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Arglebargle III posted:Little bones huddled together in the dark... Well, LeJackal died pretty much on arrival in the most recent dwarf fortress LP. So there is that.
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Arglebargle III posted:You are a monster and I'm surprised you have the gall to post in this thread after what you did. Oh sure, I seal forty demons in the fortress and I only get called crazy. What's a guy gotta do to be feared and respected? Let them go free? 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Oh sure, I seal forty demons in the fortress and I only get called crazy. What's a guy gotta do to be feared and respected? Let them go free? Fight them hand to hand. Winning optional.
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Phoenix Taichou posted:Will Bronzestabbed be saved in a fashion similar to Gemclod? Definitely. I've been careful to preserve things on my end. The archiving process will probably take a while, but it's apparently pretty well understood by now. My goal would be to allow people to read either just the updates, or the updates interspersed with fan contributions, depending on their preference. After I do the epilogue, I'll focus on some stuff along those lines, as well as making the game saves available.
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 Epilogue   Most of what we know of the fortress called Kilrudzat - “Bronzestabbed” - is derived from primary artifacts. Hundreds of contemporary artworks survive which depict various events of Bronzestabbed's history. In the usual way, these focus on the subjects and themes of dwarven artworks that typify the period: dwarves elected to and dismissed from positions of authority, individual defeats and victories of battle, animals, gemstones, metaphorical references to favorite parables and moments from ancient history, and of course, the often-confounding cross-referencing of other works of art and their creators. However, Bronzestabbed's history from its founding to the mid-spring of the year 255 is uniquely revealed by the preservation of detailed journals recorded by its series of “overseers.” These journals provide their own challenges, of course; Bronzestabbed's leaders varied in the details they chose to record (and those they omitted), their personalities revealed by what personal thoughts they left behind, and their reliability as narrators may be challenged. Much of what was written by overseers can be corroborated. We may be certain, to pick a random example, that the brush titan Kovest Beriger Mebzuth Num did in fact attack Bronzestabbed in the early spring of 239, as recorded by the overseer Rawkking; numerous artworks referencing the event were created within weeks or months, and they are consistent with the name and aspect of that terrible beast. Independent accounts also agree with Rawkking that the beast was slain, in the end, by the dwarf “Willie Tomg” Bulbwork, after a terrible battle in which several dwarves Rawkking mentions were slain. But the overseers also describe in their journals all manner of private conversations, conflicts, upheavals, plots, and affairs that cannot be confirmed by secondary sources. Perhaps none of the overseer accounts is more confounding in this respect than that of “Leperfish” Metalmachines, the expedition leader of the Noble Work, founding member of Bronzestabbed, overseer for the year 236, and then overseer again from 1st Limestone 250 through 28th Slate 255. Metalmachine's overseer journals are important not only because they document a critical period of Bronzestabbed's founding and development, or their methodically-complete description of the last period of major constructions at the site, but also because of his unique perspective of the Rare Ship's most enigmatic ruler, queen “Sankis” Oilypulleys, who died there in the early spring of 253. Yet most of what Metalmachines wrote of Oilypulleys is at odds with the characterization of her presented by Bronzestabbed's other overseers. Was she, as Metalmachines writes, a profoundly insightful and farseeing ruler, who single-handedly orchestrated a remarkably unconventional – and remarkably successful – counterstrike against the dark forces arrayed against her domain? Or was she, as recorded by several other overseers, a manipulative, plotting, corrupt, sometimes near-psychotic presence at Bronzestabbed, whose dark plans were not so much foiled as simply too convoluted and impractical to succeed? We cannot know. Perhaps all of these perspectives have their validity. Howerver, while “Leperfish” may be beloved by those historians fascinated by painstaking reconstruction of the goblin sieges of 251, his journals also reveal a certain gullibility or naivete on his part. One popular theory among Bronzestabbed academics, for example, is that contrary to his consistent description of the dwarf “Internet Kraken” Helmsarches as being a dear and close friend, Helmsarches actually intensely disliked Metalmachines and was deeply suspicious of his motivations and actions. (This theory is not uncontroversial; a few historians assert that Helmsarches' own overseer journals reveal he likely suffered from severe mental illness, reverting between intense loyalty and deep paranoia from day to day. Others argue he was simply an irascible, crotchety fellow, who deep down really loved Leperfish as much as Leperfish believed he did.) Nevertheless, despite the journals' sometimes questionable versions of events, and the challenge presented to historians by firsthand accounts recorded by narrators with personal biases, hidden motives, narrow views, and lack of objectivity, they remain the most fascinating and compelling historical documents assembled of that era. There are additional records and sources worth mentioning to supplement the primary artifacts already presented here. Historical accounts of varying completeness have been recovered, originating from archives located at several other settlements of the Rare Ship, which refer in one way or another to Bronzestabbed, Oilypulleys, the several hundred dwarves who emigrated there, etc. Here are presented a selection which may provide context or fill a few gaps in the records directly recovered from Bronzestabbed. A selection of entries in the well-known book The Age of Heroes relate to Bronzestabbed. This document notoriously focuses on legendary works of art, and foreign invasions, to the exclusion of all other events.        The Register of Royalty, recovered from Paintfamous, includes a page on Sankis Uzolbesmar, which mentions a few of her activities prior to ascending to the throne:  Goblin war parties that attacked Bronzestabbed during the period 236-252 originated from two goblin settlements. An apparently complete record of unknown authorship, titled “Enemies of The Vice of Breaches,” details the attacks and battles undertaken by one of them:          Leperfish Metalmachines' assertion that there were two different dwarves called “Bad Munki” is corroborated by separate and apparently distinct records of their lives found at Paperhame, although it is not absolutely impossible that one or both could be forgeries:    Careful scholars have identified a number of dwarves who, according to overseer journals, went missing or were otherwise un-accounted-for by the time Leperfish Metalmachines left Bronzestabbed in 255. Records recovered later in some cases provide hints at the ultimate fate of a few of these dwarves, although we usually must still guess at the exact circumstances of their deaths.              Leperfish Metalmachines made much of the situation at the mountain hall Ripewhips. He recorded on two occasions speeches he gave to dwarves at Bronzestabbed in which he recited excerpts from Ripewhips' History. In the usual practice of the era, these formerly oral histories had begun to be recorded on parchment, and those records copied and distributed to other mountain halls. We are fortunate to have a copy of the Ripewhips record that was stored at Shipshook; almost certainly either the very same record which Leperfish likely studied in 235, or a copy made very shortly thereafter.          It is worth noting that the word “vampire” appears several times in this History, and yet, Leperfish never mentions it. Exactly why he avoided discussing them even in his overseer journal is unclear: perhaps he was directly ordered to do so by his beloved queen, or perhaps he simply didn't believe in them. Possibly the queen's obsession with security, and vague warnings about infiltration by the “enemy,” are oblique references to the vampiric threat. We do not know. Without additional evidence, the most we can say is that there is no hint or suggestion in any known record that any vampire attempted to infiltrate Bronzestabbed during his era; why that is, we can only speculate. We present here an anonymous and incomplete “biography” of the notorious dwarf vampire Goden Actorb. It is most likely a forgery; it is difficult to credit any likely biographer with access to this sort of information about such a dangerous creature, but neither does it seem likely that Actorb wrote his own biography using words such as “fled” and “murder” to describe his own actions. Nevertheless, incidents of suspicious deaths and disappearances at various mountain halls of the Rare Ship are recorded independently, with dates and locations that agree with those in this document. In as much as he is suspected of murders at Ripewhips, Goden Actorb's biography is tangentially related to Leperfish Metalmachines, Sankis Oilypulleys, and their self-imposed mission to “save The Rare Ship;” thus worthy of inclusion here.          At least a hundred goblins perished during ambushes and sieges of Bronzestabbed: the number may be as many as three or four times that. No overseer recorded exact casualty numbers for their enemy, and the goblins are notoriously poor record-keepers. However, one brief record apparently originating in some library located at a nearby human outpost is worthy of inclusion:  Little scholarly work exists regarding the life cycle of goblins, but this one, known to have been slain at Bronzestabbed in 247, was apparently at least 247 years old at the time, if this record is to be credited! (Both human and dwarven record-keeping of the era commonly refers to any creature known to be alive at the dawn of the “Age of Heroes” as “one of the first of his/her kind,” a shorthand for the myth that every living thing was created by the gods in the year 1.) It may be that the goblin Nako Uxustosbub killed at Bronzestabbed in 247 was a completely different individual than the goblin Nako Uxustosbub recorded to have been alive in the year 1. The alternative explanation, that goblins have natural lives in excess of 250 years, is... worrisome, and worthy of further investigation. Illustrative of the confusing provenance of such records, we find this funereal epitaph for a wagon disassembled for its parts at Bronzestabbed; it is obviously a joke, but shows that dwarven recordkeepers are not always diligent about the purity of their records.  Various temples were established at many mountain halls of The Rare Ship. In accordance with certain religious traditions, exceptional acts of worship (or profanity) performed within these churches were sometimes recorded for posterity by their scribes, although this practice was not universal – only the various doctrines of certain gods and goddesses of their pantheon did so. A handful of dwarves who later emigrated to Bronzestabbed are mentioned in these records. For completeness, they are included here. Ugath Muckcrypts:    Lorsith:  Several Bronzestabbed dwarves are mentioned in this partial record by priests of a temple to Tithleth:  Three Bronzestabbed dwarves are mentioned in this partial record by priests of a temple to Titthal:  Finally: the “Sense of Stone Project” is an ambitions attempt by historians to reconstruct the physical layout of important sites, relying primarily on both contemporary and recent architectural diagrams, mining plans, and the written accounts of those who described what they saw with unusual detail. Presented here are excerpts from Sense of Stone reconstructions of parts of Bronzestabbed, as it may have appeared in ~255. Sense of Stone project members caution that these diagrams are tentative; likely correct in the broadest terms, but containing unavoidable inaccuracies and educated guesswork to fill in details. Outside views, showing the Queen's Tower, the bronze sword, and the battlements and walls of Bronzestabbed   The underground farming pens  The Great Hall, and nearby kitchens and stills  The warrens of bedrooms  The topmost chamber of the magma pump, with nearby gearworks and the great magma lake  The lower hospital and storerooms  The Hall of Heroes  The lower retreat, showing the magma pipe, the bottom-most magma pump, and parts of the magma furnace workshops  LeJackal's magma prison  And at its lowest level, the platform suspended above Hell  Thanks and Acknowledgments This Let's Play is for, first and foremost, the Goons of the Somethingawful.com Let's Play subforum. Bronzestabbed was inspired by previous Dwarf Fortress Let's Plays hosted there; it was encouraged and supported by its readers there; and its success is measured by how well those Goons were entertained. Chieftest among those influential prior Dwarf Fortress LPs is the story of Matul Remrit. Kevin Snow's unique and compelling use of language inspired my own composition of Leperfish's journals, and whatever similarities are found between the two are due to my shameless copying of his originality, which I did without permission. I would like to thank as well the readers who posted in the Bronzestabbed LP thread, whether it was to discuss and debate the latest update, or simply to provide words of encouragement and support. Many of the readers went a step beyond spectating, though; extra thanks goes to those who contributed their own creativity, in the form of artwork, poetry, music, creative writing, and more. Your participation enhanced the efforts of the goons playing the game, added detail and context and richness to our “official” posts, and filled in during the sometimes lengthy delays between updates. Special thanks is owed to one contributor in particular. Loden Taylor composed a series of magnificent songs, of unwavering quality and beauty. Taken together, Taylor's compositions wonderfully reflected and enhanced the emotions evoked by the stories we told together. In my opinion, this music is essential and inseparable from Bronzestabbed, which is incomplete without it. Thank you, Loden Taylor, for sharing your enormous talent with us. Of course, the official content of this LP was provided by brave (and foolhardy) volunteers who downloaded each successive save, and then spent countless hours playing the game, composing a narrative, editing and posting updates, on a frankly unreasonable and punishing schedule. The Overseers of Bronzestabbed deserve accolade and individual praise. Thank you, JamieTheD, OhCrap, Zapdos, Rawkking, TildeATH, YeOldeButchere, Thadius, Jazzimus Prime, LeJackal, SirPhoebos, Sky Shadowing, Bad Munki, Internet Kraken, Veloxyll, nvining, Pickled Tink, and Neddy Seagoon. Taking on this task was never easy; presenting your creative efforts to a huge and sometimes judgmental audience can be terrifying. Each of you, in your own way, rose to the challenge, and I am proud of you all for what each of you accomplished individually, and what we accomplished together. The following people also deserve credit and thanks: Tarn and Zach Adams, the creators of Dwarf Fortress. It is their insanity, and the ridiculously detailed worlds their game generates, that makes Dwarf Fortress LPs such endlessly rich and rewarding story generators. Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka and the administrators and moderators of the Somethingawful.com forums made this and countless other LPs possible, by creating and supporting the best online community in the world. Lepermod 0.1, the Dwarf Fortress mod I used for Bronzestabbed, incorporates and extends DF mods by goons Vox Nihili, Markus_cz, and scamtank, as well as the mods Ironworks and ModestMod. Internet Kraken also provided modding advice, and scamtank in particular provided extensive advice, edits, and bug fixing for Lepermod. While the changes made to Dwarf Fortress by Lepermod are mostly behind the scenes, the character of the LP was nonetheless profoundly affected by it; and this mod would have been impossible without the help and support of these contributors. Lastly, two people must be credited, far above and beyond all of the others, as fundamentally responsible for whatever success I personally have achieved in finishing this Let's Play. My wife, whose saint-like forbearance and patience cannot be understated. I began this LP by writing updates in the hotel room we stayed in while on vacation in Canada in June, 2012; and I ended it by spending dozens of hours per week of our limited free time, every week, for sixteen months: from July 22, 2013, through November 28, 2014. Not only did she put up with my disappearance into my office to work on Bronzestabbed for two or three nights a week for over a year, she actually encouraged and supported me, patiently listened to me babbling on about dwarves, and never brought up the prospect of divorce even once. And, Pickled Tink. I can say, honestly and without the slightest hesitation, that Bronzestabbed would never have been finished were it not for Pickled Tink's friendship, support, encouragement, weekly reminders, cajoling, bribery, threats, and weirdly effective punitive gifting. Over the course of the last year, on countless evenings when my personal weakness for procrastination was prevailing, Tink would pop up, chat for a bit, make some suggestion or comment about Bronzestabbed, and then point out that if I didn't get an update finished by midnight Thursday night, Bad Things would Happen. Tink has been more than just a taskmaster, though; he's become a true friend, and that is something of incalculable value. I'm relieved, and glad, and proud, to have finished this project at last, and of the result. I owe that to you. Thank you, most of all. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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My next task is to upload the saves and get them all organized and stuff. I promise I'll do that soon. I also feel like, at this point, there's no longer any issue with spoilers; I don't know if any of you have been saving up your desire to discuss stuff like vampires or things hidden at bronzestabbed or what have you for like two years or something, but if you have, you can finally get that off your chest. You can also feel free to check out the overseer site; most or all of the overseers left notes for the next overseer to look at, and you can also download all of the "final" saves each overseer provided at the end of their term (except for mine, which as I said I haven't gotten around to hosting yet). I am also happy to answer any questions about the game, the LP, etc.
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Don't listen to him! Most of what we spoke about was cats! That being said, some of you may recall this post of mine from July: Pickled Tink posted:
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 Well done Leperflesh. Well. Done. Indeed.This is a Good LP. All craftsdorfship is of highest quality. I especially love how I was apparently the only one of my extensive family to do anything of note, even with the husband in the military— also, you know, this is the first game I’ve ever had a named character in a LP survive to the end, of which no small amount of credit goes to you. There, Tink, I posted! You can gently caress off with your Sakura Spirit now! 
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It's been quite the journey. Good to see it come to a close. Now for Bronzestabbed II: The Wrath of Kovest.
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Jazzimus Prime posted:Will you be using Goondorfs? Speaking of, I'm still up for a transfer, JP. We didn't get around to it in time so I just renewed the domain, no big deal, but I still don't think I'll ever get around to doing anything with it so you can still have it if you want.
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Having been lurking in this thread since its inception (during my own brief flirtation with actually playing Dwarf Fortress), I have to ask.....vampires. Spill it. What was the deal?
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Shanakin posted:How many punitive gifts did you end up with, and any of particular note or interest? I think I wound up with two? Surgeon Simulator 2013, and Gravity Badgers. The threat of Vanguard Princess hung over my head for something like 10 months. Tink was sure I would eventually slip up and he'd get to gift it to me, but as agreed, by never missing an update over all that time, he was forced to add it to his own games list and actually play it himself. Haha. scamtank posted:Thank god it's over. Oh my god, you don't even know. During the last 16 months, the only computer games I allowed myself to play, were bloodbowl (because I was in a league, so I had one league match per week for a few weeks there) and games on my phone/kindle. I have a huge backlog of stuff on steam I haven't gotten to play yet. Not to mention uhh... TV shows, books to read, miniatures to paint, all sorts of projects. I don't think I've fully internalized yet what it means to my lifestyle to not have this hanging over me any more. Jazzimus Prime posted:Excellent LP, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will definitely archive it. I have not yet investigated the process. I have my own webspace, and I believe Gemclod webspace might be available, and then there's Goondorfs? I dunno. I'm sure we'll figure something out. kaynorr posted:Having been lurking in this thread since its inception (during my own brief flirtation with actually playing Dwarf Fortress), I have to ask.....vampires. Spill it. What was the deal? Man, I really don't know. As shown in the epilogue, there are at least two dwarf vampires; both cursed by Rare Ship gods, both racking up at least 500 murders over the course of the civ's history, and as far as I can tell, both still alive. Er, unalive. You know what I mean. Why didn't they ever come to Bronzestabbed? I can't figure it out. In every other run of DF2012 I ever played, vampires were an absolute inevitability by like year 3. It'd be cool if someone more knowledgeable than I could crack open the saves and figure out if there was something I did, or something unique about the rare ship's configuration, that prevented them from coming. This was something that really threw me for a loop, by the way. The original idea was that Sankis was warning Leperfish about vampires trying to infiltrate the fortress, hence the fake names and the need for secrecy and subterfuge and so forth. I figured eventually we'd get some, and I warned the other overseers about that. It could have been a central plot pillar to hang the whole LP on. But it just kept not happening. The other overseers all did a great job finding other things to focus on, and at least we had the murk and the murk zombies to show off the other major new feature of DF2012. I think that aspect went pretty well. Highlighted, often important to the plot, but not overwhelmingly so. I hope it didn't get too repetive. I know even at the very end, every time I got a report of a murk, I would check closely and watch to see if anyone or anything would get murked. I never quite managed to wall off or isolate every part of the map exposed to it, although that was one of the things I was trying to do before ending the LP. We also never had a necromancer show up with an army of zombies. This was kind of intentional: I was worried when setting up the LP that it might be too hard, since we straddle an evil biome. The evil weather combined with vampires I figured would be enough; a necromancer with zombies showing up in the first three years likely would have ended the fortress prematurely. So, I picked a site that was not close to any towers on the map. They're out there, though. I also (foolishly, as it turned out) thought this might turn into a dynasty LP. That is, Bronzestabbed could be the first of several LPs taking place in this generated world. There are other dwarf civs out there, and plenty of zombies, necromancers, and other horrible things to deal with. Of course, that would only have made sense if we'd finished the LP in a reasonable amount of time, and toady hadn't released another major new version. It's OK though. I've been avoiding reading too much about DF2014, but now I get to check it out, and maybe even start reading the new LP!
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Leperflesh posted:I think I wound up with two? Surgeon Simulator 2013, and Gravity Badgers. First thing you got was the 1C strategy collection on the 21st of December last year. Then Surgeon Simulator on the 23rd. Trine Complete, Shadowrun Returns, Solar 2, and Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition on the 25th. Presumably because you were really, really, really late with the update by then. Spelunky on the 28th of December. Gravity Badgers on the 4th of January. Portal 2 on the 7th of January. Secret of the Magic Crystals on the 17th, which you regifted to Bad Munki. Legend of Grimrock was the last on the 5th of March. I had a massive pile of stuff I had collected in the christmas sale last year just sitting in my inventory. Leperflesh had argued that there was no way I could afford to keep up the gifting pace from the early months, so I told him how much I had stored in my inventory and a miracle occurred and he stopped missing updates so much.
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Oh, right. I knew you gave me some of that stuff, but I forgot it was punitive because, uh, a lot of those are good games! The punitive part I guess was that I couldn't play them until I finished the LP. Or, just ordinary guilt at collecting a reward for doing something wrong. ANYWAY I have updated the "Overseer Site"! It now contains the final saves from each of the Overseers, including the very finalmost save of Bronzestabbed! Instructions for use are included. I also have collected most or all of the seasonal saves from the entire run of the fortress. I'll be uploading those and making them available as soon as possible. Once those are up, anyone will be able to check out the fortress at virtually any stage of its life, re-fight major battles, rescue dwarves that otherwise died, or otherwise re-write history in whatever way they like. One thing worth noting. The final save still has Leperfish physically at Bronzestabbed. I played around with using dfhack's mode switch to take control of Leperfish as an adventurer, which did work sort of, eventually; but, I couldn't get him safely back to the mountainhomes, because there's a system of rivers in the way, and... well, I don't actually know how to play adventurer mode really. If this breaks your verisimilitude, feel free to hack Leperfish right out of the save, or whatever. The narrative intent is that his ultimate fate is unclear. Did he fulfill his ambition, as experessed in the first post of the LP, to some day visit all of the mountainhomes? Did he die anonymously in the wilderness, killed by a random kobold? Did he go on to found six more fortresses surrounding the evil lands of the goblins and murks? We don't know, because it's not important, because the story wasn't actually about him, it was about Bronzestabbed, and that ambiguity of his fate is symmetrical to the ambiguity of Bronzestabbed's future.  Feel free though to post about your adventures to Bronzestabbed, if you can stomach playing this now horribly obsolete version of Dwarf Fortress.
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Ah, I forgot about the murk zombie, that may be right. I'm pretty sure someone triggered it intentionally out of boredom or some such. Pretty sure it didn't disassemble (save a single wall plugging the entrance perhaps) because it was all carved right out of the natural stone. I think it just sank into the magma pipe at near-light-speed and made barely a splash on account of DF physics. If there had been some structure underneath the lava pool for it to land on, I think it would have been a different story. Maybe.
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Awesome job, Leperflesh. It's great to see an LP with this degree of history and world building come to both a satisfying and somewhat happy conclusion. And thank you to all the overseers too. This whole thing was so well done; it made it really easy to write music for it.
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Bad Munki posted:Ah, I forgot about the murk zombie, that may be right. I'm pretty sure someone triggered it intentionally out of boredom or some such. Pretty sure it didn't disassemble (save a single wall plugging the entrance perhaps) because it was all carved right out of the natural stone. I think it just sank into the magma pipe at near-light-speed and made barely a splash on account of DF physics. If there had been some structure underneath the lava pool for it to land on, I think it would have been a different story. Maybe. I am still sad you never followed through on that Secret of the Magic Crystals LP.
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Bad Munki posted:I don't even remember. You also didnt remember to dwarf me, which would have made me a competent swordsdwarf and instead pushed me to the next migration where I was a useless peasant. I dont see that in your notes anywhere, and that was what most of us consider to be your biggest show of incompetence rather than the cat->zombie->magma bomb.
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Thank you Leperfish, thank you all other Overseers, and thank you to the thread. It has been ages since my turn, and since then I moved cross country, got a job, stood for one of my best friends in his wedding, went to MSU's Rose Bowl, got a job back in my home stat and moved back across country. And yet I still, despite all that upheaval, remember my turn at the head of Bronzestabbed with great happiness, and hope that, in the long run, my turn will be looked back as a good one. In any case, I am very pleased to have fulfilled one of my chief goals that I set when I joined Something Awful- to Oversee.
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Dec 13, 2014 00:55
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I think we should all take a moment to remember WeaselBall. ... Thank you.
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Spermy Smurf posted:You also didnt remember to dwarf me, which would have made me a competent swordsdwarf and instead pushed me to the next migration where I was a useless peasant. I dont see that in your notes anywhere, and that was what most of us consider to be your biggest show of incompetence rather than the cat->zombie->magma bomb. Pickled Tink posted:It landed on semi-molten rock at the bottom of the magma sea, so there was no magma splash. It was just obliterated. Pickled Tink posted:I am still sad you never followed through on that Secret of the Magic Crystals LP.
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Oh hey, now that I’m not rushing to get this out, I did have one small correction to make. And gently caress it, might as well at least try to  Leperflesh posted:
 This is a corrective plaque. It menaces with spikes of pedantry and coprolite. It is undated. I, ‘GrimRevenant' Avuzsod (Minemists), as the Fortress’s most pedantic engraver, am by the nature of my position, ethical code of my profession, and with an eye towards posterity obligated to point out that the name of the fortress, while here correctly carved in the Human runes as “Bronzestabbed”, is in Dwarven runes actually inscribed ❮Kɪʟʀᴜᴅᴢᴀᴛ❯ when the engraving is done correctly by a competently trained and certified engraver who is not rushing the job. Once again, that is ❮Kɪʟʀᴜᴅᴢᴀᴛ❯. With an ‹ɪ›.  ⁂ There is a further annotation to the plaque in the same hand, obviously added in haste. Thanks to the literal «genius loci» spirit of the fortress, ‘Pickled Tink' Kilrudzat, for his assistance in ensuring that both his and the fortress’s names were correctly inscribed for posterity. May he ¿live? a thousand years! ⁂ (I kid, I kid! You did great work, Leperflesh, especially with the final updates. Still, dorf!me can’t let something like that go unremarked— especially since she’s highly unlikely to cop punishment duty now.) 
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