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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]

I'm pretty sure that's the intent, at least.
Of course, I never watched Futurama that much, so :p

[Talvieno]

I'm not totally sure who Zapp is, to be honest. =P

[Terrahex]

I got bored so I started writing a journal entry. It wasn't meant to be too long, but eventually started getting long enough to upload by itself  I was gonna include the section about the spawn siege too. Oh well I suppose

I'll upload it when it's finished. I'm getting too into this

Impossible. Loving the entries! I actually think I'd prefer if the mystery dwarf isn't a poltergeist... And he gets officially dwarfed later at some point. Maybe you could have him do some odd things around the fortress to try to show everyone that he exists... Like odd markings on the walls, for instance. It'd give the overseers (and the other journal enthusiasts) something great to work with, with all the dwarves getting paranoid on top of all their other mental issues. ...See, I'm getting "too into it" too.

that's what I was thinking too, but I thought being a ghost would be a nice plot twist, but that turned out to be too obvious 

anyway, here's the next installment. I'd love it if some people would establish some sort of character for their dwarf so that I could use that.

Spoiler: Diary of Terrahex Part 3 (click to show/hide)

How are you today diary?
   I guess I’m all right. It still hurts inside of me a little, but I can manage. Bombzero has been cutting things up in the butcher shop today, and that makes me nervous. Nothing to my knowledge has died recently. I was so nervous that I snuck into the shop while he was hacking of limbs and singing Don’t Stop Butcherin’ accompanied by a six string stone guitar and a piano made of bones. I couldn’t locate the source of the instrumental part of the song, nor could I tell what the corpse was without any skin. I didn’t stay very long because he started gnawing on the femur of the creature, and he hadn’t cut it off yet.
   I couldn’t sate my sense of dread, however. I need to know whether it was Spawny he was cutting up. After I ate some lunch I headed back to the cliff where Spawny had spent a year of her life. The bones of the merchant where still there, scattered about over the ledge, each with bite marks going up and down its surface.
   I carefully looked over the edge into the moat, but I couldn’t see anything. It was too bright out. I’m not satisfied. I can’t go out at night either, it’s too dangerous. I might fall. Going out and checking the moat personally is also out of the question.
   I need to know.
   I need to ask Bombzero.

Hey Diary,
   I don’t think I can do it. He’s just so scary. No matter how much I practice, my tongue turns to stone in my mouth at the sight of him. I can only picture him gnawing on that bone. Will he gnaw on my leg? Would he make a good friend?

Dear Diary,
   Today I realized that I didn’t really need to ask Bombzero anything at all. I only needed to look at Splint’s notes. Splint counts every resource we have in Spearbreakers. If there’s no Spawn meat on his list then Bombzero left Spawny alone.
   I snuck into his office (I’ve been doing a lot of sneaking lately) and looked all over. There were stacks of paper in all the corners of the room, mixed in with the huge stacks of mugs that roamed the fort, but I quickly surmised that they were old records, some dating as early as 202.
   I searched his desk and found many interesting things, but he was counting up the current number of socks that we had in the fortress and I didn’t want to make him lose count by rummaging around.
   I finally found it on the page that was under the one he was calculating sock quantity on. It was hard to get at, but I kept edging the paper out from under the other one every time he picked up his nonspecific writing utensil.
   Bombzero had butchered that dead goblin.
   It’s so awesome to not be suspicious of my meal anymore, Diary!

Also, I know it wasn't that long ago that I asked, but could you get me that list of dwarves, Draignean?

[Splint]

Yeah, I'd like that list too. I have an idea but I need an NPC dorf to use for the writing.

And good work Terrahex!

[Terrahex]

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

[Splint]

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

I don't see why not. I'm sure Talvieno won't mind.

[Mr Frog]

@Terrahex:
Mr Frog is a Stepford Smiler Mad Scientist with empathy issues and a taste for psychoactives, Talvieno is a closer-to-earth country girl who suffered Sanity Slippage and is now a crazy cavy lady/stalker, Splint is a neurotic pencil-pusher, The Master is a homicidal maniac with a yandere fixation on pikes, Mitchewawa is the Only Sane Man^TM, and Draignean is Zapp Brannigan. And those are all the guys who matter (so far).

Wow, never thought I'd find a practical use for tropes.

[Draignean]

Also, I know it wasn't that long ago that I asked, but could you get me that list of dwarves, Draignean?

Everyone?
I can do it in screenshot form, but if you're hoping for a nice tidy list then you're out of luck. There are 50+/- dwarves in this fort, I'm not listing all of them by name.

Like your journal entries though.

I'm not totally sure who Zapp is, to be honest. =P

Imagine a blond cartoon of William Shatner in the REALLY early Star Trek (Hence the Dwarf Date xxxx.xx-x), give him a voice of such self assured confidence and proud ignorance that you want to punch him the face. Now imagine him saying things like,

"That young soldier fills me with hope, and some other feelings that are weird and deeply confusing." (To be said in regard to a woman posing as military man)
"Uh-huh, uh-huh. That's whatever you were talking about for you."
"Inform the men, I've made it with a woman."
"Enough of your space-age technobabble, Attila the Hun!"
"One day a man has everything, the next day he blows up a 400-billion dollar spacestation, then he has nothing. Makes you think doesn't it?"
"But you've forgotten one thing, rock crushes scissors! *pause* But paper covers rock, and scissors cuts paper... It appears we have a conundrum, you, search them for paper. And bring me a rock."

[Splint]

I just need one redshirt.

And great description. it describes your dwarf Zap quite nicely.

[Draignean]

Oh, and just as a side note for your Journals Hex, the spawn on the ledge survived its great fall. Broken bones and mangled brains yes, but it was still able to run off the map with alacrity. It's probably off fathering/mothering a passle of baby spawn right now, they should be grown up enough that you'll be the one to have kill them when you decide to take a turn.

Food for thought.

[Mitchewawa]

I'm not totally sure who Zapp is, to be honest. =P

E: Imageshack can't keep this free spirit from posting!

[Terrahex]

Also, I know it wasn't that long ago that I asked, but could you get me that list of dwarves, Draignean?

Everyone?
I can do it in screenshot form, but if you're hoping for a nice tidy list then you're out of luck. There are 50+/- dwarves in this fort, I'm not listing all of them by name.

can you do it in Dwarf Therapist?

[Mitchewawa]

Yeah, there's a sort by nickname function.

[Terrahex]

actually, you don't have to if you don't want to. I can download the map and do it myself at the end of your turn, but I was thinking that maybe posterity would like it as well.

@Terrahex:
Mr Frog is a Stepford Smiler Mad Scientist with empathy issues and a taste for psychoactives, Talvieno is a closer-to-earth country girl who suffered Sanity Slippage and is now a crazy cavy lady/stalker, Splint is a neurotic pencil-pusher, The Master is a homicidal maniac with a yandere fixation on pikes, Mitchewawa is the Only Sane Man^TM, and Draignean is Zapp Brannigan. And those are all the guys who matter (so far).

Wow, never thought I'd find a practical use for tropes.

we need more. the characters we have are awesome, but we need more. plus you forgot me. 

[Splint]

Best summary of the current crop of characters thus far.

He also FOrgot the mainline infantry commander Fischer, who litarally falls under Colonel Badass, unless he got killed and I wasn't aware.

And there will be more. At least... what like, 16 more or something if we live that long?

Also, i fear I may IRL suffer from Neurosis, as upon looking it up and cross referenceing it toa legit site, I show many signs of it. And oddly enough, I give not two real shits.

ANYWAY I think SPlintdorf having a near phobia of the life-metal is perfectly understandable, since in his learnings it has a bad habit of breeding demons and madness...