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Stab GWG or any of his non-ghost allies with my trusty HEALING SHIV. Or slash them if that works better.

Cannibalize the landmass and raw materials of America to reconstruct Canadia. But with less snow this time

PTW

Having realized that life is for the taking, I set out to make something of myself. The year is 986. I am in ISTANBUL.

Fix'd.

4th Moonstone: Palu has co-opted Madison and Sarah[The miners] for her Restoration project. The whole tower seems to be in her thrall at the moment and everything is working towards her pet issue.

8th Moonstone: Work proceeds apace on the creation of mortars and pestles for Palu's laboratories. Madison and Sarah are mining out the library area with alacrity. Temptsfate is still rummaging through his empty coffins and CptCrunchy still nags me about how his rooms aren't quite engraved yet. Buisness as usual.

13th Moonstone: CptCrunchy has demanded no one export leather armour. I comply with this edict with the greatest reluctence. Its so ridiculous prohibiting these exports. The only people we export to are kobolds, and I'm not sure that counts. But what if it does? To be safe, I've ordered the towers only scythe locked up in my room where no one can steal it.

14th Moonstone: Emily[The stoneworker], finished making the ethereal mortars and pestles today. Palu immediately rushes off to go set up her laboratories. Better that then have her micromanage everything that moves to feed her obsession with the Restoration. Hopefully she'll be busy for a while down there.

16th Moonstone: CptCrunchy is becoming increasingly insistent about his magical throne room. I'm getting started on a bunch of statues to shut him up.

17th Moonstone: I'm finally done the statues, and the next thing I know, Palu pops up and demands I make some blocks for her scriptorium.

18th Moonstone: I'm done the blocks and Palu is back to micromanaging her pet projects construction rather then pestering everyone else about it.

19th Moonstone: I've dispatched Madison and Sarah to go dig out an area for CptCrunchy's new magic throne room.

20th Moonstone: Palu is upset because the area she told Madison and Sarah to dig out was too small and I won't allow her to take them off their current duty. Why was I ever thinking about arming these people with magical staves in the first place?

21st Moonstone: When I climbed up the tower, I beheld an eerie scene: Nuttycompa and the new Kamikazi were training with their weapons. And there, looking upon his replacement with sorrow and agony was the ghost of Kamikazi.


25th Moonstone: CptCrunchys rooms have been encrusted with masterful runes and his magic throne room is being built. He responds to this good news by demanding that no hourglasses leave the premises. They ARE valuable to my work, but they're made of rock. We have plenty of rocks.

27th Moonstone: Kamikazi is refusing to train. I don't blame him. Staring into the ghost of the person everyone claims you are is unsettling. Maybe we should bury the old Kamikazi. His body is still in the training area. Staring at your own corpse is probably unsettling too. I'll get started on the coffin as soon as I can.

3rd Opal: Nuttycompa beat a bird today. A peregrine falcon dived too low and got bisected. Its body landed in the pond, so no bones for us, but still.

16th Opal: We finally finished that absurd throne room CptCrunchy wanted. Then he made us sit through a CORONATION ceremony. He dissolved into a cloud of mist as the ethereal crown settled on his head. Maybe the magic throne room WASN'T a total waste of time. He certainly seemed... INVIGORATED afterwards though.

17th Opal: Palu is going half mad from the lack of bones. Then Temptsfate came in and said he'd found some bones. Apparantly, this sack of bones and skin was found in one of the empty coffins. That CptCrunchy built. I order it processed, regardless of its origins.

[[Neither Nuttycompa nor Kamikazi will train. They both just stand around. Its really aggravating. I've even switched the name and assignment of "Kamikazi" with the butcher and it didn't help. I just hope they get to training, or I'll have to set up a danger room or something if I want non-novice soldiers.]]

Usually I have a 5-man squad of well-trained bloodsteel-armed, lamellar-leather-armoured orcs by the time the first dwarves come. I usually completely butcher them. Having a fortified camp and snaga archers helps a lot. Orcs have naturally high combat skills and can make iron-steel grade weapons and armor easily. You shouldn't have too many problems.

FAKEEDIT: Actually, the dwarves coming at first autumn is probably an unintended bug for orcs. Just set dwarves visitation thing to "Early" from "Very Early". Then they'll just come at the autumn of the second year, which is about 888% more reasonable.

I can finally say that the monkeys-on-typewriters form of public consensus/anarchy does work. Horribly, infuriatingly, but it does work in the end. As long as it's not applied to a rogue-like or anything with perma-death (ie: real life).

I see no reason that TPP format cannot be applied to a roguelike. Although TPDF is probably too much to hope for, I can see it having some success in Nethack or the like if it automatically gens a new character after each death.