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As promised, here's the results of my poll, cleaned up a bit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/dexyf/101_dwarfy_names_collected_from_reddit_and_df/

Considering my militia commander's name is "Axey" I think your names are better.

So did any of the dwarves training for the Colosseum get any kills?

1st Granite, 202, Early Spring
I have ordered the plotting of two new farms.  As soon as they are done, I intend to order the planting of quarry bushes and, when they come into season, pig tails.

I also intend to send Dusty and Greasy to the lowest levels of our fortress to explore the mining potential below the aquifer.

Hopefully Greasy will not find some way to botch this task.

2nd Granite, 202, Early Spring
Excellent news!  Dusty's efforts in the lower levels quickly revealed a vein of malachite.  This source of metal will certainly prove to be invaluable.  I have already issued orders for the construction of a wood furnace, smelter and a metalsmith's forge.  I have also ordered the fish cleaner and the dyer to take up the jobs relevant to those workshops, so as to give them something more productive to do than sit around and watch each other's beards grow.

Greasy, true to form, has discovered nothing of value, though she was very excited to tell me when he struck mica.

Unfortunately, these exploratory efforts have also revealed the presence of some damp stone in that level.  I will have to take care to keep Greasy away from them.

6th Granite, 202, Early Spring
More good news!  We have recently had litters a war dog and a camel.  These extra beasts will serve well as companions and, if a hunter cannot be spared, meat.

4th Slate, 202, Mid-Spring
A new wave of migrants just arrived...  Worthless!  Half of them were bloody peasants!

At least I have someone to draft as soon as I have the equipment ready to start building our military.

17th Slate, 202, Mid-Spring
Blast!  One of the jewelers that moved here from the mountainhomes has gone crazed with some damnable fey mood.  Now I have to devote resources to finding rough gems for the loon.

I'm considering culling the jeweler herd.  There are more than enough of them.

2nd Felsite, 202, Late Spring
We managed to get the jeweler some rough melanite and he created... a smooth melanite.

Id's beard, I hate jewelers.

16th Malachite, 202, Mid-Summer
Much progress has been made.  A sizeable suite of living quarters has been carved out and furnished. (Though some efforts in that area have been frustrated by the presence of underground water above the aquifer.  At some future date, I will have to commission a large scale project to locate and drain these sources.)

Also, an agreeable trade arrangement has been made with the humans.  They will bring us meat of varying sorts in exchange for an assortment of goods.

In other news, Greasy has found some poor soul to be her husband.  I would pity him, but he's a gem cutter, so I'm willing to call it a perfect match.

21st Galena, 202, Late Summer
Another jeweler has made a big fuss about smoothing out another gem.

I'm drafting them all.

4th Limestone, 202, Early Autumn
Fall has come and the year thus far is progressing quite nicely.  We have a healthy supply of stone and metal from below the aquifer.  We have made significant progress toward building apartments for each dwarf in the settlement, which is a big task, given how many migrants we've attracted this year!  We even have a fledgling military which has begun diligent weapons training.  To celebrate the good times, I've allowed a party in the newly constructed dining room.


1st Sandstone, 202, Mid-Autumn
The dwarven caravan has come.  In addition to making a spectacular trade for valuable steel and iron ore, we negotiated an agreement for them to bring us more of the same in exchange for other goods.


19th Moonstone, 202, Early Winter
The reasonably uneventful year has taken an eventful turn.  Goblins have found our little hamlet.  We were able to kill nine of the goblins and repel the rest.  We did lose one cat and one axedwarf sustained major injuries to his pancreas and spine.  Only time will tell if he pulls through.

19th Opal, 202, Mid-Winter
It appears Stakud will survive his injuries, though he remains bed-ridden at this time.

1st Obsidian, 202, Late Winter
Our wood burner has been taken by a strange mood.  I wonder what he will create.

5th Obsidian, 202, Late Winter
He created a marble crown.  It's better than a smooth rock, I suppose...

Save: http://plusplusungood.com/painteddelight/spring203.zip

I would like a Peasant, named "Sam Vimes."  Trained with bookkeeping and pumping.  Wields a sword.

Bring them on!

Deaths within 10 days after the changeover count against both players.

It wouldn't be too hard to figure something out that would take longer than 10 days to activate.  Like... build a floor supported by a single support over a small pit; dump/forbid all picks; activate all the dwarves and order them on top of the floor; pull level connected to a support.

All the dwarves fall into a pit which they can't escape because they have no picks... and so they die of thirst on someone else's turn.  I guess an immigration wave could save the trapped dwarves, but it would have to be well timed.

One of my ideas is to set up a special execution chamber that is the only valid way to get points.  Accusing a dwarf is a matter of sending them to go pull the special lever.  If you're right, you get points.  If you're wrong, you lose points.  Dwarves that die by any other means don't count.

To prevent people from just killing all the competition - if your dwarf dies by means other than the lever, you GAIN points.

I've been thinking of an idea for a succession fort where each player is competing against each other.  Here's what I've come up with so far, let me know what you think:

The king beneath the mountain (me!) is in need of a new Master of Intelligence (the previous one having died suspiciously shortly after drinking a tankard of ale).  To find the best candidate, he sends several of his spies to a distant fort and tasks each one with an order to kill one of their competition.  Of course... none of them know which dwarf amongst them is a common peasant working to make ends meat, and which is there to stab them in the back.

• I start a game and play it for the first year (or at least long enough to have the first wave of immigrants).
• Game then proceeds with 4 players, each player plays a single season before passing it on.
• Each player is represented by a single dwarf (selected by me), but only they know which dwarf that is.
• Each player is tasked with eliminating a single other player's dwarf from the game... but they don't know which dwarf it is.
• After each season played, the player must post a summary of that season and a hint of who his dwarf is - A gender, a personality trait, the dwarf's profession, or a skill that dwarf has above "Novice." (maybe some other things would qualify as hints?)
• Eliminating a player is as simple as arranging for his dwarf to die during your turn.
• Killing your target is worth some amount of points, killing an innocent dwarf is worth negative points, killing a player that is not your target is worth lots of negative points.
• Eliminated players are replaced by the next person in line.
• Game ends when one player gets some number of points.

Sound fun?

A friend and myself decided to start a succession game, but with only the two of us taking turns each year.  Mostly, I wanted to see what it took to run a succession game and get some ideas for running my own full-fledged succession/community game.

The rules:

• Each of gets to choose the name and starting skills of 3 dwarves.
• The 7th dwarf will be given only social skills and made the leader.
• Embark on the first 3x3 starting location found with a river and flux.
• No trap can be built within 2 squares of another trap.  That would be too easy.
• Military is limited to 50% marksdwarves.
• No booze cooking.

[li]Every effort must be made to please nobles, immigrants, and traders.
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The starting dwarves:

• Urist McDwarf - General leadership skills.
• Greasy - Miner/Mechanic
• Dusty - Miner/Mason
• Dirty - Planter/Stonecrafter
• Hungry - Cook/Brewer
• Woodsy - Woodcutter/Axedwarf
• Crafty - Carpenter/Siege Engineer