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By the holy swelling of Armok's Prostate, this is unfair!

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No, really - my miner's head was ripped off before he even started digging!

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OHMIGERD WHY OH WHY OH WHY

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Your sanity has crumbled to its end

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I'm a masochist.  This is the perfect spot for a new mountainhome!

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Total Members Voted: 0

Voting closed: November 16, 2013, 07:34:02 pm

[Jerky]

Immediately upon unpausing:

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I'm doomed.

[FireCrazy]

Starting now.

[WoobMonkey]

Immediately upon unpausing:

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I'm doomed.

Well, on the bright side, scoring shouldn't be too much of an issue for us!

This will be more fun that I thought!

[FireCrazy]

So far, no deaths. Dug out a shelter. Hit an aquifer. Experiencing food shortages. Things are going to get much much worse I'm expecting.

[Jerky]

Good news! You won't have to wait until next Sunday for an update.

My initial plan was to have my miner carve out a quick shelter while the rest of the dwarves gathered some plants. But as I said, my expedition was immediately welcomed by a flock of giant zombie sparrows:

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Okay, maybe I could still salvage this. We just needed a distraction to get everyone to safety. I picked out the most doomed-looking dwarf and had him run away from the rest of the group.

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Unfortunately, the zombies killed him even quicker than I expected, and my dwarves scattered everywhere. Things were looking pretty grim, but my miner was by this point far enough underground that I thought those hell-spawned birds might not follow him. Even if I lost everyone else, I've played solo forts before and I could probably get by with just this one. As soon as I got my hands on some stone, I could build a door to keep the undead out, then wait for the right moment to go plant gathering...

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Urist Mcbirdseed cancels dig: damp stone located

You can guess how things went from here.

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This guy dove into a murky pool and drowned rather than be torn apart by birds. He was the smart one.

Only Cerol the expedition leader managed to keep a level head. She crept up on one of the monsters as it chewed on the remains of my militia commander and punched it in the back of the head again and again. Finally, the rotten corpse collapsed under her assault.

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It was a meaningless victory. There were still six more sparrow corpses left. Nearby, the miner emerged from the side of the hill, wet and dejected. They locked eyes, and without a word, both knew what the other was thinking. This world was never meant for dwarves.

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Welp, that's that. Do I get any points for a kill list one name long?

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[Grimmash]

How about this:

At the end, all participating players vote for the best fortress, and you cannot vote for your own.  Plurality wins, and we can give each other awards for interesting achievements if so desired.

I find the writing and sharing of descriptions is often the best part of DF, so I really could care less about trying to win an arbitrary points system.

I could see many scenarios where a player dying gloriously or gruesomely could be the best fort, if the death involved the failure of a particularly dwarfy idea.

[WanderingKid]

Howdy folks.  Woob poked me to drop by.

This looks amusing.  As I'm finally getting my personal concerns in order, I'm able to get back into being Dwarfy... which means I'll be banging away at FurnaceClans again once I get Pinnacle purchased.  So, since I've already got my own dwarf project, I'll volunteer for being a judge, if you'll have me.

[4maskwolf]

Okay, I took a look at the embark again and this doesn't work.  At all.  In all likelyhood, there will be no way to get stone, which means no way to make a forge, which means no way to cut down trees, and to get any of these things requires a trade depot, which requires three logs, which means no door, and no door plus evil biome is death.  Damn it.  I'm screwed.

[WanderingKid]

Okay, I took a look at the embark again and this doesn't work.  At all.  In all likelyhood, there will be no way to get stone, which means no way to make a forge, which means no way to cut down trees, and to get any of these things requires a trade depot, which requires three logs, which means no door, and no door plus evil biome is death.  Damn it.  I'm screwed.

Fast and easy for trees: You have 3 logs in the wagon.  1 for a carp shop, another for a training axe.  You now have trees.

Avoiding the immediate undead assault is another issue.

[4maskwolf]

Derp de derp.  Forgot about that.

[4maskwolf]

We have arrived.
This is an area entirely unsuited to dwarven habitation.  There are rumors of undead stalking the hillsides, but we will endure.  Several of us get to work picking plants, the others build us a small bunker to hide us from the undead.
We dig out a storage area for the wood we must gather.  Unfortunately, there is an aquifer directly beneath us.  This will be problematic.
Well that sucks.  Our carpenter was injured and is now throwing tantrums.
And then the livestock got torn apart.  Fabulous.  I hate this place.  On top of all this, all of our dwarfs go hungry because the undead are keeping us inside.
They are all dead.  All but me.  And the carpenter, but he is too injured to work and will likely die of starvation soon anyways.
I hate this place.   
I am the only one left.  The carpenter went beserk.  I cannot leave, they will kill me on the way out.  I must try to survive.  Alone.

At this point, the last surviving dwarf was killed by a heron corpse.  Literally right after I wrote that. I'd post pictures, but nothing spectacular happened.

[WoobMonkey]

Howdy folks.  Woob poked me to drop by.

This looks amusing.  As I'm finally getting my personal concerns in order, I'm able to get back into being Dwarfy... which means I'll be banging away at FurnaceClans again once I get Pinnacle purchased.  So, since I've already got my own dwarf project, I'll volunteer for being a judge, if you'll have me.

Thanks for poppin' in!  Of course we'd be glad to have you - the more impartial judges there are, laughing at our failures, the less likely the results are to be biased.  Plus, if ya wanna plug FurnaceClans, or any of your minecart/machinery tutorials here on Bay12, I'm sure those who may be having difficulty with this challenge would appreciate it.

Now, on to my Mid-Year report:

Spoiler: an inauspicious beginning (click to show/hide)

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit some dwarves. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbits bolt-hole, and that means [dis]comfort.”

Spoiler: 2nd Granite.  We had to dig a hole, fast, and block it off.  We'd just arrived, when 4maskwolf spotted these guys: (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Unfortunately, he was mesmerized by their shambling and oozing, so didn't get in in time: (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: And there was a scuffle.  Poor 4maskwolf (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: of course, that's not the last we were to see of him (click to show/hide)

5th Hematite.  Things have finally settled down enough for us to grab a couple plants and brew them.  We also butcher our draft animals: they're far more useful in our bellies than in our hidey-hole.

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puutuulion dug out a big space, and we dug out a small ramp to the surface when the coast was clear; just long enough to chop some trees.  Unfortunately, we weren't quite quick enough getting back in to save our pair of brave recruits from a Louse Woman Corpse:

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Since then, we've managed to gather a few more logs, enough to build a screw pump, a meager dining room, and a door.  Now to take on the aquifer!

Spoiler: "Fortress" tour (click to show/hide)

This is the surface.  1 is where our little entrance/exit to the surface is.  2 and 3 are our brave fallen companions.  4 is where we first started this mess, and lost our first beard.



Home sweet hovel.  Until we can get some more lumber, we'll all have to share a single bed, table, and chair.  The dump pit leads to water at the bottom, and was put in to control potential miasma problems from refuse.  So far, hasn't been an issue.  The only miasma we've had was when I moved the food stockpile, and forgot to enable meats for a minute, hurrdehurr.



This is the aquifer level z+1.  Doing the double-slit setup, as materials are scarce.  With only 4 of us here, we don't need much of a staircase right now anyways.



Drinks have run out again; at least everyone has had some booze; going back to water for a little bit won't kill them.   No migrants yet, but I expect to see some very soon.  Hopefully, they'll come soon enough, and in great enough number, to get another lumberjack and carpenter training - it'd be nice, but unlikely, to have a trade depot set up in an outdoor airlock, before the first caravan arrives.

End Update 1

[WanderingKid]

WK's Juding rules (for this competition):

I disagree with puutuulion a bit, so I propose the following:

Mountainhome (WITH king for 1 year): Win.
2+ at MountainHome:
First Tiebreaker: # of starting 7 still alive (barring death by natural causes)
Second Tiebreaker: Value of fort 1 year after king's arrival

Otherwise:
1) Highest sustained population at peak of fortress.

2) Value of goods left behind for adventurers

3) Difficulty increments will provide multiplier:
a) Trapping and usage of FBs for defenses and/or production
b) HFS involvement
(Values undetermined and left to whatever floats through my ugly brain at the time)

4) Stories.  I want fun stories to read.  Make me interested in your fort.  Keep them short though, I don't want to read ameteur novels, either.

5) Cool factor.  This is... vague.  Death by awesome is just as cool as making a throne to Armok.

That... yeah, well, I dunno.  A starting point anyway.

[ShadowHammer]

Hmm... Sounds exciting. I would like to sign up. However, I don't have winrar, so could you post a zipped version as well?

[WoobMonkey]

Hmm... Sounds exciting. I would like to sign up. However, I don't have winrar, so could you post a zipped version as well?

No problem. 

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8139