Dwarf Fortress Succession Game III:Jawmetal

Burn him too?

edited 5th Mar '14 5:35:47 AM by vihaKirbonium

You need to ask? Purification by fire is the best purification!

My dwarf will die in a magma-related "accident" now, I suppose...

Nah, then there'd be no corpse to prove your death, so you wouldn't be able to be interred on the THRONE and have someone pose as your prophet, utilising your faction for their own nefarious ends.

... not that I've thought about it.

I have the save. I will get to it tonight or tomorrow. Yeah gonna have to do a maintenance turn.

edited 5th Mar '14 1:20:07 PM by TuefelHundenIV

I gave fishsicles a heads-up that his turn is on the horizon. We shall see how we shall see. :)

I believe his last post was here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13691561690A35746300&page=19#464

edited 5th Mar '14 3:34:23 PM by Condorito

Ah, maintenance. Why commit acts of bold stupidity when you can complain about everyone else's?

Not to mention their logical conclusions.

I'm actually tempted to, since digging further downward is risky, build upward. It's more difficult than digging, but at the very least, it can help cover the resevoirs to prevent body parts from contaminating it.

You know what. I have too much gaming wise on my plate at the moment. I will pass my turn til the next round.

Fish hasn't responded yet, though. :(

Also, if for some reason GAR isn't able to play, here's the last time Caspellaer posted: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13691561690A35746300&page=15#365

edited 7th Mar '14 6:09:31 AM by Condorito

Just in case something happens. Thank you!

I am not on TV Tropes that much for a variety of reasons, but I should be good to take a turn. (Yay spring break.)

Yay fishsicles!

I checked on the dates of our various Succession Fort Threads. We have been running Succession forts since roughly 2011.

So how much longer before we become a long runner? :)

Isn't four years the general guideline for calling a let's play/play-by-post/whatever this is called a long runner?

edited 13th Mar '14 6:08:30 PM by Azreal341

As of March 11th 2011 we have been running these on a fairly regular basis for a good three years. Technically speaking this Succession Fort thread is the fourth one.

So fish...any word on an update? Or should turns be switched around again?

I AM NOT GETTING JAWMETAL'D.

People come and go, inside jokes rise and fall, whole forts and even entire settings arc from creation to destruction, but the industrious spirit persists.

At least, it does until the only times people speak up is to ask why nothing's happening.

Ok if we don't hear from our latest person by roughly this time tomorrow we will just move on down the list. I think life ate them.

Ordo Possideo Log

High Judicator Viha Kirbonium VII, Year 263

We have found a dwarf in his final throes of possession, having just finished a vile anvil made of nothing but pressurized bone and viscera... It pulsed with such abhorrent life that one of the Hammer Adepts was driven into frenzy to destroy it, and delivered the pieces of the forsaken tool into the loving embrace of Armok's molten glory. I may have to bump that Adept up a rank for showing initiative in purging this fort.

We interrogated the possessed dwarf, who in his frenzies of being exposed to the glories of Armok, screamed that even the hordes of Hell wish for Durza's head on a pike. "Thrice he has evaded them!" The dwarf writhed in agony as he screamed. "Thrice he has evaded his lords, and now, all Hell threatens to break loose! If all to claim the usurper!"

This is truly an interesting turn of events, knowing that Durza seeks two thrones. The formal report is written up, and will be hand delivered to the God-Emperor myself. This is too important to leave to a courier.

Until next time.

"Sit Matrisfutators Peruro".

edited 20th Mar '14 10:30:47 AM by vihaKirbonium

Fish has gone silent were moving on to Gand.

Plans for Spring Break:

Step 1: Downgrade from tinytop to babytop, via fire, bad tax season. https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-samsung-116-in-chromebook-exynos-xe303c12-a02

Step 2: Break it.

Step 3: After breaking it, put Arch Linux ARM on it. Because having something called ALARM as an OS sounds like a great idea.

Step 4: Put WINE on ALARM. Because Acronyms.

Step 5: Put Dwarf Fort on there. Listen as the tender sounds of sanity begin to twang.

Step 6: Probably should debug all the error codes its throwing...

Step 7: Play Lag Fort. Have the wife look at you funny when you try to explain why you did it this way instead of walking two feet over to get on the 'real' computer.

I have it.

Time for the Big Cooking agenda to be revealed!

Timber 2nd, 264

Paramythion had asked me to take over after the refusal of both Hunden IV and Fishsicles, causing the official change of term to delay for a day. It’s been very confusing, with everyone talking and planning and scheming simultaneously, to the point where I don’t know whether to expect the dwarven caravan, a goblin attack, or sabotage from within.

Going over the accounts, we have just over 200 dwarves, roughly a quarter of whom are not yet adults. I wonder how many of them managed to grow up; considering Jawmetal has lasted for about a decade, we should be seeing some graduations coming up!

(Addendum)

I wrote too soon. While I’m glad that my suggestion of dismantling the traps in front of the trade depot was implemented, my first official order was to order the siege operators to cease operating their ballistae while other dwarves were in front of them. The trio told me, with some measure of pride, that they had successfully hit at least three dwarves and twice as many cats. With accuracy such as that, I can’t begin to imagine what they could do during a siege. I don’t even want to begin.

Timber 3rd

The crazy confusing catastrophe continues…

The hospital is full of dwarves with various infected wounds. Someone fiddled with the hospital regulations, no doubt under some futuristic imperial backronym, causing all the cloth in Jawmetal to get funneled into it. Reading over Paramythion’s notes, I have no idea what was being attempted, and have decided to spend most of autumn doing one big audit.

Timber 5th

There is a dragon corpse, apparently of Eruwa Flaregilt, the Treasure of Taxes, decaying outside the front doors. Also, Hermunster is missing. When did those things happen? Just as I was writing this, I received word that Minkot Coaltraded has been born. Good for him. On the sixth, Momuz Quakepasses was born today, which makes her very young indeed. Meanwhile, four-year-old Kadol Tradehand has had both arms and both legs shattered, possibly by another errant bolt. Nowhere in any official report have I read the orders, “You lot, stand over there; ballista dwarves, open fire!”

Timber 15th

The audit has finished: we have five ghosts (one of whom is of a child, a further two being military), thirty-eight caged prisoners, over seven thousand prepared meals, over eight thousand drinks, and far too many stray cats, none of which are in the specifically designated cage. Did someone let them all out to divert attention from that giant golden lump down below? I’m ordering them all to be put back, though it may take some time. We may also need a second hospital. There are so many wounded, so many of whom are children. I’ve re-assigned empty beds to new children, but young Mook has fallen asleep in the hospital – not on a bed, but the floor next to the cloth stockpiles!

Timber 20th

Who gave the order to demolish all the soap workshops? I’m having them rebuilt, sparing what little dwarfpower we have to spare. My successors will also need to fund the new adults’ medical education, lest long waits and infection set in.

In practical news, the caravan has arrived at the same time Kadol, the mangled dwarven child, stopped thrashing around in the hospital and immediately died. Someone tell the caravan that the ballistae work!

Timber 21st

An ambush. With anyone else at/under the helm, I’d be worried about a ballista firing upon the caravan. It’s a good thing I’m in charge today!

edited 27th Mar '14 11:23:38 PM by GandAandR