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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 14, 2014, 09:20:46 am »
I'll be gone for a couple of days due to real life. I will probably be able to check for any new posts, but not post anything myself.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 12, 2014, 04:36:00 am »
Quote from: Gnorm on January 11, 2014, 02:59:01 pm
Lorius technically has a family, but he is also technically seventeen years old; it might be better to ignore them for the sake of plot and continuity.

Does Lorius have any siblings? Because if so, I would like to roleplay them as Lorius' children or grandchildren since Lorius is getting old and wishes to past on his knowledge and experience before he gets too old.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 11, 2014, 05:36:36 am »
OOC: Does Lorius have any family at Steelhold? Just wondering where he's married or not or if he has kids.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 10, 2014, 03:13:16 pm »
Corley thinks he's clever getting put in power in such way. Maybe he is, but he didn't fool me or Rhaken. Plus the charter give me a right to have temple. It also helps that Corley will be a good leader, one that will restore proper order to Steelhold, rather than just order to the latest threat or problem. However Emdief may be going insane, but he hasn't lot just yet and maybe not for a long time even if he will be verge for that entire time. And our objectives align for now as we both have the same enemy of the Oku and Emdief will still be a useful ally in defeating him. Meanwhile I still haven't spoken to Melek. She seems to be avoiding me. Also I finally managed to gain the ability to sense when Oku is watching me. Its far more than I thought or would have been comfortable with. Yet now I have managed to get the lighting in the temple just so that no shadows, a impressive feat. Especially important since Oku has been spying on some of the sermons. I have also noticed that the moody dwarf with undead pets, seems to think I am the spymaster and Rhaken is my agent. The poor fool.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 08, 2014, 03:46:36 pm »
I think that Corley will become Overseer in the meeting. Meanwhile I really want to know that weapon Lorius uses. Meanwhile Lorius is going to try and convert the children to the old ways with tales of ancient heroes who started out as normal dwarfs. By the way, could somebody remind me how Maskdwarf lost a lot of followers. I don't remember reading that.

I finished setting up anti-magic wards and defences around my quarters and those of my followers in addition to Rhaken's and his gang's quarters. Plus the barracks. It has worn me out, but at least the Oku or her followers won't be able to magically harm them. They can still don't things the old fashion way, but most dwarves here and elsewhere can deal with things the old fashion way. At least I know what's going on around here. It already figured most it out from stuff I done outside of here as well has asking about and looking at recoreds. I may be an old cleric, but I'm still one very good spy. My followers are growing number. Only a few are truly devoted, but the gods don't mind. They need followers to rival those of the demons. But the news that Oku has been acting without her "gods" consent is interesting. I wonder how thinks will go once the caravan has left and the truce is over? Thinking of which, I am surprised by Emdief's move. While I don't fear or worry about the Queen's wrath as I suffered the old Queen's one and her attempts to kill me for just over seventy years with only a few scars to show for it. I can survive his new one's. However, Rhaken mention Asmoth and her daughter Melek to me today. I heard of those two before and given what Rhaken has told me of Asmoth it may be true. I will speak to Melek later try and see if see she's truly Asmoth's clone like the rumours in dark back at the mountainhomes. If so, I hold nothing against her as she has no part in it and she was created by dwarven science, not magic. Regardless, she could be a valuable ally as she is a dwarf of medicine and science, not magic. Despite possible having such a secret over her, I have no intention of blackmailing her. Still, I will tell Rhaken as soon as I can tell decide whether or not its true. However, the rumours back home and what Asmoth as done here have inspired me to try and get a hold of Asmoth's files. Still I now greatly desire to recruit Melek as either a follower or an ally. At the least, another friend here who I can trust.

OOC: Plotwise, Lorius is about a hundred years old. And again, I really want to know what weapon he uses. And he sees Melek as a useful ally due what he hears both in and out of Steelhold about her and mostly her mother.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 07, 2014, 01:53:32 pm »
Followed the link. Let's keep the mishearing by Emdief, makes it seem like if he going crazy if he mishearing people.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 07, 2014, 01:09:25 pm »
Quote from: MDFification on January 07, 2014, 11:53:54 am
Quote from: Oshha on January 07, 2014, 11:40:12 am
I met with Emdief. He agreed with the temple, but appeared to misheard me when I told him how I was captured my the Maskdwarf. Seem to think I had captured him! At least he agreed to have the temple built. However, something about him revealed, he going mad. Its subtle, but after being a spy for so long and being on the run from my enemies for so long, its hard for me to miss those of signs. I best tell Rhaken.

Well, you did write that you had captured him.  :-\

Where I? I need to edit that mistake.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 07, 2014, 11:40:12 am »
I met with Emdief. He agreed with the temple, but appeared to misheard me when I told him how I was captured my the Maskdwarf. Seem to think I had captured him! At least he agreed to have the temple built. However, something about him revealed, he going mad. Its subtle, but after being a spy for so long and being on the run from my enemies for so long, its hard for me to miss those of signs. I best tell Rhaken.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 07, 2014, 03:07:57 am »
I march towards Emdief's office. The Gods have told me that his rule is coming to the end and now is a time to ask for a temple. I was also recently by captured my filthy foe, the Maskdwarf. I'm going to ask for Rhaken to tell what he knows about him. At least I saw the room and know to be careful for any traps. And I now know to place some my own. I enter the room. "Emdief," I say to the dwarf behind the desk, "I need a temple."

OOC: The Temple would be a large room with pillars plus a side room near the other side of the entrance to be Lorius' bedroom. Hopefully Emdief will grant this request and Corley will honour it when he becomes Overseer.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 06, 2014, 05:27:27 pm »
"Maskdwarf," I said as I sense someone watching me from the shadows in an old, rarely used section of Steelhold, "I know you're listening. I spent seventy years suffering the Queen's wrath and attempts to kill me. I am not eager for it again. Lets not either do anything to ruin the inspection. Once the caravan is gone, it's back to normal."

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 06, 2014, 02:40:14 pm »
Quote from: MDFification on January 06, 2014, 12:53:15 pm
Well then. Corley's writing a constitution, Lorius Zane's building a conservative faction, within Rhaken's faction, which is generally part of the wider revolutionary faction Emdief leads. Fractal's back, though he isn't doing much. Nobody knows what Maskdwarf and his cultists are doing. Meanwhile, Melek and Asmoth fail to provide medical treatment in a timely fashion (seriously, Asmoth was initially set to be a miner, a mason, a hauler... she hasn't been in the hospital for so long that her skills are rusting).

I wonder how this will all add up to Emdief's downfall? Although who knows, a peaceful transition of power is possible < ignore this, this is Steelhold.


Well Lorius will be supporting Rhaken in any upheaval, but won't want magic users to gain more control or power over Steelhold. I'll also want Emdief's survival as an anti-magic ally.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 06, 2014, 01:57:43 pm »
Quote from: fractalman on January 06, 2014, 12:41:10 pm
OOC: lorius is impolite without using swear-words, and loyal to Rhaken, right?
edit: oh, he's also supposed to be calm and collected...
IC:

As I carried a pile of xclothesx to the quantum stockpile, I bump into Lorius.
"HEY! watch where you're going!"
"Oh. Whoops." I need a conversation starter here, something much less controversial than the subject of demons...something that sounds like it stems from two rumors fused together..."Say, is it true the masked one locked up the vampire in a wood-encrusted adamantine coffin so he couldn't hypnotize anyone ever again, while fractal fixed up the problems he caused?"
"Ah, no.  There was an adamantine coffin, yes, but they didn't put the vampire in it, and I don't think the masked dwarf had anything to do with that."
"Oh...so is there still a vampire running around ready to suck blood from sleeping dwarves?"
"Idiot, no, they sealed it away with a pair of constructions."
"Ah. well. Then...did Rhaken have an epic battle where he beat up a cyclops with a hatch-cover?"-another 'rumor' based on fact. The hatch had distracted the cyclops, who'd stepped too close to get a proper grip on it.
"HMPH! Rhaken would never be so incompetent as to wield a mere hatch cover instead of a  proper weapon!...well, except maybe when the Maskdwarf was influencing him... now move it!" (italicized part is quieter, but still heard)
I smile and nod politely.  "Thanks! Hey, watch out for the undead pets! I got pounced by one of them a few days ago.  Undead wolf slobber is GROSS!"
As I turn the corner, I hear a yell.
"...undead PETS! WHAT is WRONG with you people! Oh, I'll tell you what's wrong, those magic users keep messing things up and-"
I hurry out of earshot. I've heard enough.
I need to warn my pets NOT to pounce this guy. 
______

POV: lorius. (you said you wanted others to do most of the writing for him, right?)

Un. dead. pets.
I have officially heard everything. 
That dwarf who bumped into me.  I hadn't even gotten his name! Well. Whoever he is, he seems to be a clumsy idiot, but at least he's polite.  He doesn't seem afraid of what's going on, but he does seem confused...I can work with that. Where he heard such distorted versions of fortress events, I may never know.   Could be usefull as a distributor of misinformation, though.  gotta agree with his attitude towards vampires: seal them away so they can endure the full brunt of the curse assigned to them by the Gods.  at least he views Maskdwarf with curiosity rather than fondness...as for his attitudes about the Fractaldwarf...well, those will have to be corrected.  fractal was not THE enemy, and he may have given us that beautifull, mechanical windmill farm, but...he was still a *magic* user


OOC: My character starts to chill with the new migrants, and makes a subtle(ish) attempt to get Lorius to think that not all magic is bad.

Lorius is impolite only to those who aren't followers of either Rhaken or the Old Dwarven Gods.
Also I don't have a problem writing for Lorius, I just struggle to write for other characters. Talking about Lorius, he's going to try and get Emdief to start having a temple to the old gods built before someone less anti-magic gets in charge. Probably going to persuade him by going on about turning to the old and proper dwarven ways. I think Emdief would like the idea of returning to the old and proper dwarven ways.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 06, 2014, 11:46:14 am »
I heard that many of the unhappy dwarves here have been unable to complain to the Mayor. Perhaps these miserable souls will be willing to join my following if I listen to them?

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 06, 2014, 11:44:26 am »
Rhaken went to the hospital today. I hope dearly it gets better. If he, doesn't I might do something stupid in a fit of rage. Like kill a cultist. Speaking of the cultists, I managed to get a few of their foes to become my followers. Having spent a few years here and what it has entailed a quite alot of the inmates are willing to follow some offering a return the old gods. None the less, I will keep a watch over Rhaken when I can as I don't want a magic user doing anything to him again like they did before. Yet it has not all been bad as I slew two goblins in battle.

OOC: What weapon does Lorius use?

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Insidious Sons of Steelhold -- Revival Succession Fortress
« on: January 06, 2014, 02:36:03 am »
Quote from: 4maskwolf on January 05, 2014, 05:49:03 pm
Quote from: Oshha on January 05, 2014, 04:42:15 pm
Lorius and his clerics verse Maskdwarf and cultist will end up being a religious war. The Old Dwarven Gods, which are pro-dwarven science and anti-magic verse the Demons/True Gods, which are pro-magic. And of course it the current politics might affect what they will do since I doubt either side wants the destruction of Steelhold.

Okay.  It would help if you established a few things about your character:

1. Does he have a following?  If so, how large, and where do they meet?
2. Where did this following come from in a fortress of criminals?
3. What actions are they able/willing to take against the cult?
4. How are they going to protect themselves if the cult retaliates?
1 and 2) Basically any magic fearing dwarves that are enticed by the a cool and collected leader who offers a return to the old gods and the old ways without this scary magic which is beyond their control (Scared people will follow someone who looks like they'll protect them). Where they'll meet? In a reasonable large room with pillars and engravings, like the temples in adventure modes.
3) Generally whatever major actions the current leader Emdief allows, but whatever major actions Rhaken (Lorius' boss) allows in the future. Will always resort to insults and aggressive behaviour. The more devoted members of the clerics may get into fist fights with the more devoted members of the cult. Won't endanger the fortress unless the cultist are already endangering it, in which case, they'll just go all out on the cult.
4) If the cult retaliates, its war. Probably a crusade by the clerics to purge Steelhold of the heretics.

In short, a sort of following of scared and magic fearing dwarves who see Lorius as a way out of fearing these magic users and the cult. They'll gather in a temple. They'll generally act like a rival gang, but won't back down as some of the members will be generally devoted. If the cult retaliates other than insults or shunning, they'll blow it out of proportion and go to war with the Maskdwarf and his cult.
Hopes that answers your questions.

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