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[IronTomato]

If you're below drinking age, you shouldn't drink. And if you MUST, then certainly not to the extents of this thread. So yes, it is dangerous, and no, you shouldn't play Drunk Fortress.

I you got really, really drunk, would you get brain damage or something?
(I'm too young to legally drink, I'm 13...) Teachers at school say yes, but if I remember correctly they also say that having sex gives you hallucinations.

The brain damage part is actually kind of correct. It's a long-term effect, so getting really wasted once won't permanently impair your brain. It's just problematic if you always drink more than you can handle (especially on brains that are still in development). Thus:

*Important Note: This game is NOT meant to encourage substance abuse or underage drinking. Please participate legally and responsibly.

I should have been more clear. I don't drink and I have no intent to, nor have I ever. I was just asking if what you guys were doing was safe, because it seemed a bit extreme.

[Aseaheru]

well, that is a good point, but they also say that living healthy WONT kill you, and since ANY living will eventually kill you, you KNOW they are full of it.

[AustralianWinter]

Well, it all depends, I reckon, and while I certainly was drunk, I was able to get up at 8 o'clock the next morning and go to school. I'm being more incomprehensible than wasted, I gather. Also drinking like this is pretty standard, I think. You need to understand your own limits.

Also, Drunk Fortress is really funny.

[Ruhn]

I was just asking if what you guys were doing was safe, because it seemed a bit extreme.

Being drunk is not safe, that's why dwarf casualties are so high.
It's the same for the players, we are lucky to survive!

[AutomataKittay]

I was just asking if what you guys were doing was safe, because it seemed a bit extreme.

Being drunk is not safe, that's why dwarf casualties are so high.
It's the same for the players, we are lucky to survive!

Indeed!

If you're below drinking age, you shouldn't drink. And if you MUST, then certainly not to the extents of this thread. So yes, it is dangerous, and no, you shouldn't play Drunk Fortress.

I you got really, really drunk, would you get brain damage or something?
(I'm too young to legally drink, I'm 13...) Teachers at school say yes, but if I remember correctly they also say that having sex gives you hallucinations.

The brain damage part is actually kind of correct. It's a long-term effect, so getting really wasted once won't permanently impair your brain. It's just problematic if you always drink more than you can handle (especially on brains that are still in development). Thus:

*Important Note: This game is NOT meant to encourage substance abuse or underage drinking. Please participate legally and responsibly.

I should have been more clear. I don't drink and I have no intent to, nor have I ever. I was just asking if what you guys were doing was safe, because it seemed a bit extreme.

Yeah, it's usually pretty safe to have occasional drunk rampages in games. It's the binge drinking ( drinking hugely to point of blackout or total memory loss ) and alcoholics ( more than approximately 6 shots or more of alcohol a day is the standard, IIRC, over long terms of weeks to months or longer ) that you have to watch out for, since former points to some kind of risk mentality and lack of self-protection drive and can be excessively stressful to the body and latter. Well, addiction isn't good and liver can't handle constant high intake either, nor is it good for nutrient intake ( a lot of long-term alcoholics have a lot of issues with nutrition ).

I've not noted either of those in this thread so far, and hope that nobody will try to such excess!

Though that's considering normal person, some people are more sensitive or have medical conditions that complicate things. Those I hope would understand their limit if they attempts this game! Even with all the reputation of alcohol being the zombifier of brain, it's not as bad as most people makes it out to be when reasonably taken, since just living will do it enough

As for this game of drunk fortressing, as long as everyone's taking a few days break between the bouts and doesn't ends up passing out on the bottle, I think we're doing okay in term of lifestyle

[Scruffy]

I have been playing our drunk fortress world in adventure mode and there are pictures of FBs everywhere. Every second statue/engraving in human settlements is a statue/engraving of a FB and I even met some goblins that have a picture of FB as their symbol (thus every single one of their copper breastplates has a picture of a FB in them.) Also, some of the human civs seem to have a strange silver fetish.

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There are no human settlements near our previous fort so it will take me a while to arrive there (trying to do quests and gear up while traveling)

Edit: The kobolds! The kobolds are planning something! I found a few of them in sewers below a human town. There were a few weakling hanging around plotting evil things and a room filled with a dozen kobold skeletons. Then I opened one door and wham! 25 kobolds in the same room, 2 of them swordmasters and one elite crossbowman, most wielding iron!
Swordmasters and elite crossbow kobolds using iron?

Edit: And now my adventurer and his 10 servants got killed by a horde of bow kobolds. Over a hundred notable kills and I finally got killed by kobolds..

Fear the kobolds! They are evolving!

Ok, I visited our old fortress in adventure more but got slaughtered by a child ghost the very moment I tried entering the gates. Seems like the place is too haunted to visit.
The whole place was full of dead dwarves, dead crundles and abandoned (living) babies (found 4 just sitting on the ground). I tried collecting all the named skeletons and using them as throwing weapons.

[Trifle]

Ah, vodka, we meet again. I'd atke a turn if I was anywhere near myt desktop. My laptop shits it's pants if I even threaten to go into fortress mode. Who is in charge of our little ones currently?

[Aseaheru]

-snip-
Fear the kobolds! They are evolving!
-snip-
I tried collecting all the named skeletons and using them as throwing weapons.

wait, what? throwing body's? you nuts?

[Trifle]

wait, what? throwing body's? you nuts?

bODIES ARE SOME OF THE BEST THROOWING WEAPONS, SEEING AS IF YOU'RE DOING THings right, they should be in plenty abundance. I once cleared a tower of zombies using only themselves and my fists.

[Scruffy]

-snip-
Fear the kobolds! They are evolving!
-snip-
I tried collecting all the named skeletons and using them as throwing weapons.

wait, what? throwing body's? you nuts?

Well, who wouldn't want to kill goblins with their own dead dwarfs. The whole fort is full of them anyway.

[Basin is BACK]

please PLEASE add me to the list of playing players. this is like the best thing evern and I wan t to be a part of it.

[Clover Magic]

There is no list, just get liquored up and grab the save!  Whoever's drunk is the next player.   

[Scruffy]

Since it has been a slow drunk fortress week I will upload the journal from my unofficial reclaim. Should give us something to read while waiting for the next brave drunkard.

This is not the proper !!DRUNK FORTRESS!! save. It is just a reclaim of our previous fort I did while drunk last weekend.

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The last day of the previous turn, before the fort crumbling
Alas, our strenght has been broken and the fortress conquered.
..Why any greenskin would want to conquer that hellhole is beyond me.

Reclaim
Military expedition. LIttle food and no useless crap except stuff yuou can poke a kobold with.

Granite
Sealed teh migrant fort.
Dorfs spent most of hte moth hailirng junk in hte fort and trying to get hte fort up and running.
Why is the fort full of dfead dogs?
Diorfed random dorfs as random bay12 dwellers.
I'm still relatively sober so will set stockpiles and whatnot now whiule ims still able do complexs stasks
-(Was I really?)

Slate
Burrying the dead. Plenty of coffins leftover from the previoous overeeers.
One of the hidden FBs was engared and soon in hte dead/missing list. Something must have killd it.
Darn it, Those wre our FBs! How dare they kill 'em!
-Note to self: kill what ever killed our cute little pet abodimations

Felsite

Close the gates! Badgers! GIANT badgers! A furry centipede of enraged furrballs o death! Bar the gates! Seal the dooirs! Fear the badger!
Outside farmplosts not worknig
All we have to makef food of are prepared mosquito brains (tiny?( and crundle tallow. lots of it! And seome oter crap

Hematite
Made slabs of the forgotten beasts so tey wont be forgotten again.
Should ave brought cats and a better workers.
-Note toselfg: Perhasps I could replace the cats with ppotash makers. Make them hunt vermin for food.
I like that idea

Digging mora bedrooms imn the migrant fort. Also a cistern

TEH BOOZE MUSTR FLOW!!

Malachite
Bah, the murky pool doesnt refill because its covered bu that sky thingie
Migrants! Time to reclaim what was once ours
A goost battered our expedition leader (clovermagic). the poor fellow ist now missin a leg. Darn, she was one of our best crossdorfs

Galena
The dorfs are ignoring their dieing leader. Bobnova started running towards er, walked a few blocks away, grabbeda horse corpse and went bsack inside
-I need to promot that dwarf. I lik his style. CHose a dead horse over his boss.
Another violent baby ghost cut open scruffy's stomach. There goes our best melee fighter
-(Same ghost kills most adventurers who enter the front gate)

exp leader still starving
Scruffy's lower body is torn openand his innards fracturd yet he just decided to get up from hiss bed and go get a drink and start engraving the hospotal walls.
Forgot the pimps. the well is full of stagnarts swater
miasma from rotting prepared mosquite brain biscuiits everywheer

What ever comes after galena
TGime to open up the old fort
Part of the old fort is flooding. A FB has destroyed a door holding back the water
a Crundle--!

A web FB and a dust FB!
Everyone is either webbed or dead. A crundle is circling the carcass and awaiting to strike.
Someone i named after Wrex crapped the only axe in the frot from scruffys dead cold hands and hacked the fust fb to death.

The militar si sealed wi with the fb
..I hate webbing FBs

The FB is bruides all over. constantly being chipped by mhorse bone bolts. Every single bodyaprt and leg has a bolt stuck to it (and there are alot of legs!)
They are all dead Dave, except for Wyrmgoldbishmuth andf wrex that killed the beast

Sandstone
The FOrgotten beastssd are dead!
The web FB Oma Snotwastes the Mucus of Grease is dead!
Survivors = a few migrants and the two FB slayers Wyrmgoldbishmuth and wrex who are dieing,
On hte other news, wrex and wyrm are hunting for vermin. What did i say? we dnont need cats.
Hrips men intruppting eevrythog

Migrants!
Wrex just slaughtered some trolls with the borrowed axe. He is misrable and now a dabbling axedorfk,
We may have a silight jabberer problem
I pity te jabberer. stucj in a fb web, numb (likely from fb dust) and being bitten and kicked alive by a bunch of miserabvle midgerts.

timber

-Every single drop of that vomit was produced by Clovermagic.
caverns are sealed
Everythsi is cowered in fb dusts and crundle blood.
Whsts this? crundle tallow laced with forgotten beast frozen extrackt? FUnall y food!
Wyrmgold is dieing in the hospotals. Reason: broken liver
Aww, whoh fucks saje. another webbing FB!

Mechants

Neverh seen a dwarf tantrum as much as wrex and wyrmgold
Wyrmgold isn tantrumming while in hte middle ofa liver syrgery-

Moonstone
wrex went stark racing naked
Cgeese! biyght all the chese in the caravan. no food for dorfs. reating rats. now chees!
teth FB has arrived!

-Might have been the eleventh
Forgottens beast sulk sokcs! FB silk suturese!
recöao,ed tje deep bunkder. its still floodidng.

I tried entering the fort in adventure mode and finally got past the violent ghosts. (This was done in this save, not the original abandoned fort, so some dwarves were redorfed and the fort was one year older.)

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-Started collecting our corpses
-Found some familiar faces
-also found bobnova standin around, hauling a winepot
-Found a copper minecart. Tried riding it and managed to half the number of my followers.. Those things are deathtraps
-The whole fort is FULL of abandoned babies. Seems like our baby cap was pretty high and after abandoning all parents just dropped them where they were standing.
-Atleast the vomit is gone
-Reached the main staircase. Opened the door and the whole place is 7/7 deep under water? what the heck? Something must have released the rivarwater that was held back by a single wooden door..
-Found a goblin. Atleast we found out who opened that door.
-Still trapped in the waterflow
-The whole lower fort is underwater. Explains why the site was so laggy when I entered in in adventure mode. It is completely filled.
-Trying to dive.

-I managed to dive to the bottom of the staicase but now the water started flooding the deepest parts of the fort.
-I'm heading for the bunker.
-Found a wheelbarrow and a bin full of candy strands and FB silk cloth
-Man, this place is huge in adventure mode
-Don't know which lever is which.

-I'm sealed in. I doubt that I can swim back up nor can I farm. I will starve in here, as the last dwarf remaining burried deep within our fort.

-A candy axe! I forgot that I had that crafted before things went down hill.

-And they delved too greedily and too deep.. I'm peering into the abyss but it's not staring back. Boring.

...Time to DFhack that wall away and jump down
The End

This pretty much sums up the daily life of a chief medical dwarf in our forts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0yXqU-w9U0

[Archek]

Posting to watch. The combo of DF and booze is super-effective!
How was this not a thing years ago?

[AustralianWinter]

Oh god Scruffy. That's really devastating. Poor fellows.