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[Urist McVoyager]

You can't give anything to a POW in this game, I think. You can strip them, but you can't assign inventory.

And the game doesn't currently track individual items or their effects on battle, which means every enemy will probably come with something. Including escapees/releases. So the main reason to release enemies is to give them back to their homeland so they can bring back more metal.

[Cathar]

Well, there are ways we can go about it. We can simply keep a record of our PoW, with rough description and their names, strip them, send them home. So next time we catch them, we'd just compare the names of the new prisonners with our records. Altho catching them twice would be...unlikely, since we usually capture a few prisonners each battle, while our kills usually reach one hundred each single time. But we can do that for grunts, and execute the officers. This would sound like humane treatment to me.

I kinda don't want to relish in cruelty, even to goblins, because I want us to be better than them, and become I somewhat somehow still hope for peace one day. It's not about turning the other cheek so much as it is not to lose our humanity in the process.

Next update should come during the week, spring has been pretty uneventful all things considered, so to have you waiting, have a small picture of Idem, who is both Asin's daughter and Dengusa's big sister. Also the youngest fighter bearing a heroic name of the fort

[Paxiecrunchle]

What page was Idems in-game description posted? I like comparing your art to their in-game descriptions for funsies.

[Zefermcdwarfpants]

Speaking of legendary names do the siblings have legendary names

[Cathar]

If my memory is good, at this point, only a handful have : Pathril, Idem, Mim and another axegirl by the name of Bidkŕ who I haven't investigated a lot. But since the requirement is "only" to kill 5 historical figures, everyone in the military is eventually getting one, I'm sure. When it happens I'll definitely tell you o/

What page was Idems in-game description posted? I like comparing your art to their in-game descriptions for funsies.

I don't think I ever had

[Paxiecrunchle]

Would you please post one then? Pretty please

[Cathar]

Sure thing, here you go o/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Keep going and never quit."

-redacted for potential spoilers-
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She is the daughter of Abpa Cookanguished and `Asin' Ashchannels. 
***

She is a citizen of The Nation of Pearls.  She is a member of Riverguard.  She is a former member of The Charcoal Society.  She is a former member of The Permanent Society.  She is a former member of The Band of Angels.  She arrived at Thomocemir on the 27th of Slate in the year 132. 
***

She is sixteen years old, born on the 19th of Galena in the year 124. 
***

Her hair is extremely long.  She is very muscular.  Her large-irised ecru eyes are slit.  She has a clear voice.  She has a narrow round chin.  Her head is somewhat short.  Her ears are somewhat short.  Her hair is brown.  Her skin is pale taupe. 
***

She is absolutely inexhaustible, basically unbreakable, very strong and agile, but she is susceptible to disease. 
***

Idem Mipbikise Acak Coñar likes ilmenite, bismuth bronze, tanzanite, bushtit parchment, the words of The Wisps of Meditation and the sight of The Worthy Bird.  When possible, she prefers to consume great barracuda, bat ray, wine, sorghum flour and muskmelons.  She absolutely detests snails. 
***

She has an unbreakable will, an astounding feel for the position of her own body, a stunning feel for spatial relationships, a great ability to focus, very good intuition and a sum of patience. 
***

Like others in her culture, she believes that peace is always preferable to war, is offended by leisure time and leisurely living, deeply dislikes competition, greatly respects those that observe decorum and maintain their dignity, strongly values tranquility and quiet, deeply respects those that work hard at their labors, hates those who wield power over others, finds the following of tradition foolish and limiting, thinks the quest for knowledge is a delusional fantasy, greatly respects individuals that persevere through their trials and labors, respects fair-dealing and fair-play, finds introspection to be a waste of time, finds romance distasteful, doesn't respect a society that has settled into harmony without debate and strife, sees merrymaking as a waste, is put off by family, finds the ideas of independence and freedom somewhat foolish, values martial prowess, finds artwork boring, believes it is important to conceal emotions and refrain from complaining, values self-control, respects commerce and finds nature somewhat disturbing.  She personally is utterly disgusted by guile and cunning and does not respect the law.  She dreams of bringing lasting peace to the world. 
***

She has no sense of vengeance or retribution.  She can be very happy and optimistic, though she remains put off by deliberate merrymaking.  She is assertive.  She generally acts with a narrow focus on the current activity.  She does not often feel lustful.  She is quite polite.  She  is currently more rude.  She finds helping others emotionally rewarding.  She  is currently more fearless.  She  is currently more confident.  She  is currently more shameless.  She  is currently less private.  She  is currently more thoughtless.  She needs alcohol to get through the working day.  She doesn't really care about anything anymore. 
***

Overall, Idem is somewhat focused with satisfied needs.  She is unfettered after spending time with people.  She is unfettered after staying occupied.  She is distracted after doing nothing creative.  She is unfettered after doing something exciting.  She is distracted after being unable to acquire something.  She is not distracted after being kept from alcohol.  She is distracted after a lack of decent meals.  She is unfettered after fighting.  She is unfocused after a lack of trouble-making.  She is unfocused after being unable to argue.  She is unfettered after being extravagant.  She is unfettered after learning something.  She is not distracted after being unable to help anybody.  She is distracted after a lack of abstract thinking.  She is unfettered after practicing a martial art. 
***

A medium-sized creature prone to great ambition.

[Paxiecrunchle]

Wow she's sixteen and already an alcholic, sometimes just those small detail can smacxk me WHAM right in the face and remind me that growing up in a fort under nigh perpertual attack cannot be good for anyone's mental health. [Also your depiction of her is actually really good, she even appears to be wearing a material she loves] aside from the fact that she has catlike slit pupils because DF allows that as a human phenotype for some reason.

She sounds like an amazing warrior as well

[Megaman_zx]

The Gluttonous Nun is  a legendary capybara-leather bound book. The written portion consists of an 18 page autobiography entitled The Gluttonous Nun, authored by Donu Radiushus. It concerns the human Priestess Donu Radiushus. The writing is overly excited, but otherwise quite bad. On the item is an image of a flower in wood.

Donu’s Diary,

23rd Opal 138,

Dear Diary,

War is BOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGG

Captain Thrathnu (Inferno) or as I like to call him, Captain Thratpin (Juggler)  made us stay on “alert”. I’m only here because I got caught stealing food in the kitchen once, and now they think I need to lose weight. I was only taste testing Mate’s new recipe…. He just didn’t notice.

Zefer is really strong, so he should take my place in the squad. He probably likes it when he is given double duty. Speaking of, I need to be more careful. A few months ago Captain Thratpin said I have a “bad attitude” and doubled my “training” (more like torture). He even had my Dad over to talk about “respecting the temple of Ino” UUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH 

I JUST WANT DELICOUS FOOD AND DRINKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! 

Sorry about that, I got distracted by my belly. I have to tell you about my first battle, it was really fun. It started when I was standing around with Zefer and Captain Thratpin. We didn’t even get to watch the battle, we just stood around in the barracks. EVENTUALLY we got word that a troll made its way into the barracks, and we had to deal with it. This is where things got really interesting. Zefer and the Captain went to deal with the troll, and left me alone. So I snuck into the tavern, and got to eat my first real lunch in FOREVER!!!! <3 <3 <3

They ration our food in the squad and it’s the WORST.  We usually get the worst food in the fort, and when we do get good food, they give us the smallest portions. Needless to say, I took advantage of my time in the Tavern and enjoyed many of the spoils of war.

P.S. I snuck away to write this while everyone is busy hauling all the loot inside the fort. Instead of spending so much time working to make more armor, they should be working to throw me a party. I’m almost Twelve and a Half, and I think there should be a half-birthday party in my honor.

Hopefully I will get more snack time, and less drill time in the spring. 

See you next time <3   <3   <3   <3   <3   <3


     
When Mate asks where all the food went


Edited: Added some emojis (let me know if it's too much)

[Zefermcdwarfpants]

The Gluttonous Nun is  a legendary capybara-leather bound book. The written portion consists of an 18 page autobiography entitled The Gluttonous Nun, authored by Donu Radiushus. It concerns the human Priestess Donu Radiushus. The writing is overly excited, but otherwise quite bad. On the item is an image of a flower in wood.

Donu’s Diary,

23rd Opal 138,

Dear Diary,

War is BOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGG

Captain Thrathnu (Inferno) or as I like to call him, Captain Thratpin (Juggler)  made us stay on “alert”. I’m only here because I got caught stealing food in the kitchen once, and now they think I need to lose weight. I was only taste testing Mate’s new recipe…. He just didn’t notice.

Zefer is really strong, so he should take my place in the squad. He probably likes it when he is given double duty. Speaking of, I need to be more careful. A few months ago Captain Thratpin said I have a “bad attitude” and doubled my “training” (more like torture). He even had my Dad over to talk about “respecting the temple of Ino” UUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH 

I JUST WANT DELICOUS FOOD AND DRINKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! 

Sorry about that, I got distracted by my belly. I have to tell you about my first battle, it was really fun. It started when I was standing around with Zefer and Captain Thratpin. We didn’t even get to watch the battle, we just stood around in the barracks. EVENTUALLY we got word that a troll made its way into the barracks, and we had to deal with it. This is where things got really interesting. Zefer and the Captain went to deal with the troll, and left me alone. So I snuck into the tavern, and got to eat my first real lunch in FOREVER!!!! <3 <3 <3

They ration our food in the squad and it’s the WORST.  We usually get the worst food in the fort, and when we do get good food, they give us the smallest portions. Needless to say, I took advantage of my time in the Tavern and enjoyed many of the spoils of war.

P.S. I snuck away to write this while everyone is busy hauling all the loot inside the fort. Instead of spending so much time working to make more armor, they should be working to throw me a party. I’m almost Twelve and a Half, and I think there should be a half-birthday party in my honor.

Hopefully I will get more snack time, and less drill time in the spring. 

See you next time <3   <3   <3   <3   <3   <3


     
When Mate asks where all the food went


Edited: Added some emojis (let me know if it's too much)

Only the girliest for a twelve year old in war times

[Sir Knight]

Edited: Added some emojis (let me know if it's too much)

It's official.  "Smileys" and "emoticons" are now all "emojis."

(P.S.: The Gluttonous Nun amuses.)

[Cathar]

Sorry about that, I got distracted by my belly. I have to tell you about my first battle, it was really fun. It started when I was standing around with Zefer and Captain Thratpin. We didn’t even get to watch the battle, we just stood around in the barracks. EVENTUALLY we got word that a troll made its way into the barracks, and we had to deal with it. This is where things got really interesting. Zefer and the Captain went to deal with the troll, and left me alone. So I snuck into the tavern, and got to eat my first real lunch in FOREVER!!!! <3 <3 <3
[...]

I’m almost Twelve and a Half, and I think there should be a half-birthday party in my honor.

Donu is now my favourite character
But I WILL make her lose weight. It's now a personal challenge. She has been oscillating between fat and very fat since half a year, but I swear I'll make her fit and pretty before she's 18.

Talking about that, the update is almost ready. Tonight or tomorrow at worst !

[Zefermcdwarfpants]

Sorry about that, I got distracted by my belly. I have to tell you about my first battle, it was really fun. It started when I was standing around with Zefer and Captain Thratpin. We didn’t even get to watch the battle, we just stood around in the barracks. EVENTUALLY we got word that a troll made its way into the barracks, and we had to deal with it. This is where things got really interesting. Zefer and the Captain went to deal with the troll, and left me alone. So I snuck into the tavern, and got to eat my first real lunch in FOREVER!!!! <3 <3 <3
[...]

I’m almost Twelve and a Half, and I think there should be a half-birthday party in my honor.

Donu is now my favourite character
But I WILL make her lose weight. It's now a personal challenge. She has been oscillating between fat and very fat since half a year, but I swear I'll make her fit and pretty before she's 18.

Talking about that, the update is almost ready. Tonight or tomorrow at worst !

truth be told she looks to be a healthy weight whenever you illustrate her

[Cathar]

Spring 139 was the occasion of two important events. The first, which I'll focus on here, was our first official contact with the elves of Wulemaapasi.



As he was going to chain a decoy capybara in the front of the fort, Mate spotted a small troop of the treefolks. Now, our cook was not militarily trained, but he had the right reflexes, and slowly backed down to the bridge, holding his animal between him and the people of the forest...so as when they released their arrows and subsequently closed on him, the animal took most of the blows. Mate was lightly injured, but he made it to the bridge in one piece.

The elves then split into two groups - some keep on closing on him, trying to surround him before he could come to safety, while the other... piled on the poor capybara and kicked him on the ground.

Friends of nature they say.



It's hard for me to describe the despise I have for elves. Everything they stand for seems petty and hypocritical to me. Even compared to goblins...at least the latter are straightforward. They want to kill and conquer and are open about it. The elves are worse than that. They frame their hatred and their utter pettiness as an ethic issue.

But they wanted to discuss ethics with this kind of logic, and it turned out we could follow the discussion there, for we definitely had an irresistible argument.


Watershield's undefeated military force.

Uquur and a young man, Ostri, crossed the bridge at the speed of sound, leaving mangled bodies in their trail. It was one of our fastest battle so far. Some of them managed to flee, we captured two of them alive, and the rest of them is now feeding the plants they worship.

We might have been under attack by Osme Stobűb for a very long time now, but we must not forget Watershield was funded with the express goal to fight against Wulemaapasi. In a sense, this is our first true victory.

The second event of this spring was our decision to pierce the aquifer. We need to drain that swamp. We need to access minerals if we want to expend our village fast, for wood is consumed faster than it can regrow, with three of our four industries - carpentry, glassmaking and smelting, being extremely voracious in terms of natural ressources.


Since Donu's training has been...rather unsuccessful so far, Thrathnu and I decided to give her some break, to have her man the pump and pierce the first layer of the aquifer.

This doesn't seems to have any significant effect on her weight tho, and we start being a bit concerned. But at least, the girl is doing her job.



Jalew, the miner (and incidently Zefer's and Ases' father), could at least prove his legendary skills useful. When summer came, significant progress has been made.

Watershield will be the first human city to pierce an aquifer in the world of Minbazkar, we'll see to it.

[Sir Knight]

Spring 139 was the occasion of two important events. The first, which I'll focus on here, was our first official contact with the elves of Wulemaapasi.

Wow, they showed up?  This is terrific!  I'm used to, you know, all those games where people say "ugh, I settled right next to the enemy in the hopes I'd see a siege, but I haven't been attacked once."

That speaks very well for continued storytelling at this fort.  Not one, but two enemy forces.  Might some diplomacy even happen someday?