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[Christes]

Yeah it was, but would you prefer it if it just died?

[Earthquake Damage]

Shouldn't this have moved to the Community Games & Stories forum with everything else?

[Keishin]

I'm glad this got bumped, or I would have never found it.  Awesome story, thanks much.

[furrot]

Wow, thanks to whoever bumped this story.  I just spent the last few hours reading through it. Really impressed me, a great read. I can only imagine what Urist would have accomplished with some Z-axis movement.

I wonder if this story is why everyone uses "Urist mcdwarf" and etc. all the time, I saw a thread the other day wondering about that.  I associated Urist with uselessness because my current fortress has an Urist that I dislike but now that I've read this story I'm a lot more nervous about what he's gonna do...

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I've never played the hermit challenge, but this showed me how much fun it could be.

[Joseph Miles]

Wow, thanks to whoever bumped this story.  I just spent the last few hours reading through it. Really impressed me, a great read. I can only imagine what Urist would have accomplished with some Z-axis movement.

I wonder if this story is why everyone uses "Urist mcdwarf" and etc. all the time, I saw a thread the other day wondering about that.  I associated Urist with uselessness because my current fortress has an Urist that I dislike but now that I've read this story I'm a lot more nervous about what he's gonna do...

Yep, it's the main reason for "Urist mcuristurist has murdered Urist mcuselessurist" or some such

[Albedo]

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And that's exactly why I'm posting!

<Ker-BUMP!>

I had no idea. And I'm sure some others didn't either. Almost one year is too long.  This is a true classic.

[Thendash]

This should get moved to the story forum and added to the legend list.

[PotatoMuncher]

Who ever bumped this deserves a Grammy.


I haven't seen this in soo long. lol. Great to see it ressurected.

[Jack_Bread]

This should get moved to the story forum and added to the legend list.

It's already there.

[Christes]

Heehee, I was not expecting this thread to appear in my new replies section 0.o

[Doppel]

When I clicked on dwarf mode discussion, this was not the thread I was expecting to see.

Awesome suprise though.

Me neither, but i'm glad its here, i always wanted to say how awesome i find this story to be. If only i was as dwarven as the one who bumped this thread.

[Eiba]

So that's why I got that odd email asking how Urist found all these features on a single z level (and if I could share the seed)... someone bumped the thread recently.

For the record, I did play this in the 2D version. Natural side effect of having written it two years ago.


And yeah, for that guy who mentioned a year ago that the ending was kind of a cop out- it was, but the alternative was no conclusion at all.  Though I got a kick out of the contrast between the black smoke for Urist and white steam for Melbil that the game threw at me, so it wasn't all a waste.


Anyway, rereading this has made me reflect on what a terrible writer I am, and question the judgment of everyone who praised it... but heck, praise is praise, so thanks for it.

[Christes]

It's not about style; it's about content.

[Jackrabbit]

Wahey, its back! I can finally say...

I LOVE THIS STORY TO DEATH