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1. When did the wool merchant try to kill us before?

2. No assassinations. We've got legal methods, use 'em.

I recently posted my 405th thread. This may seem an odd number to celebrate, but as it so happens this brings me up to the number of threads posted by PTTG?. Thus, once I post this thread, I will have the second-most threads posted of anyone except Toady Himself.

I'm not sure what to say. I never thought I was anyone special around here, and I only joined a few years ago; yet, here I am. I know that people recognize me by name in several areas of the forum, which is really eye-opening. It's just...I never thought I was actually someone, as it were, until I realized I was so close to the top in this one spot.

It's not just topics. In overall posts, I'm third, behind ToonyMan and Darvi. I've posted almost 2% of the posts in the DF Suggestions subforum, and over 1% of the posts in Forum Games and Roleplaying and Roll to Dodge. I'm not sure where I am in posts per day, but I'm in the Top 30 for sure.
Wow.
I haven't even been around all that long. My first DF games were in 0.31.16, and I didn't really get into it until .18 and .25. At the time of writing, I've been logged in only 85 days, and I only became a member in late October, 2010. That's less than 30 months since I've joined, and yet I've started over 400 topics. What the heck have I been doing with all of them?

I think that the biggest realization of my unrealized importance was when I was gone for 1.7 days. In the Forum Games and Roleplaying subforum, sadly the only one I regularly post in these days, my absence was noted in multiple threads, even ones I wasn't GMing for. On my return to posting, I was greeted with some enthusiasm, which even if exaggerated was still indicative of my leaving, for such a brief time, having an impact on the board. It was surreal.

Now to get to my point.

Thank you, Bay12, for recognizing me, even so unofficially, as Someone Somewhat Important. Thank you for your support these past few years. Thank you for your humor, your intellect, and dare I say it, the insanity I am slowly starting to emulate. Thank you for amusing me and being amused by me. Thanks especially to other people who post a lot in the same places I have, and to those people who are famed around the forum, including but not limited to Xantalos and Jbg97 in the first category, dermonster and Necro in the second, and NW_Kohaku in both. Thanks to the !!scientists!! and scholars, the fools and freaks.
Thank you, Toady, for making this website. Thank you for your games, especially your magnum opus, Dwarf Fortress. Thank you for the infinite stories and games created and the enjoyment which filled the hours I've wasted spent on them. Thanks for everything.
Heck, thank you, Scamps, for whatever you've done to help.

Thanks for everything.


Good Day, Magma!, May your Dwarves be Smart, and Strike The Earth.

I might try sending an adventurer to this fort.  Any thoughts about that?

Go ahead, I did that once. You may want to mention it...actually, logging attempts sounds Fun.

Is it possible to kill all the undead in adventure mode by smashing them into small enough pieces, or maybe alternatively putting them all inside of containers (when down)?

Smashing them into small pieces eventually leaves you with reanimated heads and hands. It's a start. I'd also recommend butchering what you can.
Putting corpses into containers means you'll have a zombie bursting out of your backpack sooner or later.

Does this region have syndrome rain etc. that is likely to kill an adventurer?  Inevitable death to rain would be kind of not fun...

Not that I noticed.

Udil was being used as a metaphor. I was deconstructing the metaphor. Moving on...

Yay, books soon! Yay, school shortly after that!

We should see if the Rat can find any dirt linking the merchant and the Count, and ask the prisoner if he knows why he was supposed to scout the land. And, of course, release him once he's finished telling us all he can--he seems harmless enough.

Ninja'd:

Ok, this in unacceptable. This wool merchant has gone too far, so we need to do something about this.
In accordance with the new rule, my suggestions in bold:
1) Give clemency to our new prisoner on the condition that he tells us EVERYTHING that might help us, including anything about the disappearance of his sister.
2)As soon as weather permits, FORTIFY THE BARRACKS AT THE MINES
3) Contact the Rat and see if he can locate the hostage(s) the wool merchant is keeping, and see if we can arrange a rescue.
4)Regardless of if 3 is successful, I think it's time we arranged a quiet assassination of the guy. We won't tolerate this anymore

1-3 sound good, 4 is not. Why are we assassinating this merchant?

GWG: Yeah, hopefully next turn if everything works out well enough with my current actions.

Edit: If you get to the spire before me, would you use your first act to ascend and then a smaller act to teleport me to the spire so I can ascend?  That would pretty much make Traurig eternally grateful and we could have each other's backs in case of attack.

Only if you promise to do the same for me.
...Actually, I'll do it anyway, but could you make the promise regardless?

...You know you could just make more dwarves, right?

Or a new race, with chromatophores like cephalopods' and eight arms to complete more projects at once. Or something new.

Quote from: Gervassen on March 02, 2013, 03:26:00 pm

I will not. For the security of the dwarven race, I can do no other.

I suggest the overgod sleep on any rash acts and be mindful that, while I wish no part of plots against him, any potential acts toward an undergod, expressly born from the suffering of the worshippers whose god you defend, shall paint his reign as just or unjust. Thereby, even the mightiest in the heavens will face judgement, even as you offer to dispense on me.

What is more, those dwarves have glimpsed the history of Udil in the most evocative and memorable artwork that they've seen. Go ahead, ship them back to the butcher in that state of mind.

If you know whats good for you, you will leave my people alone.

You'd probably eventually try to kill him if both of you lived long enough.
But yeah, lots of people are trying to save the dwarves.

New dwarves would have no understanding of the history of their race, rendering his new creations moot.

True. So don't make them?

Nay, their history is but a blank canvas. One which they can create a NEW history.

Very much true. Would an artist paint on another painter's artwork?

If I can't get any dwarves to come along with me due to being teleported here or there, head to the spire alone.

Why is everyone trying to save the dwarves from Udil at once, anyways? Nethalkar would express this IC, but he/it/whatever hasn't been made aware of how many gods are trying to do so.

Those songs actually sound pretty good together.

Respawn as Pilot from mech base. then go to mech base.

[3] You respawn as the pilot, but nowhere near the base.

Spawn as someone who can enter fiction. Pull out a book.

[6] You have the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Continue flying to ft. bragg.

You make it to where it should be. Hey...wasn't it blown up?

BECOME TREANT. ANIMATE MY FOREST. CRUSH THE DAMN LOGGERS.

[6] You become a tree ant. The ants swarm with you to the loggers! They can't do much crushing.

Beat down a kill bot now! Reprogram it to be a build bot!

[1v5+1] Respawn?

Ugh, this chicken is useless.

Hey, you're the one who wanted to be one.

Die.

[3] You catch the flu.