Cthulhu here. I've risen from the depths of Finally... for the first time in eons to menace the lands of Dwarf Fortress once again.
I have an idea.
Some of you may remember the climbing thread I made a bit more than a year ago. Endless plains of obsidian, sasquatches, giant eagles that stalk you for miles, nighttime temperatures so low your eyes literally froze and you went blind, many lives were claimed on that mountain.
That was for babies. This is not a challenge. This is THE challenge. The only thing that could possibly be more daunting than this is
digging your way to the HFS in adventure mode and clearing it alone, then climbing back out and sealing it with a cave-in...
... and you can bet your britches that when Toady implements adventure mode digging I'll be all over that.
Here's the challenge: Standard-sized map, chosen by contestants. Human adventurer. All the food and water you can carry.
A map tile on the southern border of the world will be chosen by contestants before the contest. The contestants will travel to that tile (Savescumming here is fine to make sure your guy doesn't get killed by wolves on the trip over). Adventurers will then make their way north, all the way to a predetermined tile on the northern border of the map. Any path is fair game as long as your journey starts and ends on the predetermined tiles.
Sound easy? There's a catch. You can't fast-travel for any reason. No healing, no hopping over difficult terrain, and obviously no being a douchebag and just fast-travelling all the way there. Anyone can do that and it takes like five minutes.
That's right, you have to walk all the way across the world map, from the frigid southern wastelands to the inexplicably temperate northlands (Or from the inexplicably temperate southlands to the frigid northern wastelands, depending on what the map looks like). Directly. Through. Each. And. Every. Single. Tile.
I'm not saying everyone who embarks on this trek will make it (In fact, I can say with some confidence that no one who embarks on this trek will make it) but losing is fun! And if someone does miraculously pull it off, think of the e-fame and babes you'll get. You'll be the ultimate adventurer.
And so I ask you, adventurers of Bay12:
Are you a bad enough dude to transnavigate the whole entire world?
EDIT: I just remembered. It's okay to stop at towns during the journey to buy more food and other supplies, as long as you don't fast-travel to them.