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[kefkakrazy]

The fortress has really gone downhill since my tenure.

I don't think, there is any other direction this fortress can go.

Also, beaten to death by a freaking silkbag? I thought these things didn't happen since the times of spinning xXPig tail socksXx.

By bare hands, one dwarf by a cloak, and the rest (ten or so) by a sheep wool shoe.

The voidspawn wasn't even using the silk bag as a weapon.

Christ, I don't even know if those military dwarves were armored, though I doubt it.

[slowpokez]

The fortress has really gone downhill since my tenure.

I don't think, there is any other direction this fortress can go.

Also, beaten to death by a freaking silkbag? I thought these things didn't happen since the times of spinning xXPig tail socksXx.

By bare hands, one dwarf by a cloak, and the rest (ten or so) by a sheep wool shoe.

The voidspawn wasn't even using the silk bag as a weapon.

Christ, I don't even know if those military dwarves were armored, though I doubt it.

You've got it wrong mate. The shoebeating started after I had sealed off the fort, didn't really matter as the dwarves were migrants. +The military had copper/iron armor.

[kefkakrazy]

OOh, so THAT'S how the drone got ahold of a dozen unnamed dwarves. That makes a lot more sense; I was just going off of legends, and all I see is ten straight "Killed with a sheep wool shoe" messages.

[The Mad Fool]

From the Diary of The Mad Fool Zuglarning:

Experimental subject 56-142A:
Initial grafting of replacement limb successful, and rejection was successfully prevented.  Unfortunately, the virus I used to suppress his immune response also caused him to gain four times his weight in tumor cells within six days.  Results promising.

On a personal note, subject 56-142A has repeatedly requested me to let him die.  Since he has been so insistent upon the matter, I have decided to be reasonable and fulfilled his request.  After all, seeing as how he lacks three of his five senses and can no longer move, his usefulness to me as a test subject is somewhat limited in any case.

On to less important matters.  The fortress had a...visitor yesterday.  A creature of the void, and they are every bit as impolite as I remember them.  Fascinatingly, the creature used its long, powerful arms to accelerate its blows, permitting it to deal grievous injury even with a shoe.  Unfortunately, learning its properties in Euclidean space required the sacrifice of several vessels.  An unfortunate necessity, but the trade-off will probably be worth it.  We now have its body, and I have put in a request to examine it.  We may yet learn much from this creature's remains.

In the meanwhile, I have begun preparing subjects 56-142B and 15-142C for the same treatment, so as to confirm my results.  I wonder if we couldn't tap the uncontrolled tumor growth as a food source....

[Mortis]

Oh, and by the way, one person was entered twice on the turn list, turn 18

[CognitiveDissonance]

Oh, this is so very epic! I would love to get on this action, let me go find that dorfing sheet. (EDIT: When I'm not at work My special request is to a) get a gemcutter/setter and b) be the only one permitted to work with gems. My shinies.)


Not sure if I want a turn... I have never played a succession fort, or anything this suicidally deadly.
...or does this make me a perfect candidate?

[kefkakrazy]

Not sure if I want a turn... I have never played a succession fort, or anything this suicidally deadly.
...or does this make me a perfect candidate?

My very first turn on a succession fort, ever, was really late in Deathgate's life cycle. I accidentally breached our hellbunker twice, built a machine to automatically breed and deploy ducks INTO HELL, and wound up losing something like a third of our fort's population in a time when the fort had outlived the entirety of dwarven civilization and was no longer receiving migrants. I spent a good hour just figuring out how things were laid out and halfway through my year was still finding half-finished buildings, chambers, and such and boggling over what use they may have had. Demons breached the fort twice, melted all the silver furniture in a previous overseer's hell bedroom, infected the entire fort population with blistering demon sickness, and torched our hell booze stockpile. And several military dwarves died, too, but that's about par for the course for Deathgate.

Short of a voidspawn ambush party getting through the gates and beelining for the stockroom containing the fort's entire supply of food, drink, and cuddly puppies, there's not a lot you can do to raise the bar.

Except for the guy after me, who let Tiny Tim get killed, of course.

[AnimaRytak]

I uh... um...
I think I made the voidspawn a little too badass.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

I uh... um...
I think I made the voidspawn a little too badass.

Pshh! This is Deathgate! Nothing's too badass for Deathgate!

[AnimaRytak]

As founder of Deathgate and Murdermachines, I authorize the use of danger rooms to combat the voidspawn.

[Gentlefish]

Why did that quote sound like Toady talking about carp?

Also I'll be able to get the file dowloaded and looked at tomorrow - it's Friday and I'm coming up on spring break so I'll be able to get a lot done tomorrow (Hopefully). I'm still scared shitless.

[kefkakrazy]

Dun dun DUNNNNNNN!

On the upside, don't voidspawn have a custom syndrome? If so, on the upside they're so deadly that nothing appears to have survived long enough to show signs of infection.

[Teh_Idort]

As founder of Deathgate and Murdermachines, I authorize the use of danger rooms to combat the voidspawn.

Shit just got serious.

[AnimaRytak]

Dun dun DUNNNNNNN!

On the upside, don't voidspawn have a custom syndrome? If so, on the upside they're so deadly that nothing appears to have survived long enough to show signs of infection.

This is correct.  The syndrome has a long timer so it only affects the victim after combat has ended.
But if you see nausea in your dorfs....

[kefkakrazy]

So what you're tellling me is that on the slim chance that we manage to raise a military capable of fending off a voidspawn ambush, much less siege, it's entirely possible that the survivors will be ticking time bombs? Oh lawdy.