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kingubu

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12 Grandfather Clocks
« on: April 02, 2012, 03:20:24 am »
Doing a custom embark, and I just noticed you can bring an Enormous Silver Corkscrew for a low low price of 660 embark points.

So you can almost afford two.
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 03:22:05 am »
Quote from: kingubu on April 02, 2012, 03:20:24 am
Doing a custom embark, and I just noticed you can bring an Enormous Silver Corkscrew for a low low price of 660 embark points.

So you can almost afford two.
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I dont get it xD
But its pretty funny ;D
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 04:03:17 am »
It's referring to an old Oregon Trail joke of using all of your embark points on a hat and clocks for the hell of it. LIKE A BAWSE!
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Imagine the will it took to create a fortress like this. And what have you elves built? Nothing. You can only loot and break. You're not dwarves!! You're just termites at Versailles.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 04:05:59 am »
It's a reference to how to lose at Oregon Trail

Still, the more challenging embark is probably 115 kittens and a leather vest.
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2012, 04:09:48 am »
A helmet and 12 of some useless ass item. Someone do sme embark testing and figure out which item you can only get 12 of in addition to a leather hat.
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Imagine the will it took to create a fortress like this. And what have you elves built? Nothing. You can only loot and break. You're not dwarves!! You're just termites at Versailles.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2012, 05:47:31 am »
Terrifying embark, no skills, microcline only.  8)

Alternative: Animals (preferably cats, at least 1 male + multiple females) only.

Superdwarf Bonus: Trading? That stuff is for elves!

(Too bad the starting dorfs always seem to be clothed, at least in vanilla. In OT, you can be a naked-but-for-hat Boss with 12 grandfather clocks! :P)
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2012, 06:14:45 am »
12 gold statues. Job done.
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 01:20:06 pm »
Quote from: Sus on April 02, 2012, 05:47:31 am
Too bad the starting dorfs always seem to be clothed, at least in vanilla.

Delete all clothes from the raws prior to world gen, except armour and hats.
That's what I did in 31.25 (since they can't wear new clothes anyway)
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 01:45:05 pm »
Quote from: HD23 on April 02, 2012, 01:20:06 pm
Quote from: Sus on April 02, 2012, 05:47:31 am
Too bad the starting dorfs always seem to be clothed, at least in vanilla.

Delete all clothes from the raws prior to world gen, except armour and hats.
That's what I did in 31.25 (since they can't wear new clothes anyway)
Thats fix'd now. They also get bad thoughts from nudity. ::)
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2012, 02:46:43 pm »
Quote from: Sus on April 02, 2012, 05:47:31 am
Terrifying embark, no skills, microcline only.  8)
No items.  Fox only.  Final Destination.
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2012, 02:57:05 pm »
No silly. You need an animatable body part that you can bring on embark to the terrifying biome.

Bring unspun wool.  Lots and lots of wool.
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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2012, 03:02:40 pm »
Buy an axe, a pick, and the rest goes to female cats (and one male). You could raise a swarm of cats that, by sheer numbers alone, could cushion any blow and distract all enemies.
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This is -ing good wood!

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Re: 12 Grandfather Clocks
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2012, 03:05:07 pm »
I still like the idea of autozombied wool busting the wagon apart in a fit of mindless undead hairy rage.

Truly, an epically bad hair day for all involved.
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