Dwarf Fortress - Liquid Team Project

It should have been any normal day for the Dwarves in the town of Darshin, but blzinghand the masonpraiser decided he finally had had enough of his town life. He felt that he was destined to do more with his life than producing the typical useless crap and the occasional piece of stone furniture and selling them at absurdly high prices to the townsdwarves.
He hauled a rock table to the town square, stood on it so everybody could see him and complained loudly spoke his mind about his current state of living. Most of the other dwarves were very skeptical. "But who will be there to make our mayor more obsidian cages when he demands those things again?" - "Who is going to be there for me when a monarch butterfly gets stuck in my door like last week?"
But there were also some dwarves crazy enough to support blzinghand's plans to start a new life, first and foremost Zul'jin the Hunter who was rather enthused about the whole idea of going out adventuring. "It's going to be awesome out there in the wilderness!" - "And what makes you think that?", another replied. "It's not going to be awesome when you meet your first Giant Badger without some walls to hide behind!" - "Don't worry, blzinghand's got this! He's part mason, he'll build us a wall in no time, right?" - "Er, right", said blzinghand, silently frowning about the idea of starting a new life just to be a mason once again. Another dwarf from the slowly gathering crowd chimed in, "I'll be there to help you too if Giant Badgers are looking to be any problem!". It was Dice, who was one of the town's militia's newer recruits. The discussion continued and some more dwarves were up for the adventure.

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Some time later, as they were up to seven ready dwarves and the crowd around them had dispersed, they discussed what they should bring with them for their journey. They agreed that each dwarf should take the most important items from his workshop and that they'd take with them a healthy stock of food and booze, when it occurred to Firebathero that they needed an anvil to do practically anything at all when it came to providing infrastructure for a new settlement. At first, the group was stricken. Without any facility for metalcrafting they would have to wait until the first caravan would eventually find their way to their mudhole to provide them with their first anvil.
Luckily, coma had just the right idea: They could just steel steal the anvil from the local smith shortly before their departure! After all, what could possibly go wrong with such a plan?
Crazy as the seven adventurers were, they really managed to pull the stunt off the next night, and they escaped from the town as fast as they could (i.e. not very fast, but they got out there anyway) before daybreak.


Can our adventurers manage to survive out there in the wilderness, or will they be having lots of Fun? Only time will tell.....

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1. Wellbeing and FUN
1.0 You will not intentionally harm dwarfs or damage the dwarf fortress without good reason
1.1 If by your inexperience or actions you inflict extreme damage to the fort, consider if it is still playable. Reload if it's not.
1.2 Leaving the fort in a worse state then you received it is FUN.
1.3 Take as good care of player dwarfs as you take care of your own named dwarf.

2. War and Rights
2.0 Constructing weapons of mass destruction is prohibited by the dwarfen granite convention. These include.
2.0.1 Use of magma as a external military weapon.
2.0.2 Use of water as a externalmilitary weapon.
2.0.3 Use of bridges as a military weapon like bridge-a-pults or bridge-hammers.
2.1 a dwarfen player enjoys the right of a tomb. It is the players responsibility to create one in his rule. if it could not be completed or he was unable to construct such a thing, it's up to the next ruler's kindness to finish the project or not.
2.2 The use of Vampiric power to run machinery is prohibited
2.3 Violence against peaceful traders is frowned upon
2.4 The use of dangerrooms is prohibited.
2.5 The mayor must be elected by the dwarfs and can never be assigned by the ruler.
2.5.1 The current ruler may not reduce the number of possible candidates to one dwarf by sending the other candidates into letal accidents and other cases of cartain death.
2.6 Regarding justice, the ruler may not question the words of his dwarfs. Dwarfs are always telling the truth, as unlikely as their accusions may look.
2.7 You may enable as many professions as you please but must not disable any dwarf's profession. This rule excludes the glorious starting seven whose professions are godgiven and may not be changed without the creator's permission.

3. Mega projects

3.0 mega project are protected under dwarfen law. The players are forbidden to destroy or alter the project without
consent.
3.1 Exception to this rule is only when the fortress is in danger as a result of a mega project.a

1. Check the thread for updates from the former leader. As soon as his turn finished, ask for his savegame. If the former leader already finished his turn and/or passed his savegame, you have 24 hours to download the game, thank the former leader and confirm that you recieved the savegame by posting it in the thread. If you do not respond in time, you are disqualified from the game, the savegame is passed to the next person on the list and you may apply for the next team fortress.
2. Start your game. You have 72 hours (aka 3 days) to play one ingame year from spring to spring. Follow the rules that are listed above. Make notes and screenshots of the fort and wrap everything into a nice little story so you can once tell this story to your grandchildren.
3. As soon as you read the announcement "Spring has arrived!", save the game, make your final thoughts and updates and pass the savegame to the next person on the list. To do so, you have to zip the files upload it to http://www.speedyshare.com and post the link to the zip-file in the forum or pass it via PM to the next person on the list (as written in this post). If you pass the savegame via PM, confirm that you sent the message and when you sent it.
4. If a ruler can't manage to play one ingame-year within the given time, he has to save the game, and pass it to the next person just like he would do when he would have finished his year. The next player can finish the year and play his own year. This does not include an increase of playtime.
5. If the next ruler on the list does not respond within 24 hours, confirm it in this thread and send the savegame to the next person on the list.
6. Feel free to comment or criticize the leadership of everyone and complain about how everything keeps getting worse and that the golden ages have gone after the year under you as the ruler of the fort.

The goal
A Fortress that is built by tl members. Everyone plays one ingame year untill he must save the game and pass it to the next person on the list. You have two (real life) days to play the (ingame) year. The more people participate in this project, the more FUN it will become.

The planning
Polls!





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