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Slowtaken

A Suika Fortress Succession Game

What's Suika Fortress?
It's a mod that basically turns Dwarf Fortress into one big Touhou fangame. Touhou is a Japanese bullet hell series where all the tanks and gunturrets are replaced by girls, typically based off of Japanese mythology. For some reason, it's spawned thousands of fanworks and remains highly popular. The mod features yukkuri, which are hard to explain but are basically a meme involving species of disfigured character heads that hop around and are filled with various foodstuffs (or NUCLEAR WASTE as the case may be). Confused yet? Well, the mod itself plays mostly like Dwarf Fortress so you can refer to the thread to see what's replaced by what.

Succession Rules
This is a succession game. This forum is full of them, but here's how they work:

• One person plays on a save file for a pre-set period of time, usually an in-game year.
• Once the year is done, they zip it up and upload it for the next player to play. Images and narration are highly encouraged - this is about making a story, not just playing the game. To upload pictures, use a site like tinypic, and save them in .png format - otherwise tinypic will convert them to artifacted jpegs and we don't want that!
• Repeat ad infinitum.

Get it? All right, here's our rules:

• Put your name in the thread to be put on the succession list.
• Wait until your turn rolls around.
• You have 48 hours to claim your turn before we move onto the next person on the list.
• If you tell us in advance that you won't be able to claim your turn at the time, we'll move it two turns ahead. If you still can't claim it, it's off the list.
• The turn lasts exactly one in-game year as usual. As soon as you see that spring is here, upload that save file and give it to the next person. Remember to take pictures and tell us what happened during that year!
• You have one week of real life to complete your turn. If you go longer than that, your turn never existed and we move onto the next person.
• Repeat until every suika has died horribly.

Narration protip: Take it easy. You're playing a game where bouncing heads are the biggest menace to your fortress. Role-playing and dialogue in a setting like this makes a fun game boring. Sure, you can introduce yourself as a character and dabble a bit in narration but don't get into serious business.

The first turn will be mine to embark and set up. After that it's anyone's game!

Turn List (IMPORTANT)
1. GoombaGeek
2. You, if you sign up in the thread!

The Establishment of Slowtaken
It is the year 144. The suikan mountainhomes have thrived for over a century. But now, they are beginning to grow too large and gain too much. Eerie vapours come from the deepest mines, and rumours of impending disaster circulate among the suikan population, finally reaching the elite of the Lance of Crows, gleaming pinnacle of suikan civilization.

"I've been listenin' ta these rocks fer my whole life, and lately I've been hearin' right uncanny sounds... RIBBITING sounds... in tha cavern we've been workin' on fer a century now..."
"We caught another yukkugasa in our cage trap, but this morning both the cage and the yukkugasa were GONE! Vanished into thin air, I tell you! Even now it could be brutalizing the trappers!"
"Urist's skeleton finally turned up, WITH A BUCKET STRAIGHT THROUGH HIS SKULL!"

The nobles can't help but listen to these constant doomsayers just a little bit, and eventually a committee is organized.

"All right. There's been an uproar lately. Some commoner was apparently killed by a rabid bucket, another one is strapped to a bed in the mental care ward and keeps saying 'kero' incessantly, and everyone thinks that we're all going to die. What do we do?"

"Ooh, ooh, I know! We hammer them until their heads are all over the wall! Then we hammer them more! I like hammering! Let's hammer them!"

"That could have worked when only a couple people were talking about this, but this has gotten out of hand. The entire mountainhome's talking about this now. Do you really want to hammer them all?"

"Yeah! Yeah! Let's hammer them all! Every last one! Hammer them! Hammer every one of them!"

"Someone go put him outside. Anyway, I propose we send a caravan to some new hellhole in the middle of nowhere. The idiots will move over to the new fortress, they'll all get brutally killed by kedamas within a decade and everyone here will finally shut up. Even better, they'll fetch us new materials for a while and all we have to do is send them seeds or some crap every autumn."

"Excellent idea! I second the notion!"

A brave group of seven suikas is organized and sent to the distant Dune of Crafting, through which the Droopy Trough bisects like a watery arrow. Trees are scarce, but the area boasts rich metal reserves. Two miners, two farmers, a woodworker, a stoneworker and one of the braver nobles are loaded onto the caravan and given a hero's farewell. They are hastily given breeding pairs of yusakuyas and chenkkuris and one large yukkureimu as well, to protect the fortress and eventually to breed as a source of delicious bean paste. Will they live to see the year 145?