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[Oliolli]

* Oliolli is not surprised.

[fractalman]

*walks in to check the traps.  *
(k)
This is a trap remains. It has been chewed on by demon crickets.  It somehow contains the vague suggestion that the crickets are becoming smarter. It is encrusted with evidence that the crickets are getting bigger. 

So much for setting cricket traps. 


Just as well I got some experience in...I wound up losing to a cluster of goblin ambushes.... the problem started when I set a bunch of stone masons on repeat before I understood that one should sell *crafts* instead of heavy doors and statues, regardless of the quality.  This, in turn, led to dwarves hauling furniture back and forth all over my fortress every time I tried to trade, wasting time that should have been spent making walls or mining for metal or maybe making weapons. It got so bad I punched holes in my walls just to save time.
then 5 ambushes triggered at once. 3 goblins made it into the fort, cancelling jobs all over the place.  I gave up after the population dropped from 40 to 28. 



On the other hand, I think I know enough to set up a piston stockpile-it has the space-saving power of a quantum stockpile but without the need to reclaim, and it reduces lag considerably...which is something that swordthunders could use.

[Oliolli]

Did we lose another one?

[fractalman]

It HAS been a week since the last "i'm alive" post.  I second the motion of moving to whoever's next.



Fractalman has entered a strange mood!
"sugar...ferrus saidar...decorations..."

[Lolfail0009]

It HAS been a week since the last "i'm alive" post.  I second the motion of moving to whoever's next.

+1

[Unit1126PLL]

So first post here. Some introductions are in order.

I have never played Dwarf Fortress. I do not even have it downloaded. I am terrified of learning what all the symbols mean. I do not believe I can learn all of them with the time allowed to me, not to mention what to do with it.

That said, the Swordthunders fortress, both the initial thread and this reclaim thread, is one of the most epic video-game achievements I have seen and speaks to the strength of the game, the players as individuals, and the community as a group.

Keep up the hilarity, and I will be continuing to follow the adventures of the Dwarves who Conquered Hell, Doren the Indefatigable Murder Machine (she's not dead - only missing. And a ghost.), and the unconquerable* fortress.

*unconquerable by dwarves as much as anyone else.

[fractalman]

DONE!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Fractalman has created  vorpalholecrate, a cuendillar/adamantinecandy alloy cage! All work is of exceptional quality, except for the engraving of planepacked, which happens to be shoddy.  It is encrusted with shards of a seal of the dark one’s prison. The seal was broken either during or before book one.  The cage menaces with gravitite swords.  The swords were smuggled from deamonheim.  The cage contains an obsidian figurine. Of steve.    On the shards is a barely visible engraving of what’s supposed to be planepacked.  On the  swords is a granite plate. On the plate is an image of a perfect circle.  In one hand of steve is a destruction catalyst. The destruction catalyst is from the Minecraft mudpack known as tekkit. In the other hand of steve is a strawberry.  In the mouth of the strawberry is an image of a book.  The image of the book is updating itself in real time, and relates to the eldritch activities around swordthunders after the fall of the clown car. 

TAKE THAT, CRICKETS!
…oh hello there!

So first post here. Some introductions are in order.

I have never played Dwarf Fortress. I do not even have it downloaded. I am terrified of learning what all the symbols mean. I do not believe I can learn all of them with the time allowed to me, not to mention what to do with it.

Copycat.
You've got, what, 8 people ahead of you? Plenty of time to learn the ropes. 

The symbols are surprisingly well chosen, once you get the hang of navigating up and down with the viewer…and if you remember that *’s are gems, anything grassy is useless unless it’s a bush,  and trees are pretty easy to recognize after you type d, t, enter, enter a couple of times.  Also, remember to be nice to your elf slaves-you need all the traders you can get to haul your garbage (read: rock crafts.  Lots and lots of rock crafts. Not mason’s work, stone crafts) away to avoid cluttering the very fabric of reality in the long-run.  That they bring a variety of animals for you to slaughter in front of them (just to see their horrified expressions) is a nice bonus.
Seriously. My first fort died because I tried to sell tons of furniture..and then my dwarved kept hauling it back to the stockpile when the traders left.  When the goblins came…Now I embrace a cluttered workshop to save on hauling.

[Nijiru]

So first post here. Some introductions are in order.

I have never played Dwarf Fortress. I do not even have it downloaded. I am terrified of learning what all the symbols mean. I do not believe I can learn all of them with the time allowed to me, not to mention what to do with it.

You could also use a tile pack if you dislike the symbols.  I use one and I'm still learning about the game.

[fractalman]

I'm pmming aussie, celmonk, and mccommander...

so unless one of those three posts...:
In the meantime, the turn list looks like:
33. Cellmonk - MIA

34. NCommander-up!
35. Eric Blank
36. Ethanland
37. Oliolli
38. Vehudur
39. Child of Armok
(end of aussie's list/)
40. Fractalman-awaiting community approval.
41. Lolfail0009-awaiting community approval.
42. Unit1126PLL-awaiting community approval.


So.  Since aussie seems to be missing as well, how about this: everyone has one week.  After a week with no update, your turn ends if the community motions, seconds, and approves the end of your turn.  Actual progress updates may or may not reset the week...with a max total turn time of a month. 

Approving a player? should only take 1 or 2 votes.  ending a turn takes 3. 


Any objections?

[ThatAussieGuy]

I'm right here.  NCommander, you're up.  And you've got 48 hours from the announcement post to start, or at least acknowledge your turn.

[Oliolli]

The demon cricket bites the NCommander in the head and the severed part sails off in an arc!

[Eric Blank]

The curse is growing stronger!

[Lolfail0009]

Day by day it's power grows,
Until at last its face it shows,
(I forget this line),
The land shall find a final peace.

[Oliolli]

Day by day it's power grows,
Until at last its face it shows,
(I forget this line),
The land shall find a final peace.

1. Grow in power
2. Show face
3. ? ? ?
4. PROFIT!!! PEACE!!!

[Lolfail0009]

Day by day it's power grows,
Until at last its face it shows,
(I forget this line),
The land shall find a final peace.

1. Grow in power
2. Show face
3. ? ? ?
4. PROFIT!!! PEACE!!!

Considering that "peace" in this context means "lack of anything to wage war"