TL Dwarf Fortress Succession Game - Page 3

On May 26 2011 23:20 tnkted wrote:


Ha! Thats a good idea, we'll probably do that next time. For now we're gonna stick to the schedule. When we finish the current list I'll probably open it up to whoever wants to go next.

On May 27 2011 04:22 Bagonad wrote:


The problem with this sytem is, that after a few weeks or months, the person who signed might not want to, or have time anymore, he might even have stopped using teamliquid completely.

Rules if you want to play:
1. If you are on the list, you are guarrenteed a time slot of one day after the previous player has posted his story to download and announce in the thread/a pm to me that you're playing.
2. If you do not post in the thread or contact me 24 hours after the player previous to you posted his/her update, you're probably afk and I will allow the thread to choose someone to play (usually the first post to say something like, "I call dibs on tnkted's save!" The 24 hour clock will be counted from the exact date/time of the previous player's post.

Rules for playing:
1. Once you have let everyone know that you are playing, you have one in game year (from spring -> spring), or you have two REAL LIFE days, whichever event happens first. This will be counted from the time of your post stating that you've received the save from the previous player or that you call dibs on the post.
2. You will write up a post explaining what happened (I suggest that you keep a log, thats what I did) and try to make it funny/interested.
3. You will chose a dwarf and name him after yourself. I also changed the profession of my dwarf to the 'First of the Ponies,' in the hope that later rulers would follow suit and become the second, third, and so on, but you guys can just let my guy be the sole member in that exclusive fraternity if you'd like (thats actually almost funnier). It would also be cool if we gave all of the noble roles to ourselves, but if one of you guys wants to choose a peasant working his way up for cinematic/story purposes, that would be totally cool as well. All I really care about is if you wrote a good story.
4. If the fort dies on your watch, post your log, apologise, and we give the previous player's save to the next player.
5. Please be timely and quick with your post/turn, or make sure you let the thread know you'll be late, and the reasons why. We'll decide whether to void your rule as a vote between me, Arctic Vangard and Plated.rawr (for this fortress only, next fortress we'll reevaluate this list with other players). If neither of the other two are online and there is a time delay (you're on your third day, etc) I'll just decide. Voided turns nullify all actions you made on the fortress, and the next player will use the previous players save.

Posting rules
1. Please put some effort into your post. As long as you post some sort of log we'll be happy; some people aren't natural writers and I understand that. Other people are happy and able to write themselves into the story as characters, but you certainly aren't obligated to do so if you don't think you can do it in a way you're proud of. As long as we have a log of the things that happened and the funny/interested stuff that happened along the way (I'm thinking of the merchants in boatmurdered who traveled through rampaging elephants, goblin territory, and death swamps to trade two rolls of cloth and a piece of cheese with the fortress).
2. You are not obligated to use stonesense if you can't get it to work. Regular ascii screenshots are fine. In fact, a mix between the two would be greatly appreciated. If you are using a special tileset, thats perfectly alright. The base package in the OP is meant as a base; if you would like to install some tilesets in there you're welcome to do so; it will not affect anyone else since you are only giving us the region1 file. Remember, alt-printscreen saves a screenshot of the open window in your c/p memory. Open paint and press ctrl P to paste the image.
3. Please at least attempt to use proper grammer/spelling when you post. All this means is throw your post into word and run spellcheck. Some people aren't natural english speakers etc and thats cool but people are going to read your posts and I'd like them to enjoy doing so.

On May 27 2011 00:39 Selkie wrote:
I'd love to participate, but I know NOTHING.

I could perhaps take a day to simply dig very, very, very deep... although it's probably a bad idea isn't it?

Eh. I'll just grab some popcorn and watch the thread.