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Author Topic: Smallhands - nearly 40 years and still tiny!  (Read 402690 times)

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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1380 on: December 27, 2021, 02:20:16 pm »

just checking. Kingzultan's death after all was overlooked
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1381 on: December 28, 2021, 04:00:50 am »

I died again, well shit.
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1382 on: December 28, 2021, 05:49:34 am »

After the immense massacre that just happened, Flesh was omnipresent in SmallHands...



The meat piles were just too many.
Our 30 dwarves would not be able to recycle all of the tissues before rot would set in.
I was on a tightly timed schedule.

I had to prioritize who and what I would ressurect.



Surprisingly, only 5 dwarves, of lesser importance, fell during the attack.
Id, Onget, Urvad, Astesh and 'Reg' (who actually died of his wounds later in the hospital) were the only casualties.

Well, obviously, I had to reward the warriors of their courage. And so I did :



I brought their bodies back to life !
I am so proud of my past experimentations !
I now know a lot about ressurection, and (thanks to me) the warriors were quickly brought back to a satisfactory life-form.


You do not die so easily in SmallHands...




After several days of work, the dwarves finally brought me the bodies of some of the attackers.
I successfully conducted yet another ressurection process :



I placed these beautiful Specimens in the rooms near the Troghoulytes


I did not know it at the time, but these Trolls would be the last ghouls I would produce before SmallHands' inhabitants would banish me...



Because you see, according to the dwarves, my activities this year were not that "exemplary"...

I disrupted graves.
I ressurected their fallen ennemies.
I experimented with dead tissues, and dissected body parts.
Some say I enthralled Id, Onget, Urvad, Astesh and 'Reg', whose new lives were (and I quote) : "not quite what they were before"
And it is true that the fortress was filled with Miasma and that bodies parts could be seen in every room.

Indeed.
I must admit I was not very high in the dwarves' hearts...

But I believe that this ...



... was the tipping point after which they really started to openly hate me.



My work was about to be complete.
I had made so much progress. I had come up with a variation in the ressurection process that I needed to test.
I was about to make the breakthrough I longed for.
All I needed was access to some extra-freshly-killed dwarves

When I saw the dwarven caravan pilling up in the room near my water-drowning-machine, I just knew the time had come to experiment again !



I closed the access doors to the Depot. I pulled the lever.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
In the merchants' lungs,
the water flew.



But, at my utter disconted, I would not be given the chance to gather the promising bodies.
This was the last straw for the dwarves.

Despite all my great work ! Despite all the progress we made together !
I got banished forthwith of SmallHands...

The militia's forlorn Ghouls drew their weapons.
They had ME, THEIR CREATOR as their target !!!
I was "politely asked to leave".

I ran for the hills.
Never to see this place again.



What would happen to me now ? I do not yet know...
I am leaving this wonderful place with a bitter taste in my mouth.

The only testimony of my reign in SmallHands would be the Ghouls Chambers, whose denizen will inhabit forever...



I wish I could have filled the remaining empty rooms. But my presence is no longer allowed here.
If given more time and bodies, I would have made the discovery I anticipated.

If only the dwarves were less obtuse...


...


Time to go now !
Farewell, and praise the Ghouls !






OOC :

-> Ahah !! :D


-> @Recon : you prooved priceless in the battle against the gobos :


-> This is our unit list at the end of the year :
Spoiler: Units (click to show/hide)
==> We now control 9 citizen Ghouls. And we have 36 ghouls pets, 27 of which are Troghoulytes.
This is a good improvement from the mere 2 we had at the start of the year !


-> None of the drowned merchants could ressurect AT ALL (not even in zombie form)
The outpost liaison I could only get a Zombie, no Ghouls (might be by lack of luck)

-> I deconstructed the Trade Depot to fix some broken merchants.
I assigned it for reconstruction, but the dwarf has to move every single item out of the way first.
At the rate he's going, it could take months to do... The Trade Depot is henceforth not built yet.

-> We have 2 unhappy dwarves :
   - 'FEVERED armorsmith'. A level 19 armor guy. Is stumbling obliviously, and is probably doomed. But I assigned him armorsmithing duties.
   - 'Malfoy'. StressLevel is at 20,500. I assigned him to produce bone bolts. Maybe he can be saved.

I died again, well shit.
-> No, you did not. You are a lvl 18 Farmer. Safe and alive (though you have Fever).

-> I have fixed the Tall Bar's windows and windmills problems

-> The military probably needs a little revamp

-> The GooHive is still filled with corpses. I locked the doors and bridges.

-> Which reminds me, the GooHive is utter garbage for defense against attackers.
At the very least, you should make all of the Hive crushing bridges (not only the end).
We could also add a bridge at the ending side of the Hive (right now, it's just doors, so Trolls can enter the fortress)

-> Praise the Ghouls.


HERE IS THE SAVE :

EDIT : IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS NO THE CORRECT SAVE.
I'm LOOKING FOR IT.......

« Last Edit: December 28, 2021, 07:18:45 am by Spriggans »
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1383 on: December 28, 2021, 06:29:32 am »

i daresay there's at least something in your turn worty of the wiki! well done spriggans, entertaining read and an elven disposal tool as well should their wears be unsatisfactory

it seems appropriate our cloud of bees died after injury. must have gotten stuck in some gobbos

and did recon just get a second title? what did she need when she had the tavern keeper as her epiphet
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1384 on: December 28, 2021, 07:22:10 am »

It first looks like I screwed up with the save files :'(

The only save from after my year I can find is a retired one :
https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=15798

I think I fu**d up with my backups because I can only find a Spring backup. Which is devoid of any interresting progress...

I don't have a playable version of Granite 183 :(

If I can't find a Fortress version of 183 of Spring, I guess it's up to us to decide what to do :
- Etheir unretire the 183 save : But we loose the ghouls pets, we have fucked-up military, assignements, levers....
- Either reroll year 182 and pretend my reign did not happen.

I'm still searching, but I really doubt I'll find a stable 183 year.

:'(

EDIT : Nope !
I've only found a working backup from 04/182 - right after ghoulifying the were-pig.
So I guess, you guys decide what to do ! Take the save from 04/182, unretire, or take it from 01/182

I'm very sorry because that was a fun year.
« Last Edit: December 28, 2021, 08:17:30 am by Spriggans »
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1385 on: December 28, 2021, 08:32:40 am »

if we unretire, we'll lose all those lovely glitches D:
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1386 on: December 28, 2021, 06:27:17 pm »

I'll unretire and check it out sometime today. My biggest concern would be an influx of merchants and the like - or an outflux of important dwarves.

I wouldn't expect you to recreate your turn, Spriggans - worst case scenario, any ideas what to do with the 04/182 save?

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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1387 on: December 28, 2021, 09:06:09 pm »

Hmm... All the necromancers escaped - all the ghouls are gone (except the citizen ghouls) and our Ghoul Werepig is just...walking around the fortress.

It also seems many of our artifacts are missing - though some might reappear after some time. I've had this happen before. The slabs seem to be totally gone, though.

The good news: no merchants arrived. Our population is 42, plus...jesus 150 animals?
« Last Edit: December 28, 2021, 09:10:27 pm by delphonso »
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1388 on: December 28, 2021, 09:07:25 pm »

praise the ghouls

well... I mean, I hate to say it but replaying your turn, even if things go differently, might be the best option... ah it's tough because there is so much work goes into these posts.

whatever happens, that sucks.
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1389 on: December 29, 2021, 03:08:10 am »

Replaying part of the turn sounds like the best way to keep our fort the way it is.
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1390 on: December 29, 2021, 03:46:05 am »

I don't have remotely any time nor motivation to replay the turn right now.
Lot of effort went into roleplaying this, and just letting the year roll would be weird.

Here is the save at  182-04-02, in case someone wants a 8 months turn.
Otherwize, just reroll the year. I'm okay with it.

If you decide to play on 02/04/182, this is what I have done so far :
- got a were-pig-ghoul
- fixed the Tall Bar mechanisms (I think... might still be WIP)
- got 2 ospreymen ghouls
- wood-work area done
- some QOL fixes

have not done :
- turned our militia ghoulish
- got no troghoulytes
- have not killed Pelese
- got no siege. So morale is probably higher.
- the merchants still love us


SAVE AT APRIL


Whatever happens, I'm okay with ! On a roleplay standpoint, it could all have been some sort of nightmare.
GLHF for the next guys !
« Last Edit: December 29, 2021, 03:53:39 am by Spriggans »
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1391 on: December 29, 2021, 04:01:21 am »

Totally reasonable, Spriggans. I'd take up the reigns to somewhat recreate the turn, but there's no way I could find the time. fatcat is in a reserve position as well. You up for a turn? Anyone else up for a turn?
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1392 on: December 29, 2021, 06:33:18 am »

if nobody else comes forward before new year I'll do an 8 monther. The tavern keeper will repair the drinking tower, goblins be damned

after all, how hard is it to recreate a font of misery and death in a place like this  :D
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1393 on: December 29, 2021, 12:39:40 pm »

I'm not quite up to trying to recreate that massive of a ghoulification. I've only dabbled in the operation of resurrection chambers.
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Re: Smallhands - from cowering to echidnas to training grizzlies
« Reply #1394 on: December 29, 2021, 04:51:43 pm »

No need to recreate it - I think it takes a certain type of madness to play like Spriggans does anyway.
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