation was recommended for counterfeitsaint due to some things the other soldiers saw on the battlefield. I approved it.  The Glory Seeker, Neddy Seagoon. Some claim he could have taken them all down himself if not for a particular incident. He hopes to recover enough to wield his spear again.  That report concludes my first real challenge. The siege was finally over.  After the siege was over, my parents returned with some books. The wrong books! I need to learn more about humans, not farms! I sat my father down and said "Why not done?" He looked at me, I looked at him. "Do!" So him and mom went out again, back to the same elf village.   I ordered up some more combat gear, since we have a lot of silver bars and some copper. Epsilon Moonshade showed me a masterly crafted copper battleaxe. Yes, make more of these! The loot from the dead goblins might help. I also ordered 20 stone coffins. I am drawing up plans for squad specific tombs.  What now? It seems Commander Keene has unfinished business in this world. I stationed the Icy Portals near the battlefield to handle anybody else that wants to get up.   Balon was joking with Frenzy the Killbot as they crushed anything that moved.   The human caravan finally arrived on the 11th of Hematite, 567. They better have what I want or else. Some portions transcribed by Tunicate as dictated by Lpzie. Lpzie fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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Apr 7, 2018 21:58
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I appear to have been overlooked for the military squads... perfect! My plan to be utterly useless proceeds apace! I sure hope I'm not mastering some important skill or otherwise providing an invaluable service for the fortress.
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Apr 7, 2018 22:41
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I can't believe he's dead  But seriously, we have fun in the fort. Crushing the corpses of your former friends makes for a quick working day.
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Apr 7, 2018 22:52
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Sent out to fight without bolts for my crossbow. I don't know; is that a new one?
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Apr 7, 2018 23:02
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I like how I used my crossbow as a bludgeon instead of using bolts.
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Apr 7, 2018 23:21
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Commander Keene posted:Sent out to fight without bolts for my crossbow. I don't know; is that a new one? A finely crafted instrument of death is the mark of a dwarven soldier, cowardly shoting enemies from afar is the mark of an elf!
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Apr 7, 2018 23:55
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Requesting a Dwarfing Add me to the list, I can swing a pick and drink. Just forget I look like a scrunt.....
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Apr 8, 2018 00:12
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I was hoping for more out of my squad in that siege. Perhaps whoever takes Yeol's spot in The Fiery Portals should be a fully grown adult dwarf who remembers to put their armor on before a fight instead of an awkward teenage widower.
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Apr 8, 2018 01:42
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Good job, squad. I'm sure I was right behind you all. Somewhere. (I didn't live until 90 and bring up four kids as a single parent by being reckless, I guess.)
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Apr 8, 2018 08:40
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The Glory Seeker? Why has that insane infant tyrant dubbed me The Glory Seeker?  All I seek is a good stout ale and to be as underground as possible. Preferably alive. If getting a drink underground means I have to murder my way back inside the fort, then so be it.
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Apr 8, 2018 12:59
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Aw yeah, joined the Hell's Bells. Can't wait to have my upper lip explode into gore!
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Apr 8, 2018 13:10
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Fragment from the diary of So Math, Overseer of Valleysilences. 3 Slate 566 Neddy Seagoon was eager to join the Helmed Spears. Neddy Seagoon posted:Dwarf Me that I might find Glory, Death, and Gory! In that order! From this day, Seagoon is not just a recruit, but a Glory Seeker!
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Apr 8, 2018 20:26
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Woo, good job, teamwork, there. I'm pretty sure that that's my first "live" combat, so hopefully I work hard and get my stamina up for the next one.
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Apr 8, 2018 22:46
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So Math posted:Fragment from the diary of So Math, Overseer of Valleysilences. You can't prove that! Uh... err... I was sober at the time! Yeah, that's it; stone-cold sober! Cant believe or trust anything a Dwarf says while sober... right?  Guide my spear into the guts of our Elven foes. Glory to me, Death to our foes, Gory chunks left of them on the grounds of their burning forests.
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Apr 9, 2018 02:38
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The Glory Seeker? Why has that insane infant tyrant dubbed me The Glory Seeker? That sounds pretty Glorious, for a dwarf
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Apr 9, 2018 09:10
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Damnit, Jim, I'm a bone carver, not a bone breaker! As an aside, do we actually have a bone-carving industry, or does our prediliction for magma sacrifices preclude such?
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Apr 9, 2018 14:29
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If we can manage to butcher anything, we'll get (non-reanimating) bones out of it. Of course, then we have to dispose of the skin and hair/wool before it rises up to strangle dwarves...
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Apr 9, 2018 16:48
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We need a high-speed butchery industry that can carve up corpses and propel the remains to their relevant industries or disposal chambers before they reanimate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk98XND8ZP0 Something like this with chutes and carts to transport the skin and fur.
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Apr 9, 2018 17:00
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chitoryu12 posted:We need a high-speed butchery industry that can carve up corpses and propel the remains to their relevant industries or disposal chambers before they reanimate. I was expecting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enUo-1TjdEs
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Apr 9, 2018 18:54
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This overseer is amazing. Did I not sign up to get dwarfed yet? Dwarf me!
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Lpzie posted:I heard good stories about theshim. They say he danced through the goblins, tearing them to pieces. 
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Apr 9, 2018 19:38
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theshim posted:Holy poo poo my dwarf bit the goblin's back teeth out of his head And kicked him in the head so hard that his neck tore!
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Apr 9, 2018 19:42
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theshim posted:Holy poo poo my dwarf bit the goblin's back teeth out of his head Now I wondering about if it's possible to make a necklace out of goblin teeth. And about the prospect of being chocked to death by a string of unread teeth.
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The Icy Portals have been complaining that the dead on the battlefield keep returning to life. I see it as good training, so I did nothing for half a month. Eventually, I gave orders for some of the body parts to be dumped. A goblin axeman visited us a few days after the siege. Some people were jumpy about this. I sent the Rough Toes along with the Helmed Spears to escort her out (of this reality). Right in the middle of the main staircase, Camoes got the finishing blow, but it was a team effort between her and Vodkahead, neogeo0823, Guarstine, Fuubi, & Foul Ole Ron.    Good loot. Offer the goblins body to the gods.  counterfeitsaint was having trouble keeping his plump helmets down. Get your act together, soldier! However, now it is very easy to follow the route outside (even with your eyes closed).  The humans arrived and displayed their goods. We did the same. Traded for food, clothing, raw materials, wine and beer, musical instruments, and toys. That did not interest me. I found anything metallic and told broker Gnoman to buy it. Stupid humans. They bring gear too large for dwarves, but melting down one of them is enough to equip two of us. I had some metalworkers ready to melt them down and gear up the squads. One kid, Ash Rose, really wanted to play with the iron toy boat. The "upmost importance of dwarven steadfastness" demanded that I melt it and so I did. I also got all their books.   I also noticed we were using copper to store meats. Pointless. I got manager Gnoman to order rock pots to replace them. I did not wait for the rock pots to be finished before I melted the copper pots down into "virgin military potential". Update on the wounded. Neddy Seagoon is being attended to, as is Grizzwold, by Pharnakes. Grizzwold is all scratched up, he should be fine. But Neddy -- the doctor pulled me aside and let me know that he may not wield a weapon as well as he did before. These doctors, they are just seamstresses but on bodies. He will fight again, I will make sure of it!    I sent a doctor out to see how the stationed soldiers were "mentally fortifying their razor-shape psyches". Balon was battle-hardened, through and through. Perhaps even seeing the bright side to it all. Megane has been philosophizing in between smashing bits into smaller bits into even smaller bits (how small can these bits go? I should ask a scholar). Either way, at least she's going and getting at 'em! Grizzwold, back in action, looking into the smashed guts and goblins parts, is hopeful for our future. It was amazing to see, I almost cried. My dream is coming true with each passing day. Nevertheless, I rotated the Fiery Portals in (more at a time since they were inexperienced).    Mom and Dad returned with 2 new books. Still not right, so I ordered them out again. Dad said they may have been spotted so I should send them somewhere else. Fine.  On the 5th of Malachite, 567, we had some undead ravens harassing Brother Buer. The Icy Portals caught it and dealt with it immediately. Jamsque punched one raven so hard its upper body collapsed in on itself, blowing up, and colliding with the other raven.   The marksdwarves have been in two battles without bolts/arrows. In honor of Commander Keene (outstanding dwarf that even death could not keep from his duties), I increased our ammo supply. I also took a look at why the marksdwarves were not equipped properly. I figured it out! They were told to hold 250 bolts at once, and squads without crossbows were also given those orders. They were hogging all the ammo. That has been fixed.   After the battlefield was cleared of anything that could come back to life, I ordered the statue of Yeol be placed there. Await our arrival in the world beyond!   Jamsque and Osroct both sought me out as I was overseeing the squad tombs, looking to replace their dead soldiers. I made them look at the symmetry in these tombs. It is as the gods of blood and authors of war require. So I forbade them from filling the position. These squads are "intricate parts functioning as a cohesive unit", that must "guard against structural weaknesses, internal and external". They will live, serve, and die together. Then in the afterlife, they will herald my coming and we will slay the gods.  Overall, I am very impressed with the "pulsating metallic harmony between tool and blade".  Some portions transcribed by Tunicate as dictated by Lpzie. 
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Its a clear violation of dwarven rules of hospitality to kill a guest within the first 72 hours. And any offending guest should at least be evicted from the premesis before applying justice, whether it be judicial or mob justice.
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Rincewinds posted:Its a clear violation of dwarven rules of hospitality to kill a guest within the first 72 hours. And any offending guest should at least be evicted from the premesis before applying justice, whether it be judicial or mob justice. Elves aren't guests. They're more of a nuisance that are tolerated so long as they bring booze to trade.
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now i'm not saying that there's something wrong with cave adaptation, but that's a lot of vomit
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Prav posted:now i'm not saying that there's something wrong with cave adaptation, but that's a lot of vomit Hey look man, I'm just doing my part to make sure my brothers in arms can easily follow the path to glory After I get my share with my silver hammer of course.
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Apr 10, 2018 11:41
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make a glass roofed training room imo. possibly with a pump for high-pressure water cleaning.
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Apr 10, 2018 11:51
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Do wooden spear rooms still work for levelling combat skills?
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Apr 10, 2018 11:52
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So for our butchery operation: Wouldn't the easy answer to our reanimated hair/hide problem be to to line the workshops with cage traps so that any bewitched hair just goes in a cage to be sacrificed to the volcano at a later date?
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I remain the zombie-raven-punching-est dwarf in the fortress, which pleases me. Still would rather have a full squad than not but who am I to question our bloodthirsty little overseer.
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Apr 10, 2018 19:28
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Lpzie posted:Then in the afterlife, they will herald my coming and we will slay the gods. Is Geshud for or against god-murder? As an ardent worshiper of Geshud this is important to dorf Grizzwold.
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Lpzie posted:I ordered up some more combat gear, since we have a lot of silver bars and some copper. Epsilon Moonshade showed me a masterly crafted copper battleaxe. Yes, make more of these! The loot from the dead goblins might help. I also ordered 20 stone coffins. I am drawing up plans for squad specific tombs. Dammit, make some bronze! Way better material for chopping critters and making masterpieces.  Also, have you posted a savefile, if we want to browse the legends mode and stuff?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Do wooden spear rooms still work for levelling combat skills? Not really, no. If you don't have a full set of good armor you can be injured by the spears, mostly cuts and bruises but broken fingers are supposed to be common too. At the same time the weapons and armor take wear and tear. So the wooden training spears are doing damage to whatever armor you're wearing, which isn't too bad if it is steel armor, but steel armor will cause the spears to break down pretty quickly. Wear and tear is in, but repair is not. If you keep using damaged weapons and armor eventually it will completely fall apart and vanish exactly like clothing, so before that happens you need to smelt it down so you don't lose all the metal value. Wooden training spears can't be melted down, so they are destroyed and you need to start from scratch with fresh logs, make new spears, and then reconstruct the mechanisms again. And a lot of people avoid forested maps now because the pretty foliage and fruit causes FPS problems, so you probably don't have enough spare logs to keep whittling them down to spears and breaking them on your metal boots.
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quote:One kid, Ash Rose, really wanted to play with the iron toy boat. The "upmost importance of dwarven steadfastness" demanded that I melt it and so I did. I also got all their books. And so the blood feud begins.
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