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[SpiralDimentia]

So, I am feeling particularly creative, and while interesting games [of story-writing quality] and legends elude me, I can aleways just use the age old tactic of making shit up as I go. Served me well enough in the past.

Anyways, I had the idea of making the story.. interactive. I stop the story at certain points and ask what should happen next. The problem with that is huge gaps in story where people tell me what they want, and would make it a bitch to read, which is opposite of what I want.

My new idea however just takes all those stops and crams them together at the begining. I'll give you the premise of how the story starts, you guys unload ideas on me of what you'd like to see, then in a new thread I can write with impunity, and you'll get to see your ideas [hopefully] come from the flow of story, for all to see.

So, without further ado. [adu?]

The story will start with an already formed and functioning fortress. Probably Ironshaken [unless a better suggestion comes] since it's my current fortress anyways. The protagonist will be a migrant soldier. Weapon type is up for grabs. It'll start with how he is assigned to protect a group of migrants that are going to the fortress, how he arrives and the story will be his experience there, leading to the eventual downfall of the fortress [probably by clowns, again, unless a better suggestion is mentioned.] I don't want the story to be relatively short, so no ''He arrives, and WHAM, comet out of nowhere. It'll be written in the same style [sorta] as Dragonwork, link below.

So, DF Forums.... come at me bros, unleash your thoughts and opinions. I got my note pad waiting.

Edit; Also, if I get conflicting ideas, like two ways the fortress goes down or five different ways for our hero to meet his end and/or survive[and? what?], then I'll just choose [in my opinion] the best one. The interesting part is you may not even know I'm using your idea until it comes out in the story.

[Dutchling]

So we basically suggest all kind of things and than later on you make a story out of it?
My 2 suggestions:
weapon skill->sword
and whatever happens, the 'hero' of the story should try to get the adamantine sword ASAP 

[narhiril]

So, without further ado. [adu?]

Adieu.

[SpiralDimentia]

So we basically suggest all kind of things and than later on you make a story out of it?
My 2 suggestions:
weapon skill->sword
and whatever happens, the 'hero' of the story should try to get the adamantine sword ASAP 

Yeah, you guys just tell me what you'd like to see in a dwarf fortress tale, and I'll do my best to make it happen.

So, without further ado. [adu?]

Adieu.

Thank you. My french is lacking. lol.

[SpiralDimentia]

Just the sword and circus so far? Going to be a fairly bland story. =P

I'll give it time. I'll go play MK9 while I wait.

[Oliolli]

Well, it would be nice to see the hero at some point losing an arm, and spending the rest of his life one-handed. Maybe to a GCS?

[MasterMorality]

If the hero uses any kind of weapon: ANYTHING BUT A SWORD. ANYTHING.

Literally, I'm so tired of swords.

That's my request.

[xl 4ndre lx]

If he doesn't use a sword than make it a morningstar he aquired after witnessing a cave croc kill a human adventurer. After slaying the beast he found a severed arm still clutching the weapon

[narhiril]

If he doesn't use a sword than make it a morningstar he aquired after witnessing a cave croc kill a human adventurer. After slaying the beast he found a severed arm still clutching the weapon

I approve of this suggestion.

[3]

So, without further ado. [adu?]

Adieu.

No. No. Just... don't.

[SpiralDimentia]

A one armed flail weilder. In my mind, that'd have to be one very hardcore dwarf.

[Dutchling]

morning star is cool too! Just no lame axes or hammers. Dwarves always have axes or hammers and swords are just a lot cooler, you'll need to mod in the flails / morning stars though. Or are you going for AdvMode?

[SpiralDimentia]

morning star is cool too! Just no lame axes or hammers. Dwarves always have axes or hammers and swords are just a lot cooler, you'll need to mod in the flails / morning stars though. Or are you going for AdvMode?

Neither. I'm going to write the story free of any set thing. So he could weild a magma bathtub and it'd be cool. He'd just have massive upper body strength.

And burns. Lots of burns.

and yeah, when they said morningstar for some reaosn I thought flail. I have no idea why.

[Dagoth Urist]

I propose downfall by revolution!
How about a jaded and broken-down soldier who have migrated from his home-fortress due to it already experiencing Fun?
Our hero is weary of the world, and realizes exactly how much of a crapsack it is. His past in the military of his home-fortress made him slowly understand how the world works, or more exactly, how it doesn't.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You have the unimaginable monsters who every other day massacre the helpless. When once in a century an Adventurer rise up and defeat those monsters... The questions is if we were better off with the monsters instead. Don't forget the dwarves themselves! Genocide elves for little else than fun, run by insane monarchs and their brutal Hammerers. Those elves aren't anyone to praise either. Completely uncompromising idealists and bigots who believe that the lives of a single tree surpass the needs of a full fortress of dwarves! Cannibals... The goblins seem to be the only ones who really goes the distance in being wicked, though. Stealing, murdering, demon-worshipping. Not even bothering to put up a façade of being righteous, quite unlike the humans. Sitting in their huts and mindlessly lulling around until one particularly bloodthirsty tyrant decides to put everyone under a big yokel, calling themselves "warlords". And then they just live on in an eternally revolving cycle of useless births and starvations.

He had to become a migrant, now that his home-fortress went down the drain. Preferably caused by the folly of its tyrant.
No one respects or like this poor and foreign migrant in the new fortress, and this story is how he works his way up from the gutters. At first he is sent to be meat-fodder to all beasts and perceived threats to the fortress. Then, when he becomes less expendable, he sets his eyes on a higher cause than just surviving. He swears to topple the tyrants and found a new civilization. A better civilization! He needs others to join his cause, from both inside and outside the fortress. The revolution will be bloody, but by the skin of his teeth, he might make it.
Well, that is how he reasons, in any case...

Doesn't contain HFS nor carp. That might make it not-so-very DF-esque... :c

[SpiralDimentia]

I had actually considered throwing in random oddities in the new fortress he came too. Maybe dwarves crouched behind a rock with ''cow leather helmets'', being just the hea dof the cow stuck on their head, throwing kitten grenades or something.