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DF Community Games & Stories / Cloisterphrases, a library-focused tower fortress.
« on: September 10, 2017, 10:55:35 pm »
[[The following is a journal whose pages appear to be automatic parchment.]]
Year 112, First Year of- what the hell do you want?
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Why would you send seven mostly-uneducated dwarfs to found a bloody library?!
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I see. Our Resident Idiot - the queen, they call her - has seen fit tosentence send six others and myself to... found a library. Yes, to create one with our own hands. Create and manage. "This is not a military installation", I'm told - and so we have nobody trained in self-defence.
First, we have the daughter of the Razbomrek family - "Teethwhips", as the humans say. We call her "Misty".
Urdim Kolkåtāk - "Wheeledscale", in the tongue of the hairless apes. I feel sorry for him - I don't know what happened, but he despises the idea of family.
Myself, Sigun Akrulbim - "Tinslings". Hopefully this lot won't interrupt my daily introspections, and my love of guppies. Their colouration is just so wondrous.
Olon āmvabōk - "Spokenorbs". I knew another Olon, once, named "Oilyballs"... His fascination with buckets is slightly disturbing - is he a tsurube-otoshi?
Stukos Thalalid - "Empiresrock". His obsession with war seems apt, given his name.
Next is the daughter of the Udizcatten family - "Presentchannel". She has some medical training, and a fascination with eating raw blood amaranth flour.
The assigned leader for this ill-advised undertaking is Sazir Ebalbim - "Reveredslings". At least one among them values the pursuit of knowledge as the deeply-important thing that it is - although he is more focused on worldly knowledge than I.
With that out of the way, I will tuck this journal into my pack soon - we are to leave "immediately". Apparently, this means "today". I'm told that the wagon is already prepared. We've little meat - fine with me - and several large birds, along with many vegetables. I hear much grumbling about the lack of meat.
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A letter? "Cloisterphrases the Ageless Act of Books"? What idiocy is th-
oh dear Rīsen why
why is our symbol named "The Shafts of Holes"
I do hope they mean mining shafts. Let's see what atrocity our name as a group will be...
"The Gold of Drilling". It is as though the very universe is conspiring to remind me of every dirty joke I've heard.
Into the pack you go. I have much to consider...
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This is going to be an above-ground fortress in tower form, mostly focused on the scholarly arts. Massive library, multi-floor temples, and limited-to-no military. Dwarfing requests are accepted.
I'd like to post screenshots, but as I'm on a rather limited connection, I can't use imgur. If anyone knows an image host that doesn't force javascript down your throat just to upload images and get the URLs, I'm very interested in hearing about them. Bonus points if I can upload from the shell. Thanks go to Fleeting Frames for pointing out this project that allows uploading from the shell: https://github.com/jomo/imgur-screenshot
Edit: Would you prefer yearly updates, or "whenever the log feels long enough" updates?
Year 112, First Year of- what the hell do you want?
...
...
Why would you send seven mostly-uneducated dwarfs to found a bloody library?!
...
I see. Our Resident Idiot - the queen, they call her - has seen fit to
First, we have the daughter of the Razbomrek family - "Teethwhips", as the humans say. We call her "Misty".
Urdim Kolkåtāk - "Wheeledscale", in the tongue of the hairless apes. I feel sorry for him - I don't know what happened, but he despises the idea of family.
Myself, Sigun Akrulbim - "Tinslings". Hopefully this lot won't interrupt my daily introspections, and my love of guppies. Their colouration is just so wondrous.
Olon āmvabōk - "Spokenorbs". I knew another Olon, once, named "Oilyballs"... His fascination with buckets is slightly disturbing - is he a tsurube-otoshi?
Stukos Thalalid - "Empiresrock". His obsession with war seems apt, given his name.
Next is the daughter of the Udizcatten family - "Presentchannel". She has some medical training, and a fascination with eating raw blood amaranth flour.
The assigned leader for this ill-advised undertaking is Sazir Ebalbim - "Reveredslings". At least one among them values the pursuit of knowledge as the deeply-important thing that it is - although he is more focused on worldly knowledge than I.
With that out of the way, I will tuck this journal into my pack soon - we are to leave "immediately". Apparently, this means "today". I'm told that the wagon is already prepared. We've little meat - fine with me - and several large birds, along with many vegetables. I hear much grumbling about the lack of meat.
...
A letter? "Cloisterphrases the Ageless Act of Books"? What idiocy is th-
oh dear Rīsen why
why is our symbol named "The Shafts of Holes"
I do hope they mean mining shafts. Let's see what atrocity our name as a group will be...
"The Gold of Drilling". It is as though the very universe is conspiring to remind me of every dirty joke I've heard.
Into the pack you go. I have much to consider...
= = = = =
This is going to be an above-ground fortress in tower form, mostly focused on the scholarly arts. Massive library, multi-floor temples, and limited-to-no military. Dwarfing requests are accepted.
Edit: Would you prefer yearly updates, or "whenever the log feels long enough" updates?