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[peregarrett]

Urist McProphet, the Kingdom's Highest Priest,  has awaken with a painful scream of horror. It was Armok himself who visited him at the dream, and his words were still rumbling in Urist's ears:
These minor gods seem to be too useless! I want to cut their number a bit. And I want you, dwarfs, to decide who will feel the wraith of Armok's Hammer!
I want you to build a settlement somewhere and honor your gods the way they deserve it!
...
Are you still here?! AWAKE AND OBEY!!!
Seven brave dvarwes were chosen to conquer frozen Mountain of Straps and build there an outpost to honor or deities and attract more piligrims.

I got inspired with this thread http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=69378.0 and have an idea.
We start as usual community game - gen world, embark, choose a dwarfs for ourselves and strike the earth! But then let's add some role-playing - each ruler should be guided by his chosen dwarf deity's preferences. If it's war and death - then ruler should focus on military stuff, if it's trade and wealth - then time for golden crafts encrusted with diamonds!

Well, anyone's interested? Any suggestions are welcome.
By the way, I'm not insisting on being GM, I'd rather pass this duty to someone who has enough time and wishes to.

UPD.
ver 0.31.18, no mods.
Players list:

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• peregarrett. Year 1
• Rolan7 - glassworking and engraving. Year2
• Dariush Year 3
• mrbobbyg Year 4
• Di Year 5
• RandomNumberGenerator Year 6
• Azated - skipped
• evilcherry
• Urist Imiknorris
• bayar

Embark location:

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Available gods:

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Latest save
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3566

Short summary so far
Year 1 - Settled, started industries, two artifacts - alder grate and glass ring with dwarfs killing elves on it.
Year 2 - Glorious glass heaven bridge built! So was artifact mechanism.
Year 3 - A goblin ambush wiped half of dwarfs and launched tantrum spiral. Only 7 newcomers remain.
Year 4 - Survivors moved deeper to mountain, managed to form proper military and trap defences
Year 5 - several ambushes, but we managed to drive them away. Things are going better now
Year 6 - A few sieges and a titan perished from dwarven axes. Also, Tower of Deler was made. And Dariush III became baron.

[Rolan7]

Sure, sign me up!  I haven't been in a community fort in a long time and I'm not so familiar with 0.31, so I don't mind being last.  (I'm playing a 0.31.18 fort now though).

I can just pick up and customize a migrant, or should I describe my dwarf first?

[peregarrett]

Well, I'm not sure we can customize (or even watch) deities of starting 7, so they'll be random - you choose a dwarf, assign skils, but you can change your choice after embark, after they state they worships. Skills prefs relost then, though.
Also I could not find deities at legends mode. So we'll need to update post for each migrant wave with their deities and worshippers.

Okay, I'll generate a world and look for suitable place.
Any suggestions to biome type?
I'd look for haunted/terrifying/sinister place with sand and rock.
kind of this:

Plains are haunted and mountain is wilderness. We can move to plains completely, though.

UPD. Gods ARE in historical fugures list, but it really hurts to search for them throuh thousands entries. Filter doesn't work with character type, only with name - so we can't filter dwarves only =(

[Dariush]

Hm, sounds interesting. Sign me up.

[peregarrett]

Hm, sounds interesting. Sign me up.

Done.
Any suggestions to location/skills/smthing?

[Dariush]

VOLCANO. As for skills, I'd suggest two miners, one mason/mechanic, mason/stonecrafter, carpenter/leader, woodcutter/axedwarf and farmer/brewer (the setup I usually use).

[peregarrett]

A glacier volcano, maybe?



But no sand, no flux and just wilderness

[Dariush]

Ah, the very place for piligrims! We can live without sand and flux, but check for other civilizations - it would be pretty dull living without elves and goblins.

[peregarrett]

Damn. Dwaves only.
I think i'll re-gen

UPD. F$%k, got a volcano at glacier again, but it seems corrupted some way, it crashes at embark location screen. Lets try again.

[Dariush]

If you're regenning anyway, make a custom world with 200 volcanoes.

[peregarrett]

Flux, tundra, volcano. Humans and goblins are near, but elf-free.

UPD. Hell yes! I got you, fluffy hippies!

I had to re-gen a lot before elves managed to survive. But now we have all races around.

[Rolan7]

I'm OK with that one.  "The Ultimate Tundra", nice.
Can you bring some sand on the embark?  I like glasscrafts.

[peregarrett]

I'm OK with that one.  "The Ultimate Tundra", nice.
Can you bring some sand on the embark?  I like glasscrafts.

There is sand at the latest map - mountain of straps. it comes under F2

[Rolan7]

I'm OK with that one.  "The Ultimate Tundra", nice.
Can you bring some sand on the embark?  I like glasscrafts.

There is sand at the latest map - mountain of straps. it comes under F2

Ah, ideal.  Thanks.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

I'll sign up. I haven't done a succession fort before, but since I always get bored and abandon around year six or seven I figure a community fort will inject more life into the game.

For starting seven, I suggest two miners/engravers, one architect/mason/carpenter, one woodcutter/hebalist, one planter/butcher/tanner, one cook/brewer/appraiser/judge of intent, and an axedwarf/shielddwarf/armordwarf to lead the military.

If we start on the glacier, then swap the woodcutter/herbalist out for something else. Mechanic maybe.