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[SirHoneyBadger]

This is just a general idea/challenge: I wonder if anyone would like to write some stories entirely from the personal viewpoint of you, yourself, if you were currently living in a Fortress.

Here are the rules: It's still you as you are right now, same personality, same likes and dislikes, same basic viewpoint, but "you" are now a dwarf, and have always been a dwarf, so it's not "human moves to the dwarf-mines day". You've got a beard you're really proud of (even if you're female, sorry!), you think that booze and swank dining rooms are right up there with gold on the big list of things that are better than sex, and you've got an unhealthy co-dependent relationship with your pick-axe.

Otherwise, it's all you.

The idea is to thing both "within the game" and "outside the box". What areas of life (besides poo, which we really don't want to hear about, sorry!) does the game currently cover, and what's happening behind the scenes? And how would a dwarf who was a whole lot like you, fit in to a Fortress?

What would you do if you lived underground, had access to arbitrarily limited technology and knowledge (you atleast start out at pre-1400AD, but I'll allow inventions and reasonably common chemical reactions discovered up to 1699AD, if written well. Anything past that time-frame flat out does not work, and will never work.), but had at your disposal endless imagination, creativity, and skill; in a world where gunpowder flat-out does not work (sorry!), but dragons do breathe fire, goblins know where you live, and both want to steal your precious, precious gold.

Also, there's magic in the world, obviously, and you might even tap into a tiny bit of it, yourself, but it would be a great challenge for any dwarf to become an effective wizard, if that's even possible. So, nothing there that couldn't currently occur in the game.

How would you live day-to-day? What are your forms of entertainment? Who are your friends, and why? What challenges and conflicts do you face, and can you overcome them?

Hopefully, this will be a good way to get our brains ticking.

If you want to write this in another thread, just point out where and I'll go look.

[Talvieno]

Click the link in my sig, "If Bay12 Forums was a Mountain Hall". It may have what you're looking for, although I wasn't putting just myself into a fortress... I was putting 50+ people from the forums into it, and then writing as if I was there.