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CountDorku Behold my legal acumen! from the depths of insanity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Behold my legal acumen!
#201: Jun 4th 2012 at 1:57:22 PM

[up] I guess we did get lucky.

@Edwards: How's Adil holding up? No murderage yet, I hope?

fishsicles An Ex-Troper from Down The Curtain Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
An Ex-Troper
#202: Jun 4th 2012 at 2:39:36 PM

[up][up] I read that in the voice of George Takei.

Not nearly a good enough singer for the Choir Invisible, and the Basement Room With A Synth Invisible is much less prestigious.
#203: Jun 4th 2012 at 5:14:04 PM

[up][up] He's no better, but no worse. Just moping around the main living area and occasionally helping organize the piles of furniture.

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#204: Jun 4th 2012 at 7:04:47 PM

He needs to party or needs something he likes, or needs some really kick ass booze. Or give him a really nice room as consolation prize for his dead loved ones.

Who watches the watchmen?
#205: Jun 4th 2012 at 10:19:03 PM

Minecart science going well, though not without minor snags. One unfortunate wood burner is stuck hurtling around a piece of test track too quickly to exit safely. Ah well, can't win them all.

11th Opal: DESTINATION's power needs will be considerable. I have ordered that URANIUM's power network be extended into the lower levels. None of the intoxicated cowards in the fortress dared to make the first cutting, so I personally dragged Rotpar down there and shoved him into the work site.

15th Opal: Instead of doing the necessary work, Rotpar has decided to ride the prototype around in circles for a few days. He is now nauseated, although he insists that this is merely due to spending too much time in the sun. Ha! As if the sun ever shone on this dismal place.

16th Opal: After being sternly ordered off the prototype (which has been dubbed CAROUSEL (Circular Automated Revolving Operation for Unifying Science in Elliptical Loops), Rotpar proceeded to collapse URANIUM's entire power train.

17th Opal: The first gloom of my administration. I is a small one and far from the fortress. How boring.

21st Opal: I have decided that this place needs more proactive management. I have therefore appropriated the old Danger Room as my office, and installed a trap door directly in front of my desk. Rotpar did most of the work, and evidently it was Take Your Daughter to Work Day, because the first thing Rotpar did upon completing it was shove his daughter Ustuth into the pit to test it. No serious harm done: kids these days need a little adversity anyway. Besides, I hadn't even installed the buzz saw yet!

27th Opal: The duke continues his obsessive concerns that we might deplete our flask and battle axe supplies. On a somewhat brighter note, the repairs to URANIUM have been completed and we now have power access in the testing lab. CAROUSEL is now fully self sustaining. One joy-rider has started begging to be let off. Serves him right for neglecting his work to goof off.

Also:

Adil Aristcatten has been quite content lately. He has lost a spouse to tragedy recently. He has lost a child to tragedy recently. He was comforted by a wonderful creature in a cage recently.

D'awwww.

On a more practical note, the turkey worked like a charm.

edited 4th Jun '12 10:19:54 PM by EdwardsGrizzly

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CountDorku Behold my legal acumen! from the depths of insanity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Behold my legal acumen!
#206: Jun 4th 2012 at 10:27:45 PM

[up] Turkey-based technology. It's the way of the future.

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#207: Jun 4th 2012 at 11:06:56 PM

Dumb sod volunteering himself for that project. Now I think he can be used for project STOP. Sudden Terminal Object Projectile as a break system.

Who watches the watchmen?
ultimatepheer Since: Mar, 2011
#208: Jun 5th 2012 at 7:56:00 AM

because the dwarven way is, apparently, to throw common sense out the window. well, soon the manager will have super-dwarvenly attributes, at least. the danger room is still running, right?

#209: Jun 5th 2012 at 11:18:25 AM

This project is going to be the death of the fortress. From now on I am always including a kill switch.

6th Obsidian: Rith Goldenastel has barricaded himself inside one of the forges, and refuses to let anyone see what he is working on. I hope it is a minecart.

8th Obsidian: Noaqiyeum's spouse got stuck on CAROUSEL, and it appears Chief Engineer Fishsicles neglected to provide a way to turn off URANIUM. Master Miner Tuefel made a heroic attempt to stop the out-of-control cart, but all he got for his trouble was one smashed foot and a bruised pancreas.

9th Obsidian: The only person who appears to have cared about Tuefel's plight was a little 4-year-old girl. It is somewhat pitiful to see her stagger along trying to help him to the hospital.

14th Obsidian: The fortress's children all decided to go on a field trip today. While they were looking at CAROUSEL, one of them appears to have dared the others to put a penny on the track. One by one they all stepped up only to be sent flying across the lab and into the wall when the cart came around the loop again. Several were hospitalized. That said, I see great potential here: perhaps with some modifications this design could provide an improved form of danger room, or perhaps a kitten rail gun. That last option sounds much more interesting, actually.

16th Obsidian: Stupid dwarves. A mother carrying her baby decided to run across the track, and got pummeled. The mother will probably recover, but she dropped her baby when she was hit and well...

19th Obsidian: This is getting ridiculous. Today Count Dorku, for whatever deranged reason of his, deliberately steeped in front of the speeding minecart. He is currently being carried to the hospital while babbling something about "what a rush".

21st Obsidian: Finally, some good news. Rith finished his work on a magnificent copper helm, suitable for use as a king's crown or an especially impressive fruit bowl. I have set this newly discovered talent to work on refitting us with masterwork steel armor. Also, the runaway minecart was finally stopped by a heroic effort on the part of Chief Engineer Fishsicles. I suppose it's fitting seeing as how he's the one who got us into this mess.

edited 5th Jun '12 11:31:35 AM by EdwardsGrizzly

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ultimatepheer Since: Mar, 2011
#210: Jun 5th 2012 at 12:28:58 PM

im... not actually all that surprised count dorku stepped in front of a speeding minecart.

also, kitten rail gun is so totally dorf-tastic-awe-cool-riffic. that is the only way to describe it. it could also be used to perform !!Science!! experiments on the fog at terminal velocity.

CountDorku Behold my legal acumen! from the depths of insanity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Behold my legal acumen!
#211: Jun 5th 2012 at 12:35:43 PM

From the Diary of Count Dorku Sombertongs

ouch

Woot masterwork armour.

Have you got the track for the minecart set as Restricted?

edited 5th Jun '12 1:02:28 PM by CountDorku

ultimatepheer Since: Mar, 2011
#212: Jun 5th 2012 at 2:32:46 PM

You know, it says something that clouds that cause anyone caught in them to bleed from literrally everything at once, which come around several times per month, are less impressive than a perpetually spinning minecart, which the overseer who installed it considers the fact that it hospitalised a large number of children insignificant in the face irrellevant when compared to it's usefulness launching cats at enemies which we have yet to find, and for training soldiers, again to fight an enemy we have yet to encounter. That, of course, is ignoring the fact that most of us consider the fact that there has yet to be a seige a large problem than the death clouds. of course, considering that Count Dorku complained that the fog actually did not touch the Cages he set out to run experiments on, Im actually pretty sure I shouldn't be surprised everyone is contemplating killing an elf caravan just to have someone to fight. but i am.

Because "Crazy in some way" is the entire dwarven way, according to Dorku

EviIPaladin Some Guy Or Something from Middle-Of-Nowhere, NS Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: Noddin' my head like yeah
Some Guy Or Something
#213: Jun 5th 2012 at 2:37:06 PM

That's because it is. In fact, it is probably written in Latin somewhere on the Dorven crest.

"Evii is right though" -Saturn "I didn't know you were a bitch Evii." -Lior Val
CountDorku Behold my legal acumen! from the depths of insanity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Behold my legal acumen!
#214: Jun 5th 2012 at 3:33:51 PM

Just in case you haven't checked, one of the forges is set so that only legendary crafters can use it (the bottom one, I believe). If you really want masterwork stuff, use that one.

fishsicles An Ex-Troper from Down The Curtain Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
An Ex-Troper
#215: Jun 5th 2012 at 4:13:01 PM

There actually was a lever, in one of the rooms near the great hall. I think it came up during Tuefel's turn.

edited 5th Jun '12 4:13:19 PM by fishsicles

Not nearly a good enough singer for the Choir Invisible, and the Basement Room With A Synth Invisible is much less prestigious.
#216: Jun 5th 2012 at 4:46:47 PM

Ah, must be the one Dorku marked "I have no idea what this does".

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fishsicles An Ex-Troper from Down The Curtain Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
An Ex-Troper
#217: Jun 5th 2012 at 5:08:50 PM

I think it is actually to the lower-left of the main hall, near a room originally intended for further levers that I think I appropriated as a bedroom.

Not nearly a good enough singer for the Choir Invisible, and the Basement Room With A Synth Invisible is much less prestigious.
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#218: Jun 5th 2012 at 5:12:25 PM

XD

Logistics and sound documentation: we has it.

because the dwarven way is, apparently, to throw common sense out the window.
Don't be ridiculous. Common sense doesn't have nearly enough mass for the purposes of STOP.

ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NO
MisterC Angry Moth from roughly over there Since: Jul, 2010 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
Angry Moth
#219: Jun 5th 2012 at 5:37:49 PM

I came in here expecting to read about how all hell broke loose, and seeing every tropers involved scrambling to find a solution to the never ending sieges and self-destructive defences burning your entire fort down.

Instead I find a fort growing along nicely while y'all talk about how boring massive-hemorrhage inducing clouds actually are.

What is wrong with you people!

Who's an angry moth? You are! Yes you are! You're the fuzziest and angriest moth! Original pic.
fishsicles An Ex-Troper from Down The Curtain Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
An Ex-Troper
#220: Jun 5th 2012 at 5:51:50 PM

Hey now, do not blame us; our continued survival is not for lack of trying, sometimes things just go right.

(also, C++ all the way)

edited 5th Jun '12 5:52:55 PM by fishsicles

Not nearly a good enough singer for the Choir Invisible, and the Basement Room With A Synth Invisible is much less prestigious.
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#221: Jun 5th 2012 at 5:58:43 PM

It was a lever that was going to fuel the LOB device. The Linear Object Bomb. But between the fogs and finding aquifer space below it was abandoned. The lever it does nothing.

Hmm I need to remember being belted in the gob by a mine cart is painful. I should have used a pick axe on it.

Who watches the watchmen?
MisterC Angry Moth from roughly over there Since: Jul, 2010 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
Angry Moth
#222: Jun 5th 2012 at 6:06:32 PM

(also, C++ all the way)

Mister, I don't think I like your attitude.

[up] Some foes, unfortunately, cannot be slain with pickaxes alone. Explosives work pretty well tho.

Who's an angry moth? You are! Yes you are! You're the fuzziest and angriest moth! Original pic.
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#223: Jun 5th 2012 at 6:28:43 PM

X plos ives. What is this mystical weapon of destruction you speak of? How do we get a fort to have it?

Who watches the watchmen?
MisterC Angry Moth from roughly over there Since: Jul, 2010 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
Angry Moth
#224: Jun 5th 2012 at 6:36:38 PM

I suppose you could fill a minecart with lava and crash it in something at high speed, same effect. Or at least, same entertainment value.

Who's an angry moth? You are! Yes you are! You're the fuzziest and angriest moth! Original pic.
fishsicles An Ex-Troper from Down The Curtain Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
An Ex-Troper
#225: Jun 5th 2012 at 7:07:50 PM

I think the name for that is Narrowly Aimed Projectile of Accelerated Lava or Magma.

edited 5th Jun '12 7:08:14 PM by fishsicles

Not nearly a good enough singer for the Choir Invisible, and the Basement Room With A Synth Invisible is much less prestigious.

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