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ungulateman

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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2010, 12:00:47 am »

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It's not an embark so much as seven dwarves having a simultaneous strange mood and going off to build an artifact fortress that menaces with spikes of awesome and hanging rings of death.

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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2010, 12:58:55 am »

They played "Pin the Fortress on the World."
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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2010, 01:15:49 am »

I liken dwarves settling fortresses in random locations to us playing the lottery.

Everyone loses in the end, and those that don't become revered.
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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2010, 01:17:52 am »

Urist: It's 106 miles from the mountainhomes, we got a full wagon of gas, half a pick of cigarettes, it's dark down there, and we're wearing sunglasses.
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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2010, 03:29:12 am »

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It's not an embark so much as seven dwarves having a simultaneous strange mood and going off to build an artifact fortress that menaces with spikes of awesome and hanging rings of death.

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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2010, 06:22:52 pm »

Urist: It's 106 miles from the mountainhomes, we got a full wagon of gas, half a pick of cigarettes, it's dark down there, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Catten: Hit it.
Urist: It's dark in these caves with sunglasses on. But Dwarves ALWAYS wear sunglasses!
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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2010, 06:30:42 pm »

Urist: It's 106 miles from the mountainhomes, we got a full wagon of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark down there, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Catten: Hit it.
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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2010, 04:15:47 pm »

Urist: It's 106 miles from the mountainhomes, we got a full wagon of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark down there, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Catten: Hit it.
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Urist: It's 106 miles from the mountainhomes, we got a wagon full of booze, half a barrel of shrooms, it's dark down there, and we're wearing... these things, they're like bits of glass on wire...
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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #23 on: October 23, 2010, 01:37:38 pm »

I suddenly wanted to write awhile ago, and started a fortress partially because of that, and partially because I really wanted to build my first fortress that's on a river.  The dwarf that led the expedition(I'm writing from his perspective) was bored with life in the mountainhome and was interested in building into a cliff face.  He heard about this area that scouts from his kingdom found.  A great river with massive cliffs around it, and a small stream providing the only access.  He found a few willing recruits, most of whom are easily angered, and set out into the swamp.  It wasn't that far, and it was a single dwarf's motivation that started things.

I also got really lucky, and the wagon landed like 5 or 6 tiles from the cliff so it was like they were looking over it.

So he settled in a mostly inaccessable area in the middle of a swamp simply because it appealed to him personally.
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« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2010, 02:38:59 am »

 - Tell me again, why do we want to settle in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by undead elephants, with two layers of aquifer beneath us ?

 - You remember those slate socks we were mandated to produce ?

 - Oh. Right. Anything better than that !
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« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2010, 06:47:36 am »

They're dwarves, not elves. Why wouldn't they embark in a terrifying jungle filled with skeletal elephant herds?
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« Reply #26 on: October 24, 2010, 11:17:38 am »

I just assume the dwarfs under my command are either colonists sent out by the King to tame some parcel of land, or fortune-seekers looking for a likely place to strike it rich. Not much competition for zombie desert scorpion-infested land, is there?
Yeah, it's a sure bet that nobody's dug and mined there yet because it's got such an inflated terrifying reputation! Bet it's all just old wives tales and legends! I'm with you!

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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #27 on: October 24, 2010, 11:36:29 am »

Uhh. . . Boss. . .
Why are we embarked on a desert next to an ocean?
Urist McExpeditionLeader:Armok told us, that's why!
Whaa?
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Re: Justifying embark sites
« Reply #28 on: October 24, 2010, 01:05:42 pm »

There are 2 possible explainations.

1. The dwarfs were all brithed there by Armok to help keep dwarfs alive.
--OR--
2. They were high.
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« Reply #29 on: October 24, 2010, 01:41:32 pm »

There are 2 possible explainations.
1. The dwarfs were all brithed there by Armok to help keep dwarfs alive.
--OR--
2. They were high.
I think much the same would apply as to why some people are in Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan,
when they could be safe at home.

Naivete about the safety of the enterprise and greed and opportunism combined, and some
with religious delusions.
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