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[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

I decided to start a new succession game, set in an evil tundra glacier. The current lineup is me and my friend, but if anyone asks, they can join in too. I will soon post the save files. Please keep regularly updating.

[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

I started one, with raw mats only, and it died by giant zombie weasels.

[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

The second one died by zombie ravens

[Prudent Viper]

Sounds good, but you might need a bit more detail if you're going to attract anyone.

[pisskop]

yea,

Sounds good, but you might need a bit more detail if you're going to attract anyone.

It sounds interesting, but I don't even know what version this is, or if you are using a graphics pack, or if your raws are modded in any way, or whathaveyou.  Do you and your friend consider yourself new, or do you have any limits to your conduct?

[TheHossofMoss]

I'm interested, but I don't know when I'll be able to do it.

[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

Sorry, I was not on for a very long while. In the mean time, however, ravens kept killing every last dwarf (for about 5 fortresses now). Then, While looking at legends, I found out that the zombified version of the dwarf I named after myself got the SECOND highest number of kills in the dwarven race. SECOND!

[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

As for the technical stuff, I am not using any mods that I am aware of. The version is 40.X and I am using CLA texture packs. However, I can switch back to default ascii if anyone wants it.

[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

This bloodline may also take a while, as I have started other fortresses.

[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

One thing I found amusing is the fact that I used advanced world gen to make lots of tunra and lots of evil. The amusing part is that I had a tundra on half the map and and evil mountain range on the other (if you include exaggeration)

[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

As for experience, I can accept everyone who can keep a fort from starving/slaughtered. The aforementioned friend, however, is an absolute noob

[HideAndSeekLOGIC]

I have started a new one, this time set in a real glacier (not tundra). Took me a while to figure out how to get from ice to stone. A zombie yeti was walking around everywhere, but no trouble from him

[zubb2]

Hi guy, I just started my first succession game. With barely one game under my belt I may not be the best to tell you this, but anyway.
You should edit you first post and use it as the game rules and details. A succession game seems to be mostly working the forum, by that I mean (write better).
Read all the better than yours and mine succession games on the forums and take stuff you like from everywhere.
Might want to check your game once a day as well.(I forget too.)

Also I have seen that if events happen in game like "ravens killed me" you might want to exaggerate for the sake of entertainment. Thats what all the people I read do anyway. Like seriously make stuff up.

I'd like to join for a turn or at least a dorf (zubb, farmer) if this thing gets ironed out some.

Mainly don't quit, even if your terrible. People will play eventualy. Good fort to you.

[Timeless Bob]

Hi guy, I just started my first succession game. With barely one game under my belt I may not be the best to tell you this, but anyway.
You should edit you first post and use it as the game rules and details. A succession game seems to be mostly working the forum, by that I mean (write better).
Read all the better than yours and mine succession games on the forums and take stuff you like from everywhere.
Might want to check your game once a day as well.(I forget too.)

Also I have seen that if events happen in game like "ravens killed me" you might want to exaggerate for the sake of entertainment. Thats what all the people I read do anyway. Like seriously make stuff up.

I'd like to join for a turn or at least a dorf (zubb, farmer) if this thing gets ironed out some.

Mainly don't quit, even if your terrible. People will play eventualy. Good fort to you.

Wow, I don't EVER lie about what happened, but I don't go all nothing on the details either.  "Ravens killed me" is a summary that paints no picture and is the bare-bones facts.  I might write instead: "One raven swooped in, biting my eye, and as I was busy trying to choke it, these other ravens came at me pecking and scratching, it was like that scene in Hitchcock's "The Birds!".  Anyway, I eventually succumbed to their ferocious attacks and they cawed with laughter at their newly slaughtered feast."

The story is in the "how" and the "why" and the particularities of the "what".  "How" did the ravens kill you, "why" did they do it and "specifically, in what" manner?  It also helps to understand "how" your person got into that situation, "why" they were there in the first place and "specifically what" they were doing that led up to their demise.  Sometimes it's more interesting to tell it from an observer's point of view - for instance, suppose the person telling the story is the adventurer's weapon?  That point of view might be similarly bitter because "your" mount, (the adventurer), was slain by these ravens - now you have to attract another mount by being all shiny and "ooo look, a sword!" (or whatever).

[Prudent Viper]

Sometimes it's more interesting to tell it from an observer's point of view - for instance, suppose the person telling the story is the adventurer's weapon?  That point of view might be similarly bitter because "your" mount, (the adventurer), was slain by these ravens - now you have to attract another mount by being all shiny and "ooo look, a sword!" (or whatever).

Bob, you are just a fountain of good ideas. That, my good man, is an excellent writing prompt.