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There. Look at this. See? See? I'm right again. Nobody could've predicted that Crackmaster would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a perfectly safe fortress. There's Kelli, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's
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Pokeylope posted:Is this a security concern or does the up-ramp stop things from getting in? That is just the overlay covering the walls of the hospital. If you look at the picture where he designated mining, the walls are intact.
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Jun 28, 2012 22:00
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You ordered gauntlets and boots twice, this is wrong as each gauntlet/boot job makes a pair of them.
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President Ark posted:The pond scum and frogspawn in it indicate it's full of life and, thus, healthy. Well, yes, actually. If you find any crystal clear water in nature it's probably because it's contaminated with arsenic or something similarly colourless and lethal. And now that I have posted this, it's only a matter of time before Toady models it ingame. Would you like your dwarves to die of dysentry or of arsenic poisoning? The choice is yours!
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Hey, can't we just chalk it up to an old married couple trying to re-spark their youthful spirit? Crackmaster and I frolicked in the rain and drank water when it was cleanest while narrowly avoiding uncertain death. If not for adventure, then why come to a newly founded fortress?
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Qwo posted:The suspicious behavior of Crackmaster and Kelli can only be explained by them being sinister goblin agents. You shut your filthy face hole. ----  8th Galena Brew duty is unfamiliar territory, but if my service is required, I'll take up the challenge as best I can. 14th Galena This is more satisfying work than I'd expected. So many recipes to tinker with, so many flavors dancing across the palate! 18th Galena "Not s'posed to swallow during a taste test", who asked *hic* you? This perky ... pickle ... prickle berry stuff is divine. Booze duty fer life! 10th Limestone Y'know, I been thinkin' ... mosquitos 'n' me ... we prob'ly just got off on the wrong foot. I bet they ain't so bad, deep down. 's got to be some around here somewhere, mebbe we can kiss and make up ... lemme see if Kelli wants to take a walk too. ---- Looking at my husband's profile screenshot, I desperately tried to work the word "paraphersnailia" into that entry, but alas, my crowning linguistic achievement yet eludes me.
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Pokeylope posted:Is this a security concern or does the up-ramp stop things from getting in?  To use an often-heard phrase: 'lmao 2 cat!'
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Jun 28, 2012 22:18
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Colon V posted:It, in fact, is. That will have to be walled off, or goblins will squeeze through it. Nope. The "zone" overlay is covering the walls. The room isn't actually square:  Also, seconding this: quote:You ordered gauntlets and boots twice, this is wrong as each gauntlet/boot job makes a pair of them. under the assumption that the way boots and gauntlets are crafted has not been modded.
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InwardChaos posted:That is just the overlay covering the walls of the hospital. If you look at the picture where he designated mining, the walls are intact. this is correct. You can draw a zone over dirt and it doesn't stop being dirt. In this case, in order to see what's stockpiled in the hospital, you have to look at the zone menu (i). And what if I actually wanted two pairs of boots and gauntlets? Huh? What then, smarty-pants? There's three dwarfs in the military so that's still only four boots to share between them.
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 You can adjust zone designation so that it fills out along the floor, like a room built from a piece of furniture, instead of a painted rectangle. day 216 Bronzestabbed, left side to the pet cage Our bulwark thrives despite rude new arrivals. I have instructed Crackmaster in understanding our crude stone still as best I may. If we strike more tin, I will request for tubes and pots of bronze. Her first attempt in wine was as good as mine yet two of the fresh slab went without admit and drank from a dirty pond near the swirling doom instead. I would have chastised, but I am sure the fortress chief had arrangements. I consoled Crackmaster by downing double ration of her batch and reassuring it was well and decadent. She paid no mind and compared batch to her prickle berry experiment instead. Not two days ago we struck blind stone. It is milky like seer's eyes yet as common and prevalent as near sight. Crackmaster will have good practice on it and the fool's steel made from the dining hall walls some time ago. I hope she is inspired by lord Dakas and a ring or a statuette of solid gleaming ensues. I also hear the fresh bronze is being put to the heads and hands and shoulders of our hulking militiamen. This is very early and thus good also. I am glad to feed this many even if my sausages disappoint. Lookouts have sighted lights in the far distance past night, yet days are rainy. Tomorrow may be fogless enough for us to see visitors or invaders in proper. I hope they are visitors. scamtank fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jun 28, 2012 |
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Actually, there is just some overlap from the hospital zone there, so the wall should be fine. In another unrelated note; i just finished reading through gemclod. I wasn't following it at the time but god drat i should have, what an amazing read. I'm seeing a lot of the same names hanging out in this thread and i want to thank you all for writing that. Bit of a shame that charlie72 just let my dwarf die of thirst on top of the giant robot, but oh well, at least i must have had a good view of all the carnage outside  .
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Jun 28, 2012 22:40
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Captain_duck posted:Actually, there is just some overlap from the hospital zone there, so the wall should be fine. By God I was expecting him to die a horrible death when Slitheredlow showed up but his dwarf made up for his entire rather poorly edited turn and the giant flood by buying the dwarves a few more months.
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Pokeylope posted:Is this a security concern or does the up-ramp stop things from getting in? Okay, so we've already established this was a false alarm. Still, let me just say... ...you should never, ever do this. DON'T warn overseers about possible vulnerabilities in their plans. If you spot one, keep it for yourself and giggle at how clever you are. But the LP is fun when unexpected events happen, and if people warned the overseers about any possible danger, there would be no fun.
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These dwarves ain't right. A bunch of new folk showed up, and some of they seem to be a few eggs short of a roc's nest...or however that expression is supposed to go. Point is they could be crazy. Some of them walked right towards the blighted lands without no protection and drank heartily from the putrid waters. Then they walked right back like it was nothing. Who the hell does that? I'll tell you who; creatures of the night. I think some of them might be in league with evil. Or they're just insane. Either way, we gotta keep a close eye on them. This Fitzy Fitz guy is probably their leader. He's been involved with a bunch of cults and is always going on about death and other grim crap. A real overseer would keep him under close watch, but of course Leperfish just lets him go unchecked. I sure as poo poo wouldn't. drat fool won't even let me go hunting yet.
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So I made a thing you could, if one of you want to, use as a story element later on. It was fun to make anyways, so I won't feel bad if it doesn't fit in. I don't normally keep my journal updated, I do not enjoy writing, or feel any need for it in normal times. But I have seen something that will not leave my mind's eye. Something I dare not tell the other caravan guards. Yesterday, we struck camp near a cave, after we spotted another dust storm. I do not know if these storms are dangerous, but they have an ominous look about them, and I do not like them. Neither does anyone else in the caravan We had horse lung stew for supper, and I was relieved of guard duty, So I went for a walk. I brought a parchment, a quill, a brush and some ink in hopes of having a bit of fun sketching the wildlife, which the storm was not yet close enough to scare away. As I sat down on a rock on top of a hill, I saw something strange. A haggard figure trudging ever so slowly across a valley floor east of me. There was something very strange about him about him, and I dared not approach. He was carrying some sort of walking stick, with strange, twisted skulls of creatures I do not know, his robe was so tattered, I was not sure what was keeping it together. On a dangling chain, hung the strangest book, also encrusted with skulls of strange, unnerving things with several eyes, and bulging shapes. And strangest of all, he was followed by an immense cloud of flies and gnats, I could also smell something vile, like a heap of rotting cadavers, or a long abandoned food stockpile, wafting upwind from his direction. Not knowing what to do, I drew him. For several minutes as he slowly waddled his way across the valley floor, I hastily scribbled down that hideous visage. Maybe the other men in camp would believe me? They know I am not a man of fertile imagination.  I had just finished painting him, when I saw something that made me break my quill and spill ink on the parchment. Ambushers. Elves. Dozens of them charging over a hill opposite of mine, barreling straight at the small, hunched man-shape. I just saw the robed person reach for a pouch at his belt, before I was overcome with a strong need to get away from the strange and gruesome display. As I was running down the other side of the hill, I heard screams, first, battlecries. Then, screams of surprise that quickly turned into screams of pain. I stopped and looked back. Something made me stalk as silently as I could back up the side of the hill. I had to see. As I was sneaking up the slope, the screams lessened. I poked my head up above the rock, and on the top of the next hill, quickly dissapearing out of sight, was a bloated, horribly misfigured, wrong-looking thing, running after three slender elf-figures. The floor of the valley was littered with mangled elf corpses. There, in the middle of the carnage, I saw his tome, a small stump of the chain remained attached to the cover. I ran down, and grabbed the book, then got away from there as fast as I could. When I got back to the camp, I urged the group to leave with haste. I did not tell them why, but the urgency in my voice persuaded them. Later, when they asked why we left, I was reluctant to speak the truth, and pointed at the ever looming dust clouds on the horizon. I still have the book. Maybe it will fetch me a fair price? Though I am tempted to just throw it in a river, the strange drawings within unnerve me. Depicting unwholesome rituals and odd symbols. [I may make the book too It was supposed to be filled with ways to appease a certain deity of deformity and disease, as well as ways to harness his power (defense zombies anyone? assuming the storm actually makes undead creatures.)] Sotsa fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jun 28, 2012 |
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Here's a piece about the brook and the presumably terrible things that lurk beyond it.
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Sotsa, that was awesome. I find Ugath fascinating.  edit: dat music Qwo fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jun 28, 2012 |
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markus_cz posted:Okay, so we've already established this was a false alarm. Still, let me just say...  This is true.
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drat Loden, that's bleak. Reminds me of the end of Boatmurdered, one broken lonely dwarf limping away from the ashes that used to be his civilisation.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:drat Loden, that's bleak. Reminds me of the end of Boatmurdered, one broken lonely dwarf limping away from the ashes that used to be his civilisation. That was such a great ending to that fort. I see Commatoes in that picture.
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Hello thread. The music and writing is great, so keep it up! I've got a LOT of things keeping me busy over the summer so I'm strictly staying as a spectator this time round. As long as someone's doing pictures of all the forgotten beasts I'd say I'm not needed anyhow.
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Pokeylope posted:Is this a security concern or does the up-ramp stop things from getting in? I was going to berate you for this, but... markus_cz posted:Okay, so we've already established this was a false alarm. Still, let me just say... ...somebody already did. So I'll just second this. Chuckle heartily and mail yourself a letter as proof you saw it before anyone else did and then await appropriate carnage. Sirocco posted:Hello thread. The music and writing is great, so keep it up! I've got a LOT of things keeping me busy over the summer so I'm strictly staying as a spectator this time round. As long as someone's doing pictures of all the forgotten beasts I'd say I'm not needed anyhow. HI SIROCCO!
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Sotsa posted:So I made a thing you could, if one of you want to, use as a story element later on. loving hell. Yeah this is pretty awesome foreshadowing. Not of anything in the fortress particularly, but [edit: I decided I was being slightly spoilerish here. You'll just have to wait and see.]. Loden Taylor posted:Here's a piece about the brook and the presumably terrible things that lurk beyond it. I love this. A few more of your compositions and I'll never need to listen to anything else when playing DF again. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jun 29, 2012 |
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Ah, gemclod. Just finished reading it a couple of days ago and it was great! It also made me want to contribute stuff to an ongoing LP, they always inspire me so. I love how the dwarves in these lps are often ignorant about wildlife/natural phenomenom. Cave dogs, turning inside out hahahaha. :v Thanks for liking my thing.
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ahhhhh all the normalized ground tiles make me think i'm looking at open space BEDS ARE FLOATING IN MIDAIR Seriously. I am gettin weirded out by these "graphics".
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aldantefax posted:ahhhhh Yeah as a veteran player this looks very weird to me to. But there were more people requesting the clean look in here, and well for new players it might be easier to understand.
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aldantefax posted:ahhhhh Oh good it isn't just me.
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Asehujiko posted:Where is that from and what did that gearbox do? It's from the last big succession LP, Gemclod. I flooded that whole area there with water and completely missed that that gearbox was concealing a hole. The fort is directly underneath it.
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I'm finding it very hard to tell what is going on in the outdoors shots. I am just too used to the default settings. Spot the murk is pretty hard when it is homogeneous green on homogeneous green when your usual terms of reference don't apply.
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Pickled Tink posted:I'm finding it very hard to tell what is going on in the outdoors shots. I am just too used to the default settings. Spot the murk is pretty hard when it is homogeneous green on homogeneous green when your usual terms of reference don't apply. Meh, don't worry about the murk. It's harmless.
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Mr. Vile posted:It's from the last big succession LP, Gemclod. I flooded that whole area there with water and completely missed that that gearbox was concealing a hole. The fort is directly underneath it. that aquarium was such a brilliant idea though.
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Pickled Tink posted:I'm finding it very hard to tell what is going on in the outdoors shots. I am just too used to the default settings. Spot the murk is pretty hard when it is homogeneous green on homogeneous green when your usual terms of reference don't apply. Thankfully it has already started raining blood and bile in the evil zone, so soon there will be something to contrast it with!
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i poo poo trains posted:Thankfully it has already started raining blood and bile in the evil zone, so soon there will be something to contrast it with!
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I can try loving around with the graphic for clouds but basically blame 1. Phoebus, for having that cloud graphic, but mostly 2. Toady, for making murk show up as a cloud, giving it the same color as ground tiles, and having it appear over ground tiles. But if we weren't using graphics, the ground would be all .,;.' stuff and the clouds would stand out really nicely. IN OTHER NEWS I really really wanted to finish up all of my year by the end of today. Because tomorrow I'm getting on a plane. But I haven't, and even though I've rushed today I have too much poo poo to do. So here's what's going to happen. Tomorrow, June 29th, there probably won't be an update. I mean, I'm gonna work from my laptop and maybe on the plane it'll all get done and then I'll post from the hotel on friday night but it's unlikely. Saturday, June 30th, there will definitely be an update. I have my work laptop, I have access to my wife's laptop, and I've actually already taken a bunch of screenshots and poo poo so it's mostly a matter of editing and writing and I can do that even if I have any problems running DF. Sunday there will probably be an update, and it'll probably be the final update for my turn. If not, then there will definitely be an update Monday, and that one will definitely be the last one (unless it's not for some weird reason I can't predict). PRECAUTIONS I have everything backed up on my PC. I have everything backed up on a USB thumb drive. I have everything backed up on my work PC. I have everything backed up on my personal web space. WORST CASE SCENARIO If for some reason I cannot get updates done while I'm away, I will end my year where I'm at currently (which is .9 of an update past the one I posted today). I'll post my epilogue (which is written), and hand off the save to the next person. That's obviously not ideal, but it's hardly a disaster. I'M SORRY I've known about this travel for ages but I spent too much time this month doing prep work and should have started a few days earlier. I really thought I'd manage to do three-month updates, four in total, and that'd be that, but my natural tendency to mash the screenshot button constantly, combined with my natural tendency towards verbiosity (can you tell?) conspired with my overcommitment to projects this month to push me into this situation. ANYWAY If I hadn't said anything probably nobody would even know, except that I've been doing daily updates and tomorrow there probably won't be one. I just believe in full disclosure for these things when there's >400 people following along. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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Well, christ, leper </s> Actually I love you I promise 
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No worries, you've done a great job so far, and the updates have been faster than I expected. I'm sure nobody will mind waiting a day or two. My bad jumping the gun with the hole in the wall there. The limestone block had me keeping an eye out. I went back and looked though, and that happened in the first update, so nobody actually pointed it out, it was just framed that way in the narrative. I promise not to alert anyone of our impending doom if I catch any genuine threats in the future.
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Leperflesh posted:Excuses... You worthless piece of garbage. I'd come to respect you, even love you, but now, I can't even look at you. Nah, just kidding. This has been great and I'm glad that you're setting the tone for future overseers, both in gameplay and pace. So what's the procedure for the mad scramble for the next overseership? I've got an idea for my turn...
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Leperflesh posted:Tomorrow, June 29th, there probably won't be an update. I mean, I'm gonna work from my laptop and maybe on the plane it'll all get done and then I'll post from the hotel on friday night but it's unlikely. Well based on what you said before the LP was posted, I can conclude that the next update won't be until Tuesday 
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I felt like doing some fanart of the gods, since they're all pretty cool! Here's Dakas Limullolok Asen Moldath, god of jewels, depicted as a male dwarf.  I imagine Dakas as a god of secrets as much as a god of jewels: not the petty secrets of mortals but the deep secrets of the earth.
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