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Ninja'd by literally seconds. Damn.

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I'm starting to fear Jake. Pages are said to become incredibly powerful, and I'm wondering just how likely he's going to be manipulated into using his power against the others.

So, I think I know how Calliope knew about the troll's plans for hunting magic items and gathering an army.  She was listening in.

Specifically, look at the statue on the right and watch.  There's a small black dot that moves down and appears to jump towards Tav.  I'm thinking that's Calliope in the guise of a firefly.

Quote from: Diablous on December 18, 2012, 03:07:39 pm

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A little thing I'd like to note that I saw elsewhere on the internet. Jade was always interested and wanted to be a furry, and she became one when she merged with Becsprite. Kanaya wanted to become a rainbow drinker, and became one. Calliope hates being a cherub and wants to be a troll. And they are all space players. Anyone else seeing a pattern? If Callie is somehow resurrected, it may not be as a cherub.

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1. Callie Ophee's horns are the same as Gamzee's horns, and both paint their faces.
2. Gamzee is the most important character in Homestuck. Apparently now so is Callie.

Therefore Callie's soul merges with or otherwise becomes Gamzee.

It's the only logical conclusion.

How will the game handle preventing fort retirement exploits?  Essentially, if a fort is full of goblins or a syndrome sweeping the populace, what will stop a player from retiring the fort and preserving it as an NPC fort?  Will there be some means of ensuring that forts with !!Fun!! stay !!Fun!!?

I can see retiring forts as an easy out to preventing fort death and possibly even saving doomed dwarves for immigration to later forts.

People had the same sort of questions when buildable walls were still being bandied about.  "What will stop players from just walling up their fortress and stopping sieges from attacking?"  I suspect that abandoing a dying fort to save it is something that won't be prevented from happening and that people will argue about whether it's a game exploit/cheating/going against the spirit of the game or if it's a legitimate tactic for gameplay.

Dwarves like their clothes heavily starched.

The game is telling you to dig deeper.

Did anybody else, upon reading Toady's description in the dev log, think of Dwarven Bowling?  Line some dwarves up along a track, send the cart at them and then see how many go flying and how far.

Yeah, it doesn't always have to be "show show show" all the time, but telling description goes flat pretty quickly (it's also not very interesting to read).  Like with most things, it's just a matter of practice and paying attention to when you're doing one or the other.

Don't let anything I or others might say dissuade you from writing though.  You're doing more than I've ever attempted.  Heheh...