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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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[Mr Frog]

Oh god. Manamaids were his fault. The result of some failed incedent involving manatee blubber as a base and some algae.

Yes. YES! YESZ!!! It's Frog-Canon now, motherfucker. (Maybe not the bit with the algae. And I doubt he was working alone.)

@SolPyre:
Go nuts. I don't really see Dorf!Mr Frog as my avatar (I don't even drink, for one) :p Just draw him as you saw him.

Just be aware that if I get bored and do sketches of the Overseers' dwarves (unlikely, and I'm not sure how I'd do it 'cuz I don't have a scanner, but it's an idea I've been toying with), whatever I draw likely won't be remotely close to whatever you draw :p

For the sake of answering your question... I wasn't thinking much about what he looked like, and I never really look at the descriptions, but now I'm thinking of a spindly person -- bit too tall and skinny for a dwarf, yet too short to be human -- with a short brown beard, a friendly smile, dead eyes, and both a black bumbershoot and a small hip-flask somewhere on his person. He's wearing a grimy white suit with equally-filthy black pants.

...Of course, that's just my opinion. Again, feel free to go nuts :p

PS: You've been using Paint for your drawings, yes? Have you tried GIMP? It's free; Google it. There's a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it you will never go back.

[bombzero]

good ol' Gimp, all the function of photoshop, none of the price.

[Mitchewawa]

  Journal of Mitch, 27th of Moonstone

I saw a Spawn in the flesh today, while carving out fortifications. And it saw me. Its' eyes peered into my soul. The saliva covering its maw glimmered in the sun, and in the flash of light I saw horrible things. An army of Holistic, rising from silt, seething with foul energies that poison the sky. Our fortress under a black sun, raining blood up to our ankles. Great bone claws clashing with iron, steel and stone. The death of hundreds in a matter of days, screaming of both dwarven and not.

I dropped my chisel and ran, of course. So did others, who wont speak of what they saw. Maybe they did not see anything? If I were in Frogs' shoes, I would have called us, 'Dipshit dissident elves' instead of 'morons and cowards'. But he didn't see the Spawn, nor did he see a vision.

I've been doing some asking around, and they seem to be able to withstand terrible blows. Even missing limbs, they appear to be able to hop using only the projection of their jaws. The overseers sought spears to counter them; but for what use are piercing their organs, of which spears are so proficient, when they can live without them? Nay, blunt weapons are the way to victory. Nothing can move with a shattered spine.

Methinks we need to build a proper defence, but they simply crush weapon-traps beneath their feet of bone. Perhaps we should breach the caverns, and Armok willing, capture a giant cave spider to tie them down on top of rows and rows of masterwork blunt rock weaponry?

PS. Heard a lot of mention about 'manamaids'. I don't know what the hell that is, but I get the feeling I don't want to.

[Talvieno]

Mitchewawa, that was awesome. If I could nominate something, it'd be that - anybody else want to second it? That was perfect.

A couple things, though:
In my second post, I gave a hint (in a pic) as to the spawn's weakness... Really, there's only one way they can die, and shattering the spine isn't really one of them. (as far as I know, but Feb did manage to get that one kill... I might be wrong.) I haven't known them to be capable of being decapitated, either.

you're very right... dwarf Mitchewawa probably doesn't want to know anything about manamaids... the legends, if you believe them, say that they're literally living nightmares. evil creatures from across the seas, children of the blighted isles - hideous beasts, such that they can all but kill you with nothing but a glance. Think medusas... but far worse. The medusas at least turned you to stone so you wouldn't have to live forever in unbearable mental agony at what you'd witnessed. The medusas were a kind folk, not as heartless as the manamaids... and nor were they as strong.



A suggestion to Splint - perhaps you could spoiler the starting seven in the original post? It's far enough along now that we don't really need it anymore.

[Mr Frog]

Spoiler: Explanation for the manamaids (click to show/hide)

The manamaids are what happen when a TinyChat meetup is allowed to continue far too late into the night for any of its participants to remain remotely-coherent and subsequently goes horribly, horribly off-the-rails.

First, think of a manatee. This should be easy and painless, as manatees are amusing and loveable. Now, swap its lower body with a fish tail -- or simply glue sequins onto the existing lower body, as the results should be pretty much the same.

Now add a cape, a fetishized Hallowe'en costume of your choice, and burlesque skills so brutal that viewers literally get put into a catatonic state, and you've got yourself a manamaid.

...We're sorry?

EDIT: Seconding Talvi's nomination. Because I care.

[Talvieno]

Awww, spoilers. Well, might as well post the full picture now, right?    (also, I've been working on them on and off in my spare time... they're a bit worse than you think, now...)

ACTUAL SPOILER:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EDIT: I thought they were manatees with the upper body of a woman? (although terribly, terribly obese to the point of manatee-similar weight)

_{EDIT EDIT: Although deeply apologetic to the world for what we have done... I wouldn't be opposed to another TinyChat meetup to see what else we could come up with...}

[Mr Frog]

Reports on the manamaids' appearance are conflicting; of those that have had the misfortune to observe one directly, very few are now in any condition to adequately describe exactly what it was they saw that literally caused their eyes to bleed.

Also, this is incredibly off-topic in the worst possible way :p

Draignean, if you're reading this (and haven't already fled in disgust/horror), how are you doing on the fortress?

[Talvieno]

Reports on the manamaids' appearance are conflicting; of those that have had the misfortune to observe one directly, very few are now in any condition to adequately describe exactly what it was they saw that literally caused their eyes to bleed.

Also, this is incredibly off-topic in the worst possible way :p

Draignean, if you're reading this (and haven't already fled in disgust/horror), how are you doing on the fortress?

Excellent explanation. Though it's true, the blood... even from the eyes of vampires, their essence drips away at the first sight of such horrors.

How is this off topic? These beasts are finally what drove away the spawn in the end. Or, perhaps they joined the spawn. Or, perhaps they simply invaded. Or...

But no, how's it going, Draignean?

[Mitchewawa]

Pff, that isn't that horrific to imagine. But maybe because the internet has caused me to 'not care about anything anymore'.

[Talvieno]

Pff, that isn't that horrific to imagine. But maybe because the internet has caused me to 'not care about anything anymore'.

All righty then, Mitchewawa...

First, (seriously, viewer discretion is advised - not kidding here)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-images removed due to censorship-

Second, imagine fighting these things... Imagine being all happy and carefree, rushing out with your soldiers and then discovering they fall unconscious at the mere sight of these beasts, and then discovering that the manamaids like to lay atop of your slowly-awakening dwarves (in a somewhat suggestive manner), crushing them to death.
Imagine trying to survive a siege - or worse, an ambush.

Still not horrific?

Now also imagine that Splint's leaning towards putting these into whatever succession game comes after Spearbreakers... because he is. They almost got put into this one. 

[Splint]

The ultimate challenge.
The Ultimate showdown.
Railgun and blade vs blubbery monstrosity. And that picture was absolutly hideous, but lakick the chainmail bikini they wear.

[The Master]

I have an idea. STICK TO THE THREAD AND QUIT DERAILING.

that is all.

[codyorr]

I second that motion.

[Mr Frog]

@The Master, codyorr:
For what it's worth, I'm very very sorry ;_;

@Talvieno:
I'm a little dodgy about having that image posted here... there's off-topic, and then there's AUUUGGGH MY EYES.

[Talvieno]

Sorry about that. I'll stay strictly on-topic henceforth.