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[BlackOctoberFox]

Hello curious travellers! I, the BlackOctoberFox, invite you to play Dwarf Fortress with me.

If you saw Succession Rotation game in the title and thought, "What's that?", well let me explain. I'm sure you're familiar with the whole concept of a succession game, that is if you've spent any length of time on these forums, or playing Dwarf Fortress.

A Succession Rotation game is quite similar only one little twist. I'm looking for anywhere between 3 and 6 people to participate.

We each take turns controlling the fortress Chaincraft (Uses version 0.34.11, LazyNewb Pack embark.) After a two year period it passes to the next person. Once it reaches the last person, it returns to the first person who controlled it and the cycle begins again.

A few rules:

• All those who participate will be "Dorfed up". If your named Dwarf is killed during your turn, your turn is over and you are (unfortunately) taken out of the cycle for the next person. If it is killed during another player's turn you may claim a second dwarf. If there aren't enough dwarves to go around (which should only happen if the person playing is awful unlucky) then you may claim their dwarf and remove them from the cycle. Just as an incentive NOT to wreck the place.
• There are to be no roll-backs, so don't intentionally make the fortress unplayable. The embark selected has multiples of both shallow and deep metals, a river, no aquifer, dense woodland e.t.c. so we shouldn't have any challenges when it comes to resources if we play smart. If for some reason the fortress becomes unplayable, it will be abandoned. (Unless there is someone who believes they can stop the chaos.)
• Use Dwarf Fortress File Depot, or Mediafire to pass on your turn.
• Write your overseer's diary regularly. We don't need to hear about every fey mood but at least give the next player in line a chance to read up on what has happened. Screenshots are optional but remember a picture is worth a thousand words, that and we won't believe your dwarf killed a dragon with his bare hands unless you can provide actual evidence 
• Each player has to complete two years before passing on the fortress. To keep people interested there are time constraints. When it is your turn the previous player must message you, you have a week to reply and download the file. There is then a further 10 days allowed to complete the two years (might I suggest you use at least 60FPS?) If the 2 years aren't completed in that time, either due to cpu limitations, real life getting in the way, or just simply laziness, upload what you have and pass it on, but keep in mind you will NOT be allowed to return to the cycle unless I say so.
• There are no skill restrictions. I still don't have a clue as to what I'm doing 50% of the time in this game, but that's all part of the !!Fun!! Be it a pro or a newb, anyone is welcome! Just remember to help each other, tell the next overseer what should/could be done, make suggestions as to the future of the fortress. I want this place to last as long as possible.

TL:DR Don't be stupid, and don't take forever with your turn!

I know, I know that's a lot of rules, but it should weed out the problems other succession games have when it comes to unreliable players (damn you education/work?!), so simply post a reply if you want to join. If there isn't any space left, don't loose heart, a space may become available. Hell even mine might open up if I get a job.

Current Rotation:

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• BlackOctoberFox (Spot now open due to University.)
• Mataro
• Mouseshy
• DarkArtemisFowl (Broken PC, may need removal.)
• Exodius1
• Th4DwArfY1
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Current Turn:

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Mataro

Famous/Funny Quotes:

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Update in progress...

Notable Achievements:

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Achieved.
Still to be Achieved
Failed


Stone Medal: Survive 10 Years.
Copper Medal: Survive 15 Years
Iron Medal: Survive 20 Years
Bronze Medal: Survive 25 Years
Silver Medal: Survive 30 Years
Gold Medal: Survive 40 Years
Platinum Medal: Survive 50 Years
Adamantine Medal: Survive 75 Years
Armok Medal: Survive 100 years
Food, glorious food!: According to stocks, exceed 10,000 Food and Drinks
Eco-Friendly: Have both a wind farm containing at least 6 wind turbines, and a water wheel connected to a river.
Delve to the depths: Discover a Cavern.
Goliath, meet David: Discover a titan.
Wander would be proud: Successfully Kill a titan
Million Dollar Man: Have a created wealth of 1,000,000.
Dragonborn: Kill a dragon.
I want to be a Billionaire: Have a created wealth of 1,000,000,000,000
The Bat-man: Have a Vampire in your fortress.
Goblins be gone!: Set an example to those child stealing goblins. Cage one up and put them on display in front of your fortress.
If you would be so Kobold: Cage up and display a Kobold in front of your fortress.
This isn't Boatmurdered!: Kill 100 elephants.
Remember Me?: Discover a Forgotten Beast.
Gone, but not forgotten: Successfully Kill a Forgotten Beast.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: Discover Lava.
Power to the People: Successfully harness lava's power in a magma forge.
On the Highway to Hell: Discover an underground artefact.

Due to Character limitations of messages, (40000) journal entries shall be stored by me on a .rtf file, compiled into one massive journal complete with pictures where available, and will hopefully be compiled into a .pdf for people to read. That is why the first few turns are missing.

Turn 3: Mouseshy

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I keep getting lost in the fortress, but here's a small update.

Looted the goodies off the dead elves. Mostly cloth.


Set up and started soap production. Now the fortress will be marginally less stinky.


A child went to a better home.


Had a small kea problem. The duck didn't stand a chance.



Broke 1 million created wealth. Dwarves took up a vegetarian diet unwillingly.


Elf caravan came, bought out all their booze, food, and raw wood for a few large gems. Afterwards a had a pair of goblin ambushes led(?) by humans.
(forgot to take a screenshot of the second ambush).

They were easily taken out. Only injury was a broken arm.
Immediately after the ambushes a carpenter finished an exceedingly useful artifact.




When I was checking the health screen to make sure I didn't miss any ambush injuries. I found this nincompoop, with pet pet goose in tow, who managed to strand himself on top of a wall. I designated a ramp up to him to be built. We'll see if he survives til then.


Also, I drafted and outfitted a full squad of hammerdwarves. They're slowly training up.

We start out with another dwarven adoption.


Another child got taken, but the military managed to catch up with the snatcher.

Unfortunately, the goblin fell in the river.  The child had a broken back, and no one was willing to try and save him. The fishies will eat well tonight.

The human caravan came. Traded for pretty much anything useful, including meat and fish to help relieve the dwarves from vegetarianism.

Suddenly, we had a bit of fun down by the magma forges.



A fire imp was the culprit. Military took him out easily. By the time they got down there three dwarves and a puppy had died.

While I was looking at the unit list, I noticed we had a visitor.

There was no announcement, and he was just chilling at the edge of the caverns. After a few minutes, he left.

A fancy mechanism got made.



More fallout from the fire imp incident.


The keas returned for more shenanigans.


Which did not last too long.

Pretty sure this happened during sparring.


An impressively sized caravan arrived. Once again, traded for anything useful. I also offered a couple iron discs in order to get us in the mountainhomes' good graces.


Kid from earlier finally dropped.


Two ambushes, one casualty.


Fancy table.



Wrapping up winter, we got three ambushes.


One death, several serious injuries(military and civilian). I don't think a couple of them are going to make it.

For some reason the rest of the fort has decided this injured dwarf doesn't need to go to the hospital.


Why hey think it's a good idea to wander around aimlessly out side the fort walls, I'll never know.




Still there. I've tried switching several dwarfs labors to just recovering injured.


Fancy. We've got a queen now.


Finally got the marksdwarf to the hospital. Looks like he's got permanent damage. He can use a crutch though, so I'm going to leave him in the squad.


For some reason the last caravan decided to leave all it's blood and ichor barrels in the trade depot(I sure as hell didn't trade for them). I couldn't get the dwarves to do anything with them, so I had to nuke em with DFhack.


I managed to anger the elven caravan this year. I have no idea what did it. I looked over what I offered several times, no wood to be seen. So I killed them all. Their horses too.


Useless artifact time!










Mined out the top portion of an adamantine pillar. Set up a workshop nearly and set a dwarf to only to processing duty.


Bridge to help protect against any accidents. Lever is in the dining room.


I know there are iron and steel shield floating around. Why are you using a copper one?


Okay, that's even worse.


Mining the adamantine pushed us over 2mil created wealth.


I have no idea what happened here.



Another death. After some investigating, I believe a magma crab was the culprit, probably what got the other guy too.


Early autumn we had a set of four ambushes. Lost the crutched marksdwarf.

The rest of the military ran off after the first ambush was dead and left him to fend off the second. It did not end well.

This is what happens when you haul your infant into battle(and use him as a shield, apparently).

After the third ambush was dispatched the fourth one ran off.



Been having trouble getting the dwarves to put on some damn clothes. There's crates upon crates of fresh clothing available, but I'm regularly dealing with naked tantrums.



How terrifying.


He immediately left the map after the announcement.

Final stats for my turn:

Turn 4: DarkArtemisFowl

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Turn Skipped Due to Broken PC

Turn 5: Exodius1

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1st of Granite 132

I have been appointed overseer for our fair mountain home for next two years and even though I do not know how long I’ll actually last as the person who was supposed to be an overseer instead of me, I think he was called Artemis or something (sound very elfish if you ask me), had disappeared in mysterious circumstances shouting something about his sister. Nevertheless I’ll do my best to make sure our home is even better after my lead than it was before. As a member of the guard I never took much of an interest in economy of our fort so I had to conduct a meeting with our manager, bookkeeper and broker to learn what we have and what we need. I have also replaced old captain of the guard with myself as I do not want anybody but the queen breathing down my neck when I’m trying to do my job.
These are the notes I took during the meeting:
We have over 13,000 food units of both food and drink;
We have generated, as of 1st of granite 132, 2,485,691 copper coins worth of wealth;
Our population counts 224 dwarves, 82 of which are not old enough to do any actual work;

It also turns up we do not have any jail cells and we need at least 22 of them. I have already chosen unpopulated area to be prepared for renovation and adaptation to role of our criminal holding facility. It may have been planned as a living area by one of the previous overseers but I do not wish to dabble with unnecessary expansion when we have very good cells-to-be available. I have also took liberty in moving fortress guards barracks closer to jail to ensure quick response if any of the prisoners would be uncooperative;


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Speaking of things that need to be built Her Majesty is complaining about her quarters being unsuitable for someone of her position, I will have to do something about that as well, but this is not a priority for me at the moment;
Another problem are animals, there are relatively not that many but they seem to get under everybody's feet and slow down work so I’ll need to either butcher them or cage the ones I cannot slaughter due to owners making a fuss.

Exodius’ journal:
6th of granite 132

I was thinking what to do with our youth, they have nothing important to do at the moment and have no job skills, I have also noticed that guards are the only soldiers with acctuall crossbows and we definitely could use more of them in the future. I may start training a new batch of marks dwarves, no more than ten, but I need a more proficient way of doing so. We also have couple of caged goblins lying around; I think I may be able to incorporate moving targets to our training somehow. Hmmm…. I think I have an idea, I’ll send a draft to our miners immediately to check if it is possible for them to create. I'll also have them sworn to secrecy, I need some time to polish the details and I do not need anyone to harass me with their ideas at the time. They are free to contribute once I'm done with it.
Miners have approved my little project saying it should not be too much of the problem as they had nothing better to do anyway and started working on it immediately, they also have discovered fire-clay while doing so, it may be invaluable resource to boost our economy due to its value.

Exodius’ journal:
18th-ish of granite 132
Please forgive me for scattered notes and horrible hand writing, today is a first major bad day of my career as overseer.
There seems to be a problem with our magma forging area. A magma crab managed to sneak in to the lowest levels of our fort and murder a child; I have dispatched militia immediately to deal with the intruder. Meanwhile that bloody animal managed to kill another child and attack a peasant and another one of our workers, my memory eludes me as to who exactly it was, and then fled back to its natural habitat before our brave soldiers managed to get even close. Peasant did not survive and the other causality went to hospital for treatment. After a closer inspection it turns out the problem was a stairway leading directly to Magma Sea. Usually the procedure is to blame whoever was a leader at the time of mining but I feel that I should have inspected the whole fort much closer before taking responsibility for it so I blame none but myself. Masons were immediately sent to fix the problem. I’ve also ordered some alteration to forging area itself managing to squeeze in a kiln at the cost of one of the unused smelters.
Here is a drawing of guilty stairs
 

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This was a long day; I need a drink.

Exodius’ journal:
28th granite 132
Black Fox had been freed from any non-administrative functions in the fort to improve the efficiency of managerial system, no more digging or hauling for you Sir.

On unrelated note it seems that one of our engravers, Kol Udosaban, had started working on some personal project. People say he is possessed and I agree because he took two raw adamantine pieces without asking anyone like an idiot. If this artifact of his will be useless I have no idea what I’ll do to him; something horrible most likely.


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So yeah tell me what you think of my writing style, I hope it is not that bad.

PS sorry for lateness of this, it seems this fortress is cursed or something, first Artemis' PC than my Internet doesn't want to cooperate. Also pictures are coming and i have some more of my turn to write up, i just need confirmation to continue from Fox, i do not want to put too much into it if my turn is going to be canceled.

Exodius’ Journal:
4th of Slate 132
Kol has finished his artifact, it is an adamantine crown, I’m now walking around the fortress asking people what to do with this idiot.

Exodius’ Journal
14th of Felsite 132
Nothing much happened since my last journal entry, we pretty much had been moving on with our lives. My special project is almost done.
We have a visitor, a Minotaur called Godum Mozirotung Kekimrinul Midul, later called Godum for convenience.  I have also noticed that previous overseers did not create an alert to send civilians to safety of our fortresses inside. I fix that immediately and tell everyone to go and stay in the hall with possible exception of kitchen.
I think a Minotaur would make a fine addition to my special project so we will attempt to catch it, but to make sure I’ve also told military to hide behind the corner to ambush him if he gets too far.
I’ve also received a message from below that there is a forgotten beast roaming around in the caverns. I hope there are no flawed staircases for him to get into fortress. It shall be left alone for now.

Exodius’ Journal
15th of Felsite 132
A snatcher had been caught in a cage, rather pathetic if you ask me, at least kobold thieves look where they put their feet.
Minotaur has also been caught, initially I thought It will not work as he chased after some poultry but he still walked into a trap.
Menagerie of targets for my special project is growing. Exodius’ Journal
17th of Felsite 132
More snatchers had been caught.
Elven caravan has arrived, they did not bring anything worth writing home about so we did not trade.
Exodius’ Journal
22nd of felsite 132
More snatchers

Exodius’ Journal
24th of Felsite 132
We have been ambushed! A squad of goblin bowman had followed the elves to our fortress!
I screamed for alarm but not everybody managed to get inside, one of our butchers had been killed.

Exodius’ Journal
25th of Felsite
We have captured 4 of ambushers and killed the rest, we have some wounded, now in hands of our doctors.
I’ve ordered lockdown for a week or until we figure out if elves had been part of this plot, Fortress Guard shall interrogate them, with me as a main inquisitor.

Exodius’ Journal
1st of Hematite 132
Summer has arrived

[Matoro]

I'm in. Do I have to say something more?

Also, when the fortress is "unplayable"? Is it just in the case of FPS death or is there other situations also?

[BlackOctoberFox]

By unplayable I mean where the fortress is either suffering from FPS issues, or is in such a state that it's FUBAR headed towards an inevitable demise (for example an out of control lava flood). It's generally open to public opinion and a majority vote. Just as a fortress can be abandoned, players may abandon the cycle and pass it on to the whomever else would dare try. As long as one person says "I'll give it a go," the fortress will carry on. If it is the opinion of majority (75%) of those in the cycle that the fortress is beyond saving, that is when it shall be abandoned. Those who wish to continue playing may instead start a new fortress in the same world if they so desire, and all of the saved states will be available for download for those wanting to see if they can "Win" so to speak. If the Fortress is completely wiped out in someone's go, then the Succession Rotation game is over.

[Mouseshy]

I would like to join. I think I can avoid driving the fortress into the ground.

[BlackOctoberFox]

Oh hey Mouseshy! Yeah guess I can trust you, YOU didn't nearly destroy Shakecloistered...

[Mouseshy]

Pfft..you barely killed off a quarter of the dwarves. I'd hardly call that destroyed.

[BlackOctoberFox]

I'm currently in Summer of the second year. Got relatives visiting today so I'll be finishing second year tomorrow. It looks pretty good so far, it's not the best and it's sure as hell isn't the most efficient fortress but it's surviving. Some things for the next overseer to take care of though:

So far we have basically nothing in the way of military. I don't understand how it works just yet, so if you could be a dear and fix that for me, that'd be great.

A fair number of idlers and children. Safe to say Dwarf Therapist needs to overhaul the labours. I've tried to fix it but it just looks a bit of a mess.

Food is a big issue. There isn't much in the way of hunting and the area is already fished out. I've bought enough food to last at least until the end of spring, provided the farmers keep doing their work, but we need more animals. We have a cow so maybe cheese is an option. Again I don't know how to do this just yet (I'm still learning.)

It's possible that I won't be able to move the dining area to the big hall I've been designing downstairs (I like me a grand hall). Don't worry Mouseshy, I haven't been going mad with smoothing stone so we shouldn't be getting destroyed by megabeasts. I've learnt from Shakecloistered.

Defences. So far we have a drawbridge that can completely seal off the only entrance. I have started to build a second entrance to connect to the butcher's and fishery workshops, just in case we get more animal. I think it'd be best if this alternate entrance be filled with traps, with the option to seal it up as well.

The dorm in the clay layer I've built could do with expansion, as well as more bedrooms to be built on the living/dining level. We also need a couple more offices and the start of a hospital. Unsurprisingly, I don't know how the medical aspect works just yet either.

So that's the to-do list. As for what I'm going to do for the rest of the year. Build up a large wood stockpile and expand outdoor farms. Start smelting all of the tetrahedrite and magnetite to make copper, iron and maybe silver bars. I may also make billon bars. With the metal I'm going to make a lot of armor, picks and axes for our military, woodcutters and miners. Oh and try to avoid killing everything. That's a must.

[Matoro]

I don't think we really need copper if we have iron. Do we have a flux stone?

Make some iron armor and weapons if you can, I'll try to get military running at my turn.

[BlackOctoberFox]

I believe the embark said we have flux stone, though I have yet to find it.

[BlackOctoberFox]

By the gods I need to sleep... I'll finish up Autumn but then I'm going to bed. The food situation isn't improving much but we seem to be stable. I don't want to slaughter animals until we have a fair number that can breed.

[BlackOctoberFox]

Overseer's diary, sans pictures, has been uploaded.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

Count me in. This'll be my second succession game, both of which I barely started .
Let's see how dorfy we can get with this fortress.

[BlackOctoberFox]

Okay you're in, just read the rules again though. Mataro seems to have forgotten them as it's their turn and they haven't messaged me yet to say they've started. You'll be after Mouseshy.

[Matoro]

Ok, I downloaded the save. The fortress is a surprisingly small for being a home of 127 dwarves. You'll get an update soon.


EDIT:

Can I post the updates (diaries + pics) to this thread, or do I have to send them to you first, BlackFox?

[BlackOctoberFox]

Put them in the thread and I'll quote them, or just stick them into the .zip file when you're done, I'll download it and add the report. DFFD is still giving me issues, it won't let me upload pictures for whatever reason so I may end up using a Tumblr page or something. And I realize the fortress is quite small in retrospect but hey, all (or most) of the dwarves have a bed, there are plenty of tables, chairs, food and alcohol, so they can't really complain that much.