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TildeATH posted:
InwardChaos is female. Just a little nitpick.
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InwardChaos posted:InwardChaos is female. Just a little nitpick. The true legacy of Bronzestabbed: absolutely nobody can keep anyone else's gender straight.
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InwardChaos posted:InwardChaos is female. Just a little nitpick. Hey, give the kid a break. It was a dream! You were in traction! Everyone is only 16 pixels tall! It's fixed.
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TildeATH posted:It's fixed.  
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^^^^ Haha!
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TildeATH posted:Amazingness. Well that's one way to write a final journal, even if it's just a dream.The best way.
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For those who feel the desire to play a dwarf at Bronzestabbed (or a maimed guineafowl or a Bugbat) it's really quite easy. DFHack comes installed with the Bronzestabbed zip, so once you've loaded up your fortress, pause it and switch to the DFHack window (it's the DOS-looking thing that says "DFHack is Ready. Have a nice day!" followed by a blinking cursor). Type: mode set Select 2 which corresponds to Arena Mode You're now in the Arena interface. Your "arena" is, conveniently, the Bronzestabbed embark. Switch back to your Dwarf Fortress window, you'll see that it's changed to Arena Mode. All the dwarves will have their "real" names in Arena mode, and not their nicknames. Press k and highlight the being you want to control. Press c to assume control. Now, switch back to the DFHack window. Type: mode set Select 1 which corresponds to Adventure Mode You are now in control of your dwarf. Walk around, kill things, talk to people, steal things like a wannabe kobold, whatever. And before anyone whines about feeling left out because they died, remember that this isn't some scrub video game for diaper school, you can do that to with the proper level of desecration. Please don't misuse this power to make Whoopi Goldberg and Demi Moore make out. TildeATH fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Sep 5, 2012 |
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And as a warning: while this certainly appears to work fine, switching back to Fortress mode after you've mucked around this way and then playing on may be hazardous to the save file. I don't know for sure that there will be problems, but it's possible, so it's a good idea to back things up before you start playing Bronzestabbed Ghost Adventure.
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Leperflesh posted:And as a warning: while this certainly appears to work fine, switching back to Fortress mode after you've mucked around this way and then playing on may be hazardous to the save file. I don't know for sure that there will be problems, but it's possible, so it's a good idea to back things up before you start playing Bronzestabbed Ghost Adventure. Right. You can leave fortresses and come back, but it's not easy and often mucks things up. Switching to Arena reveals everything, and there are a host of other, much more pernicious issues. Playing a ghost or vampire with a secret identity also tends to screw things up. It's called DFHack for good reason, though.
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Oh great. My dwarf is Captian of the Guard and my family are all jobless Ugathers who don't wanna talk about me
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GNU Order posted:Oh great. My dwarf is Captian of the Guard and my family are all jobless Ugathers who don't wanna talk about me I am sure they are all thankful for the money you send across the border though.
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That was a great journal entry and all, but I feel not enough attention is being drawn to the fact that our next overseer has been selected, and it's YeOldeButchere. This is going to be wonderful.
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Maugrim posted:That was a great journal entry and all, but I feel not enough attention is being drawn to the fact that our next overseer has been selected, and it's YeOldeButchere. I agree completely. In fact, I was a little trepidatious about my Adventure-mode journal for that very reason. But I think the RNG has blessed us with the overseership of the macesurgeon. By the time Yeol is done sprucing up the place, I expect it shall menace with mauls and flails. I can only hope his obsession forces all the adamantine to be used for blunt weapons.
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Leperflesh posted:Congratulations YeOldeButchere, youuuuuuu are our next Overseer! You poor fucks. EDIT: ^^^ I think you mean trepanatious. Because that's how I'm feeling. Deep Dish Fuckfest fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Sep 6, 2012 |
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YeOldeButchere posted:EDIT: ^^^ I think you mean trepanatious. Because that's how I'm feeling. You mean you've got a hole in your head? Well, your dorf must have, he's agreed to oversee this mad place! Then again, that means all Overseers have a hole drilled into their heads on taking the position, or having had a trepanning in the past is a requisite for the position, or [recedes into incoherent mumbling of possibilities]
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It says my dwarf has been dwarfed but my infant girl hasn't been mentioned in the births, before lotion man and co. Did you miss adding that one?
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Samuel posted:It says my dwarf has been dwarfed but my infant girl hasn't been mentioned in the births, before lotion man and co. Did you miss adding that one? You were born during Felsite, 240, Pt I: TildeATH posted:Tilde started to glower, "Oh-KAY!"
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D'aawwww, I'm going to be the worst wrestler ever. 
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 Another patrol round done. More of my life I'm never getting back. And seeing how I'm still a macedwarf, and the kind of sieges we've been getting, life is in short supply. But hey, with patrol duty the most likely thing to happen is dying of boredom. Want to know how it goes, brain? Alright, you start on the tower, where you've got a majestic view of the Fields of Vice.  You might think some unholy swamp isn't what you'd want to see, but you're one of the few dwarves who'll actually see your doom coming when whatever lies there decides to end Bronzestabbed! That's a good thing, right? Once you're done contemplating your own mortality and cursing the gods, you can start your round by going down.  That smell is rotting ogres. Well, more than that, but that's the dominant fragrance these days. Usually I curse the gods again, but I've been doing that for a while now, so that's optional. Take note of the bone pile. If you're like me, you hate bones because they always get in your way when you're trying to remove things from sick dwarves. Well, not these days because I haven't practiced in a year. And not those bones because they're not in a dwarf, or ever were. But I digress.  Going down further, you reach the "main gate". Also the only gate. You'll notice I've also been referring to "the" tower. Take a guess why. But what do you expect from a child overseer? Doesn't really excuse those that came before him, though... One of them was thoughtful enough to try to cover the dirt with stone, but that didn't seem to have caught on with their successors, because you can still see the winding, mossy passages leading to empty rooms or who knows where. Go down a level and...  More dirt. Old rooms from Bronzestabbed's first years.  Another level, more dirt. And some passage I've never even been in, and I'm supposed to be keeping this place safe.  Limestone, finally! Still, not much around here.  Then we reach what is possibly the only decent room in the entire fortress, the dining hall. If only it wasn't next to the row of smoke-belching smelters and forges. You also have the piles of malachite, because that's one thing this place isn't lacking. Iron, though, you won't find that in Bronzestabbed.  Speaking of iron, here we find piles and piles of limestone, which in other circumstances would have been prized for steelmaking. Here we make stone trinkets with it. Same with the cobaltite that's scattered about, too. And with the... Wait, what is that stone?  It's...  Oh dear. 
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Man, somebody needs to remove that single tile of support floor at the very top of the tower and replace it with a fortification to fully enclose the top, if only for OCD's sake.
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I like the tone of the new overseer already. 
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Its about time someone looked to the defences. I mean good gah dada!
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Good stuff. I liked getting a look at the first few levels of the fortress at this stage, especially with a mind to defence. Now, who within the candy conspiracy has been outfitted with equipment already, we must know!
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Nakar posted:So the Top Secret Adamantine Conspiracy is going to be outed by someone accidentally storing the ore in the main stockpile? That's somehow so apt. They'll just claim it's microcline. That always works... "Uh, no, I'm just Microcline Extracting."
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Nakar posted:So the Top Secret Adamantine Conspiracy is going to be outed by someone accidentally storing the ore in the main stockpile? That's somehow so apt. It is the most Dwarf Fortress-y end to a conspiracy imaginable.
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You guys are so suspicious. We probably just traded for it. Or looted it off of ogres.
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I started following this thread before it was started (when Lepperflesh was setting it up in the DF thread) but then stopped following it around the second overseer, and now I finally caught up with everything. WOW! This is the best DFLP that's been. I read through over 2000 posts this week and now I'm sad there isn't more. Excellent job.
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Not done with the first gameplay update, but I've got some text instead. Hopefully it'll do. Bronzestabbed's Dining Hall, Obsidian 28th 240 "-and so a new overseer must be chosen for the coming year." His faith in Bronzestabbed's purpose had been tested, just as some dwarves' faith in him had been tested, but Leperfish was still the closest thing to a statesman Bronzestabbed had. It then fell on him to ensure that the smooth transition of power would occur from one overseer to the next. That was the purpose of the meeting he organized for the dwarves of Bronzestabbed, excluding those who worship Ugath. "I have a candidate in mind, but if any of you have proposals to make for qualified"- the tone of his voice changed almost imperceptibly for that last word -"overseers, or feel that any dwarf should be excluded from the possibility of becoming overseer, then-" "I DO!" The shout came from Yeol, who already was making his way from the back of the crowd to where Leperfish was. Once he got there, he turned to the crowd and began: "I object to those who would sacrifice Bronzestabbed for their own wealth becoming overseer!" "Nutter." was muttered in the otherwise silent crowd. "I heard that. But I don't blame you. I too wouldn't accept such accusations without proof. But here is proof enough!" Yeol plunged his hand into a backpack, and when he removed it, he was holding a fist-sized chunk of pale-blue rock. It took a few seconds for the crowd to recognize the stone. "It's exactly what you think it is. I found it in the stockpile, amongst piles of limestone and cobaltite. Probably misplaced as microline. But then, if we have been mining nigh-legendary metals in Bronzestabbed, why do we not know about this? Why is our militia forced to fight with bronze weapons? Where is the vein?" A persistent murmur was now coming from the crowd, when somebody began "The Ugathers! They must be the ones who-" "The Ugathers," Yeol interrupted, "regard the adamantine" - hearing the word seemed to quiet the crowd - "as an herald of doom. They would not willingly extract it." "But they're hypocrit-", another voice in the crowd began before being interrupted again. "If they did have access to adamantine, and were half the hypocrites you claim they are, then we would already have been slaughtered by weapons we have no defense against. Not that they would have been wrong to do so after the way you all treated them for begging a different master than you do." The crowd was now silent. Some in shame, some simply because they did not know what to say. "The truth, as I see it, is this: some unscrupulous dwarves in the shadow whispered to the Toddleseer, to persecute the Ugathers as a distraction, so that none would notice when they tried to extract adamantine to keep as their own. But they've failed. And as far as you all know, by being the one who brought this to light, I am the only one you can trust for this coming year." There was now open discussion in the crowd, which lasted for minutes before quieting down. "Aye, that's all good,", someone in the crowd said, "but what will you do if you become overseer?" Yeol hadn't thought this far ahead. He expected that the discovery of the adamantine would be all he'd needed to escape life as a macedwarf and become overseer, and so he went with the first thing he thought of: "I'll, uh... I'll double booze production?" The cheer was heard all the way to Ugathville.
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 24th Obsidian 240 Steel! Steel! Glorious steel! Steel to melt! Steel to burn! You beautiful alloy, we will make such bars together that the weapons forged from them will chop the heads off a dozen Kovests. If the mountainhome wants to keep showing off with steel pots and steel nest boxes that's absolutely fine with me. I once picked up Medtob and put him on a steel nest box in Pagevoice to see if it was really that comfortable, and he immediately defecated on it and ran away, so I don't think the hens will be much deprived. (Speaking of Medtob, last time I went to visit him he presented me with a blue peahen egg biscuit! It was charming. Or would have been if I hadn't pulled the biscuit open and found maggots. Either someone is trying to poison my pet or my pet is trying to poison me; Medtob knows I prefer emu biscuits though.) I must get to a furnace. Maybe if I put one of the goblin effigies in my desk chair for an hour or two no one will notice I'm gone. There are still caged goblins around, but nobody is reluctant to murder the hell out of them when they siege (which is to say all the time), so I'm hoping they'll get drowned in Fadedmaggots after the spring thaw. 28th Obsidian 240 So Yeol found adamantine lying around in a common stockpile. This either explains everything or makes everything make even less sense, depending on how drunk I am. If I were an Ugathite I'd want to stick a bolt in my own eye about now to think I got stuffed in a pit so dwarves could hide adamantine and not do anything useful with it. Or stick bolts in everybody else's eyes for not stopping them. Maybe both. Is the mining all that's been going on? I saw some goods in the trade depot I know I didn't sign any order for. Which I should probably tell the new Overseer, come to think of it. Kaishai fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Sep 30, 2012 |
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YeOldeButchere posted:Probably misplaced as microline. I understand why this mistake is made by so many. I do. But nevertheless, it's microcline. [/nitpick] Kaishai posted:Steel! Steel! Glorious steel! Hot, straight from the magma! Weapons in your hand! Armour on your back now! Beats iron and bronze and wood, Delights all metalworkers Steel! Wonderful steel! Marvellous steel! Beautiful steel! GLO-RI-OUS STEEL! [/end dwarf dance number]
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I'm just bothered by the fact that the chunk of adamantine shown to the crowd is a boulder and not a wafer.  :colber:
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scamtank posted:I'm just bothered by the fact that the chunk of adamantine shown to the crowd is a boulder and not a wafer.  It actually *is* microcline, but he looked like he was having so much fun up there we decided not to mention it.
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OhCrap posted:Hot, straight from the magma! I don't think it's the tune you had in mind, but 'armour on your back now!' has me picturing dwarves dancing to this at their parties! I thought too much about what a happy furnace worker would sing and came up with something Modern English might (not) appreciate. I Smelt With You Starting fires using all my coal; Making bars with you has never gotten old. I saw the steel glowing bright behind your door, Never really knowing when we would get to smelt more. Chorus: I'll stop the murk and smelt with you. We've made the ingots, and we're getting faster all the time. There's nothing we can't burn, it's true. I'll stop the murk and smelt with you. (We should burn brighter) Dream of metal ores, that melt at high degrees (We both know why) Trapped inside is strength only a furnace frees. (We should burn brighter) I melt down human tools to save our dwarven race (We all know why) Never comprehending why they make iron hives. (Chorus) The door is open wide. The door is open wide. (Let's stop the murk) I'll stop the murk and smelt with you. (Let's stop the murk) I've seen some changes and it's getting stronger all the time. (Let's stop the murk) There's nothing we can't burn, it's true. (Let's stop the murk) I'll stop the murk and smelt with you. The door is open wide.
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Granite 1st 241 If you ever told me I'd one day be overseer when I first came to Bronzestabbed, I'd have dissected you. Partly because it seemed I'd been sentenced to militia duty for life, and partly because who the hell would want to be overseer of this place? But having seen what riches it truly holds, I can say I've changed my mind. My first act as overseer of Bronzestabbed is to end this pointless division between dwarves.  From this day on, Ugathville is no more.  I know I can't simply erase a year of persecution by decree. And forcing the Ugathers back to Bronzestabbed would be seen as an attempt at doing just that by some. So instead I'll let them come back as they please, and I'll help them do so.  Those who see wadding through the disgusting water - though frankly most of it isn't water - in a religious light can still do so, the rest can use the bridge. This being done, the next thing I want to do is a complete inventory of the fortress. Granite 2nd 241 My inventory was interrupted by shouts from the tunnel to Ugathville.  Death. In an unusual form for this place, but death nonetheless. Granite 3rd 241 Fiendish murk on the far side of the river. Curse the gods for this. Granite 5th 241 Improbable Lobster, one of the kids around here, has apparently been collecting materials for quite a while now and finally started to do something with them in a workshop. Hopefully it'll be something useful, or at least valuable. Granite 8th 241 Some engravers were busy smoothing the basement of "Ugathville".  I've ordered them to direct their energies elsewhere. After all, there's no point in improving areas of Bronzestabbed which will end up empty anyhow. Granite 10th 241 Improbable Lobster finished what he was working on.  It's probably not-    I see bright things in your future, child. Granite 16th 241 The inventory is done. We already had detailed records, but we needed someone to actually look at them. A lot of it is utterly worthless, like the barrels of ichor and blood (including grizzly bear blood, I hate those things) we keep with the food. We also happen to have 30 or so anvils. I understand that we don't have the materials to make more, but that's a bit excessive, and we should at least put them to use.  More importantly, the records show that iron isn't as rare around here as you'd think.  I haven't really found anything out of the ordinary, but then again, Leperfish can't know of everything when he maintains the records, and he can hide things if he wants. The next task is finding out where the adamantine came from. I'll send the militia to explore the depths of the fortress. That's not something I thought I'd ever write, but with the state of this place "explore" is the right word. Granite 17th 241 One of the notoriously unruly "child" around here has finally become an adult.  She still refuses to work, but the tests done at Star Guarded Memorial indicate she'd best be suited for "Potash Maker", "Lye Maker" or "Soaper", so we're not missing out on much. Granite 18th 241 I've ordered the westernmost part of the dining hall to be engraved.  Our engravers are all supremely skilled, and I'm certain they will be able to bring our history to life.    Granite 24th 241 The farmers have finished tilling the soil for some new fields.  We're rather low on plants, and if I am to make good on my promise of doubling booze production, we'll need to grow more crops. It'll also put some otherwise empty rooms to use. I've also ordered the cutting of all mature trees inside the fortress, and the gathering of any wild plants growing inside. They get in the way. Granite 26th 241 More adamantine has been turning up.  This was found in a cloth stockpile near the entrance this morning. And one of the militia squads has found stairs below the fortress that lead even deeper into the earth. We're close. 1st Slate 241 Where to start? We found the adamantine.  Far, far below the fortress. But that's not all we found.  Magma forges. But for me there was even more in store, because working in those forges I also found Nil Bastionhall. My wife.  She was extracting strands from the raw adamantine. And being an armorer, she probably has forged armor there too. Armor that was never given to the militia. Armor that I could have used when fighting ogres. Armor that would have saved lives. She knew about this all along. And she's not the only one. Those forges can't have been built by a handful of dwarves. Many, many more knew about this and yet they said nothing. Dwarves died fighting to protect this fortress, some because they lacked proper weapons and armor, and yet they said nothing. Curse the gods.
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Is this a first? This could totally be a first.
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I was surprised too when this happened. One of the most unnatural deaths I've seen for a dwarf.
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YeOldeButchere posted:
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scamtank posted:Is this a first? This could totally be a first. For any fort ever, actually, yes.
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Bad Munki posted:For any fort ever, actually, yes. 
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