Let's Play Dwarf Fortress: Syndrome Conundrum

[repeating integers]

It sounds so deliciously evil, I simply can't object.

 

[CD-R]

Considering all the limbs dwarves lose I'm surprised there isn't a way to make little mechanical prosthetics for them. If Ash from Evil Dead can make a metal hand in the Middle Ages then I see no reason why dwarves that can make pumps and elaborate traps can't make some badass metal limbs.

 

[SamuelT]

Oh gursh durnit.

Wounded at such a tender age, in a fort with a...less than competent doctor? Wait, there was a proper one at the moment, wasn't there?

Hope remains!

 

[vallorn]

god the goblins are good at this... Drown Em NOW!

 

[Cowabungaa]

Oh my, the goblins have discovered the magic that is arrows! I'm quite surprised that you haven't trained archers already, they suplement your moat so well.

Also, I see that I've been dwarf-fied in the last migrant wave. Care to show me my dwarf and his/her skills? Did he/she actually survive that surprise arrow volley into the fortress?

You've killed a titan and several goblins. You can kill a few pussy elves if it gets down to it.

In my experience, metal beats wood.

edit: I'm trying to get some chumps at a forum I post on to do a DF succession game. So far, I've interested 3 people who used to play and got 100 views. That's not a lot.

I posted a link Boatmurdered, but nothing seems to be working.

Well colour me interested! I'm not that good at it but I've got the basics and all under control. Just send me a link to the thread.

 

[Chal]

Oh, so that means the time you spent digging out the maze could have been used killing goblins before any damage was done.

Chal, fucking things up from beyond the grave since 2011 =D

 

[Double A]

Told ya to build walls!

... just not in the same context. Oh well!

You've killed a titan and several goblins. You can kill a few pussy elves if it gets down to it.

In my experience, metal beats wood.

edit: I'm trying to get some chumps at a forum I post on to do a DF succession game. So far, I've interested 3 people who used to play and got 100 views. That's not a lot.

I posted a link Boatmurdered, but nothing seems to be working.

Well colour me interested! I'm not that good at it but I've got the basics and all under control. Just send me a link to the thread.

Thread [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=409902]

 

[Cowabungaa]

Watch Yara get killed by the Octopud.

You've killed a titan and several goblins. You can kill a few pussy elves if it gets down to it.

In my experience, metal beats wood.

edit: I'm trying to get some chumps at a forum I post on to do a DF succession game. So far, I've interested 3 people who used to play and got 100 views. That's not a lot.

I posted a link Boatmurdered, but nothing seems to be working.

what is the forum give me a link please. id definitely join it.

It's Civ Fanatics Center, if anyone is curious. Thread linkage [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=409902]

Also, I posted in a wrongish section (forum games, not other games). There is more interest now. After I finish my half-page story for English I'll get started on Spring.

Ohhh it's on a different forum, I thought the RP and Forum Game forum here on The Escapist.

Fair enough, I'll register myself in a bit. I bet you'd find plenty of people here in a flash though.

 

[Double A]

I bet you'd find plenty of people here in a flash though.

Well, CFC is the most active forum I use besides the Escapist. And I only have four friends here. On CFC I know (or at least sort of know) about 20 guys, so it's a better choice for me if I don't want to go "Who the hell is this guy?" every time I'm reading someone's journal.

Although the Escapist does allow swears... gah.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I bet you'd find plenty of people here in a flash though.

Well, CFC is the most active forum I use besides the Escapist. And I only have four friends here. On CFC I know (or at least sort of know) about 20 guys, so it's a better choice for me if I don't want to go "Who the hell is this guy?" every time I'm reading someone's journal.

Although the Escapist does allow swears... gah.

Fair enough, though I hope they're lenient on the swearing thing in LP's. I mean, Boatmurdered had Al Swearengen run the place for a while. Can't do that without swearing.

Also, I haven't really written stuff before and English ain't my first language either. Hope I'll do okay. Oh and I have no freakin' idea how to deal with DF screenshots and all.

Oh and Internet Kraken, sorry for hijacking your thread a bit.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

21st Hematite, 1055, Early Summer

Okay the bolt plan was a failure. Momuz and some of the soldiers tried throwing some of the bolts at the goblins from across the moat. Rather than soaring into the skull of the goblin commander, they instead plunked pathetically into the murky waters below. This greatly amused the goblins who then began to taunt the soldiers. This also prompted another session of rock tossing, this time with both the goblins and our own soldiers. And yet somehow, the only person who got hit was me again!

Begone, or I shall throw bolts at you a second time!

I'm a bad person for laughing at that.

Spoiler: Forgotten Beasts? My Hubbies Slippers are worse than that.

 

[aTolyK]

lol'd at the computer-in-keyboard picture
so you're gonna try the bridge?

 

[Cowabungaa]

Spoiler: Forgotten Beasts? My Hubbies Slippers are worse than that.

Holy shit did you draw that?! That's freakin' amazing! Well it is regardless of who made it, but if you did it; damn, you're good.

Why don't you just lock a dwarf in the room with the lever to the drawbridge? Let the goblins drown in that moat you took so long to make. Same effect as a ocean flooding labyrinth with none of the effort needed.

This sounds like a better idea, mainly because we are totally fucked at the moment. I assume they're are no objections to me fucking over the goblins with this plan?

It's the dwarven equivalent of an Evil Scientist idea, of course we don't object!

Oh and erm *bats eyelashes* mind showing me my humble little dwarf and his professions? I wonder what use I have in this awesome fortress.

 

[Infernalistgamer]

That pic's from the Wizards of the Coast books. Dwarven cleric, as I recall.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Holy shit did you draw that?! That's freakin' amazing! Well it is regardless of who made it, but if you did it; damn, you're good.

Google-Fu for Female Dwarf, as Infernalist points out

I can't draw for toffee

 

[fanklok]

Right, haven't been following very well but in the bit I actually read nothing was killed by magma. And there where no needlessly complex contraptions that are more a danger to the dwarves operating them then anything their supposed to kill.

In short, your a terrible dwarf.

 

[ChaoticKraus]

I'm gonna be honest, this is the 2nd best DF LP i've ever read. Surpassed only by the epic of Boatmurdered.

Funny how you keep attracting Forgotten Beasts but then manage to dispose of them with little trouble. Guess that's the bonus of having your army train every waking moment the whole year round.

Also, it would be kind to add my name to the dwarfication list. I'll keep an eye on the thread to see if i pop up. Even if i end up as a hauler or suicide squadder i will still be immortalized in 1,s and 0,s.

 

[Double A]

Do you actually record the date, or just make up random days?

 

[Internet Kraken]

That's fine with me.
I'm not being very clear I guess. XD
What are my skills, as in "Legendary Potash Maker" (yikes) or "Great Mechanic" (Good). I mean from Dwarf Therapist.

Oh my, the goblins have discovered the magic that is arrows! I'm quite surprised that you haven't trained archers already, they suplement your moat so well.

Also, I see that I've been dwarf-fied in the last migrant wave. Care to show me my dwarf and his/her skills? Did he/she actually survive that surprise arrow volley into the fortress?

Right, I'll try and fulfill these two requests later today. I would've done it earlier, but I'm a lazy moron.

Right, haven't been following very well but in the bit I actually read nothing was killed by magma. And there where no needlessly complex contraptions that are more a danger to the dwarves operating them then anything their supposed to kill.

In short, your a terrible dwarf.

I have water. That's almost like magma.

Okay, not it's not. I'm going to be dead honest and admit I've done almost nothing with magma throughout my entire time playing DF. The reason being I've nver embarked on a volcano or found magma pools, so my only source was the magma sea. Using that for anything other than forges would require a stupidly large pump stack which isn't an easy thing to build when your fortress is crumbling into ruin.

Do you actually record the date, or just make up random days?

I write the text as I play the game, so yes, the dates listed are almost always the actual ingame dates on which each event occured/I bothered to write about it. Almost. On rare occasions I change for a variety of different reasons.

 

[Double A]

If it's crumbling into ruin because of something other than magma, you're not doing it right!