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[kerlc]

it is the way of the hermit!

[EmperorNuthulu]

No we have to unite but at the same time only live in caves on our own. It will be difficult, but it will work.

[kerlc]

maybe an "accidental" breach of someone's cavern will occur. MAYBE.
or someone is going to lose a kitten. to a BISCUIT!

[MrGimp]

The bridge was burned AGAIN?!  Why don't they just build it of STONE?

It is stone.  Still burns though.   

So, the guilt of Khamerites is slowly being forgotten? They are allowed to do some masonry, among with carpentry...
How's my dwarf going, by the way?

Not forgotten, just ignored for now since the Khamerites still have a use.  There is plenty of work to be done on the tower and the above ground settlement, and if a few of them can be convinced to serve in the military and die for Blockedlance then thats all well and good.  As a ruler, you never want to overlook sources of cheap labor and/or cannon fodder. 

Ill try to get you in an update soon.

No we have to unite but at the same time only live in caves on our own. It will be difficult, but it will work.

Ahhh, the individual vs the group.  One of the many conundrums of life.  Human beings are most powerful in groups, and can achieve their greatest accomplishments.  Yet it is precisely because the group is stronger than the individual that makes the group a dangerous thing to the individual.  I say, it's best just to grab a bag of ratweed and find a cave with internet access to go hermit in until you die.  You only ever really need to leave your hermit cave to hunt for poon.  Or to locate more ratweed. 

[kerlc]

or find a way to grow ratweed in your cave.

[peregarrett]

or find a way to grow ratweed in your cave.

Oh, it's simple. You just plant rats that their tails stick up out of dirt and wait till they grow.

[colmmcsky]

This is a great story, and I'm really pleased that its still going!

Can I be dwarfed? I'd like a military dwarf if there are any available, but if not, any profession would be fine. I want to have a Fun death, and being a fighter is perhaps the fastest way to get that, but Armok knows it's hardly the only way!

Call him or her Colm.

[denisol]

so i am the king of slaves ... can i part water and rain down slugmen onto blocked lance? also , wasnt i a strand extraxter initially ? anyways awesome tale you got here and i wish it to never end .

[kerlc]

BUMP! sorry to say that, but it really is. i guess RL has taken (or at least slowed down) this fortress. have you died, mrGimp?

[MrGimp]

This is a great story, and I'm really pleased that its still going!

Can I be dwarfed? I'd like a military dwarf if there are any available, but if not, any profession would be fine. I want to have a Fun death, and being a fighter is perhaps the fastest way to get that, but Armok knows it's hardly the only way!

Call him or her Colm.

Ok Ill add Colm.  Sorry for the delay in repsonding.

so i am the king of slaves ... can i part water and rain down slugmen onto blocked lance? also , wasnt i a strand extraxter initially ? anyways awesome tale you got here and i wish it to never end .

Airag would probably be king of the slaves.  Denisol Noblerope is king of the bourgeoisie.  The Kurkish clan is loyal and gets to live in the nice bedrooms made of flux stone....good solid dolimite exquisitely engraved by the Empress herself.  Yep, you were strand extractor originally, and were not born first in line to inherit the leadership of your clan.  However, when your elder brother Johann Schmidt was a young boy, he was abducted by goblins and so you became the eldest.  Your brother, the true heir, still lives.....somewhere out there.     

BUMP! sorry to say that, but it really is. i guess RL has taken (or at least slowed down) this fortress. have you died, mrGimp?

That unforgiving bastard Death has not visited my fate upon me yet, thankfully.  But Economic Wage Slavery HAS visited his misery upon me in the meantime.  Glorious beardly developments in my life though.  Note to self: it's good to make friends with rich people who bring you more work from other rich people.  By Armoks bloody beard I will have my fortune one day soon!!!

I will probably not be able to play DF much for several more weeks though.     I barely have time even to get on bay12 or other interwebs.     All I do is work.  Work and sleep.

The story is not dead though!  I have already sworn to Armok most high that this story would be completed, no matter the cost!  When this current round of work is done in a month or two I will have plenty of time (I hope) to run a DF marathon down to the end of the story.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Build the bridge out of iron. If that doesn't work, then try steel.

[Mobotium]

Nice... Epic story, just took some 2 days whort of spare time to read it all.

2 things to ask:

whats your current fps? (cheers if its above 5)

Can I be dwarved? Any sex, name: Mobo Profession: Deffenceless hobo. If possible, and according to your whishes for the story ofcourse, I would like to be a khamerite that was given the best weapons they could scavenge from the hordes of dead... stuff, outside the walls and the task of deffending the rest. Have them build a guard house for him and maybe a small wooden palissade arround their *enclousure*. Maybe latter you could "accidentaly" let a gobbo into the enclousure and watch as he burned the walls... hehe.

As for weapons, just give him some cheap stuf, cooper or iron for example.

[MrGimp]

My FPS is actually pretty good on my newer computer.  In regular 40d I get better FPS, like 40 or so.  In 40d18 I get about 30. 

Ill add Mobo the hobo.

[MrGimp]

Christes stumbled forward.  Ever onward.  It seemed as if it had been years since her and the nameless telepath had been standing at the top of a mountain looking down at what the telepath assured her was a coastline from which they could sail towards Tradan's current location in the void.  After marching down however, they marched back up.  Then down.  Then up.  Now they were marching down again.  Finally Christes could take it no longer.

"I've had it!  We've been marching for years!!!  Where's Tradan???"

"Hey...calm down.....the coastline is just a little further ahead."

"You said that years ago!  You pointed down and said, 'theres the coast, lets head down there'."

"We are heading down there now," said the telepath, not understanding what the problem was.

"Its been years!!!"

"Well, the Infinite Void is a very large place," reminded the telepath.  "Is that my fault?"

"How did you see the coast if we were not on the summit?" asked Christes, foolishly attempting to use logic on the mad telepathic void-being.

"Simple.  The mountains are made of empty void, just like everything else.  I looked through them and saw the coast."  The voice of the telepath that rang out in Christes mind appeared to have no problem with this explanation.

"Sooo....you know just as well as I do that there is no ground beneath us?  No mountain?  No coastline?"

"I didnt say it wasnt there....I just said it was made of nothing.  Jeez....you dwarves just dont listen very well."

Christes was as confused as ever.  "So things are made of nothing.  Only you can see them, but yet, you still know that they are not there and are all just a figment of your imagination?"

"Figment of my imagination?  I dont know why you cant see the mountains and the sky and the coast.....none of my visitors here in the void could see anything but void either.  You just arent seeing what is clearly there."

"I saw the floor at your house.  I saw your table.  When you walked about your house I saw more of it.  Hallways, corridors, and rooms."

"Perhaps because I spent so much time there, I made the nothing more into something....and perhaps that area of the void was no longer void...." wondered the telepath out loud.

"But you know that its nothing!  You know this is void!"

"Of course.  Everything is made of nothing.  What else could it be made of?" asked the telepath.  The question boggled the mind. 

"I dont have time for your riddles telepath!"

"I dont have time for your ignorance dwarf!  Even the solid matter being you think you are is made of atoms....atoms which are 80% empty space according to the best scientists in your world.  If their microscopes were better, they would only see that the other 20% is made of nothing as well.  How is your world any less of a void than mine?"

Christes heart sank at the insanity of existence.  "I just want to see my Tradan again!" she cried.  "By the Gods....it would be wonderful to spend some time with a sane person after all this time!"

"So now I am insane?  You are the one that cannot see what is clearly there!!!"

"If it is just void between us and Tradan, why cant we just fly there directly?" begged Christes.

"Bah!  Where is the adventure in that?  The whiteness will drive you mad!  Mad mad mad!!!  Now come!  Theres a city on the coast down there with a boat we can sail across the ocean with.  We shall find your Tradan!"  The telepath marched off down the invisible slope of the mountainside, whistling merrily as he did so.  Christes watched the mad humanoid start to shrink into the distance before finally, with no other choice, she began walking after him.

[Conan]

When did dwarves get microscopes and learn atomic science? Next thing you know there'd be magmatomic bombs.