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 21st Felsite 243 I look out from the archery tower upon the fields surrounding the fortress. I can see Ohtsam flees for the fortress gates, being chased by a band of six goblins.  The axedwarf Zebrin, who had been standing guard at the gate, immediately sprints towards the action. I sound the alarm bell from the tower to alert the rest of our military. As Zebrin intercepts the goblin ambush party, Ohtsam is able to safely reach the fortress gates. A pikegoblin charges at Zebrin and knocks her to the ground. It then stabs its pike into the ground at Zebrin, crippling her left foot.  There is a commotion of noise coming from inside the fortress. The rest of the military is on its way. Clenching her teeth in terrible pain, Zebrin stands up as best she can, heavily favoring her right foot. She continues to fight, parrying blow after blow from her enemy. Eventually the pikegoblin lunges at her and misses, and she counterstrikes, chopping her axe into the goblin's belly.  With one enemy incapacitated, Zebrin turns to face the others. Three more pikegoblins charge her. And then I hear the sound of quickly marching bootsteps coming from behind me. Iunnrais, Sunbro, and SynthOrange have joined me in the archery tower. They take their positions and begin raining bolts down upon the goblins with great effect. One of the goblins fighting Zebrin goes down. Zebrin gives another scream of pain as one of the remaining goblins stabs its pike clearly through her left wrist, severing her hand. Blood spurts from the wound.  Fortunately, their brief success does not improve the cowardly goblins' morale. The ambush party breaks and routs from the battlefield under a hail of fire from our archers. Before any of us can breathe a sigh of relief, however, a second ambush party charges at the injured Zebrin from behind a grove of trees. She valiantly holds them off, parrying blow after blow with her one good hand while our archers rain arrows upon them.  Just as Zebrin is beginning to tire, Mr. Vile arrives at the scene of the battle in support, and the remaining goblins flee. We are victorious on this day. It cost Zebrin her left hand, but we are victorious.  Sorry for the Notepad screenshots, I can't seem to find the screenshots I took from the combat logs so I had to copy from gamelog.txt instead to get the details of the battle.
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Oh no! Losing a hand somehow seems more tragic than losing a dwarf. I like the detailed battle reports.
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Oct 30, 2012 15:52
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Nice update! The notepad screenshots actually look cleaner and easier to read to me.
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Oct 30, 2012 19:10
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Jewcoon posted:Nice update! The notepad screenshots actually look cleaner and easier to read to me. How do you get them into notepad like that? Its a really neat trick.
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Oct 30, 2012 20:32
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LeJackal posted:How do you get them into notepad like that? Its a really neat trick. gamelog.txt
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Oct 30, 2012 20:34
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Gamelog.txt gets written to the default root dwarf fortress folder, which is incredibly annoying because it means when you send someone a save, even though the save folder contains a complete copy of the raws, the world, the save, etc.... there's one little file that isn't in there if you wanted complete info. It also means if you play multiple different saves, it all gets mushed into the same gamelog.txt file in root.
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Oct 30, 2012 21:24
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What is this thread doing near the bottom of my bookmarks? 
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Nov 1, 2012 18:49
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It's been just over 48 hours since the last update. I'll ping Jazzimus again, but it's not, strictly speaking, overdue.
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Nov 1, 2012 18:51
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Sure, but on the flip side, we're over two weeks on and only three months through the year. e: the great thing is that if the "random" overseer system ever breaks and accidentally assigns me the job, I'm going to get torn to shreds if there's more than half an hour between updates 
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Nov 1, 2012 18:53
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Bad Munki posted:e: the great thing is that if the "random" overseer system ever breaks and accidentally assigns me the job, I'm going to get torn to shreds if there's more than half an hour between updates If there isnt a 3-mmonth-update 30 minutes after the winner (you) is announced I'm going to be pissed.
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Nov 1, 2012 18:56
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Bad Munki posted:Sure, but on the flip side, we're over two weeks on and only three months through the year. You're setting yourself up for a livestream update
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I would like to add "DF LP Google Hangouts" to my list of campaign promises.
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I have the screenshots taken, I just need to finish writing it up. Expect an update later tonight.
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22nd Felsite 243 As I survey the scenes of the battle, I can't help but notice the huge pile of rotting and skeletalized corpses of Bronzestabbed's old enemies next to the fortress entrance. It is a festering, fly-ridden eyesore.  I make my way back into the fortress. As I pass through the trade depot, several dwarves are hauling trade goods to the site. I clear my throat. "Do any of you know of a good way to dispose of all of those bodies outside? We can't just let them pile up forever." "Magma is always a solution! says Ramcorz enthusiastically, as she sets down a bin full of ornate stone carvings. 24th Felsite 243 I receive word that Disproportionation has come out of hiding. She had secretly been crafting an artifact ring, which is now complete. Appropriately, the ring is engraved with images of dwarves of old striking down evil.   28th Felsite 243 Brannock, the fortress's broker, has acquired many bins of cloth from the elven merchants. We had run out of cloth earlier in the month, and the clothiers Woytaz, Frederico de Soya, and Donkringel immediately get to work on producing new clothing for the fortress with these new materials. 4th Hematite 243 I instruct all idle dwarves to begin hauling the bodies of our old enemies to dump into the magma. There are many corpses, and I expect this may take some time to complete. 20th Hematite 243 Work on the corpse pile proceeds slowly. The fortress is so busy that there are very few idle dwarves available for the hauling duties. I make my way down to the forges to see how the metalworking industry is progressing. As I look over the metal stockpiles, apseudonym enters, dragging a huge ogre corpse behind him. Nil Bastionhall reports that the forges have gone through almost all of the steel and bronze we have available, but that copper is plentiful.  As I move over to the armor stockpiles, apseudonym rolls the ogre corpse into the magma channel. There is a splash, and a large cloud of magma mist.  As the mist clears, apseudonym screams, his clothing set alight.  Within a matter of seconds, he has burned to death.  I cannot believe that another magma accident has occurred under my watch. I order a halt to the dumping of bodies, until we can come up with a safer means of doing this. Note: I've never seen magma mist generated from dumping items in the magma before in any of my games, but I had last played 34.08. Maybe this is a new feature? 21st Hematite 243 I believe I have a solution to the magma problems. I order the miners to build a new tunnel that ends in a shaft several stories above the magma pipe. This should be sufficiently distant from the magma to avoid any danger from splashes. 25th Hematite 243 The mining is complete, and Tax Refund hauls the first corpse to the new garbage chute. I begin to ponder what sort of great projects the fortress should undertake next. I like the idea of a fortress museum. When I return to my office, I will begin to put together some plans for what might go in the museum. My thoughts are interrupted by a scream from the garbage chute tunnel. "Fire imp! There's a fire imp!" And then there is the sound of an explosion.  
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Nov 2, 2012 21:20
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His head is melted? Holy poo poo.
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This is the best update 
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My god, the children... THINK OF THE CHILDREN! But in all seriousness, 2 Dorfs lost to melting related injuries that close to one another from different causes is disturbing...
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Jazzimus Prime posted:"Magma is always a solution! says Ramcorz enthusiastically, as she sets down a bin full of ornate stone carvings. Jazzimus Prime posted:As the mist clears, apseudonym screams, his clothing set alight. Jazzimus Prime posted:And then there is the sound of an explosion. You didn't specify that it was to dispose of DEAD bodies. You're welcome! On the plus side, my dwarf is a pretty good consoler!
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You know, when I left the note that maybe you should do something with all the bodies, I kinda meant the dead ones. I'm starting to be very grateful I left at the end of my term. Knowing you, you'd possibly find a way to melt me in an 'accident' as well. Oh, that reminds me. Leper, could I be struck from the dwarfing list?
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Holy poo poo I did something. Granted that something was to lose a hand and block a whole bunch while missing every swing I made, but that was something. I wonder how this affects my abilities. Since I don't have a left hand any more, does that mean I don't get to use a shield? Or can I just strap one on before the fight? Also, magma leads to Fun as always.
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Yeah, you need a grasping bodypart (hand) to hold on to stuff. It's all parrying for you, boyo!
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Thadius posted:Oh, that reminds me. Leper, could I be struck from the dwarfing list? Sure, you've been removed. From time and space itself.
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It's a bit late for new suggestions so I'll just add on to a preexisting one: Armor for everyone. If you don't have enough good metal use up some of that copper and give everyone a fancy new suit. Dwarves should be drunk, industrious, and covered in impractically heavy layers of armor.
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So... all that parrying I did was without a shield? drat, that was some good parries then.
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I should be able to provide nightly updates the rest of the way, I think. 26th Hematite 243 Four dwarves have now died during my overseership; not from violence, but from accidents involving either magma itself or the creatures that dwell within. Maybe Internet Kraken was right when he said that using the magma was a mistake. The stuff certainly seems to be cursed. I meet with a couple of militia captains, Kerrhyphen and Rawkking, to see whether there is anything we can do about the fire imp menace. "Can we attack this thing?" I ask them. "Well, it lives in the magma sea," says Kerrhyphen. "I guess we could shoot crossbow bolts down at it through the garbage dump while it throws fireballs back at us, but that sounds like a good way to get our best marksdwarves killed." "If we were to take that thing on, it would probably be easier to actually take it on out in the open, where our forces could have room to maneuver, and surround the thing. The way things are now, we should probably just keep the garbage dump locked down if we want to avoid further casualties," adds Rawkking. I sigh. It seems so undwarflike to let a death go avenged, but the captains are probably right. 27th Hematite 243 I pay a visit to the mayor of Bronzestabbed, Ikubi Akius, who is in grieving over the recent death of her husband apseudonym.  Note: The text says that her husband decayed, but his body actually burned up and nothing was left I try to console our widowed mayor as best as I can.  "Please, just let me know if there is anything I can do, or anything anyone in the fortress can do for you during this time," I say. She shakes her head. I nod quietly, and say, "Please, just let me know in the future if you need anything. We're here for you." As I walk out of her office, she speaks, her voice choking back tears. "Maybe... maybe you could just commission a little statue of him. Just a little one. For my desk."   28th Hematite 243 The dumping of enemy corpses has been halted for the time being. We can't use the garbage chute because of the fire imps in the volcano. We can't use the magma channel because of the danger of splashing magma. I guess we could extend the magma channel and build a new reservoir, but that's how red mammoth was killed at the start of the year. Ramcorz had suggested pumping the magma upwards and building a reservoir nearer the surface. I think I physically flinched when that suggestion was made, just thinking about the kinds of accidents that would lead to. So instead of disposing of the enemy corpses, I will have idle dwarves begin work on excavating a new room for the fortress museum.  1st Malachite 243 In spite of the recent magma accidents, the fact remains that there have been no accidents involving the actual forges themselves. And since the magma forges, not requiring fuel for their fires, are more efficient than our old forges, I finally order the old bar and ore stockpiles decommissioned so that all of the smelting and smithing can be done using the magma. I sure hope this doesn't prove to be a mistake.  3rd Malachite 243 The miners have completed the expanded dormitories, and have moved on to the museum. Strom Cuzewon, Teim, Kaishai, and The Archivist begin smoothing the walls of the new dormitories, so that our migrants can all have a pleasant place to rest.  5th Malachite 243 After several weeks here at Bronzestabbed, the elven traders pack up and leave our depot. I watch from the depot as they ride away from Bronzestabbed.  Brannock, the fortress's broker, stands next to me in the depot. She has a huge grin on her face. "What is it?" I ask her. "You know all those bins of cloth I bought from the elves?" she says. "Yeah?" "I traded a bunch of our old worn-out clothes for them." "Really?" "Really." "How did you manage that?" I ask. "I told them that the re-use of vintage clothing ensures that fewer plants will need to be harvested to clothe the peoples of our world. And being elves, they actually fell for that bullshit." 
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I can imagine the new fashion trend of this world, at least among else: Vintage Clothes and Grunge Look.
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You could just pump magma to the surface unto the enemy corpses you know.
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Nov 5, 2012 19:56
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Boing posted:Hell, they don't even need to be corpses. Well, not initially.
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RIP bronzestabbed. Flooded by Magma 244
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Boing posted:Hell, they don't even need to be corpses. Or enemies.
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JosephWongKS posted:Or enemies. Or eukaryote.
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Its been far too long since a DF LP had a gently caress the world lever
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Yeah. I love gently caress the world levers. That needs to be done sometime...
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If only we had a Boing type dwarf as an overseer. Or Bad Munki
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Die Zombie Die posted:If only we had a Boing type dwarf as an overseer. Or Bad Munki Bad Munki sockpuppet spotted. Lava to the surface is kinda dull, played out. I think the museum is a good idea. I imagine the Overseer is moving the artifacts and relics to pillars in that room?
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How about digging a hole, put all the rotting body parts there, and make every captured goblin live there? It sure would make for an unpleasant living (for the goblins, that is).
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Die Zombie Die posted:If only we had a Boing type dwarf as an overseer. Or Bad Munki I pledge to provide searing hot lava to every dwarf who has none. Socialized lavacare is the future.
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Lava on every Dwarf, and a Goblin in every cage trap.
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Bad Munki posted:I pledge to provide searing hot lava to every dwarf who has none. Socialized lavacare is the future. Lies! Lies and fibs from the Disagreeable Simian Party!  I pledge to invade hell at the cost of only a single dwarf's life (Bad Munki's, if he's in there still) and the fun of watching Demons die by the dozen. A vote for Seagoon is a vote for the future. I'll give the fortress power, then use it to drown everything in automated magma!fluppet posted:Its been far too long since a DF LP had a gently caress the world lever How hosed do you want the world to be? Everything on the map burns but will be safe in due time, or "Oh god, we can never go outside ever again"? Because I have some designs for both. Neddy Seagoon fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Nov 7, 2012 |
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