From The Ashes! Another Goonstation DF Succession Game

[UrsulaMejor]

WELCOME TO GEMWHIRLED, AGAIN!


A couple of us nerds are getting together again to do another succession game, after the last one exploded.

WE ARE USING THE LATEST VERSION OF DF AS OF THE CREATION OF THIS THREAD: DWARF FORTRESS 0.40.13 (September 17, 2014)

Details on how this works and the previous game can be found here:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2844

The current succession list and previous saves, as well as other files related to this succession game can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/he3ug0fqxvf3 ... eShda?dl=0

Want to play with us? Want a dwarf named after you? Want to discuss what's happening or just pipe in to call us nerds? We heavily encourage audience participation. We have an IRC channel on synirc:

irc://irc.synirc.com/Gemwhirled

[UrsulaMejor]

YEAR 1: SUMMER UPDATE

Dear Queen Bothonmelbil,

I was very pleased with your assigning me to Gemwhirled in recognition of the noble efforts of my forefathers. I will not let you down.



Attached is a copy of the roster of able dwarves that have decided to accompany me:



Taking the advice of the exceptionally persuasive Bologna, I have decided NOT to take a managerial position, instead choosing to hew out the stone of our fair fortress in your name. All I had to do was get some sap to take on my leadership duties, and, lo, the poor bloke OFFERED to take the job from me!

Sincerely, Overseer Ursula Major

Dear Queen Bothonmelbil,

TREES!



THEY'RE HUGE!



ELVES BE DAMNED!

Sincerely, UrsulaMajor

Dear Queen Bothonmelbil,

Lavastage, *Phart, and I have hewn out the beginnings of what is sure to be a grand fortresss.



In the northern quarter, we have Bologna's Office next to the stockpiles, which he is already beginning to account. We struck a small vein of gold in so doing, and we have taken this as a good omen of things to come.

To the south we have the craftdwarves' worskshop, in which Bobert the Woodcrafter and *Phart the Mason/Miner are hard at work constructing the furniture we'll soon be needing.



A closeup of Bologna's Office (now furnished)

Sincerely, Overseer Ursula Major

Dear Queen Bothonmelbil,

Lavastage and I have hewn out the first few rows of the public dormitories.



We also carved out a small patch of dirt for the farmers to do their work.



Below the farm we've dug out the beginnings of a food storage area and a (very) small dining room to the north of that. Eventually we will provide far larger, but it is nearing summer and we will want a proper place to eat before fall.



Sincerely, Overseer Ursula Major

Dear Queen Bothonmelbil,







All is well.

Sincerely, Overseer Ursula Major

If you want to be dwarfed, be an overseer, or know more about your dwarf's personality or whatever, ask me here or ping me on IRC

[Conor12]

Dwarf me.

I expect doom, as usual.

[KikiMofo]

Bring back Kiki McHammerdwarf the Strong. She crushed skulls and I like to believe is still in the old fort while everyone is going crazy and crushing heads. She loved the fact that everything went to shit.

[Splatpope]

Make meToad Elflover, with Elflover translated in dwarvish

[UrsulaMejor]

Okay, I did some streaming last night and we went through summer and autumn.

I also neglected to write down most of the dates for stuff I was doing so I'm gonna hold off on roleplaying this shit out this post because there's a lot of it:


7th Hematite
Bologna gets Reelected.



16 Hematite
Our first death. I'm so sorry, Lavastage. You will be missed.



25th Hematite
Fortress


26th Hematite
Lavastage's bedroom is turned into a tomb


8th Malachite
Holy shit someone bury Lavastage already he's starting to smell



1st Galena
Dwarves


Autumn



11th Limestone
I made a new farming area to connect to the cistern for flooding, and the turkeys now have a little nesting area (THAT THEY REFUSE TO USE: SOMEONE FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT)



At this point I lose track of the date
The outpost liason for our dwarven civilization is a human miller


Here you see Bologna, broker, expedition leader, manager, record keeper, merrily planting mushroom seeds while the human diplomat gets steadily more angry at being snubbed.


We trade some trinkets for some fish but HOLY SHIT THEY DIDN'T FUCKING BRING ME AN ANVIL, WHAT IN ARMOK'S NAME IS THIS SHIT


Here's their list of demands in exchange for anvils.


The cistern is almost done. Miner UrsulaMajor goes to break the last block


Water begins to flow, no deaths as of yet.



More dwarves


I made an indoor trading outpost. When it's done, we'll be able to keep the merchants protected


The water reaches Farm 2


Winter!!!



Miners and Masons are kept busy by our ever-increasing need for expansion.


I'm going to stream the last season of my run on Gemwhirled at some time in the near future. Come to #Gemwhirled on the IRC to chat with me and other nerds. I'm looking to begin the stream at 7PM PST on Sunday, but that is a tentative time and is subject to change.

stream url:
http://www.twitch.tv/ursulamejor

[Bologna Prime]

It is a dark time in dwarven history, trees have grown, which can only mean more elves....Who can you trust to drive the elves out? Who can bring the cheese industry back from chaos? Bologna!
While it is certain that Bologna is to be elected; there is one who wishes to deny the fort such a grand leader..... URS!

The horrible, smelly urs will shut down our cheesemaking plants, replace our plump helmets with strawberries and let the goblins in! Just see what this fellow has to say!


"<HeadSurgeon> drphone confirmed urs was clarks in a location that" Who would elect clarks?

Even the wise someone wants to vote Bologna!

"<HeadSurgeon> did someone wants to vote bologna."

Vote Bologna 155, urs smells.

[UrsulaMejor]

Not much happened during the last season.

Here's the full fortress picture:

Pictured:
Main Entrance (Note the lockdown bridges to outdoor areas)
Trade Depot
Storage Room 1
Waterwheel/Well/Mill Room
Farm 1
Turkey House w/ Nestboxes
Workshop 1
Workshop Storage 1
Main Fortress Stairs


Pictured:
Cistern
Farm 2 (In flooding stage)
Farm 3 (Possibly? Might be something else depending)
Dining Area (small)
Workshop 2 (Empty)
Workshop 2 Storage
Storage Room 2 (Under Construction)
Dining Area (Large, under construction)
Dormitories)


Pictured:
Indoor Refuse/Corpse Area (To keep pesky necromancers away from it)

The save is available in the dropbox if you want to download it. Everything is annotated under the (N)otes tab.

[UrsulaMejor]

Okay so Asterisk Phart is the next person on the overseer list so if anyone can find him and let him know, that'd be great!!

[Zafhset]

oh man, I should try catching them streams some time.

I consign myself to cannon fodder should there be additional influx of dorfs

[phart]

god i cant wait to make as many needless deathtraps as possible within a year of godly all-seeing tyrannical reign! i'll be the great leader this cozy caring fortress deserves!

[phart]

Sorry about the screenshot quality and any inconsistancies, I was running a game when my save got all fucked-up, and I had no way of telling which images were from before I restarted and which ones were from after, they wen't pretty much the same for the most part mind you. Any bad grammar is due to the fact I need to cram for school like all hell tonight and need to get started on that like right now yeah sorry tata the next one will be more interesting yadayadaaaaa fuck this let's get to the actual post!!!

Ey mountain home-ish royal type Queen lady:

What the actual fuck did I do to earn this position? I'm nuttin' but a stone mason with no history in government, or if I'm being completely honest here, any form of actual responsibility at all! I seriously urge you to take a second look at your picking procedure, because in my experience picking names out of a hat is not the way to go about choosing who the hell gets to babysit the party-demons I call neighbours!

Nonetheless, I guess I should be telling you about what's been going on so far, right? If this letter takes a while to get back to you guys, I apologize. I seems nobody has half a clue lodged in the peanuts they call their brains about what the hell mail even is as a basic concept!

The very first thing I remember declaring in my reign of clueless dwarven politifuckery was... well... ohhhhhhh cripes I just remembered.



I'm not proud of it or have insight as to why I did it, but I did. I swear it was only like, three kitties tops! We tried to use up their leftovers, but it turns out we have no form of butchery or leather working establishment in this literal hole in the wall, and then they just sat around in the dark and rotted! Boy do dead cats stink, lemme tell you.



The elves came in shortly after that happened for some reason! Not that the broker cared or even noticed, he was getting hella fucking liver failurey at a table party of some form while this was going on, so I had to get off my ass and force a random mason to do it instead.



The beardless fucker didn't even know how to make a sale! Those elves sucked us out of around 400 Dwarfbux and still left with a tick on their mangy hemp-dusted mops! I think this was exactly when I realized how futile my job was to the T, which is as luck would have it, extremely fucking futile. On the not-entirely-nihlist side of things though, we still got a scrawny excuse of a lion out of it, which is like 20 cats by itself!



Oh, about then one of the idiots just birthed a idiot baby out right on the floor, I'm ashamed to have seen such a gross sight go unmentioned. Regardless, say hello to lil' Cogwerks, who I've taken to calling bongbaby. Get it? It's because he's a lil' slacker who'll grow up with no idea about decent ethics of either the work kind or the giving a shit about having a baby during such work kind.



While the newfound mother was still introducing the newborn to traditional crippling alcoholism, it's my luck that I heard a fuckton of assorted riffle-raffles outside my corner of the cave. It was a fucking delight, a bunch of squatters seemed to have barged in and claimed they're migrants from back in the mountains. Bullshit, what the hell sort of government sends families to a place without enough rooms to house the people already living there? Not you guys, right? Please tell me this wasn't actually you're idea.

Fuck.

If it was, I'd like you guys to all consider the following facts about this 'cozy fortress' I'm in charge of, if you would be so kind.

Firstly, I'd like to show you the biggest threat we've had so far, it took four of our most fearsome residents to dispatch with this certain danger!



Amazing.



How brave!



Wow, way to go dude. I can tell you should be trusted with firearms already!



I can't even praise this one in a sarcastic manner!

Next, might our amazing artistic accomplishments convince you about how 'great' a fort we truly are?



Here we have a piece of art one may find on our walls, an authentic Mc'derp it just so happens. Mc'derp thinks himself a god or something, good for him I guess?



We also have more obscure artists here, waiting to shock your senses with new and exciting experimental pieces. Take for example that of Conor here, who thinks the world is oh so very doomed, to the point that it is worth stealing an entire workshop and valuable supplies for a good half the week over it so he can really drive in how doomed people have been in the history of our civilization!



But why stop at the art? Why not address the fact that we just stumbled upon some form of deadly, fungus-filled cavern! A cavern which I would like to add is not only home to what I presume are gigantic deadly spiders, given the chittering I heard when I was collecting stone nearby, but ALSO a giant ass pit into the Earth's blazing angry molten core! Sorry kids, but for this fortress attraction, you're gonna need a parent's permission to get in!

In brief, my majestically bearded queen: Fuck this shit your highness. When my forced, unpaid year of micromanagement is over, I'll be damned if I'm not gonna try and revolt!

Crapfully yours, Overseer Asterisk the Phartful.

P.S. that being said we REALLY NEED AN ANVIL FOR THE LOVE OF ARMOK I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH. Please take this into consideration and thank you in advance!

BONUS:
Spoiler!

damn iron-shelled bugger from the depths of hell.

[Conor12]

Is this some kind of running joke to name me Connor in games?

I like my dwarf though. Nice work.

[thehman03]

Considering signing up for this, but first a few qustions.
1: does the dropbox come with everything needed to run the current DF gemwhirled is on.
2: am i allowed to make super rude things and levers that do mysterious things.
If these questions are answered then i will join this game.

[Lantern]

Considering signing up for this, but first a few qustions.
1: does the dropbox come with everything needed to run the current DF gemwhirled is on.
2: am i allowed to make super rude things and levers that do mysterious things.
If these questions are answered then i will join this game.

Just download the current game and toss the gemwhirled save file into the DF save folder. Also yes please everyone make mysterious levers that leads to "fun"