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rikrak

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Your WORST engravings
« on: March 10, 2009, 03:39:22 pm »
Evenin'

I see lots of posts listing some fantastically awesome dwarvemanship with regards to crafts and engravings. But what about the valiant yet rubbish efforts by our less talented minions - don't they deserve some exposure?

One of my best stone haulers, Mebzuth Obokdodok, came up with this beauty:
Zareth Lashed, 'The desert of Prophets'
"Engraved on the wall is a finely-designed image of a circle by Mezbuth Obokdodok."

Wow...

I love the post-modern approach - I'm hoping he'll go fey and start signing blank canvases - I'll make a fortune.

What pathetic works of art have your less-able dwarves come up with?



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Daki

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Re: Your WORST engravings
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2009, 03:51:32 pm »
My "legendary" engraver did 20 or so "masterpieces". About half of them are renditions of images of a square/circle. Picture in picture...in picture.
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2009, 05:30:19 pm »
Something that reminds me of boatmurdered

A homage to an image of cheese.
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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2009, 08:12:32 pm »
My dwarves love to engrave cedar and saguaro, and I don't have those on my map... And squares, and dwarves surrounded by dwarves...
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Re: Your WORST engravings
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2009, 08:44:57 pm »
A masterwork engraving of a square. a square in a circle. Those shape matching-toys LIE!!!
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« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2009, 02:32:03 am »
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A homage to an image of cheese.

L’hommage aux fromages, if you will... maybe not...

They really love their squares and circles, don't they!

I guess the circles represent the Sun - and remind the Dwarves of uncontrolled vomiting. Or perhaps a freshly baked Camembert. The squares might represent a nice slice of toast to go with it. (To go with the cheese... though toast goes with the Sun too - it's the ideal food for any weather.)

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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2009, 02:41:33 am »
The dwarf civ of my current fortress got catapult parts as its symbol, so these are all over the place. For some reason the thought of having incomplete catapults on ones flag is completely hilarious to me.
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Hamster Man

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« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2009, 04:27:33 am »
On a related note, I found out that catapult parts actually sell very well. Good thing to know when you're training up that legendary siege engineer.
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« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2009, 06:02:38 am »
It's more social based than most, because it is both masterful and not a square, but:

Masterfully engraved on the wall is a Mayor Amost the dwarf and rats. Mayor Amost is surrounded by the rats.

And Mayor Amost has a crippling fear of rats. Take a while guess where one of these engravings popped up. Yup, right in her bedroom.
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Danaru

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« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2009, 07:59:32 am »
one time my civ symbol was a thong

yeah
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rikrak

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« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2009, 08:33:32 am »
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one time my civ symbol was a thong

i would have imagined dwarves were too hairy for thongs... but it would certainly strike fear into the enemy, seeing a hoard of angry, trouserless hammerdwarves raging down the mountainside.
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« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2009, 03:57:12 pm »
My engravers have a penchant for engraving flies.  They actually just engrave a dot, claim its a fly and retire to an early plump helmet.
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« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2009, 04:50:34 pm »
In my current fort, half the engravings in the first room I engraved, and a quarter of the engravings ever since, have been renditions of an image of 2 goblets.
And I STILL haven't found the original...
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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2009, 04:52:21 pm »
In my first fort, more than half of my engravings depicted either whips, or humans beating up elves. At first, it was totally awesome. It got old, though.
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« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2009, 07:06:37 pm »
Abirzolak, "The Romantic Blizzard"
"Engraved on the floor is a well-designed image of a muck root by Kivish Osormomuz."

My parent civilization's symbol is a square, so I also get a lot of those.
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