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It looks like the original designer of the Toejam and Earl series is trying to put together a true sequel to the first game, this time without executive meddling. 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove/description

It's only $15 to pledge for the game itself and the whole project has the delicious reek of super nostalgia.  Anyone else looking forward to this?

The subject pretty much tells the story here.  Just wanted to give everyone a heads up because it is only on for a day or two.

http://groupees.com/ww

Basically this is a nice and cheap pack of Visual Novel style games from a Western company.

Thus far from my testing these are somewhat hilarious and well done, albeit with slightly weaker than normal art and possibly less quality drama.

But they are very cheap, especially given this is Winter Wolves we are talking about.  This may well be the only time these are discounted from their normal exaggerated prices for a few more years.

As always I am flying the visual novel banner.

(On a side note Heileen seems to set a new standard for unintentionally hilarious.  One animation makes the sailor juy appear to be humping the text box.  I at first rationalized he was on the ship and the up down motion was the waves.  But then he up and declared he was going to go and get on the ship...  Was he like hopping or something?)

So as I walked through the market today, I listened to all the shouts of authentic dingo meat and real cat bone rings and it occurred to me "If all these guys are trying to convince me their stuff is real, surely some of them should be selling fraudulent merchandise."

Cause while authentic donkey brains are amusing, imitation donkey brains would make it even more ludicrous.


Also cause it makes logical sense.  If everyone must convince you the are selling legit items, someone must sell fakes.

So I've playing the Mushroom Kingdom mod, as a shyguy , and my team was sent off to slay a Titan.  This Titan turned out to be made of Emerald and we killed it.

Suffice to say, I am now dragging a 14065L Emerald named after the Titan.  I sadly only have a speed of 99 and wish to do something with it that would be amusing.

And so I ask you all, what should I do with a 14065L Emerald the likes of which could shatter national economies.

(I'm not sure if it has actual value.  I may try to get it to a store to see.)

So I'm just starting this thing up and have a decent world generated.  I had to stretch out the map to about x2 normal size to grab a volcano and a regenerating water source.  It has Untamed Wilds and Joyous Wilds and is only afflicted with an aquifer near the brook.

The goal of the fort is this:

"DWARVES IN SPACE!"

To this end I will in the first year dig out some basic survival facilities in the dirt and start the space elevator ribbon.

These facilities will only include the following:

1. Food/booze storage.
2. Farming
3. Beds and dormitories

Rules:
Workshops may be constructed on the surface but no defenses of any sort, even door or barracks, may be built on the surface or underground.

The only physical connection the fort may have with the ground is the 1 tile wide staircase.

Supplies and fluids must be either delivered via a secondary launch tower that shoots them into the station in carts or by pumping them over it and pouring them in (no touching!)

Goals:

Eventually obsidian farming and watering should allow space farming.

Windmills as solar generators to power automated cart systems.

Launch tower to take mined rock and shoot it into the station.

Orbital magma systems.

POSEIDON:  A system to dump water down the giant stair line to fling off goblins.

Marks dwarf stations that  can target the stair to fling off forgotten beasts.

Orbital mine cart bomber platform.

Other various Hijinks!

Currently need:

Players to sign up for turns.




(Note that while this seems peaceful and easy, the fact that the military must be barracked in the station  and the lack of ground forces means that any invasion is liable to cause FUN.  And until someone builds orbital farms food may be a concern, something unheard of in more recent years of dwarf fortress.)

So I just got Devil Whiskey from the gamer's gate pack and have thus far found it to be awesome but lacking in faqs and walkthroughs. 

I propose that we collectively add in our helpful discoveries.

Here are mine.

1 Get the manual for the town map alone.
2 This helps you find the temple that heals you.
3 Make the slot 1 member have good social skills so he can haggle, loot cash auto flows to him and thus this saves management.  Or turn on the pool cash option.

My current issue is figuring out how to get portable heals.