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I want to shift uneasily, maybe pull my hand out of the old woman's grip, but I find myself frozen. It was like a less terrifying and more bewildering rendition of what had happened at that nightclub weeks ago, except nearly everything was in reverse- instead of a crowded room, I'm in an open street, and instead of locking eyes with a young, attractive woman across a dance floor, I'm looking at an old woman right in front of me, her eyes decidedly turned away from mine. In spite of the differences, the chill that ran down my spine when I saw that ring is the same exact feeling I had just before I saw those eyes.

I wondered, with a brief flash of insight, if this feeling was trying to tell me something, and it's this thought that keeps me bolted in place as surely as the terror that had kept me frozen before, disallowing myself simply rolling my eyes and leaving as I desperately wanted to do. After all, no one I knew had died recently, let alone someone with an 'M' in their name. Surely this was, as Annie had said, complete and utter bullshit.

Then I heard the hissing, and real fear began to creep into my mind. I could hand off the phone incident as a bad connection, maybe, but this- it wasn't the buzzing, but it was too close for comfort, and I desperately hoped that I wasn't going to go through an episode anytime soon. Or worse.

Woohoo! No supplies, no support, and me! This is gonna be awesome.

Quote from: Aklyon on April 04, 2012, 05:31:48 pm

I'm still here, if you do update it.

+1

I wasn't here before, but I'm still gonna do it: +1

Um... iirc, Planet B is already uninhabitable.

Planet B: ash, acidic atmosphere, radioactive, small mining operation

Ash, acidic atmospheres, and radioactivity do not an inhabitable planet make. I mean, I'm sure we could figure out a way if we really wanted to... but we don't.

Meph/anyone: I just wanted to make a quick request to see if anyone has figured out hot to add volcanos to the Gaia param set? i'm not sure how to do it, despite my fiddling around.

If not, could someone make a version of gaia with volcanos? (ideally lots of them)

Thanks.

You could raise the amount of minimum volcanoes in the advanced parameters menu... or whatever you want to call it. That raises the possibility of having a lot of map rejects though. I suggest reading up on advanced parameters here: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.31:Advanced_world_generation

It's an older version, but there hasn't been that many changes between .31 and .34 in the advanced world generation, so it should serve.

For that summary, the layout is great, but I suggest you italicize the bold text in the sections. It was a little hard to pick them out with the large bold text that's often right above it, and- I assumed you're highlighting that text as the main idea of every section- it's kinda against the idea of it for them to be hard to see. Anyways, italicizing and bolding the text will make it easier, or maybe just italicizing. Either way would work, I think.

I was about to decline Annie's offer. While I feel much better after my power nap, I'm afraid that the voice will return, and besides, I know Annie well enough to realize that this might be a trap, to get me alone long enough for her to interrogate me about what was going on with me lately. I knew that Aurel and Annie couldn't have failed to notice how odd I'd been acting lately, which is why I'd neglected to meet with either of them alone lately- especially Annie, who, though not generally a manipulative person, is incredibly and deviously good at getting the truth out of me.

Now that I think of it, she'd probably suggested this lunch as a way to interrogate me, taking advantage of my hungover and still-sleepy state so that I wouldn't realize what she was doing. I'd unknowingly failed to give her a good opening throughout the lunch, which was probably at least part of the reason why she was asking me to go shopping with her.

Dammit! I suddenly realize with a barely perceptible grimace, The trip isn't the trap, the question is! She knew that I didn't much like shopping, and bought most of what I wanted or needed online. I never opt out of shopping trips with her though; I know better: she'd buy things for me anyway, and oddly enough, Annie's tastes ran far more toward the glittery pink unicorns side of femininity than mine.

If I decline now, though, that'd give her a chance to ask why. I could probably dodge the question well enough, but I couldn't lie to her outright; I was never much good at lying to family. She'd know that something was up then, and she'd keep coming after me until I told her. Nothing good will come of that.

So I decide that I'd just have to go, and hope that the voice didn't come back. Hoping that my own voice didn't sound quite as resigned as I felt, I answer, "Sure, Annie, I'll come. Might be fun."

That's fine then. We're just exchanging random songs here.