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The new versions of Dwarf Fortress have added quite a bit in the way of dwarven religious preferences, and I think it's high time to capitalize.

In the past, the ingenuity of some fervent dwarves has led them to construct temples or other structures dedicated to Armok the Blood God. But Armok isn't the only god in town now!

The Details of the Challenge:
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Generate a world and pick a starting location. Prepare as you normally would and embark! (Note: due to the chance that you might not get enough dwarves with a deity you like, it may be convenient just to use the default starting build to avoid repetitive bouts of careful preparation).

The dwarves who worship your chosen deity are your 'monks'; it would be wise to select a deity that at least 2 or 3 of your starting dwarves follow. The rest are infidel slaves captured during holy crusades; they will perform the undesirable and back-breaking hauling work.

When migrants arrive, sort them out in the same way - only the worshippers of your chosen god should be accepted into the true community! The rest are merely heathenous dogs. Working them to death is doing them a favor, since their existence is only a miserable shadow of what a true believer's could be.

Your goal is to create a functioning monastery, citadel, monument, or what-have-you, dedicated to your god and reflecting, in one way or another, the things they represent (as seen on the 'Deity' screen). Of course, this is mostly up to your imagination. If you get a god associated with plants, you could line the inside of your monastery with quarry bushes. Or you could go all wussy-elf and build it around existing trees so your followers can worship in nature-loving, mamsy-pamsy bliss. You decide.

Obviously, only 'ardent' followers should be promoted to high positions of power. Since the dwarven monarchs and nobles are only empowered on the mortal coil if they are favored by your god, it's your job to 'weed out' those spies and deviates sent by other deities. If you have to kill 15 infidel Barons, so much the better!

Obviously, post pictures/progress reports of your godly endeavors, so we can all marvel at them.      

Edited to reflect lack of deity preference in embark screen.

[ March 12, 2008: Message edited by: Lord Dullard ]

Perhaps I'm jumping the gun a bit by saying 'troll' (call it long-since ingrained forum reflexes) - however, you have to admit that it is rather rude of you to throw a term like 'morons' around on such short notice. For my own part, I don't think I said anything offensive, and did not imply that you were a liar anymore than Man A in the situation below implies Man B is a liar:

Man A: Hi.
Man B: Hi. I just defied gravity and flew around that telephone pole over there.
Man A: Um.. okay. I'll believe it when I see it.

Man A is not necessarily trying to be 'rude', but when someone claims to have done/witnessed something that completely defies known logic up until that point, it's a little bit hard to find them believable without some form of proof.

Suggestion: If you're going to post about any other weird/erratic game behavior like this, take a screenshot first.

[ March 12, 2008: Message edited by: Lord Dullard ]

Dwarves do not 'like' miasma, under any conditions that I know of, ever. And I've yet to see a dwarf that likes rotting corpses, though I could almost buy that - but not if it's more than one.

Perhaps you're misinterpreting something.

But yes, some of the locations in the series would make really neat DF fortresses, especially if you turn on playable Humans. I'd like to build a giant stone pyramid with the Harpy of Astapor on top..  

Anyway, though, I've had immigration waves of 20+ dwarves before (in one wave - and yes, I've had two waves in a year before with those kind of numbers, it's not pretty). I think it's because I tend to mine out a lot of the mountain as quickly as possible in the early game.

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Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>I think you need to reach the point where they can send a diplomat to your fortress.  Once he has someone to talk to, you might be able to piss them off sufficiently to cause them to siege.

The only reason I can imagine this being the case is because once you've beatn them a few times, they'll send someone to request a peace treaty, and I think that's the diplomat.

Don't take any of this as fact, however.  I really don't know what I'm talking about.</STRONG>

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I remember reading a post on here somewhere that detailed the story of a fort wiped out by a human siege, so I think it must be possible.. personally, though, I've never managed to piss off any of the other civilizations off to the extent that they'd send an invasion force (well, not counting the gobbos, that is).