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And just a protip - do NOT attempt to salvage anything on the topside.

But it's always so entertaining.

I think that the Kobold Torturer was me/Krosan? How's he doin'?

I have started playing dwarf fortress yesterday, is it possible for me to take a year with Deathgate? I'm a good writer, and will do my best to keep the fort alive as well as document this great tale!

Yeah yeah yeah, that's what *I* said. Then I let KOBOLDS destroy the fort.

Naw, really, place is a godforsaken mess to the point that not only have daemons of madness infiltrated the place, we're on a first-name basis with them. Not a one of us really knows what's going on; the surface of the fort is littered with a king's ransom in discarded loot and garbage that's better guarded than an emperor's vault by the fact that anything going outside the walls is summarily eaten by the spawn of the void itself. The greatest minds of a generation have bent themselves to building such projects as an arena for the ultimate battle between Hell and Nonexistence Itself, then left them untended to brew rum. The walls of the fort are tainted things that ooze mighty monsters like poisonous blood. Our only hope lies in the living avatar of destruction, who occasionally hooks up with the ghosts of our fallen and leaves ruin and desecration in his wake. We are men who build entire self-sustaining perpetual-motion generators out of wood and rock to power single millstones. We are men who design monstrosities to paradrop waterfowl into the pits of doom.

So, what I'm saying is, you'll fit right in. Go for it, sparky.

Clearly Terry wants to see you play.

So, if the purpose of Deathgate was to conquer the HFS, then would I be right in assuming MurderMachines exists to wreck the surface?

Dammit, Pitchblende, my gut told me I was reading a Xelnath post.

You got me.

Could be some funny interaction with abyssal taint being high-temperature and getting spilled? Something? Anima might be able to answer depending on params for voidspawn.

As for the loyalty cascade, I think it was because of the thralls. I've observed it in the arena, but I'm not positive if it shows up in dwarf mode: if a voidspawn bites someone, and that person survives and becomes a thrall while still fighting, it'll still be hostile to the voidspawn that created it. It looks like the voidspawn might be creating thralls and then fighting them, and thralls are damn tough.

Poor little lamb, he thinks he's going to "understand" this place by actually reading the thread.

I'm convinced at least one Deathgate regular amuses himself by placing strange and arcane linkages between levers and doors and floodgates without labeling them, then passing the ensuing cluster%*&^ to the next man.

I'm sure of that, because it's exactly what I'd do if I hadn't spent my brief turn getting slaughtered by kobolds and watching Mad Fool go totally Jackie Chan on some kobolds.