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Iados

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Cursed
« on: March 26, 2011, 03:54:05 pm »

I suspect Armok cursed me. I can't find a way to have FUN, and if i find it, my dwarves are lucky enough that no one gets a single bruise.

List of attempts

- Shooting ballistas in an high traffic corridor --> TOTAL MISS.
- Left bridge open to an ambush --> Soldiers killed them anyway.
- Left bridge open to an ambush, no soldiers --> a dwarf is stuck on other side of the river, safe from goblin and with plenty of water and food. Had to abandon
- Attacked the first caravan that come --> Elves, AKA no guards, and so nobody fighting back my soldiers. Plain boring.
- Attacked by steel scaled dragon --> 50 dwarves died... after a boring half hour real-time. And dragon got killed by toe hit.
-- A FB attacks as soon as the dragon dies --> Other 30 death and first fortress to crumble to death. But naturally i have to wait another hour...
- Duplicated RAWs --> Embarked as humans, every other thing was perfectely normal.
- Genned world with 30 megabeast caves and 40 semimegas --> nothing interesting.
- Caged a dwarf, wanting to sell it to caravan --> damned infections.
- Metallic FB --> Metallic FB's head + Metallic FB's mutilated corpse

After that list of fails... I'm building a temple to Armok, where i'll sacrifice all goblins, elves, and kittens useless dwarves i'll find!
« Last Edit: March 26, 2011, 03:57:30 pm by Iados »
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Angry Bob

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Re: Cursed
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2011, 04:01:09 pm »

Order the dwarf caravan slaughtered. Loyalty cascade ensues, if that still works.
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FUN FOR THE FUN GOD

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Re: Cursed
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2011, 04:19:21 pm »

Well, DIG DEEPER, I'm pretty sure you will find something of interest.
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Re: Cursed
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2011, 05:44:31 pm »

- Left bridge open to an ambush, no soldiers --> a dwarf is stuck on other side of the river, safe from goblin and with plenty of water and food. Had to abandon

That's no reason for abandoning... quite the opposite: It could have been a great start for a new fortress á la hermit-challenge. You want Fun but abandon at the slightest sign of difficulty? This is Dwarf Fortress, not some pansy game that you can actually win :o
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But my good sir, the second death was for Dwarven Science!

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Re: Cursed
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2011, 02:39:38 am »

- Left bridge open to an ambush, no soldiers --> a dwarf is stuck on other side of the river, safe from goblin and with plenty of water and food. Had to abandon.

That's no reason for abandoning... quite the opposite: It could have been a great start for a new fortress á la hermit-challenge. You want Fun but abandon at the slightest sign of difficulty? This is Dwarf Fortress, not some pansy game that you can actually win :o

yeah NOW i know it, but at the time was my first fortress :)
i'll try some of your tips... especially the caravan one.

Well, DIG DEEPER, I'm pretty sure you will find something of interest.
i did it...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

also:
- Flooding the fortress by redirecting a river --> ALL WATER turned into mist by falling down the first stairs.

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Re: Cursed
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2011, 03:01:37 am »

i did it...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

HFS does that sometimes. Send out your dwarves to explore until you have all of HFS revealed, you should find your Fun eventually.
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