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Idea courtesy of Pikachu17. Original thread is http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=155736.0 .

The goal of this succession fortress is to play in such a way that the player two turns after you loses the game. So play badly - but not too badly.


Official rules

• Each player plays for a year, from Spring to Spring, as usual in succession games.
• The player who went two turns before the ultimate crumbling of the fortress wins.
• Retiring and abandoning both count as crumbling. No getting around tough situations by reclaiming mid-turn.
• If the fortress crumbles in the first two years, no one wins.
• Save scumming (starting over from an earlier save in order to change events) is right out!
• Players may not use any outside tools except visualisers/graphics tools, Therapist, and/or DFHack Autolabor. You must disable all other DFHack functionality.
• Players may not perform any memory hacks except those performed by Therapist or Autolabor.
• Players must use the provided save, including raws, and may not modify the raws except to edit graphics options and/or install their preferred graphics pack.
• Players must use the following init options:
  
  • [TEMPERATURE:YES]
  • [WEATHER:YES]
  • [INVADERS:YES]
  • [CAVEINS:YES]
  • [ARTIFACTS:YES]
  • [INVASION_SOLDIER_CAP:60]
  • [INVASION_MONSTER_CAP:40]
  • [SPECIFIC_SEED_CAP:200]
  • [FORTRESS_SEED_CAP:3000]
  • [GRAZE_COEFFICIENT:100]
• Players must use DF version 42.06.
• Players should give succession-style writeups of what's going on on their turns. With the exception of the fortress crumbling, players are welcome to lie, exaggerate, omit details, and generally mislead the readers. After the fortress crumbles, please tell the truth.
• All information, true or false, about your traps, etc. should be conveyed in the thread, where everyone can see it. If everyone PMed their successor with info on how to survive, the Fun would never arrive.
• No throwing the game/intentionally losing. Even if everything seems hopeless.
• To keep the game moving, each player will have 2 days to check in/let us know that yes, they're still around, after the player before them uploads their save.
• To keep the game moving, each player will have 9 days (2 day check in window + 7 days) to complete their turn & upload their save. If a player doesn't meet the deadline, the previously-uploaded save will be handed to the next player in line.

Please don't sign up unless you're willing to abide by these rules. At the end of the game we want to have the story of a chain of dwarf-caused disasters narrowly averted through dwarven ingenuity, not the story of Armok modding a horrible syndrome into dwarf blood with an incubation period of just over a year.


List of Players:

Prologue

• Gwolfski "Writeup"
• Myran Writeup
• TheCheeseMaker Spring & Summer. Fall & Winter.
• Sanctume Prologue. Cast. Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter.
• Elagn 1. 2. 3.
• TheFlame52 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
• Linkxsc 1. 2. Summary.
• Tuxfanturnip Writeup.
• Gwolfski Save.
• Pikachu17 Writeup
• snow dwarf - Check-in due 6/20. Turn due 6/27.
• Spriggans
• MoonyTheHuman
• PsychoAngel
• NCommander
• Imic

Dwarfing Requests:

Name	Deaths	Status	Re-Dwarf?	Notes
Imic	3	Dead	Yes	Architect & scapegoat
Mihr	2	Dead		Swordsdwarf or speardwarf
TheCheeseMaker	3	Dead
Button	0	Pending	Yes	Must have originally been named Sidos, Vaca, Uze or Atek
MoonyTheHuman	3	Alive	Yes	Stubborn, rarely does the work assigned to him.
Sanctume Diggy	2	Alive	Yes	Macedwarf with a silver mace After the fallout of Elagn's turn, Sanctume has requested that future redwarfs be as a miner.
DDDragoni	3	Dead	Yes
Pikachu17	2	Dead	No	Vampire, necromancer, or swordsdwarf
Flame	3	Dead		A smith, esp. weaponsmith
Chief	1	Dead		A speardwarf
Professor Beardly, Attorney at Beards	3	Dead		Scholar specializing in the history of this fortress
Lunatic	1	Dead	No	Elagn's character
Gwolfski	2	Dead
Nikarus	1	Dead		Linksxc's character
Tuxfanturnip	1	Dead
Cor, Primarch of the Foehammers	0	Alive		Hammerdwarf, speciesunkn0wn's character

[snow dwarf]

I want to sign up. cool that it's gonna start soon (I followed the original post), but I don't want to be the first one

[snow dwarf]

About rule 10 so when will you post the truth

[Gwolfski]

i wanna go!

[Linkxsc]

Sign me up, preferably for 3rd or 4th turn if that isnt much of a problem.

[Myran]

Sign me up please, I don't mind being first or second.

[Imic]

I can't take a turn, so name an arcitecht imic, and blame every problem in the fortress on him.
That's gonna be hilarious.

[TheBiggerFish]

PTW!

[snow dwarf]

What does the "PTW" stand for?

[snow dwarf]

I was thinking about the traps what I will do and I think that you shouldn't allow using DFhack and Therapist because it will be much harder more !!fun!!.

[DDDragoni]

What does the "PTW" stand for?

"Posting to watch." Which is also what I am doing.

[Chief10]

ptw

[Button]

About rule 10 so when will you post the truth

Possibly never. Players are asked not to lie after the fortress has crumbled to its end, but don't actually have to reveal anything.

I was thinking about the traps what I will do and I think that you shouldn't allow using DFhack and Therapist because it will be much harder more !!fun!!.

Some kinds of difficulty are fun, and some kinds of difficulty aren't fun. Difficult circumstances that need to be overcome with ingenuity or planning? Fun. Difficult circumstances that need to be overcome by iterating through a list of 100 dwarves one at a time? Not fun.


Prologue

Your Grace,

In the matter of the remaining traitors, we are in a delicate position. Those that remain have kept their beards clean: they have met their mandates, kept their oaths, and committed no obvious crimes. Of course, we know better; but the peasants are already grumbling after what they perceive to have been an unprovoked crackdown on mandate-breakers and petty criminals. I fear that simply putting the traitors to death, without solid evidence of their misdeeds, might provoke a riot.

Might I suggest a surreptitious approach? I spent this morning looking over the maps in the great library, and have found a likely spot in the Desert of Rhythm - a site of wealth and hidden dangers. It seems a natural place for a new outpost, until you examine it more closely. If you are interested in my proposal, I would be happy to discuss it further at your leisure.

Spoiler: The map (click to show/hide)

Bannerweaken, Spring 200

Gwolfski, you're up!

[Kadian]

PTW ;
All Overseers will be extremely wary of everything going on in this fortress, I can see it already. My Predictions: The first 30 minutes of every turn will be looking over the whole fortress, checking all the levers, burrows and what not

[snow dwarf]

I was suggesting that without using dwarf therapist and DFhack you can wreck total chaos to the next player by giving all the dwarves in game a customized profession name different than their labors for example a guy called Fisher or Brewer with only hauling animal on
Edit:
I think you may be right. Now I understand.    Anyway That's a fun area