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 Obsidian 28th 240 I have a dream today We heard loud cheering last night from the fort. We still have no idea of what it portends, but a few have already assumed the worst. That they have decided to finally rid their precious fort of us dirty muck bloods. Perhaps this is the the Overseers final decree before he names his dad king or some such nonsense. Our local militia is prepared though. I hope that this course of action could be avoided and for now, we can only sit, wait, and pray to Ugath. Obsidian 29th 240 Praise be to Ugath! A new Overseer has been picked. Perhaps this era of intolerance will finally come to an end. The militia has orders to stand down and to return to regular patrol and training duties. Though we do not know what the current administrations stance will be for us, we find ourselves in gratitude that the child is no longer in charge. We will deliver the Articles of Restitution that we have put together and hope that the Overseer will consider their merit. The matter regarding adamantine is very troubling. Granite 1st 240 Articles of Restitution We, the Dwarves of Ugathville, declare that our imprisonment be unjust and without merit. Having committed no fault other than our own personal beliefs, we ask that as Dwarves of equal stature be allowed to come and go freely within the fort known as Bronzestabbed. As we have labored within its halls for all dwarves, as we have shed blood in its defense, as we have cared for its sick and injured, we do not believe that this request is erroneous. Secondly, we ask that all former positions and titles be restored immediately upon the Dwarves that had them stripped away. Also within this request, we ask that all who are serving within the military be integrated and let not the seperation of squads by beliefs continue to be a factor. Those who serve Ugath are fully capable of fighting just as well as those who do not believe in Ugath as has been fully documented by both sides of the Mucky Mile during this past year. Thirdly, we ask that an impartial inquisition be held against the Dwarf Qword. There are substantial reports that he has wrongly influenced the previous Overseer and used the position of his son to wrongly gain what was not his. There are reports that he has built a residence within the fort to support this life style. We ask that if this is true, that it be stripped from him immediately and that it be considered as a fall back point should the Fort of Bronzestabbed find itself in need. Fourthly, we ask for proper military honors be awarded to the living and the dead of those who have served this fort. There are many who have perished in doing battle for our lives that have not been given proper honor or a last drink in their name. Let the healing of Bronzestabbed and Ugathville be complete with this act as we sing together for those who have perished this past year. And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every barrack and every dorm room, from every hall and every cavarn, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, Ugath men and Lorsith men, Etest and Titthal, Ngalak and Tithleth, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Dwarven spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! Shiv Katall fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Sep 9, 2012 |
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 2nd Slate 241 I still have trouble believing what I saw yesterday. That so many would conspire for their own gain. Whatever happens, however, I am still overseer of Bronzestabbed, and until I figure out what should be done, my duty is still to keep this place running. I've reinstated Markus_cz as chief medical dwarf today.  He's the one with the most experience in that position. As for Qword, I don't know exactly how he came to replace Markus in the first place, but I have some ideas. None of them cast him in a particularly good light, and given his poor medical skills and complete lack of competence at anything else, he's been relegated to hauling duty. And gods help him if he tries to wriggle out of it. He'll work like he's never worked before. 5th Slate 241 I've ordered more fortifications to be built.  Even that won't be enough, but it's an improvement at least. The pastures will now be protected, and this will give us a buffer where we can defend effectively without being in the fortress proper. 7th Slate 241 Fiendish murk. On our side of the river this time. I've been here long enough to know that it never gets any closer, but still, it unnerves me. 13th Slate 241 Migrants. Thirty nine of them, to be precise. Most of them will make a valuable addition to our workforce, but others... well...  How the hells did I end up overseer of the Mountainhomes of The Rare Ship?
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He's trying to corrupt The Noble Work himself now that the other attempts have been discovered. The important question is whether the royal guard is loyal to him or to the queen.
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Sep 9, 2012 01:04
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This is so awesome. Yeol's term has gone for a month and he's already got a recursive artifact charm bracelet, the first dwarf to die of old age, and the king. And I thought I had my hands full with two sieges. Edited to add: I didn't realize he was going to like that Yak hair so much...
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Domattee posted:He's trying to corrupt The Noble Work himself now that the other attempts have been discovered. The important question is whether the royal guard is loyal to him or to the queen. Yeah, no, the text doesn't change depending on gender. We've got a queen, not a king.
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Sep 9, 2012 01:18
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YeOldeButchere posted:Yeah, no, the text doesn't change depending on gender. We've got a queen, not a king. Does the queen get to remain an NPC, or does someone from the dwarf list get to be in charge?
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thetruegentleman posted:Does the queen get to remain an NPC, or does someone from the dwarf list get to be in charge? NPC I'm afraid. Also, can anyone tell me why my text is all broken in DF menus? It's happened in a couple of screenshots, but it was fairly minor so I didn't bother. The military screen is pretty much unusable, though. More than usual, I mean.
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It's a true type font issue. It is sporadic and nothing can be done about it.
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There must be some DFHack way to name the king based on the dwarfing list as was intended.
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Switching to full screen and back fixes it sometimes. Changing window size sometime does it too. You can also switch font with F12, not sure how that looks on screen shots though.
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It should be noted that Nil Bastionhall arrived in Bronzestabbed with strand extractor experience. Not sure if she was just manning the magma forges or also extracting adamantine. For the buggy truetype font I've found that maximizing the window and then returning it to normal size will often fix it...for one screenshot, at least.
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Domattee posted:Switching to full screen and back fixes it sometimes. Changing window size sometime does it too. You can also switch font with F12, not sure how that looks on screen shots though. If you hit F12 twice it'll toggle it off and on again, which normally is enough to fix it for me.
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I thought we had to have a baron/count/duke before the queen would come?  This kind of sucks. Now we won't get an outpost liaison, so we can't make any requests of future caravans.
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Migrant Update Daeren   Sagan   Zebrin   Disproportionation   Dirty Frank   Zathril   Oski   GrimRevenant   Aston   Forer   Hardboiled   Rezam   Royce Zouks   White-Devil   Pierzak   Diploid   Hezelius   Cave Adapted   Fatfingers   Va'al   Immoral Hamster   Jabu   Kal909   Forever BWFC   SadBilly   Leykin   Dead Cow   Frederico de Soya   Brannock   Mad Wack   Mr. Vile   Tag Plastic   Brougal   Promontory   Schneeble   Thanqol Decadion   GrabbinPeels   Green Intern  
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Slate 13th 241, Continued Queen Zulban is here. I've not seen her, and she hasn't asked anything of me yet, but I expect she will want to address the citizens of Bronzestabbed soon. I will also need to plan for royal quarters and else royal royals need. This is not a wise use of our resources when we are still so poorly defended, but there is little I can do. I've filled up open positions in our military. Given the skills of some of the dwarves that came with the Queen, it would have been a waste not to. Daeren's precision with the crossbow is legendary, and so he joined the GNU order. Aston and Pierzak joined the Rainy Boots as melee fighters. The One-Way Outs received Zebrin and Dirty Frank, and more importantly, Mr. Vile and Mad Wack, two legendary swordsdwarves. Dead Cow's skills with the crossbow was deemed sufficient to join The Walled Skies. Slate 14th 241 Mining incident today. Incidents, actually, as both Slick Slinky and Shorter than some were injured in separate collapses.   Hopefully that's the worst I'll see during my time as overseer. Slate 16th 241 Still no word from the Queen. I've increased the training for all full squads. From now on, 3 dwarves are expected to train each month instead of 1. Slate 17th 241 I suppose it was unrealistic to hope for no major injury during my rule earlier.  She fell down a shaft that was being mined to make the magma forges easier to access. She didn't suffer, at least. Slate 20th 241 The smelters in the forge are now producing what little steel we can.  Slate 21st 241 This is getting out of hand. You people need to be more careful. PoptartsNinja fell down the exact same shaft that claimed Babies' life.  The wounds should heal, but at this rate the goblins won't have anything to kill the next time they siege us. Slate 22nd 241 The rudimentary vault I've ordered built to store adamantine has been completed.  It's still far too exposed to the caverns, but at least it's close to the forges and we won't leave adamantine lying around from now on. The two large, ornamented copper doors had already been forged, but I can't seem to find out who ordered them. I need to look into this more deeply. Slate 23rd 241 And so it begins. Leperfish brought this to me this morning.   As far as mandates go, it could have been far worse. I've yet to see the Queen, or hear about any other requests, which is rather strange, but Queen Zulban has always known to be elusive. Slate 25th 241 One of the dwarves who came with the latest wave of migrants has been acting strange.  He took over some leather works and now he's collecting materials. Slate 28th 241 So I found out what those copper doors were made for. Some of the Ugathers have petitioned me for "restitution", and mentioned rumors of a house built for Qword.  That rat had houses made for him. With gem windows and fancy doors. I'd considered punishing the Toddleseer before, but this makes it clear that there was someone else pulling the strings all along, and that punishment should be aimed at that someone else. I've started by evicting Qword. The houses will be used as temporary quarters for the queen.
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YeOldeButchere posted:
I always liked to imagine that the godawful mess Qword makes of his room (Top right of the small house) is just another sign of his low moral standing. Clothes strewn about the place, despite his having perfectly good cabinets and chests. Or then, maybe they're not his clothes... I'm loving these entries. I wonder if the remaining corruption will be uncovered. Or maybe Yeol will have one of those Chinatown moments, when he realizes he can't fix it because the corruption goes to deep. "Forget about it, Yeol, it's Bronzestabbed."
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TildeATH posted:I'm loving these entries. I wonder if the remaining corruption will be uncovered. Or maybe Yeol will have one of those Chinatown moments, when he realizes he can't fix it because the corruption goes to deep. There's no such thing as 'too deep' for a dwarf. 
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I only just realised my Dwarfs name is 'Pickled Tink' Bronzestabbed. My parents must have been unimaginative. The fact my elder sibling is named "Dirt" only supports this conclusion. Slate 21st 241 Spikey my Mummy was upset today. She says Daddy needs to lay off the booze and watch where he is going. My Daddy, PoptartsNinja, fell down a hole and his arms and legs look funny. Mummy took me to see Daddy in the hurty place, then she left me there with him so I could talk to him, because I am smart and I am learning words and questions and and asking Daddy about Ugath. Mummy doesn't want to talk about Ugath. She says I'll grow out of it, but I say mud is fun and she looks at me sad and says that I might be sent to Ugathville if I keep asking. I don't see Daddy often, so I asked him questions in the hurty place. Daddy did a good cornered animal act and asked Markus_cz for a "said-at-iv". Markus_cz gave me a nut which tasted funny and showed me the crutches before I fell asleep. Maybe next time I can spend more time with my Daddy? Pickled Tink fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Sep 9, 2012 |
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Slate 28th 241 Her majesty will be angry! For many years I have provided the queen with the herbs and spices she likes. She won't get what she wants here though! The Noble Work is too inhospitable to nurture the food she likes, so she has secluded herself in her quarters, as is typical for her at times of stress! Talking of quarters, how the queen acquired them is a strange tale in itself. This place used to have a Toddleseer and his father had ornate quarters built for him, absurdly appointed for a dwarf of his standing! It would appear that Qword had an unhealthy influence over his son. I feel sorry for TildeATH, due to his father's actions the poor boy has been blamed for all that has gone wrong in Bronzestabbed, maybe things will change now. Right time to head off to the caverns, there are only two of us to gather up the fruit of the soil, Overthefalls and myself. I persuaded her to work the parts of the cavern furthest away from the entrance, she is more experienced here after all, and if she runs into any cave spiders, she will have a story to tell her grand kids! Sad King Billy fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Sep 9, 2012 |
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You know, I have to say, Yeol calling the dwarves out at the meeting was one of the most seriously awesome bits of narrative I've seen in one of these Dwarf Fortress Threads. Grant you, part of the reason I find it that way might be because there's a lot of dwarven indwarfanity to dwarves (and humans, and elves, etc;) in Dwarf Fortress that it's nice to see a dwarf calling his fellows out on it. Drakli fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Sep 9, 2012 |
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Sep 9, 2012 10:34
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Slate 14th 241 We made it to Bronzestabbed yesterday! It was a long trip but everyone was excited because the Queen traveled with us. There were lots of new dwarves to meet today while we found a place to stay and there are still lots more to meet. Mum says I can go say hi to all our new neighbors soon. She says to take Thanqol but he just wants to follow da to work so I will leave before they wake up tomorrow. We met some humans on the way and I talked to them a lot. They said that Thanqol and I were "dwarven twins" but when I said we were dwarven but not twins they only laughed. Later da said they were just being racists and to never use the phrase "dwarven twins" again because obviously dwarves don't have twins and so what if he and mum had a very good year when Thanqol and I both spawned. Da says the Rare Ship isn't like The Momentous Syrup. He always says that, but nobody knows what he means. Not even mum. The Rare Ship is great and all the dwarves here are nice so maybe the Momentous Syrup had goblins in it? Anyway, time to go to bed. There are lots of new dwarves to meet tomorrow! Schneeble fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Sep 10, 2012 |
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Sep 9, 2012 12:42
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Are the unusually high, up to legendary, skills of the migrants a result of modding?
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Valiantman posted:Are the unusually high, up to legendary, skills of the migrants a result of modding? No, it's because migrants are historical figures now. The game sends actual dwarves from the civ, and I'm guessing the civ Lepperfish chose is an old, well developed one. In one of my games, the civ I chose had a never-ending war with the goblins (300+ year long war) and most of my migrants had high level military skills when they came.
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It works the other way, too. I gen young worlds and most of my immigrants are either farmers, hunters, fishermen or some of the first dwarves of their kind.
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zalmoxes posted:No, it's because migrants are historical figures now. The game sends actual dwarves from the civ, and I'm guessing the civ Lepperfish chose is an old, well developed one. Right, it's possibly why I always only get migrants that are Competent Military Dwarves plus some farmer or health care professions. Or fisherdwarves. I've never generated a world older than 250 years in the DF2012.
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Valiantman posted:Right, it's possibly why I always only get migrants that are Competent Military Dwarves plus some farmer or health care professions. Or fisherdwarves. I've never generated a world older than 250 years in the DF2012. It's not just the age of the world that affects this, it's been a while since I've played around with worldgen, but tweaking population numbers and limiting civ sites has radical effects on what kind of dwarves and histories you get. If you only have one or two dwarven civs with very few dwarves in an isolated corner of the world, they'll be fisherdwarves and hunters mostly even after thousands of years.
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seriously, though - has anyone, anywhere, EVER, had a dwarf die of old age? I know I haven't, and I must have had near by a thousand fortresses now.
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Valiantman posted:Are the unusually high, up to legendary, skills of the migrants a result of modding? In addition to historical figures, the entourage of the monarch typically contains several legendary warriors. ...these jerks are trying to show up us dwarven heroes that made our lumps through toil and sacrifice in Bronzestabbed 
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Tias posted:seriously, though - has anyone, anywhere, EVER, had a dwarf die of old age? I know I haven't, and I must have had near by a thousand fortresses now. Yeah, I have. Not in my current fort, but in the one before that I may have had an unusual number of elderly migrants or something because the 'Spring has arrived!' message became my cue to check the corpse stock and see who had died of age alone and unannounced that year. Any age over 130 was a signal I shouldn't expect too much time out of them.
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Tias posted:seriously, though - has anyone, anywhere, EVER, had a dwarf die of old age? I know I haven't, and I must have had near by a thousand fortresses now. I was in adventure mode once, fighting a group of bandits. I killed one, and was moving towards the other one when I got the notification "so-and-so, human _________, has died of old age." I took a screenshot, I'll try and find it.
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Tias posted:seriously, though - has anyone, anywhere, EVER, had a dwarf die of old age? I know I haven't, and I must have had near by a thousand fortresses now. That's because before DF2012, all the migrants that were created out of thin air were all middle-aged. Only 50+ year-old forts would start to see old age deaths. And who has the patience for THAT? There was an incredibly old fort on Bay12 that was basically a whole megaproject itself. It had huge structures, dwarf-made cavern layers, giant mosaïcs and very, very old dwarves. I should go look for it.
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Kaishai posted:Yeah, I have. Not in my current fort, but in the one before that I may have had an unusual number of elderly migrants or something because the 'Spring has arrived!' message became my cue to check the corpse stock and see who had died of age alone and unannounced that year. Any age over 130 was a signal I shouldn't expect too much time out of them. I've had one too. Very moment, since I didn't know it was possible beforehand. I thought it was code for something else.
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Journal of "Disproportionation" Machineseizures. We have left the safety of our homes by sanction of the monarch and have been forced to join the migration party to the new Mountainhome, bismouthstubbed or something they call it, I don't care. My husband is eager and exited as always to see new places, I will do my best not to dampen his spirits (not that he would mind), but I do not wish to move again, especially in the company of the Queen. I have decided to write about my experiences, so I do not go mad during the journey. We are a party of thirty-nine, yet our royal "escort" consists of 2 or 3 dwarves of the army. I am unnerved by this. According to my husband their skills are legendary throughout the land. Still, I am surprised; only 3? Legendary or not, I feel we are vulnerable to attack by bandits. I can use a crossbow, but we have few on hand, and they would be better wielded by others in the party. I have managed to speak to the other dwarves though, they seem nice enough. Some are as young as we are, and some younger still. We are there. The fortress is in swampland, which is a nice change of pace; sure it's not pretty to look at, but I never did like mountains; there is plenty of rock underground. A vile smell permeates the boundaries of the fortress, not sure if it is the natural musk of the place or the large pile of rotten corpses near the entrance. I see a few trees, so perhaps I shall find work here. The Queen and her entourage are ushered quickly into the fort, as the rest of us are interview. General stuff really, our skills, relations and the like, although when mentioning my patron god I was given a dirty look, though I did not complain, I'm not making enemies when I've only just got here. I'll try to make the most of things, maybe life here will be good, I even saw a fine statue on the way in. Disproportionation fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Sep 9, 2012 |
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Journal of Tilde, an Innocent Child Who Was Manipulated Into Causing Trouble Oh, how I hate these pre-printed tablets they've made for me, though I do appreciate being absolved of all guilt for the actions associated with my toddlerseership. Yeol continues the nefarious Dwarf condition, using a series of "mining accidents" to kill or maim any in the secret society, or to strike fear in those that may undermine his nefarious plans. Nefarity is the order of the day, it seems. He's removed the rightful Chief Medical Dwarf for the crime of being related to a former overseer and replaced him with a drug-addled wretch. He managed to murder one of the enlightened Ugathers who helped build the very magma forges he now lords over us and whose pick and questionable loyalties allowed for the rescue of the much-corrupted Captain of the Guard. He grows so sloppy as to claim a dwarf died of "old age" though no dwarf can remember such a thing happening, except in legend. One of his "accidents" even removed the new broker, who knew nothing of the swirling conspiracies but needed to be pushed out of the way so that Yeol could buy the loyalty of some fool dwarf who will put his or her stock in Yeol's plan to suck up to the Monarch. Mark my words, journal, the dwarf he appoints broker will be the first in a long line of Yeol stooges. I can only expect the next dwarf on his way to an accident to be the Hammerer, who much hated Ugathists and athiests like Yeol. Though, perhaps he'll buy off that one with a young wife, and ease his existential suffering. Perhaps he'll even clear out the Ugath temple, and let the Murkists occupy it for their foul rituals. I find it amusing that by "saving" the Ugath-lovers he strips their temple of more and more of its nascent power. And do the muck-lovers complain of their loss of prestige and worship? No, they cheer him! Those fools will always be pawns in the games of more prescient dwarves. ...what follows is a truly horrible rendition of a young dwarf admiring a malachite charm bracelet... My dull Yak-mom wandered by and I was forced to act out the pretensions expected of dwarven children. What child of Bronzestabbed could be so cow-like and innocent as they expect us? I have tasted the blood of an eagle, if only in a dream, and Male Man has fought with beasts of legend, while Improbable Lobster has created a thing so valuable and mysterious that it alone has summoned our foul Queen. No, journal, the children of Bronzestabbed are more crafty than the adults, and not crafty in the crappy, stone-craft way, but legendary crafters of subterfuge and portent. We menace with spikes of underestimation. I am mighty enough to wrestle an adult dwarf into submission, and would do so again if not for the demonic restrictions placed upon my caste. Continue your twisted "reforms" oh Yeol, but know that "accidents" can happen to any dwarf, especially when creepy dwarf children have free reign in your fort.
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