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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

[Talvieno]

Just to help me get this straight, the continuity snarl is primarily caused by the fact that the surface of this realm should be solid obsidian, right?

Pretty much.

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From a small bedroom in the heart of Spearbreakers, a message is sent. Both the medium of the message and the means of sending it are unlike anything which would be discovered by the dwarven race for at least 10 millenia (the exact timescale varies somewhat between iterations).

The following is a rough transcription of that message...

Spoiler: DELTA LEVEL CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR ACCESS (click to show/hide)

>CLEARANCE LEVEL: DELTA
>YOU HAVE BEEN CLEARED TO ACCEPT THIS TRANSMISSION

>SUBJECT: Experiment Operation HS-2-W1412

>MESSAGE BODY:

I fail to see the practical purpose of this experiment. We already know the capabilities of HS-2 from live testing -- what useful additional knowledge could possibly be gained from this? I'm sure upper management has their reasons for this, but they've done a very good job of not making it obvious this time.

In particular, pulling strings to get a party of dwarves sent here was a new low. I draw the line at direct manipulation. It contaminates the data.

I've requested that the operation be called off more than enough times to know that it isn't an option, and it probably wouldn't do much good anyway now that HS-2 has been reintroduced to this iteration (remind me again -- which drooling, vapour-for-brains moron in upmanage called *that* one a good idea?).

In any case, I know my orders, and fully intend to see this through to the end. I'm not happy with this, however.

(Take the above as canon if you like -- I'm really just writing it because I'm bored.)

Oh, wow, fantasy + sci-fi... And a Dwarven secret agent? :\ From the future?

ARE YOU TELLING ME TALVI'S BEST MECHANIC WAS CHEATING WHEN HE MADE HIS MECHANISMS?!?! D=

[Splint]

This... This just opens up all kinds of batshit crazy town options doesn't it....

[Talvieno]

This... This just opens up all kinds of batshit crazy town options doesn't it....

Welp... Skip the railguns, Splint, ol' boy, we're gonna need blasters.

[Splint]

This... This just opens up all kinds of batshit crazy town options doesn't it....

Welp... Skip the railguns, Splint, ol' boy, we're gonna need blasters.

If you can figure out how to make a gun shoot non-solid ammo in this game be my guest. I like the railgun Idea more. it breaks things.

[Mr Frog]

Plus, I'm pretty sure a laser-based weapon would only be good for torture. A weapon that instantly cauterizes any wounds it inflicts would only really be lethal after an extended headshot.

[Splint]

Plus, I'm pretty sure a laser-based weapon would only be good for torture. A weapon that instantly cauterizes any wounds it inflicts would only really be lethal after an extended headshot.

Actually only the point of impact would be cauterized. The area around it would likely be a bloody mess from the water evaporating all at once, causing cell membranes to burst, in turn destroying surounding blood vessels, although depnding on the power output of the laser and the crap in the atmosphere it might not even do either and just make a really nasty sunburn. Or cook you alive in your armor.

Am I the only one thinking it's odd we 're discussing dwarves killing things with laser guns and time travel?

[Talvieno]

Plus, I'm pretty sure a laser-based weapon would only be good for torture. A weapon that instantly cauterizes any wounds it inflicts would only really be lethal after an extended headshot.

Actually only the point of impact would be cauterized. The area around it would likely be a bloody mess from the water evaporating all at once, causing cell membranes to burst, in turn destroying surounding blood vessels, although depnding on the power output of the laser and the crap in the atmosphere it might not even do either and just make a really nasty sunburn. Or cook you alive in your armor.

Am I the only one thinking it's odd we 're discussing dwarves killing things with laser guns and time travel?

Apparently I'm the only one understanding that I was making a joke... or attempting to... blasters kind of fit in a little better with sci-fi dwarves, don't you think?

And yes, I thought the time travel idea was a little over the top too... lol   Cool, maybe, but still.

[Talvieno]

edit: serious lag issues, sorry about the double post.

[Splint]

edit: serious lag issues, sorry about the double post.

No harm done.
It seems like we're setting up one hell of a jacked up setting now.

[Mr Frog]

Honestly, I was just trying to come up with an explanation for the whole But-Holistic-Pwned-The-Whole-World,-It-Said-So-Right-There fiasco that doesn't leave me banging my head against the wall. Of course, there's still a 99% chance that one or all of everybody else will now be banging their heads against the wall, but I have entirely too little empathy to really care.

I also put a list of links to the fortress posts in my first post in this thread, because the thread's kind of getting clogged with banter.

[bombzero]

It seems my character is degrading a little mentally... butchering yaks for a hobby, and choosing one in particular because of its gibbering...

i may just continue this trend on my turn.

[Mr Frog]

It seems my character is degrading a little mentally... butchering yaks for a hobby, and choosing one in particular because of its gibbering...

No, no, you misunderstand. You weren't butchering the gibbering yak. You were butchering the berserk yak, who got its skull caved in over half a month before.

[Splint]

Honestly, I was just trying to come up with an explanation for the whole But-Holistic-Pwned-The-Whole-World,-It-Said-So-Right-There fiasco that doesn't leave me banging my head against the wall. Of course, there's still a 99% chance that one or all of everybody else will now be banging their heads against the wall, but I have entirely too little empathy to really care.

I also put a list of links to the fortress posts in my first post in this thread, because the thread's kind of getting clogged with banter.

Good call. The only reason this is happening is cause the updates are so damn far apart we end up babbiling like a stark raving mad pack of chickens.

[Ashsaber]

Ash cancels living: Interrupted by Holistic urges.

"Liveeeeeeeeeeer..."

[Splint]

Ash cancels living: Interrupted by Holistic urges.

"Liveeeeeeeeeeer..."

Yup. And congratz buddy, you got ot be the first community member killed in action (You may as well be dead upon transformation.)