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[Rat Of Wisdom]

But... electricity isn't implemented.

(aside from the slightly minor detail that electricity hasn't been implemented yet)

No seriously. It's always been a "because I can" sort of thing, which is pretty much the spirit of the game, and besides, more or less everything else has been done, and railguns are some of the dwarfiest things known to mankind...

[Cheddarius]

Ah.

[Rat Of Wisdom]

Which is also why I'm not especially concerned with making it particularly realistic. It's not at the level of the nuclear reactor mockup (with the graphite and the beryl windows and the pitchblende and the SCRAM hatches and shit like that, I forget who exactly posted it but it was pretty damn cool) but it looks cool and it sounds cool and it's got a high OMG IT SPINS factor, and it's a damn railgun come on.

[darthbob88]

And I need a name for it, of course.

Fist and Hammer of Armok are classics, of course, as is Excalibur. Lightningstrike or Thunderstrike are appropriate to the fact that it's a damned railgun, and any of the variations on Goblin Extermination Inc are moderately intelligent and demeaning to the enemy. Pride or Spirit of Boatshoots are always good names to use, especially if you name it after a previous fortress conquered by goblins or tantrums. Urist, or some other personal name, is always good; name it after your king/queen, or a noteworthy dwarf in your fortress.

[Rat Of Wisdom]

I was considering Armok's Bolt actually I reckon I'll troll the language file for something appropriate, and then name it in the fashion of that epic sky-fortress.

And of course my next fortress is going to be a mech that sports this bastard as its primary weapon.

[Odd!x]

how about a traditional dwarven name for an inanimate object; the parched expedition of sliding?

seriously though, name it Uristemedes' Fair and Logical Argument

[Rat Of Wisdom]

I'd do that, but I don't think dwarves have words for "fair" or "logical".

[Shrike]

There are. It's just that the CULTURAL meaning is a bit skewed.

It's logical to kill your own people with magma as long as it makes stuff happen, you can always get more dwarves.

[jayseesee]

I'd do that, but I don't think dwarves have words for "fair" or "logical".

sigged.  Had to be.

[Rat Of Wisdom]

There are. It's just that the CULTURAL meaning is a bit skewed.

It's logical to kill your own people with magma as long as it makes stuff happen, you can always get more dwarves.

Conceptually, this is completely true. (Although that's more logical from the player's perspective than a dwarf's. Something more along the lines of "it's fair to order someone hammered to death because they can't make you stuff from a metal which is physically impossible to find anywhere even remotely accessible to us", however, works quite well.) I guess I got distracted by the whole "I dinna sae we wurren't crazy!" thing.

Technically, though...

   [T_WORD:LISTEN:ƒmid]
   [T_WORD:LIZARD:bungek]
   [T_WORD:LOBSTER:zedot]
   [T_WORD:LOCK:thak]
   [T_WORD:LONE:tet˘th]
   [T_WORD:LONG:romek]
   ...
   [T_WORD:FAIR EVEN:an–z]
   [T_WORD:FAIR COLOR:angen]

Fair's in there, in two different senses even, but logical...

[Odd!x]

how about

Uristemedes' Fair and Decent Argument?

[Quantum Toast]

I was considering Armok's Bolt actually I reckon I'll troll the language file for something appropriate, and then name it in the fashion of that epic sky-fortress.

And of course my next fortress is going to be a mech that sports this bastard as its primary weapon.

Spear of Armok? Sounds about right for a projectile weapon. (Though come to think of it spears aren't projectiles in fortress mode, and everything is a projectile in Adventure mode...)

[Rat Of Wisdom]

Those snivelling rat fink sonovanelf GOBLINS.

They took one of my legendary wrestlers from me.

So, I erected a masterwork platinum statue where she fell, and gave her a tomb in the depths engraved by my master artisan, with stautes, coffin and chests all of limonite (which she adored), one chest for her stuff, one for the stuff and corpses of the goblins she killed before dying.

But this, of course, settles the matter of a name for the railgun.

Ézum's Vengeance.

[blue emu]

... It's not at the level of the nuclear reactor mockup (with the graphite and the beryl windows and the pitchblende and the SCRAM hatches and shit like that, I forget who exactly posted it but it was pretty damn cool)...

Me.

[Odd!x]

Those snivelling rat fink sonovanelf GOBLINS.

But this, of course, settles the matter of a name for the railgun.

Ézum's Vengeance.

Long live the wrath of Ézum!