50 something leagues under the sea
Humans most certainly were creatures of great ambition. No humans had greater ambition than the Isdipop family.
Their passion above all else was making huge journeys to jump down cracks in the ice FOR SCIENCE.
It was on his twelfth birthday that Ashab Isdipop inherited the map from his home in <closest non-goblin civilization>
to <frozen sea what where there be ice cracks>
after an extremely uneventful travel to the edge of the sea, as the sea, even frozen, cannot be traveled over. and began
his journey in the Abyssal blizzards which had fog thicker than a dwarfs beard and twice as persistent.
blindly stumbling his way through the fog in which one could not identify their outstretched hand he came across famous glacial zero gravity ice and screwed around on it
(don't know what causes this wish I could build a fortress on it)
continuing his journey he wandered further into the ice-flows that were once The Faint Seas and
came across the strange monoliths of ice where the crevasses were said to be
suffice to say, that one didn't have a crevasse in it and my processor exploded afterwards so now the character will be
Irum Isdipop.
So , anyhow
Irum found one with a crevasse in it, it looked kind of like a door to a goblin tower.
And!...
SPLAT!
(I guess this goes to show my luckiness in picking right the first time.)
well I reload a couple more times and I think on the third try I came up with this one
(52 z levels and not a scratch on me)
first try
Irum swims to the top to stop drowning and winds up looking down a narrow corridor
I cannot say in words how difficult it was to tell whether or not
Irum was moving through this tunnel due to DF's graphics when I emerged I was at an opening very similar to the one I came in through except now
Irum was
DrowningI continued in the direction and found no indication that there was anything but an expanse of open sea ahead of me then
Irum died because he likes air or something.
next try.
Irum swims to the top to avoid drowning, but goes in the opposite direction to last time.
Immediately after leaving the auspices of the crevasse,
Irum began drowning. this is most likely due to there being a z level of ice above him preventing him from getting his precious air.
The ice wall the crevasse is in seems to trace the border of the ice chunk from the surface that I entered from.
there's probably some connection between them
Irum was resurrected for one more trip. This time he went down the downward slopes near where he fell instead of swimming up to get his precious
airThe exploration went predictably and without fiend-krakens dwelling beneath the ice sheets thirsty for human blood.
there was white sand and ore
like the stuff you would imagine would be on the bottom of the procedurally generated ocean
I had explored down a few more z levels and found another giant ice block when
Irum threw a hissy fit about not having any of his fancy-pants
air and killed himself.
What have we learned from this expedition
- Fog is equivalent to blindness
- Weak pathetic humans need to breathe
- There appears to be nothing on the sea floor
If anyone wants to try out exploring as
Irum at the bottom of the crevasse, the save is
here
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