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Aha! Chapter 71 has been posted. You can find it here.

        In the early winter of 2023, Rith Craftportent created the position of webmaster as a matter of course.
        In the early winter of 2023, DS was appointed to the position of webmaster of the Momentous Dye.


It is done! The construction portion, at least - deployment is a work in progress, pending domain transfer. The version reachable by the link above is a snapshot of how the website looked about a week ago, when github stopped serving up new additions to the repository - frankly, I'm surprised I was able to get as far as I was.

Anyway, I expect it to go live sometime next week.

Congrats for the website!

Looking forward to see the next chapter of the story.

Hey, thanks! You and me both!

Hooray for the new website and for saving the fort with the RAM tool! I'm so glad you didn't lose Roomcarnage after all this time to a RAM issue rather than the fate it deserves--whatever that may be.

No kidding! I didn't say it earlier, but I started hitting that crash in earnest in March, and didn't find the tool until October. I had very nearly thrown in the towel! - and had basically resigned myself to shelving the story until I was able to purchase a superior computer. I actually began work on another story entirely! One day, by chance, I was reading about DF and technical specifications (again, in preparation for that holy grail DF machine), when I happened up on that thread - by chance! I'm still a little bamboozled by the whole episode.

EDIT: My primary suggestion is to look into writing alt text for your images, and learning how to write good alt text.

I intend to! When I began working on the website, I very earnestly attempted to do the former, and quickly learned that I had better first do the latter. I have many questions - writing alt text for DF screenshots poses many unusual challenges! But I'm excited for the work that is set out before me. Thank you for the feedback!

Wow, thank you! That's very kind of you, and I'm sure this will be very helpful - even if I don't completely understand everything that's going on just yet, heh.

Nice. Always glad to return to this amazing gem of a fort

Happy returnings!

Chapter 70 has been posted. This one's a doozy! Let me know what you think.

Quote from: DS on January 19, 2023, 03:35:06 am

Chapter 69 has been posted.

Nice!

*sigh*

It was inevitable.

Tremendous! I had thought this series had faded away for good, as the dwarves caught in the evil mist, but was proven wrong. Thanks for another chapter, it was a great one

Thank you! I think there were some times between this chapter and the last that I might have faded away - but I'm being melodramatic. I'm happy to be back at it.

Oh wow, this was a pleasant surprise!

Roomcarnage is one of my favorites. Thanks for this!

You're very welcome! I'm feeling enthusiastic about bringing it to a close soon. I'm eager to play the new version, and to find new stories there to share with the community.

Ahhhhhh!

Hello everyone - many apologies for the long hiatus. As might be expected, 2020 has not been treating me well. I won't go into the details, but suffice to say the misery and suffering beneath the Ice of Ghosts has scarcely felt like the escape from reality that it once was. I can't guarantee an update on any timeline, but rest assured, dear readers, that this unfinished narrative is like a constantly sizzling ember at the back of my mind - I will complete it, eventually.

I wasn't aware of Wraith of Steam condensation, having never paused to look at the remains twice. I wonder, could one use it to get water in a fortress that has none? I suspect not - they'd need to be stockpilable for that, at the very least - but would need 333 pieces per 1/7, of course.

I don't believe that it is possible in this version (or others) to condense drinkable water out of creature remains. It would be a wonderful and terrible thing if one could, though.

But if you're right about those parts harkening the end for anyone who treads there, the ennui of abandoned hell will only mean falling to the ghosts of the past.

It is a large and dangerous unknown, to be sure.

Well, with your switchback unused you could try to route a cavern's worth of undead into it. Cave-ins seem like the best way to defeat the hordes now, since if I recall correctly magma isn't always effective against them in your version.

It is generally ineffective against any animated dead - they simply continue to burn forever. I'm honestly not sure it's worth it at this point to even attempt retaking any undead-infested portion of the fortress.

Thinking back about hell, isn't there a dead units cap that will cause nothing else to spawn? You're still getting cavern wildlife as noted by the success of your traps, so maybe not, but knowing Roomcarnage your hell is going to be empty.

I really hope this isn't the case, but knowing my luck it probably will be.

Christmas came (two and a bit weeks) early this year, woo!

Perhaps I'll aim a bit earlier, this year?

Wonderful.

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A new frontier lies before you. As barren as the one before? Perhaps, but down in the deepest of depths there are no undead to haunt you. This calls for exploration and construction. I have to wonder though, do you have any stone for constructing a hell-fortress with?

I have the stone. In any case, I doubt that the depths have anything to offer beyond what has already been available above - that is, oblivion.

@DS: Once again I renew my offer to help you get set up on a GitHub Pages or S3 hosted site.

Has anyone preserved the story of Roomcarnage in a medium other than imgur posts?

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I'm worried that someday this awesome story will simply be lost to time.

Of course I haven't been keeping track of things surrounding Roomcarnage (re: 2020), but the short answer is - no. To my knowledge, nobody has preserved Roomcarnage outside of Imgur. I regret not being more attentive and eager to seek out help with transferring the story to a more permanent home. Armok knows I need it.

Hey there!

Any updates on either new hosting, or, dare I ask, the story?

None - at the moment, at least. It was good to see you briefly during BlindiRL's stream earlier today!

Quote from: timvisher on April 08, 2019, 08:34:00 am

Any news!?

After ten thousand years, I'm free! It's time to conquer Earth finish Roomcarnage!

Just kidding - I've been supremely preoccupied with my day job, newly married life, two new kittens, and a few other creative projects.

I haven't been doing a great job keeping up with recent DF news, but it seems like an exciting time for the Dwarf Fortress community. I've been doing a far worse job keeping up with Roomcarnage story updates. I just finished recording the most recent chapter, and am starting the narration today. Hopefully I'll have it complete within a week or two, but this is already a very busy time of year for me (end of school year), so I would expect to finish this chapter by mid-June, at the very latest. But hopefully sooner.

Yikes - this post hasn't aged well.

No new chapter to speak of, but just a confirmation that 1) I am alive, 2) I have every intention of finishing this accursed story, and 3) I am still looking for alternatives to Imgur for long-term hosting of Roomcarnage and potential future stories. Maybe I should just suck it up and learn some basic web design, eh?