I really like listening to metal while I play DF. One of my favorite bands to listen to is Avenged Sevenfold. The most recent song I heard was "Not Ready to Die". The song seems to be describe succession games very well. Here's an interpretation of the lyrics.
Gone
Cast away in time
Evil yours, now evil mine
So I robbed you blind
The voices in my head suggest a less than peaceful side
This stanza symbolizes the transfer of power from one succession player to another one. The evil of one is transferred to another, and since all DF players are mad, the voices in their head persuade them to be much less than peaceful.
The endless possibilities
controlling 9-3-5.
935 could represent the fortress or dwarves as a whole, as the players want to test all the endless dimensions of cruelty and curiosity as possible.
You can't break me
Crushed the fears of yesterday
You can't save me
Barriers, our trust will fade.
This one is a bit more interesting. This could represent the players' lost of moral values as the fortress grinds on. The trust between players fade, as they counter the previous madness with their own. They also have a very very clear grasp of their morality.
I've stood in the dark
been waiting all this time
While we damn the dead I'm trying to survive
I'm not ready to die
This represents the wait the players have to suffer between sessions. This also represents their avatars' struggle while under the domain of another player.
Damned
Watch the masses fall
Burn it down, control 'em all
Make me crawl
to daddy's little girl to read the writings on the wall
Now this stanza, practically anyone can relate to. The dwarves are damned to live a bleak life, with an unnatural death waiting for them in the end. Burn it down could be literal as in magma or could symbolize the destruction of the last regime. Control 'em all obviously relates to everyone's intentions to rule them all, even if all are dead. Now Daddy's little girl is a metaphor for a megaproject or stupid dwarf trick, and the writings on the wall are either the engravings on the fortress walls or the testament of the fort's legacy. i.e corpses.
While cast into the nothingness
the final curtain call
Of course, losing is fun and nothing is forever.
You can't break me,
Crushed the fears of yesterday
You can't take me,
Barriers, our trust will fade
I've stood in the dark
been waiting all this time
While we damn the dead I'm trying to survive,
I'm not ready to die
Through the madness we find
loyalty is no match for power
Say goodbye to your life, left to rot in
your darkest hour
Prayers won't help you now as long as you're mine
Through the madness of the succession game, everyone figures out that loyalty to the old regime is meaningless in the quest for power and wealth. The previous succcessors also tend to die unnatural, horrific deaths in their darkest hour i.e. retirement. Of course, dwarves cannot pray for help.
You can't break me
Crushed the fears of yesterday
You can't take me
Barriers, our trust will fade
I've stood in the dark
been waiting all this time
While we damn the dead I'm trying to survive
And I'll control the world
one person at a time
As I damn the dead I'm trying to survive
I'm not ready to die!
Of course, the aspirations of all players to control the world, one dwarf at a time. Damn the dead could just mean not burying the dead and forcing them to become ghosts.
Oh!
I'm not ready to die
I'm not ready to die !!
I'm not ready to die !!
I'm not ready to die !!!!
The last words of any player.
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Topic: Music you listen to while playing DF? (Read 664 times)