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[Knight Otu]

In the midwinter of 2048...
The download of the game that a friend of yours had recommended has finished. Dwarf Fortress. According to your friend, the title is quite the Artifact Title these days, and she prefers to refer to the game as simply DF or Definitive Fantasy.
In any case, you have the game, but now your internet usage credit is in the negatives. It'll be a bit until you build up enough credit to get back online, but you should be able to message your friend for help occasionally, and there should be a in-game help.
She has given some suggestions on what to do with the game, but let's see it first. Extracting... good. Starting it... nice music, nice if odd movies. So that's what your friend was talking about with extra-low-level graphics.

The main menu gives you three options.
>Create New World!
>About DF
>Quit

Well, you won't quit yet, of course, and the About page is predictable. Let's go create a new world! That should get us to a new screen. Ah, yes, here it is...

Spoiler: Screen (click to show/hide)

Okay. You're really not sure what all those options do, but you'll work that out you're sure. What was it your friend suggested for world generation as a starter world, anyway... Small world, Single-pole Island, short history, medium civs, sites, and savagery, high beasts, frequent minerals, medium procedural, and either grim fairytales or epic fantasy. But is that what you want?

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Oddly enough, this is not inspired by the recent occurrence or DF2050 threads, but it was encouraged by them. I'm using an optimistic view on what the game might be like. I generally won't post "full screenshots" like above - it's more likely that any images are of sizes like the following:

And yes, I know.
I won't make any promises on the longevity of this, by the way.

[Fniff]

Hm... I think so, yes, let's not wait for a thousand years for the world to generate on a large world with lots of civilizations... But Low Fantasy might be fun instead of high fantasy or grim fairytale.

Low fantasy, change nothing else.

[zombie urist]

Low fantasy, change nothing else.

I'm fine with low fantasy, but for maximum fun,

Procedural content -> very high.
Savagery -> very high.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Low fantasy, change nothing else.

I'm fine with low fantasy, but for maximum fun,

Procedural content -> very high.
Savagery -> very high.

This, but Grim Fairytale

[freeformschooler]

Low fantasy, change nothing else.

I'm fine with low fantasy, but for maximum fun,

Procedural content -> very high.
Savagery -> very high.

This, but Grim Fairytale

+1.

[Knight Otu]

You're not one to shy away from a challenge, so you set procedural content and savagery to the maximum. You're still torn whether to use low fantasy or grim fairytales, though...

[tomio175]

Low fantasy, change nothing else.

I'm fine with low fantasy, but for maximum fun,

Procedural content -> very high.
Savagery -> very high.

This, but Grim Fairytale

+1.

You're not one to shy away from a challenge, so you set procedural content and savagery to the maximum. You're still torn whether to use low fantasy or grim fairytales, though...

And now you're no longer torn.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Yeah, Grim Fairytale! Woot!
Maybe if I talk differently, no one will realise I'm me...wait my avatar is a distinctive D...

[adwarf]

Yeah, Grim Fairytale! Woot!
Maybe if I talk differently, no one will realise I'm me...wait my avatar is a distinctive D...

I agree, also
A quick change to a different avatar could work :3

[TopHat]

Grim fairy tale.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I take it no one noticed this?

Yeah, Grim Fairytale! Woot!
color=transparentMaybe if I talk differently, no one will realise I'm me...wait my avatar is a distinctive D.../color

[Knight Otu]

(adwarf noticed it.)

Yes, grim fairytales should be it. If the generated world is even half as freaky as some of the fairytales you've read, that should be quite entertaining. You hit 'y' and watch the worldgen process. On the left, some numbers are running about. On the right, you periodically get a snippet of what seems to be the history of the world...

Spoiler: World Gen (click to show/hide)

Once upon a time, the great hag Ciriko Datha, the Ageless, began wandering the Whispering Wilds.

During the early winter of the year 3, the ratfaced troll-witch Nirica assumed the shape of a female human to infiltrate the Realms of Crowns.

As the midsummer of the year 8 began, the dwarven tailor Tosid Axearm adopted a wild boar piglet as her child.

When the world entered the early spring of the year 13, the human woodcarver Woge Autumnglee learned the secrets of true puppetry.

In the late fall of the year 19, the dwarven king Zasit Knighthelms was murdered by a grisly human bone puppet and fashioned into a grisly dwarf bone puppet.

As the midwinter of the year 25 began, the ratfaced troll-witch Othur the Raven Beast was executed in the city of Sporrosubi for murdering and impersonating the human princess Niwir Silverwing.

In the early spring of the year 26, the green fisher Cequova took up residence beneath the town of Iņousan.

During in the midfall of the year 34, a pack of scarborn wolves began to scour the Plains of Silver.

Sometime in the late winter of the year 37, the human spearman Thel Growlarrow slew the grisly human bone puppet Aru the Hatchet.

When the world entered the early spring of the year 43, the hunchbacked ogre Olngö the Gray enslaved the villagers of Ethbaramet with the aid of Silver Table.

Sometime in the early summer of the year 49, the dwarven axedwarf Deler Peaksouth happened upon the Prince of Geese, who invited her to his realm.

As the early summer of the year 57 dawned, the green fisher Cequova lost his right arm to the goosemaid Deler Peaksouth, forcing him to flee from the sewers of Iņousan.

In the weeks of the late spring of the year 63, the dwarven queen Tholtig Abbeycrypts broke the geas of servitude placed upon her by the great hag Ciriko Datha.

At the dawn of the late fall of the year 70, the great hag Ciriko Datha gifted the nail of her right thumb to the human peasant Kammat Blackrose, who fashioned it into the hag-nail dagger Wuthrog An.

In the early winter of the year 74, the great hag Ciriko Datha vanished from her hut in the Forest of Eyes.

During the late winter of the year 79, the green fisher Cequova was slain by the human hunter Kammat Blackrose with the hag-nail dagger Wuthrog An.

As the early winter of the year 86 began, the dwarven queen Tholtig Abbeycrypts slew the savant viper Kugadod who had murdered and impersonated the dwarven advisor Urist Vineportal.

As the midsummer of the year 100 dawned, the great hag Ciriko Datha reappeared in her hut in the Forest of Eyes along with the leaf-haired crone Resm.

In the late summer of the year 108, the Realm of Crowns lost contact with the city of Sporrosubi.

In the early winter of the year 111, an expedition to the city of Sporrosubi vanished without a trace.

At the dawn of the late spring of the year 116, the wild boar Kulet Axearm shed its skin, becoming a dwarf.

Sometime in the early summer of the year 124, the great hag Ciriko Datha brought to the world the great hag Lanami Alece, the Guileful.

Onra Arkur, the World of Memories has been created.

After finishing the save, the game offers a new option - Start Playing! Choosing it, you are greeted with four more options.

>Adventure mode
>Settlement mode
>Legends
>Compendium (Simple overview)

Now, your friend suggested taking a look at the compendium first, then trying adventure mode...

[GreatWyrmGold]

>Compendium

[Knight Otu]

Compendium sounds useful. Hopefully it is. You enter the mode and find another menu.

>Major Civilizations
>Major Cities
>Political Situation
>Known Bestiary and Fauna
>Known Cosmology

[tomio175]

Back, adventure mode.

Otherwise, Major Civilizations/cities.