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Ha!  I'm sure you'll be added gladly.  We'll turn no one away...except for goblins of course.

DF is wonderful...Probably pretty useless saying that here since everyone knows that.  But it's seriously the greatest game in the history of gaming IMHO.

And: We need all the potential chaos we can get, so inexperience is certainly welcome!

Dadamh:    I figured since we're making a small trip to the past and all...

BUMP!

So what I want to know is: if I put my chained animals in small rooms surrounded by glass windows outside, will they still detect ambushes and sneakies?  I guess I'll try it out, but I'm skeptical.

Just because it happened during your turn doesn't make it your fault Aqizzar!

Although, I DID warn you about wearing time-space thin and the beast from Todash consuming us....I guess I just didn't actually think it would happen!   


So, let's let Iluogo finish his turn.  While that turn is going on, someone might try a few utilities to see if we can get rid o' the goblin?  I have no idea if any work w/this version, and I've never used any so I won't be of too much help there.


Aqizzar's gonna play through and get an alternate reality set up that might be more stable.  I guess we'd just have to see if Cave King would want a re-play or if he'd pass it on to someone else.  Then Iluogo would get another turn.  Then we'd be back to present-day. 

I suppose if people don't mind re-playing their turns (or passing them) I don't mind either.  And if you don't want a reclaim, Dadamh, I completely understand, you do have a pretty hardcore dwarf! 

Abandoning, adventuring, then reclaiming might be the way we have to go.  Should we just play through a few more years before (voting?) going with that option?

The first few years would suck again, having to pick up all that forbidden crap strewn about, but it'd be better than starting fresh!  If it comes down to it, I have no problems with having to do a reclaim.

Get your stoner friends to hook you up, and then shit'll get done!   

Make that mountain our bitch! 

No sieges yet and almost everyone has a coffin.

Which of course means it's about time for a siege! 

Why not build stairs right next to the goblin and kill him directly?

That seems like a good idea, might work.  Since this is some sort of nether goblin.

But usually dwarves won't build a damn thing when there's a goblin (or kobold, or raccoon) around.  So I doubt they would actually go through with it, they'd just stare back at you as if to say "You do it, asshole."

The whole reason I'd do the construction thing, is it allows you to build at a distance that might be more acceptable to the dwarf. Although they still might not go through with it. 

But then again, that goblin might not even really be there....by the way, has this been posted in the bug section yet? 

Cave King: No worries here! Eternity ain't goin' nowheres!   Glad to here someone is taking initiative with the stockpile and workshop situation.  That will certainly help with efficiency of industry!

Dadamh: OOOH! Sign me up!  I wanna play!

Aqizzar: It probably won't work against our mystical flying goblin, but collapsing a built construction works the same as a cave in.  I use traps like that all the time on my laptop forts because I usually don't have enough dwarves for a military for FPS reasons.  So I build all kinds of lever controlled smashing devices.  It still gives the collapse message, and the crap will kill anything under it and smash through areas that aren't solid underneath!  Dust and all! 

It's worth a shot, I suppose! Or not...could be feature of the fort...build some windows around him or something...

Yeah your style is cool! 

Unless I am misunderstanding your statement about collapsing and caving...
You can collapse/cave something on someone above ground.

Here's a side view:
  (^)---------------------------------------
  (^)I
    ^I                                g
    ^
    ^
...........................................
The dashes are built floor.  The "I"s are a supports, only the top one has to be hooked to a lever. "^" are staircases.  The staircases in parenthesis are ones that were there for the construction of the top floor and the level just below (where the support connected to the lever is), but then is deconstructed (otherwise the top floor won't fall. I thought that having just the stairs on the level of the floor to fall would be enough, but apparently the stairs just below also hold it up).  Once the lever that the support is connected to is pulled, the constructed floor above our "g"oblin should cave on him.

If I'm stating what's already known and probably obvious, my apologies!