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Several good pages here, aye.

There's something about 57 that makes me think we die again soon if we choose it.  However (if the code cooperates) I bet the dwarves directly under our guidance will fair well, we've proven to be a most capable leader before when we tried.  57, with a heavy heart and a hopes that our tomb is prepared somewhere.

*twitch*  This is making it -very- hard to keep hating said ninjacat, no matter how proper and right this hatred be.

Traps be not enough to handle the 'precog' we just had.  And we owe Foureyes, no more dead dwarves.  Campaign platform, that.  Gonna run.  Lets all run to 237, shall we?  Maybe a kitten tallow roast on the way while we consider wether we hate cats/ninjacats/ourselves still?  Curses that we can't seem to saves that cook...

 

Grimsledge Bloodbeard, I sure hope you're ok.

It's been, just barely, a week since Grimsledge's turn started.  By the words of our founder Kamudo,  the skipped turn now passes to the next player, mathlc.  Grimsledge will join heyguys as a floating 'next' player, if only he contacts us within 2 more weeks and wants his turn after all.  Heyguys has floated for 12 days now, I guess he'll fall off the floating list on the 15th day.

Sending a message to mathlc now, good luck with your turn! 

Egads, I've barely finished my therapy and must face hard choices like these?  Gemses are not not not for sending aways, me thinknots.  And I'm still hooked on the tower idea, so displaying them on this thing and that is... different.  And 'proving Fourguts right'... is probaby going to be a problem.  Though... that's the only choice I can live with.  222, the best of the worst!

Welcome in, Burnt Pies!  You're added to the list, and glad to have you.  Current/pending now looks like this:

Grimsledge Bloodbeard - finishing winter 206 and his own Year 207 -CURRENT-

mathlc - Year 208 -pending-
lordnincompoop - Year 209 -pending-
Grimlocke - Year 210 -pending-
Burnt Pies - Year 211 -pending-


heyguys -floating- to be inserted as the 'next' player if he contacts us soon.

I like this idea, and I'd like in too.  What real life time length do we have for finishing each of our group years?

I'm fine with extending the contest a week, if that's decided.

My new and harder college schedule starts on the 21st, so I'll be trying to get my part of the judging done before then, but a week more to finish up won't cause me any troubles.

I've rarely had a season change that destroyed all my 'growing crops' in 40d, that's occasionally wiped out my seed stock for a type of crop.

You've got two answers, one's more work and the other's more waiting.  The fast answer is to gather plants aboveground, if you have plants up there, and hope that you have the right sort of terrain to grow 'marsh type' plants.  If your fortress is in a swamp, you're set.  If not, concentrate your gathering within a tile or two of the edge of ponds or your brook/stream/river.  If you're in badlands, mountains, or a glacier, this answer won't work at all for you.  You're looking for rope reed, and it's fairly rare.  Good news is that if you can harvest any rat weed or fisher berry plants, then your environment will eventually give you rope reeds, just keep gathering near the wetter areas.

Once you've got a rope reed plant, make a farm aboveground and process plants to get the seed or two for planting.

The easier and slower choice is to simply wait for the caravans to come.  Human and elven caravans may carry rope reed seeds, and there's a chance these will grow in your outside soil even if you're not in a marsh.  And your dwarven caravan can carry more pigtail seed, and definately will if you order it.