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[Strategia]

Three words: Weasel Stomping Day

What's wrong with Kobold Stomping Day?

[Mego]

Apparently Cignus is up next.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeah, but I wanted arcangelsd to post his last update first. Looks like that's not going to happen, so I'll update the OP and PM Cignus tomorrow.

[Mego]

The Curse of Battlefailed/Failcannon is returning to haunt our overseers and make their lives detract from their DF time.

[arcangelsd]

Yeah, but I wanted arcangelsd to post his last update first. Looks like that's not going to happen, so I'll update the OP and PM Cignus tomorrow.

Oops. I'm very sorry, I was waiting for someone to claim the next turn to post my update, that is mainly composed of how the STFO work and what is the purpose of the FCN tower. I thought that if I posted it too soon, it might get lost inbetween the other posts, and i would like to the next overseer to read the thing, to know how to disarm the STFO if it gives too much trouble! I'll post the update right now, then.

FAILCANNON NEWS

Dear.. uhh.. surviving residents of Failcannon! I speak to you, not via telepathic emission at all, because, as you know, my new broadcasting tower has a very good acoustic! Yes, acoustic it is! The adamantine emitter does nothing at all! it does not keep you happy despite al the horrible news and deaths that we have suffered recently!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

_{Except you Aussie you dirty traitor}

And now dear citiz survivors,i'm gonna tell you about the magnificence of my new tower, even though you know because you were the ones that built it, not at all coerced fot my fantastic adamantine mind-warping machine, that is surely not installed at the top of this very tower!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also, jumping out to another topic, given the perilous nature of our awesome ocean driller AKA STFO, I have decided to share the layout of the place with you, adjunting useful notes, in order to avoid tragic accidents like those that ocurred to Deathsword and Urist!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also, I have a very, maybe the most important new ever given in this broadcast short history:
I, Arcangelsd, the dwarf that has kept you united and working, as the very best of the craftdwarves, like in the good old days of our mountainhomes, that has ordered built two of the most awe-inspiring landmarks in this town, resigns as the overseer of this place, to continue my work as the news broadcaster of this still-surviving, prospering community. Not at all to lie low because half of my speech consist of suspiciously specific denials, neither to mind control you to build sanity-destroying constructs, and definitely not at all because I don't trust none of you morons.

So, the next poor soul brave dwarf that volunteers as an overseer should take my advice, either in this broadcast as the ones told in my previous ones, seriously.

To sum up: have no fear of the fiends of the subterranean world, as their minds get confused and paralyzed in the warped sublevels of this maze fortress!
Still, don't remove the walls marked with a note spelling "Quarantine walls", just in case.
Also, don't get disturbed about the unnaturally high number of foreigner dwarves that are lingering around our living rooms. They are liaisons, and totally harmless (as in they haven't gone insane yet), even the one that spends all his time lying on a table near Dariush'(s?) room.
Our dear mayor, Catalyst, is by now fine, trapped in her room, and more than happy to spook any fool that get too near to her room's windows.
About our trade agreements, don't even try to open the doors to let the traders in. It seems that somebody (maybe the elves, or that scoundrel Aussie) are in league with the goblins, that kill the dwarven caravans, and the suspiciously steel-clad kobolds that ambush and kill the human caravans. Elves are fine, though, but if I were you, I'd keep an eye on them. Maybe they aren't who they say to be! Elves that don't bring wood? Who in heavens are they trying to fool? They are spies!
Whatever. I'd say the best course of action with the elves would be to kill them all. If you don't mind the outrageous amount of garbage they leave, it is.

And with that, I say goodbye to my overseeing position, leaving it free to anyone brave enough to manage this fortress. Hee hee hee. Have luck with that.

[Mego]

And now, as always, the STFO and FCN tower will be the cause of a glorious disaster involving lots and lots of dwarven death because a future overseer forgets what they do and breaks them.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Except you Aussie you dirty traitor

About our trade agreements, don't even try to open the doors to let the traders in. It seems that somebody (maybe the elves, or that scoundrel Aussie) are in league with the goblins, that kill the dwarven caravans, and the suspiciously steel-clad kobolds that ambush and kill the human caravans.

I get the feeling you suspect my dwarf of some sort of insidious plot - well you're way off.  It's a grand machiavellian plot of insane complexity and intellect that even I need a full whiteboard of notes to keep track of it.

[arcangelsd]

Except you Aussie you dirty traitor

About our trade agreements, don't even try to open the doors to let the traders in. It seems that somebody (maybe the elves, or that scoundrel Aussie) are in league with the goblins, that kill the dwarven caravans, and the suspiciously steel-clad kobolds that ambush and kill the human caravans.

I get the feeling you suspect my dwarf of some sort of insidious plot - well you're way off.  It's a grand machiavellian plot of insane complexity and intellect that even I need a full whiteboard of notes to keep track of it.

Yes, but I got you as the number one suspect for virtually everything.

[Strategia]

Except you Aussie you dirty traitor

About our trade agreements, don't even try to open the doors to let the traders in. It seems that somebody (maybe the elves, or that scoundrel Aussie) are in league with the goblins, that kill the dwarven caravans, and the suspiciously steel-clad kobolds that ambush and kill the human caravans.

I get the feeling you suspect my dwarf of some sort of insidious plot - well you're way off.  It's a grand machiavellian plot of insane complexity and intellect that even I need a full whiteboard of notes to keep track of it.

Yes, but I got you as the number one suspect for virtually everything.

No, see, that's how it appears, but when you dig a little deeper, you'll find that there are a multitude of reasons for whatever you suspect Aussie of, and nothing can be tied back to him.


Which is exactly the way he planned it.

[Eric Blank]

The dorfy solution is to kill people that make you suspicious like that.

Now, where did that save go... I want to see this masterpiece.
62.6 MB. truly enormous.

[Darvi]

Did somebody change his profession or why is Aussie suddenly the memetic mastermind?

[Lokspear]

What.


I would like dwarfing please. Any old  male dwarf and if you happen to still be arming them id prefer a spear.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Did somebody change his profession or why is Aussie suddenly the memetic mastermind?

My first dwarf got himself crippled and put in hospital - he survived the loyalty cascade by being out of the way of all the fighting and even when he got out on crutches, he kept staying out of the way of anything bad happening.   I kinda joked he was cunning and plotting simply because he was never anywhere close to all the !!Fun!! things and people seemed to agree.

 The second one... didn't do to well. This one seems to be getting sneaky again by avoiding all the bad stuff going on.  Even declaring he's "on break" when a task of certain death is requested by the overseer.  You gotta watch him - he's crafty, he is...

[Mormota]

Did somebody change his profession or why is Aussie suddenly the memetic mastermind?

My first dwarf got himself crippled and put in hospital - he survived the loyalty cascade by being out of the way of all the fighting and even when he got out on crutches, he kept staying out of the way of anything bad happening.   I kinda joked he was cunning and plotting simply because he was never anywhere close to all the !!Fun!! things and people seemed to agree.

 The second one... didn't do to well. This one seems to be getting sneaky again by avoiding all the bad stuff going on.  Even declaring he's "on break" when a task of certain death is requested by the overseer.  You gotta watch him - he's crafty, he is...

I think Darvi meant that his profession was Vizzini Gambiter last time.

[Eric Blank]

Just been looking over the save in anticipation of Cignus' turn. Hopefully I'll understand it enough that I'd be able to navigate it after his turn. I certainly can run it. I got bored and decided to write this based on my dorf's current status;
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Personal Journal of Erica.

Lately I've been harassed by this idiotic "Twobeard," who thinks sexually harassing a woman and the ghost possessing her will have no consequences. I've even been forced to leave the body during the night to prevent him from doing anything particularly stupid. He hasn't given up, not relenting to the smallest degree, and even after so many years as a spirit I haven't figured out how to deal with people like him. Knowing that I'm protecting her has made this body more cooperative, however.
Fortunately everything else is going well. I've had enough peace to experience the wonderful dining room that I didn't know we had previously, as well as enough time disembodied to admire the wonderful room I've claimed. The idiot says she likes the nice traps to be found all over the place, and the nice, comfy bed, which I can't enjoy due to being on watch while she sleeps. Only problem is the rain weakens my control over her, because it thins my energy out. This would normally be a good thing as it permits a free spirit to perform more complicated procedures, but not for possessions, where your energy must remain very concentrated.
I still refuse to make any attempt to comprehend this place.

- Erica.
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Spoiler: Nothing important, just waste-of-space and some research into possibly refabricating the world of Aluonra in the event that Failcannon falls and there are still people willing to play on, since using the current world again is impossible. (click to show/hide)

In other news, I notice that some fool removed catalyst from her squad, meaning she will never be readmitted into military service. You will be hanged for your crimes even before she is.

When I was learned that the fortress had so many bones that they could readily be made into a renewable source of blocks, I thought it was neat, but I didn't think it would seriously become such a prominent source of building material. They're EVERYWHERE. We simply can't run out.

I'm also a little creeped out by the skin, nervous tissue, muscle, cartilage and especially gut blocks... and then there's the forgotten beast feather blocks. That's just weird.

I also propose the failcannon motto be "Where gods, titans, and beasts long since forgotten go to die. Taking you with them."
I mean really, a significant portion of the forgotten beasts present in the world must be dead at this point between Failcannon and Battlefailed we currently suffer from no shortage of future forgotten beasts, with less than 5% of the global population dead! There are also many titans in the list of the deceased, and even a god! This region couldn't even be described as hell, it needs a new word with a new definition that summarizes the difference between it and hell as that of heaven and hell, except with hell being the better of the two.
The fort still haven't been confronted by the region's local ocean titan, Nithari, yet... huh.

Also, I'm still going to try to generate a world with the same seed and similar parameters to this one.
If that Fails, we can always use Perfect World to recreate it for newer forts to play on, perhaps marking Failcannon and Battlefailed's locations somehow. I honestly think any successors to these forts deserve a similar world. Don't think I could generate it for 850-1000 years though. (to be a successor and not include Battlefailed or Failcannon it would logically need to occur well into the future, whereupon they are not just ruins but destroyed.) Screw it, it's the apocalypse! The world begins anew and the old dates and civilizations lay forgotten.
I have succeeded in generating very similar terrain, but not necessarily the same biomes. Nothing that a decent apocalypse couldn't cause. I used perfect world and exported elevation maps, but it can't accept exported maps of the other layers of world development like rainfall and evil, so things will have to change over time. I will upload the world gen file and we can mull over it endlessly before coming to a decision.
Seeing as how most of it was still relevant after the switch from 31.03 to .25, I doubt it will need to be changed much for 31.26. It generates (consistently) a completely different name though: The Mythical Universes. Fitting, I think, but possibly affected by my modded raws.

Here is that world gen file.