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chaturga

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Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« on: April 04, 2010, 07:23:16 am »
I was just checking out the new combat reports and I stumbled across one where my engraver was fighting a giant rat.

I was loving the detail, and then I saw that the engraver managed to deflect a blow from the rat with his rope reed trousers....

Seriously, forget your typical dull fantasy games and their silly little greaves!

Share your moments that make Dwarf Fortress such a unique and wonderful game.
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Rystic

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Re: Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2010, 08:30:33 am »
My first fortress in the new version was named Friendship. It was overrun with demons.
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A sturdy creature, fond of drink and industry.

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Re: Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2010, 09:19:51 am »
Death by pandas made of flame is something everyone need to experience.
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rdwulfe

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Re: Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2010, 09:38:45 am »
Uh... Because of this:

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So... she's shall we say... cosmetically challenged to an extreme degree... And she *WINKS* at people to say hello. This is probably due to the fact that her voice makes one's ears bleed, so she learned not to speak when first greeting people, or they just ran away. Oh, and she has a conehead. I should get her the ambushing skill, so she has a chance of sneaking up on a mate.

This is why dwarves drink so much. There is absolutely no way on earth they could *consider* snuggling up to her without being bombed out of their skulls.

I just plain cannot stop snickering at these descriptions. Toady did great work here.
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"   So the gods discussed it and created elves. The Elves were beautiful, Mistral Thrax admitted, in and elvish way, but it was his belief that the gods grew disappointed after a time because the elves -- being elves -- were essentially decorative but not particularly functional. They were content simply to live long lives and to exist. They did not nothing of any real value, in the opinion of Mistral Thrax."
   -- The Covenant of the Forge by Dan Parkinson, a Dragon Lance Novel

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Re: Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2010, 10:57:08 am »
The military scr-

Oh wait, no. That's the reason I'm not playing right now.
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Well treat me like the disease like the rats and the fleas, A-ha-ha! A-ha-ha!
Well treat me like the sea oh so salty and mean, A-ha-ha! A-ha-ha!
Let's shake hands if you want but soon both hands are gone, A-ha-ha!
Cut me down like a tree like the lumber or weeds, well discard who you please like the leaves off a tree. Drag me out of the sea and then teach me to breath. Give me forced health till I wish death on myself. Ah! Ha! Ha!
March on! March on! March on! March on! MARCH ON!

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Re: Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2010, 12:20:23 pm »
My civilians are literary tearing a troglodyte apart. Yay civilians.
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Re: Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2010, 12:42:05 pm »
had a zombie with just an upper torso and a head bite a dog in half.
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Re: Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2010, 01:03:45 pm »
I threw a spear at a goblin child, peirced the skull and brain and got stuck in the wound.

From 50 tiles away.
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Re: Those "Why I'm glad I found this game" moments.
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2010, 01:09:26 pm »

Spoiler below! HFS! Do not read!
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Thats when I said this game is !@# awesome.
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