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In my case, I just poorly stole a migrant during one of the waves and just didn't mention it. I say "poorly" because I grabbed the wrong gender (female), and when I noticed, I stole a male dwarf, but not after (unbeknownst to me) having a child by a father who was married to someone else with whom that dwarf also had children and it was all very Dwarves of Our Lives by the time I stopped screwing things up. 
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Bad Munki posted:...but not after (unbeknownst to me) having a child by a father who was married to someone else with whom that dwarf also had children and it was all very Dwarves of Our Lives by the time I stopped screwing things up. Perv Overseer. But, at least you didn't wrongfully imprison a patriot.
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Jul 30, 2012 03:20
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Then again, you know? This is all for fun. I guess I shouldn't worry about how you "should" play an imaginary leader of a commune of moody psychopaths.
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Jul 30, 2012 03:23
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TildeATH posted:Perv Overseer. Sweet, new schtick.
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Jul 30, 2012 03:34
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With as often as Peas and I are outside I am surprised my dwarf has made it so long. I am sort of betting I get husked before murdered by something, but I suppose both can happen! Pleky just wants to raise cute attack animals 
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Jul 30, 2012 03:35
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I'm happy that, as brewer, I'm one of the most protected dwarfs in all of Bronzestabbed.
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Jul 30, 2012 03:46
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TildeATH posted:I forget, are you the dead baby or the mauled-but-still-living baby? Let's Play DF2012: I forget, are you the dead baby? Also, I have realized that my requested dorf name is stupid and would like it to just be my forum name (when the time comes).
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Jul 30, 2012 03:54
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Bad Munki posted:Sweet, new schtick. If I had had time to grab the save and put in for overseer, I was going to play as a recent widower, considering a trog had just skewered my wife. My take was going to be "I'm the new overseer...and ladies, I'm single!"  I was thinking of having a swinging, gigantic bedroom made for myself. Statues and gold floors and a phallic tower above it reaching into the heavens topped with a few beds for my new friends and I to relax and "enjoy the view." All in...um, you know...memory of my dearly departed wife. I think I just revealed that I thought way too much about my plans for in-game dwarven seduction. TremendousMajestic fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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TremendousMajestic posted:If I had had time to grab the save and put in for overseer, I was going to play as a recent widower, considering a trog had just skewered my wife. My take was going to be "I'm the new overseer...and ladies, I'm single!" Widowers can't get involved in romantic relationships. Dwarf marriage isn't just for life, it is forever. If your dearly beloved dies you get to be alone for the rest of your life.
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Jul 30, 2012 04:41
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Disappointing Pie posted:Spirit Overseers haunting the passages whispering orders and possessing people would be fantastic. I am going to travel three years into the past and take this exact suggestion
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Jul 30, 2012 04:58
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Angela Christine posted:Widowers can't get involved in romantic relationships. Dwarf marriage isn't just for life, it is forever. If your dearly beloved dies you get to be alone for the rest of your life. drat. Well, they can have elite, all female military squads stationed in their bedrooms, soooooooooo
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Bronzestabbed! How many nekkid lady dwarf pics do you really want to see?
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Jul 30, 2012 05:15
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...Why? How many do you have? 
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Why does no one ever build proper defenses? Where is the gatehouse? Where are the floodgate airlocks? Where are the crenelated towers? Where are the lovely killing hallways? Where are the block-houses and underground passageways and locked hatches and iron grates and ballistas that never work right? Are we playing Dwarf Municipality?
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Arglebargle III posted:Why does no one ever build proper defenses? Where is the gatehouse? Where are the floodgate airlocks? Where are the crenelated towers? Where are the lovely killing hallways? Where are the block-houses and underground passageways and locked hatches and iron grates and ballistas that never work right? Are we playing Dwarf Municipality? Because efficiency is boring.
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Zapdos posted:Sorry if this update is a little boring. If you do monthly updates (as you've been doing), it's expected some will be less eventful. That's OK. There has to be quiet before the storm, because a neverending series of storms becomes tiresome and robs the action of its excitement. Snollygoster posted:Did we ever figure out how to handle Overseers whose characters died before they got their turn at the helm, or who for whatever reason weren't "on site" during their term? Leperflesh posted:The owners of dead dwarves are indeed just as eligible for Overseership as the owners of living dwarves and the not-yet-dwarfed. Snollygoster posted:Then again, you know? This is all for fun. I guess I shouldn't worry about how you "should" play an imaginary leader of a commune of moody psychopaths. Yeah, exactly. I have several AfroSquirrel posted:Also, I have realized that my requested dorf name is stupid and would like it to just be my forum name (when the time comes). Taken care of. Don't worry, your username is weird enough anyway. Arglebargle III posted:Why does no one ever build proper defenses? We're only on overseer number four. And we must expect that some overseers are more military-oriented than others. Our current overseer seems to be focused on at least a few things that are equally necessary for survival, if not obviously so - a clean indoor water supply, sufficient armor and weaponry for the troops, allowing our best combatants to heal and recover (not pictured, but it's happening), and more. Perhaps it's not as visually spectacular, but if we can't get more clothes made or bought, the fortress is just as assuredly doomed, because naked dwarves will go insane and kill each other en masse. However if you get a turn you can feel free to encrust the hillside with as many dwarvenly crenelations and ballista emplacements and minecart launchers as you see fit.
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Leperflesh posted:However if you get a turn you can feel free to encrust the hillside with as many dwarvenly crenelations and ballista emplacements and minecart launchers as you see fit. I would take a turn as overseer but I can't read. It's a terrible burden.  Seriously, I would take a turn but I have virtually no chance of getting in in the next few weeks, after which I will have no free time. Also, I have no idea how DF 2012 works, so you would all see me ordering massive construction projects to turn Bronzestabbed into a miniature Angband while the actual community falls into decay. And probably only the inner gatehouse would ever get finished. The way I used to play Dwarf Fortress was mostly dealing with the Dwarf part just enough to get to the Fortress part, I admit. In fact, the Fortress killed all the Dwarfs in more than one instance. Although now that caverns have been implemented I'm sure the Goblin Flusher's drainage issues could be worked out... Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Caravan Meatshield is a proper defense.  e: Waterslides are also a defense, if done correctly. OhCrap fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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I take a few days off from reading this and I find myself dwarfed as a young married Weaver... knowing my luck, I'll end up gathering web from in front of a Giant Cave Spider or some other FUN thing. That said, I'd love if I could be made into a dabbling Mechanic, that'd be great. (It'd give me an excuse for how to Overseer things even when dead.)
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Arglebargle III posted:Why does no one ever build proper defenses? Where is the gatehouse? Where are the floodgate airlocks? Where are the crenelated towers? Where are the lovely killing hallways? Where are the block-houses and underground passageways and locked hatches and iron grates and ballistas that never work right? Are we playing Dwarf Municipality? You are not the only ones to think about these things, the wall looks like something a bunch of civvys would throw up!
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I volunteered to be a mechanic for the exact purpose of building death stars and murder levels, but I'm still sitting pretty at number 380 or something like that. However, at the current rate of genocide we should get things running soon enough 
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Found on a freshly engraved wall in Kilrudzat c.238. Removed by order of Overseer. Apologies in advance for the crappiness
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Vaga42Bond posted:I take a few days off from reading this and I find myself dwarfed as a young married Weaver... knowing my luck, I'll end up gathering web from in front of a Giant Cave Spider or some other FUN thing. I'll see what I can do. I'm not sure how many mechanics we already have but its one of those professions you can't have enough of. OhCrap posted:Found on a freshly engraved wall in Kilrudzat c.238. Removed by order of Overseer. I fully support using the caravan as meatshield.
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Zapdos posted:I'll see what I can do. I'm not sure how many mechanics we already have but its one of those professions you can't have enough of. What the hell kind of update was that? Get on the job, you oppressor.
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Hmm, I am going to have to get in next rotation and build that auditorium for our boy Loden...
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Arglebargle III posted:Also, I have no idea how DF 2012 works, so you would all see me ordering massive construction projects to turn Bronzestabbed into a miniature Angband while the actual community falls into decay. And probably only the inner gatehouse would ever get finished. I demand that this
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Crassus posted:I demand that this Mister Goblin Flusher 2.0
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 1st Opal, 238 Merchants report minotaur attacking animals stuck outside.     (OOC:  )It does not sound pleasant. I have allowed the front door to be opened for any animals seeking refuge but I doubt many will come. Some goblins started moving again when the animals were scattered.   Some did not.  3rd Opal, 238 Nobody has seen Zaodai in a week? How could this be? Was his cage checked?    If one of the militia's best soldiers was starved to death there will be hell to pay. Dwarves were already grumbling about his incarceration. 4th Opal, 238 One of the caravan soldiers has engaged Bulifo.  It doesn't seem to be going well for him. Why haven't the rest of the merchants joined in?  Swore I saw Fiddler Three carrying Zaodai's corpse today. Couldn't have been, otherwise I would have been informed of his death, right?  5th Opal, 238 Well poo poo. Apparently it was. Fiddler Three finally realized what she was carrying and screamed in horror. Not very happy today.  In happier news, although the macedwarf who faced the minotaur was killed gruesomely   the rest of his companions finally helped out. Bulifo is dead.    Now if the goblins would only make up their drat mind and either leave or attack the fortress proper.  Giant toad is still seen by merchants, but goblin leader is no longer riding it. Hopefully he drowned.  (OOC: thats just greeaaaat) Black Griffon has started gathering ingredients.  I have designated a tomb for Zaodai. I will have it smoothed and engraved.  6th Opal, 238 My son begins his work in a frenzied way.   7th Opal, 238 Goblins finally killed mule. Have not started pursuing other animals left outside. Perhaps because the merchants are between them?  Vaga42Bond has asked to be taught mechanics. We have enough weavers and as there are no fish to be caught at the moment   8th Opal, 238 Merchant meatshield left today. I doubt they will pass through goblins. We are alone again.  11th Opal, 238 Black Griffon's work, 'Naragseth", is completed. I'm rather impressed.   Nettle Soup estimates it to be worth 13,200. Satisfied with his creation, he shambles back to bed a legend.  13th Opal, 238 Reservoir finally ready. Vim Fuego has volunteered to remove the last bit of dirt.  This had better work. 15th Opal, 238 Vim Fuego (and his dog) have successfully breached water supply.  16th Opal, 238 Have forgotten it is winter. Water supply is frozen. Will have to wait for results.  Construction of barracks ongoing. Walls designated as well as block flooring for the entryway. It is fitting for a dwarf fortress to welcome visiters through stone.  17th Opal, 238 I order manufacturing of charcoal now that we have a supply of wood logs from the cavern. 18th Opal, 238 Dining hall is complete. Engravings will be added later.  19th Opal, 238 I start work on the bedrooms. Soon dwarves will have privacy they deserve.  23rd Opal, 238 Spikey gave birth while sleeping today. Not something I wanted to see.  Welcome to the fortress, Dirt.   24th Opal, 238 Improbable Lobster turned one today, and is now ready to wander the fortress on his own.  26th Opal, 238 Unforunate meatshield Male Man has also become a child. Hopefully this will stop Idles from bringing her into battle.   In other news, the river is unfrozen. Filling of reservoir possibly weeks or months away.  Approximately 25% of bedrooms have front walls and doors. Rest will be taken care of.  28th Opal, 238 Acallapani has turned one.  End of month. Hopefully goblins will tire soon and leave.
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Zapdos posted:
More on this - Those goblins will probably never leave now. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=1598 Also, relying on charcoal for smelting and forging sucks.
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Zaodai  Zapdos posted:Also, relying on charcoal for smelting and forging sucks. Oh, I know. I know.
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Zapdos posted:More on this - Those goblins will probably never leave now. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=1598 Isn't the leader usually their most skilled fighter? If they don't have any elite marksgoblins, it might be a chance to engage in glorious slaughter.
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OhCrap posted:Isn't the leader usually their most skilled fighter? If they don't have any elite marksgoblins, it might be a chance to engage in glorious slaughter. No ranged units. We would probably win if I tried, but a lot of dwarves would probably die. Only Bad Munki's squad is somewhat ready to go, the rest dont even have armor.
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Could carve fortifications in the outer wall and give Kraken's squad target practice if they get close.
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Are we dwarves or cowardly sniveling elves that hide from the first sign of danger? Actually, elves are braver than the dwarves of this fort becuase they don't even have walls to cower behind.
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OhCrap posted:Could carve fortifications in the outer wall and give Kraken's squad target practice if they get close.
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You could build a 2nd layer on the wall and put fortifications up there.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Are there any exterior stone walls? You can't carve fortifications into dirt. yup. Built in my turn, waiting to be carved.
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You can't carve built walls. Carved fortifications can only come from natural stone. If you want to place fortifications where there is no natural wall, you must build them as fortifications. Additionally, carved fortifications extend from floor to ceiling, whereas constructed ones only go halfway up, and as such provide no floor above to build on.
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Bad Munki posted:You could build a 2nd layer on the wall and put fortifications up there. That was the main reason I built them as walls. Could be built up or carved as desired.
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OhCrap posted:That was the main reason I built them as walls. Could be built up or carved as desired. See above. 
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