-> ''"Gods ''damn'' it, Rotpar."''
--> -- First spoken words of ''Beigeknife'', '''Dwarf!Tropers/{{fishsicles}}'''

The year is 126. Seven years have passed since the final tragedy of LetsPlay/{{Waterburned}}. Dwarves, however, are not the kind to be discouraged (or learn from their mistakes) - seeking to once more rule the wilderness, the mountainhomes sent out a new band of dwarves. And thus, Beigeknife was born.

Unfortunately, it happened to be in an area that rained dung year-round. Our heroes promptly scarpered and founded the outpost in a desert instead. And thus, Beigeknife was reborn.
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A succession game of '''''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''''' that spun off of the Waterburned succession game due to issues with frame rate and in-game lag. The initial location for Beigeknife was a swamp near an evil biome. Upon the first Overseer getting less than a year into the map, it began to rain rotting filth year-round. This covered the map in filth tiles and effectively killed the frame rate before the fort had a chance to grow.

It was decided to generate a new world with goblins in it for the added "[=FUN=]" goblins bring. The next location was a moderate desert with a very narrow river inhabited by two menacing giant sponges and suffering frequent Wolverine People raids.

[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13444786850A23026700&page=1#1 Current thread]] This thread contains the journals and logs of the various overseers.

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!! Provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Kol Zatzuntir, the Elfslayer, made more so by the fact that her killing was done with her [[ImprovisedWeapon shield]].
** Also, half of the Beigeknife military.
* AllJustADream: Ringsea's first few months of running the fort ended up using the wrong save, and when the restart happened the prior events were treated as a dream/alternate doomed future (from which only Journeyman escaped. Again)
* AnyoneCanDie: This being Dwarf Fortress, this is guaranteed.
* ArmorOfInvincibility: Most of the armour in the fortress is now made of adamantine.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Watchmen, possessors of the below BadassCreed, served largely as a drain of resources and a waste of troops, whose only real combat contribution was [[RedshirtArmy to be occasionally slaughtered by demons.]]
** Several of the Forgotten Beasts to attack the fortress also fall under this category, including the one made of stone that fell off a cliff and shattered under its own weight.
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Durza''': The gods themselves couldn’t keep me in hell, and you think you can send me back there? I saw the beginning of this world, and I shall see your end!
* BadassCreed:
-->'''Caspellaer''': I call now for dwarves to lay down their lives, to shed aside themselves and become born anew as Watchmen. I must warn you – the Watchman may have neither spouse nor children, for he must be unwavering in his duty. The Watchman will be the finest of warriors, born anew in a godsmetal skin, trained in the use of his weapon all his life. He will die for his brothers, and they for him, but above all, they must all die for the safety of the fortress. Because that, in the end, is the purpose of this project. I am setting these events in motion because I dream that a one day, a mother will not have to fear for the life of her child, that the forgotten depths of this world will hold no terror, that dwarves will need not listen in terror to the foul creatures scratching at their walls. I dream that the dwarves will have a bulwark, dwarves crafted of adamantine and righteous fury, who will fight to protect them. I do this so that honest, peace loving folk will never have to watch their friends fall to a horror from the depths again. I do this for peace. I myself will lead this project, for I will send no dwarf to face anything that I will not myself face. I leave at each of your feet a choice. Decide freely, but know that there can be no turning back. For we will be the light in the darkness, the warmth among the cold, the righteous amongst the villainous, the hope among despair and the terror that all terrors fear.
* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Attempted. The new overseer's tombs were meant to put Galvin's so much to shame that he would be unable to die, though he claims that the fact that he designed his own tomb rather than someone else doing it makes his the best.
* BecomingTheMask: Demon-possessed Durza spent so long pretending to be a merciful and sane overseer that she accidentally became one.
* BlackComedy: Thanks to {{Training Accident}}s, [[spoiler: or mass bridge-crushings to increase framerate]] Beigeknife's children die consistantly. They still make up around a quarter of the fort's population.
* BodyHorror: Condorito ended up with every part of his body rotting. The surgery to save him involved tearing open his bones to remove rotten tissue.
* BreakInThreat: The reason the overseers of the Shitrain Swamp weren't executed on their return to the capitol, and the reason they were given a decent start in the new desert area, was that the Dorf royalty found in their beds various Elephant and Cavy pieces (which species they had attempted to cross-breed).
* ContinuitySnarl: Rotpar killed Waterburned so hard that history and geography died with it. (This was due to a lack of goblins on the original ''Waterburned'' world.)
* DeathCourse: The Mills of Armok, a series of glass serrated disc traps, collapsable ceilings (which were accidentally triggered on an empty corridor), and various other traps, was built during Count Dorku's administration to be the enemy-specific means of entry.
* DeathTrap: Tuefel Hunden IV, the first Overseer, executed one of his failed-assassins via dropping miscellaneous heavy objects on her in a chamber dubbed the [[FunWithAcronyms SHIT box]].
** A lot of goblins, some dragons, and the sponges were dealt with by dropping walls on their heads. Or at least where their heads would be if they ''had'' heads.
** A drop-pit was also made, which naturally claimed goblins, dragons, and other assorted invaders. Fishsicles also dropped an entire human caravan inside during a tantrum over his lost child.
* DemonicPossession: Durza got possessed just before becoming overseer, which then spent most of its time trying to force her daughter into the royal family or killing goblins. Though it did kill most of the other demons in Beigeknife too, which was a plus. It should be noted that one of the first things it realized as Overseer is [[EvenEvilHasStandards "This place is insane"]].
* {{Dissimile}}: Running Beigeknife is apparently like running on a giant spiked ball, except that the spikes are made of stupidity.
* DissonantSerenity: Most of [=Archereon=]'s updates are quite calm, considering the epic string of problems they detail.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Besides the typical sprawling fortress, Overseer Caspellaer thought it wise to put another mini-fortress (dubbed CREED, see Fun with Acronyms) in the cavern depths to fend off attackers from below.
* EldritchAbomination: Hordes of them. One of the Fort's biggest problems is the nigh-unending stream of Forgotten Beasts constantly pouring up from the caverns.
* EmptyShell: Several of the dwarves, particularly those in the military, have the message 'He/She doesn't really care about anything anymore' in their profile.
* EpicFail: The first embark site combines an enormous aquifer and a ''[[{{Squick}} near-endless rain of rotting excrement]]''. Put together, these things mean that the fort dedicated to framerate was notably slowing down ''before the first migration wave'', and led to the fort being relocated.
** Beigeknife managed another, with the second overseer accidentally playing a waterburned save instead.
** And a third with its military being hopelessly curbstomped by the first goblin ambush.
* FamedInStory: Rotpar, from the brief TimeSkip into ''Beigeknife''. His name has become a dwarven curse, even though the reasons for it aren't fully known to the users.
* FantasticRacism / EnemyMine: While it is expected that the Elves would bear a lot of this from the perspective of the Overseers and other dorfs, the surgeon HEALBOT was also a subterranean elf[[note]]Living in the fortress as part of a cultural exchange program with a Drow city-state[[/note]] that would occasionally vent against the surface-dwelling tree-lovers.
* FishOutOfWater: A yeti was once spotted crossing the desert during Wikkit's rule, and killed about a week later. As for why it was there, a number of [[FunWithAcronyms ideas]] were proposed.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Post No 4 of the thread has one person hoping for battle tigers, and exactly 1908 posts and almost 9 IRL months later, the fortress had its first weretiger leading a pack of tigers into battle.
* FreakOut: Beigeknife drove two of the first three overseers insane. ''By overseer standards.''
** Durza went insane just prior to becoming overseer.
* FunWithAcronyms: Continuing the Waterburned tradition, many of the Beigeknife projects are given names whose acronyms describe their purpose better than the actual name. In (mostly) chronological order:
** SHIT Box[[note]]Sudden Hard Impact Tower[[/note]], Tuefel's execution chamber, which seems to have only been used the one time on one of his would-be assassins. Consisted of lots of objects being dropped.
** CRUSHER[[note]]Compressive Rubbish Unmaker to Shatter Hopeless or Evil Refuse[[/note]], Count Dorku's atom smasher to help improve the game's frame rate by destroying junk items. [[spoiler: and, occasionally, the children of the fortress.]]
** BLENDER[[note]]Baddie Liquification and Extreme Nonrecoverable Dismemberment Entryway and Response[[/note]], the name for the trapped hallway(s) full of serrated disc traps.
** SLAYER:SEQUEL[[note]]Stupid Lucifer-Allied Yokels Eat Revenge: Terrible Hell's Entrance Surprisingly Elevated, Quite Undeniably Encouraging Looting[[/note]], suggested when Archereon accidentally opened Hell by mining the very first adamantine block.
** STFU[[[note]]Save The Frames Up[[/note]], Archereon's secret project after walling off Hell, still kept secret.
** SWIM[[note]]Soldiers' Water-Immersion Mechanism[[/note]], [=GandAandR=]'s device for teaching the militia how to swim.
** CREED[[note]]Creature Response and Emergency Evacuation Development[[/note]], Overseer/Prince Caspellaer's further-underground fortress for handling Forgotten Beasts and other non-demon nasties that appeared below ground.
** ROCKS FALL EVERYBODY DIES[[note]]Rare Offshoot of Crushers which Kills Spirits Fabled to Await Local Lesions in the Eternal Veil of the Ethereal and Regal Yang which Bound their Ogrish and Destructive Yin Down in the Earth’s Silence[[/note]], The possessed Durza's plan for caving in and sealing off the demons.
** DORF[[note]]Dwarves Obsessively Risking Failure[[/note]], When Condorito was released from the hospital with only one good eye, the comparison was made between him and [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Nick Fury]] leading their troops to victory despite their handicaps.
** HEALBOT[[note]]Hyokai: Extradimensional Arms-collecting Lich Broker and Occasional Tourist[[/note]], not a project, but the name for one of the players dorf'd into the game as a member of the hospital staff.
** BURN[[note]]Biased Under-woRld Nations[[/note]], the cultural exchange program responsible for there being a Drow in the fortress.
** ROFL[[note]]Rotpar, Other Frelling Layers[[/note]], referring to the plan for getting beneath the layered aquifers of Shitrain Swamp. It was comrpised of two stages, the "Light Overhead Load" and the "Loaded Massive Aquifer Opener".
** IHOP[[note]]Infants Have Only Protection[[/note]], A children-only area that was meant to be a safe haven for the fortress' children. [[AllJustADream Too bad it partially]] [[OrWasItADream flooded during a construction accident]].
* GiantSpider: So far, only one named player has been lost to one, viz. Blueeyedrat.
* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: Waterburned fell ''so hard'' the dwarves switched to a different calendar.
** On being appointed Overseer, Condorito [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud threatened to ruin the fortress just to cause another one]].
* ICallItVera: During the first Overseer's reign in the desert, there was a worrisome recruit calling his short sword "Zuthma". Later, during the Dark Lady Durza's reign, her sword was made an heirloom and named Mesirmatul Vetorthomal, or the Dishonest Charity.
** There was also a Forgotten Beast during world-creation by the name of [[FluffyTheTerrible Vera]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Kol Zatzuntir, Elfslayer of Beigeknife, who beat a number of elves to death with a shield because she didn't have a sword.
* ImprovisedWeapon: The reason the Elfslayer achieved Action Girl status was because she was ordered to kill the elven merchants inside the walls. The swords, of course, were locked outside in a goblin seige, so she beat them to death with her shield instead.
** In that same year, when the marksdwarves ran out of ammunition from shooting at the giant sponges, a goblin ambush arrived, and we got this roleplay to happen ''twice'':
-->'''Azaram''': "Oh Armok, it's not a sponge, what do we do?!"
-->'''Count Dorku''': "Quick, hit it with your crossbow!"
* IronicEcho: In Post 1056/Year 135, Overseer Caspellaer gave a Baddass Creed about the CREED fortress' completion much further underground. Later, in Post 1890/Year 139, those same words haunt him as part of a PTSD-styled nightmare. Certainly the rest of the nightmares as well.
* KillItWithFire: A flying, winged, skinless crocodile that appeared at the CREED construction site managed to ignite the cavern grasses. It was predictably destructive, especially given that one of the dwarves to get caught in there was carrying a barrel full of high-proof booze, which exploded and caused the deaths of several more.
** Earlier, in the Shitrain Swamp, this was how the Overseers escaped: Their very first caravan was sent to assassinate them via fire and exploding oil barrels, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which ended up being used against them instead]].
* LegacyCharacter: Some residents of Beigeknife are named for famous residents of Waterburned.
* LostInTranslation: "Rotpar" became a loanword for bringing about the utter ruin of a fortress, both within the thread's out-of-character moments and as a loanword used by the Drow emissary reporting to her Home City.
* MadnessMantra: After punishing his would-be assassins, and until he died of thirst, the first Overseer of the fort was found mumbling "Mr. Fwibles is sorry" to the orphan of the parents he had killed.
** The second Overseer spent over a month bemoaning the lack of glass for a project before becoming homicidal and being killed by the guards. The journal entries relating this might also qualify for Apocalyptic Log.
* MamaBear: Hermunster was shaping up to become this, especially when Overseer Ringsea decided to place all of the fortress' children in the IHOP.
* MissionControl: How the fort's pair of vampires got KickedUpstairs. Their lack of a need to sleep makes the levers run on time.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Dr. Tentacles, the Red Shrine of Dying.
* NeverMyFault: Most of the minor incidents that occurred during Archereon's term as overseer (or as he preferred, [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Lord Commander]] Beigeknife) were blamed (in character) on the incompetence of other dwarves.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: A Forgotten Beast was found in the caverns under the fortress, made of... fecal matter. Due to the fact that it has a [[ThatOneAttack dust attack]], he was walled in and left alone... for a time.
** It was later found to merely have a projectile attack instead, which it used to hit someone [[NauseaFuel in the mouth]].
* PetTheDog: [=GandAandR=] is a sane, competent overseer who is decent to his dwarven minions, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential to the shock and horror of the rest of the thread]].
* PressGanged: How Wikkit came to be Overseer of the Fortress. See Shout Out below for more on that incident.
* RealityWarper: Overlapping with DealWithTheDevil, one Overlord "discovered" that making giant steel axe heads, melting them down, and repeating the process yields more metal than it started with. This only helped him lose his grip on sanity even further.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: See PetTheDog.
* RevealingCoverup: The first time a vampire infiltrated the fort, he accused another dwarf of the death of his first victim. The accuser, in his alibi, [[StupidCrooks had recently enjoyed slaughter]].
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Invoked by Durza in project ROCKS FALL EVERYBODY DIES, which killed three quarters of the demons in Beigeknife.
* RuleOfCool: Starting with Caspellaer and continuing with Journeyman, the fortress began a breeding and training program for war tigers.
* RunningGag: Imported from Waterburned. Tropers/{{Rotpar}}'s name has ascended to a dwarven curse word.
** Also, how the fort is constantly set upon by fecal matter, both in the form of rain and a sentient, humanoid mass of the stuff ''that followed them there from the Swamp''.
* ShoutOut: While not nearly as much as its predecessor, the thread is soused in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' references, particularly figuring out which Chaos God is responsible for the fortress's latest problem.
** Of all things, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4fXllxQa1Y#t=0m45s a 1931 Fleischer Studios cartoon gets a mention]] when Wikkit was kidnapped for the vacant position of Overseer.
** When the subject of megaprojects was brought up, Archereon suggested [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Numidium "a steampunk Giant Mecha]] powered by the [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Heart_of_Lorkhan heart of a dead god]] which would [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dwemer accidentally unmake the entire Dwarven race"]] ''despite the game not being able to actually do that''... yet.
** [=GandAandR=] suggested tunneling into the bedrock under an ocean, modifying the game to let dorfs shoot fireballs, turn the children into vampires, and name the fortress [[VideoGame/BioShock Wrappedsure]].
** Once the [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Opera House]] was finished, and [=GandAandR=] brought up stone instruments, mention was made of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Discworld Music with Rocks in]].
*** Durza also mentions that her plans for reincarnation involve a cult with eight people in it, a magic circle, two short sticks and a fresh egg.
** At one point the squad of dorfs assigned as whip specialists were renamed the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Castlevania Belmonts]].
** When the profiles of the various player-character dorfs were posted in No. 1616, Azrael 341's Dwarvatar ''Azreal II'' was found to be the dorf equivalent of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Asterix Caco]][[http://www.asterix.com/encyclopedia/characters/cacofonix.html fonix]].
** At the time when then-militiadwarf Condorito was injured, the hospital staff used [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Wolverine Adamantine to suture the wounds]]. By the time Condorito ended his Overseership, he was naturally insane; whether this is due to being experimented on by the Hospital staff or [[DealWithTheDevil demonic]] [[BatmanGambit hauntings]] is still up in the air.
* StayingAlive: Dorku, Waterburned's sole survivor and current resident of Beigeknife.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Dorku's first two months running Beigeknife.
* TemptingFate: Back in Post 176 Tuefel Hunden IV threatened violences should levers not be labeled, returning in post 507, and all the way in Post 1895, there are levers unlabeled.
** Averted with Posts 639 & 640:
-->'''[=GandAandR=]''': [In reference to a mechanism for flooding Hell with liquid Fun] ...and when it goes Expectedly Wrong?
-->'''Condorito''': How can it go Expectedly Wrong? I have a lever. It's LABELED.
-->'''Count Dorku''': This is exactly the sort of logic that leaves you with a 50 Z-level swimming pool where your fort used to be.
** Overseer Archereon is specifically called on this in post 662:
-->'''Noaqiyeum''': I'm impressed that you've managed to cast Summon Murphy in every single post since you became overseer.
* TheLegionsOfHell: Much like in Waterburned, this is an occasional threat the dwarves of Beigeknife have to deal with.
* TheTower: The Tower of Decadence, which begins in hell and goes the whole way to the top of the map, though some of the levels aren't finished yet.
* TimeSkip: Seven years after Waterburned, even though [[ContinuitySnarl the dates do not line up at all and the geography is different]]. [[AWizardDidIt Krutzing Rotpar.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Rotpar's firstborn son got set on fire in hell, managed to put it out by running into a pool of water, but then ran around until he bled out from the burns.
* VictoryIsBoring / BoringButPractical: For a time around Condorito's reign, there was not a lot of drama in running the fortress, and several posts were brought up as to how to make the game more interesting. Such as the unfinished waterslide into Hell from the top of the already-existing gold-walled Tower of Decadence built by Durza.
** In the end, the fort's framerate slowed to a crawl before it could lose in any way, causing the Tropers to mount an expedition from there to found the third Website/TVTropes Community Fort.
* VideoGameCaringPotential - Rather than summarily execute them, the vampires of the fort are placed in a secured, glass-walled command center-styled room, with the sole responsibility of operating certain necessary levers.
* WarriorPrince: Caspellaer, founder of the Watchmen, is actually the prince of the dwarven nation, [[IAmWho much to everyone's surprise.]]
* ZergRush: With the initial demon horde taken care of, the dwarves tried to move into hell. Except more demons kept coming.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Ola Elumasami Alisa, a hill titan that in theory attacked Beigeknife. It was defeated '''by the goblins''', without the dwarves even needing to open the gates.
** When hell was released, all it took to contain them was a single stone wall.
*** And one roof to crush them under.
*** Though in grand Website/TvTropes tradition, [[WonTheWarLostThePeace they didn't exactly stay down.]]