Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Lord_lemonpie]

((tour in progress))

((this means that I'm,writing stuff, so wait a bit))

Feel free to suggest places of interest

The surface, or anything with native wildlife to be hunted down.

[TheBiggerFish]

The surface is presumably no-go unless the radioactivity has cleared up.

[mate888]

The surface is presumably no-go unless the radioactivity has cleared up.

"Oh, so that's why there were so many 'stay out' signs surrounded by skeletons!"

[Gwolfski]

Right. I'll go from the top down.

Here are the old halls, which were heavily damaged when we got nuked. Be careful. There's the dormitories, lots of empty rooms now. Bi sad. Anyway, we go down here, and we get to the interesting stuff. Jails over there, and stay out of them. Next, here are the 'duke's' quarters. Don't like 'im. That's the gunpowder store. DO NOT LIGHT FIRES IN THERE! Oh, you're probably wondering what it's for. It's for guns, which are like crossbows but louder and deadlier. I designed some of those, namely the repeater rifle and some of the big guns we had before the event. Down that tunnel is purple rock which - oh dear, it seems to have spread a bit- Don't touch it. Behind this heavy lead door is radioactive stuff. Don't touch. As we go further down, we see the farms and workshops. Here's the library, Wealth of knowledge in there. Mundane and magic! Ask Fish 'bout magic. As we go down, we get to the caverns. Ignore the charred things everywhere. I live in this place, and i build machinery. It's wonderful. I'll show you it later. You probably are wondering about the ton of diamond by the stairs. That was a forgotten Beast. Speaking of those, there's a giant fire-breathing steel feathered serpent somewhere. He's harmless. That's all I can think of off the top of me head. Any questions?"

[TheBiggerFish]

....What purple rock?

[Gwolfski]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thought it was time for a journal entry, and time to try out some of this magic stuff.

Somethin'th of slate.
Well shit, diary journal! Something weird happened down in the mines today. I was diggin this strange purple rock that was glowing slightly and it was HARD!!!
I just could not break it! That PISSED ME OFF, and I was yelling at this rock about how I would destroy its entire world and devour the soul of its firstborn child because fuck that bitch, I'm going to break you.
 So I'm yelling and my blood is boiling and I was AAAANNNNGGGRRRYYY and then all of a sudden the world went monochrome right as I hit the zenith of my next swing. No time to stop now, I was swinging. So, I hit that rock, the world went from black and white to a photonegative. Next thing I know, I'm in a crater the size of a house.
So I got up, but SHIT Was I dizzy. I leant against a wall and it was really hot for some reason. Then, what the fuck, it's melting, and then I notice my boots are smoking and my clothes are on fire. OUAGH WHYYYY doesn't this hurt?
But get this journal. The source of this terrific heat was... Me! It subsided after about a minute but hell. Why wasn't I a !!Dwarf!!?
This will require further investivigation. Anyhow, that's all for now!

[mate888]

"What is a 'radioactive stuff'? We don't have those at the hillocks"

[Gwolfski]

"What is a 'radioactive stuff'? We don't have those at the hillocks"

"It kills you. It emits waves, like invisible light, which can kill you. It goes through walls too. Lead stops it."

[mate888]

"What is a 'radioactive stuff'? We don't have those at the hillocks"

"It kills you. It emits waves, like invisible light, which can kill you. It goes through walls too. Lead stops it."

"So, like... Murderous ghosts that are weak to lead?
Sounds interesting."

[Gwolfski]

"What is a 'radioactive stuff'? We don't have those at the hillocks"

"It kills you. It emits waves, like invisible light, which can kill you. It goes through walls too. Lead stops it."

"So, like... Murderous ghosts that are weak to lead?
Sounds interesting."

"Yeah sorta"

[MoonyTheHuman]

"Yea, thats about what it is... Anyone know where i can find something for my damn migraine? It's driving me crazy

[Amperzand]

For the curious, a brief attempt at information gathering finds a peasant gossip, who explains that the invisible poison is a curse laid on the fortress when a Dancer demigod was shot down by others of its kind and fell among the mountains here a few months ago. The crater where it landed is still visible, and the shock of that landing knocked down much of the old fortress.

Those who walked here recall the valley which had to be walked up to reach the fortress being pocked with craters, some still smoldering oddly, and at the end of the valley, away from the path which lead to the fortress entrance around one side of the mountain, a broken wall, a pile of rubble, the remains of simple farms left to rot. Bones among the shattered stone.

[Lord_lemonpie]

Right. I'll go from the top down.

Here are the old halls, which were heavily damaged when we got nuked. Be careful. There's the dormitories, lots of empty rooms now. Bi sad. Anyway, we go down here, and we get to the interesting stuff. Jails over there, and stay out of them. Next, here are the 'duke's' quarters. Don't like 'im. That's the gunpowder store. DO NOT LIGHT FIRES IN THERE! Oh, you're probably wondering what it's for. It's for guns, which are like crossbows but louder and deadlier. I designed some of those, namely the repeater rifle and some of the big guns we had before the event. Down that tunnel is purple rock which - oh dear, it seems to have spread a bit- Don't touch it. Behind this heavy lead door is radioactive stuff. Don't touch. As we go further down, we see the farms and workshops. Here's the library, Wealth of knowledge in there. Mundane and magic! Ask Fish 'bout magic. As we go down, we get to the caverns. Ignore the charred things everywhere. I live in this place, and i build machinery. It's wonderful. I'll show you it later. You probably are wondering about the ton of diamond by the stairs. That was a forgotten Beast. Speaking of those, there's a giant fire-breathing steel feathered serpent somewhere. He's harmless. That's all I can think of off the top of me head. Any questions?"

"Rifles, you say? Interesting. How accurate are they, and is there any way to make them more silent? Asking for a friend."

[Gwolfski]

Rsnip-

"Rifles, you say? Interesting. How accurate are they, and is there any way to make them more silent? Asking for a friend."

"They are pretty accurate, but I'm afraid they have to be loud. We can silence them to a point, but it reduces accuracy and damage. I wasn't really going for silence when designing them. By 'I' I mean 'we'. "

[Amperzand]

The firearms currently present in the fortress are at their optimistic best meaningfully precise only within a few hundred meters, and are both rare and lethally unreliable. (Around two hundred smoothbore muskets and handguns are present, but their accuracy is not to be discussed).

Firearm supressors have not been made, and the manufacturing to create durable ones is not present, but if they were considered needful, simple ones would be relatively easy to develop.

At this time, the priorities in weapons development have more to do with arming the Battalion of a thousand untrained conscripts recently arrived from the Mountainhome that arming covert operations teams, however.

Spoiler: Current armory if you want numbers and shit (click to show/hide)

Any reasonable quantity of medieval-type weapons and armor in storage and use. You can't outfit a Battalion without building more, but there's no shortage.
Approximately sixty kilograms of crude dynamite in storage.
Approximately a ton of black powder.
1 front-loaded howitzer and a dozen explosive shells, in storage.
2 light front-loaded cannons.
1 black-powder revolver cannon, ~30mm.
15 cartridge-loaded flare/grenade pistols, ~20mm, in possession of remaining pre-necromancer fortress militia, Murdoc, Fish. Each owner of one such has a handful of cartridges.
100 flintlock muskets, currently in possession of a group of serf-soldiers loyal to the players and their NPC officials.
65 black-powder revolvers, very crude/unsafe, in possession of players and loyal NPCs.
Six black-powder/straight blowback cartridge submachine guns. Deeply, deeply unsafe, hugely unreliable, very limited ammunition. In possession of original pre-necromancer militia and research team.
Ten black powder lever-action rifles, in possession of original pre-necromancer militia, Chaotic Skies, and research team. Limited ammunition.
Single scoped black-powder/cartridge marksman's rifle, breach loading, in possession of original militia marksman.
Ten kilograms smokeless powder.
Single smokeless powder prototype rifle, research team.
Single bolt-action rifle prototype rifle, research team.
Single heavy machine gun, research team, early development.
Single attempted rocket design, early development.