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

55 (71.4%)

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

17 (22.1%)

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

[Splint]

The request was made to afford the others with lined up turns thier go. I'd prefer not having the next fort's roster filled entirely by people who got screwed out of thiers here.

[Lolfail0009]

The request was made to afford the others with lined up turns thier go. I'd prefer not having the next fort's roster filled entirely by people who got screwed out of theirs here.

Master or otherwise.

[Reudh]

As long as Master keeps story-required dwarves alive. He's also got a mighty task ahead of him in fixing the tattered army.

[zacen299]

Well regardless I can hardly wait to see how this will go. Honestly though Spearbreakers has to die one of these days. Though when it does it better happen to a combined siege by every single race that can siege at once combined with tons of ambushes. If that happens the dorfs just need to charge out and see how many casualties can be caused before things die. (I really do wish that could happen.)

[Reudh]

One of these days. I hope it survives at least ten more years. We haven't finished the canon yet.


I'll only deem Spearbreakers dead when Fischer dies.

[Splint]

We may be able to squeeze a hundred more turns out of this place then if her luck holds up.

[zacen299]

You realize very few fortresses ever make it past 20 turns right? What makes you think Spearbreakers is any different?

[Splint]

The characters are unstable but the players give a damn about the place for once and because of the crushing force we're being hit with are probably trying to see how many assaults it takes to kill more than six people at a time. Or to see if any enemies will live to see the fortress innards proper.

Plus I was being facetious on the hundred turns thing, but I'd like the majority of our current roster to get thier turns.

[Reudh]

You realize very few fortresses ever make it past 20 turns right? What makes you think Spearbreakers is any different?

We have Fischer.

[The Master]

i'm going to need to be filled in. I haven't been able to focus until recently on reading up on this thread since a little while after I died.

[Splint]

There's a PDF on page one courtesy of Talvieno. Everything is actually more or less up to date there.

[soulslicerjames]

i'm going to need to be filled in. I haven't been able to focus until recently on reading up on this thread since a little while after I died.

I recommend starting with the PDF talvieno's composed, given how often this was getting derailed at points.  It'll definitely save you a lot of time.

EDIT:  Splintja'd again.  I'm seriously planning on investing in ninja-B-gone.

[Talvieno]

The PDF is NOT up-to-date. It's actually three months behind. I kept putting it off. Compiling a PDF with so many out-of-sync stories isn't easy to do at all, and we have ourselves the largest collections of canon in any DF succession I've heard about. Still, three months behind means you get all but the last couple of reigns (which aren't that hard to read through in-thread. most posts are short, so don't let the page count fool you).

The spearhead that The Master created that made him lose his mind has been in the possession of Urist, former military liaison from the mountainhomes. I'm considering having Reudh present it to Vanya on their meeting, though. Not sure how well that would work out. It'd certainly be a pretty powerful message to her, and possibly open the door for a possible reconciliation, if I feel like it... even if Vanya won't forgive him for the death of her sister.

[Talvieno]

The PDF is NOT up-to-date. It's actually three months behind. But guess what... it may not be like that for long. I'm currently going all-out and attempting to get it updated. Lots of editing and re-editing involved here, but it should hopefully be worth it. We're already up to 200 downloads of Spearbreakers.pdf. Thank Armok for Mediafire. I don't know what I'd do without it.

I'm currently at http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=102730.msg3592372#msg3592372 this post. Yay. I still have a long way to go, but I'm getting there.

As some of the entries of various journals dip back into the earlier portions of PDF, people who have read ONLY the PDF will need to go back and re-skim... or suggest something for me to do to make it easier for them, because I'm out of ideas.

edit:

[I'll leave it up to you guys where this takes place in Reudh's summer.]

Why, thank you, Splint... how thoughtful of you.

Reedit: Interesting note - Reudh, some of your overseer entries are out of order. o.O

[Splint]

Take your time with it, no need to fry your brain even worse than it already is.. And now a spur of the moment story will follow!

EDIT: Ta da! Again, spur of the moment, and I felt like making The Master's return less destructive and more.... Just plain creepy. How was he brought back from the dead? Who did it? Why? Was it Armok? Terrahex fiddling with his necrotomes and making full blown ressurection spell? Were the gods just sick of listening to him screming CARNAGE!!! at them? We may never truly know.

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   “That's weird.... I could've sworn....” Rose mumbled to herself as she looked over The Clover. That loony toon soapmaker had insisted she take a look since she was the only one of the Nobility Guard he could find and din't want to bother Splint or the Army. But nothing was out of place.... “You. Skulker. What are you doing here?” she asked, pointing at a dwarf in what looked like used goblin clothing. “Decided to take a little break. I got a job hauling so maybe now I'll be able to afford my own place soon... Do you need something ma'me? I'm always happy to help the Army.” He said. He definatly sounded down on his luck though. “Yes. Our Soapmaker reported an explosion and a murder but there's nothing wrong here. Did you see anything?” “Some twitchy fellow wearing a gold flower thing on his vest came by, but other than that nothing. Why?” Rose thought about it. Splint had mentioned the past few funeral services and one included a poor fellow who had a rather strange obsession with his training pike. “The Master...” She mumbled as she began checking the coffins. Eventually she found the one with The Master's name etched into it, and found it. She lifted the lid and found empty.

Empty. His coffin was empty.

“How the fuck.... No... We don't have a necromancer in our midst do we?” She mumbled to herself. She closed the casket and headed back up and went to Splint office, knocking as she entered. “Splint, I need to tell you s-” She was cut off as Tomio was handing over the keys to the fortress as it were to a wide eyed twitching fellow who had a chestnut pike in hand. “I don't care if a wizard did it or if Armok himself decided to bring you back for fun, but regardless it's good to have you back old friend.” Splint said as he shook The Master's hand. “Oh it's good to be back Splint..... Oh so very good....” The Master's tone bothered Rose, but she brushed it off and took her usual place against the wall when Splint was meeting people. “I just wish I was here for the fight with the humans. They would have been such great fun to be turned into CARNAGE.” The Master shouted this last bit. Splint didn't seem at all bothered, but Rose and Tomio were noticeably worried. “Well, let's hope you do this place proud. If you want to go over the plans for the invasion, just ask.” Splint said. Tomio dismissed himself, giving a quick hello-goodbye to Rose as he passed. “Invasion for what?” The Master asked. “Hell itself. The demons down below decided not paying their rent was a good idea. We're going to show them what happens when you pull that shit in this fortress.” Splint replied as he got a huge box containing a dozen schematics and plans, and most obvious of all, unfinished munitions orders that needed to be put through. “Just let me know when you want to go over.” Splint said with a smile. Rose noted he seemed more stable than usual. “Oh I most certainly will...” The Master said with an almost deranged look on his face that once more bothered Rose to no end but Splint seemed completely fine with.

“But first order of business is booting that rugrat out of my room.” He said, hefting his beloved pike. “Just because a man is dead is no excuse to move into his apartment!”