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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #30 on: October 01, 2010, 07:30:39 am »

Paris.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #31 on: October 01, 2010, 07:34:52 am »

NZ I think. Plenty of magma. I mean, lake Taupo (look it up, its big and you can't get to deh bottom IN A SUBMARINE) was created by a MASSIVE volcano, which the Romans recorded seeing. But I fear there may be to many elves around these parts...
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #32 on: October 01, 2010, 08:40:16 am »

Sacrifice them to the volcano god.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #33 on: October 01, 2010, 08:48:52 am »

NZ I think. Plenty of magma. I mean, lake Taupo (look it up, its big and you can't get to deh bottom IN A SUBMARINE) was created by a MASSIVE volcano, which the Romans recorded seeing. But I fear there may be to many elves around these parts...
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #34 on: October 01, 2010, 09:28:05 am »

Potentially the Galápagos Islands. I hear giant tortoise meat was seriously tasty, so tasty that none managed to make it back to Europe alive at the time. Nothing more dwarven than destroying ecosystems and the Galápagos Islands has a really unique one.

All joking aside it's volcanic, has iron, interesting fauna and flora, and has a brilliant landscape.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #35 on: October 01, 2010, 12:56:18 pm »





Gudvangen, Norway!
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #36 on: October 01, 2010, 02:25:33 pm »

Well if i had to chose it would have to be in the Rocky Mts. or perhaps the Mts. in State Washington. But last I heard of the dwarves living on Mt. St. Helens they went mad and the last living dwarf pulled the "End the World" Lever. That happened over 30 years ago.

May their souls rest in peace.....err..pieces
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #37 on: October 01, 2010, 02:26:52 pm »

Well if i had to chose it would have to be in the Rocky Mts. or perhaps the Mts. in State Washington. But last I heard of the dwarves living on Mt. St. Helens they went mad and the last living dwarf pulled the "End the World" Lever. That happened over 30 years ago.

May their souls rest in peace.....err..pieces

Volcanos are a common source for end of the world levers, I always build one, just in case.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #38 on: October 01, 2010, 03:16:02 pm »

Speaking of that, there is one way to make a real end of the world lever. Yellowstone.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #39 on: October 01, 2010, 03:55:11 pm »

Speaking of that, there is one way to make a real end of the world lever. Yellowstone.
If you were to turn Yellowstone into an end of the world mechanism, how will you trigger it?
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #40 on: October 01, 2010, 03:58:14 pm »

the trigger turns on a drill that finishes drilling into the magma chamber to release the pressure.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #41 on: October 01, 2010, 03:59:49 pm »

NZ I think. Plenty of magma. I mean, lake Taupo (look it up, its big and you can't get to deh bottom IN A SUBMARINE) was created by a MASSIVE volcano, which the Romans recorded seeing. But I fear there may be to many elves around these parts...
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #42 on: October 01, 2010, 04:21:17 pm »

An eruption that big wouldn't have left much in the form of life on New Zealand, now would it?


Anyway I've got a thing for falling water, so I'd go for the Niagra Falls. Unfortunately, that's also a contender for the worst FPS.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #43 on: October 01, 2010, 05:31:54 pm »

An eruption that big wouldn't have left much in the form of life on New Zealand, now would it?

Locally, no, absolutely not.  Probably not a thing within 150 miles or more, and mostly dead farther.   but, you'd be astounded how fast nature can recover.  Two hundred years is enough time to completely recover, much less nearly two thousand.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #44 on: October 01, 2010, 06:13:33 pm »

An eruption that big wouldn't have left much in the form of life on New Zealand, now would it?


Anyway I've got a thing for falling water, so I'd go for the Niagra Falls. Unfortunately, that's also a contender for the worst FPS.

Oh, man.  Divert it for just long enough to build a few floodgates in critical places...and then you can have an entrance to your fortress behind the waterfall where the water only parts when and where you want it to.
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