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I don't think I'm in the same room as anyone else.

Quote from: tryrar on March 07, 2013, 09:06:11 pm

GWG we already have a magistrate for overseeing minor law issues and crimes that don't need our attention

We've also put Alan in command of a town guard.

I did not remember that.

Seeing as you are what you eat, the opposite problem is more likely.

Now for seriousness.

Does anyone have blueprints for a dwarvish face to be carved?

scapheap may put his new pawn on A8, B8, G8, or H8, whatever he chooses. She?

Loud?

FYI, there was no old pantheon, since Udil wasn't a part of any worship outside his own. All that pantheon stuff was OOC. The real pantheon was in Eversummer.

Corvus was certainly involved in a pantheon with Az-Sho, and I'm pretty sure Udil was in on it too.

I can't make any assurances but within 1 turn all life on the planet will die save for my dwarven vault.

Well, there's also that hydrothermal vent life, which might sustain the Seaspawn...but yeah, basically.

I did read the update "dammit" and while I will readily admit that most life is pretty fucked, I wouldn't think EVERYTHING except the dwarves are going to be extinct yet.

You're right, the dwarves are doomed too.

Quote from: Ukrainian Ranger on March 07, 2013, 06:42:20 pm

That's quite possible.

Another option is to rape

Sounds like...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon

What, backstabbing a blinded god(s) who had nurtured him and his race with all of Their care and provided the spark and fuel (if not the kindling) for the modern dwarven empire wasn't that?
If Udil doesn't rape anyone, it will be.

GWG: they have deep sea fishing since the Shattered joined them.

Ah.

Going from the Huge amounts of Earthquakes i wouldn't wonder if the amount of thermal vents has increased massively giving enough deep sea stuff warmth/light to survive.

Well, even if that's so (and it's confusing cause and effect from a mere geological standpoint, although when gods get involved who knows?), there's more than heat and light that they need. There's also tube worms and other symbiotes with the chemosynthetic bacteria, which are usually less mobile. Thus, while they might swim a bit farther off from the old vents, but from the sounds of it they'll be fished into extinction before they would spread noticeably farther.

I thought of something we could do to help A) keep shit from going this bad again and B) deal with our eldrich abomination problem.
To put it simply...
Any of you all ever play Exalted?

Can't say I have, but I've read the TV Tropes page a couple of times...do you mean we should treat the entire current crop of gods as the Primordials?

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Dear Ghazkull, the proposed mechanism to let dwarves survive (ie, overfishing) is faulty. Fish wouldn't survive in a darkness so deep it kills off crops. See, pretty much all fish depend ultimately on various types of phytoplantkon, which, due in part to the short life cycles which let them support such a high ratio of animals to plants, are very susceptible to lack of sunlight. Due to their size and lack of large structures like roots, stems, or leaves, dead phytoplankton don't leave as much stuff behind for herbivores to eat when dead, unlike (say) grass, which doesn't lose so much of its nutrient value for the herbivore when a field dies. The fish which don't rely on phytoplankton rely on other kinds of plants, like kelp or zooxanthelle. Therefore, fish won't be doing so well in case of an ashstorm which completely blocks out the sun for weeks or months...or, really, any worldwide event which causes death of crops.
TL;DR: Dwarves--or anyone--fishing their way through the apocalypse doesn't work if farming has failed, or perhaps even if it hasn't.

Oh, and the dying marine life, which was noted once the survival of everyone wasn't at stake? It's really bad. If all marine life goes extinct, that leads to a mass extinction on land as well, leading to life being reduced to insects and the like in essentially the best-case scenario. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND MAKE NEYRAVAH PROUD.
This has been a Public Service Announcement from Someone Who Is Proving He Deserved To Play A God Of Life

As a general note, self important overly large script will be ignored on grounds of lacking maturity.

That was intended to be "Stands-out large script," but point taken.

Furthermore, you are stating the obvious GWG, the whole planet is dying, but i doubt that all life would die in a matter of months. Additional to this fish in the deeper seas also survive without sunlight. I figure they will spread rapidly to more shallow waters once their opposition there is gone. Still life is dying and will die next round.

1. Actually, a whole lot of life would die that fast. After all, how long can you go without eating? And you have whole tissues devoted to storing energy, unlike little monocellular (or few-celled) phytoplankton. After a month or two, a lot of the plants on which everything lives would be dead, either from lack of sunlight or from being eaten (and this is worth noting, because in absence of light very few, if any, plants will be sprouting or growing). Then herbivores will die off, probably faster than normal due to the probable malnutrition--certainly, if we consider the higher energy costs for endotherms due to plummeting temperatures. Then carnivores will die off, although with a bit less malnutrition to fear due to the abundant carrion. Of course, that's assuming that there were enough photosynthetic organisms to maintain all those animals, and given the amount produced by the marine plants, especially the probably-first-to-go phytoplankton...
2. When did I say all that would happen this turn?
3. Deep-sea fishes mostly survive on detritus drifting down from above or (less directly) hydrothermal vents. The former will die once the surface life stops drifting detritus down, although they'll have one last feast, and the latter of course has no reason to spread out and would die if they did so.
4. Dwarves have deep-sea fishing? Since when?

Is Gren going to become the new Udil?

It would be...[tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FullCircleRevolution]amusing[/url]...

Let's see...shrines...no empires...yup, right thread. Good job, Tsuchigumo!