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[Loud Whispers]

Mego, the olympic magma swimmer... YOU SHALL RUN THE DORF MARATHON!
TELL THE TALE!

OF THE DWARVES WHO DINED IN HELL!

[Mego]

Mego is quite content. He got his leg ripped off by an asshole ghost lately. He admired a fine dining room IN HELL lately.

to be honest, if you can, save one soul to spread the word that hell had its ass handed back to it in a paper bag
its the kind of thing thats a tradition from boatmurderd.

Yes, if that one dwarf could be mine, it would make for awesome storytelling later.

If I do end up dying, BODY SURF!

[ThatAussieGuy]

Honestly, odds are that Wannazzaki II will be the survivor, barring a ghost battering him.  He's perfectly healthy.  Mego, there IS a hospital but no-one has any medical training in the slightest.  Not to mention you'd probably die waiting for food and water in the hospital bed.

Diary of Mego IV, Olympic Magma Swimmer
 Perhaps then, I could start an expedition to build a fort equal in stature to Swordthunders.

This is my dream. I must make it happen.

I DARE you to lead a reclamation expedition to Swordthunders after Hell is full of Magma (Or heck, even do a succession game of it).  You can... probably drain most of the magma out of Upper Hell into a Glowing Pit.  Where and how, I won't tell though.


I'll post the character sheets momentarily

Spoiler:  Eric Blank (click to show/hide)

Spoiler:  Mego IV (click to show/hide)

Spoiler:  Oliolli III (click to show/hide)

Spoiler:  Wannazzaki II (click to show/hide)

[Loud Whispers]

!!Mego!!:

CHALLENGE PRESENTED:

DO YOU ACCEPT??

[Mego]

*hits the big red button*

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

(as long as I don't have to maintain the thread - one is enough)

[Tiruin]

I think...I died without mention 

Edit: How many months until winter falls? Are we returning to the Earth by its congealing blood or in battle like the dwarves of old?

[ThatAussieGuy]

There's PLENTY of food and booze, Tiruin died a fair while ago I believe I lost a few to ghosts that were never reported, I only saw the remaning population afterwards.  I'm desperately trying to seal the Pit House stairwell as doors do NOT block liquids from above.    Thankfully, all we're getting at the moment is the odd stray 1/7 tile and I managed to seal the southern entrance without incident.  The north entrance is a little more of a problem.  As for the HOW you've all been dying, it's been mostly the violent ghosts or magma accidents.

I've also noticed that the magma flow has kind of... levelled out where it is, so I'm going to tweak it a little.  By digging a channel from the old magma pumpstack that filled the checkerboard into one of the Spires.  THAT should get the magma flowing a bit faster.  Sort of fitting, really.  Hell started with a Checkerboard, and now it'll be (kind-of) used to end it.

[ThatAussieGuy]

I have bad news.

Spoiler:  Wannazzaki gave his life (in a stupid dwarven manner) for the good of the fortress (click to show/hide)

He may have melted, but that wall will keep the Pit House safe from magma.  Armok-speed, you drunken bearded bastard!

Also, I have some good news

Spoiler:  I 'accidentally' trapped the Outpost Liason and a cat in the new magma channel (click to show/hide)

The lever has been pulled, just waiting for the magma to reach him now...

edit:

Spoiler:  I am an utter bastard sometimes (click to show/hide)

The cat gave birth to a kitten right before the magma hit it too.

edit 2:  Okay, I need an outside perspective.  The magma seems to have stopped rising and I don't know why.  I'm uploading the save for anyone willing to take a look and see what they think

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5182

[Oliolli]

Diary of Oliolli III:

Large portions are ruined

...project beginning today. I pray to Akim...

...project worked, and people are now being drafted to build walls...

...

Entry 76: Oliolli II died today. I decided to take upon myself the name of Oliolli III, to honor...

...thunders is now completely doomed. The last few who could have saved us entered the glowing pit. Doren, Shen and ThatAussieGuy, you will be missed.

...

...n ghosts, thing took my arm. Also ran into Mego IV, missing a leg and Eric Blank, poor thing had lost both his legs.

Entry 88: Wannazzaki II is dead. I ran into his rotting, miasma-spewing corpse just a moment ago. Can't say I feel sorry. Leaves three of us. I'm guessing I will be the last one, no way to know for certain though.

[narhiril]

The clowns don't simply destroy the floor grates?

I have been playing around with breaching the HFS and systematically "dealing" with the initial onslaught, and encasing them all in obsidian seems a much more elegant solution than pulling them all into a room and dropping a giant pillar of earth on their heads (I actually did this, but it locked my game up for some reason >.<).

I've been working on a few "hidden" creatures for my mod that wander around down there.  Basically, hell, once breached, behaves just like the other cavern levels, with wildlife "wandering" on through the edges - only the "wildlife" happens to be the clowns.  Adding different "varieties" of wildlife down there in the raws seems to work just fine, in my experience, showing up in the world sites and pops list as "unnumbered."  However, they don't seem to ever be friendly with the other denizens of hell, which usually means that anything wandering onto the map down there will get curbstomped in a hurry unless it's obscenely powerful.  I haven't played around with adding [AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE] - I'm curious as to whether or not this will keep them from attacking the clowns.

Ultimately, I want to turn hell into a sort of "end game" cavern level - a final challenge to a fortress that has overcome all other challenges, with all the rewards associated with that.  It's been difficult to reliably test these concepts without a method for actually getting down there and staying alive long enough to observe wildlife patterns, but this checkerboard system might be just what I need for it. 

Also, another curious thought.  I imagine that adding plant life to hell will not result in anything happening on its own down there because of lack of suitable soil, but I wonder if adding a "hell" plant will make it spontaneously start to grow if you breach hell and then create a mud patch.  If so, this would be a great idea for an easter egg - Kill demons, breach hell, get rewarded by (otherwise unavailable) demonic grapes.  Again, just me thinking out loud here, but hopefully this little device will give me a way to test out some of these ideas.

[Oliolli]

Kill demons, breach hell, get rewarded by (otherwise unavailable) demonic grapes.

Demonic grape wine: rivalling Sunshine since 2011!

[i2amroy]

Kill demons, breach hell, get rewarded by (otherwise unavailable) demonic grapes.

Demonic grape wine: rivalling Sunshine since 2011!

I'm actually planning on adding this in in my next update of my mod (link in my sig). Still not sure if it works or not though.

[ThatAussieGuy]

The clowns don't simply destroy the floor grates?

I have been playing around with breaching the HFS and systematically "dealing" with the initial onslaught, and encasing them all in obsidian seems a much more elegant solution than pulling them all into a room and dropping a giant pillar of earth on their heads (I actually did this, but it locked my game up for some reason >.<).

I can answer both the question and your problem.

One:  Building-Destroyers cant break anything on the z-level above them.  You can also exploit the hell out of this by making your front exterior entrance a set of stairs leading up through a lockable floorhatch - Trolls won't be able to do diddly-squat to your fort.

Two:  There's a bug with, I THINK, Fire elemental demons that causes the game to crash when they're seperated from their flames.  I've tried the pillar-o'-earth myself.  It even worked perfectly, save for that damn bug.

[ThatAussieGuy]

So, anyone had a look at the save and gotten any ideas why the magma seems to have stopped rising?

[Mego]

So, anyone had a look at the save and gotten any ideas why the magma seems to have stopped rising?

Hell is pissed.