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OhCrap Mountainmist posted:
Licking Bad Weasels is still a problem, I see. Kids, they don't actually secrete hallucinogenic drugs. That's a Rural Myth. What they secrete turns you into Bad Kraken?
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Feb 9, 2013 01:37
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OhCrap posted:Bad Kraken? This turn is turning out great. I hope it ends with the deaths of everyone not protected by stone walls surrounded by magma.
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Feb 9, 2013 02:15
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TildeATH posted:This turn is turning out great. So, everybody?
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Feb 9, 2013 02:49
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LeJackal posted:So, everybody? Sure, why not, after all, "with strange eons" right?
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Feb 9, 2013 02:54
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I am in the army now! I am best weasel hugger!
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Feb 9, 2013 04:16
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I don't know about anyone else, but because of the harshness and calling everyone else idiots and the insistence that he's the best man for the job, I can't help but see Internet Kraken as a dwarven Dwight from The Office.
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Feb 9, 2013 19:01
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Complete with the family plump helmet farm?  The great thing is, you don't even have to "dw-" his name. :P
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Feb 9, 2013 19:03
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That, and he's basically now the assistant to the regional overseer 
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assistant regional overseer
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Feb 9, 2013 23:41
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*looks at camera, purses lips, shrugs*
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  Late Granite? 239? They're all hiding from me, I can feel it, I can smell their fear. They seek to wash me from their lives, to rinse the soot from their hands. They build paltry monuments and speak hollow words, and then tell themselves all is right in the world. Well it's not. I'll show them. I'll show them what it means to walk among the dead as I have. They'll ALL see what has become of their brethren, let them try to shut their eyes now, to avoid the painful, burning truth! Wake, my brothers! Wake, my sisters! Soon, we will let them know we are all still here!  And while the workers of this place mindlessly go about following their work orders, the incompetent defenses chase about a mere weasel, none having any idea what I have in store for them!  That's right, don't mind me, just minding my own over here by the bridge, the one and only bridge...  But why stop there?  Why stop at all?  I'll take these selfish, ignorant fools and teach them what it means to feel your flesh burn to a crisp, to feel your beard singe, to smell the stink of it in your nose even as that burns away too, to see the world awash in a sea of red as your very eyes melt in their sockets and your blood boils its way through your seared flesh. But first, let them have just a taste of what is to come. I wouldn't want to spoil the fun by hurrying the experience...    Feel the heat, feel the rage, and most of all, feel the fear! It's almost too easy in this body, they have no idea, they have handed me the keys to everything and blindly follow my commands! So for my first order, all of you who would not stand by me in combat, who left me to die, who let my ashes scatter to the winds, you "survivors" of battle, gather together, that's good, I'll simply step over here and...  Odd, it felt...cold, for a moment. I'd forgotten what that felt like. I don't particularly like it. But it doesn't matter, I just have one more thing to do, I just-- 
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Feb 10, 2013 06:59
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Feb 10, 2013 07:04
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Once this hits the archive, I think this is going to be the bit everyone remembers about Bronzestabbed.
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Feb 10, 2013 07:11
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"That time the system broke and put Munki in charge, gently caress"
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Feb 10, 2013 07:12
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The beginning of the end.
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Wraithson posted:The beginning of the end. Hey man, sometimes you gotta burn a few trees to grow more flowers. WELCOME TO BRONZESTABBED, YOU JUST MISSED IT 
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Feb 10, 2013 07:20
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Bad Munki posted:I'll show them. I'll show them what it means to walk among the dead as I have. They'll ALL see what has become of their brethren, let them try to shut their eyes now, to avoid the painful, burning truth! Wake, my brothers! Wake, my sisters! Soon, we will let them know we are all still here!  Hellooooo Bronzestabbed! Hellooooo! NOW HEED THIS
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Feb 10, 2013 08:46
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Rather proud of the fact I didn't leave a dwarf behind for you to mess with, now. Proud, and at the same time, very sad. Is this typical of a munki turn?
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Feb 10, 2013 10:15
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Despite that this might be extremely detrimental to the fort and in largely just because of that this could make a ton of Fun and interesting story. I hope you have the courage to do what you deem necessary. Maybe this is how he'll remind us he put the Bad in the Munki?
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Feb 10, 2013 10:51
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Wraithson posted:The beginning of the end. It's like you guys have no confidence in me whatsoever! I can't imagine why.  EDIT: Wow, next update is going to be a long one. I'll let you guys wonder why. EDIT 2: Or I'll just split it into multiple parts. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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Feb 10, 2013 15:54
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e: ^^^ That's fine too. I just want to point out that IK and I have an agreement not to read each others' overseer updates. Makes for more fun. Thadius posted:Rather proud of the fact I didn't leave a dwarf behind for you to mess with, now. 
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Internet Kraken posted:It's like you guys have no confidence in me whatsoever! I can't imagine why. I can have a guess. I'm guessing the Burn is overwhelming us? The fortress is falling into chaos. Internet Kraken has ordered all memorials thrown down, all coffins dumped. I went to protest the decision, but when I sighted the expression on his face I ran. His eyes... they seemed to glow. Numerous fires burn beyond Sword Gate, and I fear for the lives of our farmers and hunters. But I cannot summon the courage to confront the mad Overseer. I have no strength left. The dreams seem to lack the same urgency as before, if they come at all. I wonder if the force behind them still torments me, or if my mind has been shattered to the point that I dream them of my own will. Should this continue, I will go speak to Leperfish. I hope my term as Overseer was productive enough to give my voice some weight, but in the meantime, I will watch and wait and hope sanity reasserts itself.
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23rd Limestone, 245 Today I woke up in some random hallway.  I was soaked in sweat, booze, and some other substances I'm not going to list. I really need some new clothes.  I have no idea what has happened the last 3 days. It's all just one big blur and when I think about it I get a pounding headache. Clearly I had too much to drink when I celebrated my master plan. Who can blame me though, I mean that plan is so..... ... gently caress I FORGOT WHAT THE PLAN WAS! 24th Limestone, 245 That plan was genius! I know it was! How could I loving forget it? That's not like me at all. I've never made mistakes like this. I just want to kill myself for this blunder. Of course that won’t happen since the incompetence of these dwarves make me want to kill THEM more.  Half the military is currently standing guard in an animal pasture. I don't know why, I guess someone is concerned about the fate of a few smelly chickens. It's not like they could be doing anything IMPORTANT, like coming up with a way to put out that fire.  Yeah a fire started. I don't know how or why, it just did. Nobody has any idea where it came from. But you know what? It's on the other side of the river so I doubt it will spread over here. The other dwarves are in a panic about it but I don't give a drat, it's not like it is a danger to anyone.  Aside from those recruits that are STILL fighting the zombie weasel. It's been weeks and they haven't managed to kill it. Frankly, I don't care if soldiers this worthless get reduced to ash. 26th Limestone, 245 You know what is worse than a bunch of soldiers burning to death?  A BUNCH OF SOLDIERS GETTING MURKED TO DEATH!  How could they be so dumb? Not only do they ignore the fire slowly approaching them, but they also ignored the clouds of murk. Now we have a ton of zombies to deal with, and some of them are armed. I hope that fire burns them all so I don’t have to bother with this headache. Maybe the forces of darkness aren't as clever and insidious as I thought. Maybe instead it's just that these dwarves are so loving dumb they walk right into evil. 28th Limestone, 245 I guess these zombies must know how to swim, since at least one of them is already at the front door.  I recall how the last murk zombie was seemingly cowardly in nature. It made almost no attempt to fight back and tried to flee from our soldiers. This one?  Not so much. I hope Vox Nihili manages to limp away; the process to appoint a new hammerer is such a pain. I'm not concerned though. There is no way this zombie can stand up to the full might of Bronzestabbed. If there is one thing this fort is good for, it's that there is no shortage of soldiers. So long as nothing else comes up-  .... 28th Limestone, 245 Oh gently caress oh gently caress oh gently caress oh gently caress oh gently caress oh gently caress!  I VASTLY underestimated this things strength.  I’ve got multiple soldiers attacking it...  But it doesn’t give a gently caress! Maybe I should help them fight instead of just watching from afar....  No, gently caress that! It’s suicide! I'm too important to die!  Migrants? Good! Maybe they'll distract the zombie and give time for the rest of the army to get up here.  And maybe the survivors can fill in the gaps this thing is making in the military...
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Given the pace of the updates and "Good God! That's Internet Kraken's music!!!" I think you guys should have two years. And there's a lot of dwarves, it'd take you that long to get through them all.
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Feb 10, 2013 17:50
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God, it's so tempting to read that. 
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Feb 10, 2013 18:13
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Oh my god. Uhhh. Internet Kraken, I need you to make sure to name every dwarf that dies. The combat reports only give a dwarf's profession so I can't glean names from it with certainty. At least, I've got every name that's mentioned in a screenshot but just make sure that's everyone. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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Leperflesh posted:Oh my god. Yeah I'm going to go over the total casualties after. Oddly enough the game is listing some dwarves as dead but instead missing despite them dieing two feet away from another soldier. However it will be easy to tell who died by looking at the corpses. Was planning on doing another update today but I've got a massive headache so it might have to wait til tomorrow. Sorry.
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Feb 10, 2013 18:24
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Maybe something is wrong with me, but I'm not finding this very entertaining at all.
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Feb 10, 2013 18:26
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LeJackal posted:Maybe something is wrong with me, but I'm not finding this very entertaining at all. Is it because Mr. Rogers got his skull crushed by a zombie? This is the hardest part of a Dwarf Fortress LP, because it conflicts with the min-maxing gamer in all of us who never wants to see a drop of named blood shed. For my part, I get worked up by a single dwarf dying because of mistakes by the overseer, but I'm okay with lots of dwarves dying on purpose, especially at this point in the LP.
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245 Purge them all. The unfaithful. All of the ones who cared for their own petty arguments and desires. Let the Gods take them in whatever manner. Let the dead walk among the living. Let them see what they have brought on themselves. Ugath is just. The High Muck will teach again.
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Yeah, frankly, at this point in the LP, as much as it sucks to watch dwarves die (especially us former Overseers, who fought so hard to keep them safe), the fortress desperately, desperately needs a shake up to keep things fun for future Overseers. At this point goblin sieges were more of a distraction than a threat, and any threat could be settled by 'I pummeled it with bolts and the military killed them dead with zero casualties'. So long as they're not deliberately attempting to actually kill the fortress completely, a little bit of a shake-up makes good narrative and keeps things fresh. I don't think this was so much DELIBERATELY getting a section of the military murked- this was just a squad out trying to kill the Bad Weasel that got murked, and were probably much too stupid to stop fighting and retreat.
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I on the other hand find this extemely entertaining. Even though all our overseers have been good, this is the most fun I've had reading these updates since OhCrap's turn. I also love IK/BM's gimmick. It's fun and original that they don't know what each other is doing. I'm very interested in how the fort survives this and if it in fact does survive or not. We've had peace for a long while. Sieges, traders and megaprojects have come and go. I'm interested in seeing what the fortress does when shaken and what shall the overseers after this do. 
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Uhh, murked? Hahaha, I had nothing to do with that, no murk was even there when I handed the save over. That's hilarious. 
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For the record I'm not trying to get anyone killed on purpose. I tried to keep the soldiers from getting burned, but dwarves are stupid and refused to stop trying to kill the weasel. Then the murk cloud came and welp there goes half the squad. I guess it's my fault for sending them out against the weasel in the first place, but can you really blame me for thinking they wouldn't take 2 weeks to kill it? Sorry if you don't like my writing, I know I'm pretty rusty. However I object to any accusations that I'm loving up the fort on purpose. EDIT: I'll also admit I vastly underestimated how strong husk zombies are. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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Internet Kraken posted:However I object to any accusations that I'm loving up the fort on purpose. Any complaints in that regard should be directed MY way. Besides, I'm used to it. That's a remarkable meeting of events, though, the murk catching the soldiers caught by the fire and their own inability to stop fighting. I guess if any murk zombies had caught fire, at least they would have doused the flames by crossing the river. 
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I don't think YOU'RE trying to kill the fort, Kraken. And honestly, at this point the two-Overseer gimmick is pretty fun- Munki breaks it, Kraken tries to put it together before we all die horrible, horrible deaths. That said, I don't think even Munki is trying to kill the fort completely, because there are numerous ways to do so, one of which Munki is very, very well acquainted with.
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TildeATH posted:Is it because Mr. Rogers got his skull crushed by a zombie? Part of the issue is that both Internet Kraken(as a dwarf) and Bad Munki(as a dwarf) are both cantankerous jerks. The Jekyll/Hyde thing I think they are going for is really undermined by this, because there isn't the big gulf of moralistic or practical difference between their actions and attitudes thus far. I can barely tell their turns apart without looking at the avatar to the left. So it just reads really flat. Sky Shadowing posted:Yeah, frankly, at this point in the LP, as much as it sucks to watch dwarves die (especially us former Overseers, who fought so hard to keep them safe), the fortress desperately, desperately needs a shake up to keep things fun for future Overseers. At this point goblin sieges were more of a distraction than a threat, and any threat could be settled by 'I pummeled it with bolts and the military killed them dead with zero casualties'. There is a gulf of difference and effort between the two approaches of; forming and implementing a creative narrative in order to shake things up and generate interest while propelling the fortress forward or just setting poo poo on fire and killing lots of people to turn back the clock and get cheap press for the all the blood you're spilling. Arguably they both accomplish the same goals of preventing stagnation and allowing the narrative to continue, its just that one is difficult, interesting, and artistic while the other is cheap, juvenile, and boring if you never fapped to Saw. Having dwarves die is fine, even a good thing if it fuels the narrative and comes naturally to the story. JollyPubJerk's death, for example, was a good death. Walling him up in the middle of the dining room until he died for no reason would not have a been a good thing, because it would have served no purpose and made no sense in the context of the narrative.
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Yup, just to be clear to everyone, Internet Kraken and Bad Munki are in communication with me, and I am satisfied at this stage that they're doing a good job. And there is no plan to intentionally end the fortress this year; but, all fortresses must come to an end at some point, and Bronzestabbed will be no exception. Whether the fortress ends this term or some other term, we have to accept that. So there's some dramatic tension to be had, and I'd say that makes things more exciting. ...and, in response to LeJackal: as I said in the 2nd post of the thread, a little constructive criticism is fine and welcome. Just avoid belaboring points or a huge derail. I'm sure both Bad Munki and Internet Kraken welcome your comments, to the extent that they're helpful rather than discouraging. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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May I draw your attention to the fact that the fort's newest Forgotten Beast is a turtle? A giant blind turtle. People who can draw should be having a field day with this. I wish I could draw. e: imagine what could be done with its shell! A dwarf could make it his home. Truly a house worthy of an Overseer. 
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