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[k33n]

Amazing. Care to translate the poem bit?

[Timeless Bob]

Here's the translation as near as I can tell:

Hero walk wild drill routine
Treasure walk wild door           
World walk wild drill routine
Treasure walk wild door

Time time Realm Ancient union
Life prison time time round

First last hour last pull
Dinnerwander everlasting Dinnerwander evil

Hero walk wild drill routine
Treasure walk wild door
World walk wild drill routine
Treasure walk wild door

The word "rat" has no analogue in dwarven speech, but the closest one is "arat" which translates to "Drill routine".

[kesperan]

Another one bites the dust, Strangemood. Loved your story and poem.

Have fun making a fortress.... I had the idea that making it far from civilisation would be more of a challenge because there are loads near Dinnerwandered. The problem is if it is too far away folks tend to be eaten by dingoes before reaching it!

[Argonnek]

I must say, it's pretty sad when the most dangerous thing to our fortresses is time + dingos.

[Timeless Bob]

Ah, the joys of a rapidly "civilizing" world.

[StrangeMood]

Good to hear you guys liked the poem. I always finds it adds something to read/hear something in its original form, even if that form is a none-existing fantasy language. I took quite some artistic liberties to overcome the problems with the current languages in Dwarven Fortress, mainly to do with the lack of verbs and some other words. For verbs and other words that lacked translation, I used a truncated form of a word with similar meaning as I suspect real-life languages have done. Anyway, this is how I intended it:

Usmen oma kozi rat
The heroes went out

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There is no word for out, so I instead used "wild" to indicate that which is outside of one's current location which I suspect to most humans in DF is the wild outside of towns. I chose "rat" for the verb "goes". It is a truncated form of "arat" which means routine, something that comes and goes continually.

Mistrum oma kozi as
The treasures came in

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I chose the word "door" as a word that could mean to enter or come in, as most people do so by door.

Onra oma kozi rat
The world went out

Mistrum oma kozi as
The treasures came in

Atir atir Omon Woge gil
Forever we lived in our kingdom

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Atir means "time", and is repeated here for effect, as I suspect human writers of Omon Woge could do. There is no word for "life" of "to live" that I could find when writing this, so I chose the word "gil" which means "union". To live is to be one with one's kingdom. This also relates dramatically to our hero who, with setting out on his own, cut himself free from this union with life only to meet death.

Kimen Kathro enem enem tok
Live captured in an eternal cycle

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There is no verb for captured, so I truncated the word "kathroc", which means prison. There is a word for "eternal", but I chose to use the word "enem", meaning full, as I thought it sounded better when repeated. There is no word for round, so I truncated "toke", which means round.

Quehlico orub Quehlico xubkib
Dinnerwandered everlasting, dinnerwandered evil

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To sentence is there to indicate that life (i.e. the union with the kingdom) in Omon Woge centred around their capital. However, with the decay of the world and the strange heroes somehow attracted to Dinnerwandered and its museum, the capital is now also considered part of the world's curse of decay.

Usmen oma kozi rat
The heroes came in

Mistrum oma kozi as
The treasures came in

Onra oma kozi rat
The world went out

Mistrum oma kozi as
The treasures came in

[Bralbaard]

Dwarven poetry! Great stuff, I enjoyed translating that.

I'd like a go. Have fun writing the name 

I use copy-paste in situations like this. The turn list is updated.

[StrangeMood]

Dwarven poetry! Great stuff, I enjoyed translating that.

It's human poetry. Omon Woge human, not earth human; but still Good to hear you liked it.

[kesperan]

I think the Museum's first poem should be linked on the front page.

[Timeless Bob]

I'm sure it'll get a link when the game turn goes to the next person.  My "Gazeteer" things did, and this is just as pertinent.

[StrangeMood]

So I made a fort, and had some fun. I'll try and upload the save file tonight.

Thanks for the chance to participate in this, I had great fun. Please sign me up for another turn

[Putnam]

Remind me to write some music to that in Ab minor (7 flats, 7 dwarves, SYMBOLISM).

[Timeless Bob]

Hey Putnam: Remember to write some music to that in Ab, K?

I was thinking this might work as a sort of Gregorian Chant type of thing.  How about you guys?

[StrangeMood]

I was thinking this might work as a sort of Gregorian Chant type of thing.  How about you guys?

That's how I imagined it, yeah.

Anyway, turn finished, had great fun. I sent Bralbaard a PM with the save file. Good luck to the next in line!

[Bralbaard]

I've send Timeless Bob the link to the save game.
Here's the map with the new fortress, Landplanted (near the center of the world):

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I linked the poem on the front page, and am waiting anxiously for the moment when I can put a link there to Putnam and Timeless Bob's version in Ab minor+gregorian chant.