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Roll back to before Taupe's disastrous turn

Keep going and see what happens

Let it die

[Mr Frog]

Concerning the fortress itself, things aren't as bad as they seemed.

EDIT: Wait, they are.

*snrk*

[Crashmaster]

Is the water feature still running? It needs occasional attention.

[TheFlame52]

That water feature is the only thing keeping this fort from imploding.

[Mr Frog]

That water feature is the only thing keeping this fort from imploding.

+1, fix the water feature if it's stopped working. Let the soothing mist carry us through the dark times.

[Monitor Lisard]

That water feature is the only thing keeping this fort from imploding.

+1, fix the water feature if it's stopped working. Let the soothing mist carry us through the dark times.

It's been working fine so far, though I had to rewind it during my first turn.

"...Burned farms, dead livestock, destroyed roads, fortresses in ruin, occasional feral spawn or banshee bandit. The country is a total mess. However, the journey would have been less dull if it wasn't for Sheka, who kept demanding us to stop for her to feast on leftover poultry! Seriously, I am not travelling with a werecreature next time. Anyway, we are about to arrive to the new mountainhome, now besieged by a larger army of monsters. I have not the slightest idea on what's happening inside. I wish though the crowned goof hasn't kicked the bucket yet, now that I have a matter to settle with him... Oh Urist, if only you were here! You had a talent for sorting things out.

There it is, our shining fortress on a hill. We see that the Spawn of H. is roaming the surrounding plains and forests freely, with no one to stop them... I wonder if they are too weak or too drunk to do so. Knowing dwarves, it's probably the former. Anyway, I cannot sense any openings in the rocky surface of the mountain, some present entryways are completely blocked off. It seems we have to dig our way in without attracting too much attention.

This girl is a like digging machine. Seemingly frail, Sheka hacks her way throught mud and solid stone like a proper miner. It's either her strength or her hunger that drives her forward to the capital of Torrid Lash. What about me? I dig the same. I gotta find Erib and that woman as well.

We're in there. The spawn weren't really fond of our presence, but they didn't mind us crawling inside. I ordered Sheka to fill up the hole.

We have arrived to our destination. I could say I was surprised by the lack of proper... Administration. And sanitation, so to say. This capital of ours reminds me of those slums around the Older Mountainhome. A mere bunch of overwhelmed peasants that are trying to get though the day... With that ugly smell coming from their unwashed bodies, I wound not even try to feed on one of them, even though that would have been an easy task with all the mad dwarves babbling around.

King Erib is in utter depression. Dressed in his rotten away garb, he sits in his most exellent chambers, on his mighty throne, awaiting for someone to bring him maces and shield he had requested a while ago.





The housing block smells of rot and decline. As a high knight and a former courtier, I took command of the few workers and told them to clean the rooms of grime and filth, and to assign newer migrants to said rooms.



We are still under siege by a horde of spawn, who hunt for various beasts and vermin outside.



The dead stay here, disgruntled by the most improper treatment of their bodies.



Sheka was about to turn when I closed her up inside one of the halls with some chickens to feed on. I hope she does not mind the conditions, though I doubt she'll remeber much afterwards. I don't have time for this anyway. I have to search for... Someone.

[NCommander]

I'm skimming through the madness now. If the turn list is still open (I can't tell), sign me up, and a dorf please. Prefer any red/green civilian who's also in the military.

[Mr Frog]

I'm skimming through the madness now. If the turn list is still open (I can't tell), sign me up, and a dorf please. Prefer any red/green civilian who's also in the military.

Eeyup. Welcome aboard.

E: Also, new thread title.

[NCommander]

I'm skimming through the madness now. If the turn list is still open (I can't tell), sign me up, and a dorf please. Prefer any red/green civilian who's also in the military.

Eeyup. Welcome aboard.

E: Also, new thread title.

So, I wanted to ask permission for this, and since you're here. I've been very nologisic for Deathgate as of late, and I was debating having my Dwarf be an in-game continuation of the dwarf I played then (basically with her soul hopping through the multiverse; not implying DG and Clobbermountains share a universe).

[Mr Frog]

I'm skimming through the madness now. If the turn list is still open (I can't tell), sign me up, and a dorf please. Prefer any red/green civilian who's also in the military.

Eeyup. Welcome aboard.

E: Also, new thread title.

So, I wanted to ask permission for this, and since you're here. I've been very nologisic for Deathgate as of late, and I was debating having my Dwarf be an in-game continuation of the dwarf I played then (basically with her soul hopping through the multiverse; not implying DG and Clobbermountains share a universe).

As long as he still behaves more-or-less like a normal dwarf (i.e. no crazy superpowers), sure. I'm kinda trying to move things away from the whole "super-strict story fort" angle anyways since I feel it just makes people too nervous to contribute. Do what you want as long as it isn't boring or stupid.

[chaotic skies]

If you want you could do some weird "The gods brought me here" story or something. Those are always interesting.

[NCommander]

If you want you could do some weird "The gods brought me here" story or something. Those are always interesting.

Canonically, my dwarf left Deathgate just before the fall, and went to slay a llama demon that enslaved the land. Some years later, I started an A mode game in the DF world that picked up that plot point, but real life and lack of inspiration prevented me from concluding it: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=150582.0

I think I still have that save, but its on the desktop computer which is in storage which I can't easily access. I could bring it up that Id eventually left that land and went to others, or is body surfing ...

(or I could take an adventurer and bring it to Clobbermountains. Fortress->Adventure mode and via versus works a lot better in 34.11)

EDIT: And inspiration just struck. I need to find an older save so I can run an adventurer

[Mr Frog]

If you want you could do some weird "The gods brought me here" story or something. Those are always interesting.

Canonically, my dwarf left Deathgate just before the fall, and went to slay a llama demon that enslaved the land. Some years later, I started an A mode game in the DF world that picked up that plot point, but real life and lack of inspiration prevented me from concluding it: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=150582.0

I think I still have that save, but its on the desktop computer which is in storage which I can't easily access. I could bring it up that Id eventually left that land and went to others, or is body surfing ...

(or I could take an adventurer and bring it to Clobbermountains. Fortress->Adventure mode and via versus works a lot better in 34.11)

EDIT: And inspiration just struck. I need to find an older save so I can run an adventurer

Please don't mess with the game data if that's what you're alluding to. Otherwise, do what you want.

[NCommander]

Please don't mess with the game data if that's what you're alluding to. Otherwise, do what you want.

I'm not going to touch the current save or edit it when I take my turn. However, I do want to run an adventurer in the same world on a copy. When I wrote "Return To Deathgate", even though I didn't finish it, Id (my dwarf) had dreams of the locations she was visiting, and relived history there.

My idea is that Id Matalog many years in the future visits (i.e., like hundreds of years in the future) the site of Clobbermountains, and as she explores the ruins, she experiences the history of the fort from the perspective of a dwarf in the past. I dunno if I can actually make it work, but I'm tempted to try. My turn would be broken up into playing normally, and having Id run through the fort as an adventurer in an "After The End" sorta thing.

If she finds something interesting as she explores, like a reference to some bastón of Spawn, after I turn, I might take my adventurer and explore that too until I get bored of it. I may start her fairly fall away from Clobbermountains and explore the world and various sites until my turn begins.

[Mr Frog]

Please don't mess with the game data if that's what you're alluding to. Otherwise, do what you want.

I'm not going to touch the current save or edit it when I take my turn. However, I do want to run an adventurer in the same world on a copy. When I wrote "Return To Deathgate", even though I didn't finish it, Id (my dwarf) had dreams of the locations she was visiting, and relived history there.

My idea is that Id Matalog many years in the future visits (i.e., like hundreds of years in the future) the site of Clobbermountains, and as she explores the ruins, she experiences the history of the fort from the perspective of a dwarf in the past. I dunno if I can actually make it work, but I'm tempted to try. My turn would be broken up into playing normally, and having Id run through the fort as an adventurer in an "After The End" sorta thing.

If she finds something interesting as she explores, like a reference to some bastón of Spawn, after I turn, I might take my adventurer and explore that too until I get bored of it. I may start her fairly fall away from Clobbermountains and explore the world and various sites until my turn begins.

As long as you can manage it schedule-wise, go ahead. That sounds quite interesting.

[NCommander]

As long as you can manage it schedule-wise, go ahead. That sounds quite interesting.

I downloaded the previous turn's save. Wow. I'd like to say at first glance, I think you made a fort that makes Deathgate look less doomed. I'm amazed you haven't had a fell or marcade mood given the state of things. The fort is on the edge of a spiral.

(I don't think the situation is unsalvageable. If the Spawn are still lurking come my turn, I have a couple ideas on how to reclaim the surface, but oy.)

EDIT: I'm trying to find the front door lever so I can let the fort fall "naturally" so Id can come back and explore. I'm going to have to forge her a full set of candy equipment at another fort if she wants to survive this though. And possibly turn her into a deity so I can make this fly.