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That's excellent. Toxic food is bad enough but a fatal extract would have been....problematic.


Good thing Urist McDonald was taken out before he took his cooking to the next level.....

That room is where the worm crawled up through the drain during my turn. It's possible that the frozen spit/blood is syndrome-causing, which killed the cats. You may have a problem if any of our dwarves aren't wearing shoes. Even though it's over a year since the battle, it's worth making sure. Keep a close eye on that place.

(Also, unless it's been rectified, the drain for that room is still incredibly dangerous since any FB that can fly *and* doesn't need to breath air can get up it eventually. EDIT: And anything that gets up it that *can't* fly will sit down there sniping dwarves as they come to eat their delicious tallow biscuits.)
Edit2: Wait, wait wait. Thirty-nine THOUSAND kills?
Does she have combat skills? (Edit3: As opposed to being merely really thirsty after a hard days work).....and if she does can we get this lady in the military as a last resort tool for when a rampaging queen powered by the blood of innocents is just what we need to solve a problem?

We breached the third cavern layer with the larger road bend, but the place is inaccessible except to flying creatures.

In the same way that our dining room was totally inaccessible except to frozen-poison-spit-lump spitting flying ribbonworms. Better to fortify it sooner rather than later.

(Also, is the old dining room (with the waterfall, next to caverns compound) still a deathtrap?)

I also see we have finally claimed some Adamantine from the depths. There is far more to be mined, though. Based on my earlier divining, I have determined a special object in one of the caverns, and I aim to claim it.

Ooh, we have one of those? I've never encountered one before and completely failed to notice it. Should make for interesting write-ups....far better than a mere accidental breaching of the Fun.

So we've now rewritten time and killed McDonald...again.

Well, the options are "do it again", "ignore it and continue" or "Roleplay it".

I'd favour the latter to save time given Udib Wastedlabour's past mastery of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. It allows the plot to curdle a bit more....but it's kinda hard on Triaxx2.

My personal limits on roleplaying are:

-I won't describe anything TOO nasty, unless it's hilarious.
-I won't deliberately kill a named dwarf, unless it's the only way through a situation.
-I usually try to keep other named dwarves in character if they've had their narrative expressed in a turn before. Except McDonald, who was a jerk and deserved it.

In terms of graphic depictions of horror and slaughter...eh....describing it in waaay too much detail (or shiny colours/big bold text) detracts from the feel of it, but sometimes you want some more description, or to use an over-the-top depiction for some other purpose.

EG. Urist McKiwi II cared very little for the military, so her reports of conflict would read "The dwarf ended the battle by cutting the goblins head off. About time too.", whereas McKiwi III, being dashing and all that, would probably write battle reports like bad fanfiction (which I can't actually mimic very well), so "The captain strode blodly (sic) towards the evil goblin, whos armor gleamed with rusty blood as he screamed his battle cry to the luminous sun. The dwarf, raising his axe to the heavens, cried out as he brought his axe down onto the fiend and clevered (sic) his neck in twain with his axe." Et Cetera. It's really hard for me to write like that. The former gets to the point quickly and goes through less-than-epic battles so that the rest of the write-up can be done. The latter....was really really hard to write, but provides an opportunity to make fun of how utterly stupid the dashing swordsdwarf actually is (I am reaaaally looking forward to playing her as an overseer. Unless I'm up to McKiwi IV by then).

Your last turn was pretty dang good. And the old Ardentdykes thread got pretty graphic at times as well (and DuckThatQuacks did some really masterful RP, complete with brutalness, in his turn). So yeah, do what seems best at the time and see what it looks like.

I took the time to explore and prepare the map before the start, there should be some iron ore.

I also remember seeing some hematite veins.....somewhere.

Since this is a succession game.... we basically have no control over what *anyone* does short of save-scumming their turn into oblivion, which is serious overkill and basically unwarranted unless they vanish or deliberately kill the fort in an un-epic way. And that's the best thing about this type of game. We can certainly make small rules and the like, but I don't think we should go overkill on rules (I'm fine either way, Urist McZombie has a really nice tomb).

Dwarf Computer is kinda OOC in the Ardentdikes series.

Yeah. If people are going to go for the dwarfputer they should probably try tying it into the whole "McDuck on the loose" thing, or some other reason that the residents would actually build such a thing. Athough hell, a thinking machine to contain McDuck, powered by forsaken children and chained prisoners? That'd make sense with minimal RPing. Udib's already bent space-time (twice), so building a machine to do it after his death is entirely suitable. Our end-state is tied to the story that we make here, and the narrative will very much depend on how things go. EG. Some people want a nice, stable and optimised fort. Personally I want massive brushes with disaster, pancreas spread on the walls, and for McDuck to exact his revenge on the race that sealed him outside of time and space. Or at least try to exact his revenge. Finishing with "they all lived happily ever after and the whole 'McDuck' plotline never went anywhere" doesn't feel as satisfying as a brutal fight to the death as the fortress burns/drowns/collapses into hell. Especially if it can happen multiple times.

Quote from: Urist McKiwi on May 22, 2013, 04:08:59 am

Quote from: CognitiveDissonance on May 22, 2013, 02:40:51 am

- WHY IS HALF THE MAP ON FIRE?

2. We honestly have no idea. It happens about once a year, so you'll get to see it again. It's quite handy if there's a seige at the time it pops up. Not so good if there's a caravan.

So we have a predictable fire? Now I'm not very good with that stuff, but why has this not been weaponized? You know, prepare a bed of lignite; wait for it to ignite; collapse supports holding it in place so it falls into a minecart; PROFIT!

We have weaponised it. Sorta. We shepherd every friendly inside, raise the bridges and let it roast all the undead and goblins. If we could control it further we could probably make something evil (Especially if we can get an infinitely-burning floor [persuade someone to make an artifact lignite grate] or something. Then we can have a trap-entrance to kill off sieges). Also, we could turn it off and avoid migrant/caravan immolation, which hasn't happened yet, but it's only a matter of time.