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[Max™]

Chapter 53 is up!

Well alrighty then, you have a Balrog.

I'm sure you'll find a good storytelling use for it, but my oh my, the RNG really hates these dwarves.

Simo is definitely the most dangerous single creature I've ever experienced in Dwarf Fortress. Of course, play the game for long enough, and statistically something absolutely horrible is bound to show up.

I'd rather fight him any day than a single webber, but that's adventure mode talking, where being webbed is one of the few things guaranteed to make all equal, vanilla peasants, modded superhuman demigods, and everything in between.

[PyroTechno]

Nitpick for Chapter 53:

Image 2: It's the 2nd of Granite, not the 2nd of Graphite.

[DS]

Nitpick for Chapter 53:

Image 2: It's the 2nd of Granite, not the 2nd of Graphite.

Ugh, what was I thinking? Graphite isn't even a month!

[Max™]

Made a simple mistake?

That's a hammerin'.

[Ancalagon_TB]

it's almost the same!   Granite, graphite...

... well the flammability might matter...

[mcfrei]

So the next chapter is already baking? 

Maybe you should flood with lava the tunnels where Simo Veiledsins dwell? Or maybe his mist will clear the foul fog?

[DS]

I can say with some certainty that flooding the abandoned tunnels with lava will not have a desirable effect... and I'm sure that Simo's mist has no effect on the fog. I am pursuing another route... slowly but surely. My new job has been taking up nearly all of my time, which of course means Roomcarnage has been placed on the back burner. But the story is not over!

[DolosusDoleus]

Soooo, when can we expect the next update?

[Meneth]

Due to imgur's layout change in september, I would recommend that you add "/layout/horizontal" to all the links in the first post.

[Silverybearded]

The best DF players are those with overactive imagination. Because to them, the insanity can very well become... TOO real.

[Pseudo]

Don't forget, in and around all the other insanity: You now have water and wood. DWRs are now possible. As are minecart shotguns, etc. If you do it correctly you should even be able to make a water shotgun.

(Yeah, your water supply currently is limited. But you can make an ice melter - it only takes 2/7 water to freeze into ice, but ice melting turns to 7/7 water.)

Ditto: you could replace the bridges in your  with copper spikes hooked to a lever, for a standard dodge-me trap. (Just make sure no dwarves wander into it...) (And maybe dwarves shooting bolts through fortifications for good measure - although you'd probably then want to fortify the other side as well and do the same trick as in your shooting range so you don't lose all the bolts) Or does your dislike of weapon traps extend to spikes?

Ditto: a repeater for your pit trap would pretty much eliminate the micromanagement. (Or a pressure plate hooked to a delay before it?)

(Also: for reference I personally don't like the horizontal layout, to the point I have an auto-redirect to add/change imgur to "/layout/blog" (or w/e it actually is). That being said, as such it's pretty much irrelevant to me what layout you choose.)

[Sherlock70]

How long is it possible for an average human to stay on the edge of his seat? Multiply that by 10, and you get, what a reader of Roomcarnages history cheerfully endures, just to be first hand witness to this gruesome display of horror.

Take your time, DS, we can always start reading from the beginning...and will always find something new.

Sherlock

[DS]

Soooo, when can we expect the next update?

Soon, I hope! I have the week off from work, and I am planning on putting in some time finishing this chapter. I'm already about a quarter of the way through the captions.

I appreciate the support in spite of the hiatus! If you thought the last chapter was a cliffhanger...

[Pseudo]

Yes, yes I did.

...Am I going to have to start pulling the same trick I do with certain other periodicals, namely stopping halfway through each update?

[DS]

You do whatever you have to do. It won't affect my storytelling.