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sonerohi

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The dwarven cinema - Challenge idea
« on: April 30, 2009, 05:49:01 pm »
Everyone likes to go to a movie or play, eat a snack, right? If you happen to need to use the restroom, it's nice that they have one. Why not let dwarves enjoy the cinema too? So I challenge players to make a special type of fort.

  • A 7 story tall chamber, or taller
  • The space dug out should always be 21x51 or larger
  • Use gem windows to make three ASCII dwarves, or more
  • Have at least 18 3x3 'stalls' meaning a grate and flowing water
  • All walls must be smoothed
  • On a higher up level, a wooden balcony with steel railings and high class seating
  • At a slightly lower level, a dining parlor with glass windows along the whole wall
  • Statue nooks on each level, in a checkerboard pattern (all the emmy's won by the theater)
  • A food stock nearby
  • Rows of chairs on the bottom level for commoner seating

Make sure to meet or surpass these requirements and then write a small script of what is happening. Anything from a noble ordering his hammerer upon a ranger for failure to make tin items, to surly miners having a drink and a chat.

There will be four categories of judging:
Best script; best theatre; best movie screen; swiftest completion. Every winner receives 10 internets and the renown of being a winner of the Dwarven Oscar! So get to building and may the booze keep flowing!
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tigrex

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Re: The dwarven cinema - Challenge idea
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2009, 06:10:02 am »
Why not make the screen out of clear glass, and have it overlooking a promising part of the landscape?  Like a battleground, trap infested area, or huge lava pit? 

Give the moviegoeers something to watch.
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Heron TSG

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Re: The dwarven cinema - Challenge idea
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2009, 08:13:15 am »
Yeah, like a glass screen in front of a lava pit with a crossbowdwarf and crossbowgoblin on tiny floating platforms shooting eachother.
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Re: The dwarven cinema - Challenge idea
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2009, 10:01:30 am »
Well, the game doesen't support moving pictures, but you can put it by the artifact stockpile.

Or consider what dwarves like to watch: Mist. Pump water in, build everything on fortifications built in the level below, designate the area as a dining room, and you've got a dwarf-happy-maker.
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A tendon in the skull has been torn!
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Elves do it in trees. Humans do it in wooden structures. Dwarves? Dwarves do it underground. With magma.

sonerohi

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Re: The dwarven cinema - Challenge idea
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2009, 03:34:34 pm »
Because the idea is a fricken cinema not a godamn waterfall.
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