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Did you find HFS without being spoiled?

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Author Topic: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?  (Read 2256 times)

dogstile

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How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« on: May 30, 2011, 05:23:28 pm »
Quite simple, I don't think many people here found out about that wonderful place you all know i'm talking about, filled with happyness and joy without looking it up first.

This thread was done back in 40D and nearly nobody found it without looking it up, so without further ado, LET THE POLL BEGIN
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Quote from: Wraithsight on July 14, 2009, 07:33:54 pm
my champion is now holding his artifact crossbow by his upper left leg and still shooting with is just fine despite having no hands.
Quote from: Jim Groovester on July 14, 2009, 07:35:00 pm
What? He's firing from the hip.

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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2011, 05:24:53 pm »
What? The circus? Curious structures?
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dogstile

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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2011, 05:25:34 pm »
Spot on good sir
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Quote from: Wraithsight on July 14, 2009, 07:33:54 pm
my champion is now holding his artifact crossbow by his upper left leg and still shooting with is just fine despite having no hands.
Quote from: Jim Groovester on July 14, 2009, 07:35:00 pm
What? He's firing from the hip.

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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2011, 05:32:23 pm »
Quote from: dogstile on May 30, 2011, 05:25:34 pm
Spot on good sir
That wasn't a yes/no question. I assume you meant either. I haven't, though i've tried to keep spoilers to a minimum.
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dogstile

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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2011, 05:35:18 pm »
Well, I mean HFS, the bottom, through the candy spire. We all clear?
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Quote from: Wraithsight on July 14, 2009, 07:33:54 pm
my champion is now holding his artifact crossbow by his upper left leg and still shooting with is just fine despite having no hands.
Quote from: Jim Groovester on July 14, 2009, 07:35:00 pm
What? He's firing from the hip.

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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2011, 05:50:41 pm »
I did by accident.  Caverns too.  I wiki'd as soon as I discovered them, and promptly suffered massive fortress death, from ogres and demons, respectively.
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2011, 05:53:44 pm »
I discovered it on my own.
First a "structure", which I promptly looked up on the wiki...after already losing half my fort to the things within.
I already knew about cotton candy, but I didn't know about the circus until I was well into a series of construction projects surrounding the cotton candy. It...it didn't go well.
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2011, 06:06:32 pm »
I think a lot of people get it spoiled from watching the captainduck videos.  It did for me.
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2011, 06:09:29 pm »
I watched half of two episodes of CptnDuck, enough to figure stockpiles, workshops, and beds.  After that it was mostly bashing my head against the fortress wall, until I achieved the state all players achieved.  My blood smeared against the stone, my skull finally cracked, and the tight gray matter spilled onto the rough-hewn cavern floor.  It seeped, it absorbed, it became the mountain.  I am the fort.
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2011, 06:39:27 pm »
Seriously? I'm the only person who voted for burning elves?

Hmmm....
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2011, 06:41:05 pm »
The Adventures of SpiralDimentia and Clowns is easily the best "What the heck are 'spoilers'" thread in existence:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=80043.0
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Quote from: Starhero on February 11, 2012, 10:31:23 am
I don't understand, though that is about right with anything DF related.
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2011, 08:24:29 pm »
I found it by accident!
Although I did have an idea there was something bad down there, but I didn't know exactly what[/i].
I thought the CAVERNS were bad! :P
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2011, 09:33:26 pm »
I got really frustrated that there was some massive, hilarious in-joke that "everyone" knew but me. So after reading whatever magical code-word was three times, I went and looked it up. So yeah, the spoiler tags made me go de-spoiler myself.

Besides, the wiki lists adamantine openly. It's almost guaranteed that if you do any reading whatsoever you're going to stumble over the entries for hell before you actually get there.
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Quote from: Ieb on June 06, 2011, 12:42:48 pm
And then, they will be weaponized. Like everything in this game, from kittens to babies, everything is a potential device of murder.
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2011, 10:44:06 pm »
I looked at the spoilered text on the tvtropes page. Still haven't actually busted in, but I'm currently waiting for a second turn in a community fort where we plan to do just that.
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Re: How many of your found out about that fun place by stumbling upon it?
« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2011, 11:15:36 pm »
Yeah, albeit back in my 40d days, and more than once or twice after that.  DF 0.31 was spoiled by curiosity.

Incidentally, I never found an underground river, ever, no matter how hard I looked.
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