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Overspeculated

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Strange Engravings
« on: October 16, 2009, 09:54:58 pm »
I just had the strangest engraving yet, it makes no sense at all and is slightly disturbing. The dwarf featured in the engraving is a Royal Guard who is currently alive and well. Here it is:
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 10:42:31 pm »
Look at his thoughts and preferences - he probably likes doors. I've personally seen an engraving of a marksdwarf surrounded by lizards and looking terrified (she detests lizards), one of a hammerdwarf admiring dogs (he likes them for their loyalty), and another of a dwarf devouring a rat weed (one of his favorite foods).
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2009, 08:18:40 am »
I think the dwarf being depicted in the drawings is being shown that they have a lot of choice in their life.

That dwarf who drew that... is a GENIUS!
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2009, 09:22:14 am »
how do I observe my engravings ?
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2009, 10:53:04 am »
Quote from: Overspeculated on October 16, 2009, 09:54:58 pm
I just had the strangest engraving yet, it makes no sense at all and is slightly disturbing. The dwarf featured in the engraving is a Royal Guard who is currently alive and well. Here it is:
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Post your strange nonsensical engravings!

my guess is that there talking about the band
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2009, 12:24:39 pm »
Quote from: PaperJack on October 17, 2009, 09:22:14 am
how do I observe my engravings ?

1. k
2. move cursor over engraving
3. enter

However it's not entirely this simple. You will find that some engravings state, quite simply "An image of a dwarf and dwarves, the dwarf is surrounded by the dwarves." and that's it. If you however you abandon, go into adventure mode and seek out your fortress you can observe greater detail. It'll say "An image of a dwarf and dwarves, the dwarf is surrounded by the dwarf. The engraving relates to the election of Urist McCheese as mayor of burgerville."

Edit: When locating your fortress it's adviced to use an elf, as they are not attacked by common wildlife. Use a dwarf and you'll soon find yourself with wolves up your ass.

Oh and of course backup the save before abandoning.
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2009, 12:33:45 pm »
"Ah, my dwarves are done engraving my barracks! Let's see what they put in there to motivate my soldiers..."



"...Carp."

The engraving itself isn't very odd, as I've been having trouble with the local pachyderms. It's the placement that makes it funny: right in the middle of my barracks. I guess my soldiers will be REALLY motivated now.
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2009, 12:40:35 pm »
Quote from: Aspgren on October 17, 2009, 12:24:39 pm
Quote from: PaperJack on October 17, 2009, 09:22:14 am
how do I observe my engravings ?

1. k
2. move cursor over engraving
3. enter

However it's not entirely this simple. You will find that some engravings state, quite simply "An image of a dwarf and dwarves, the dwarf is surrounded by the dwarves." and that's it. If you however you abandon, go into adventure mode and seek out your fortress you can observe greater detail. It'll say "An image of a dwarf and dwarves, the dwarf is surrounded by the dwarf. The engraving relates to the election of Urist McCheese as mayor of burgerville."

Edit: When locating your fortress it's adviced to use an elf, as they are not attacked by common wildlife. Use a dwarf and you'll soon find yourself with wolves up your ass.

Oh and of course backup the save before abandoning.

It's also possible to set things in the init file to reveal histories on engravings in fortress mode.
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2009, 06:53:39 pm »
On another fort I got this one:
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While such engravings are not a very unusual occurrence, notice that the engraving is entitled "The Lustful Simplicity", that the dwarven civilisation is called "The Lancer of Romancing", the group founding the fortress "The Construct of Skins" and the fortress itself "Inkstaff". Those are some horny dwarves!
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2009, 07:07:16 pm »
While, Nomal, my Captain of the guard was laid up with a wound (that would take well over three years to heal), my engraver/Mayor came by and engraved this:




He had to sit there with that image for three years. My Mayor is an asshole.
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2009, 10:28:33 pm »
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More funny than strange, I guess. I felt the title was fitting.
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2009, 10:36:46 pm »
I hate my engraver. All he draws are pictures of the orc civilization or pictures of the founding or elections of the fortress. I've had at least a dozen sieges, including two megabeasts and one of my hammerdwarves smacking an elite spear orc so hard he exploded (I checked in legends, that guy was a badass too, he had 46 kills to his name and had burned 3 towns as well as a dozen brutal executions). Ironically, this guy has a "very fertile imagination". Yea, fertile imagination my ass.
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2009, 10:40:10 pm »
I've had a whole load of engravings of a 'Sarvesh lividbell' being awesome and slaughtering things and being praised and hailed. I thought it was one of my champions, with 70 kills to his name.
Just yesterday, one showed who he was. Worldgen dorf.

I have quite a few of elves and animals drowning, one of a drowning dwarf, and one of a burning goblin, which relates to the siege squad I engaged right by the moat and lost a champion to the dodge-over-empty-space bug.
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2009, 10:47:16 am »
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Re: Strange Engravings
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2009, 10:30:22 pm »

It's just odd someone would engrave hidden moons, I mean, what do you have to do to make a picture like that?
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