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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

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We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

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I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

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Total Members Voted: 77

[Mr Frog]

@Terrahex:
Okay, so

blah blah

and Bombzero is a crazy lady/possible crossdresser Sweet Transvestite who obsessive-compulsively dismembers corpses and Terrahex is a bubbly fellow who's oddly difficult-to-notice, has an empathic connection with the Spawn, and may or may not have stumbled off the mortal coil without noticing. And those are all the guys that matter (for now).

@Splint:
I spent 10 minutes on Wikipedia and came back with social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder :p Internet != Professional Diagnosis.

I would have given detailed analyses instead of rattling off tropes, but that's far more effort than I'd like to put in.

[Talvieno]

Nice way to classify Talvi... Very accurate. Technically she'd overcome her country roots at some time in the past, but in regressing towards a childlike state she wound up regaining her old accent.

Also, you forgot SolPyre - the ever-terrified engraver who enjoys making humorous (but ominous) images, and HARD (now Wynz) the battle-crazed death machine (who thinks he's appointed by the gods).


Splint, Fischer was NOT badass. I locked him in the armory by mistake and he refused to even let anyone know he was in there for months.

[Splint]

That was your fault mister neglectful-of-the-army-commander. I'm basing the badass part on the fact, as an NPC, he's even still alive, and in charge of the infantry.

[Terrahex]

I gotta write all this down for future reference.

plus, wasn't there a miner named Sus?

[Splint]

I gotta write all this down for future reference.

plus, wasn't there a miner named Sus?

Yeah. He's up next for overseership.

[Terrahex]

I gotta write all this down for future reference.

plus, wasn't there a miner named Sus?

Yeah. He's up next for overseership.

I wish I hadn't abandoned DF for so long. the update took awhile. oh well. now I get to relearn all this stuff and get it confused with Minecraft logic!

[Talvieno]

Draignean, just noticed this.

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You're mining out the center of an adamantine spire?!?!?

EDIT:

thanks, does that mean I get my diaries on the first post?

Done. Not sure which one Splint was referring to in particular, so lucky you! You have all three on the front page. 

[Draignean]

Yes? I've been mining out the center of those spires for some time. I stopped once I thought I'd push my luck far enough, then splint demanded that we DIG DEEPER.

Mining has been started on the second adamantine spire, and I've recently discovered a THIRD adamantine spire.

[Talvieno]

Put me with Splint about being very worried about the adamantine... lol  I never mine the center, just because of the huge chance that the tube extends to the top.

[Splint]

If you found a 3rd one STAY THE FUCK AWAY from it.

[Draignean]

Why?

[Splint]

Think. We can afford to lose Rodge, Sus, or Bombzero. That third spire is probably where the circus is waiting to say hello, and if that's the case whichever one of them was there will have to wall the breach, (and due to dwarven idiocy) kill themself in the process.

I say this because training up replacements would be nightmarishly difficult, and you're pushing your luck as it stands.

.... You're going to anyway. Aren't you.

[Draignean]

Think. We can afford to lose Rodge, Sus, or Bombzero. That third spire is probably where the circus is waiting to say hello, and if that's the case whichever one of them was there will have to wall the breach, (and due to dwarven idiocy) kill themself in the process.

I say this because training up replacements would be nightmarishly difficult, and you're pushing your luck as it stands.

.... You're going to anyway. Aren't you.

Of course! If we hit that adamantine bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate. Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all dwarves will line up and fall directly into hell, clogging it with corpses.

When I'm in command every mission is a suicide mission.

[Talvieno]

From the journal of Talvi Diamondknight

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7th of Hematite, 203

Mayor Draignean sure is a right nice dwarf - he's awful good to Splint, and he even came up with a new salute - we punch 'im in the face! It's good fun, and its helpin' ever'body keep the stress down. He seems to like it, calls it comradery or somethin'. If there's anything I could say bad about 'im, it's that he doesn't think about mugs at all. How could anyone in his right mind not think about mugs, I wonder? Anyhow...

I was watchin' my lil' cavies the other day, an' one of 'em found Draignean's calendar. I stopped readin' the words in it - most of 'em were too long for me to read, and I couldn't use 'em right none anyhow. That's what Mr Frog tole me. He wasn't too nice about it, but I think he just had a bad day, y' know? I offered to give him a massage and all, but he said no. I was sad. Oh, goodness me, I forgot what I was thinkin'! Okay, so, Georgette and Petunia, two of my cavies - they found Draignean's calendar, and they were nibblin' the edges. So I thoughts to myself, I thought... "Well, Talvi... It must be good if they eat it. Cavies are right smart, they is." So I took a nibble too, and by gods, it's a sight better'n the stuff they serve up at the dining hall!


9th of Hematite, 203

I was hungry, an' there weren't much to eat down at the dining hall - not much good for eatin', anyhow. I got a lil cravin' for some paper. See, I knew paper was good 'cause of Draignean's calendar that I ate yesterday. (I almost didn't eat one page - velutinous. It reminded me of my cavies... but I wanted to know what it tasted like still, so I hugged it a lil bit afore I ate it to make it right.) I knew Draignean had some calendars - a whole cabinet of 'em - down yonder in his room. So I went to get some.

His room's a bit plain, sofar as statues and such goes. The way he carries on 'bout himself and all, you'd've thought it'd be prettier inside. I nibbled one of the curtains on his bed, but it tasted bad, so I didn't eat no more of it. 'stead, I went to his cab'net and got out an armful of his lil calendars. I almost got caught on th' way back to my cavy room, though - The Master was walkin' up and down the hallways, rubbin' his pole with rock nut oil. Ever'body tells him to do that in his room, but he don't ever listen.


12th of Hematite, 203

I was rearragin' the books in Splint's office (big books go on the bottom shelf) and fixing them (all the q's, p's, d's and b's need their circles filled), when I noticed a name on his census sheet I hadn't seen before - Terrahex. I didn't know who it was, but I do know there's nobody like that here, so I erased the name. I wonder who wrote it... Doesn't matter none, though.


19th of Hematite, 203

I was hungry again. Joseph laughs and says I'm always hungry, but I told him I thoght he was rude and shoved him back under th' bed. He wanted me to take him to see the security systems for some reason - he called it the FROG... I tole him only frog I knew of was the Mister Frog. He groaned and tole me to go shove some calendar pages somewheres... think I might try that later. But I'll tell you what - I wanted those calendars. Sadly, tho - Draignean knew there were some missin'. I had to be more careful this time. Oh, if only Mr Frog had calendars... I'm in his room ev'ry night, it's be awful easy to get some if he had 'em.

I went into Draignean's room again and took some pages out of 'is calendars. I'm sure he won't miss 'em. I got the bad ones too - I made sure I got only the ones with words I didn't know how to use. I was bein' nice to 'im - affer all, what good's a word calendar if you don't know the words? Anyhow, when I's done, I had an awful good number of pages, and I took 'em all back to my room.

I wonder if I could make calendar beer...


19th of Malachite, 203

Oh, gods... I think I ate too many pages yesterday - that'r the pages had somethin' on 'em that isn't good for little cavies like me to eat. The pages were gross - made me sick an' all that. I didn't like them none good at all. I think from now on I'm gonna bring some other cavies with me - they's gots better noses than I've got. They'll know if the paper is bad.

I thought of a great idea - I'd take a little bite out of each page to see if they were bad. If I found a bad calendar, I wouldn't eat no more of it. If I found a good one, I'd take some pages. Good for me Draignean's not in his room much. It's odd, too, tho - his room is all pretty with gold (my room's better, tho', cause it's a cavy). Oh, and afore I forget - Petunia left a little something under the pillows on Draignean's bed. Maybe I'll remember to get it later.


Several pages are missing from the journal at this point, followed by writing in a curious shaky scrawl: "Calendars are better. Oh, I'm going to be sick"


13th of Galena, 203

Draignean's so awful nice! Makes me feel right good about eating the bad pages of his calendars. He gave us all pretty cabinets and chests! He said we ought to keep our books in such in it, but I don't have any books - only pages (and I sleep with those at night). So I'm gonna make the dressers and ever'thang into cavy nests. Cavies need beds too.


19th of Galena, 203

There's people attacking outside - Mr Frog thinks he's "been found out", Draignean thinks they're after his calendar, The Master swears up and down they're after his pole, and Bombzero jus' hauled a ton of corpses into her room an' locked the door for one reason or another. Anyhow, I let everyone into my room. I've got a big room, so it's good. I figured it might also keep anyone from findin' out about my pages, with so many people blockin' the way. Which is good, 'cause Draignean's been checking inside the new cabinets he's given anybody. I think he wants his pages back. Poor Draignean, if he only knew I'm keepin' him from gettin' sick. I've built up a tolerance to the poison he sprays on 'em (figured it out - Mr Frog makes it for him), so I eat those to keep him from feelin' bad from it.

Anyhow, last night I accidentally walked in on Mr Frog while he was still awake. He seemed awful upset about it, but I lied and said I was wonderin' if he could make a good poison. He seemed awful happy to talk after that. He's so smart, I want to be just like him someday. I saw him with a little glowy tablet - I couln't stop m'self afore I said "That looks like Joseph!" He wondered what I meant but I wouldn't say no more. Jospeh said he ought to be kept a secret. I'm doin' right good keepin' it a secret, too. Only my cavies know.

5th of Limestone, 203

Well, ever'one's still in my room, and happy, too - they like my cavies, and my cavies like the company. And the socks. I have my cavies trained to steal socks now. I'm only doin' it for their good - the socks need tasted to make sure Mr Frog and Draignean hain't sprayed no poison on 'em.

I've decided to not steal pages anymore - Draignean's too good about searchin' rooms. From now on when I'm hungry, I'm going to eat right out of his pages. That oughta fix the problem. I'll only eat bad parts of words - parts I can't pronounce good.

I really like Draignean bein' mayor. I hope he gets to keep his calendars afterwards.

[bombzero]

im not 100% certain ill be able to take my turn when it comes up, it really depends when it gets around to me, but the next few weeks are gonna be a bit busy at times.