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[Teeto_K]

Only named creatures appear to hang around to occupy your fort. I don't know if they will stay in the same place you put them though.

So, say you breach the demon pits, you MAY end up with demons scattered all over your former fort? Mmmm demony.

[Duke 2.0]

 How is the current progress?

[Skid]

So the only way to ensure tha animals will stay in an abandoned fort is to feed a dwarf to them? Fair enough.

You might want to test that before you rely on it too heavily. Being named is the common trait between all of the creatures I have seen that will stay at a fort after you abandon (demons, megabeasts, and dwarf killer GCS) but there may be other factors.  For example, merchant's pack animals often stick around even though they appear nameless.

[Fortis]

Perhaps I should have said 'a sure way' rather than the only way. Either way, named animals stick around at the abandoned fort.

[inaluct]

Is anyone but me going to make a cathedral dedicated to some in-world god? I think that if a bunch of people are, it would be cool to have some architectural motifs in common.

[Fortis]

I don't know the in world gods yet. If there is a suitable one, then I might. But I already have the architecture of my place mostly planned out already. I'd have to know what motifs you were thinking of before I could decide if they conflicted with my plans or not.

[inaluct]

Well, there's always Arkoth, god of Fate. We could make some sort of arbitrary symbol up and plaster it on things, I guess.

[Micro102]

so ecxatly how do we start? do we just down load the map and drag it onto the dwarf fortress folder? need instuctions, as im sure everyone does. as we need to do this the same way to aviod messing the map up

[Fortis]

As I understand it, we take turns making various tourist traps on the map. One person downloads the current save and starts a fortress, builds their monument, ruins, dungeon or whatever, then zips the save (or the whole program with mods) and posts it here. The next person on the list downloads, rinse, lather, and repeat. (Said list is on the first page in the first post, by the way.)

It'll be a while till it gets to you or I, Micro. However, I need the time to get my plans written up, so I don't particularly mind.

[Hoborobo234]

BTW I have another Community thing going on, that might intervene can I postpone my turn if needs be?

[Kishmond]

A chance to conspicuously and blatently cheat? Count me in!

[Vactor]

I've got a design that i'd like to build, i will need a magma pipe for it though, so if i can reserve one pipe for my turn that would be great

i'll watch this thread, but also PM me when my turn comes up

[Fortis]

Well, there's always Arkoth, god of Fate. We could make some sort of arbitrary symbol up and plaster it on things, I guess.

What kind of a symbol would a dwarf god of fate have? Does this fate refer to the day to day lives of the dwarves? Maybe an hourglass to represent the passing of time, or something like dice to represent chance. Or this could refer to a consequence of actions, or justice sort of way, in which something like a hammer or chain would be more appropriate. If it refers to a more final fate, IE death, then a skull or scythe would work. Or if it refers to the fate of the dwarven nation as a whole, a crown might do.

Of all of these, the hourglass strikes me as the best idea, but tell me what you think.

Alternatively, perhaps we should make the symbol an object we can actually build, then have that kind of item laying around or stockpiled in treasure chests.

[Boksi]

Arkoth means "prophecy".

Does he have any other spheres?

[Skid]

If we're going with the fate one, I'm all for using skulls as their symbol.  They are easy to get in game by killing things, And huge images of skulls adds nicely to any dangerous dungeon's atmosphere.