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Bloodline game - Dwarf Fortress - I have pulled my proverbial finger out

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Fun things?
    Deathly fun things?

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    OH GOD I FOUND OUT WHAT THOSE LEVERS DO

    this is a great post.

    A++ would read again

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Hey red, has your busy period calmed down yet?
    Eg; are you able to play soon and should I slot you in next or push you back down the order if you're still interested but unable to play so soon.

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    naw dude, i'm back, into the swing of grad school, 9 hours this summer.

    I'm pretty much shot for a while :(

    thanks much for askin, but i'm probably useless to this particular bloodlines game

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    No worries, updating the op to have other people's play btw.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Uhm... I think I may have doomed us all.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Is that so?
    We'll see about that...

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Two months from spring. I'll write up most of it tomorrow then try tackle the last bit and see if I cant salvage the situation.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    But for now, a preview of the horrors to come.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2008
    mmmmmmmmm

    puppy

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
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    Good god, what have you done?

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Nooooo! That was my favourite toe!

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Yes.
    Yes
    Yes

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Synth's Year of Terror, Part I

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    Well, it's a start.

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    Bleargh, we're definitely going to have to do some remodelling here.

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    At least the cellar's full of food.

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    To get started, I order the construction of a siege engine yard and reorganize the workshops.

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    Meanwhile the weaponsmith goes bugfuck crazy.

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    Remodelling starts in earnest...

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    Ohoho!

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    To celebrate, I order the rest of the platinum dug out and forged into a giant statue in my own

    likeness.

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    Meanwhile elves come by to trade...

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    And notice that every single tree has been marked for death to support our smelters.

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    We take all their goods in exchange for a single goblin sock.

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    In the meantime a goblin thief fails at stealth and learns what amputation is.

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    Ral's still crazy.


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    An ambush! C

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    The goblins slaughter the woodcutters

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    And the dwarves respond by sending out armed conscripts.

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    Eat that gobbos!

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    Whooops!

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    Okay that could have gone better.

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    It looks like there's 3 goblins on one dwarf there, but it's really three dwarves stacked onto one

    square forming a superdwarf or something.

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    See?

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    Anyway it looks like we've lost a few to the goblin attack. No one important anyway.

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    Migrants arrive, led by a 'dungeon master'. I think that's all he's wearing.

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    In the aftermath of the bloody goblin raid, we celebrate our survival...

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    ...by throwing a goblin off the guard tower. He was later eaten by the wardogs. Hooray!

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Get some get some, maim stuff maim stuff!

    Would anyone like to take my go for me next?
    I'm fairly busy for the next week with my exams so I'm unable to really sit down and play for justice.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    SUMMER 1054

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    In the wake of the victory over the goblins, we began construction on a war memorial...

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    Flipping off the entire world.

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    Elsewhere...
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    "I must have shells!"
    "Put the hammer down and we can talk about this!"
    "I must have logs!"
    "Put the hammer down!"
    "I must have...!"
    "OPEN FIRE!"

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    ---

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    A waterwheel has been constructed and a mill runs off inside the fortress walls, enabling us to grind wheat into flour and sweet pods into sugar.

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    And everyone continues to ignore Ral in death as in life.

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    The stink gets a bit much and a waste disposal pit is designated. Hope the troglodytes and ratmen below dont mind being showered with our rubbish and corpses.

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    And the woodcutters are again fucked as more goblins appear to ambush them.

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    Run for it little dwarf!

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    Human traders made a poor decision in timing their visits.

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    More conscripts fight off the invasion...

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    ...and (most) of the human traders survive to bring us sweet, sweet booze.

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    And work starts on armouring up our newest recruits.

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    AUTUMN 1054

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    Oh yeah, remember those levers Chico was fiddling with?

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    Our entire basement is flooded. This went unnoticed until water started to flood the dining area.

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    Unable to work out which lever did what, Mistem Manorsaved was dispatched to dig a drainage tunnel.

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    Which worked, shooting all the accumulated water into the chasm.

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    His last wish was that he'd taken swimming lessons.

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    A memorial coffin was placed for him in the now soggy crypts.

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    Meanwhile about 6 cats have adopted ChicoBlue, making him the resident crazy cat person. In order to avoid being smothered in animal dung, a mass slaughter has been ordered.

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    WINTER 1054

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    The platinum vein has been exhausted, so we now looked up along the chasm, spotting rich seams of gold ore.

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    The trip itself proved incredibly profitable, as gems and other valuable metals practically fell out of the mine walls. None of that compared to what we found next...

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Yesssss
    I have never actually found Adamantine, probably because I build with small fortress plots and miss it.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    In retrospect, maybe we should have been a bit more careful.

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    We celebrated the find and constructed new workshops to harvest the precious metal.

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    Our elation was extremely short lived. Artreus broke through the adamantine seam and found himself in a strange room.

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    It was filled with ash and screams.

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    And then he came face to face with the creatures that lived there.

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    ChicoBlue watches Artreus get burned to a crisp and decides very wisely to get the hell out of there.

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    Unfortunately he couldnt keep running forever.

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    The creatures quickly escaped through the chasm and soon they were everywhere.
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    In the forests.

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    The drains.
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    Burning everything.

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    Wrecking everything.

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    One even flew up through the ditches into the dining room

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    The guards were no match for fireballs.

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    Hoping to contain them, walls were hastily erected, sealing ourselves in.

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    Most of us anyway. Those caught outside were quickly killed.

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    More found their way into the crypts and started destroying the coffins.

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    Others flew in the sky and rained fire down upon the exposed woodcutters.

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    The fight was going really, really badly.

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    Most of the external fort was on fire, but with all entrances sealed off and some farmable areas remaining, we could possibly hold out until reinforcements arrived.

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    Late Winter 1054.

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    Does someone smell smoke?

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    Oh god, where's all that smoke coming from?!

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    Ah, that explains it. All our food is now a gigantic raging inferno. WE'RE DOOMED.

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    Apparently there was one exit that we didnt catch. A tiny passage leading to the Donghold. And the fire demons made their way through it. Awesome.

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    Rather than face the demons, I walled myself in and hoped that someone would eventually come, and to record all this horror on the walls of my cave.

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    Pity that Tulon's going to have to look out for himself.

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    It's now Spring 1055. Have a nice day!

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Good show Synth lol.
    I think we can however call it now we've dropped to two dwarves, who are sealed in some small space by themselves :)
    By the wall awesome building.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Goddamn.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    That was by far the most entertaining year. Also mad props on the dongercavern

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Here is the save file if anyone wants to take a look. Not that there's much left. Everything is on fire and burning. You could go look at the engravings, which are mostly demons cackling and dwarves burning.

    I was really surprised to actually find adamantine.

    I was even more surprised to break into the demon pits right away. Of course, with the multiple entry points the demon problem quickly got out of control. I thought I sealed off the survivors well enough that we'd be able to continue indefinitely. Unfortunately I did not account for the escape hatch and was away making coffee while the demons flooded in. All in all, a pretty fun run. D:

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I hope someone deposits my body in the Royal Mausoleum that I had prepared for myself.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    There isnt even a body left, just some ashes.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I feel like doing this again already, but repeatedly through a small circle with no dongs, but that will never happen because I'll hide a dong and not make it obvious at all.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I think Artreus starting off with a HUGE fort at the end of his year also just pushed everyone to make even more spectacular constructs to outdo him (and do something about the horrible boxiness).

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    My current fort is coming along pretty well. I'm not dropping pics yet though, because i just have the outline wall, with moat, and the underground parts, and a little gatehouse type thing.
    It is going to be pretty cool if i finish it though, I think for each z level it requires something like 1,300 units of stone though, which is a lot.
    Basically have to mine out a block the size of it for every level I want to build, using a legendary miner of course.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So I guess someone starts up the next fort so the list can continue? :v

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    may i suggest that you use a seed from the wiki? if you do that, you can guarantee certain resources. Or not, either way.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Shhhhhh I have a plan guys. I just need to find a keyboard with a numpad.
    Also: Do the goblin invasions ever get so powerful that they totally fuck your fort up? or can a fort with the right defences pretty much hold them forever with no trouble.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Pretty much. The only time goblins will do serious damage is if they bring missile weapons along.

    The deadliest menaces to your forts are demons and colossuses.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    What is up with human sieges?
    I hear they happened, but something something they don't.
    They really should make wheelable siege, and let gobbo's use it, oh and damage to constructions.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    As far as I know, humans dont seige in the current version.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    This has been a Dwarf Fortress. Tune in next time, when-

    Now I have to read the rest of this thread, a glorious death!

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  • The One Dark KnightThe One Dark Knight Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Damn it synthetic, didn't even get to my turn <3


    Still good going with the uh, demons and all.

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm still in this if it ever gets to my turn

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Apparently someone didnt read the last page. D:

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I think Artreus starting off with a HUGE fort at the end of his year also just pushed everyone to make even more spectacular constructs to outdo him (and do something about the horrible boxiness).

    I honestly dont know how to build any other way. D:

    Same with the Sims, I just suck at aesthetics. (actually in the sims I can make things look pretty, but completely non-functional.)
    advice would be cool

    also a magnificent end

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  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Haha, thats great. The last dwarf sealed in his own room, carving scenes of death and demons until his air runs out.

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Well I mean if we begin a new fortress or try to reclaim the smoldering remains of our demon-infested donghold

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