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db48x

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new sources of Fun on the horizon
« on: March 01, 2011, 05:41:19 am »

I'd just like to share this story reward I got during the animal sponsorship drive. It exceeded all my expectations, and I suspect many of you will enjoy it as well:

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With the sweet satisfaction of great exertion, the beaver man wiped
his watery brow.  The palisade was almost complete.  Great sharpened
logs stood on end, marking the boundaries of the beaver fortress.
Behind him, groups of beavers splashed and played in the great lake
beyond the beaver dam.

Green valley had once been a place of life.  That was before the
beavers came.  Now all the farmland and orchards lay underneath
fathoms of dark water.  Drowned.  There had even been a dwarf fortress
there, founded in secret under the noses of the men that farmed there.
 Now the dwarf king sent agents to find out what happened to the
pilgrims, not knowing they were heedless of the water till it was too
late.
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Dabi

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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2011, 07:24:31 am »

I'd just like to share this story reward I got during the animal sponsorship drive. It exceeded all my expectations, and I suspect many of you will enjoy it as well:

,.@@,,..,,.||b~~~~~~~~~~~

With the sweet satisfaction of great exertion, the beaver man wiped
his watery brow.  The palisade was almost complete.  Great sharpened
logs stood on end, marking the boundaries of the beaver fortress.
Behind him, groups of beavers splashed and played in the great lake
beyond the beaver dam.

Green valley had once been a place of life.  That was before the
beavers came.  Now all the farmland and orchards lay underneath
fathoms of dark water.  Drowned.  There had even been a dwarf fortress
there, founded in secret under the noses of the men that farmed there.
 Now the dwarf king sent agents to find out what happened to the
pilgrims, not knowing they were heedless of the water till it was too
late.

Awesome, continuation if it ever comes will be sweet.


Thanks for sharing!
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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2011, 07:33:16 am »

That's a cool story.
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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2011, 08:01:25 am »

those fucking beavers always... i know of a town local to me where this actually happened, a beaver family created a dam that flooded a creek into spilling over into a farm, at this point nobody cared though, and the farmer couldn't do anything since they are a protected species here
when the farm borders could take no more it all gushed over the course of 1 day into 5 houses, when people found out what caused it, they held a bbq fund-raising to repay the damages then got trouble with animal control (something like peta + pest control) since someone jokishly told animal control that they where eating the beaver family

the beavers left when people hired a drummer to drum next to the beaver dam every morning at 9

this was in the gazette last year, i dont know why i had to tell you guys probably because it shows how insane people are here

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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2011, 05:32:51 pm »

those fucking beavers always... i know of a town local to me where this actually happened, a beaver family created a dam that flooded a creek into spilling over into a farm, at this point nobody cared though, and the farmer couldn't do anything since they are a protected species here
when the farm borders could take no more it all gushed over the course of 1 day into 5 houses, when people found out what caused it, they held a bbq fund-raising to repay the damages then got trouble with animal control (something like peta + pest control) since someone jokishly told animal control that they where eating the beaver family

This is a great story too, blizzerd. I'd like to have seen the looks on the faces of the animal control people when they heard about that bbq.

the beavers left when people hired a drummer to drum next to the beaver dam every morning at 9

Haha, that makes it an awesome story right there :)
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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2011, 09:13:43 pm »

Imagine the war of the dwarves against the beavers, the former trying to dig their way out to the surface and dismantle the dam, the latter aggressively flooding the holes that the dwarves try to breach the ground with.
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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2011, 11:43:20 pm »

Imagine the war of the dwarves against the beavers, the former trying to dig their way out to the surface and dismantle the dam, the latter aggressively flooding the holes that the dwarves try to breach the ground with.
epic
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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2011, 01:26:34 am »

the beavers left when people hired a drummer to drum next to the beaver dam every morning at 9

Now THAT would be an interesting use for all those stone drums the stonecrafters make.......
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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2011, 04:20:11 am »

This is what I received when I asked Toady about aquatic plants, after having supported the white stork in December.

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Alacan the bird man waded through the marsh, poking through the
aquatic plants with his long staff.  Groups of white storks stepped
around him, searching for food.  Something dark hid the sun for a
moment.  Alacan searched the sky for signs of trouble.  That’s when he
saw the dragon.  He chirped a quick warning and the storks took to the
wing.
 
Alacan spread his wings and launched into the sky.  It was a dragon, a
young one.  To his amusement, Alacan saw that it was fitted with a
saddle.  A woman in black armor was riding it.  They hadn’t seen him
yet, too confident in their power.  I will teach them to bring a
monster into my marsh, thought Alacan.  With that, the bird man dove.
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Re: new sources of Fun on the horizon
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2011, 04:41:47 am »

Beavers, like the water, carp, also like the water.

They are plotting against all dorf kind!