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[deepfreeze78]

Hey guys, I just came up with this idea for a succession thread, and I decided to give it a shot. So, basically, it's a normal adventure mode succession thread where each person makes an adventurer in the world one after another, but there's a twist. The first person will adventure and then retire in a specific town or site, and then another person will create an adventurer whose sole purpose is to kill off the last adventurer, and then retire in the same place. All adventurers should start at peasant or hero, and the idea is that each turn we will get a more and more epic hero in this site. I'm not positive it will work, but I figured, heck, why not give it a shot? I'll go ahead and start the turn list if anyone wants to sign up. I'll take the liberty of being first, as the first person doesn't really have a goal.

RULES

• Ask to sign up, and you will be added to the end of the list.
• You have 1 week to play your adventurer, and after you retire/die horribly in a pit of fire, you can build a fort with our remaining time.
• Please don't go on a massacre killing civilizations, we'd prefer to keep a populated world.
• After killing the previous adventurer, move to another town/hamlet/fortress/whatever to retire, as the previous adventurer's town/hamlet/fortress/whatever will now be hostile to you.
• Bonus points if you take "trophies" from the previous adventurers, however you interpret trophies.
• Don't savescum, use DFHack, use external programs to give you an unfair edge, or otherwise cheat in anyway. It ruins the fun.
• Have Fun!
• Remember, losing is fun!

Turn List
1. Deepfreeze78(Failed, Killed in tomb) Links: 1
2. Escondida(Failed, Killed by Bandits, Built Awesome Fort Thingy) Links: 1 Fort
3. Neblime(Failed, Links: 1 2 3 4)
4. Gamedragon(Failed, Links: 1)
5. Gamerscout(Settled in Mirroredcounselled, first succesful, Links:1)
6. Kalsb(Missed)
7. fucduck(Missed)
8. Neblime(Success! Killed Gamerscout's adventurer, then settled in insightlulled)
9. Timeless Bob(Lost Save)
10. Gamedragon(Murdered by Hippos)
11. DeepFreeze78(Skipped)
12. 10terrapin01(Next)
13. Mr.Mountain
14. Bloax
15. iajrz

World Gen Settings:

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The World Map

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[deepfreeze78]

I guess if no one's signing up yet, I'll just go ahead and start my character. I'll post details on him soon, but for whatever reason the pages keep becoming unresponsive and I have to "kill" them in chrome... I don't know what's going on.

[deepfreeze78]

My Adventurer

Mangdu Sodorgam "Mangdu Deepfreeze" The Male Human Outsider

Attributes

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High Strength
Above Average Agility
Above Average Toughness
Above Average Endurance
Very Low Analytical Ability
High Willpower
Very Low Creativity
Very Low Patience
Very Low Linguistic Ability
Very Low Musicality

Skills

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Proficient Spearman
Novice Observer
Novice Swimmer
Talented Dodger
Novice Reader

Description

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His wavy hair is extremely long. He is tall and muscular. His slightly thin-irised light brown eyes are wide-set. His nearly fuse-lobed narrow ears are splayed out. He has a broad chin. His somewhat short nose is upturned. His head is somewhat tall. His hair is dark brown. His skin is dark tan.

Entry 1

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I have arrived here in this new land, naked but ready for adventure. I shall become a hero, or die trying. All I shall need is a spear and my brain, and I shall become a legend. I talked to a Potter in the nearby town who introduced himself as Bestra. I asked if he would join me, but he declined. I have no need for companions anyway. My companion is my spear.

I talked with Bestra for what felt like forever, learning about the surroundings, and their capital. I asked if he needed any help, but all he needed was for someone to kill a necromancer, and there was no way I'd run into that. I'm brave, not stupid. Instead I have decided to wander the lands in search of a monster to slay. Surely there would be something that could lead to fame and fortune. Now, I must leave, and go forth to search for this monster.

Entry 2

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After traveling for what felt like weeks but was only hours, I have found a tomb. I managed to calm my extreme hunger through slaying a deer. That marks my first kill so far. Hopefully, I can continue to kill more. For now, I need to figure out a way past this locked door to the tomb. I guess I have to pick the lock. I will be back with another entry once I've cleared out anything in this place that reeks of death.

Entry 3, The End

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Alas, this is where I die. I should have listened to the slab placed at the entrance. It warned of the death I would face from entering the tomb. I only made it into the second room, which was littered with peasant's skeletons. I took one step into the room, and suddenly, the skeletons were alive. I did not see how this had happened until I managed to look past these skeletons. There was a mummy standing in the corner. The skeletons quickly beat me to the ground, breaking my leg in an instant. Next thing I know, the mummy is slicing off my hand, sending it flying. Now I write to you with my left hand, quickly scribbling before this mummy ends my li.....   The journal ends there.

Well, that ended quicker than I imagined. Shouldn't have risked going into the tomb, I just didn't know for the life of me how bad it was going to be. Well, who wants to pick up next? I'm obviously not the king of the hill....

[escondida]

If it's cool, I'll take a turn. Should I use your world, or one of my own? I have one fresh-genned.

Also, should this succession world follow the example of The Museum and have players whose adventurers die take the rest of the week to create a fort for adventurers to visit? That would be pretty rad, in my opinion (which is possessed of an almost unseemly amount of humility). If you agree, I'll gladly wait until you've finished making an awesome fort to discover. (-:

[deepfreeze78]

Use my world, I'll upload it as soon as I can. And sure, if you die early you can make a fort, but I think I'll pass on it because I'm pretty bad at making anything cool in fort mode.

I wasn't anticipating me dying so quick, so I guess if you survive long enough to settle down somewhere then you'll choose the "hill."

[deepfreeze78]

If it's cool, I'll take a turn. Should I use your world, or one of my own? I have one fresh-genned.

Also, should this succession world follow the example of The Museum and have players whose adventurers die take the rest of the week to create a fort for adventurers to visit? That would be pretty rad, in my opinion (which is possessed of an almost unseemly amount of humility). If you agree, I'll gladly wait until you've finished making an awesome fort to discover. (-:

Sent the save to you.

[escondida]

Got it! Put together an adventurer, was about to get started on my journey, when I saw...

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I thought at first that I'd stumbled into some sort of crazy graveyard, but it turns out that those are supposed to be fire clay and white sand tiles...and trust me, that's not what they're supposed to look like (-: .

I'm guessing this is that bug where using a graphics set screws up the world for people using text; I've never come across directions on how to reverse the effect. If you have any ideas, let me know, but as is...if I try to play like this, I'll keep being afraid I'm, like, having a freak out.

I can either hang on to this for a while and hope someone knows how to fix it, let whoever wants to go next take their turn instead, or use a graphics-set free world; any of these options works for me. If the middle option, I hope that the succession goes well, and I will watch with interest to see how the world develops (-: .

[deepfreeze78]

Oh crap I forgot about that bug... I think that Lazy Newb pack updates saves when changing tilesets, so I could try changing the tileset back to ASCII, and uploading it again to see if it fixes it.

[escondida]

If that wouldn't be too much trouble, that would be much appreciated! You sure you don't want to make an awesome fort or anything to get the ball rolling?

I suppose at some point I should look at the source for LNP if it's available to see what witchery it does to make that happen...then make it known to the world via the wiki (-:

[deepfreeze78]

Uploading the hopefully fixed version now, I'll send you the link soon. I'm gonna pass on the fort, I would just be taking up valuable space for other people's forts, not that there's not enough space for everything.

[escondida]

Awesome, I'll look forward to it. For now, though, it's time for me to sign off for the evening.

[neblime]

this seems pretty cool but i can't help but think it will be sooooooo much better in df2014 which kind of puts me off..
ah what the hell i better hone my adventure skills for that anyway, sign me up!

[deepfreeze78]

Alright Neblime, you'll go after Escondida. Definitely starting to get the ball rolling!

[neblime]

A thought: if someone retires and we succeed in killing them, won't we be enemies of the site where they died and unable to retire there, as the retired adventurer will be a member of that civ?  I suppose we can just travel to a different civ and retire..

[deepfreeze78]

Well crap, I did not think of that. I guess we could go to different civs to retire then.