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Quote from: Loud Whispers on April 04, 2012, 09:00:04 pm

Quote from: wierd on April 04, 2012, 08:55:16 pm

Loud whispers is kissing the elves

Oh that's low. You have been given an oppurtunity to visit the magma bath houses! Congratulations!

Unfortunately, dwarf justice does not consider elf-loving or slander to be crimes. Not that that would stop any noble from executing someone for it.

You forget - Loud Whispers IS the mayor.   Still, I suppose it could initiate a tantrum spiral - I know that I, for one, would be angry at finding something like that out. Then someone tantruming could throw a fluffy wambler at him.

Huh. I just got an idea.

What if we hold a 'live fortress', where nominated bay12 forumites* would get on a live stream and all work together on building a fortress. One person would be designated for actually running it at any one point, and the rest watch and give ideas.

*Or some other method of choosing players. Obviously, not everybody that wants to do it could participate.


We could have a simple but difficult goal - something like growing 100 strawberries on the floor of the circus while becoming the mountainhome in the shortest amount of time possible. That would probably be very educational for watchers, and fun for the players.

Ideas? Yay/Neigh?

Hmmm... Sounds like a livestream succession fort. I dunno, that's a bit harder to record and kinda lacks the storytelling quality. Still sounds fun, though.

I think elevating Threetoe and ToadyOne to deity status would make sense. I could just imagine them going around bestowing *gifts* like vampirism and were-fluffballs for shits and giggles

This I support wholeheartedly. Long live the gods of The Twelfth Bay! We've never been in for a more Fun time!


I'm probably the miner who winds up digging himself into a stuck spot 10 z-levels up in a newb's fortress where he attempted to channel straight down in a large square, 15 z-levels in height... I'll survive, though, when I stupidly dig out the marble beneath me - I'll land with a soft bump on the head of some random person, all the way down. Though stunned, I'll survive. I feel bad for the random dwarf, though. At least I'm not that heavy, right?

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Firstly, massive booze production.
Secondly... we're not actually sure.  Once we're all hammered then nature will take its course.

I can brew!

There we go, now we have a brewer.   And Loud Whispers would definitely wind up being the mayor... At which point we'd probably be screwed. Which would be Fun.

On the embark screen it'll show whether you have soil or not. It'll be at the right side of the screen - where you see "little soil" "flux stone" "shallow metal" and other things. You don't want aquifers (not this early, that would definitely be a quick death), but if you found shallow or deeper soil somewhere it'd help out a lot with farming.

Also, glad you're planning on playing (and learning) it by ear! +1 to you for that. You are well on your way to being a very dwarfy player.

At the OP: I dove in. I had no clue what I was doing. I didn't look at the wiki, I didn't read the forums, I didn't even know about z-levels until a few forts in when I happened to check the control keys. I had more fun than I've ever had in my life, of both the uppercase- and lowercase-F varieties. If you dive into it, you'll fail. You'll fail hard. But you'll learn from your fails. You'll grow stories more awesome than anyone with a copy-paste tutorial fort could ever brag of (no offense to the tutorialists). Your fails will define your playstyle and enable you to adapt to almost any situation. If you're dwarfy enough, they'll give you the desire for more - that greed that drives even the sanest players to harvest mermaids, torture children, shishkabob whales, and - if you're lucky - kill bronze collossi with fluffy wamblers. I salute you and wish you the best on your quest.

And now I go to read the rest of this thread.

edit: And now I've glanced through a lot of the thread. Knowledge beforehand is worth it (but it's a LOT more fun without it), and it's guaranteed you'll run up against things you weren't prepared for. Just pause the game and remember - the wiki is your friend.
And of course, we are too. Any questions, just post them up. We'll have them answered in a heartbeat.

editedit: spelling. I like to imagine I'm OCD.

I'm not giving up on Spearbreakers just yet. The cavy warriors will come!!!!


...Somewhat more realistically, as long as we get all the dwarves attacking at once, we have a chance. I think. Nah, of course we'll make it. How could Spearbreakers die so soon???

Then again, we're making the assumption that the fort is already more than halfway to screwed. If its not, and we're getting a little poetic exaggeration from Draignean (like the Lady of the Spawn deal (which, honestly, wasn't that far removed from the truth... ))... we might have a little more of a chance than we think.

Either way, we can always use the Spearbreakers warcry.

Ah. Yeah, that happened in Deathgate too.

I spent so much time reforming the layout of the base and defences in hell, set up a proper front gate with 300 masterwork adamantine spikes with masterwork mechanisms, a functioning archery range with a set of fortifications and moving the entirety of the military from the surface to hell. Trying it out, I killed 4 demons with only one casualty (to this day is the best kill to death ratio in the entire fortress). I just didn't get enough time to link up all of the spikes, so I set out specific instructions to do it.

The first thing the next guy does is build a dining room/statue garden outside my front gate, getting like 20 dwarfs killed. He ends up building in the way of my fortifications, rendering them useless. Also forgets to link up the spikes, so a few demons get in and cripple the military. When a few flying demons sneak in through a hole someone made in the side of the base (you know, for garbage disposal), the entire military was decimated and we lost the hellbase.

 

Hmm... I guess it would be worthwhile to point out that this is Spearbreakers... We don't have the time to pass the linking of the traps to the next player. It doesn't take a statue garden outside the gate to let invaders in, and it doesn't take building in front of fortifications to make them useless. If we ever get a real necro siege and they get into an area with spawn parts, we either turtle or we're screwed. And now there's THIS new terror to deal with... I have no idea what a spawn lady is, but I would really, really like to know what it is, and how to defeat it to try to (hopefully) allow Sus to save the fortress. lol

Also, I may read Deathgate now. But that's offtopic.

And finally...

Quote from: Draignean on April 03, 2012, 06:00:21 pm

... urgent-Defcon1-calamity situations ...

Or, as the dwarves of Spearbreakers call it, Thursday.

This is gold,

Quote from: Mr Frog on April 04, 2012, 01:10:56 am

So, uh... how screwed are we? Relative to our usual level of screwed-ness, I mean.

Tell me what a spawn Lady is and and I'll tell you how screwed we are.

this is gold,

Quote from: Draignean on April 03, 2012, 11:03:20 pm

Quote from: Terrahex on April 03, 2012, 10:28:40 pm

Quote from: Draignean on April 03, 2012, 04:30:28 pm

By the way, WHAT IN ALL THE SIX-HUNDRED-AND-SIXTY-SIX MILE STRETCH OF THE PHLEGETHON IS A LADY OF THE SPAWN?!

It's obviously Spawny, now queen and come to negotiate a peace treaty. Let her in, oh wise one

I, uh... Already did. Thankfully spring came before she killed everyone, thus making it officially Sus' problem.

I knew I shouldn't have posted that comment about Draig having things "under control"...  D:
Do we, uh, have any semblance of a useful military at all?

and this is adamantine. This last especially when coupled with:

I think he actually may not have gotten around to linking up all of the spikes, which would mean that our fortress is currently being defended by a bunch of really pointy lawn ornaments.

AND AN EDIT TO TOP IT ALL OFF:
Draignean, I looked through the raws, and I can't find "Lady of the Spawn" anywhere... My best guess is that it's simply a human-style lady/lord-ranked spawn... which could prove deadly, yeah. If they act like goblins, killing her may make the other spawn hang around for a bit...   Yeah, we're screwed. Sus is going to have a Fun turn. I hope this doesn't kill the fort. We may have to simply wall off the infected dwarves and hope for the best, if it's as bad as it sounds... I'm going to guess an 8 on the "Holy carp, we're screwed" scale... My suggestion would be to throw EVERYONE at the spawn, all at once. They can't bite more than one person at a time, and dwarves will have the (hopeful) advantage of numbers. I just wish we'd had a chance to equip everyone with hammers first... When you're ready, upload the save and post or PM me a link, and I'll get it up.