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nuker w

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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #45 on: October 01, 2010, 06:42:54 pm »
Remember, the Maori i.e The "original founders" only came in around 1000 AD or something. The eruption was about 1000 years before their arrival.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #46 on: October 02, 2010, 12:27:45 am »
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« Reply #47 on: October 02, 2010, 01:00:09 am »
An embark date of 200 years ago was mentioned, which is far, far too recent for me.  I assumed we'd be using the standard 1050 embark date, judged from the dawn of civilization.  So when Akkad's rockin' and rollin', where would I embark?

Britain.  All of it.

Why?  Sheer practicality.  Prior to the industrial revolution and even its precursors, Britain was enormously rich in coal and iron, as well as arable land.  The hills are not so steep, which lets megaconstructions stand out all the better.  There's plentiful decorative stone as well, for making statues and the like.  First, of course, I'd have to work on some kind of stone ring for ritual purposes...
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #48 on: October 02, 2010, 02:10:50 am »
Siberia.

Fending off the ravenous Russian Hordes in a hostile environnement sounds Fun.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #49 on: October 02, 2010, 02:23:12 am »
I would make my embark to encompass the Old Man of Hoy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_Hoy) and the Dwarfie Stane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfie_Stane).
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #50 on: October 02, 2010, 07:25:44 am »
myself I would pick Mount Scott Oklahoma,   A decently high peak in the middle of a plain,  so it's easy to see everything coming towards your fort and it is a very defensible position.

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« Reply #51 on: October 02, 2010, 08:06:58 am »
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #52 on: October 02, 2010, 05:43:28 pm »
Quote from: Boes on October 02, 2010, 07:25:44 am
myself I would pick Mount Scott Oklahoma,   A decently high peak in the middle of a plain,  so it's easy to see everything coming towards your fort and it is a very defensible position.



Holy crap, I'd totally build a fortress on that.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #53 on: October 02, 2010, 10:48:30 pm »
On that note,
Spoiler: Devil's Tower, Wyoming, US (click to show/hide)
looks like a great place. It's the core of a dead volcano, so fairly easy magma. Wyoming, even today, has next to nothing in it, perfect for paranoid dwarves.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #54 on: October 02, 2010, 10:49:49 pm »
I see a terrifying forest right next to it. Perfect.
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« Reply #55 on: October 02, 2010, 10:53:19 pm »
And this is the local mythical animal. Could be a bad thing if skeletal.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #56 on: October 02, 2010, 11:00:25 pm »
Rabbuck?
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #57 on: October 02, 2010, 11:03:47 pm »
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #58 on: October 03, 2010, 02:48:01 am »
Actually, with devil's tower, you wouldn't find magma easily.  The whole reason that core is exposed is because it's dead, and everything is long cooled, including the plumbing.
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Re: Where on Earth would you embark?
« Reply #59 on: October 04, 2010, 08:44:42 am »
Quote from: Shrugging Khan on October 01, 2010, 08:48:52 am
Quote from: nuker w 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...
ROMANS in NZ!?  ???

Romani ite domum.
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