Let's Play Dwarf Fortress: Syndrome Conundrum
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So they just...left? Awwww, now we can't execute my magma drowning melting pool idea! Well, not that the inept dwarves in charges understood it. *mumbles something about amateurs*
You say that like it's a good thing...Internet Kraken said:
Chapter 73: From the journal of Stinthad Kekimtobul
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1st Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
Well the heat is getting to be insufferable again so I guess it is summer. I have to say, I'm surprise spring went so well. I was expecting it to be a lot less pleasant, mainly due to the goblin horde. But things seem just peachy now! I should probably go talk to the elf merchants though. They've been here quite a while and we've yet to trade with them.
4th Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
Well, I'm quite pleased with my meeting with the elves! Trading went perfectly, as hard as that might be to believe given our shaky relations with elves in the past. But despite this, they seemed very eager to trade!
As usual, I just offered them a bunch of our stone crafts. I don't know why merchants value them so much but they never object to us selling them bins of them year after year. You'd think after a while the demand for little stone trinkets would die down.
The elves seemed quite content with what we had given them, possibly because it contained not even a tiny splint of wood. Evidently so long as something is not wood an elf will not be bothered by it.
Even when it's a figurine depicting an elf being brutally killed. I really should talk to the crafts dwarves about questionable stuff like this. I suppose it doesn't matter at the moment though, as their work was able to buy us everything I desired from the merchants. A good chunk of it was exotic fruit and booze Reveredtour cannot produce. Some might say buying food just for the sake of variety isn't wise, but I just need something new to drink!
Besides, we still had more than enough to buy what I really wanted from the merchants; animals!
Seems the elves have realized that we're mainly interested in the animals they can bring to us. I have a lot of plans about what to do with them.
9th Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
OH MY GOD!!! I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING TERRIBLE!!!
We don't have anything made out of lay pewter! No wonder Reveredtour feels like it's been lacking something! Lay pewter is needed to make any fortress feel complete!
Clearly this needs to be rectified right away!
Stinthad: "Quick! One of you forge masters get over here right now! I have an important order!"
Engarde: "Do you ever stop bothering people when they're working?"
Stinthad: "But I have something really important to tell you!"
Engarde: "Fine, what is it?"
Stinthad: "Make lay pewter stuff please."
Engarde: "...what?"
Stinthad: "Lay pewter. We need it."
Engarde: "And why do we need it?"
Stinthad: "...because it's pretty."
Engarde: "What makes you think you can tell us what to do? Lay pewter isn't easy to make, and you come in here and tell us to drop everything and make some because it's ?pretty'."
Stinthad: "Yeah...well...I'm the mayor! Mayors get to make demands. That's why you're going to make lay pewter stuff."
Engarde: "...ugh, fine."
She seemed bitter. Oh well, I'm sure everyone will cheer up once we get some pretty lay pewter statues built!
16th Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
You know I just realized something while redesigning the main bridge. Rather than completely change the design of our main bridge to make it serve as a last ditch trap, why not simply build another bridge for that purpose? It's a big moat, so there's plenty of room. All we need to do is knock down a few more of the old bridges, which will be a lot easier than reworking the main entrance. It's a perfect idea!
Plus I keep almost getting the masons killed redesigning the entrance bridge.
22nd Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
The elves are getting ready to head back to their home. I wish them safety in their travels. Hopefully they won't be followed by those pesky kobolds again. I think we left a good impression on them. Well except for when the military started pelting them with chunks of forgotten beast fat. Every dwarf in the military seems to hate elves without exception because of the war we had with the Luxurious Snake. I guess old habits die hard.
28th Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
There's this odd sound coming from the crypt. It's like a bunch of splashing water, but it's moving around somehow. At first I thought there might be a flood but there's not enough water for that, plus if water did leak down in the crypt it would just fill up in one of the many natural holes. But this water sounds like it's going up and down cliffs, as odd as that might sound.
Probably nothing to be concerned about, but I've put the military on alert just in case. You can't be too careful considering the strange stuff we've seen. Though I admit I'm not sure what they would do against malevolent water.
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1st Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
Well the heat is getting to be insufferable again so I guess it is summer. I have to say, I'm surprise spring went so well. I was expecting it to be a lot less pleasant, mainly due to the goblin horde. But things seem just peachy now! I should probably go talk to the elf merchants though. They've been here quite a while and we've yet to trade with them.
4th Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
Well, I'm quite pleased with my meeting with the elves! Trading went perfectly, as hard as that might be to believe given our shaky relations with elves in the past. But despite this, they seemed very eager to trade!
As usual, I just offered them a bunch of our stone crafts. I don't know why merchants value them so much but they never object to us selling them bins of them year after year. You'd think after a while the demand for little stone trinkets would die down.
The elves seemed quite content with what we had given them, possibly because it contained not even a tiny splint of wood. Evidently so long as something is not wood an elf will not be bothered by it.
Even when it's a figurine depicting an elf being brutally killed. I really should talk to the crafts dwarves about questionable stuff like this. I suppose it doesn't matter at the moment though, as their work was able to buy us everything I desired from the merchants. A good chunk of it was exotic fruit and booze Reveredtour cannot produce. Some might say buying food just for the sake of variety isn't wise, but I just need something new to drink!
Besides, we still had more than enough to buy what I really wanted from the merchants; animals!
Seems the elves have realized that we're mainly interested in the animals they can bring to us. I have a lot of plans about what to do with them.
9th Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
OH MY GOD!!! I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING TERRIBLE!!!
We don't have anything made out of lay pewter! No wonder Reveredtour feels like it's been lacking something! Lay pewter is needed to make any fortress feel complete!
Clearly this needs to be rectified right away!
Stinthad: "Quick! One of you forge masters get over here right now! I have an important order!"
Engarde: "Do you ever stop bothering people when they're working?"
Stinthad: "But I have something really important to tell you!"
Engarde: "Fine, what is it?"
Stinthad: "Make lay pewter stuff please."
Engarde: "...what?"
Stinthad: "Lay pewter. We need it."
Engarde: "And why do we need it?"
Stinthad: "...because it's pretty."
Engarde: "What makes you think you can tell us what to do? Lay pewter isn't easy to make, and you come in here and tell us to drop everything and make some because it's ?pretty'."
Stinthad: "Yeah...well...I'm the mayor! Mayors get to make demands. That's why you're going to make lay pewter stuff."
Engarde: "...ugh, fine."
She seemed bitter. Oh well, I'm sure everyone will cheer up once we get some pretty lay pewter statues built!
16th Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
You know I just realized something while redesigning the main bridge. Rather than completely change the design of our main bridge to make it serve as a last ditch trap, why not simply build another bridge for that purpose? It's a big moat, so there's plenty of room. All we need to do is knock down a few more of the old bridges, which will be a lot easier than reworking the main entrance. It's a perfect idea!
Plus I keep almost getting the masons killed redesigning the entrance bridge.
22nd Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
The elves are getting ready to head back to their home. I wish them safety in their travels. Hopefully they won't be followed by those pesky kobolds again. I think we left a good impression on them. Well except for when the military started pelting them with chunks of forgotten beast fat. Every dwarf in the military seems to hate elves without exception because of the war we had with the Luxurious Snake. I guess old habits die hard.
28th Hematite, 1056, Early Summer
There's this odd sound coming from the crypt. It's like a bunch of splashing water, but it's moving around somehow. At first I thought there might be a flood but there's not enough water for that, plus if water did leak down in the crypt it would just fill up in one of the many natural holes. But this water sounds like it's going up and down cliffs, as odd as that might sound.
Probably nothing to be concerned about, but I've put the military on alert just in case. You can't be too careful considering the strange stuff we've seen. Though I admit I'm not sure what they would do against malevolent water.
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Hey, Kraken - you forgot to update the 1st post with the updated link.
Also, water makes for utterly weak forgotten beasts, hehe.
Also, water makes for utterly weak forgotten beasts, hehe.
Right after posting the update the Escapist decided to screw with me and make the post invisible. Couldn't do anything about that other than wait until it showed up, which it now has.General-Veok said:
I don't want to speak to soon but this could be one of the weakest forgotten beasts ever. Water forgotten beasts are generally pathetic, capable of being destroyed by kittens in some cases. This beast spews webs, which don't work for forgotten beasts depriving it of a syndrome and special attack. It's just a big weak blob of water.
I'm beginning to think that between the magma dodging, Forgotten Beast evading Octopre, and the swimming, face slashing cats, the animals might be more competent than the dwarves.vallorn said:
Forgotten Beasts are surprising sometimes. You'd expect something like a blob monster to be a deadly, dwarf devouring monstrosity, but.. no. Goes ditto for gaseous monsters, how do you fight- oh he exploded. The only thing that one accomplished was spreading a syndrome that decays my pets. Whoopde-shit.
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Be careful, that water blob could...sploosh the dwarfs to death. Or something unexpected could happen. As it always does in Reveredtour. At least Engardet isn't a soldier and isn't likely to .... oh wait, current track record for the masons building the bridges isn't good. Ah well, Engardet, I hardly knew ye!
Bye bye pets, helloooo depressed dwarves committing suicide! I had a Forgotten Beast one, on exactly the right timing too as I was looking for something to destroy my fortress for a while now. It was some wasp thing that actually looked pretty lethal. However, after a while I found out that somehow it has lost it's abdomen and died. Nothing could topple that fortress!Mesca said:
As i previously mentioned, I got a zinc quadruped in one of my forts that breathed haemotoxin. It took out like 30 dwarves before i finally suicided enough adamantine-wielders to bring it down, and intermittently killed dwarves and pets afterwords.
Totally had an urge to play this today...:3 I think it's dwarf time.
I use this tileset it's totally cute http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.php
here is a tutorial if anyone wants to try it out
http://afteractionreporter.com/2009/02/09/the-complete-and-utter-newby-tutorial-for-dwarf-fortress-part-1-wtf/
I use this tileset it's totally cute http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.php
here is a tutorial if anyone wants to try it out
http://afteractionreporter.com/2009/02/09/the-complete-and-utter-newby-tutorial-for-dwarf-fortress-part-1-wtf/
Now this is completley my opinion and I'm not trying to insult you or anyone who uses this, but I absolutely loathe May Green. It is one of the worst tilesets and when I first played Dwarf Fortress it was actually using it. I didn't understand it at all and it looked hideous to boot. Pretty much turned me off tilesets completley.xXxJessicaxXx said:
One of these days, when I'm mayor, there will be no more Elven caravans left alive and spears will take greater priority than damn lay pewter.