Dwarf Fortress Succession Game III:Jawmetal

Even the hammerdwarves?

This is a signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

I spent most of my year telling various dwarves to stop hunting. Your first act will be to send them all at it again? Granted, I can't stand giant mosquitoes either.

If someone whose turn it is doesn't chime in for a while, the next in line can take things up from there. That way, we won't get eight pages of speculation between two pages of actual happenings.

Cooking up plans to bring fan-groups together (with a dash of class)

Here's the way I figure it:

If you make a whole bunch of dwarves Libertarian, Freedom-Loving, 'Murican Commie-Goblin-Hating 'Muricans, then perhaps I can lagbomb the Fort by turning on the economy.

Or, at the very least, make ambushes that much moar Fun for the goblins.

"...An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome..." - Eric Burdon/War

The tropes page has been filled in a bit, but I thought I'd point out here stuff I found humorous while going through the thread that wouldn't be posted there:

I read Durza's first sentence from here in Tabitha St. Germain's voice, sorry.

Archereon's mention of Caspellaer's age at the time he'll reign had me thinking of Admiral Mikey... only boozed up, bearded, and playing with a pile of goblin skulls.

Last thing, can I please be dorf'd into the milita under any of the proficiencies?

edited 9th Sep '13 3:53:34 PM by Hyokai

Since people act differently when they know they're being watched, piety is the best form of madness for getting through life.

Ok who had the save last? From what I can tell it looks like Gand was the last.

Was the last turn finished fully and the save packaged and loaded up? If so please PM me the link so I can start chasing players down for their turns.

edited 9th Sep '13 4:24:53 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

And you owe me a statue, Condorito.

"'LEEROY, JE- *shot in the head*' - the battle cry of the Viha." — Madnessincarnate

Yes, my turn was the last one. The link to the file is actually back in page 22, but I'll send you a personal link momentarily.

Cooking up plans to bring fan-groups together (with a dash of class)

Thanks gand. I have contacted Caspellar.

Who watches the watchmen?

Wait, you already had it uploaded!? HOW DID I NOT SEE THAT?!

"Hey, I'll just hijack the Fort instead of being a sniveling jerkass. That okay with everybody?"

"Well, no, not really. You see - "

"TOO BAD!"

See? that could have been a great futurehistory. :(

"...An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome..." - Eric Burdon/War

And it would have probably been retconned into your character's mad delusions as Caspaellar went and backed up to Gand Aand R's save anyway. Didn't we do that for Ringsea?

"'LEEROY, JE- *shot in the head*' - the battle cry of the Viha." — Madnessincarnate

Why do my delusions have to be automatically mad?

"...An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome..." - Eric Burdon/War

See: OCTODOOM.

"'LEEROY, JE- *shot in the head*' - the battle cry of the Viha." — Madnessincarnate

You have until Monday to find a player.

And then the games begin.

"...An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome..." - Eric Burdon/War

Um No they don't. You wait patiently.

When we get to you on the list we get to you.

edited 11th Sep '13 7:25:01 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

I respect the list, but I must add in my defense, do you really desire over half a month of no-gaming?

"...An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome..." - Eric Burdon/War

Let me know when it happens. Cass still has till tomorrow to respond. If he doesn't we go on to the next canidate on the list. They don't check in same thing. Everyone at least gets a decently fair shake to respond while not holding down the game from moving on overly long. We aren't waiting a full week for someone to respond. Chances are about 50/50 that one of the players before you will pick up the fort inside the time frame.

In this case. If Cass misses his chance Durza is next. After that it is NES. After NES is you. You can wait about a week tops. Lets see. It would be on Tuesday if none of the others respond which I am certain one of the two will. I am thinking Cass won't make the deadline but either Durza or NES will.

There is the chance they may pass on their turns until the next time through which is fine and just advances the list much quicker. So being patient and letting us go through the list you are delayed reasonably until Tuesday. Your insanity can wait an extra day.

edited 11th Sep '13 8:25:04 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

Personally, I'd have gotten a copy of Waterburned's save from the beginning if I was even somewhat decent at DF, just to see how quick I could cock everything up

"'LEEROY, JE- *shot in the head*' - the battle cry of the Viha." — Madnessincarnate

You guys are free to play the save separately even I have done it. Just be caresful it is easy to run up wealth and get strong invasions pretty early.

If Cass hasn't responded after I get home from work I will bug Durza next.

edited 12th Sep '13 10:59:20 AM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

I'm half tempted to do a spinoff: Waterburned: Holiday in Koboldia.

We'll see how things go.

"...An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome..." - Eric Burdon/War

I'm going to nab the save now and start playing in case Caspellar doesn't appear. If he does, then let's say it was a mad dream.

Your malevolence knows no bounds. I absolutely love it – viha Kirbonium.

Chomping at the bit are we. I don't think he will make the deadline so no problems here. I'd save any journal posts though until we are dead sure.

Condo: Kobold Camp game?

edited 12th Sep '13 5:19:45 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

Seven Kobolds. A Couple Tents. And a Reckless Disregard for the Screaming Dead.

This is Waterburned: Revisited.

edited 13th Sep '13 5:09:53 AM by vihaKirbonium

"'LEEROY, JE- *shot in the head*' - the battle cry of the Viha." — Madnessincarnate

Just in case you guys haven't figured it out, it is fully officially Durza's turn and Durza has the save already. Didn't hear from Cass so post away with your story stuff.

Who watches the watchmen?

The Waterburned save would be nasty to start a kobold camp in. I don't know if that's a doable thing.

"...An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome..." - Eric Burdon/War

So I didn't realise that I was using the wrong program to extract the game file. Just getting started now. I'm silly.

Edit: this is meant to be a reclaim Fort, right? Just checking.

Durza's Log, 20th Granite, 255.

well, that was a messy few weeks. Ever since G and A stepped down, there's been a bit of a power struggle going on. I've managed to keep Infinitus in an apparent position of power while taking most of the actual influence into my own hands. Condorito has been appeased with the promise of future power, and no one is calling for G to retake the helm at the moment. Side note; G and A and R is clearly a wizard. The similarities between 'Gandalf' and 'Gandandr' are clear. Must keep an eye on him.

In my first inspection of this place, a few things become apparent:

• We have a population of 109, and our dining hall seats ten.
• There doesn't seem to be a bedroom designated to anyone besides Infinitus.
• There are eight ghosts currently haunting the fortress.

Apparently my evil plans must be put off so that I can give improve the living condition of our civilians. I hate it when that happens.

21st.

Right, first thing’s first. From now until the time that there are actually decent living conditions for the population, everyone is sticking to their jobs. Miners aren’t allowed to go fishing or woodworking, though I will allow them to continue their careers in architecture. Dwarves will pick a career and stick with it. I’m not having the carpenters skive off making beds so that they can practice their engraving. There will be at least three dwarves for every essential skill. I’m also planning to dig more magma channels so that we can amp up our metal production. All woodcrafters and other dwarves with useless skills are going into the military. This apparently includes myself. Useless weapons are getting melted. The first one on my list was the adamantine war hammer I noticed, though apparently this is to allow criminals to survive their encounter with the hammerer. I’m not sure this is a good thing. We apparently have no whips, which seem to be extremely effective weapons, so I shall have to hold off on making a squad themed around these.

I’ve started to search the population for a dwarf with the right personality for nobility. This person should not be inclined towards insanity or pointless construction mandates, and hopefully the appointment should give me another scapegoat in case my plans go slightly awry and kill everyone in the fort.

Someone has spread a malicious lie to the rest of the fort that I am a demon in disguise as a dwarf. I shall find this liar and sacrifice them to my overlords.

There are also a frankly ridiculous number of dwarves claiming to be masons despite having no experience in the craft. They are all being reassigned unless they’re at least competent, or at least they will be once I get them to build an outside barracks for some of the military so they’ll be able to respond to invasion before half of the fort is slaughtered. I’m telling most of the others to make bolts for our crossbows so that they’ll at least make a good weapon if they go temporarily insane.

22nd.

I’ve found a room full of training spears that seems to serve no purpose. The rest of the military assures me that it is vital in training in their various weapons, so I can only assume that it’s some sort of temple to the art of Kung Suu, which allows near-instant training with little to no effort.

It also turns out that the chief medical dwarf, some guy called ‘Phoenixator’ doesn’t have diagnosis listed as one of his jobs. I have smacked him upside the head. I’ve also told the rest of the hospital staff that they shall perform every job associated with saving lives. I don’t care how long each attempt takes, just that it gets done.

I’m worried that I may be a vampire. Apparently I’ve told people about my much loved wife, yet I have no recollection of the woman.

My job changes have been posted in the dining area. Anyone found not to be in compliance will get speared.

Someone designated a large amount of microline to be dumped before I took over the fort. Unable to find any logical reason for this, I’m forced to conclude that it was a diversionary tactic be some would-be rebels.

There only appears to be one large farm plot supplying plants to the fort, so the first job of the miners is to dig out space for several smaller farms. Then they shall get to work on the bedrooms, which I am having trouble finding a space for. I’m unwilling to go deeper than the necropolis, since it would be a bit morbid. There doesn’t seem to be any room for a large food stockpile next to the dining area, so I’m digging out an entirely new one for the hell of it.

23rd.

I can’t locate anywhere that seems to be a safe choice to dig the new rooms in, so I’m going under the necropolis to do it. It probably even makes sense from a dwarf’s point of view.

So it turns out that Infinitus is a pretty good choice as scapegoats go. He has a bedroom and dining room filled with gold while the rest of the fortress works homeless. If I play my cards right, I should be able to lead a rebellion against him once everyone gets tired of my rule and either set myself up for another term in charge or at least be seen as a humble liberator who will only take the helm if necessary. Either way, I should come out well.

5th Slate.

New rule: anyone who thinks they can lounge around pretending to have no job is getting immediately drafted into the military.

I’ve also noticed that a large number of dwarves in the fortress seem to be naked. This is most likely a problem, but hopefully the elves will arrive with a lot of cloth that we can use to remedy that problem. Related to that, I’ve removed most of the manager’s orders, because most of them call for materials we simply don’t have at the moment, and as Infinitus’ ‘secretary’, I’m getting bored of dwarves running into his office and shouting that they don’t have any plant fibre cloth.

13th

Kea people are stealing our stuff. I’m not sure I can do anything about it at the moment, but they will suffer in the future.

I’ve also told the dwarves that it’s not necessary to report to me that they’re leaving a party to get something to eat and advised them that a party that doesn’t provide food is probably a pretty lousy party.

20th.

The number of ghosts has increased to ten, and I’m unable to find any corpses to bury, so I’m going to have the masons construct some slabs and have a memorial hall dug out.

25th.

Likot Solonrubal is throwing a tantrum. Apparently he’s upset because he’s naked, being haunted by ghosts, he has no shoes and he’s seen a nice table recently.

1st Felsite.

The first of the bedrooms has been completed. Hopefully this will compensate for everyone being naked until we manage to get some cloth.

4th.

Likot’s mad again. Must do something about that.

11th.

The elves have arrived. I’ve just realised that I never actually checked if we have anything to trade to them. If not, I guess we can just murder them.

13th.

G and A and R has withdrawn from society to work on a secret project. I knew he was a wizard!

15th.

So it turns out that we don’t have anything worth trading to the elves. I’ve decided to steal their stuff and possibly murder them.

Edit again: the year in the file I got was 255, which was apparently the year of G and's reign, so I'm thinking I got the wrong file.

Edit again again. So it's definitely the wrong file that I've gotten. I'm downloading the one G linked to again in case I clicked the wrong one or something last time, but if someone could double check that, it'd be nice.

edited 14th Sep '13 7:53:49 AM by Durza

Your malevolence knows no bounds. I absolutely love it – viha Kirbonium.