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[RenoFox]

From an ancient thread:

In one dream I was a de-facto leader of dwarves who had dug a fortress below a small hill of sand. The entrance was made from a half submerged metal barrel and barely large enough for me and the dwarves to move through. (I tend to build my fortresses behind unceremonious holes in the ground, until I'm wealthy enough to put a golden hatch on it.)

The corridors were high enough for me to walk in, while the dwarves scuttled around me doing their tasks. My help was needed in designing the rooms for the future king, who also wanted booshelves in his quarters. I pointed a suitable place for the miners and ordered them to dig a square room. There was some soft soil in part of the room, but I decided to have it covered up with a golden wall. Then I planned arrangements for the golden bookshelves until I woke up.


In another dream the long waited new version was completed. It had moved from ASCII-graphics to a low-angle isometric view, showcasing the individual features of the dwarves. The animation was a bit odd, as eating meals of spherical blue plants was done by having the dwarves stretch their mouths to swallow the football-sized plants whole. Aside from that, I got a farm going and woke up.

Since then I've seen lots of similiar dreams about giving orders inside the fortress. The latest one was a modern underground facility, yet the expansive mining and hi-tech industry was still run in the exactly same way.

There was also one where I showed around my home fort to someone, who couldn't imagine why anyone would want to live in such place.

I sleep well when I think about how happy dwarves are every evening after having survived another day.

[Frosty_Dorf]

Be glad your dreams don't look like minecraft and your fortress is being invaded by creepers and spiders and your squad only has leather armor.

Didn't you double wall and moat your fortress? /shudder creepers... the horror man. the horror...

[RenoFox]

This just in: Last night I saw a dream that while playing, I found underground a unique, randomly generated seed for a new plant species. The caravan arc wasn't out yet, but I was already exited about how a new plant available would affect the world once I could export the seeds.

[RenoFox]

Last night I dreamt that a fortress had a starting scenario of an orphanage the children had fortified themself in. While defending the doors seemed obvious at first, I soon got the idea to produce a pickaxe and dig through a softer soil tile under the food stockpile. I ordered food and useful items dumped into the new tunnel I had dug, with a plan to dig a pit at the start of it to prevent social workers from following.

This was also another case of dreaming in ascii, though it wasn't that weird since it was about a game. Not like the time I was Anubis and helping a real @ on its quest.

[Duntada Man]

I had a dream that was awesome.

We were dwarf gladiators, fighting in the pits to master our combat skills. The king would throw dozens of goblins at us only to be dismembered and maimed to the delighted cries of many bearded children and women in the stands.

The king became slowly more insane with power over time though, demanding we kill goblins with specific materials like glass hammers and such. Eventually we were being forced to battle idle peasants with giant spider-silk capes that we had to use as a garrote.

Suddenly the doors were opened to set us into the surface world, our training being complete, it was time to accomplish our destiny. From his balcony the king proclaimed "Our kingdom is small and poor, I see a remedy for this: Bring me the head of John Mlkovich!"

The king had been watching "Being John Malkovich" and missed some parts of it I guess.

[RenoFox]

Last night I dreamt that I left the game running while reading a book, until I noticed that my hammerer had been promoted to hangman. I was also running out of food and drinks despite having five separate farm plots so I dedicated some dwarves to milking animals.

[Thief^]

Cross-posting from the tshirts thread:

I just bought a black t-shirt with the white writing "So Many Kittens, So Few Recipes" on it.

I don't think DF has affected me at all.

[TurnpikeLad]

Last night I dreamed that I created a 6.7 GHz CPU using Alien (Shofixti) technology with some wierd non-even asynchronous L1 data and instruction caches and 256 MB of onboard 3000 Mhz (PC24K) memory.  It ran a 32x32 map with 207 Z-layers and HFS exposed, 800 dwarves and 1000+ animals at over 900 FPS.  I marketed it and became filthy rich until a dwarf came out of the game and attacked me.  He hacked off an arm and both legs before I could respond by throwing a Mtn Dew can and decapitating him.  Then I bled to death.



What is the worst imagineable?  I am not making this dream up.

Wouldn't peg the Shofixti as being masters of CPU technology.  Now the Mmrnmhrm on the other hand...

[RenoFox]

In a small dream fragment, male dwarves wore top hats and females fine victorian womens hats. Also, ropes could be used to make net traps.

[Megaman3321]

I had a dream were I somehow managed to import a masterwork mechanism that caused a worldwide economic collapse because it was basically a Planepacked

I'm obviously gonna love the Caravan Arc.

[xordae]

After wasting a night away playing DF I started feeling myself turning into some kind of key hammering, list scrolling, delusional automaton. Never dreamed about it, though.

[Urist Imiknorris]

After wasting a night away playing DF I started feeling myself turning into some kind of key hammering, list scrolling, delusional automaton. Never dreamed about it, though.

[Sonlirain]

I'm thinking about things/people who annoyed me lately using... DF combat logs.
Also my unwritten fan fiction character uses an axe.

"The severed part sails off in an arc!"

[Biopass]

After wasting a night away playing DF I started feeling myself turning into some kind of key hammering, list scrolling, delusional automaton. Never dreamed about it, though.

[Interus]

My brother constantly complains that nobody would describe faces the way they are described in dwarf fortress, so when I look at people now, I start thinking "That person has a short head that's quite broad," or "that person has a very tall head," stuff like that.  I haven't started actually thinking of skin color though, mostly because I haven't spent so much time looking at the raws as to have memorized the color list yet.  Also, I keep seeing dwarf fortress names, though I only remembered how to find one, which I came across on wikipedia.

Rosine Leckermaul (literally, "Rosina Tastymuzzle")
The witch from the Hänsel und Gretel opera.