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[Cthulhu]

Yeah, that was actually a pretty fun story.  It makes me want to figure out how to do Dwarf Companion and make an Indiana Jones fortress.

[MuonDecay]

quote:Originally posted by Cthulhu:
<STRONG>Yeah, that was actually a pretty fun story.  It makes me want to figure out how to do Dwarf Companion and make an Indiana Jones fortress.</STRONG>

Be sure to mod in a "fedora" clothing item, and wield a whip?

[Cthulhu]

Ugh, epic fail.

I just made an adventurer so I could explore Helmsbane, a fortress that had lain untouched for six years and was now infested with antmen, ratmen, and Urwagel, a Giant Cave Spider.  As I got close I discovered that there was a sasquatch invasion, which handily kept the antmen and ratmen tied up while I sneaked into the fortress proper.  Going down three flights of stairs I reached a bloodstained intersection, strewn with the armor of Urwagel's latest victims.  I went east, into the dining room that now served as her lair.  Just through the door I was greeted by a one-armed sasquatch, dead, and trapped in webbing.  Behind it was Urwagel herself.  I immediately threw a steel bolt I scavenged from the surface, where caravan guards had fought in vain against an ambush by goblin marksmen.  It hit her in the face, mangling it and putting out both of her eyes.  I stepped forward and delivered the final blow, cleaving her cephalothorax in half.  It was time to loot.  I grabbed assorted mugs, a steel battleaxe I would use to throw, a chest, and as many platinum bars and nuggets as I could carry.  I then left, traveled all the way back home, and spent literally 10 minutes crawling across the town to the armor shop, my speed 99.

Turns out platinum is worth virtually nothing.  Everything I looted wasn't enough to buy a single suit of platemail.  Besides slaying Urwagel, my entire expedition had been wasted.  I threw the loot down in disgust, and went to a neighboring town to do some mundane adventuring.  I was then strangled(STRANGLED) by a cyclops.

Epic fail.

[ June 01, 2008: Message edited by: Cthulhu ]

[ June 01, 2008: Message edited by: Cthulhu ]

[Dark]

After ages of being missing I finally return to The Fortress! I embark to a sandy wasteland for hopes of a challenge, the site is flat, lots of sand, a few pools of water so wounded dwarves wont die. The only threat are camels, all is well, a nice site, not too hard but not too easy either.

So I begin construction, all goes well, I make the best fortress I've ever made, got steel early on, beat goblin ambushes, got some catacombs with more than 50 dead dwarves, built decent defences, crushed goblin sieges, got a population of 120, got annoying nobles, many successful trades, lots of useless coins. But I made one fatal mistake;

I didnt bother copying my game from my USB to my laptop, oh such a foolish mistake. After about 5 days of playing the USB stops working.

Epic Fail.

I'll start anew, but I am utterly devestated. I'll miss my legendary miner/engraver, my legendary woodcutter, my legendary mason, my legendary furnace operator, my legendary weaponsmith, my legendary marksdwarf and finally, my legendary swordsdwarf wielding his artifact steel shortsword and wearing artifact iron chainmail.

[ June 04, 2008: Message edited by: Dark ]

[Dwarfaholic]

Ow.
Even though my forts all mysteriously die before I get any nobles, I still feel the pain here.

[Lotus]

I was massacring a town of humans, when I accidently overexherted myself. A human child walks up to me and punches me in the lower body. It exploded into a pile of gore.

[Lord Dullard]

One of my very first adventurers was a dwarven axe-wielder. Very early on in his career he got an arrow through one of his eyes.

Despite this setback, his days were (relatively) long and carnage-filled. He slew many megabeasts, cleared out several goblin forts, et cetera.

His final, epic battle was with the demon ruler of a goblin civilization. The demon managed to heavily wound him before dying, and the adventurer was gradually dying from his various terminal injuries. My only chance was to get him far enough away from the fort and the remaining goblins that I could fast-travel him to heal him up.

He crawled.. and crawled. Annoyed at my slow progress and worried a goblin bowman might finish him off, I opened up my inventory to see if I was carrying any heavy items that were slowing me. It was only then that I noticed the xIron Arrowx was *still in my eye*.

Annoyed, I pulled it out..

..and instantly died.  :roll:

Needless to say, I have long since learned my lesson and no longer remove arrows from vital organs..

[Loctavus]

I just epic failed in fortress mode.

I had it all planned out, spent ages building this massive aquaduct, put in all the pillars, dug the huge channel and then painstakingly laid out and constructed the aquaduct itself. Then came the tedious building of four pumps to start pumping the brook water into the aquaduct so I could divert the flow in a wide loop closer to my fortress and back into the brook again.

I finally get the pumps going, give everyone pumping duty...and...

They pump helplessly at fresh air.

I had built the entire aquaduct on pillars to compensate that water is pumped up one level.

I forgot that a brook's water is already one z level down. I didn't need to build a single story structure just to get the thing to pump.

Faaaiilll.

I'm now painstakingly de-constructing it, and two of my dwarves knocked themselves out when an entire section they were working on just dropped off when someone else removed a floor section. I think there'll be tears before bedtime before I get this thing dismantled and properly rebuilt.

[ June 12, 2008: Message edited by: Loctavus ]

[Dadamh]

quote:Originally posted by Loctavus:
<STRONG>(Aqueduct misplanned)</STRONG>

I would just leave the aqueduct there and pump the water up an extra level.  It's faster than trying to destroy and rebuild the thing.

[Kagus]

Don't tell him that now!  That'll just make things even worse.

[Cthulhu]

I'm gonna lol when he finishes deconstructing it and sees that response.

[Demonic Gophers]

quote:Originally posted by Dadamh:
<STRONG>

I would just leave the aqueduct there and pump the water up an extra level.  It's faster than trying to destroy and rebuild the thing.</STRONG>

Additionally, people can easily walk under it that way.

[Loctavus]

It was only meant to be a temporary structure anyway, all that messing about is what I get for mucking it up in the first place. I had to leave it halfway through de-construction, but it's a bit late now, and pulling it apart is going to take less time than rebuilding what I have destroyed and making enough parts for more pumps.

I'll point out this is the first time I've tried to meddle with the course of a brook in any way at all. I was expecting gross inefficency at best, and dead dwarves with a sunken fortress at worst. This is why I built everything valuble above brook level.

[ June 13, 2008: Message edited by: Loctavus ]

[Dr. Melon]

I stood on a patch of ice. Nearby there was some weeds, so I lit a fire to keep myself warm. Then I was attacked by something, so I furiously beat the living crap out of whatever it was! But alas, alack! I lost my sight! Being nice and toasty in my rope reed greaves, I decided an ice-nap wouldn't be so bad.

It was only after I drowned I remembered the fire.

[LumenPlacidum]

That reminds me of a dwarven adventurer I made.  He started at a fortress next to a glacier.  The couple turns after I spawn, I see the ice is melting.  Very. Fast.  Walls of water are progressing towards me, so I decided to go down into the mountain halls to look for some of those high-quality dwarven drunks.  After a LONG time of searching, I'd found a single peasant dwarf and decided to leave.  I was wondering after all the strange messages about Urist McPeasant drowning or Sothod the mayor drowning.  As I approach the exit, I see that at least two z-levels have been completely flooded.  I don't know how those dwarves lasted so long next to the homicidal glacier, but I 'T'raveled to get out of there.