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Author Topic: What's Below the HFS?  (Read 19538 times)

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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2011, 04:22:14 pm »

The real threat is ... 'the nothing' 'the nasty' from the neverending story 3.

FTFY.
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2011, 04:27:55 pm »

The real threat is ... 'the nothing' 'the nasty' from the neverending story 3.

FTFY.

Armok no.
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2011, 04:37:30 pm »

Galena. That's what is under it all. Galena.
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2011, 05:22:21 pm »

Galena. That's what is under it all. Galena.
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A cave full of unkillable nobles who love slade items?
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2011, 05:33:00 pm »

It truly is Hell. *shiver*

I sincerely hope that galena reference was in relation to 2D HFS...

That being said, it could be worse.  They could have a justice system consisting solely of a legendary hammer lord captain of the guard equipped with an artifact lead warhammer.
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2011, 05:34:08 pm »

The Beard of the World. A great beard of adamantine thread, so vast that it is impossible to travel from root to tip of a single hair. Some have theorised that this beard, like all beards, is sentient, and may even be Armok himself.
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2011, 05:35:01 pm »

It truly is Hell. *shiver*

I sincerely hope that galena reference was in relation to 2D HFS...

That being said, it could be worse.  They could have a justice system consisting solely of a legendary hammer lord captain of the guard equipped with an artifact lead warhammer.
He's also everybody's best friend, so killing him off isn't an option.

Edit: Well, I mean it is. But it will lead to a tantrum spiral.
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2011, 05:40:19 pm »

It truly is Hell. *shiver*

I sincerely hope that galena reference was in relation to 2D HFS...

That being said, it could be worse.  They could have a justice system consisting solely of a legendary hammer lord captain of the guard equipped with an artifact lead warhammer.
Or better yet, a slade warhammer!

It'd be fitting, it being Hell and all.

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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #25 on: May 18, 2011, 05:41:06 pm »

You're all wrong. The captain is a slade colossus.
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2011, 05:51:49 pm »

I got it.  Below HFS is the remains of the other worlds you've generated.  After you moved on, they were overrun by demons, who killed everyone and covered everything in slade.  Then, over a very long period of time, the new world developed on top of the slade.
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #27 on: May 18, 2011, 05:53:36 pm »

The DF world is composed of millions upon millions of isolated, self-contained worlds. You do not generate them, you merely try to find a world that is similar to the description that is input. They all exist within the void. These worlds vary greatly in size, but are all flat. The sky and sides of each world are surrounded by inpenetrable, but solid barriers. However, the bottom is made of ultra dense slade to create gravity. However, sometimes this slade has holes in it called "eerie pits", which lead into the void. Nothing can exist within the void, so it simply disappears. Another way to enter the void is to compress matter, a process most commonly referred to as "atom smashing" by the mortals. The DF world exists in a transient state between 2D and 3D, but the void is 3D. Compressing matter in such a way means it can no longer fit in the 2.5D world, and therefor, gets forced into the 3D void, in which it is obliterated. However, a number of methods were devised to store an infinite amount of 2.5D objects in a single "tile" of space, without introducing them to the void. By careful placement, objects can be lined up infinitely so that none of their particles actually take up the same point in space. The mortals call this "quantum stockpiling" because they are carefully lining up the individual subatomic particles of objects. A similar effect can be achieved with living creatures, but because they tend to move, it takes more time to line them up properly, and therefor they enter the "tile" more slowly as more living things try to occupy the same space.

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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #28 on: May 18, 2011, 05:55:14 pm »

And where does magma fit in?
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Re: What's Below the HFS?
« Reply #29 on: May 18, 2011, 06:02:31 pm »

Whispers. All you may find are whispers.

There was once a man who went down there and survived. Legend has it that he partitioned off a section of hell, and began digging. He founded a fortress there, and the Dwarven economy was booming. Under the slade was adamantine in spades, and past the adamantine a strange, weightless material. He commented that there was no gravity beneath it, only the material. The last convoy sent back told of new, unsound riches in the great abyss. One find that would make the dwarven kingdom the strongest of all.

No one knows what happened next. When the traders returned, there was no sign of inhabitation. No signs of mining, no nothing. There was only a wagon, with the corpse of the man that dug too deep.

There is only rumor and here say as to what happened. Most believe that he found an abomination so horrible that the mythic toad himself reset the area.

Whispers. All you find are whispers.
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