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Total Members Voted: 28

Voting closed: January 19, 2012, 06:50:05 pm

[CatalystParadox]

Why Aussie, dear Aussie.

The aquifer's just in the way, it has no bearing on the real project.

I'm building the Hellcannon, of course.

Oh, of course.  But do you know how to rig it so you can safely weaponize the Clown Car into a one-time surface-clearing wave of death?

Oh, it's not designed to be a one-time weapon.  If my design works right, it should be not only capable of seperating the clowns into multiple waves for controlled release, but even putting them back in the box afterward.  Very much reloadable, so long as containment holds.  Also, containment would be the reason I need a new aquifer breach, rather than going through an existing one (of which there really aren't very many)

Of course, it's also possible i have no idea what I am doing, am wrong about basic principles, and it will simply kill us all.

[MagmaMcFry]

Of course, it's also possible i have no idea what I am doing, am wrong about basic principles, and it will simply kill us all.

Hooray.

[Vgray]

The second? I wonder how the first one died.

Are the clowns in league with the Foul One?

Wilddeath. It figures. My Dwarf was stupid enough to go outside.

[Dark_T_Zeratul]

The second? I wonder how the first one died.

Skoxes: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=96005.msg3154193#msg3154193

[ThatAussieGuy]

The second? I wonder how the first one died.

Are the clowns in league with the Foul One?

Wilddeath. It figures. My Dwarf was stupid enough to go outside.

Hey, I'm not foul!

[Vgray]

The second? I wonder how the first one died.

Are the clowns in league with the Foul One?

Wilddeath. It figures. My Dwarf was stupid enough to go outside.

Hey, I'm not foul!

The other Foul One. Or is Aussie really the Foul One in mortal form?

[Mego]

The second? I wonder how the first one died.

Are the clowns in league with the Foul One?

Wilddeath. It figures. My Dwarf was stupid enough to go outside.

Hey, I'm not foul!

The other Foul One. Or is Aussie really the Foul One in mortal form?

Aussie just slipped.

Either that or he's something worse than the Foul One, wanting us to believe that he is the Foul One.

[ThatAussieGuy]

The second? I wonder how the first one died.

Are the clowns in league with the Foul One?

Wilddeath. It figures. My Dwarf was stupid enough to go outside.

Hey, I'm not foul!

The other Foul One. Or is Aussie really the Foul One in mortal form?

Aussie just slipped.

Either that or he's something worse than the Foul One, wanting us to believe that he is the Foul One.

Given the response to my new megaproject, probably worse than Stuzang.  Uh, I mean... uh-oh....

[CatalystParadox]

There was a birth in the fort recently, and so it seems most ethical to cast out the infant's mind and replace it with my own.  You may think this sounds monstrous, but the babe doesn't really have a personality at this point, so this is much more humane than doing so to a full-grown dwarf, I promise you!  Additionally, the resilient young mind may help me recover from my... disorientation... from my encounter with Led's mind, my extended period of discorporation, and my more recent abrupt discorporation.

Spoiler: Here's the tyke. (click to show/hide)

Now then, while I'm acclimating to the new body, it seems as good a time as any to share with you what I have been working on.  Especially since one of you cretins might need to use it now, instead of me.  Curse these tiny hands!

Spoiler: Catalyst's Secret Blueprints, probably stained with bloody fingerprints and booze.  Labelled "Secret HELLCANNON Plans, Do Not Open. (click to show/hide)

Top level, just below the surface.  I have shown you this part many times, but never explained.


At various points on the way down.


Deep in the magma sea...  This is the most important part of all. 


As it happens, the Checkerboard is just a stone's throw away and a z-level above.  running that hallway from this and around a few bends into it would not be terribly difficult.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Your design is interesting, but flawed;  You need a means to fully contain the demons within your HellCannon, or they'll just get bored of being contained and go back down to Hell.

[CatalystParadox]

Your design is interesting, but flawed;  You need a means to fully contain the demons within your HellCannon, or they'll just get bored of being contained and go back down to Hell.

That is planned - there will be a gate to keep them in the collection chamber once I am finished hollowing it out.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Your design is interesting, but flawed;  You need a means to fully contain the demons within your HellCannon, or they'll just get bored of being contained and go back down to Hell.

That is planned - there will be a gate to keep them in the collection chamber once I am finished hollowing it out.

Then I withdraw my complaint and eagerly look forward to seeing how it works

[seanhl]

I just finished reading battlefailed, failcannon and skimmed this one. Can I humbly request to get a dorf? If so give it my username, custom profession Renegade, real job military, but please don't sign me up for a turn, I have quite literally no skill at these sort of forts

[CatalystParadox]

I just finished reading battlefailed, failcannon and skimmed this one. Can I humbly request to get a dorf? If so give it my username, custom profession Renegade, real job military, but please don't sign me up for a turn, I have quite literally no skill at these sort of forts

We did get 2 migrants who somehow managed to survive long enough to make it inside who haven't been claimed yet - though I'll ask one more time to be reminded if there is someone who is owed a re-dorfing, first. Otherwise, Seanhl is a new arrival, to be added when I get home tonight.  Perhaps with something resembling a real update, also?

[Teneb]

Just updated the archive with what Catalyst has given us so far. The thing is uploading right now, and should be is done soon. Probably.

Either way, the Hellcannon is looking good. ... And I bet we are going to forget how to operate it in a few turns.


EDIT: I have no bloody idea why I uploaded that, since I am still making changes to stuff. Oh well.

EDIT 2: Does anyone know how El Presidente got named (Kar Puwuncobi)? I'm going through all the thread and can't find mention of it, only of his first death.