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I'm glad my Dwarf got to die with more dignity than the last time. Being melted is dignified, right?
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Umm, yes..."dignity," that's what it we'll call it. 
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Feb 25, 2013 16:29
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Nepalese Robot posted:I'm glad my Dwarf got to die with more dignity than the last time. Being melted is dignified, right? Don't worry, since all the slabs are also being melted you'll be back soon in ghost form. We'll all be back soon.
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Feb 25, 2013 16:33
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I can't wait to haunt all your asses. 
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Feb 25, 2013 16:54
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If we're all ghosts the murk and goblins can never truly conquer the fort, so I think this works out nicely.
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Feb 25, 2013 17:00
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Nepalese Robot posted:If we're all ghosts the murk and goblins can never truly conquer the fort, so I think this works out nicely. See? I'm doing this for the fortress, not just to it.
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Feb 25, 2013 17:08
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Slashrat posted:Bronzestabbed - where old people go to die. Not just old people
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Feb 25, 2013 17:57
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Slashrat posted:Bronzestabbed - where old people go to die. Well, let's look at the facts: 1. Old people come here to die 2. People occasionally completely forget what they were doing 3. Frequent bursts of deadly "wind" 4. Poor medical system Bronzestabbed is clearly a retirement community.
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Feb 25, 2013 18:05
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I think an outright asylum might be more accurate.
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Feb 25, 2013 18:09
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Angela Christine posted:Don't worry, since all the slabs are also being melted you'll be back soon in ghost form. We'll all be back soon. Does the fort fall if the last dwarf is killed by a ghost? Imagine visiting that as an adventurer. An entire underground city filled with nothing but ghosts.
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Feb 25, 2013 19:18
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Rurik posted:Does the fort fall if the last dwarf is killed by a ghost? Imagine visiting that as an adventurer. An entire underground city filled with nothing but ghosts. I wonder if ghosts can punch each other? All the people that were killed by ghosts and then became ghosts themselves will have scores to settle. Ghost Fortress, home of the endless ghost melee tantrum spiral.
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Feb 25, 2013 19:25
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Have I mentioned I hate pumps before? Because I hate pumps. Yet for some reason I thought it was a good idea to do a pump project 
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Feb 25, 2013 21:56
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I did what I could to help!
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 1st Granite, 245 Again and again, I have been tormented by these spirits. But no more! This is the last time! The queen thought she was so smart and clever, using her evil magic to manipulate me. Indeed, she did succeed in defiling all of the graves, but now her road is at an end.  For trapped within these walls, the queen is powerless. She can’t leave the room without me unlocking the door and I can watch her through the windows to make sure she doesn't perform her spirit charming. This means I win! I loving win! Finally! Now I can focus on important matters!  Such as drowning the surface in magma. Oddly enough work on the pumping project hasn’t been interrupted by the spirits, so it’s coming along nicely. It will still take a lot of work to complete though. No matter, I feel that I can accomplish anything now! 5th Granite, 245 Another dwarf was born today.  Ceebees insists on carrying her baby Speleothing despite her role in the militia. I don't really care, but she better not complain if her bundle of joy gets skewered.  Some dwarves have also gone missing. Arglebarlge was likely devoured by the murk zombies, but I don’t know what could of happened to Lorrdernie. No big loss though, so I'm not going to waste time figuring it out. 7th Granite, 245  Hehe, I haven't felt this good in a long time. I'm in total control of the fort now. The queen is locked up, the surface is inaccessible, and the caverns are under control. There’s nothing to interrupt my plans for once.  To make things even better, that death trap hasn't been finished yet. With the queen locked up, it never will be. It was so close to being done as well! Lucky me.  The queen feigns ignorance, claiming that she has no idea what I'm talking about. She can't fool me with her cave crocodile tears though. I know she has been responsible for this entire mess. Once the magma pump is complete, I will destroy the wasteland completely, and her dream of corrupting this fort will come to an end. 8th Granite, 245 I just realized I have made a terrible mistake. The pump stack is flawed. I had planned for it to be powered mechanically. However, an error in the design prevents this. The mechanics have informed me that in order for one pump to power the other, there must be a hole in the floor connecting them. As this is absent from the current design, I must have every pump deconstructed and replaced.  Also this will cause a magma spill. A small one, but dangerous none the less. Still, so long as we approach this carefully I don’t believe it will be an issue. 11th Granite, 245 I took every necessary safety precaution to ensure that no dwarf would be injured by the small magma spill. Despite this, I was certain that someone would ignore my orders and get themselves killed.  Shockingly, this did not happen. The pump was deconstructed without anyone melting in the spilled magma. All we have to do is wait for the remaining magma pools to drain away and then work on the pump can continue. 15th Granite, 245 While the surface is closed off, I cannot ignore it completely. A gate is not impenetrable, and I do not want to be surprised by something that can circumvent it. So I examined as much of the surface as I safely could from the gate house.  The entrance is a rather gruesome sight. Dozens of corpses in various states of decay litter the ground. It would take weeks of dedicated work to get rid of them. Fortunately none of the dwarves seem too bothered by the lack of proper burial for the fallen.  The remaining murk zombies are wandering around the entrance. They can't get inside right now, but I realize that in order to complete the magma pump some work must be done on the surface. At some point, we have to deal with these murk zombies. I'll try to delay that as long as possible though and look for a good moment to strike. Other than that, things are oddly calm. I come to expect more problems from this place, but this month has been quite peaceful. 17th Granite, 245 Maybe I was wrong about there being no problems.  A dwarf named Spikey hasn't been seen for a while. I have no idea where he could have gone. How are you supposed to find one dwarf in this place? It's a mess. I was going to go tear up the queen's room looking for anything evidence of her involvement with evil, but I couldn't even find it. It's hard to locate anything outside of the main area. 22nd Granite, 245 Well I can't say I was expecting this.  A large crowd had gathered around Ayana, who had just shot Brannock and killed him instantly.  Of course I demanded to know why the hell she shot him in the first place. She claimed that Brannock suddenly snapped and lunged at her. She was just standing her ground, so she claims.  Brannock had been rather mopey lately, but for him to go from depressed to psychotic so quickly seems odd. I feel like Ayana may have been drunk and just shot him by mistake. Nobody saw what happened though, so I guess she gets to walk free. 27th Granite, 245 I don't understand! This nonsense with spirits was supposed to end with the queen imprisoned! Yet now more than ever I’m getting reports of a ghastly figuring drifting through the fort. Many dwarves claimed to have seen some sort of ghost, as absurd as that sounds.  I'd doubt them, but I saw it myself the other day...it took on the form of Vox Nihili, as if it was mocking me.  If the queen isn't responsible for the spirits- no, I KNOW she must be involved. It’s true I’ve yet to observe her doing anything suspicious, and indeed she truly seems clueless about everything related to the murk, but I can't be wrong! There just has to be more to this! I'm not stupid! I can figure this out! I just need more time to...think 
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Feb 25, 2013 23:12
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Internet Kraken posted:
Ready when you are 
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It isn't strange at all (and when I play the same thing ends up happening) but I still get a kick out of the corpses and clothes and general disorder that piles up in the killing ground right outside the entrance.
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Text Analysis Time! What's been happening to dwarves at Bronzestabbed?  For those of you who aren't familiar with Natural Language Processing, there's a fun little web-accessible tool here: http://voyant-tools.org ...that you can drop any text into (such as the "Fate" column of the Dwarfing List, but also the entire text of all the Overseer Entries and journal entries, if someone had those laying around) and get all sorts of word trends and frequency analysis and concordances.
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Well I drove 600 miles today, so I'm in a mental state not too dissimilar to being drunk, but now I can get the dwarfing list caught up. Tilde, you should re-run that thing tomorrow, since the list is missing all the deaths that have happened since last Wednesday evening. Also sometimes when one thing kills a lot of dwarves I get lazy and just use the same description for them all. So I'm sure that affects things too. But it looks like I've been over-using the word "slain", I'll have to do something about that.
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Feb 26, 2013 05:26
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I tried running the entire thread through that, but it looks like the paywall's up. It ended up reading 138 versions of the "please register" screen. I was only curious to see how many times "Munki" is mentioned, when compared to "dwarf" or "murk".
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Feb 26, 2013 05:31
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Leperflesh posted:Well I drove 600 miles today, so I'm in a mental state not too dissimilar to being drunk, but now I can get the dwarfing list caught up. Tilde, you should re-run that thing tomorrow, since the list is missing all the deaths that have happened since last Wednesday evening. If someone wants to send me a .txt with all the overseer and journal entries (in order, because there are NLP methods that look for frequency over the corpus) then I can go to town.
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Alright, dwarfing list and 3rd post are updated. TildeATH posted:If someone wants to send me a .txt with all the overseer and journal entries (in order, because there are NLP methods that look for frequency over the corpus) then I can go to town. This will be a challenge. They're all linked in the 3rd post, but someone would have to copy/paste the text in order to avoid sending you a ton of markup and image tags and stuff, and there's quite a lot of these updates now.
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Leperflesh posted:This will be a challenge. They're all linked in the 3rd post, but someone would have to copy/paste the text in order to avoid sending you a ton of markup and image tags and stuff, and there's quite a lot of these updates now. These are Dwarf Fortress fans we're talking about. Someone will do it. It's just a question of who...
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Ugath no! Now not only is my dwarf sealed away in a tomb for all time, but he's also an orphan! drat you Internet Munki!  quote:I don't understand! This nonsense with spirits was supposed to end with the queen imprisoned! Yet now more than ever I’m getting reports of a ghastly figuring drifting through the fort. Many dwarves claimed to have seen some sort of ghost, as absurd as that sounds.
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So I was looking for an easier way than going through every update and journal, and came upon this. http://www.stremor.com/tldrplugin.html I couldn't resist plugging in Leperflesh's prologue to see what it made of it. TLDR Summary posted:In 200 Libash Uzoldogik, who had reigned as King of The Rare Ship for 137 years, died and his second daughter Bim Inethdeduk became Queen in Paintfamous. Friendlyshoots which was founded in the First Year. Pagetin, where Queen Bim Inethdeduk married Lorbam Orburn and became a brewer in 73, until Lorbam died in 87, whereafter she wandered The Rare Ship for many years, much as I've done. I couldn't help but try one of my updates in it TLDR Short Version posted:From the Overseer Diary of OhCrap Mountainmist, 237, Bronzestabbed Bad Weasel: TLDR Summary posted:BY ORDER OF OVERSEER, BAD WEASELS AREn't TO BE HUNTED. HEED MY WORD. WHY DOES BIKINDOK NOT HEED? DOn't STALK BAD WEASEL BIKINDOK. HEED! ... and so on. This doesn't help with TildeATH's request, but it made me laugh.
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Pickled Tink posted:Ugath no! Now not only is my dwarf sealed away in a tomb for all time, but he's also an orphan! drat you Internet Munki! Don't be so dramatic. You'll run out of supplies soon enough.
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Feb 26, 2013 15:17
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TildeATH posted:Word Thing! Bah, there's just one problem. With the death list, you'll come up with something amusing. Anything like updates, and you'll have some fairly boring results. I just checked three sets of my text updates for various threads, and it looks boring. But still, let's try it with an update... I'll edit it in if it's interesting, simply edit "BAH" at the end if it's not. EDIT: BAH. "The" is, as with nearly all of these things, the biggest. Lemme see if I can find ways to exclude some words... EDIT 2: There is!  Bad Munki's Latest Update Click the options for the word-picture, then select the english stop-list. JamieTheD fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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JamieTheD posted:Bah, there's just one problem. With the death list, you'll come up with something amusing. Anything like updates, and you'll have some fairly boring results. I just checked three sets of my text updates for various threads, and it looks boring. But still, let's try it with an update... I'll edit it in if it's interesting, simply edit "BAH" at the end if it's not. 245 pump magma erryday
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I can't help but see "surface just shot murk" and "magma locked wrong, it's completely evil". Portents, perhaps?
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Special thanks to philoiz, who put all the Overseer entries into a text file. The hardest part of data analysis is building the dataset, and without diligent un(der)paid graduate students, we'd never have awesome things like this! So, what's the story of Bronzestabbed to this point? It's Dwarf Fortress, Leperfish style!  But more than that, it is a tale dominated by Bronzestabbed, a fortress beset by murk.  From the beginning, this strange phenomenon dominates the minds of overseers.  Of course, something else comes to dominate the minds of overseers.  And what of those overseers, can they influence the story with their petty vendettas?  No, not really. Only the murk and magma and adamantite can keep the minds of dwarves occupied. But what of the characters of Bronzestabbed, do they come to prominence in this story?  Only Leperfish can claim to hold a dominance in the psyche of Bronzestabbed. So, remember, when an overseer is being dragged through the fortress in triumph, a chained kobold walks behind him, whispering "All fame is fleeting." And then they're covered in magma, or locked into a hidden chamber, or eaten by murk zombies. tl;dr: Stop being lazy, go back and read it--there aren't that many words and there are pictures.
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Now that is something new and OP worthy! I especially like that magma has, for some completely inexplicable reason, risen to prominence in the minds of our overseers, that Leperfish continues to be the true power behind Bronzestabbed, and some of the wacky almost-sentences formed by the trend-picture, such as: - I've make going away bad, I'm new, Think Opal Zombie - Dwarf Fortress 241: Order Murk Overseer Head Munki (Portentalicious!) and - Know new time, Dwarves!
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JamieTheD posted:Now that is something new and OP worthy! There's also "Leperfish make Bronzestabbed like goblin's work". HIDDEN AGENDAS!
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Speaking of goblins I'm not sure why none of them have shown up. I actually want them to because they would probably clear out the murk zombies.
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Internet Kraken posted:Speaking of goblins I'm not sure why none of them have shown up. I actually want them to because they would probably clear out the murk zombies. Or turn into Murk Goblin Invaders... 
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JamieTheD posted:Now that is something new and OP worthy! I completely agree. I've added a new section ("Metrics") to the 3rd post, and included links to that post, the mediafire link with the text files, and timgs of the graphics. Thanks TildeATH, that's some good stuff. Internet Kraken posted:Speaking of goblins I'm not sure why none of them have shown up. I actually want them to because they would probably clear out the murk zombies. Well, they have had their asses handed to them repeatedly for over a decade now. Maybe Sankis' grand plan is actually working...?
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That is amazing. I'm only sorry because the minotaurs aren't even mentioned in those infographs. Those poor hillbillies are going to be forgotten, aren't they? 
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Antitonic posted:There's also "Leperfish make Bronzestabbed like goblin's work". HIDDEN AGENDAS! "Dwarf Fortress order murk overseer Munki" "Know magma, child" "Things come, finally" 
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OhCrap posted:"Dwarf Fortress order murk overseer Munki" That's almost a haiku. Let me try and fine-tune it. Dwarf Fortress, murk dwarf Know magma, child of Bronzestabbed Things come, finally.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:That's almost a haiku. Let me try and fine-tune it. And here's a new title for somebody.
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Rurik posted:That is amazing. I'm only sorry because the minotaurs aren't even mentioned in those infographs. Those poor hillbillies are going to be forgotten, aren't they? Hey, this is the age of citizen science and data analysis and information visualization by regular schmucks just like you. Go drop that text into that program and find the story of your incestuous, hillbilly cow-boys. You can do it!
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TildeATH posted:Hey, this is the age of citizen science and data analysis and information visualization by regular schmucks just like you. Go drop that text into that program and find the story of your incestuous, hillbilly cow-boys. You can do it! But... you already did that. Wouldn't I end up with the same results when using the same data? 
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