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Misty Kolnazom, the Greatest Cheesemaker Ever!

Reg Pashmad the Recruit

Gruzzlus Holt the Captain

Plumpy the Plump Helmet Man

Kulet Lokunnomel the Nun

Enir Twigappears the Overseer

Darkerdaffodil the Elf

Maynard the Mule

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Iron Owl the Iron Knight

[Dwarfy]

Timeline so far:

• Get up
• Escape room via vandalism
• Engage in sneakanigans
• Confront father/overlord
• Yield to father/overlord
• Engage in some more sneakanigans
• Escape safe home in journey for glory and cheese
• Fall on face; repeat until bottom of the hill
• Catch up with caravan
• Engage in conversation with non-sapient creature
• Engage in conversation with somewhat more sapient creatures
• Be amazed by religion via friendly old nun
• Be horrified by religion via blood-covered nun
• Engage in more conversation with sapient creatures
• Be told to shut up and given the hand
• Engage in sass silence the future

Estimated time passed: 2-4 hours
Estimated distance traveled: 11.29 DUMs (Dwarven Units of Measurement)

[Alev]

They're Kilourists. Not DUMs. We measure everything in Urists. Temperature, weight, distance, what have you.

[Nail]

Oh yes, I remember the old DU vs. Urist wars. The whole mountainhome was in uproar: they were trying to instate this new system of standardized units for every little thing, when it's so much easier to measure everything with just one unit. You won't end up confusing units either! Oh yes what a quaint notion it was.

[Dwarfy]

They're Kilourists. Not DUMs. We measure everything in Urists. Temperature, weight, distance, what have you.

Conversion:
11.29 DUMs = 4.95 Kilourists

There!
My apologizes for the utilization of a massively antiquated system, my olde bones simply steer me wrong at times.
Well, now indeed the measurement is so wonderfully clear and meaningful to all parties involved, no longer arcane!
I'm glad for the sake of forumkind that this matter has been dealt with promptly, and thank you profusely for your sage advice.
Now in order to not be taken as offensively sarcastic but merely sarcastic in a goode-spirited sort of way, I shall include the addendum of a 'smile-y face'.

=]

[Nail]

So one KiloUrist is exactly 2.2808080 repeated ad infinitum DUMs.
What a beautiful coincidence.

[Rexfelum]

Estimated distance traveled: 11.29 DUMs (Dwarven Units of Measurement)

Conversion:
11.29 DUMs = 4.95 Kilourists

I missed the exciting (and no doubt intellectually stimulating) debate over units of measure, so I'm still trying to pick things up.  Are we talking distances on a fortress-scale map?  Adventurer scale travel map?  I presume it wasn't one of them fancy-shmancy zoomed-halfway adventurer travel maps, as those were a more recent creation.

--Rexfelum

[expwnent]

We really need to stop using urists as the unit of measure for everything. It can get confusing real fast if you're not careful.

[Alev]

We really need to stop using urists as the unit of measure for everything. It can get confusing real fast if you're not careful.

Dwarves are confusing and stupid. That's why we don't Note what the 200 levers all packed into one room are.

[Arcvasti]

We really need to stop using urists as the unit of measure for everything. It can get confusing real fast if you're not careful.

Dwarves are confusing and stupid. That's why we don't Note what the 200 levers all packed into one room are.

"If trial and error was good enough for your grandparents, its good enough for you."

[Julien Brightside]

"The merchants are coming. Pull the lever for the welcoming bridge. It is placed near the pour lava on everything lever."

[mate888]

-snip-
Good. Now you'll go to Hell. Are you happy now, you soulless sig thief? You... Kobold impersonator?! ARE YOU HAPPY?!

I only wanted a pretty sig to bring home to my family... You don't know how hard it is to be a Kobold!

I... Sorry. I didn't knew. Here. Take this sig, I don't need it.
*Two months later*
"Honey! Why is a kobold war party on our backyard?!"
"Oh, god dammit, DARLING! BRING THE IMPALING SPEAR"

[Nail]

I usually place a stockpile of goods for kobolds to steal, just so i can have fun with their rading parties.

[mate888]

I usually place a stockpile of goods for kobolds to steal, just so i can have fun with their rading parties.

I love this forum. Is recomforting to know there's people as sadist as me out there.

[MeimieFan88]

PTW

[Dwarfy]

I usually place a stockpile of goods for kobolds to steal, just so i can have fun with their rading parties.

I love this forum. Is comforting to know there's people as sadist as me out there.

I love it because we essentially just had a welcoming party for a new poster that included verbal assault and ended with discussions of Kobold-based charity and its suitability to entice trainingdummy raiding parties. Really speaks for the psychological effects of the game really.

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Then again, so does the fact that yesterday I made a quantum stockpile set to drop rocks several z's, and made a 1x1 pen at the bottom where I put every non-livestock animal those pesky migrants haul in. Including the named ones. I had recently mined a quarry.
Then d...b...d...
Then I watched as the dwarfs crushed their own pets by stoning. It took so very long a time. There was quite the mess.
I think I might experiment with it as a method of death-exposure training...perhaps put it in my dinning hall in a glass case. Maybe behind a locked door so that I can use it for useless migrants...ah, Dwarf Fortress!

Anyways, neither here nor there! Carry on, all!