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[Charlemagne]

I find that occasionally an event will occur that the dwarves love so much it becomes a recurring theme in their artwork. Repetition is inevitable, but sometimes they really go the extra mile to include certain images in their art.

The most recent and to me the funniest example I've seen of this was a strange event I wasn't really very clear on how happened. Somehow, the first dwarven caravan that arrived (well one of the wagons anyway) didn't so much arrive at the trade depot as it did fall off the mountain from like two z levels above. The wagon crashed into the depot, sending all the other merchants scattering. I was annoyed at first (I had planned on getting an anvil from that caravan) until I realized all the swag from the crashed wagon was now mine (waaay more than I could afford, including both a steel and iron anvil). For a while my only two military dwarves wore leather and bone armor, except each had one giant ornate steel gauntlet. 

So anyway, this happens and it's confusing and hilarious. A little while later, I set my first bit of stone to be engraved. Usually the first image is either the ascension of the mayor or the founding of the fort, but this time it was "a wagon falling". The falling wagon appears at least once in every major series of engravings in the fort, in every noble bedroom, in the dining room, outside the fortress. The time the wagon fell was their favorite thing ever.

Anyone else have interesting experiences with this phenomenon?

[sweitx]

I find that occasionally an event will occur that the dwarves love so much it becomes a recurring theme in their artwork. Repetition is inevitable, but sometimes they really go the extra mile to include certain images in their art.

The most recent and to me the funniest example I've seen of this was a strange event I wasn't really very clear on how happened. Somehow, the first dwarven caravan that arrived (well one of the wagons anyway) didn't so much arrive at the trade depot as it did fall off the mountain from like two z levels above. The wagon crashed into the depot, sending all the other merchants scattering. I was annoyed at first (I had planned on getting an anvil from that caravan) until I realized all the swag from the crashed wagon was now mine (waaay more than I could afford, including both a steel and iron anvil). For a while my only two military dwarves wore leather and bone armor, except each had one giant ornate steel gauntlet. 

So anyway, this happens and it's confusing and hilarious. A little while later, I set my first bit of stone to be engraved. Usually the first image is either the ascension of the mayor or the founding of the fort, but this time it was "a wagon falling". The falling wagon appears at least once in every major series of engravings in the fort, in every noble bedroom, in the dining room, outside the fortress. The time the wagon fell was their favorite thing ever.

Anyone else have interesting experiences with this phenomenon?

Well, it is quite hilarious
Urist: "Hey, do you remember the time that wagon fell into the trade depot?"

[Charlemagne]

Urist: "Hey, do you remember the time that wagon fell into the trade depot?"

Meng: "BY TOBAL COALSTEELS THAT WAS THE GREATEST THING EVER!"

Urist: "Let's go admire some of the bas reliefs of it in the dining room."

[Duke 2.0]

Urist: "Hey, do you remember the time that wagon fell into the trade depot?"

Meng: "BY TOBAL COALSTEELS THAT WAS THE GREATEST THING EVER!"

Urist: "Let's go admire some of the bas reliefs of it in the dining room."

 Kogan: GRAND IDEA! I'll make a puddingstone floodgate... I'll put pictures of the falling wagon on it! It will be the best floodgate evar!
 Kogan has entered a strange mood!
 Kogan has claimed a masons workshop!

[Charlemagne]

Kogan: GRAND IDEA! I'll make a puddingstone floodgate... I'll put pictures of the falling wagon on it! It will be the best floodgate evar!
 Kogan has entered a strange mood!
 Kogan has claimed a masons workshop!

Nil: For some indefinable reason, I love this floodgate! I think I'll engrave a picture of this floodgate right between the engraving of the falling wagon and the engraving of me engraving the engraving of the falling wagon.

[Strangething]

In one of my forts, I lost a series of merchant wagons to goblin ambushes. (I got a ton of free stuff thanks to those goblins.) Over the next few years, I got a ton of falling wagon engravings.

[ArdentPenguin]

Translating this to the real world is kind of ridiculous.

"Remember that time Jim accidentally backed the car into the lake?"
"Yeah, there's a picture of it engraved in my bedroom."

I also love the mental image of a wagon going over a cliff and crashing into the trade depot, scattering goods everywhere - including ANVILS.

[Jude]

A bunch (~65%) of my dwarves died to werewolf attacks in one second winter and I engraved all over the place hoping for commemorative pictures...but I mostly have pictures of my civilization's symbols (squares and a human) and sweet pods.

[Omniarch]

None of my artifacts or engravings ever seem interesting.  Even after an epic battle at the cave river where at least 5 dwarves and probably 30 assorted snakemen and frogmen and cave crocodiles died I didn't get any interesting engravings. 

[Charlemagne]

None of my artifacts or engravings ever seem interesting.  Even after an epic battle at the cave river where at least 5 dwarves and probably 30 assorted snakemen and frogmen and cave crocodiles died I didn't get any interesting engravings. 

I find that the dwarves, although stupid, are actually psychic. They only engrave events that you didn't deem important. That's why "Dragon attacks fortress, kills 75% of population" garners maybe a single lonely engraving, whereas "human merchants fall down go boom" becomes a genre.

[inaluct]

My dwarves seem to be obsessed with elves getting subjugated by humans. About half of my world relevant engravings are of humans striking menacing poses and elves cringing, or humans striking down the elves or something. There are also a lot of pictures of whips.

I'm starting to think that this world has the best generated interspecies war history ever.

[Yanlin]

My dwarves seem to be obsessed with elves getting subjugated by humans. About half of my world relevant engravings are of humans striking menacing poses and elves cringing, or humans striking down the elves or something. There are also a lot of pictures of whips.

I'm starting to think that this world has the best generated interspecies war history ever.

Elves are only good for two things.

Killing and porn.





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You think that's bad? Read the boatmurdered saga. Sankis engraved elephants EVERYWHERE. And I mean EVERYWHERE. And they didn't even do something funny like fall 2 z levels into a trade depot and explode.

[Pilsu]

A bunch (~65%) of my dwarves died to werewolf attacks in one second winter and I engraved all over the place hoping for commemorative pictures...but I mostly have pictures of my civilization's symbols (squares and a human) and sweet pods.

Engravers need to be quite skilled before they start doing historical events

[Khain]

Yeah I tend to set a large area to be smoothed before doing some engravings so that all of my engravers are of a reasonable skill level

[inaluct]

You think that's bad? Read the boatmurdered saga. Sankis engraved elephants EVERYWHERE. And I mean EVERYWHERE. And they didn't even do something funny like fall 2 z levels into a trade depot and explode.

Yep, read it. Sankis was a hero.