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[hillburra]

Hey everyone,

It's time to jump on the bandwagon and start me a succession game!

Pretty standard, turns are one year, upload the map to DFFD or somesuch at the end of your turn
It's preferable for you to take no longer than a week for your turn if possible
Only mods I'm using are Mayday and Molten Rocks
I'm gonna need some people to sign up and take over from me, and most likely add some fun to the majestic and beautiful fort I'm gonna leave to you all

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Here's the embark screen

You need the mayday version to play, you can get it here.
http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.php

Soon as I get some signups I'l start playing and updating!


Leader list:
Y63 Hillburra < Finished
Y64 Airpi < Finished
Y65 engy < Bermuda Triangle
Y65 Da King < Finished
Y66 azazel < Current Player
Y67 hoborobo234
Y68 nil
Y69?

[Airpi]

Sign me up! As long as I can get in early, a brook and a high population might melt my computer.

[hillburra]

Cool, the brook also has like a 5 level dropoff in the corner to make a nice waterfall of lag for you, I'll start playing it now and get the updates rolling

Here be giant eagles!

[engy]

I'll take a round.

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
8th Limestone 62

I went to the realter today and picked out my shiny new deed, my own mountain for the prospecting! I'm gonna call the place "Cloistergulf", sometimes I wonder how the genius can stay contained within my head.

It's somewhere far to the south in a range known as "The Painful Tooth". Dang, place sounds cool already and I haven't even struck it's tender awaiting earth.

I cruised by the local labour market and picked out half a dozen hardy-ish looking dwarves to help me out - you can get 'em real cheap with false promises and buzzwordy crap like "profit-sharing". I mean really, all I have to do is inflate costs in the records and we make negative profit, but I still get to take all the revenue. Suckers.

I should head by and pickup some of the standard expedition gear as well, no point in roughing it more than I have to.

Anyways, after the last 5 mining outposts I've tried to start I'm due for one that's successful.

Right?

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
1st Granite 63

We've arrived at the site right on the very first day of the Dwarven calendar, I pretended I planned the whole thing to make the others think I'm all deep and profound, can't believe they bought it. I hope their bodies are slighty more competent than their heads, otherwise this little countryside jaunt might get a bit too interesting for me and things like "fun" and "exciting" were never really my calling.

I shouted out in the way that I do so well "Strike the Earth". God I love doing that, I can also feel the ground quiver in anticipation for me to hack dirty big chunks out of it with my pick. No one else in the group had the faintest idea which end of a pick was which so I just played a game of spin the barrel and it landed on the armourer. Fair enough too, he actually needs to dig up some ore before he can do what he's good at anyway.

We're going to dig a little hole in the side of the mountain just as a temporary housing. I have big plans for this place and they don't involve a dingy little rathole sitting on top of it. I'm gonna make it nice and shallow so I can get rid of it later and make my mountain win friggin beauty pageants.

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
1st Slate 63

ZZZZZZ, It's been a whole month already and I've only just gotten a Trade Depot up - all that wagoneering has left my pick swinging muscles atrophied and useless, I mine only slightly faster than that dunderheaded armourer. The others even had the gall to tell me that there were a whole two more seasons till the chance of a caravan and that we had nothing to trade so I should focus on something else. I swiftly reminded them that I had a pick in my hands and knew how to use it. That shut their cake holes.

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
14th Hematite

The temporary housing is all but complete, there is a barracks, a dining hall and even an office for me! I sent the woodworking dwarf guy, I don't know their names they're just mouths on faces that won't shut up to me, to make some beds. I'm sick of sleeping on the floor and even more sick of the other whinging about sleeping on the floor.

This means that I can now start designing Cloistergulf the REAL outpost, a hole in the ground so beautiful that the rocks it's made of cry in joy from what I've turned them in to, hopefully without flooding the joint. I only have vague pictures in my head of it right now, but what I do see is a gigantic, hollowed out staircase - in a circle. I describe it to the others, and well, I should have described it to a wall for all the understanding I received. I sent them off to do menial crap due to my annoyance. I even told the stupid sculptor that every dwarf deserves 40 mugs each and made him begin work. Hopefully this will clear the hallways of crap and keep him busy so I can mine in peace.

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
15th Malachite

I am so sick of this pack of useless....... I don't even know what to call them. I'm off being everyone's Fearless Leader, striking the earth, being the dwarfiest dwarf to ever dwarf digging the largest staircase the world has ever seen and what happens while I'm gone? Rhesus Macaques steal my entire strawberry stash. God I wish I'd been born into the job of Hammerer, the friggin brewmaster would be getting at least 5 hammerstrikes for being such an incompetent. At least the woodworking guy redeemed the camp slightly by chasing one of the damn monkeys with his axe and smacking off the top of a cliff. The thing sailed through the air and did an almighty splat over 5 storeys down at the bottom of the waterfall.

My mother always told me to focus on the silver lining, no matter how few friggin strawberries it has to feed me with.

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
14th Limestone

The Liason and a trade caravan arrived from the Mountainhomes today, finally someone not retarded to talk to and bunch of saps to sell shitty mugs to.

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
20th Limestone

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, I was so happy to see a new face of a dwarf who might provide me with actual conversation that I actually put down my pick and waved at the liason. He must've gotten distracted by my insanely intimidating dwarfiness because the idiot tripped over and fell into the moat I had just flooded. He must've been a real friggin goldfish on the intellect scale cos he then tried to extract some oxygen from the water and instantly fucking drowned himself. GODDAM I HATE THIS PLACE.

This is bullshit, I'm gonna pawn off some crowns for a some meat and a few beers then I'm gonna go on break till winter, screw this caravan I don't want to fucking talk to them

((I forgot to send all the mugs to the Trade Depot and after I'd bought food and booze I stopped trading to let the other trade goods arrive so I could buy some cool things. My trader then decided to go on break for 2 whole months and refused to trade with the caravan, and yes the liason tried to talk to my broker while he was digging the moat and he fell in and instantly drowned, all in all the worst first caravan I've ever had.))


Retarded, and now dead, liason

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
26th Limestone

Macaques and kobolds tried to steal my shit, caravan guards went nuts on 'em - was pretty to watch but I'm still not talking to those dirty bastards. I'm just gonna keep sulking in the booze stockpile, it's time I had a whinge to these chumps rather than listen to their bellyaching all day long.

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
17th Sandstone

The caravan chumps tell me they're leaving, I say good riddance. Now that they've left I can go back to work. 2 months of being drunk and surly was just the holiday I needed to go and get myself ready for the onerous task of bookkeeping. At least I know where I can skim the cash from without the others noticing.

((His break really did end just as they were going out the door, very frustrating.))

[hillburra]

Journal of "Hillburra" Bimsolan
1st Granite 64

Nothing happened all winter, it was wonderfully productive.

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The moat was finished, the bridge was finished but despite all my magnificent progress these 6 jerks keep yanking my chain and mouthing off at me. I've cracked it. I've told the six of 'em to have a meeting and pick a new friggin leader 'cos I don't want the job anymore. I just want to sit back, skim profits, go mining, turn some pumps, break some skulls and out-dwarf all these know-it-all loudmouth assholes. As long as I'm doing that they can lead the outpost however they want.

I've given them details as to the actual worth of the fort as it currently stands.

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I wash my hands of the lot of 'em. Good luck to which poor bastard has the job next, then they'll realize how awesome I was.

Back to playing with my shaft.

((Had to put that joke in somewhere ))

[hillburra]

Ok, here's the link for Airpi

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=959

that's the zip of the map. Unzip, put in your "dwarf fortress\data\save" folder, name it after a region number not used yet and go for it!

Good Luck man, have fun playing with my staircase or just abandon it and do your own thing, the joys of succession games

[Airpi]

Well alright, I went and picked up a fresh copy of the Mayday release (for consistency!), lets take a look around...

From the diary of Airpi Rithmezum
1st Granite, Year 64
You know, I wish Meng could have blessed my head with a little sense. Should've just stayed back at the Mountainhomes. I could've been churning out chain and helms for the guard and eating sweet wine biscuits until the end of my days.
Instead I'm in some Armok-forsaken mountain, months of travel away from civilization, mining out a tunnel to nowhere for some madman! Oh yeah, he can talk, I'll give him that. "The Painful Tooth is just a name," he said, "I hear its beautiful in the summer. Fulla ore and jewels anyway." Well I've been diggin for months and all I've seen are sand, useless rocks, and swarms of those damn theiving monkeys!
Well anyways, that yahoo Hillburra doesn't seem to interested in giving orders any more, and the rest of them seem to look up to me for some reason, so I guess it's my time to shine. I'm tired of sleeping in a cramped barracks and and eating in a tiny damn hall that doesn't even have tables enough for the lot of us.

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Its time for use to move out of this hole in the wall and get some proper lodging. And this damned pit looks like it will do nicely.