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[Corai]

-Cave the mountain is a saying in this forum I think. It means drop craploads of stone on them.-


"That wont work, they float. They'll just come up thru the water or magma. Cause these are simply unkillable, they are magmaproof. Feverproof, waterproof, TOUCHproof."

[wierd]

"Well, walling up the hall, even with dirt, would work better than a table and chair barricade. Those don't block doors, you need statues for that." He blurted, remembering only after that this wasn't quite like a game of dwarf fortress. "I mean, it would wor better than tables and chairs."

[Corai]

Nil looked around.

"Aint got no dirt around here, just stone. And the closest boulder or dirt are miles and miles above us. Eric didnt like the boulders lying around, told him we needed some down here. But no, he didnt believe we would need 'em."

[wierd]

"Look. I can work glass.  Just... push the cart against the door, and hold on to your panties, and I'll go make some green glass bricks or something."

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

The army passed through the gateway to one of the realms linked to the Bay 12, and arrived at the fortress containing the Slashdiver, the dragonic creation that had the same abilities as Urza's Skyship Weatherlight.(name generator gave me Slashdiver)
Zanzetkuken looked upon the ship before him, and said, "Is it able to planeshift?"
"Yes, and without the sacrificing of a plane that was necessary for the Weatherlight," said the general.
"What was it you used?"
"Geothermal magma, and water reactors."
"Weapons?"
"The latest from research."
"Than let us not stall any further."
As the army headed into the massive ship, Zanzetkuken said to the General, "Have the recruit with the identification number #0089231802 meet me in the war room."(That is the number of the recruit you stole your armor from Hugo, so it will be you I am asking to speak with)
"Why do you request him?"
"I wish to speak with him."
"It shall be done, Emporer."
Zanzetkuken flashed a look of annoyance at the general.  "I shall not be emporer, ever again.  I ask of you to refer to me by my name instead, for I no longer want any form of unilateral power over others."
"I appologize, Emp- Zanzetkuken."
Zanzetkuken dismounted, and unsummoned his chrome steed as he headed to the war room, while the general ordered a nearby soldier to get the recruit, and lead that soldier to the ship's war room.

You're up, Hugo.

[Eric Blank]

-Cave the mountain is a saying in this forum I think. It means drop craploads of stone on them.-

[And no true dwarf would ever think of a solution that involved anything besides cave-ins and magma. ]

[And especially turning magma into obsidian taht instantly caves in! What Fun!]
Eric and the undead horror wandered down the hallway to the kitchens. Which were completely abandoned. Everybody always running off without telling him what's up. It was like he was 16 again with his brother and parents simply leaving to do fun and interesting things without so much as mentioning that they were leaving. Damn it!

They wandered deeper into the fortress, towards the unfinished dining hall. Maybe Corai was still on guard duty. He really should wall up that entire hallway... Of course, he should have walled up the old tunnel to Happyfaces' ruined shack, but as it turns out dwarves still do the first designations last, just like they did in the game, and walling off that tunnel was designated a week ago. If invaders were omniscient like they used to be, as they definitely weren't now, that would become a horrible death sentence.

When they arrived at the dining room, Wierd was standing there chatting with the guards, Corai was nowhere to be seen. Probably just came down here specifically to kill the runt. He was hungry, but the food items left on the floor involved mushrooms and noodles. Even the dreaded turtle roast was better than anything with mushrooms or noodles included. Damn it again!

"Hey everyone, what's the situation with this dining hall? What was the problem with it, anyway? A massive deposit of processed uranium suggesting the presence of ancient aliens bombarding our ancestors with nuclear weapons or something?"

They didn't even notice him, even though he was plenty loud. Damn it some more, why don't ya!

[wierd]

Weird sighed. The megalomaniac always had a knack for finding him. Maybe he was using spies? He would have to be on the look out from now on to be sure...

"Looks like somebody did some unsanctioned raw editing again." He scowled. "Created yet another unspeakable horror without any weaknesses. Like we don't have enough fun around here already. And what's this I hear about all the stone being over a mile above us? I was just suggesting we wall off this whole section to contain the insanity until we know how to deal with it.seems our clandestine rawmancer likes things that are both innocuous sounding, and which make fire.  Sadly, that looks like it will involve my working at the glassworks... during a seige.. to make green glass blocks... Way to manage this place eric."

[Eric Blank]

"Well if you lot hadn't tried to dump all the work on me and actually helped with the planning and shit, it would all be more efficient. All I was really intending to do was keep the constructions and excavations organized so it didn't all fall on our heads because someone neglected to inform us that they made a massive stone block floating in the air, supported only by a single pillar and we just dug out underneath that pillar, causing it to collapse. And ye, we needed all the blocks up top to build all the outdoor structures. Just hold on, I'll go dig out some boulders and chop 'em up and build yer walls." He wandered across the hall, and began chipping away a huge section of wall, leaving a slab of rock, then began making another. There were no other designations currently, but he figured he'd work the new hole into the fortress layout at some point.

Stopping halfway through, he turned back around, "Did you say RAWmancer? We can DO that? This changes everything! Why don't we just remove goblins' lungs?! We could just make huge war dogs with steel skin that breed like rabbits and use them to combat all this shit that's been coming our way! Screw the tower, I could be building a steel war dog deployment system!" He quickly began dividing up the first slab of rock and built a wall on the opposite side of the doors. "One of you dwarves imbue this with indestructibility, eh? Don't want whatever horrible, invincible abomination is in there getting out."

[WillowLuman]

[Stamped out rawmancing in the last thread due to, well, godmodding. Dwarf Fortress 1.0, btw, so I guess while dwarves are still stupid for the most part, things are fairly realistic in many cases.]

[wierd]

Weird slapped his forehead.  Him and his big mouth.  Way to go shithead. Hand the keys to the kingdom to the mentally disturbed jackass with control issues.  Way to go. Next thing we know, he'l be mucking in the raws so bad that we'll all be drinking out of cups carved from pure gloom, and eating on a table made from solid miasma. If he caused a raw duplication and turned us all into pixies or giant roaches, he would become homocidal.

"I don't think creating *MORE* indestructible monsters is the proper course of action eric..." weird suggested carefully.  "Raw duplication is a very real possibility with uncontrolled editing. I think we should find whoever made the unsanctioned edit, and make *them* deal with their little creations instead."

He hoped eric went for it.  The omnipotence, and all the risks that went with it, of unregulated raw editing was just too great a risk to......everyone....everywhere.  hell, nuclear bombs were safer than fucking with the laws of the universe YOU HAPPENED TO BE IN, and damn the consequences! Better to leave that foul smelling fart of a genie tightly corked in his bottle instead.

[WillowLuman]

[How the HELL does someone even edit the raws from within the world? I don't know how the hell happyface and Corai got their hands on a laptop that somehow could do it, but I don't think it should actually happen again. Just too much godmodding potential, and it doesn't even make sense. Characters THINKING it happened, though, is okay.]

[wierd]

[I can't think of a SAFE way of doing it, but a very *UNSAFE* way would be an unsigned code injection attack by corrupting the stack and injecting new executable code to perform the action through a buffer vulnerability would be one way.  Glitching the debugger interface toady uses for deveopment to turn on would be pure profit.]

[Eric Blank]

[Stamped out rawmancing in the last thread due to, well, godmodding. Dwarf Fortress 1.0, btw, so I guess while dwarves are still stupid for the most part, things are fairly realistic in many cases.]

[Probably should have done it sooner, before Zanzetkuken figured out how to RAWmance himself an invincible, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent-through-numbers-with-tiny-spies-and-mind-reading army of dragons that used "magic" cards and "mana" tissue layers that slowly regenerate as reagents in interactions that do all sorts of shit. And before I figured out how to make a shitload of magic interactions, like elemental battlemages and defense mages. And druids, and shamans that leave permanent curses or blessings on their victims.

Yeah, when the goblins come and 5% of their population is either battlemages, shamans, or werewolves, and they tear us apart, curse us to forever suffer horrible plagues of attribute deficiency, and set our lawn on fire (AGAIN!) you can all blame me. ]

[WillowLuman]

[Those are the result of both mods put in before we came to this world, and  that it is a kind of "real," less "game-ish" world where study created more forms of magic. The raw editing was changing the merged CW Hugo and Gbaneg into slade to make it sink into the ground and turn enemies into poofs of smoke.]

[Weird, I meant changing the raws as an action performed by someone who is actually trapped within the game world. Them being able to do that makes just about no sense.]

[wierd]

[Hugo:  a stack corruption exploit makes use of the von-neuman architecture of modern x86 cpus, where data and program code live in the same memory.  Basically, you create data that could also be interpreted as executable code. A common form is a simple bitmap image, or a tiff. You then jump execution by causing stack corruption, through a buffer overflow. a potentially exploitable one I know about is the value register for merchant happiness. You can trade them into being mad, by overflowing the register. That overflow causes a bit length change in the size of the stack, and changes the alignment of the data structure, which if you pull it off just right, can cause the existing jump instruction after evaluating the merchant's happiness to jump to your "data", and execute it.  This is how the indianna pwns exploit works for hacking wiis. As long as you were *really* skilled with x86 assembler, and knew the memory layout really really well, you could own the silent, omnipotent figure with the toady monitor's face and hard.  Of couse, that kind of thing would be radically meta, and narrative destroying, and so shouldn't be attempted.]

[In this case though, the data I would contaminate with executable code would be the description page for a piece of artwork. ]