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No worries about props. I'll be giving them a-plenty. After all, it's you guys doing the work, not me.

Kagus: You make some excellent points. Really excellent points, actually. I think I may start an entire series of post meant to ease people into DF. As you said, we here on the forums have too much of a "secret club" mentality going on.

It only counts if you yell it whenever you type it, by the way.

Thanks for the consent, though. I'm thinking if there's a lot of interest I could maybe do a couple at a time, or maybe a few a week, or...well, whatever. We shall see, eh?

DF is such an amazing medium for storytelling, isn't it? All sorts of twists and turns and plot devices, largely thanks to the RNG and the sheer tools we have at our disposal. Indeed, I believe Toady has more than once called DF a "plot generator".

So, I run a very small blog about Dwarf Fortress. I've been thinking of ways to get community involvement, because, hey, this is a maintained by a community member for the community. Might as well bring everyone to the table that we can. So I was thinking of a weekly "story" segment, where users would submit stories and I'd post them for everyone to read, critique, enjoy, whatever. Just something for people to look forward to.

The idea is NOT longwinded walls of text, mind you. It's definitely in the realm of "Short, sweet, and to the point." Indeed, I'd love to have epic stories broken up into "episodes" that could go on for weeks. So you could either do that, or just submit a short story, or maybe even a section of a larger story.

The only criteria is that it has to be related to DF in a way. Not just some generic fantasy story, but a story given birth from the game itself, whether from an actual event you played, something on the Legends screen, or whatever.

So...my question is this: Would there be any interest? I'd love to start doing it as early as this Thursday.

Lemme know your thoughts.

It is a matter of national security that Toady allows us to mark animals/materials for Catapaulting.

http://www.igf.com/index.html

They have contests and such, and actually offer prizes to those indie games that win. Has this been something DF has been a part of? Or is DF not considered "complete" enough to enter such contests?

I'm 20.

I utterly hated DF when I tried it a few years ago. Decided to force myself to play it again a few months before the first Army Arc release. Fucking loved it.

Whoa. Very cool.

So I started a new fort, and I noticed something weird. Just about every Dwarf is zipping around the place. Turns out, of the 7, every last one is at least Agile: 3 are Extremely Agile, 1 is Unbelievably Agile, and 1 other is Very Agile.

So...are they eating their Wheaties, is there a reason for this, or is it a bug? Keep in mind we're not even passed Spring of the very first year.