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Overseer Log of Deathgate, Final Entry

I believed that in death we could all atone for our sins against the gods and their creation.  I believed that if we all gave ourselves to the magma, our crimes would be burnt away from our souls.  There weren't many of us left, a few dozen dwarves at the most.  Our civilization would last a century or two before an utter collapse.  We knew that we had sinned, and that in death, only agony awaited us.  So we all strove to atone in the only way we could imagine and to grant a reprieve to the slow death that lie ahead of us.

Oh how foolish we were.

He will not let us die.  He keeps us all alive to torture us, to use us for his amusement.  If we try to kill ourselves, we simply snap back a few moments in time.  As the entire fortress has been sealed, we cannot flee to the surface; although I doubt He would let us even if we could.  We are his playthings, and he shall not let us go.  I know not where this being came from.  Perhaps it was born from our own corruption, perhaps our anger or bloodlust.  Some even blame our decadence as the cause of this torment.   We call this being Terry.

Deathgate is no longer a fortress, it is our prison, our living tomb.  It is the place where we dance to the whims of a new god, a dark god.  One that we ourselves have created.


[OOC]
Well folks.  Deathgate's corruption has reached the breaking point.  You can literally only play it for about 5 seconds before it crashes.  Terry will not let us die.  We our forever trapped in his realm.


Here's the save, for anyone who wants to scream. Oh god

The fact that Terry is liable to be the one to eat our fort now is perhaps the best possible ending we could have hoped for.

The game literally lasts about 3 seconds before crashing.  I may in fact, not be able to kill the fortress the way I had planned.

But I have contingencies.

Can I get a status check on The Mad Fool?  I'm curious what his mood is right now.

You're trapped in your room by magma, feet away from the immolated dead, and you're utterly ecstatic.

On a side note, TERRY IS PISSED.
Game is crashing every 10-15 seconds.  Emergency measures, emergency measures!

EDIT:
Measure's failed, oh god I don't think I can beat Terry

Quote from: AnimaRytak on December 08, 2012, 09:20:32 pm

before they went into raging bitch mode.

It's like the Ring of Power, corrupting anyone who possesses it.

The moral of the story is, never turn off your ringer to sleep in.  Women will flip the fuck out.
Seriously, dafuq.

Quote from: AnimaRytak on November 20, 2012, 03:59:26 pm

I appologize for the huge delay, I finally got internet in my new apartment.

Also I found out that, while visiting, a friend of mine accidentally took my flash drive home with her.  Said flash drive contained the only copy of Deathgate's save.
So that's delayed me a little.

Anyways I'm back and living in sunny little New Mexico now.  Booyah.

Do you live anywhere near Eagle's Nest?

Nope, I live in the southeast corner of NM.

Quote from: AnimaRytak on November 15, 2012, 12:41:51 am

I'm really sorry folks.  Time snuck up on me and I just moved across the country from Ohio to New Mexico.  I'll be busy the next few days but I promise I'll finish this beast soon.

Out of curiousity, are waiting for the next update with the new tree and combat stuff for Deathgate 2?

I've gotta finish this turn first.  I'm not sure how DG2 will go yet.

Are there any demons on the surface?

I don't believe so.  Hell is so utterly devoid of demons its hard to tell.
We really, really did a number to the demon's population.