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So, a Craftsdwarf fails to make an artifact after being possessed, and gets upset. He no longer eats or sleeps or even drinks. He decides that his life is no longer worth living since he couldn't make a bunch of crap that no one would wear or ever use in their lifetime, so he decides to jump in the lake and drown himself.

I only noticed him on accident, seeing a "Help, I'm drowning" background. I look, and he's right next to the pump I was planning to drown him with. Talk about irony. So, he thinks he's going to drown...

He's now a Novice Swimmer, and I figure I might as well try and preserve his life and drain the square into his little house. He manages to get some air before I declare this act utterly useless.

I'm messing around and then

A vile force of darkness has appeared!

I fight off the siege, losing 2 champions to an Elite Bowman, and injuring 1... or 2, I forget because he's all healed up in like 3 days (He broke his hip like a senior citizen). I mourn the death of my fallen champions, showing my sadness as I forcibly lock random dwarves into a room to train for the military.

A while later, after some messing around with a perpetual motion machine, I look around for the Craftsdwarf. He's simply miserable, starving, dehydrated, drowsy, WINDED?

He's also a Competent Swimmer. I really wish he would live...

Oh well, my swimming training room is almost complete.

Hopefully I have not made a grievous error and sentenced myself to disgrace, but I have, alas, fallen to the succubus known as RTD. It has perked my interest enough to control such a world based on dice rolls and insanity, ergo my selling out. And so, I bring to you:

webadict's RTD

All rolls are on a 6-sided die. As with most RTD, the rolls follow this form:

1-Major Failure
2-Failure
3-Partial Failure
4-Success
5-Major Success
6-Overshot

However, as die rolls can be modified, if the roll goes below 1, it will be classified as an Epic Failure. This is [usually] Bad!
Also, if a roll goes above 6, it will be classified as an Epic Overshot. This is [usually] Good!

The situation is that you are in a white room, with no visible light source, despite the fact that it is bright enough to see. There is a single door on one side of this room, and there are 7 other people in the room with you, just as lost as you, as everyone is just starting to wake up. Everyone is dressed in their pajamas. In the middle of the room is a chest with an old-school, giant padlock (the kinds with the giant keyholes in the front) on it. There is a recording playing the same words over and over: "Escape the maze..." There is nothing else noticeable about the room at this point.

Your goal: To escape. Most people prefer to do this alive, but it's really up to you. First to the finish wins!

So... yeah, if you wanna start just say so. I'll only allow 8 people to play, since I hear it takes forever to roll. But yeah, have fun and try not to die*.

1. Kashyyk
2. Frelock
3. Dark
4. Jay Kayell
5. Boogerman
6. Akroma
7. Nirur Torir
8. Boksi
*We'll get to that later...

So, instead of my Axedwarf being useful, he constantly stands around an axe, trying to pick it up, failing, walking two steps, then trying to pick it up again, in an epic fail circle. Is there any way to fix this? Or is he permanently in a stupid circle?

I noticed something rather odd the last time I traded, and was wondering whether anyone knew a straight up formula for this, but:

In my fortress, trade agreements with the Humans and Dwarves tend to give us cheaper things and they pay more for things. I've also given them about 600,000 gold...piece things in offerings. (Don't ask, just don't). Now, when asking for things, I receive some sort of sweet deal on things. I can ask for things with the price changing nominally or not at all, and when they ask for things at max level, the price is nearly 250% (And minimums are at 150%). So, based on these observations, I theorize the following:

The more offerings you give a certain civilization, the better (and cheaper) trade agreements are made.

I've also learned that having over 9,000,000 total value won't increase my immigration rate. I rarely get immigrants. (Population at about 70-ish)