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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #195 on: March 13, 2014, 03:08:14 am »

Interestingly, one of my stone carvers came up with this little gem:



Never forget.
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #196 on: March 15, 2014, 08:41:30 am »

That name..."Wagon come home..."
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #197 on: March 15, 2014, 09:38:44 am »

A Wagon Dirge

I hear your wheels upon the earth,
Around, around and gone.
I see the ruts you left in turf,
Around, around and gone.

Your proudest pose and wooden gait,
Your noble passage through
My land and Dwarven mine-
Your oaken heart was true.

About you grew the wildling trees,
The hills arose before your frame
In sights that Wagon never sees-
Oh the shock, oh the pain!

The streams you crossed,
The loads you bore,
The battles fought,
The endless war.

Your burden was our merchant’s goods,
You slaving life your curse,
But oh your death, it was
Deserving of a verse.

No more do I see you there,
Wagon good, wagon fair,
So rest in peace where you are,
Beneath the sky and light of star.

The wind I hope shall bring my voice,
To where you trundle on,
“Come back! Come back!
I was in the wrong!”

I hear your wheels upon the earth,
Around, around and gone.
I see the ruts you left in turf,
Around, - around, - and gone.
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #198 on: March 15, 2014, 02:44:07 pm »

Interestingly, one of my stone carvers came up with this little gem:



Never forget.

Never forget , the brave wagon who valiantly laid down its life for us.

Wagons can be memorialised because not only are they simulated as creatures currently, as part of the merchant caravan they're also historical persons, complete with worshipped deities and a name. Unfortunately, wagons have no language in spite of having a tongue, so their names are all a plain nothing - while a dwarf would be (using quotes to make it visible) "Urist McCatten" the dwarf, all wagons are "" the wagon, which leads to the sentence "Is falling." The subject of the sentence is the given name of the wagon, but that name consists of absolutely nothing, not even a blank space. Things would be different if wagons could kill other units, giving them titles.

They had the same problem with the Spawns of Holistic in Syrupleaf, which apparently had no proper language either, leading to invisible-named historical spawns. And if a dwarf was depicted in art killing a non-legendary spawn, it would invariably read "<Dwarf> is striking down."
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #199 on: June 11, 2014, 05:08:07 pm »

Oh, my God.
I just finished reading through this thread, and I can say that it is simply an absolute clusterfuck.
I know, I know, it's the Bay 12 Forums, but this somehow goes beyond most of the shit we usually post.
If this is not in the Hall of Legends, it should be.
Thus, I have prepared a short eulogy in memory of Wagon.

Brothers, sisters, join me, as we honor the memory of our dearest friend, Wagon.
He (she?) was built with wheels of strong, sturdy wagon wood, (Where the hell does wagon wood actually come from? Is there such thing as a wagon tree?) and a heart of gold. Well, Wagon did not, as far as we know, have any internal organs at the time of his scuttling, but it's the sentiment that counts. We have not gathered here to mourn Wagon's death at the hands of Urist Sockeater, who, upon discovering Wagon sleeping with his wife, took an axe to Wagon, and scuttled him with a single blow. Nay, we have come to celebrate Wagon's life, and the contributions of his people to ours. Before we ever strike the earth, before we ever accept the cold embrace of soil and stone that Armok, in his unending gratuity, has granted to us, we must first embark on our journey, always traveling upon the sturdy shoulders of a wagon. Perhaps the oldest here among us remember an age when wagons and dwarves lived in equity, although that time has long since passed us by, as we dwarves did the undoable: we broke the unbridled spirits of the wagon. We made them our big, wooden bitch. Hauling booze and provisions across untamed wastes, the wagons have served us well. Although I spake of the conducive-ness of wagons as a whole, let me end my brief memorial of Wagon's life and untimely death by speaking about Wagon. Wagon was a dick.
May Armok have mercy on his soul.
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #200 on: June 11, 2014, 06:28:25 pm »

Funnily enough, the thread about a dead wagon just can't rest in peace  :P

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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #201 on: June 11, 2014, 07:43:47 pm »

THIS. JUST THIS.
I want to see a wagon that lays iron chairs that hatch into MORE WAGONS.
Why?
For Fun, and probably some fire-related Science.

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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #202 on: June 11, 2014, 09:29:43 pm »

"Complete protonic reversal?"

Hmm............

I seem to recall a self-destructing fire mage invader once being mentioned on the forum. (With pictures!) Essentially the result of adding fireball casting as a learnable secret, the wizard initiated a massive fireball attack when cornered, and exploded himself spectacularly in a 10x10 ball of smoke.

Failing that-- what happens when you duplicate "iron" in the material raws.

I would very much like the raws for fireballs being a learnable secret. That just sounds like !!Fun!!.
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #203 on: July 18, 2014, 12:22:31 am »

What the hell happened here?
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #204 on: July 19, 2014, 10:13:26 pm »

What the hell happened here?

Wagon, a good man, has crumbled to his death. May he rest in peace at the Wagon paradise.
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #205 on: July 19, 2014, 10:14:49 pm »

Someone needs to do an adaptation of the song Gangsta's paradise for poor Wagon.

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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #206 on: July 20, 2014, 01:04:30 am »

As I trundle through the valley of the shadow of scuttling
I take a look at my load and realize there's nothin' left
Cause I've been rolling and wheeling so long,
That even my wainwright thinks that my axel is gone
But I ain't never crossed a wagon that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a plank you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you're talking and where you're driving
Or you and your dwarves might be lined in dolomite-sarcophagi
I really hate to scuttle but I gotta lob
As they croak, I see myself in the bridge malfunction, fool
I'm the kinda W the little saplings wanna be like
On my wheels in the night unloading goods in the trade depot

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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #207 on: July 20, 2014, 01:08:55 am »

As I trundle through the valley of the shadow of scuttling
I take a look at my load and realize there's nothin' left
Cause I've been rolling and wheeling so long,
That even my wainwright thinks that my axel is gone
But I ain't never crossed a wagon that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a plank you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you're talking and where you're driving
Or you and your dwarves might be lined in dolomite-sarcophagi
I really hate to scuttle but I gotta lob
As they croak, I see myself in the bridge malfunction, fool
I'm the kinda W the little saplings wanna be like
On my wheels in the night selling goods in the trade depot


I cried
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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #208 on: July 20, 2014, 01:19:03 am »

As I trundle through the valley of the shadow of scuttling
I take a look at my load and realize there's nothin' left
Cause I've been rolling and wheeling so long,
That even my wainwright thinks that my axel is gone
But I ain't never crossed a wagon that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a plank you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you're talking and where you're driving
Or you and your dwarves might be lined in dolomite-sarcophagi
I really hate to scuttle but I gotta lob
As they croak, I see myself in the bridge malfunction, fool
I'm the kinda W the little saplings wanna be like
On my wheels in the night unloading goods in the trade depot

Tupac alive and make album without scuttling in wagonland ;-;

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Re: Here lies Wagon: may he rest in peace
« Reply #209 on: July 20, 2014, 03:59:16 am »

As I trundle through the valley of the shadow of scuttling
I take a look at my load and realize there's nothin' left
Cause I've been rolling and wheeling so long,
That even my wainwright thinks that my axel is gone
But I ain't never crossed a wagon that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a plank you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you're talking and where you're driving
Or you and your dwarves might be lined in dolomite-sarcophagi
I really hate to scuttle but I gotta lob
As they croak, I see myself in the bridge malfunction, fool
I'm the kinda W the little saplings wanna be like
On my wheels in the night unloading goods in the trade depot


We've been spending most our lives
Livin' in a wagon's paradise
Carting 'round merchant's supplies
Livin' in a wagon's paradise~
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