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If you use, for example, a raising bridge to through stuff towards the edge of the map does it 'bounce off' or disappear forever?

I'm a bit noobish still, but if nobody else wants it I'll go first.

Few things first. I guess adventurers should not be 'demigods'? It's a bit cheaty, really.

Second point is about actually catching live animals. I'm not even sure that is possible for an adventurer to do in adventure mode alone, is it? One idea I had is to allow players to un-retire a worldgen fort with a 'play now' embark and put cage traps all over the place in that fortress then retire. An adventurer may be able to carry back a cage with an animal caught in it. Alternatively you could allow corpses (stinky) or skeletons. Pity there is no 'embalm' option.

I had an idea about how to allow items to be brought to and kept in the museum without using dfhack + lair. Although I suspect that would be the easiest option.

As I understand it (I may be wrong) an area completely blocked off by natural stone or constructed stone will be safe from item dispersal. I think bridges and other buildings would not be enough to stop things going wrong (testing may be an idea). So my idea is a long tunnel with natural stone blocks perched on supports linked to levers along it. The tunnel would need to be the only access to the museum while the museum is retired. The tunnel would also need to be blocked on the museum side while the museum is retired. The adventurer would bring his item to the end of the tunnel near the museum, retreat a safe distance, then pull the lever releasing the block of rock to crash through the fragile tunnel ceiling and block the items off from any thieves. After he retires and the fortress is unretired the tunnel can be mined open from the museum side and the items recovered and added to the display room. The only alternatives I can think of involve ice (cold weather only) or obsidian casting.

I think some testing is in order.

Oh, and maybe I could get Stelid Zafal as the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography?

You might as well plan it for 40.12, IMO. There aren't official releases for dfhack and Dwarf Therapist quite yet, but they probably aren't far behind and it should be possible to get someone to put together an unofficial version for download by participants.

I think it would be interesting to have a 'speed run' where each player has a maximum of 24 real time hours to play and submit their new save or lose their turn.

How about this location? It has a natural waterfall and gorge going for it.

Hey, I've an idea. Could you have a farmers workshop action to turn x amount of useless leaves into fertilizer for fields? e.g. a compost heap?

Doing so would destroy the world economy. Also, that ruby studded platinum scepter is just right for scratching his back in the bath.

Why can lungfish climb/jump so damn high?

Good idea - I'm using the Phoebus tileset, so if your mod is compatible with that, I'll use it.

It's not my mod, I just use it.

It does include a set of files for use with the Phoebus tileset, however.

The only drawback is a tendency to build up unusable leaves when processing plants. It doesn't seem to cause much trouble to me though.

BTW, how long are you planning for each 'turn'? I guess the first turns will be the starting four players making the initial museums?