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FinalSin posted:That's some nice chiptune you got there! Do you make it normally? I've really got into this sort of stuff this year, and man do I like that track. Thanks! I've been making chiptune/Commodore 64 music on and off for, oh god, almost 10 years. Now I feel old.
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Someone needs to compile albums of these (And Gemclod too while you're at it) so I can jam down the highway listening to DF tunes on my Ipod.
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Orthogonalus posted:Thanks! I've been making chiptune/Commodore 64 music on and off for, oh god, almost 10 years. Now I feel old. Do you have any albums or anything? I'd love to hear more of your stuff. Apologies for littering the thread with music requests! e: ^ Yes indeed.
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So the giant turkey that's attacking isn't just a weird turkey monster that just happens to exist in the wilds, but is in fact an ageless, unseeing, fire-breathing, man-hunting Gobblegod? I hope my dwarf wasn't out woodcutting or whatever he's supposed to be doing.
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Orthogonalus posted:Done and done, couldn't resist. Sweet Jesus this owns.
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It is a Titan. There are precious few titans in the world - they have power similar to that of a Forgotten Beast, but unlike those fell creatures, Titans have walked (or slithered or whatever) the surface of the world since time began. There are those that revere them, or at least, give to them prayer that they will not come. Leperfish knows why Kovest Beriger Mebzuth Num has come. He has told of this. It is not about goblins, but about the evil. Bronzestabbed is here to call the evil, to challenge it, to war it and - if the Rare Ship is to survive, conquer it. Kovest Earthenrivers the Oars of Wind has come because we have called out to it.
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Leperflesh posted:Kovest Earthenrivers the Oars of Wind has come because we have called out to it. Well it's certainly not here because of that big "FLAMMABLE DWARVES" sign we put out, what with being blind and all. 
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Orthogonalus posted:Done and done, couldn't resist. drat this is awesome. Reminds me a bit of the awesome music from Shadowfire on the C64.
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H1KE posted:The unrelenting, unseeing, unstable, unquenchable, giant turkey Kovest. He waits in the shadows of the world. Waiting, watching...but never forgetting... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I Also, that chiptune is loving amazing. I am constantly astounded at the music these games inspire. I hope someone is creating a SoundSense pack of all these songs, because if I have one complaint about DF it's that the song becomes repetitive and fatiguing after a while.
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looking turkey, crashing the forest, gobbling and breathing fire, not even comprehending what it's doing or where it's going.
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DarkHorse posted:So, basically, like TF2's "Meet the Pyro" Basically this in giant blind turkey form. Also that chiptune loving rules.
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Orthogonalus posted:Done and done, couldn't resist. Sounds like boss battle music to me, which is highly appropriate given that the fortress is apparently about to have it out with the fire-breathing Ur-turkey (of whose glory all other turkeys are but a pale, delicious imitation).
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Dr. Demon posted:Sounds like boss battle music to me I think I see what you mean. I started by making only a bleepy version of that DF in-game guitar melody line, but then I realised it needs to be more 
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The game's almost got all the basic playable parts in place (not counting the fun added features I want to try and get in) so I guess I can start getting feedback. If you want to take a peek at a test version sometime in the next few days (it needs a few features to make it playable), drop me an email at canadwarf at cutgar.net, then start lowering those expectations while you wait for a reply! I also have two things I want that involve recording voices. One needs a bunch of people to do it too, so hook out your $1 mics and get in touch if you fancy doing something silly. EDIT - Oh, also keep suggesting stupid things I can add in! I can't do all of them because I am terrible at making games, but I'm going to try and do some (minecarts are definitely going in I think). mtrc fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Aug 7, 2012 |
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That chiptune  Been listening to it for almost an hour now.
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Yeah, jumping on the "that chiptune is loving awesome" bandwagon.
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  Click here for the full 1284x402 image I spot RedRansacker patrolling just barely to the north and shout for him to run for the hall. Kovest stands still for several moments, languidly watching us flee. Then it takes to the air.  Click here for the full 1280x402 image It stumbles as it flies lazily, touching down and then taking to the sky once more, its altitude soaring to the top of the hill that marks our entrance.  Click here for the full 1240x364 image It swoops down, approaching the windmills that once powered the mister.  Click here for the full 1246x369 image Even wild animals heed its arrival.   A fireball falls from the sky and lights a spider web ablaze.  It spies one of our graveyards and sets many dead pets ablaze.  Fire rains on the dogs watching the entrance, and the fire will soon spread to the crops. The dogs run but one war dog, belonging to Zapdos, does not make it.  As if taunting us a cloud of fiendish murk arrives from the east, just south of the river.  The metalcrafter Psalmanazar does not heed the burrow orders and wanders outside to retrieve an item as we scramble to pile limestone in the entryway. We feel a crash of something huge against the hill and a startled cluck and I feel hope that she may yet survive.  Zapdos sits not on a chair, but a table in the dining hall. He remains in the dining hall for some time but he does not eat.  The Noble Work ask me what to do. They call me overseer. I finally realize and accept the assignment of Leperfish and begin to plan. 20th Granite It is time. The fires have cooled and the burnt ground is much safer to fight Kovest than a brushlands inferno would have been. I cannot wait long, every day risks the other migrants arriving and becoming additional victims of The Oars of Wind. The beast lies outside the fortress, in between the walls and the the dirt of the hill. A perfect spot to ambush the creature. I order OhCrap's Creations of Luck and Internet Kraken's One-Way Outs up the tunnel where the former mister's water source comes from. Removing the wall that blocks the exit here and at the entrance should allow us to flank the beast.  Click here for the full 1248x368 image No communication is heard of psalmanzarm and the worst is assumed. The same is assumed of Pleky McDwarfson the beekeeper and the axedwarf RedRansacker.  21st Granite Through the crumbling walls RedRansacker is spotted by OhCrap! He proudly announces that he has taken command of the new squadron The Busts of Violence and although the joke is bad all are glad to see him alive. Bad Munki shouts in warning and soon the flapping of wings are heard.  Kovest has sniffed out our trap and takes to the skies once more.  Perching above our entrance, it turns its eyeless gaze towards RedRansacker and suddenly a fireball collides into him, setting him ablaze.  Kovest descends to finish off its prey, using its traditionally clumsy landing to lure RedRansacker into attacking instead of tending to the flames consuming him.  We could only watch helplessly as his leg was ripped off at the knee by the creature.  One of our livestock caught the creature's fancy, or perhaps it is more accurate to say that Kovest hoped to lure us to a brush inferno to the northwest. It abandons the helpless RedRansacker to his fate. We are not born yesterday and I do not have the militia foolishly rush to a swift death.  Click here for the full 1248x371 image Kovest lazily flies south, hovering above our force. I order the bird shot down.  As the ashes and bronze gear where RedRansacker once stood are found, Olesh aims and fires a fine bronze bolt, rewarding us with a deafening gobble. Its flying becomes more haphazard still.  It is here that another ruse of the crafty Oars of Wind was revealed. Its three tails point in unison at Olesh and expand rapidly. Three balls of fire plummet towards him.  That's not just the combat log summarizing things. Well, it probably is sometimes since it didn't seem to do it much at the start when RedRansacker and the yak died, but it can actually shoot fireballs in three ball bursts. Amazingly, Olesh avoids them all by leaping behind a wall, but the beast does not let up, raining fire on the militia below. Sirpenguin hits the beast and is rewarded by being set ablaze but keeps firing.  Click here for the full 1211x145 image OhCrap is set ablaze. She stands still as the flames consume her as if she is confused about what is happening.  The titan is too wounded to keep its flight and is forced to descend upon the graveyard. Crashing and denting its own roost into our wall it is left somewhat airborne but vulnerable to our melee soldiers.  Due to a pathing bug, dwarven behavior while on fire, or some other reason only two melee dwarves engaged Kovest at the same time. Geri Khan is first to engage, her axe cutting feathers and flesh alike.  Her bravery allows Joecool and Sirpenguin to continue their assault.  Click here for the full 1213x293 image Log082 is set ablaze and falls to the ground, choking in the smoke.  Kovest's attempts to repeat what happened to RedRansacker are foiled by Geri_khan, who quickly becomes confident in her ability to break its grapples.  Click here for the full 1226x654 image SirPenguin, still ablaze, takes careful aim and fires at the creature's foot.  Kovest falls, unable to attack in any way save its deadly triple fireball. Perhaps we shall yet prevail. But the hunter of men is ever clever, and still a trick to show. It shoots a fireball that misses all the militia widely. But it was not aiming for a dwarf.  Sirpenguin gets off one final shot before expiring. Geri Khan holds on slightly longer, three weak cuts before she is reduced to ashes. OhCrap follows suit.  It is during the last moments of these three that Bad Munki leaps into the fray.  He easily outpaces the rate of Kovest's fire with his own attacks.  Nomikos runs into Bronzestabbed while ablaze, boiling blood and fat trailing her. She collapses when she trips on a block of ore, never to rise again.  With Geri khan's fall, Willie Tomg joins the fray. Olesh peeks out from behind the wall and opens fire once more.  Scamtank looks to the sound of battle and grows quiet, beginning a slow march to the fortress exit...  The casualties continue to mount as Bad Munki & Willie Tomg draw blood and shatter bones.  Bad Munki, looking more like a walking skeleton clad in bronze than a dwarf at this point, delivers one final, punishing blow to Kovest.  And then the first Militia Commander of Bronzestabbed falls.  A gust of wind kicks up and scatters his ashes across the battlefield. His remains will not be recovered, like many others who die today. Joecool would have been a fine new champion of Bronzestabbed, but he is engulfed in Kovest's fire and shall not survive.  Not heeding the battle just to his southeast, scamtank claims the bone carver's workshop I had ordered built before Kovest's arrival. He walks into the pit of corpses, eyeing a pile of kangaroo buck bones.  Kovest eyes scamtank and its three snaking tails point to the farmer. Willie Tomg, in even worse condition than Bad Munki was, strikes in desperation at the creature just before she succumbs.  Kovest is suddenly overtaken by a hacking cough. It turns and glances at the Willie Tomg. It turns once more, resting against the ground as it locks its gaze on a final location.  I evalute the other dead as Dallbun considers the significance of the event she now shares her birthday with.  Of those who damaged the beast Olesh is the only survivor and also the one who, along with SirPenguin, brought it down to earth. Still he insists that the vanquished dwarves deserve the credit instead of him. Everyone who caught fire died. Olesh somehow managed to dodge a LOT of fireballs, he's got a ton of "The Marksdwarf stands up." spam which is indicative of dodging and falling in the process. The Stormy Lancers are wiped out to the last dwarf, save for those who were reassigned to the Nets of Charm. I order the squad decommissioned so that Bad Munki's service will not be muddled with the achievements of future dwarves.  Teim approaches the beast. He follows its resting, eyeless gaze, walking around the trade depot walls to see where it led. The walls not stopping its brand of sight, Kovest spent its last moment regarding the entrance of the halls of Bronzestabbed itself. He drags Kovest behind him into the fortress, towards the butcher's workshop.  Meanwhile, I finish tallying the butcher's bill. Fourteen good dwarves were lost to Kovest. PlekyMcDwarfson and Psalmanzar, thankfully the only civilian casualties. Both were burnt to ashes in Kovest’s initial attack. RedRansacker, defeated just before the rest of the militia could leap to his aid. SirPenguin, OhCrap, and Geri Khan, annihilated in the early fighting. Nomikos, Log082, and Haardrada, could not endure the flames as victory seemed possible. Bad Munki, fought the beast until he returned to dust. Jonis, Joecool, Willie Tomg, and MinorRed, perished along with Kovest. Many livestock and pets expired as well. I spent the next few days in a daze. Coffins were ordered made and those already made placed, as there was scant room in the graves for what charred corpses were recovered. Most busied themselves by depositing the champions' gear in their tombs... whether that tomb would hold a body or not. Slabs will have to follow, all fourteen deserve no less. 1st Slate I must attend to the morale of the fortress. On this front we are in a better position than I previously thought. Just after Kovest breathed its last Internet Kraken, having refused to wait for a crutch, stumbled towards the entrance in full combat gear, demanding to be directed to the fight. I had to tell him the news of his fellow squadron leader.  Olesh suffers from survivor's guilt.  Idles, barely recovering from the poor treatment she had received in the hospital, is forced to hear of the news of her husband RedRansacker as Markus_cz sets her last fractured bone.  Male Man is out and about, trying to endure the infection of her wounds.  Now she must endure the loss of father RedRansacker.  Magrov, also still in the hospital, receives news of the loss of his own spouse Geri_Khan.  The freak attack of Kovest is horrible, but I believe Bronzestabbed can recover and draw up plans for defense against future attacks. I go to Leperfish to show the plans and begin to speak when he interrupts. He tells me of Sankis, he speaks of Ripewhips and Pagedtins, of the true purpose of The Noble Work. He tells me why he believes Kovest came to Bronzestabbed. He says that it is due to the evil, that Kovest serves the evil, that Kovest is the evil. Leperflesh posted:It is a Titan. There are precious few titans in the world - they have power similar to that of a Forgotten Beast, but unlike those fell creatures, Titans have walked (or slithered or whatever) the surface of the world since time began. There are those that revere them, or at least, give to them prayer that they will not come. He looks at me And I look at him ... Leperfish turns away. He says that he needs some time alone. Time to think. Time to reflect. Time to grieve for those who have fallen. Time to grieve for his friend.  Time to grieve for Bad Munki.  Full Combat Log Rawkking fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Aug 7, 2012 |
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Aug 7, 2012 20:34
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Death by boiling wine was awesome. I wish I was a good enough artist to draw that.
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Finally found a way to cure that nasty infection I had: just had to step into the autoclave. 
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OhCrap! Nooooooooooooo!She was Good Dwarf.
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And right in the middle of fort-wide mourning I kick down the door and instruct everyone to gaze upon my kangaroo bone scepter ain't it awesome.
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Rawkking posted:Willie Tomg, in even worse condition than Bad Munki was, strikes in desperation at the creature just before she succumbs.  Punching a titan to death a moment before you die.
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Rawkking posted:Nomikos runs into Bronzestabbed while ablaze, boiling blood and fat trailing her. She collapses when she trips on a block of ore, never to rise again.  Man now I'm almost glad I died before this.
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Yep. That went well.
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scamtank posted:And right in the middle of fort-wide mourning I kick down the door and instruct everyone to gaze upon my kangaroo bone scepter ain't it awesome. Man, if the mood had been timed a week later, you'd have made a scepter out of titan bone instead.
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Willie Tomg, you glorious bastard. Rawkking, you are correct in your assessment. Bodies of some dwarves are broken, but the morale of all are broken. Something must be done.
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Colon V posted:Willie Tomg, you glorious bastard. Actually except for Apeynap who is still sad over his father Zaodai and his spouse those are the only unhappy dwarves in the fort, everyone else is fine  Leperfish is at 12 happiness so I'm worried he will tantrum/go insane. Rawkking fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Aug 7, 2012 |
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If there's still a living dwarf capable of making Fine Doors and Tables, there's still hope.
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This is the first Dwarf Fortress LP I've read from the beginning. I now understand why they're popular. What we need now are some fine statues and caged animals for admiration purposes. They're better than medication for depression.
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 Last Will and Testament of Bad Munki Please don't put me in some smelly, dirty coffin. Throw my remains in the magma sea or drop me off in the caves, it won't much matter at that point. Just a simple slab with my name on it by the front gates will do fine.
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Now, you see? Those doctors aren't that incompetent. Not one dwarf undergoing treatment by the medical staff was killed in the titan attack!
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Flavius Belisarius posted:Zapdos lost his dog now? Jesus. Well I assigned it to myself in case I went berserk, so there wasnt really a connection there. Anyway he was no Good Dog Ezum.
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Oh, no. That was just... epic. I cringed at how many amusing avatar-dwarves were lost, but that's the most brave, valiant, doomed-yet-victorious turkey-slaughter I ever did behold. No matter what happens between this and the end, Bronzestabbed brought down a titan. And now they're going to eat him.
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Zapdos posted:Well I assigned it to myself in case I went berserk, so there wasnt really a connection there. Anyway he was no Good Dog Ezum. He was probably chained to a rope at the entrance or something and so couldn't follow you when you assigned him, I never saw the full four war dogs following you at any point. In other pet news, Bad Munki's pet war cheetah Urist has somehow survived. Kaishai posted:Oh, no. You could say it was a... Pyrrhic victory 
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My dwarf continues my cunning plan of not being anywhere near anything important and thus not dieing horribly!
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Poor OhCrap, dying the way he lived. Surrounded by an alcoholic haze. Not usually one that is on fire, but still... Truly the best overseers die young. 
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Rawkking posted:You could say it was a... Wouldn't it be a Pyre-ic Victory? 'Cause... everyone... burned...? 
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How many dwarves have died since the last migrant wave? It seems like it's been forever since immigrants have arrived.
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Well I guess it's time to update my dwarf's portrait.
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