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[MoonyTheHuman]

   It has been 80 years since the black death, the explosion of gods, or whatever you choose to call it. We lost contact with the other continent on that fated day, with our diplomats set to never return.

   We, to this day, do not know who the god, nor do we know how they did it. But we do know that on that day, the world became something new. Magic of every kind flowed through the air, bringing back the then dying profession of shamanism, alongside sparking the reunion of the elven race.

   As of now, no-one who visits the other continent, the Continent Of Alinsin, has lived for long, if they even returned. Those that do return describe black poison, demonic dust, and everything inbetween, before going mad of disease.

  We are the United Dwarves of Omen-qen, and we believe history shall repeat itself once more.

If Bay12 Was a Fortress, Part 5:

An endless cycle

Welcome to IBWAF! This is a forum game that has been around for quite a while (A lot of you probably remember part 3 and 4), and probably won’t completely die any time soon.

Spoiler: character sheets and info (click to show/hide)

IBWAF is, of course, inspired by Dwarf Fortress, altho it now somewhat treks it’s own path. As such, it uses the same skills (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Skill#Skills) as Dwarf Fortress itself, with some extensions coming along in the future as needed.

You are given 10 skill points to allocate to your various skills. These skills will help determine what you, as a player, are capable of doing ingame, and will effect any rolls related to your actions.

Alongside that, you also have the choice to bring a item of your choice from the real world to the game world. This is, of course, hard to balance, so it at my discretion on if you can actually bring that item.

I strongly encourage you base your ingame character off of the real you, due to the nature of the game.

Of course, enough talking, here is the character sheet:

Name: Your in-universe name. Can also be your forum name if you like.
Race: Any race from Dwarf Fortress. Even an animal person (altho, animal men have some debuffs, I recommend you just choose a core race, i.e. dwarves humans elves or goblins)
Gender: Your gender and/or caste for your race of choice. Usually should be male or female.
Skills: Your skills! If you skipped my rambling up above, read it, it contains info on what your skills can be. You can put up to 5 skill points in any skill of your choice (aka proficient) but no more than that.
Item: The item you are carrying over from the real world, if any.
Description: Describe your in-game character. This will help me figure out what the rest of your starting items should be.Can also be a labeled drawing if you like.

IB12WAF 5 will be taking place in the same universe as part 3 and 4, on a different continent. The last players, if you didn't guess from the intro text, won the war, in exchange for annihilating themselves and their continent in the process. As such, not much (if anything at all) remains from the last game, besides echos of their existence.

In-game turns will be processed in periods of 1 week for your average turn (stuff like research, digging, refining, etc), 1 day for army combat, and 5 seconds for direct (player <-> player or player <-> NPC) combat. This may change on occasion, but it will almost always be multiples of these numbers.

Not everything in this game will be identical to what it was in part 3 and 4, to help streamline the process of GMing and playing the game.

==The game will probably take a while to start. For now, just post your character sheets. I still need to design the world map, give you all some embark locations, and once you pick, draw the map of the fort itself==

[Glass]

...you didn’t say what skills we can have...

[Gwolfski]

The  ones in DF the game itself.


anyway, my character:

Name: Andrew Anderson
Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male
Skills: Mechanic 4
Miner 1
Metalsmith 2
Crossbow 1
Archery 1
Alchemy 1
Item: Steel 30cm metal ruler with inches on reverse side
Description: WIP

[MoonyTheHuman]

...you didn’t say what skills we can have...

I did. Did you not read my block of text? :p

[Glass]

...you didn’t say what skills we can have...

I did. Did you not read my block of text? :p

*facepalm*
I'm dumb.

EDIT:
Name: Octavian Grey
Race: Elf
Gender: Male
Skills:
-Mechanic 5
-Mathematician 3
-Metal Crafter 1
-Metalsmith 1
Item: Slide rule
Description: Moderately above average height. Red-brown hair, relatively pale skin. Skinny. Is wearing a black polo shirt, a pair of khaki slacks, a pair of cloth closed-toe shoes, and a riding hat (see below image) decorated with a couple of small decorative gears at the front right and a thick dark-red ribbon tied around it.

Spoiler: Base hat (click to show/hide)

[Roboson]

Never played one of these, but sure, why not.

Name: Roboson
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Skills: leadership (3), archer (3), animal caretaker (1), animal trainer (3)
Item: If acceptable I would like my two pet Great Pyrenees Winston and Emmy.
Description: 5'8, blond hair, wide shoulders. Roboson is wearing an oversized red and black checkered flannel, a matching beanie, dark blue jeans, black Chacos, and silver mirrored avator glasses.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Neat.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Doubloon Seven
Race: Dwarf
Skills:

Bone Doctor: 2
Diagnostician:3
Surgeon:3
Teacher:2

Item: A Med-School Anatomy Textbook
Description: A dwarf on the taller end of the height spectrum, at roughly 5 feet in height. He has lacks a true beard, but has brown hair, along with brown eyes. He is dressed in a white cotton shirt along dark linen trousers, wears brown leather boots, and has a grey woolen overcoat with a tan canvas hat.

[MoonyTheHuman]

Glass, just so you know, if you get a TI-84, it will NOT have batteries. I recommend a slide rule instead.

[Glass]

:|
Ok.

[Leodanny]

Character sheet:Name: Leodanny
Race: Human
Gender: male
Skills: 5 in swordering
3 in farming
2 in cooking
Description: a completely generic white guy with glasses
“Farming away!”
Carrying over:
You see that car? That one there? Yeah. Its mine

[Screech9791]

Name: 0cra_tr0per
Race: Tiger man
Gender: Male
Skills:
3 sword
4 crossbowman
3 climber
Item: A red Devilstrand duster with hyperweave underlay for decent protection without being encumbered.
Description: A typical cat-person with sabertooth-like fangs. Carries a Z9000 pulse pistol he found on a rimworld.

[MoonyTheHuman]

Name: 0cra_tr0per
Race: Tiger man
Gender: Male
Skills:
3 sword
4 crossbowman
3 climber
Item: A red Devilstrand duster with hyperweave underlay for decent protection without being encumbered.
Description: A typical cat-person with sabertooth-like fangs. Carries a Z9000 pulse pistol he found on a rimworld.

That's two items. You couldn't keep the pistol anyways, so take the devilstrand. Just don't expect me to integrate it much into gameplay (aka no growing devilstrand).

[MoonyTheHuman]

OK, so uh my scanner is broken (:V)
Looks like i'm going to be drawing things in Paint (or rather, GIMP) instead.
Prepare for bad art.

[MoonyTheHuman]

This is possibly the worst map to ever grace the internet.

Sorry dark mode users.
Ok, so each colored X is a possible embark location.  You guys (the players) can vote on a color. The color with the most votes shall be the location you all start in. On that note, all embark locations have coal.

I will list information about each location as follows:

RED:

• Biome: Tundra
• Temperature: Cold
• Trees: Sparse
• Other vegetation: Sparse
• Known metals: Iron Copper Tin Gold Silver Platinum
• Terrain: Hills
• Neighbours: Humans Dwarves

PURPLE

• Biome: Deciduous Forest
• Temperature: Temperate
• Trees: Woodland
• Other vegetation: Moderate
• Known Metals: Iron Copper Lead Quicksilver Nickel Zinc
• Terrain: Flat, has a river
• Neighbours: Dwarves Elves Humans Goblins

ORANGE

• Biome: Grasslands/Sandy Beach
• Temperature: Warm
• Trees: Sparse
• Other vegetation: Dense
• Known Metals: Iron Copper Tin Lead Zinc Nickel
• Terrain: Hilly, Has ocean
• Neighbours: Elves Humans

GREEN

• Biome: Tropical Rainforest
• Temperature: Warm
• Trees: Dense
• Other vegetation: Dense
• Known Metals: Iron Tin Zinc Nickel Quicksilver Silver
• Terrain: Flat, has caves.
• Neighbours: Dwarves Elves

CYAN

• Biome: Deciduous Forest/Gravel Beach
• Temperature: Warm
• Trees: Woodlands
• Other vegetation: Dense
• Known Metals: Iron Copper Tin Gold Nickel
• Terrain: Hilly, Has ocean
• Neighbours: Humans Goblins

Now get to pickin!

[Glass]

Green.