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klefenz

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Unbelievable symbol
« on: December 18, 2013, 10:20:50 pm »
I was checking the engarving on my dining hall and found that the symbol of my civilization was picks.

Unbelievable! An artwork image that makes sense in Dwarf Fortress!!
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2013, 10:40:06 pm »
My civ's symbol is dwarves. Lest you think they're being too literal, the symbol is actually a finely-designed image of dwarves. I've got a bunch of engravings which are "exceptional renditions" of finely-designed images of dwarves. Very René Magritte.
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2013, 10:42:59 pm »
Sup dawg!?

I heard you like images of dwarves, so we put images of dwarves in your images of dwarves, so you can see depictions of dwarves being depicted in images of dwarves!
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2013, 10:50:50 pm »
wow that is pretty crazy!
What if your symbol was a dwarf surrounded by dwarves?
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2013, 11:58:37 pm »
Turns out a dwarf was the symbol of a local government.
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2013, 09:50:43 am »
Quote from: neblime on December 18, 2013, 10:50:50 pm
wow that is pretty crazy!
What if your symbol was a dwarf surrounded by dwarves?

It's dwarves al the way down.
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2013, 01:24:17 pm »
My civilization symbol are yellow green brutes...which i think are gems?
My government symbol is...a bed...yeah...
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2013, 10:17:46 pm »
Quote from: Zan Oltaridor on December 19, 2013, 01:24:17 pm
My civilization symbol are yellow green brutes...which i think are gems?
Ehh, close enough?
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2013, 11:48:27 pm »
Quote from: Zan Oltaridor on December 19, 2013, 01:24:17 pm
My civilization symbol are yellow green brutes...which i think are gems?
My government symbol is...a bed...yeah...

I'm pretty sure brutes are a kind of
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2013, 01:30:44 am »
My most recent fort's symbol was two mechanisms. Why two? I don't know. The civ's was round cabochons (the gems), but it was also called "the Angelic Machine", so you could probably force thematic consistency on it somehow.
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2013, 01:32:48 am »
Mine was a copper thong that menaced with spikes of leather.

The fortress was called 'ThrustyDikes, the plains of sweating'. You cannot make this shit up.
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Re: Unbelievable symbol
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2013, 05:09:40 am »
Quote from: wierd on December 18, 2013, 10:42:59 pm
Sup dawg!?

I heard you like images of dwarves, so we put images of dwarves in your images of dwarves, so you can see depictions of dwarves being depicted in images of dwarves!

I like more those situations when an engraver engraves an engraving of him engraving an engraving of him engraving an engraving... you got the point.
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« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2013, 06:51:17 am »
What I really want to see is the rare mutually recursive engraving: Urist engraves an engraving of Ral engraving an engraving of Urist engraving an engraving of Ral engraving...
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