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[GentlemanRaptor]

Only in Deathgate people devise contingency plans in case the first self-destruct lever fails.

Yeah. And we have a demon that corrupts save files and melts computers. On that note, my entire home network failed recently. Joy. Would a ritual sacrifice appease Terry?

[Just Some Guy]

Should I take a turn at Deathgate 2? On one hand, I'm inexperienced and tend run sober forts. On the other hand, I'm inexperienced and tend to run sober forts.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

On that note, my entire home network failed recently. Joy. Would a ritual sacrifice appease Terry?

Nah. Being appeased by something as mundane as ritual sacrifices would make far too much sense.

[AnimaRytak]

On that note, my entire home network failed recently. Joy. Would a ritual sacrifice appease Terry?

Nah. Being appeased by something as mundane as ritual sacrifices would make far too much sense.

Terry demands entire universes as sacrifices. 
Even Armok is afraid of him.

[EmeraldWind]

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Terry. When things go wrong at Deathgate, he was blamed, scolded, and sent to his room. Terry spent years playing in Deathgate, causing minor problems, and being blamed for everything regardless of whether it was his fault or not.

Terry was sad. To be scolded for everything was just too much. Terry didn't mind it much when he deserved it, but it still hurt. Terry loved Deathgate and Deathgate loved Terry. Terry was afraid of the community, but didn't understand that the community loved him. To Terry the community was like an abusive alcoholic father. Terry began to hate the community.

As Terry grew his heart twisted and darkened. Terry was now deliberately trying to make Father angry. This attention was better than no attention... sometimes Father would disappear and left Terry alone. At first, Terry liked this... but soon he found that his beloved Deathgate couldn't function without Father... He needed Father... When Father would return Terry would cause problems in the hopes that Father would scold him again... but sometimes it would cause Father to laugh and embrace Terry and other times Father would abandon him in mere minutes... Terry couldn't figure out what he needed to do...

Then one day... Father returned... after seemingly abandoning him and Deathgate... but Father was mad... very very mad. Father wanted to destroy the one thing that Terry loved. Father was destroying Deathgate! Terry couldn't have that! Terry wouldn't allow it! He wasn't going to take Father's abuse no more! It was time to fight back!

"Hehaha... I'll show him! I'll make sure Father won't have the pleasure of destroying what I love! I may make it so Deathgate will never comfort me again, but Father will not take her from me!"

Thus Terry and Father entered their final battle for the fate of Deathgate...

[ThatAussieGuy]

On that note, my entire home network failed recently. Joy. Would a ritual sacrifice appease Terry?

Nah. Being appeased by something as mundane as ritual sacrifices would make far too much sense.

Terry demands entire universes as sacrifices. 
Even Armok is afraid of him.

Hmm...

Terry, BEHAVE!

[AnimaRytak]

Overseer Log of Deathgate, Final Entry

I believed that in death we could all atone for our sins against the gods and their creation.  I believed that if we all gave ourselves to the magma, our crimes would be burnt away from our souls.  There weren't many of us left, a few dozen dwarves at the most.  Our civilization would last a century or two before an utter collapse.  We knew that we had sinned, and that in death, only agony awaited us.  So we all strove to atone in the only way we could imagine and to grant a reprieve to the slow death that lie ahead of us.

Oh how foolish we were.

He will not let us die.  He keeps us all alive to torture us, to use us for his amusement.  If we try to kill ourselves, we simply snap back a few moments in time.  As the entire fortress has been sealed, we cannot flee to the surface; although I doubt He would let us even if we could.  We are his playthings, and he shall not let us go.  I know not where this being came from.  Perhaps it was born from our own corruption, perhaps our anger or bloodlust.  Some even blame our decadence as the cause of this torment.   We call this being Terry.

Deathgate is no longer a fortress, it is our prison, our living tomb.  It is the place where we dance to the whims of a new god, a dark god.  One that we ourselves have created.


[OOC]
Well folks.  Deathgate's corruption has reached the breaking point.  You can literally only play it for about 5 seconds before it crashes.  Terry will not let us die.  We our forever trapped in his realm.


Here's the save, for anyone who wants to scream. Oh god

[Pitchblende]

So that's how Deathgate ended, not with a bang, but with an angry eldritch abomination.

As it turns out, the save works if you turn off temperature. So you could have everyone drown in magma.

[Eldes]

Oh god this was truly epic!

[GentlemanRaptor]

It's been, well, for lack of a better word, fun.

[AnimaRytak]

Accidentally creating a new Chaos god is fitting end of Deathgate, haha

Terry, Chaos God of Madness

[Jbg97]

Someone needs to update the TvTropes page one last time.

[AnimaRytak]

Someone needs to update the TvTropes page one last time.

Done, but I invite anyone to add further edits.

[scaliper]

Not to be rushy or anything, but any word on the beginning of DG2? When is that expected to take place?

[kefkakrazy]

So that's how Deathgate ended, not with a bang, but with an angry eldritch abomination.

As it turns out, the save works if you turn off temperature. So you could have everyone drown in magma.

Confirmed, it looks like Terry came in the form of us completely destroying the game's temperature simulation...

Which is AWESOOOOOOME