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aelystur

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leatherworker's log of sorts
« on: February 03, 2009, 02:40:28 am »
my most recent fortress, I kept running out of wood, so to curb my use I ordered every kind of leather under the sun..  unfortunately I didnt have much use for leather at the moment (was unprepared for goblins that took out 4 of my founders and a couple slaves.) so to free up some bin, I had my current for leader/ manager set with only leatherwroking and sew leather image on the mounds of cloths I had produced(slaves take care of all the mundane tasks.) when looking for stuff to toss at the merchants I decided to check out the images on the clothes in one of the clothes bins.  what first caught my attention was that on one of them was an image of 3 dwarves. (coincidentally I have only 3 founding members left) as I went through the stack of clothing in the bin I noticed it can almost be read like a log of what happened in the fort. apparently  Cag  has been bothered by the presence of the flies, and misses the mountains. not sure what the square would be about. also depicted was Cog's assention to leadership, and the death of one of the dwarves i sacrificed in an attempt to rid myself of a golbin archer in my "air lock". it was actually kind of neat to read / interperate.

edit: >.>  so thats where it went .. I could have sworn I put this in dwarf mode discussion
« Last Edit: February 03, 2009, 06:27:55 am by aelystur »
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woose1

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Re: leatherworker's log of sorts
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2009, 07:23:52 pm »
Yes, yes you should.

Yes, most engravings/images are based off of DF world events.
Just look at Boatmurdered.
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Re: leatherworker's log of sorts
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2009, 02:03:32 am »
Yeah. Just yersterday i looked through my current fortress's engravings. There was 2 next to eachother that had my expedition leader surrounded by dragons in 1, and him embracing a dragon in the other. I looked at the leader's profile, and it said he likes dragons. Man, what DOESNT get engraved in DF?

EDIT: oh BTW, the guy who did the engraving wasnt the expedition leader.
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Re: leatherworker's log of sorts
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2009, 04:16:54 am »
Quote from: 612DwarfAvenue on February 07, 2009, 02:03:32 am
Yeah. Just yersterday i looked through my current fortress's engravings. There was 2 next to eachother that had my expedition leader surrounded by dragons in 1, and him embracing a dragon in the other. I looked at the leader's profile, and it said he likes dragons. Man, what DOESNT get engraved in DF?

EDIT: oh BTW, the guy who did the engraving wasnt the expedition leader.
See, that was propoganda graffitti from a dude who wanted to get elected mayor next time -
 This Dragon Lover doens't have your best interests at heart! Vote Bomrek for Mayor!
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Re: leatherworker's log of sorts
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2009, 05:06:15 pm »
There must be code that makes crafters consider not just using their own preferences, but the preferences of leaders or loved ones. I think your dragon engraver was buying some political favor.
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Re: leatherworker's log of sorts
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2009, 02:37:36 pm »
It's also possible to get dwarfs to engrave what they dislike on anything encrustable/engravable.

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Re: leatherworker's log of sorts
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2009, 09:11:48 am »
Quote from: Creamcorn on March 28, 2009, 02:37:36 pm
It's also possible to get dwarfs to engrave what they dislike on anything encrustable/engravable.


and dwarves will hate rooms that have engravings of things they dislike. imagine an engraver waking up to see a masterful purring maggot engraving of his. 'why did i engrave that? that's not nice at all!'
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