Line #9 LetsPlay/Bravemule


1	->'''MATUL REMRIT WILL CRUMBLE'''
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3	Bravemule is a LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' by Kevin Snow. Each month is reported by one dwarf specifically on his diary, and it's heavily illustrated with depictions of important events. It is available to read [[http://www.bravemule.com here]].
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6	!! This Let's Play provides examples of:
7	* ActionGirl: Quite a few examples. Squib, Caten and Lasui for the Dwarves, among others, Atrix for the Humans... Dwarf Fortress cultures tend to have zero gender politics.
8	* AlienGeometries: The chief architect mentions that anything that isn't rectangular is an affront to dwarven aesthetics. Octagons in particular give multiple dwarves {{Catapult Nightmare}}s.
9	* AnyoneCanDie: This is a Dwarf Fortress LP, what did you expect?
10	* ArcWords: "Matul Remrit endures."
11	** "Matul Remrit will crumble."
12	* AntiquatedLinguistics: The human Serus at least writes like this; it's yet unknown if all humans communicate this way.
13	-->A herd of horses galloped past, and came upon our camp, wherein we consumed food. I gave petting unto their beautiful and elongated heads, and hearkened to whinnies, of all which were full of delight and mirth.
14	%%** Atrix
15	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: That last shot of Exi and Boots...]]
16	** Matul Remrit Endures
17	* CastOfSnowflakes: [[http://www.bravemule.com/au52/ Each with their own portrait.]]
18	* ConspiracyTheorist: Hyte is intensely paranoid, believing that even the most harmless actions are 'schemes'. Exacerbating this is the fact that she's the sheriff.
19	* CurbstompBattle: [[spoiler: Atrix's purge of Bravemule starts out and, after a fashion, [[LuredIntoATrap ends this way]].]]
20	* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: Hyte, after Squib's death.]]
21	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Even before Dett's entry, we get a good feel for her personality when she ''eats a maggot'' to prove a point to Trame.
22	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Some names are oddly specific, like "Miserable Pits to Work In", "Striking Water Holes to Drink Of", and "Careful Square to Negotiate Commodities Under", [[spoiler: except the last one is inverted once Behem installs a lever that causes the ceiling to collapse upon the traders. A later depot is called "Amicable Trade Post Where Behem Will Not Construct Murder Levers" -- time will tell if it stays that way.]]
23	* FinalSpeech: NAME ME HERO
24	* GenderIsNoObject: Par for the course with the dwarves, and all it takes for a human female to break the glass ceiling is a really nice fake mustache.
25	* GodzillaThreshold: About when [[spoiler: the "war elves" start sending in armored lions and bears.]]
26	* GoryDiscretionShot: Averted in Hog's update.
27	* HandicappedBadass: In Limestone 1052, [[spoiler: one of Lasui's arms is ripped off in combat; she refuses to get medical treatment for this]]. A mere month later, [[spoiler: and she's back in battle, snatching a harpy by the hair with her remaining hand and slamming it face-first into the ground, killing it]].
28	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Squib's death as well as Trame's (debatably heroic) last choice.]]
29	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace - Some of the in-universe suggestions for the fort's name included "Elfmurder" and "The Miserable Tower of Miserable Death".
30	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Several times in Deon's update. Justified in that the clods are normally denied alcohol; ale privileges are a big reason to why he joined the militia.
31	* {{Jerkass}}: Even with the BlueAndOrangeMorality, Voxe stands out. A child dies, she jokes about it to the mother, and says that [[YouNoTakeCandle It is good nature jest.]]
32	** This becomes sadder when you remember how [[spoiler:Mendo mentioned a [[BagofKidnapping goblin kidnapped]] one of Voxe's previous children, thus her mean joke to Vill can be seen as self-blame for her "failure" to protect her own children.]]
33	** Gheim is right up there, too.
34	* JumpedAtTheCall: Clods are quick to join the milita because of all the privileges it gives (including, as stated above, ale privilege)
35	* KillerRabbit: The only thing Snow changed in the raws was the ability for mules to be trainable into war animals. They are surprisingly good at it.
36	** One of the updates includes an army dwarf accusing a war mule of killstealing. It's not as funny as it sounds.
37	* LastStand
38	* LetsPlay: One of the most complex ever made.
39	* MadArtist: Logna, justified since he was having a strange mood.
40	* MadDoctor: Dett, previously a butcher. She complains that her hospital lacks enormous corkscrews and serrated blades.
41	--> I informed Exi it would be to my excitement to cut his face meat and transplant beard hair onto others who cannot grow beard hair without transplant.
42	* MadnessMantra: [[SanitySlippage Shows up]] during [[spoiler: Hog's death]] and [[spoiler: Ridor's surgery]].
43	* [[spoiler: RocksFallEveryoneDies]]
44	* ScrewYouElves: The dwarves tend to refer to everything bad (or simply non-dwarven) as "elf". It isn't a compliment.
45	* SeriousBusiness: Facial hair, and not just among the dwarves; humans seem to decide leadership in part with "mustache duels", and one woman wears a fake mustache of such quality that Serus willingly relinquishes command to her.
46	* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: The dwarves (and humans) have such [[YouNoTakeCandle bizarre language patterns]] and euphemisms that, along with the BlueAndOrangeMorality, it cements the impression that they're a totally ''other'' culture.
47	* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Trame's]] choice.
48	* ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: Sorc does not understand the shield.
49	* UnusualEuphemism: Kou's entry. She's a hardened killer. She's told to grow crops.
50	-->"Drowning fire that murders the crop murders the fire [[RightForTheWrongReasons therefrom I surmise drowning the seeds would unmurder the crop]]."
51	* UrbanSegregation: The dregs (of Matul Remrit) and the clods (of Dunan An).
52	* {{Xenofiction}}: One of the things that makes this LetsPlay so interesting is that it isn't written from the point of view of the OnlySaneMan in a fort full of weirdos; the bizarre behavior of the dwarves is justified within their culture, and every entry is written from a distinctly un-human perspective.
53	** It should be noted that the later glimpses of human culture are equally weird.
54	* YouNoTakeCandle: The way dwarves talk seems to be a weird mix between this, SpockSpeak, and YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe.
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Context LetsPlay / Bravemule