Bay 12 Games Forum

Karkov, write this down in our histories; Sarrak now has a kill count of 68 kills. Also, apparently nightwings exploded when they died, leaving small pools of liquid rock or something. I'm shocked no one was hurt by it. The war was bloody and brutal, but we won; all four of us. Soldiers, give yourselves a pat on the back, you earned it for picking that dwarf to become. Especially Sarrak who has become a legend amongst dwarves. I can only hope the children get a kill count like that as they grow up. Splint also went into three maybe four martial trances, proving her eagerness for blood. Chucker actually ran back and used a barrel (because pots and barrels are the same) and beat a grasshopper with it. The wild wolves and their pups will dine well tonight. I think many of our enemies gear and corpses on the front gate will be atom smashed or encased in ice until destroyed. Nothing too good there really, unless you really wanted to melt down ALL their gear.

Hey, if Sarrak passes 78 he'll earn the high-score for kills.  Or it's 73, I can't remember. 

Good job on breaking the siege with no harm or loss, that's a ridiculous accomplishment.  A great day in history to be recorded forever!  Huzzah!

All's well with the world, you're sealed off from a bunch of raving jackal beasts that eat your wolves and want to feast on your flesh, living the high life inside your little subterranean world.   Suddenly 8 dwarfs died.  A magma crab decided it wanted to use a back door into you cavern and murder a whole bunch of the little guys.

Now I'm actually curious as to what the thing's name/nickname was before you had to savescum out.  That thing should've been recorded in the annals of time.

... the dark elves want to kill everything (morrowind if what my ex told me properly) and don't even get me started on the falmer.

"You N'wah!"

I'd have to replay Morrowind again (I planned on it anyway), but all I really remember is that Dark Elves basically owned the continent, loved the Nerevarine for his wonderful prophecy nonsense, and worshipped the crap outta Azura.  That and there was a random plantation that had daedric crap in it.

((OOC: I accidentally left the smelters on when I made the statue garden, so we now have a buttload of gold bars. Suggestions to what to do with them? Coins to make a hoard fit for a dragon? Treasures? Furniture? Please specify, as there will NOT be a poll for this))

You could totally make a grand statue of someone/thing that spanned multiple Z-levels, you could even make it inside the coliseum if you wanted to.  I'm sure the gladiators would think it'd be pretty baller to chase a kobold around the feet of a towering dwarf that looked menacingly at all the opponents.  If you're not up for megaprojects you could always replace every piece of furniture with a duplicate in gold.

I take off a day from dorf fort and this is what happens.  A siege, an FB, and TimelessBob recounting stories of a time when kids could be kids and toys still maimed 80% of them.

You've only been forging for a little bit, rest was hauling duty with the bars. As for meat, they're probably eating the wolf pups that get born outside of the caged wolves that are outside

Nooo!  Not the massive amount of wolf pups!  We need those for leather and food!

Quote from: Fishybang on October 03, 2013, 07:56:32 pm

"I shall be the greatest marksdwarf that ever lived!  Better even then my older brother!  I hope to see the lok on his face when he realizes that i could best him from across the room!"

(Btw, would you mind posting my thoughts, and if you have already just point me toward the page that it is on?)

I don't think I did, or BOmbur's or KArkov's child

You linked mine earlier, I think that's why we decided he'd never be a great warrior, but instead a historian to take after like his dad.  And maybe a marksdwarf in his spare time.

I meant here, at the outpost. And I plan to make Sarrak the greatest soldier that ever lived. she's like the Achilles of our outpost. If she can kill a dragon, she'll become Siegfried (which is better)

Oh. That makes much more sense.  Carry on.

15th of Hemetite, 134: A third son
My wife gave birth to yet another son today. Hes bald and fat, but is still my son. Although I don't know why him and my secondborn are fat when I'm very muscular and shes very thin. Perhaps they will become stronger with their size when they grow up. They will be great warriors when they grow up nonetheless.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The colleseum is almost complete. The expedition leader said there were traps to be placed and doors to be placed. And lots of cages and mechanics. Oh boy...

Hm, possibly the bureaucrat of the burgeoning fort.  Also, the genetics behind Dorf Fort are rather shallow at best, and fat is actually a pretty cool thing for a fighter to have.  Adds extra protection and padding, "cutting the fat," but not taking any real damage.  On another note, you can still bleed out if too much fat is cut.

Quote from: Splint on October 02, 2013, 12:52:50 pm

Lokum means spear, Dastot sword, Nil hammer, Sodel, shield, Libash, axe. Oddly there's no actual word for Mace in the dwarven language so nil is probably used for that too.

And of course, Urist means Dagger

7th of Slate, 134: Karkov's Firstborn
The CMD was walking about with a bundle in her arms as KArkov had his nose in his books again. I passed by only momentarily to notice the bundle was a baby boy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

We were all happy when everyone found out, but Karkov kept him close, reading stories and legends whenever he could. I hope he wasn't serious about making him a historian...

The most joyous of occasions!  Now to pass all my knowledge onto him as is the wont of a father!  He'll be the best danged engraver ever I tells ya.

Yeah, a bunch of the more prominent Jotun actually died during the war with the Ferric Elves.  They killed 1800 elves but ended up losing their most powerful Jotuns during the war, not that that matters much, Jotuns are gigantic beings that can kill a dragon as a new mace man recruit. 

On another, even scarier note, there are currently 5376 Jotuns running around.  Coming in 5^th of the most populous races list.

Well... I must have guessed that I'm total badass even before I have heard of my kill count.
But I was talking about probability of death, after all. With battle death excluded (and avoided even further by regular training), only old age remains. And probably you are mistaken about it. If I read raws correctly, I have ~60 years. Even if you are keen as hell on repopulating, I don't think that you will live all this time underground. We have to capture surface, after all. I would give 30-40 years for that optimally. So...

Yeah, dwarves live anywhere from 150-170 years of age.  Hardy little buggers.