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LeJackal posted:-snip- Point taken. I'm not sure how much I can do about our updates sounding similar since I can't actually read Bad Munki's, but I'll put in more effort to give mine a better voice. Their will be an update later, a rather lengthy one due to the battle and incoming migrants. It might surprise you but I DIDN'T get everyone killed 
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For what it's worth, too, those fires were actually very judiciously placed to not just be irrevocable killing machines. They had potential to be nasty, fires in this game always do, but they didn't have to take a single life at all. If I'd wanted to do that, I would have actually lit up the two exits from the pasture there and called it a day.  The trick is finding a balance between loving with IK and the game, and not just being outright destructive. It's a delicate balance, and we're in pretty new territory here. Killing dwarves is easy. Giving someone a challenge that the game itself can't deliver is hard.
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 Beware its periodic nosebleeds! I like the concept and think the execution is good so far. Not everyone will be fans, but you can't win them all. It's a complex effort and an interesting one to watch unfold. At least Munkikraken didn't summon magma 
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OhCrap posted:At least Munkikraken didn't summon magma Yet.
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I think this is the first time we've seen a competitive Dwarf Fortress LP. I've got popcorn ready.
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 28th Limestone, 245 What the hell am I doing? Years ago I wouldn't cower in fear the sight of evil. I'd fight it head on. I used to be the only one that understood the true threat that the murk posed, yet I have forgotten how dangerous it is. Now dwarves have died because of it. Well they also died because of their own incompetence, but I'm also to blame. Somewhat. A little.  Point is, this wretched creature will not be felled as easily as I thought. It is infused with the vile forces of evil itself, and I should not have assumed it would be simple to dispose of. It has stolen our high quality weapons, and unlike the dwarf it once was it can use them properly. Already it has effortlessly chopped through several of our soldiers, both recruits and veterans.  But I cannot continue whining like a spineless elf and instead must take charge and deal with this problem in a calm and calculated manner.  I have ordered our soldiers to gather at the entrance. I will close the gate and let the beast run rampant on whoever is trapped outside. Civilians are good at running so they should keep the thing occupied while our army amasses. It's an ugly solution, sure to result in much whining and protest, but our current strategy is not working at all. Leperfish agrees that the plan is grim but necessary for our continued survival.  Now...which of these drat levers am I supposed to pull?! 1st Sandstone, 245 Sky Shadowing may not be as worthless as I thought. The levers have been conveniently labeled so there was no confusion about which one needed to be pulled. So that's one good thing I guess. Unsurprisingly, my decision to lock up the fort caused the dwarves trapped outside to panic. Their screams of terror quickly drew the attention of the dreaded creature. The soldiers still left turned to protect the civilians.  They did not do well.  Most of them were marksdwarves that knew nothing about close combat, and suffered because of it. It was disturbing to watch Dallbun effortlessly chop through their bones. The creatures of murk are imbued with terrible strength.  I could swear it took some sadistic pleasure in the killing, but perhaps it is just my imagination. More likely Dallbun had just become a mindless husk compelled only to kill as quickly as possible.  Seeing so many lives wasted was even starting to bother me. How can I convince these dwarves to stand against such overpowering evil? Well despite my assumptions, there are a few dwarves that understand the dire situation we are in and also have the skills to do something about.  I was not familiar with Barbarossa before this fight. She was rather young for a soldier at nineteen years old, but she was not inexperienced and did not balk at the sight of Dallbun. Unlike the soldiers that had come before, she was fully prepared to fight.  Dallbun attacked her with unnatural strength, and managed to cut off one of Barbarossa’s legs. Yet despite this injury she held fast, actually managing to block blows. As Dallbun was distracted by her, it allowed the other soldiers to attack from behind.  Beset from all sides, the foul creature actually began to sustain injuries. Losing its grip on its battle axe, Dallbun instead resorted to bashing dwarves with an iron shield. This was much less deadly, yet one idiot who was probably careless managed to get killed by it.  But after being crippled and surrounded it was only a matter of time before the inevitable happened. Zebrin decapitated Dallbun, putting an end to its rampage.  So the beast is finally dead, but at an unacceptable cost. At least 10 dwarves died fighting. An entire squads worth of soldiers had to die before we could end this nightmare.  And this could repeat 3 more times. Could our military stand up to more of these things? Probably, but I would expect great casualties to be sustained. But what I fear most is that the murk would surface while we fight, engulfing the entire army. Then we would be truly doomed. As such, the surface will remain off limits. As soon as everyone is inside the bridge will go up and only lowered when I am sure danger has passed. ...what a loving day. I need a drink. 3rd Sandstone, 245 Looks like everyone is inside. Joy of joys, now I get the wonderful job of sorting out these new arrivals.             I believe this is all of them. Already I am disappointed in them as none appear to be good fighters. Regardless, the military needs new bodies, so I may have to draft some of them. There can be no gaps our army. We’ll need all the soldiers we can get. I admit, the gravity of the situation had not truly hit me until the attack of Dallbun. I had grown complacent with my position in life, assuming things would always go the same way they had been for the past few years. Now I actually have a chance to make a difference. These dwarves may not LIKE listening to me, but they HAVE to. That's the twisted beauty of this stupid overseer system. So now it's up to me to come up with some solution to our murk problem. If only I had written that plan down...I'm sure it was genius! 4th Sandstone, 245 Even with the fortress cutoff from the surface these dwarves keep finding ways to kill themselves.  A massive cloud of smoke filled the lower forge area. Sighence and Cave Adapted were heard screaming, but nobody arrived soon enough to help either of them. We only know what happened to them because Cave Adapted ran out of the cloud screaming as her flesh melted off.  Of course this had predictable results.  I am less concerned with the death of these two and more with how it happened in the first place. Leperfish guessed that the coffins I had ordered thrown into the magma sea caused some magma to splash up and hit them both. Makes sense, except I never ordered any loving coffins to be dumped in the first place. Yet apparently this has been going on for days;  Graves being defiled, their inhabitants stripped out, and the coffins tossed into refuse piles. All per order of the overseer. Well I'm the overseer and I sure as hell didn’t tell anyone to do this!  At the very least not all of the graves have been wrecked. However, this confirms what I have suspected; someone is trying to ruin my name. I’ve heard the whispers of the dwarves, that I am unfit to lead or even that I am insane. Work is being done behind the scenes to thwart my attempts to change this fort. It is a conspiracy led by minions of darkness, and I have a hunch as to who is responsible.  The loving queen herself! I know what’s going on here! The nobles are all murk worshippers, it’s the only reason a fort would be out here in the first place. They’re trying to corrupt everyone in Bronzestabbed, make them all like Dallbun! I almost fell right into her trap, but now I'm wary, now I’m the one who will make the plans, and I will expose HER to be the evil she really is! NOBODY tries to mess with ME and gets away with it! Nobody...nobody... 
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Feb 10, 2013 22:47
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Oh. Another overseer creating a byzantine plotline to justify killing the fortress intentionally. Ho hum. 
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Feb 10, 2013 23:09
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I do hope the Queen comes out of this alright- she's pretty much the first Royal in any of the major succession fortresses that hasn't shown up and immediately went mad.
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I built and labeled those levers. Edit: gently caress my phone. Double Edit: I hope the coffins in the Crackmaster Cultural Vault weren't disturbed. That poo poo took me all afternoon - I mean it, literally hours. LeJackal fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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So... an undertrained nurse managed to take out ten militia members? And my dwarf is a double-legendary minerdwarf with an axe. This'll be entertaining.
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LeJackal posted:I l built and labeled those levers. Yeah, I didn't do that, LeJackal did. The only lever I did was the southern lever for Sword Gate, where I just copied his style. Even if my dwarf hated LeJackal's dwarf, I as a player thought he did a fantastic job overseeing and was thrilled I got to follow him. Once I found the levers, I was all set. Tunicate posted:So... an undertrained nurse managed to take out ten militia members? 10 Recruits. Our elite dwarves have not yet seen combat.
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Arglebargle III posted:Oh. Another overseer creating a byzantine plotline to justify killing the fortress intentionally. Ho hum. I must have missed your year as overseer. I love this. Fantastic, even better since you dont read each others updates. Its going to be hilarious when MUNKI NO READ SPOILER Munki needs the military for something and they are half dead.
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Sky Shadowing posted:10 Recruits. Our elite dwarves have not yet seen combat. A lot of those were recruits but some of them were experienced. The more concerning thing is even when being beat on by like 10 dwarves the zombie still didn't die fast and managed to kill another dwarf. They are apparently absurdly dangerous. Hence my decision to lock up the fort, because despite what you guys seem to think I don't actually want to get everyone killed 
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Sky Shadowing posted:I do hope the Queen comes out of this alright- she's pretty much the first Royal in any of the major succession fortresses that hasn't shown up and immediately went mad. You say that as if it was a positive. It is Sankis' destiny to follow in the lofty footsteps of her namesake. Anything less would mean a Bad Fortress. 
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I'm enjoying this! While I don't want to stifle criticism by any means, I'd caution people about being too quick to think that a player is intentionally killing dwarves. Dwarf Fortress can be awfully surprising with what's fatal and isn't fatal. The combat system often works in a way where you either kill something in one strike, or can't kill it at all, and the necessity of justifying bad dwarf AI in story terms often makes it sound like the player meant to do it.
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Man, this is really difficult, I get just enough snippets from people yay-saying or nay-saying this stuff to make me really really really want to read the writeup. Oh, and Spermy Smurf? A specifically-for-me spoiler? That's just cruel.
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Internet Kraken posted:
Ain't no such date, I'm afraid. All dwarven months have 28 days. Arglebargle III posted:Oh. Another overseer creating a byzantine plotline to justify killing the fortress intentionally. Ho hum. That's not what's happening here, unless I'm being lied to and I don't believe I am. The intentional part, that is; I have no insight into the plot line being created.
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Leperflesh posted:Ain't no such date, I'm afraid. All dwarven months have 28 days. You'd think I'd notice something like that when proofreading 10 times 
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Leperflesh posted:Ain't no such date, I'm afraid. All dwarven months have 28 days. By decree of the Overseers Munkraken, the 1st of Sandstone shall henceforth be known as the 29th of Limestone. In addition, the month of Sandstone now begins on the 2nd. Leperflesh posted:That's not what's happening here, unless I'm being lied to and I don't believe I am. The intentional part, that is; I have no insight into the plot line being created.  v
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Feb 11, 2013 02:41
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If IK creates a Munkraken, it will be included in the Adventure World LP.
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I'd prefer calling them Krakunki. I really like reading this, by the way. I've been just skimming over Bronzestabbed recently precisely because of the "same old, same old" effect, but I have to say this is thrilling so far. Reminds of Boing's turn in Gemclod, where some people were also raising the alarm while in insight it still was the best turn, in my opinion. So yeah, keep at it!
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Yay! Best time ever to get dwarfed, during the Krunkigeddon. Don't waste any time, just draft me. 
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Wait, did I not die somehow? Am I still out there playing grabass with murkweasels?
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Tendales posted:Wait, did I not die somehow? Am I still out there playing grabass with murkweasels? I didn't really find a place to mention it, but yeah you're not dead somehow. When I told the soldiers to stop fighting you were one of the few that actually listened. Amusingly, your week spent grappling with the weasel has made you an elite wrestler, a skill which I'm sure will prove to be completely useless in a real fight.
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I have to say, thus far that Bad Munki's behaviour has not been the cause of the horrors that have happened. They are flavourful and it seems a lot worse than it is, but the majority of the casualties have been because of a minor mishap that resulted in some dwarves Internet Kraken sent out getting murked. Disasters like this happen. I had one "invincible" fortress fall because a dwarf tracked in a neurotoxin on his shoe. Murk zombies are horrendously resilient and this is the first time that has actually come up in play. Until now the fortress has gotten lucky. And for those complaining, the fortress had about 250 living residents last I checked the dwarfing list. A few deaths here and there aren't a huge deal. Plus with this many dwarves, very few people can actually run the fortress. I tried loading it up the other day and my machine can only run it at 17fps. Dwarven population reduction is a good thing at this point. Bad Munki, Internet Kraken: I am enjoying these updates, keep up the good work. Pickled Tink fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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Let's all take a journey into MADNESS. (make way for madness) 
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Loden Taylor posted:Let's all take a journey into MADNESS. Magic. Munki magic.
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SirPhoebos posted:You say that as if it was a positive. Every time I see this drat picture I can't stop myself from breaking out in laughter. Oh Sankis the Dwarf, your madness was a lesson to all those who followed after  .
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markus_cz posted:I'd prefer calling them Krakunki. Yeah, I've basically ignored most of this entire thread but this has got me reading it again, because it's something different. You get kind of bored with all the LP's having the same story. I must admit I'm constantly bemused by complaints of this sort because the only truly bad overseership I can remember is Charlie72 back in Gemclod. Ah gently caress it anyway, back to lurking Edit: My point above about it being different drawing me back illustrated well by my last post in the thread, no less: Pozzo posted:Deliberately kill people's dwarves in a malicious and elaborate way. Write the whole year as a psychopath. Starve all children to death for the hell of it. Pozzo fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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Hurrah, dwarfed at the best possible time! I feel a journal entry coming on, especially since poor JollyPubJerk appears to have been fruit of my loins. Mama Maugrim is going to be so pissed off. (By all means please issue me an axe to facilitate making my annoyance felt.)
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Had real life not got in the way (and my internet not crapped out), I would have totally installed a Bridging Room to smash my made up enemies. Along with anyone who complained in the thread. So I heartily approve of the direction things are going.
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Loden Taylor posted:Let's all take a journey into MADNESS.
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Pozzo posted:the only truly bad overseership I can remember is Charlie72 back in Gemclod. Just out of curiosity why exactly? I didn't follow gemclod long enough to get to him, was he just incompetent in a way that wasn't funny, or just not funny, or what?
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Grittybeard posted:Just out of curiosity why exactly? I didn't follow gemclod long enough to get to him, was he just incompetent in a way that wasn't funny, or just not funny, or what? Badly played, badly written, badly updated. The sole achievement of his badly documented turn was a short squat "mecha" statue.
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Yeah, Charlie72's writing wasn't fabulous and his facility with the game wasn't great either, but it would have only been a mediocre and unremarkable year. Except that he got a whole lot of dwarves killed and did not document that well. To the point that at the end of the year I had to ask for a list of who had died because many named dwarves had been killed "off-screen" without any mention at all. To me that's the cardinal sin. So many goons want to know what's going on with their named dwarves, it's part of the interactivity of these LPs. Dwarves will live and they will die, but you just can't let their deaths be anonymous and undocumented or you're severing the audience's connection. Loden Taylor posted:Let's all take a journey into MADNESS. This is fantastic as always, Loden. You know, you've contributed enough music to this thread that we could make a Bronzestabbed album of just your stuff.
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Bad Munki posted:Or a musical! We already went far enough with a game, I think an epic musical animation telling the story of Bronzestabbed, scored by Loden Taylor, isn't so far afield.
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Loden Taylor posted:Let's all take a journey into MADNESS. I told you the same thing last summer and I'll tell you again: I can hear Moonlight Sonata in your music. But that's a good thing, because that's probably my favorite piece by Beethoven. Anyway, your track is really good!  By the way, your pieces name - Dead Whispers - made me instantly think of Suspiria's theme song. That too would make an excellent Bad Munki Theme. e: now I listen to that Suspiria track and watch Munki's avatar. This is frightening.
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Pozzo posted:Badly played, badly written, badly updated. The sole achievement of his badly documented turn was a short squat "mecha" statue. I think, as Leperfish said, the key thing to keep in mind is that the last two of those are probably the most important things in a DF turn. I mean, Bad Munki certainly isn't playing the game particularly well (from a min-maxing perspective, at least), but it makes for a fun narrative, and the consistent updates and good writing is what makes it a Godd Turn. I mean, I'm guessing my turn probably fell into the 'mediocre' category too, though. (my only standing accomplishment was a massive sword monument), but I at least think I did a good job updating, and I'm pretty pleased with how my ending tied in with this turn. Sky Shadowing fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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Sky Shadowing posted:I mean, I'm guessing my turn probably fell into the 'mediocre' category too, though. (my only standing accomplishment was a massive sword monument), but I at least think I did a good job updating, and I'm pretty pleased with how my ending tied in with this turn. You did better than me - you updated on schedule.
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