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[NCommander]

I'm assuming the victims eventually recover, right?

Also, thanks for training up my dorf.

Half the military has it, so as long as they don't starve in bed waiting for TheMadFool to diagnosis them, everyone should survive.

Considering I built the Trade Depot/swimmming pool in the first place, it's probably partially my fault.

Wait... then that means my works continue to have no benevolent value and are only good for evil!  MY LEGACY CONTINUES! 

Its probably for the best. Once they get demon sickness, they become immune so in effect, they become that more badass. I've suspended CARP training though for the time being to study if there is any long term effect (i.e., ability to grasp lost). In addition, if a dwarf in water falls unconscious, they immediately begin to drown; the trade depot doesn't have an easy way to quickly drain it, and I'm determined not to loose any dwarfs on my turn if I can avoid it.

That being said, I feel like I'd be crossing a moral event horizon by plaguing our own solders ....

(on an aside, the tvtropes page is growing at an alarming rate; I didn't know how many of us were tropers!)

[NRDL]

Wait...the dwarves already infected become immune to the syndrome?

My God, you've invented Dwarven vaccination.

[NCommander]

Wait...the dwarves already infected become immune to the syndrome?

My God, you've invented Dwarven vaccination.

I believe so. May require some !!science!! to verify but I've yet to see anyone brought to the hospital for it until now. If Dwarf's didn't gain immunity, TheAussieDwarf to constantly be going in and out of the hospital since he's constantly smoothing and engraving the bunker. In addition, more of the military should have been laid up if one could be infected twice.

If nothing else, the trade depot drowning chamber indirectly will help boost the life expectancy of the military by leading to the invention dwarven vaccination.

Also, the idea of vaccinating our dwarfs vs. turning them into walking plague carriers suddenly made it more palatable ...

[ThatAussieGuy]

Why am I not at all surprised my dwarf is engraving the surface of Hell?

[NCommander]

Why am I not at all surprised my dwarf is engraving the surface of Hell?

I'm pretty sure I snapped his mind by using the trade depot for good vs. evil. He mumbled something about that madman running the fort then disappeared below.

(I also learned that the symbol of The Basement of Murder is an image of full moons[sic]. Makes you wonder what the hell sort of planet we're on)

EDIT: And this ...

"Engrave on the wall is a finely-designed image of Lun, the deity of the weater, depicted as a male dwarf by Kib Avalmonon. Lun is screaming."

Even the gods are freaked out as hell about Deathgate ...

[ThatAussieGuy]

I'm not surprised, considering what you're mixing into the trade depot/swimming pool.

Also has anything good EVER happened under a full moon? 

[NCommander]

I'm not surprised, considering what you're mixing into the trade depot/swimming pool.

Also has anything good EVER happened under a full moon?

How was I supposed to know that we had dried demon blood on our armor that would flow off and generate a demon blood trap when the doors were unlocked?! At least I didn't add vampire blood to the mix.

Also, I did have a night creature transform and destroy half a siege once, so you can make full moons work for you.

[AnimaRytak]

Deathgate's TvTrope page needs a quote for the top.  I'm thinking of using Blade Master's quote from the OP.

Anyone else have any other suggestions?

[NCommander]

Deathgate's TvTrope page needs a quote for the top.  I'm thinking of using Blade Master's quote from the OP.

Anyone else have any other suggestions?

I personally like your first quote in the OP about driving the fort into the ground. Its a pretty succent summary of the entire clusterfuck that's Deathgate.

EDIT: Geeze, looking at the tropes page, its starting to sound like a war epic, combined with social commentary due to the number of averted, subverted, and deconstructed troops. How many Succession Games can subvert "We Have Reserves"?!

[Blade Master Model 42]

Deathgate's TvTrope page needs a quote for the top.  I'm thinking of using Blade Master's quote from the OP.

I support this option. This support has nothing to do with any kind of personal motivation. Not at all.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

I was just thinking, if Deathgate is the last dwarven fortress in the world, and we have no monarch, who does the civilization screen say is leading us?  So if you push 'c' in game, what does it say about the Basement of Murder?

[NCommander]

I was just thinking, if Deathgate is the last dwarven fortress in the world, and we have no monarch, who does the civilization screen say is leading us?  So if you push 'c' in game, what does it say about the Basement of Murder?

"This land has no important leaders."

Or in other words: "Oh Crap!".

EDIT: Demon sickness update; my dwarf recovered on her own, and seems to be fine; the D dropped off her on the health menu. Scalliper hasn't recovered yet but I suspect its just a matter of time.

[GentlemanRaptor]

Deathgate's TvTrope page needs a quote for the top.  I'm thinking of using Blade Master's quote from the OP.

Anyone else have any other suggestions?

No, I think using Blade Master's is a good idea. It kinda fits with the theme on the DF community trope page, too.

[NCommander]

So far things go relatively well, though I had a *slight* accident. Will fully writeup tonight/tomorrow morning, but I'm curious if anyone can guess what happened:

[GentlemanRaptor]

Wasn't there a syndrome that caused blisters to break out all over?