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[saltmummy626]

I just came in from a long career of lurking to log in just so I could say:

Chapter 2: The Skypig = Fucking comedy gold.

[Catsquidcat Overlord]

Fingers crossed this starts up again in the summer.   

[TheImmortalRyukan]

"It be Summer! Taupe! I, Ryukan, do summon thee!"
The Forumite gestures. The thread moves.

[Taupe]

I'm still on the forums here and there. I won't lie, progress isn't happening much. My will to build bigger and larger has been eroded to oblivion by micromanagement and low fps. What free days I, i find it hard to dedicate to slowly ordering the reconstruction of pitfalls and mining designation. Call it Dwarf fortress burnout.

I know this is not the satisfying ending anyone wants, nor deserve. It makes me mad as well. I know some random day in maybe a year I'll get this sting again, and dive into Whisperwhip once more, but until then I have a hard time playing. And I don't want to destroy the fortress on a whim, nor flood it with magma. I also know I don't want to force myself to play just to reach an ending, because that ending will be soulless and devoit of fun. Hell, I even considered calling it quit and isolating the dwarves from the world, but that's when I realised I had lost touch with my true goals, and the spirit of this fortress.

Until then, I'm sorry to admit that this fort is on pause. A likely long pause. For about two years, this has been most of my gaming time, and it has left my batteries empty.

[Dorsidwarf]

This is a beautiful,insane creation and you should be proud of the majesty and fuckery you brought to us, there's no need to apologize. The itch to Dorf comes, the itch to Dorf goes, and that's how it is.

Thanks for all the stories you've told us, Taupe.

[Bearskie]

Well if you do ever decide to return, there are some minor broken images - only if you want to fix them that is. For easy access, here are the quotes and corrected links:

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18th of felsite, 110

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The newest elven caravan appeared today. because there were no goblins in sight with whom they could kill themselves, they immediately proceeded to drop a caged animal and spent their whole visit trying to put it back inside. Once they finally unpacked their shit, they told us that they were leaving, and repacked their stuff exactly zero seconds after they arrived.

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More from the south! this place is turning into a godamned mill, i swear! As soon as this is over, we need a complete door overhaul. Thankfully, the courtyard menace is held off in time, and we can spare some men to take back the main entrance. The rest of the troops will climb the new jail tower and repel the western forces. This building isnt even finished yet, we have been at it for a year now, this fort's need more than a simple door overhaul.

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It's not complete, but it does the job. the tower and the jail's roof are enough to give our milicia a terrain advantage, and the western forces are repelled. Many start to flee south. ah, did we beat them? good job boys.

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A symbol of eternal strife in the northern continent. War is the only thing this child knows from growing up in Whisperwhip, and so thats what he depicts in his art. It's also made of dingo bones and menaces with more dingo friggin bones, so I tell the child to run around with it in the kennels, to remind the little bitches what we make of the dingos who dare turn semi-wild. A dingo goes widl and cripples the child in response.

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Clouds of death and doom filling the kitchens, just a normal day in whisperwhip.

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that's it! with nothing but Armok to pray, of course our people has grown bloodthirsty. Kodal is a sweet and protecting deity, and a temple to her grace would be just what our spiritually void and behaviorly misguided dwarves could need! I spot a wall in the soldier catacombs, and order it to be torn down.

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And start working with our architects to lay out the plans for the temple:

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We also have a deity of wealth and metal, but thats not what our people need right now. I order the designation of two small vaults on the side of the temple, where we shall store our most valuable artifacts. I want any spiritually-related statue set aside, but im sure our masons will both a few ones, and it migh be hard to recognise our godess from a mere mortal dwarf in a few instances. Uneager to let those statues go to waste, i also set some miners to work on a lower level, and tell them to start digging noble tombs. Tht's where the spare statue will go:

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It's worth mentioning that the pool used to clean soldiers has been smashed. It is now filled with boulders, and the ramps are destroyed. Unless I tweak the thing around, we can't use it. Repairing it would be useless anyway, as it would be ruined with every activation of the trap.

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...As those weakling birds soon realize. The newfound elk bird colony is dispatched with haste, while Drokles lament on the foolishness of migrating here. Is she talking about the birds, or us? it's better not to ask.

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I return to BASE1 with haste, where the mayor is waiting for me. ''the magma levels are now adequate!'' he announces. Indeed, our first magma forge is now ready for some action.

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And a Cyclop? By Kadol do bring that to me, with haste1 what a wonderful specimen!

Also, have a pdf. Warning: its huge (>300MB, 1100 pages).

[Taupe]

Wow. You are doing Armok's work. He probably doesn't give a fuck, but i do. Great work.

[TheImmortalRyukan]

You know Taupe, you are probably my favorite Bay12er and I consider you one of the greats. Your turn in Doomforest is legendary and this very fortress follows your progression theough the game from noob to you now. Your writing is an inspiration and I hope you keep it up here at Bay12.

Just had to put that out there

[Taupe]

Thanks bro, that's appreciated!

Meanwhile, I know this isn't much, nor entirely related to Dwarf fortress, but I've been writing down my progress through the early Pokemon games as Nuzlocke challenges. It follows the same principles I used here, aka: play the worst I can and step it up once I'm deeply fucked. I've done Blue and Silver so far, so if you've enjoyed the writing in this thread, this may be relevant to some of you. The silver playthrough especially is more epic than anything like this has any right to be.

[De]

I hear you Taupe. I've started playing the latest Dwarf Fortress again after a pause of... I don't even know how long. It comes and goes. I tell my friends who don't understand that DF is like bathtub moonshine. It's kind of rough but when you want it nothing else will do. Follow your bliss man.

[Taupe]

I have no idea what is going on with this fortress. i have no idea what each lever does. This will be glorious.

Why is my only soldier fighting demons.

Why is the fortress exposed to several forgotten beasts.

Why is the entire landscape scorched.

Why is the main door opened and protected by a single semi-wild dragon.

Why is there a number of dead things in the five digits.

Why did this cat explode.

Why did all the cats explode.

Why do we have 900 querns?!?

Why is hell directly connected to the fortress.

Why is there a Collossus in the courtyard.

So, so many questions.

[TheImmortalRyukan]

[Taupe]

So little notes, so many levers...

Jokes aside, I'm slowly rediscovering how this insane fortress works. There are still two levers by the forges that I have no idea what they do. According to the map archives, they were built between 113 and 117, but a quick overview of the corresponding chapters didnt give me any hint of their purpose. I've been loading and killing the save a few times just to test things out. Apparently ''I play this fortress a lot so no need to write down stuff, I'll remember'' is a shitty archiving method, who knew.

So far I've painstakingly identified what controls the drawbridges, what seals which caverns, what makes the obsidian generator work, what seals the different parts of the fortress (nothing, good job me), the arena levers, the failed-attempt-to-gladiatorize-hell levers, and so many more (spoilers for the next chapter!)

I've almost enough to write a new chapter, but I just need time. (those blocks of text take forever to make)  I'll probably aim for about a chapter per month, give or take. However, I may have to change the narration a bit and do things from my own, exterior point of view as I rediscover this disaster of a fort. Mainly, because It's been so long and I've written so *much* about Whisperwhip that its basically impossible to simply jump back in and continue where i was, narration-wise, because so much has left my brain over time. It's not ideal, but I really don't remember which dead dwarf killed which of the 100 forgotten beasts, oron which day Clothsgiving falls (trick answer, it changes every year). If you've ever played a long RPG and quit midway, and came back years later only to reset your game because you don't even know which quests you did, or where you are supposed to go, or which stats you wanted to build, thats really close to where I am right now. So the format will have to be different the time being.

On the plus side, when I lost interest in the fortress, I took care to add detailed captions to each screenshot as to not let them go to waste. So there's that. Expect a chapter by... next wednesday?

[Sarrak]

AWESOME! 

[FallacyofUrist]

AWESOME! 

I burn with anticipation!

On a side note, Sarrak, didn't you play Roll to Magic a while back?