Yet Another Dwarf Fortress Game

Pollux · Post by **Pollux** » 2007-07-07 01:03pm

Due to a lack of fun stuff to do, I have decided to run a game of Dwarf Fortress akin to that of MRDOD.

As such, I am looking for people to be the unfortunate dorfs who were placed under my watch.

Please note I am not nearly as skilled as MRDOD is, so there will be much death amongst the ranks of the Dwarves.

The Vortex Empire · Post by **The Vortex Empire** » 2007-07-07 07:51pm

I volunteer.

Starglider · Post by **Starglider** » 2007-07-07 08:18pm

Sure, sign me up.

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2007-07-07 08:36pm

Oh, what the hell, sign me up too.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2007-07-07 09:29pm

In like sin. Hey, they should make an elven watch tower mod for this...

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2007-07-07 09:30pm

Sign me up.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2007-07-07 09:54pm

Having arrived late to the last party, I will volunteer to be a hardy, if doomed, pioneer on this one.

Pollux · Post by **Pollux** » 2007-07-08 01:15am

Right then, just one more. 'Til the train wreck leaves town.

And behold, the Mythic Realms! (56k no.)

In like sin. Hey, they should make an elven watch tower mod for this...

Actually, Toady is going to add in the ability to play as an Elven Forest Retreat or Human Town eventually. Long way down the road though.[/url]

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2007-07-08 05:41am

I volunteer to be a brave Dwarven miner who always finds the worst nasties first and dies horribly

Pollux · Post by **Pollux** » 2007-07-13 11:21pm

Finally got around to it!

An overview of our stuff. I later got rid of the Plump Helmets, so I could get more booze.

Welcome to your new home!! MWHAHAHAAHAAA!!

I kid, actually, it's here:

And we're off!

After months of travel through the wilderness, the Expedition arrives:

Unfortunately, everyone got utterly smashed directly before the naming ceremony, resulting in... well, at least it's better than "Goatsnuggles".

Starglider and Pezook start off mining immediately, hoping to strike an underground river. Meanwhile the others mill around by the entrance. I later got the woodcutter (forgot who that is

) chopping down some trees. The farmers, mason and mechanic/craftsdwarf later busied themselves with hauling stone to a huge stockpile right outside the entrance.

Had a bit too much to drink, eh?

Pezook has gained a level of experience! Woot! I narrowed the shaft into the mine, so the dwarves would reach the water sooner.

Soon Starglider follows in Pezook's footsteps. Meh. Slacker.

Work proceeds normally, with the miners exchanging such banter as:

Starglider: I think I can hear water. Maybe we should stop digging.
Pezook: Shut up.

...

Starglider: I think I can hear water rushing. Maybe we should stop digging.
Pezook: Shut up.

...

Starglider: Yeah, that's definitely water. Maybe we should stop digging.
Pezook: Shut up!

...

Starglider: There's water pouring out from a crack in the rock. Maybe we shou-
Pezook: MY GOD, WHAT MOTHERFUCKING PART OF "SHUT UP" DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!?!?!?

*swings pickaxe at wall in frustration*

Oh shit.

The other dwarves later found Starglider babbling incoherently near the entrance. Deeper inside, there was a corpse. A dwarven corpse.

After application of large amounts of medicinal alcohol and several heavy whaps on the head with the Hammer of Snap Out Of It-age, Starglider was able to say that Pezook's last words to him were to "Get out, I'll hold it off. He was last seen furiously swinging his pickaxe at the deluge of water in a rage.

The other dwarves unanimously agreed to name the hallway after Pezook, once it was finished. He was also to be entombed in a mausoleum nearby the hallway, so that all who passed through it would be reminded of his sacrifice. Those that weren't drunk blind, that is.

Sadly, now is not the time to mourn. Pezook will be interned in a temporary grave, until the farms are running. Then, a mausoleum fit of one who died battling the evil water, second only to trees and elves in the hatred of the dwarves will be constructed for the passed.

Work slowly picks up and... hey, what's going on? Why aren't yo-

Oh.

So passes the first working day at Keyruled.

ColonialAdmiral · Post by **ColonialAdmiral** » 2007-07-14 12:09am

Why don't I ever get any flee the mines messages?
whenever I hit its like:
"woopdie fucking doo. You hit the river. Maybee you should build a farm room..."

I'll be in the next immigration wave. If there is room.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2007-07-14 02:37am

ColonialAdmiral wrote:Why don't I ever get any flee the mines messages?
whenever I hit its like:
"woopdie fucking doo. You hit the river. Maybee you should build a farm room..."

I'll be in the next immigration wave. If there is room.

You get the "flee the mines!" message if you hit the river when it is overflowing.

Heh heh...that was an awesome death

Though you did make the entrance wide as fuck, you know. Practically invites goblins inside

BTW, how do you call up such a neat screen showing you what each of the dwarves is doing? I typically use the job screen to locate individual dwarves, but now that I have 92 residents, it's become a real chore.

ColonialAdmiral · Post by **ColonialAdmiral** » 2007-07-14 09:46am

PeZook wrote:Though you did make the entrance wide as fuck, you know. Practically invites goblins inside

Hes doing the 6 door thing. You put down two doors, lock them, and then you can put in a second set. add a third set and its six-wide.

I still think a two door system is the best;

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2007-07-14 10:55am

ColonialAdmiral wrote:
PeZook wrote:Though you did make the entrance wide as fuck, you know. Practically invites goblins inside
Hes doing the 6 door thing. You put down two doors, lock them, and then you can put in a second set. add a third set and its six-wide.

I still think a two door system is the best;

1 door system for life yo (literally), when attached to 1-wide corridor.

THIS IS WHERE WE STAND AND FIGHT. THIS IS WHERE THEY DIE.

TONIGHT WE DINE IN OUR LEGENDARY DINING HALL!

[also, I'm awesome at this game? I never noticed. I just tend to have massive luck and a propensity for glossing over mistakes (You'll notice my horribly mangled first farming block).]

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2007-07-14 11:45am

MRDOD wrote:
1 door system for life yo (literally), when attached to 1-wide corridor.

I also maintain a one door outer entrance, but allow it to widen into a 5 wide corridor (usually with pillars at regular intervals, for thematic niceness) after a short chokepoint corridor.

Starglider · Post by **Starglider** » 2007-07-14 01:19pm

MRDOD wrote:1 door system for life yo (literally), when attached to 1-wide corridor.

The advantage of the wide entrance tunnel is that you can put your trading depot inside the mountain, and protect it with locked doors if necessary.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2007-07-14 06:18pm

I've done the one space wide door bit with a widing corridor, firing slits and enough stonefall and arrow traps that anything that makes it through is going to fall to the five other arrow traps I have set up 10 spaces away from the exit door.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2007-07-16 02:50am

MRDOD wrote: 1 door system for life yo (literally), when attached to 1-wide corridor.

THIS IS WHERE WE STAND AND FIGHT. THIS IS WHERE THEY DIE.

TONIGHT WE DINE IN OUR LEGENDARY DINING HALL!

I prefer the "Jenkins, there are goblins knocking at the front gates. Let them in, please, and then switch the death-lever" model. So much more efficient.