EPIC FUN UPDATE TIME!

Following are selected pages from the diary of KharadBanar, The Smith. Out-of-character annotations are denoted with black aster*sks. (Also, let's assume that the dwarves had access to graph paper and modern pens

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* I actually lost a fortress to this once.
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* z-level 65, for those interested. That's 34 layers beneath the surface.
** "No reachable valid targets" in their task description
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*560 kg in metric units
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* Defining an "inside" burrow and restricting the civilians to it via a Civilian Alert
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Epilogue
After that, the dwarf KharadBanar stayed locked in his bedroom.

However, I don't want to withhold from you the stuff happened a bit further up the stairs:

The entrance layer got completely overrun by three squads of goblins due to the drawbridge not closing tight.

In the workshop layer, a metalsmith just got taken by a fey mood as the fighting started, working safely at his artifact down there.

"A diplomat has left unhappy" on 22nd Obsidian (as if that was our least problem).

The goblins continued to spread through the fort, killing everyone they met.

But at least...
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The metalsmith is one of eight remaining dwarves at this point, also including me. He gets shot seconds later.

KharadBanar is throwing tantrums in the safety of his bedroom, being the last survivor as the year ends.

I can upload the save file later if you still want to play with one dwarf left, but at the moment I have limited bandwidth.
I'm sorry that it has come to this, Ulfsark, but I didn't realise that the drawbridge wasn't tight at all....

DarkEnergy

Netherlands542 Posts

June 30 2012 09:50 GMT

#404

On June 30 2012 04:07 KharadBanar wrote:
The problem is that I'm in Malachite right now, and the game runs at a blazing 35 FPS. I think this is going to take another while; if I'm not done by tomorrow evening, I'm uploading the save and the next player can continue it from autumn or whatever the exact date is then.

The update is going to be epic regardless, I'm at >10 pages A4 paper already...

Cant wait for your epic report <3

edit: holy crap u just posted it

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

June 30 2012 11:35 GMT

#405

Oh my. What FUN!

Blazinghand

United States25551 Posts

June 30 2012 11:40 GMT

#406

AFter reading this little bit:

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I couldn't stop laughing. I set up a redundant lever array after kurumi left no instructions on what his did, and I of course left no instructions on what mine did, and I'm sure things just spiraled out of hand there. I like how some of them do something else but nobody knows what. This is amazing.

Also, 1) single earring? LOL
~~2) Good military work!~~

EDIT: oh god what a shitfest. How did the bridge not close the gap? Oh god

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

June 30 2012 11:50 GMT

#407

Can I be for the next round? ^^

Belisarius

Australia6228 Posts

June 30 2012 12:26 GMT

#408

On June 27 2012 17:51 KharadBanar wrote:
Let's hope I don't fun anything up

Mission accomplished, I think.

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

June 30 2012 14:58 GMT

#409

Mother of God...

Ulfsark

United States958 Posts

June 30 2012 15:17 GMT

#410

uhm.... lol! I am up for the challenge if nobody else has any other ideas.

It will be like playing unreal world RPG lol.

Synwave

United States2803 Posts

June 30 2012 17:23 GMT

#411

Oh no the drawbridge

Epic write up anyway Kharad, I was enthralled reading it.

DiViD

Sweden222 Posts

June 30 2012 18:26 GMT

#412

Fantastic fortress! Laughing as I'm reading this :D

KharadBanar

Austria463 Posts

June 30 2012 22:41 GMT

#413

Ulfsark: Here's the save file if you want to try the challenge

Dfgj

Singapore5922 Posts

July 01 2012 02:07 GMT

#414

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Strike the ~~earth~~ goblins!

Ulfsark

United States958 Posts

July 01 2012 09:02 GMT

#415

On July 01 2012 07:41 KharadBanar wrote:
Ulfsark: Here's the save file if you want to try the challenge

Badass thanks! I will play some tomorrow.

Ulfsark

United States958 Posts

July 01 2012 23:23 GMT

#416

I cant seem to get my game to detect the save game even though I extracted into the correct folder. Any advice?

r.Evo

Germany14080 Posts

July 01 2012 23:29 GMT

#417

Did you try DLing the complete pack linked somewhere earlier?

vaderseven

United States2556 Posts

July 01 2012 23:50 GMT

#418

so much fun that I dont get to rule even

qq

plated.rawr

Norway1676 Posts

July 02 2012 00:01 GMT

#419

On July 02 2012 08:23 Ulfsark wrote:
I cant seem to get my game to detect the save game even though I extracted into the correct folder. Any advice?

Make sure the path for the file is DF main folder/data/save, and that it's named "region 1". If you have any other regions in that folder, rename those to succeeding numbers. The succession save should now be the first fort when you enter DF.

Ulfsark

United States958 Posts

July 02 2012 01:17 GMT

#420

Got it working thanks guys. Coulda sworn I had the latest version as I got it really recently. I was mistaken.

double edit: fixed it got it running, having a long day :p