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[vrga]

mr gimp, could we get screenshots of urist's thoughts and preferences and kill screens?

[MrGimp]

Can I be the one who enforces his brother Lucifer's will without thought? (So I don't die?)

Ha!  You think THAT will save you?  In this world, we play by Armok's rules.  EVERYONE dies.

Oh, wow! This story is great, I just checked back for the first time in a while... Can I hop in line for the next dwarf to be born anywhere in the fortress? Name 'em Yoigan, if that's okay.
Keep up the story!

Okay youre in after Steel.

Yay for not being beaten to madness!
Am I old enough to place work orders yet?
or Am I a "working class" nob?

You are a good hard working yoeman of the land (a sucker).  You make lye.  Then you turn it into potash.  Then you go make lye again.

Woo! As far as I currently know, I live! Live to hoard everything I can in my room!

Whats your characters name again?  Chare?  Yeah shes still hoarding.  And Ive been putting golden statues all throughout you and your siblings' rooms.  Gotta have some bling bling, all proper and shit.

mr gimp, could we get screenshots of urist's thoughts and preferences and kill screens?

All her notable kills are dwarves, but she hasnt killed in a long time.  Urist hungers for more dwarf blood.

[vrga]

hmmm... i would have figured she'd have a higher kill-count than just 32... (on the dorf screen at least, i guess murder by lever doesnt count :p )

[MrGimp]

hmmm... i would have figured she'd have a higher kill-count than just 32... (on the dorf screen at least, i guess murder by lever doesnt count :p )

Yeah, unfortunately the ordering of mass death doesnt really count as murder.....which is pretty much how it is in real life too.

[MrGimp]

Spring 281

Winston Smith wandered aimlessly along the edge of the lava moat.  He had been given an order to build a wall.  He had built the wall exactly to Big Brother's expectations (any other way was suicide).  Upon completion he found himself ledged up and stuck.  He cried to be let out.  He begged for others to deconstruct the wall.  He begged for permission to deconstruct the wall himself.  However, he knew not to damage the fortress without permission.  He loved the fortress as he loved Big Brother.  Surely Big Brother would not forget such a loyal and industrious unit of production as himself....





Winston's body now lays next to the lava, half cooked by the heat and smelling delightful...much better than the vomitous lard cooked up in the mess hall, in fact.  Meat rations were graciously raised for the peasants for a week after his death.  Double plus good!




Later on in this very same year....something incredible happened.  There are just no words.....



Can you believe it?  Holy Armok in Hell.  I have NEVER had a dwarf die of old age.  Ever.  I havent even had animals die of old age until this fortress. 

This fortress is just ungodly old. 

[TALLPANZER]

well, except for us nob bratz, the fort is full of old dwarfs. Soon all of the old guard will die, and all their deeds will turn to dust as they do.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

The fort itself is 81 years old. Blockedlanced from when Urist started to rebuild it to now is 77 years old.

[bayar]

Do you get tantrum spirals if alot of dwarves die of old age ?

[Akigagak]

Do you get tantrum spirals if alot of dwarves die of old age ?

Hell yes.

[darkflagrance]

Do you get tantrum spirals if alot of dwarves die of old age ?

Hell yes.

So true. This was the biggest obstacle when I experimented with decreasing the lifespan of dwarves to 10 years (and the length of childhood correspondingly to 1). The natural death of each generation threatened to destroy the fort.

[MrGimp]

Chapter #19 - The Day the Music Died

You know you want to hear the song

You wont believe it...



The legendary grunge harpist plays no more.  Kurk Quorcane has keeled over.  Urist's former lover and the clan leader of her only allies against Khamero is now dead and beginning to rot into food for the worms and maggots.  Urist is stunned by the news.  She cannot believe that TWO dwarves would have the NERVE to die without her ordering it!  Seriously....NO ONE has died here outside of the glory of battle or Urists plans.  (oh and suicide due to lack of shell too)

She had run to his room when she had heard the news.  Urist had shoved the widowed Dungeon Master Petbeard aside, and knelt at the corpse.

"Kurk...."

She picked up his hand and held it.  It was cold, and already stiffening from rigor mortis.  She stood before weakness and tears overtook her.  She looked down at the disobedient dead dwarf and shouted.

"I order you to stand Kurk Quorcane!"  The other dwarves in the room gave each other odd looks.  "I am Urist Salvedangers, Empress of Dwarves, and I ORDER you to live!"  There was a moment of silence.  She shouted again.  "I ORDER IT!!!!!!"  Kurk simply refused to get up.

Urist did not understand.  She held the power of Death over these dwarves.  Why could she not wield the power of Life?

She felt like King Canute trying to hold back the tide, only to find that regal dignity received no respect from the forces of nature. 

Kurk was dead, and would never rise again.  Such was the curse on the heads of all mortals....

[TALLPANZER]

I hope you have a nice Tomb set aside for him. Lye to ashes, ashes to fertilizer.

[Argonnek]

It's only a matter of time before the Queen herself suffers the ravages of age...

[filiusenox]

I always thought Kurk Quorcane was going to die from a crossbow bolt to the head after eating to much quarcane.

[nil]

I always thought Kurk Quorcane was going to die from a crossbow bolt to the head after eating to much quarcane.

clearly that crazy dungeon master did it, she only married him for the money and status anyway