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[High tyrol]

PTW this is great fun.

[Quaksna]

"Hey, Limul!" said Olmul.
"Hmmm?"
"Your nails are solid gold, yeah?"
"They are."

"These scales on your tail are golden as well?"
"Surprisingly."

"Your horn is also made of gold!"
"Wow. You got it."
"That's lot of gold! What are you doing with your nails, once they're big enough for cutting? You know, if you had some spare..."
"They don't grow."
Olmul makes a plaintive gesture.

"Wait a minute."
"What? They started growing?" asked Olmul.
"I sense them."
"Great!!!"
"No, I sense rest of the party! They're... Close."
Limulsheget whispered some incantation. Alak, Ermis and Razes fell from hole in the air. He caught them.

"Finally!" Alak said. "Phew! Hey guys, look at this sword? Isn't it beautiful?"
"Hello, Unnos!" said Ermis. "Look, I got some otherworldly grass for you."
"So how it went?" asked Limulsheget.
"Mooo!!!"

"You know..." said Alak. "I think we started a ☼gobbo war☼."
Limulsheget was silent.
"That was... Definitely not planned. But... That's great! They'll weaken themselves, and then I can strike back! Hah! Good work, dwarves!!!"
"And what about the reward?" asked Urnût.
"Aaah, what exactly do you want?"
"New cooking..."
"An anvil would come handy." said Alak.
"Golden anvil?"
"No. Some actually usable. Steel, or iron."

Poof.
"Anything else?"

"Beeeeeeeer!!!" yelled Kin.

"Right." said Limulsheget. "Here you go!"

"And as a bonus, some golden bars. You dwarves like gold, right?"
"Right!" said Olmul.
"Okay. I think it's time to part ways. Goodbye, Limul." said Alak.
"Goodbye dwarves. Thanks for the help."

Everyone said goodbye, and they went on. Faster than usual, with Alak having new symbol of majesty. With the "shortcut" through Dimshascuggán, they don't had to pass hills of Tetistinen.
But...

What's this???
"Phew, phew!!!"

"What's your problem, lizard? I am [INTELLIGENT] and not edible!!! Man, this is awful. Not only these dorfs are such dorfs, but now they voluntarily passed through the desert? Man, this is so...."

"And what's this? Hey, big one! I know you! I saw you somewhere... Dûrnar... No... Zärseîl! Is that you?"

"Ôvok of the toads! That's a surprise. Haven't seen much of yours recently... Still trying to unite races?"
"Oh yeah, it's been hard now, hippies went mad because we ate that berries... And what about you? I thought you tried it by goblins? Nah?"
"I truly tried it. Without success. They tried to banish me, but luckily I ended up just here. Now I try to find some other unlucky Âsemeï or remnants of times old..."
"How many? How many Âsemeï are in this realm?"
"Well, I don't know that! But I sent some dwarves to the gobbos with a treaty they ignored, but somehow that dwarves managed to throw that realm into chaos! If some were banished here or hid themsel..."
"Did you say "dwarves"? I try to catch one group of settlers."
"They went this way. Not very long ago they left."
"Okay. Thanks for this nice little chat, but I must go! Farewell!"

"Goodbye."

[Quaksna]

And so we hit the 1000 views. Everything is just fine...
No, wait. There are more and more views, but... Something must be wrong... Where's mah feedback? 

[Quaksna]

Tomorrow I'll post a short episode. To shorten waiting, here you go at least a portrait of Alak  .

[Quaksna]

Our dwarves are continuing their journey. They're getting closer to their destination, but obviously something delays them again... Here we go!

"The road and nothing more..." sang Olmul.
"Is all that we can see..." sang Kin, who was apparently better.

"Hey Olmul! You can use sword well, right?" asked Alak.
"Right!" said Olmul. Then he smiled and asked: "You wanna gimme the cool one?"
"No. I want you to teach me what you know."

"Can I have a question?" asked Berath. " Why do we don't have some dogs or cats or whichever useful animals?"
"You dare to question usefulness of Unnos and Razes?!!" shouted Urnût.
"When I prepared this, I cared more about quality." said Alak. "Seemed you all were at least +dwarves+. Now it seems no more."

"Guys, you ate all the cheese when you were in desert!" said Ermis angrily.
"But I struck down a vulture!" Olmul said.
"It tasted awfully." said Urnût.
"Anyway, we should have asked Limulsheget for some food. We must get some now." said Ermis.
"Our destination is near, but I agree." said Alak. "Let's get something to eat."

"Hey, there are fish in the river!" called Urnût.

Olmul looked there, his eyes widened and shrunk again.
"No." he said. "We're not going to fish these fish."
"Definitely. They are Ertatlosh. We should..." started Vúsh, but Alak said:
"What's it again? Please, don't start with traditions again."
"This ain't only tradition." Olmul said. "These are tales of old times, where carps with their terrifying protruding mouths defeated many brave heroes... Foolish enough to face them."
"To hunt these, we have special warrior caste, Tathloshzat, devoted from youth into mastery of fighting Ertatlosh." said Vúsh.
"My uncle was Tathloshzat..." said Urnût. "But I am not gonna starve because of fairy tales!"
"Yeah! We will fish them, and we'll gloriously win over the carps!!!" said Alak.

"Okay. Let's do this. I'll get my tools of war." said Olmul.

The Conflict of Treacherous took place on the river of Lamigër. The dwarves attacked the carps, with their trickery. They hid themselves behind the rocks on the stormy river, and prepared to ambush carps passing through.
The next scene may seem strange for people familiar with real-life fishing. It was inevitable.

Berath tries to stab the muscular carp but it jumps away!
Olmul misses the carp!
The water splashes at Olmul but is easily parried by -oak wood shield-!

Kin hacks the carp with copper axe, bruising the fin!
Kin: "Curses!"
Alak tries to slash the fat carp with his searing metal sword, but it jumps away!
The water evaporated to steam! Fat Carp is surrounded by steam.
Fat carp gives into pain.
Olmul: "Death is all around us."
Alak: "How terrifying."

Berath throws the large copper dagger!
The spinning large copper dagger flies to Kin, but is deftly parried by cooper axe!
Kin: "You mad?!!"
Berath: "Sorry!"

Olmul slashes the muscular carp with his iron short sword!
The muscular carp was struck down.
Alak: "Okay, that should be enough. Grab the fish and off to the wagon we go!"

[Superdorf]

The muscular carp was struck down.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

[methylatedspirit]

The muscular carp was struck down.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

I only started playing DF around 40.24. What version had these killer carp? I wanna experience death by muscular fish.

[Superdorf]

Version 0.28.181.40d had 'em, according to the wiki. In versions 0.31 through 0.34, the carp weren't so stupid powerful anymore, but would still cause dwarfs to dodge into the water and drown.

[pikachu17]

PTW

[Quaksna]

Hah, feedback! Finally! Toady fixed the poll, so meanwhile no voting is needed I made one for favourite characters. I must make some Toady memorial.
I also thought of some Warhammer-like Dwarf Fortress board game, now I have plenty of figures from gobbo realm and other soldiers... How would you see that? Like I would post stats and current situation, and you will control the battle. Is it +idea+ or x idea x?

[Quaksna]

"Hey!" Berath called. "I see smoke! Some civilized guys may be this direction!"
"Or a Måmgoz." said Vúsh.
"Nah, that can't be a Måmgoz." Urnût said.
"You never know. You can't know! You spot him and then Whoosh! You're a !!dwarf!!."
"Go there!" called Alak. "We're great heroes, we fought our way through deserts, carps, otherworldly creatures and otherworldly goblins... I am not afraid!"

"I agree.*hic*" said Kin. "On the way to *hic* Tetistinen we hid ourselves before the goblins just because..."
"They weren't worthy *hic* of fighting us." said Olmul.
"N... *hic* No!" shouted Kin. "What have I *hic* said. Nonsenses! *hic*. We never ran from any goblins. That's *hic* impossible!"
"Right! *hic*" said Olmul.

"Olmul!" shouted Ermis. "That beer is for Kin, for medical uses!"
"*hic* Am I *hic* Am I not Kin?" asked Olmul.
"You told me that you always wanted to be a hauler, Olmul. I'll consider that." said Alal with a grin.
"*hic* I told you *hic*, you that? I don't really *hic* remember."
"Really? Maybe I misheard... What do you think about me anyway?"
"You're *hic* pleasure to speak with."

"We must guard that keg better." said Urnût.


Meanwhile they had this conversation, they came to some camp, with few small tents, one big roof-like tent and bunch of tan-skinned humans around. Little further was a campfire.

Out of one smaller tent came a man, with ponytail and tattooed chest.
"Greets to you, dwarves!" he said. "I am Ñabsizcasser of our tribe. You know, something like Zegmatul of yours. My name is Duto Kosethrunim."
"*hic* Zegmatul? What's that?" asked Olmul.
Urnût said: "Zegmatul is sort of diplomat, Olmul. And don't hic when diplomacy is being done."
"Tha*hic* thanks!"

"Greetings to you too, Duto Kosethrunim!" Alak said. "We're group of settlers. You're merchants or something?"
"We truly are. We have cloth, food, leather, crafts, metal..."
"Do you *hic* have beer?" Kin asked. "Beer's *hic* yeah important."
"We don't. Do you have interest in our goods?"
"I'll consider that." said Alak.

"Good, good! Just take your time. You can park your wagon here, under our Batowumcos, depot, you know. The craftsdwarfship of the dwarves is unparalleled. Let's make a deal!"

So? Any tips what the dwarves should buy? 

[methylatedspirit]

Food to make beer out of.

[Quaksna]

"We need the beer. Don't you have at least something it can be made of?"
"We have pendant amaranth. It can be brewed into not wine, not rum, but beer, just as you need. Would you like some?"
"Okay, give me a barrel of that. Would you accept gold? One bar, this big."
"Sure. Anything else?"

-------
Toady memorial is done.
It's a adamantine statue. All craftsdwarship is of the highest quality. It refers to Toady One the Great. Long live to him!!!

[Quaksna]

I see the problem now, there's 500 guests that can read the story and 50 users that can contribute as well. If you are a user, please post. If not, Olmul would have to do the shopping  . I bet he has already prepared a list!

[scourge728]

buy cats