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[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

The Necromancer's Tower

Where we take dead succession fortresses and bring them back to life!



So, have you ever found a neat story on Bay12, but had one complaint: it never ended?  The Necromancer's Tower reanimates those dead threads to give them a neat ending!  Feel free to join, suggest fortresses, or help sum up threads to give us an idea of the previous story.

FAQ:

So should I just end one of these quickly so that it gets a neat ending?

No!  As with most succession fortresses, don't try to kill it just to end it early (because we know there's always another necromancer), but it's fine if !!FUN!! comes if its own accord.

Do I seriously have to read that pages-long backstory?

Nope!  Not even all normal succession fortresses require that.  However, it is recommended to check out the summary (if one exists).

Fortresses:

These will be in their own thread, to avoid cluttering this main thread.  This thread here is for suggesting fortresses, joining the project as a whole, posting summaries, and general discussion.

Uristildom - Daggerfaints

Current Player: Megahelmet

Backstory

Spoiler: summary (click to show/hide)

Uristildom: Haunted Freezing Aquifer Tundra (v0.31.25)

Founded by the Whiskered Fortifications to "secure [their] life and prosperity."

First Year:

Spring: The dwarves arrive.  Digging down, they find an aquifer just one level beneath the surface.  Only a small area in which to farm and live.  They try to dig a moat, but just make an ice ring around the small fort.  The militia trains on rabbits, gets meat and bones.

Summer: Zombies come, are smashed by militia.  Bone bolts produced in bulk.  Migrants arrive.  Komra, a miner, is encased in ice while attempting to pierce the aquifer.  Aquifer breaching team hits stone, fort starts using it.

Autumn: Two more migrants arrive.  Aquifer breaching team hits stone layer.  However, nine levels beneath the surface, they find caverns flowing with water from the aquiferous walls (conglomerate).  Alcohol begins to run out.  Spoony (miner) gets stuck in the passageway between 1st and 2nd caverns (think Reclamation of Battlefailed).  Another dwarf gets stuck, then another.  And a goose, and a dead recruit.  And the bookkeeper goes down and gets hurt.

Winter: Running out of alcohol.  A portion of the caverns reclaimed and fortress finally gets access to dry stone.

Second year to come soon!

Ilrom Ziril - The Peak of Fire

Spoiler: summary (click to show/hide)

to come soon...

Spoiler: old op (click to show/hide)

So, hey, guys!  I've just got an idea: who would like to do a sort of thing where we found old succession fortresses (w/ save) and then either necro'd them or made a new thread?

[Gwolfski]

count me in.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Sure thing!  Do you have any preferences for which one we choose at first?  I was thinking perhaps Uristildom, "Daggerfaints," if nobody else has a good one.

EDIT: How do you like the new OP?  Since I'm seeing some (read: any) interest, I put at least a bit of effort into it.  Also, the details: think they're good?  In case you haven't noticed, most of my posts consist of questions.

EDIT: I'm taking the first turn of Daggerfaints.  You want the second?

[Gwolfski]

yes please.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Uristildom summary updated.

[TheFlame52]

not bad

[megahelmet]

This is great idea! Count me in!

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

YEESSS!!!  People like it people like it people like it -

So megahelmet (or anyone who wants to join), do you want to do Uristildom or Ilrom Ziril?  Uristildom's the one that's going right now, it's a frozen evil area in v0.31.25.  No evil weather because of that, nor is there reanimation.  Just plenty of zombies and skeletons.

Or Ilrom Ziril.  It was just recently stopped, and the author planned on it becoming a succession fortress anyway.  I think I'll be able to set it up today or tomorrow.  It's a great story.  The main focus is on the storytelling.  For that reason, I will ask that anybody playing at least skim over the original story.  It's about a group of dwarves standing against necromancers and goblins as the last dwarven fortress, or one of the last.  Seems standard, but according to the backstory, the initial seven were slaves being brought somewhere else when they were inspired by Armok to fight against the wagonmaster and the guards and break free.  Heading to the volcano, they used the small amounts of food, drink, and tools to found a fortress for Armok and dwarf.  It is in DF2014.

[megahelmet]

A blast to the past, eh? Put me down for Uristildom.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Okay.  The save's over at the Uristildom thread, which you can get to by clicking "Uristildom - Daggerfaints" in the topic post.

[Magnus]

Ilrom Ziril, which was once under siege by necromancers, has now been saved by one. There is beauty in that I think.

Top stuff you've written. I had no idea how to continue with the story, and didn't want to get into yet another epic megapost about how they capture the dragon. I love how that arc just went from a cliffhanger to this after-the-fact event that nobody ever bothers explaining, it's really a cool move.

I'll update the front page and credit you as the new helmsdwarf.