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I've send the flame52 a pm.

Eric, which of those items can I write down as your official submission?

  ....The somewhat aggravated vampire travelled north along the coast, through the undead-filled Hills of Barbarity and into the mind-numbingly “good” and “pure” Jungles of Consideration. There, he hunted the local beasts, and came upon a rare and beautiful sight: unicorns! He promptly butchered several of them, spilling their guts and lopping off their horns, ripping their hearts out and hacking off heads. He reanimated one of the heads and took it with him. The next day he travelled back Eastwards, and stumbled upon the Elven retreat of Umberlace. Hiding his more despicable possessions and the undead unicorn head, he spoke to the elves....

    Human, did you happen to see our pet unicorn nearby?

That makes it Eric Blank's turn. Which brings us back to the bug that makes unretiring characters very difficult.
Our vampire overlord is squatting a house together with MrWillsauce, DFhack will be needed to extract him:

I've managed to track down most if not all of our retired characters. I've indicated their positions on Timeless Bobs map of dinerwandered:

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Still that's not nearly as bad as the situation that all other surviving characters are in. It will still be an interesting start for this adventure.

Notquitethere send me a PM within an hour after he was notified of his turn, so he is working on something.
While playing through a session of adventure mode can be short depending on your success, doing a proper write-up can take a while.

It is up to date. There are 15 fortresses out there, that is quite a lot actually. I am not aware of any map in the history of DF with more fortresses, of course that means filesize has increased quite dramatically too.

Also Nan0zer0 did not show up. Up next: Notquitethere who hopefully will be quite there, in this case.

You're close to where Laularukyrumo died, watch out for that giant desert scorpion corpse...

Do you ever think on lame titles for movies like: Honey, I Procedurally Created the Kids! as easter eggs hidden somewhere in the game, or just for fun?

Well, in real life kids are mostly generated procedurally, starting from a random seed..

This is a glorious thread, and if the wait-time wasn't approximately four months (15 players, 1 week each) I'd gladly sign up.

A couple of questions, though:

1) How did you gen the world to look so perfect?  Mine always end up as a frightening mish-mash of fragmented continents and ragged coastlines.

I did use the perfect world utility, though I don't think I made many changes to the landmasses, except for painting in "the adorable island". I mainly used it to get some control over distribution of volcanoes, rainfall and other variables. I did mess around with the settings for how much land should be above sea and how much should be water, those have a big influence, together with the number of ocean edges.

2) Is there an end in sight?  Will you just run this save until people lose interest, or are will you start a new one when Toady releases the next version?

I will start a new game, but only once the new version is stable enough. I will close the turn list once that happens so new people won't be able to sign up, but people that are on the list can still play if they want to.
Edit: recent comments by toady, and the sheer amount of things that need to be finished before a release indicate that the new release is still very far away. I wonder what state our current world will be in once it is finally released.

3) Is there anything you can do to reduce that dreadful wait time? Maybe run two worlds in parallel? That'd probably get too confusing to manage though.

There's also the adventurer's retirement home, a similar succession game: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=119384.0
I highly encourage for other people to start their own games. 

I'll add you to the turn list. Di requested to be removed from the list, so that makes the list a bit shorter.

Edit:And a bit shorter again, no response from Commodore1024, that makes it Argonnek's turn.