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Author Topic: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?  (Read 10114 times)

Asin

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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #45 on: January 20, 2017, 06:52:25 pm »

Apparently we produce 12 million tons of coal.

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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #46 on: January 20, 2017, 06:58:38 pm »

Good enough for a few steel battle axes!  Gotta say it is an ideal dwarfy fortress area.  Now, the elves, humans, and goblins?

I'll take the easy one...  Californian = elf.  Not all, but some... :-\
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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #47 on: January 20, 2017, 07:05:15 pm »

Also, we have snowbirds.
(DF Translation: Temporary migrants who stay from Limestone to Obsidian (though mostly just for the winter months) and leave.)

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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #48 on: January 21, 2017, 08:37:58 am »

Goblins come in the winter months, but I find it hard to see snow birds as goblins...

That said, I feel terrible writing this but it is SOOO obvious and my fort is plagued by them.

Snow birds = old buzzards
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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #49 on: January 21, 2017, 08:45:11 am »

I say about the elves, humans, and goblins of the southwest...

Nilbert, I agree some Californians are dirty elves.

Goblins... People from Los Vegas? (Not sure if goblins would be in Arizona...)

Humans, I think Colorado?

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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #50 on: January 22, 2017, 07:47:33 am »

Las Vegas = goblins...  I can go with that.

Can't agree with humans in Colorado.  My brother lives there.  He is definitely and elf, probably an elf lord or something knowing him.  (BTW, he must have been adopted as I have no elf tendencies myself :) )
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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #51 on: January 22, 2017, 08:57:18 am »

Somewhere in a desert, say Libya, is an unconspicuous hole in the ground... and only if you keep going down, wondering about the wet walls (are we below the big aquifer yet?), you will reach the thriving dwarven fortress powered by geothermal energy building computers with water and magma and minecarts and gearboxes biding their time and drinking dwarven ale until the surface is truly ruined. Then they will come forth shotgunning green glass toys against their enemies...

If not desert then somewhere in Greenland or Antarctica.

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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #52 on: January 22, 2017, 09:05:15 am »

Las Vegas = goblins...  I can go with that.

Can't agree with humans in Colorado.  My brother lives there.  He is definitely and elf, probably an elf lord or something knowing him.  (BTW, he must have been adopted as I have no elf tendencies myself :) )

Then again, weed is legal in Colorado...
I imagine the elves would ingest berries with the properties of weed...
Colorado is elf territory.
Humans...
I don't know.
Kobolds would be throughout in the US's caves...

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« Reply #53 on: January 22, 2017, 11:23:15 am »

Then again, weed is legal in Colorado...
I imagine the elves would ingest berries with the properties of weed...
Colorado is elf territory.

Weed as an ingredient would definitely make the dankest roasts.
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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #54 on: January 22, 2017, 11:26:31 am »

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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #55 on: January 23, 2017, 04:41:27 pm »

Las Vegas = goblins...  I can go with that.

Okay, if that's the case, then go to the Gold Coast in Australia for goblins, and there might be a goblin presence near those gold-bearing hills in northern Victoria as well.
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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #56 on: January 24, 2017, 05:15:07 am »

Goblins, being needless, can live anywhere.  In practice, this means they thive anywhere that their enemies (all other sapient life) has trouble.  Deserts, swamps, and glaciers are their main locations.

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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #57 on: January 26, 2017, 02:44:51 pm »

Must suck to live in a glacier.

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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #58 on: January 30, 2017, 12:22:36 am »

I used to live in Michigan.
Now I live in Arizona.

Rattlesnakes, scorpions, black widows, sheesh.

The high desert is beautiful, albeit a bit harsh. I live a few hundred miles to your east in the mountains of new Mexico.
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Re: Where on Earth would a fortress thrive?
« Reply #59 on: January 30, 2017, 07:17:28 am »

New Mexico, eh?
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