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The damp night caused the rocks to become slippery and their clothes to cling to their skins, but the two figures huddling against the elements were determined to escape the pursuers by morning. It was only along the cliffs of their friends house that they could escape the law, who had snuck up on the house in the dead of night.
 There had been a robbery. The only evidence that was found on the scene was a coat that was known to belong to NewMars. Fortunately, due to his friends he was able to receive word of this event before the cops were able to find him. He knew he didn't do it, but he had no alibi. There was nothing holding him from being accountable. He had to flee.
 The barking of dogs signaled the couple on the cliffs that they had not yet escaped. NewMars took a bag from his companion to ease her load and tried to hurry her along. The waves of the sea beneath them saturated them and weighed them down, making the course increasingly difficult. If they were caught he would be hanged. Their only chance was to escape together.
 Now the woman could vouch for him, but NewMars would not let her. They had spent the night in their passion, and because of that he would not let her alibi be used. For you see, Reasonableman was NewMarses best friend. And the womans husband.
 After hours that seemed like days, one slip away from death after another and nothing but the drone of hounds growing as loud as the sea they finally stumbled upon a cave. It was half-submerged and the entrance would fill and empty with the small tides, a danger larger than that of the law following them. But they could not continue, so they braved the cave.
 Wracked with cold and soaked through, they would surely die. But at least this way they would die wrapped in eachother, huddling for warmpth as the seas lapped at them.
 Together NewMars and Little defied those that wished to drive them apart.

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 BLEAUGH

 I... I need to take a shower. I also take no responsibility for this. I have shows my ability to that which issued this dare, and now I shall be on my way. I hope the forum as a whole can ignore this topic and leave it to die in the pits of whatever damnation it belongs.

 But yeah, intentionally crappy forum romance fictions. Share yours.

 Edit: Edited for obnoxiousness.

 Alright folks! Time to play "Watch what tags Duke did not add/remove to make these work!"

 So I'm making a new creature I want to adventure with. I want it to have weapons, armor and skills. So, here is the creature and eneity-standard files for you to embarass me with.


 Also, these guys go everywhere. I just want them to appear near rivers and swamps and such. I figure it best to use human towns for this, but what stops me from using the Cave Detailed site on non-mountains? Or towers in plains?

 Alright, so we know one of the greatest resource drains in DF is pathfinding. The method used simply floods the map, looking for a path to where one's job is. With the advent of burrows in the next version, many dwarves will basically be restricted to where they work, where they live and where they eat/drink. My suggestion is that if a job is located in the same burrow as the dwarf to take it, the pathfinding flood will not leave the burrow zone.

 Now what if a job is outside the burrow? Then the system makes a simple check if the job is inside the burrow or not, and make the pathfinding adjustment then. What if one needs to travel outside the burrow to reach the job, such as a burrow split in half by a wall? Then if the pathfinding fails then it will start look outside the burrow for a path.

 Basically, if one has a large forge burrow with various entrances to different parts of the fortress, dwarves will not look down these paths for a job the game knows is inside the burrow, and not down these halls.

 Alright, so after working a while on Healedabby it came time for a reclaim. When I did, I noticed with glee that the tombs I sealed were the same black space as unmined rock. So I set up a band of grave-robbers for discovering the tomb.

 Unfortunately, after removing the offending walls I noticed that the black space did not go away. Infact, designating it for mining resulted in the walls inside being designated for deconstruction, and the humans spamming messages about how they could not find a path.

 I'll try to provide a screenshot, but there is a Titan there and reclaim parties are short-lived. Damn perfectly agile titan...

 Still, should be easy enough to test. Make a room with a construction in it and seal it off completely with walls. Then reclaim and try to enter the black space inside.

 Alright, so I have noticed a lot of us look for architectural inspirations from all around us, because most of us make boring fortresses and we want megaprojects. So thanks to Stumbleupon, I managed to find a site for RPG floorplans.

 Linky

 So yes, just sharing this resource. Share any links to sites that have inspirations for fortresses. I mean things that will help us plan, not just purdy architecture.

 Alright, so I am making a castle with Humans that is intended to look like something somebody would make, and not just a square with a few towers around it. So far it has been what, thirteen years now? Most things I want accomplished are somewhat finished, but there are a few projects I am somewhat bummed out about. Where the Church and Keep were fun to make, these things are growing more and more dreaded in my mind for no real reason.

 So, I have a good 30x21 tile space to make a grand hall for the population to dine in. I might allow 35x21, but I want a lake inside the castle walls and what better entrance to a grand hall than over a lake? I have no ideas for what to do with this. That is where you guys come in. Could somebody come up with plans for a grand hall that will be constructed in such a space, and will only have a maximum of 3 z-levels of livable space?

 Then there are the dungeons. I dunno if I even want to make them, but I know a proper castle needs them. A design for this(any size, really. Just nothing larger than 100x100 as I doubt humans could make something that large underground) would be grand.

 Then there is the other lake outside the fortress entrance, with the now-sealed mines underneath the lakebed that was once the entrance to the mine. Water appears to fill the moats to an extent, but once it reaches the lake it just spreads out and dissipates. I need to devise a system of making water fill the lake without anything particularly large or obstructing the landscape. This is a human castle, not a dwarven pumping project.

 That is all. You shall hear more of Healedabby once I get the lake filled and the grand hall finished.

 Edit:
 3Dwarf pictures! There are about ten of them, so bear with me here.
  The front gate. Didn't know what angle to do this in, but I learned two things from this shot: Bridges mess everything under them up and fortifications/windows don't show correctly. Still, you get an idea.
  Another angle of the front gate. If the ramps only led into the walls, it would look perfect.
  The great hall! again, with windows missing this doesn't look right. Whatever. I like how it looks rounded. I might take away the roof spikes though.
  Inside the Great Hall.
  I might consider extending the moat for this barracks tower. Also, the internal garden looks awesome in 3Dwarf.
  Basement, where humans learn to swim and their armor is stored.
  The Manor. I like how the courtyards and nobility housing turned out.
  Magicians tower. I might want to make it taller next time I make a tower.
  The church, with a proper roof. Due to the constraints of 3Dwarf and the measurements of the walls, it looks terrible inside. Whatever again.
  The Lake, because I can.

 Interesting little thing. Everything is procedurally generated, keeping the size of this game small. Basically, you hot into wither a rocket boat, gun boat or bomber and try to blow op the opponents base. Seems a little bland now, but mind you with some friends and lots of players this could be frantic.

 Website

 Would be interesting to see some B12 players on there.