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Or, just make the arrows out of wood, you don't really need arrowheads if you're just fulfilling a mandate.
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Or just let the hammering continue. It's about the only interesting thing going on.
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TildeATH posted:Family is the tangled tapestry that Minotarrs weave. Better yet!  Explanation: the Minotarrr family network could almost mirror the map of dwarf settlements - with some minor alterations, not shown here.
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The deadline for my final Project looms... Opal The month started with a bit of excitement.  A dog found a snatcher and chased it away. From then on, it was a bit of a haulfest. But Thad grew anxious. "Why is nobody moving the obsidian?" "Nobody wants to swim, Overseer,"  "Time to drain the pool, then." Thad wandered back upstairs and stumbled over a stray buffalo cow, an alpaca, a peacock, a goose, and a rooster before making it back to the depot.  "Can somebody DO SOMETHING with these animals that doesn't involve killing them?! PLEASE?!"  "Can we make some nice food to eat for once around here?" And thus was the refined food line of Bronzestabbed born.  "I'm sure the Screw will be fine if we up its power even more."  "And apparently we have enough gems that we should be cutting them and trading them, so let's do that as well." Thad wandered back down to the obsidian generation unit, and on the way...   Apparently a set of toddler twins grew a year old. But finally...  The breach...  Was made. And dwarves began hauling the obsidian from the depths. Thad took a look at the records and struck 'Obsidian' from the 'forbidden' list of stone.  For a short period of time, water around the fortress froze into ice.  The dwarven caravan finally left the fortress. Now Thad wouldn't have to worry about their safety.  And the first goblin was chained in Murkland. Now all we need is murk. But it seemed fate would not smile on the rest of the month...  Thad didn't worry himself just yet, and instead opened the diary. "Hmm. I don't know...gravity seems to work differently here...I don't know if I can build a frame without it collapsing..."
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I had almost forgotten Thadius comes from some kind of alternate minecraft universe where gravity works differently.
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And thus the reins are handed over... Obsidian  The first thing that came to Thad's attention was the fact that Steelion had claimed the leatherworks on the ground floor.  The second thing was that the goblin thief had somehow become unchained.  Thad forcibly upgraded Mr. Vile...  And Mad Whack to reflect on their status as elite milita dwarves. He even assigned the fresh wardogs to them: two to Vile, one to Whack.  Mad Whack instantly grew attached to his new weapon. Couldn't have worked out better if I planned it.  Steelion had gathered all the required materials for this particular mood, and Thad got a bit of pleasing news.  After trying so hard, Thad had finally made enough arbitrary ballista arrows in a short enough amount of time for the queen.  The mayor had forbid the export of figurines, but unless the ban extended into the new year with the elves, it wasn't going to be a problem for the next dwarf as overseer.  HiHo ChiRo informed Thad that there were now enough bees to be splitting them off into the empty hives.  And Thad put a few final work orders on the manager's desk.  Steelion completed the artifact, this time, a backpack.  All in all, a nice backpack, well-decorated, but only a few images on it.  As the end of the year approached, Thad looked back on the things that he'd done.  The dining room was legend. No dwarf was ever unhappy after they spent five minutes in it.  The rooms to the north had been spiffed up, or at least, the ones made out of stone had been. Dwarves were even talking about trying to move in there. Reminiscing about this reminded Thad to order one final sweep against indoors vegetation.  Obsidian, the second most valued stone, had been brought to the fortress.  Second only to adamantine, which Thad had also managed to safely mine a layer of.  Oski had been busy making more weapons. And Thad had even laid the plans for the last few rollers for The Screw! Soon it would be...hopefully, properly completed. He had no way to actually know. Which brought him to his one regret:  Never finishing the Seigebreaker properly. More layers to dig out, more traps to make yet. It had just become not as important as his other Projects. Speaking of which...  Up above, Jihad Joe and Dirt, the children, were hard at work ripping away what little scaffolding Thad felt safe removing. He didn't want there to be an 'accident,' so he ordered minimal, safe removal. Just then, Leperfish showed up. "Overseer." Thad turned around. "Hello my friend. Is it nearly time?" Leper nodded. "The next overseer will be decided soon. Why did you decline to give a speech?" Thad shrugged. "I didn't do enough to warrant one. Oh yes, I've put in little things here and there to make life around the fort more pleasing, but I didn't do enough to warrant an entire stepping-down speech." "Nonsense, you've done plenty. Just the other day I saw dwarves making actual cheese in our fortress. We even ran out of raw adamantine to process because you thought to put more than one workshop on that task." Thad shook his head. "No, I really don't deserve a speech." And then Thad hesitated. He was debating if he should tell Leper what he'd learned, what he was planning... The children ran past. "All done, Overseer!" Thad smiled and made up his mind. "Run along now, help yourself to some booze for doing such a good job." The children cheered and ran to the food stockpile. Thad turned to Leper once again and took a deep breath. "Leper, I'm leaving. I'm going back. The fort won't have much use for me anymore once a new Overseer is selected. This construct mirrors the one that was made in my world. I'm hoping that I can go back through it." Leperfish looked stunned at the mere idea that Thadius could take such a journey. "How do you even know it will work?" "I don't, but I have to try." "You can't even activate it! Fire is key, and you have none of that!" Thad pondered for a moment. "So it was you." Leperfish seemed to know instantly that he'd made an error. "I, uh-" "You took the diary of the other when I first arrived. You had been reading it while I was wondering where it was in the meeting with the queen." Leper hung his head. "Yes." "Why?" Leperfish thought for a moment. "To see if you were dangerous. To see if you meant harm to us." Thadius nodded. "And I can see the wisdom in that now. For being honest with me, I will give you a gift. A gift of knowledge. Wait there a moment." Thad gathered enough spare twigs to coat the bottom of the portal, and using a few rocks, ignited it.  As spring came, Thad stepped into the glow of the portal. He could feel it working around him, so he whispered four last words into Leper's ear. "Her name is Sankis."    And now to package up the save for Leper to give out to another!
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Oct 13, 2012 10:05
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An excellent year Thadius, I like what you've done with the place.
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Many thanks to Thadius for a good year! He gave us 23 well-formed updates, which is a hell of a lot of work on his part. Well done! And with that final post up, it's once again time for a  CALL FOR OVERSEERS!If YOU want to be an overseer, please fill out the form, here. I will randomly pick a name in approximately 24 hours. As always please be sure you have at least the next couple of weeks free to spend lots of your spare time making dwarf fortress updates. Right now the fortress is very mature, reasonably secure, and self-sustaining, so it's a good time for overseers who have Big Projects in mind to build, are interested in exploring the long-term plot, or really love micromanaging over 200 dwarves and all their petty problems. You need to be familiar with running a mature fortress, but you don't need to be an expert and it's OK if you make a few mistakes. The important thing is that you give the hungry crowd regular updates: ideally one every 48 hours or less, but up to 72 hours is occasionally OK. You can see the actual overseer spreadsheet here.
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Oct 13, 2012 18:50
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I'm signing up again, but I'll have you know I've figured out this whole thing is rigged! Also it put me in grey at the bottom of the list like the past applications, instead of the usual clear.
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Oct 13, 2012 18:53
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The background is always gray for data submitted through the form; but, you'll notice the text is black. All I do for previous rounds is grey out the text and put a box around them.
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Oct 13, 2012 19:01
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All I know is, you won't roll 1. 
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Oct 13, 2012 19:04
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I tell you what: there's no reason the numbers have to be assigned in order. Some time before I roll tomorrow, you tell me what number you want and I'll give it to you. Obviously has to be within the range of how many applicants there are. You will be choosing your own fate!
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Oct 13, 2012 19:06
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How about you tell me what you're gonna roll, and then I'll be that. 
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Oct 13, 2012 19:31
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Hah, I really don't have any control over what Invisible Castle spits out, no matter what the conspiracy theorists think.
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Oct 13, 2012 19:39
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I would like to sign up under the alias of 'Bad Munki' if I can. If that means I have to actually play as overseer, disregard this post.
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Oct 13, 2012 20:06
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Everyone but Bad Munki stay out of this! I guess Leper will roll a zero.
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Oct 13, 2012 20:09
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Aw come on guys, I was terrible and I made things better and easier for the next guy. I'm sure you can write a better story than mine and do wonderful/terrible things with/to the fortress. (Circle appropriate) It doesn't just HAVE to be Munki. Though I admit I really want to see Munki take over for a year. C'mon, let's see someone other than Munki take a shot at it!
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I just want to point out that Scamtank's current title is "'scamtank' Astniles, the Thorny Dissenter of Oppression" which is badass. Oh, yeah, I have the save and it's working. I have some chores to do today and I might tweak something in Lepermod so I won't be uploading the save till tonight.
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 THIS BE THE ENTRY OF EMUDI WIVESESI THINE ATHAM, PISSED OFF GRANNY MINOTARRR WHERE THE poo poo BE MY MATIN' STOCK WHERE THE poo poo BE MY TURKEYBEAST THIS BE BEYOND TAR-DAY We'm runnin' outta matin' stock and turkeybeasts. I done sent cuz'n Kothvir to find 'em. Iff'n elves be involved, she'll see 'em off. She hates yon elves. 
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Thadius posted:Aw come on guys, I was terrible and I made things better and easier for the next guy. I will answer this challenge! I have an idea for a year as overseer, and I hope it would be a satisfying addition to the Saga of Bronzestabbed.
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OhCrap posted:
This is amazing
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Hey Leperflesh, I think Good and Bad Munki have to fight it out to see which one remains on the overseer list  .
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I claim fraud! Munki is clearly claiming more dice spots than allowed! If you're going to cheat, at least do it in the traditional Dwarven way: bribes, blackmail and murder!  VV I had guessed that, was just fun to point it out. Sky Shadowing fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Oct 14, 2012 |
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That wasn't me 
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Bad Munki posted:That wasn't me Who is Bad Munki?! "I'm Bad Munki" "I'M Bad Munki" "No, I'M BAD MUNKI"
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Oct 14, 2012 18:17
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1d5=3 Well, despite ballot-box stuffing, Jazzimus Prime will be our next Overseer! Jazzimus, please contact me via PM or (ideally) email as soon as you can. It's my username at gmail.com. I will get the save up momentarily. I'm very sorry Bad Munki. Your luck stinks!
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Luck has nothing to do with this. No, I'm afraid this has the stink of a curse! Or a running gag. I might actually like that more. 
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Bronzestabbed8.zip is up on the Overseer site, along with Thadius' notes. (Spoilers) Once again I procrastinated and so have not gotten around to completing changes to Lepermod.
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Oct 14, 2012 18:57
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You know, we could always just let Bad Munki be overseer.
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SirPhoebos posted:You know, we could always just let Bad Munki be overseer. How dare you. I don't want no pity overseership.
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SirPhoebos posted:You know, we could always just let Bad Munki be overseer. And all of his status update images should look like they're hand-me-downs.
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e: wrong thread
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Excited about a Jazzimus turn! We have a fully-mature fortress- let's make something fun of it!
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SirPhoebos posted:You know, we could always just let Bad Munki be overseer. Hey, I want to be overseer to 
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Congratulations and salutations, Jazzimus. Lead us to glory and death! Preferably the death of our enemies, but I'm not really picky.
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Oct 14, 2012 22:01
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So, the Dwarf matrix of leadership is in your hands. Make us proud.
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I cant seem to get to the dwarfing spreadsheet on my phone. What number are we on? I believe I am like 400, right? Someone mind checking for me?
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Leperflesh posted:Well, despite ballot-box stuffing, Jazzimus Prime will be our next Overseer! Jazzimus, please contact me via PM or (ideally) email as soon as you can. It's my username at gmail.com. I've sent an email to both your dwarf name (force of habit) and to your user name. Spermy Smurf posted:I cant seem to get to the dwarfing spreadsheet on my phone. What number are we on? I believe I am like 400, right? Someone mind checking for me? You're on row 400 in the spreadsheet, which actually would make you #399 in the list (row 1 of the spreadsheet is a header). 268 people have been dwarfed. Jazzimus Prime fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Oct 14, 2012 |
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It is entirely possible for the thread to "elect" someone overseer. All you have to do is be completely unanimous. You accomplish this by not signing up on the sheet, so there's only the one person you want signed up. This time there were four other people who didn't agree that Bad Munki should be the next overseer, an all-time low. Your campaign is working, Bad Munki!
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Time and patience are all I need! I will claim my birthright!
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