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KharBevNor:
It seems we have a few people here who play Dwarf Fortress so I think it might be cool if we got a succession game going!

WHAT IS A DWARF FORTRESS SUCCESSION GAME?

A Dwarf Fortress succession game is a form of communal entertainment in which a succession of players take it in turns to play one year of game time in the hyper-complex, infamously user-unfriendly strategy game Dwarf Fortress. The classic example (from way back in Dwarf Fortress's fairly basic 2D days) is the Something Awful Forum's Boatmurdered.

The point of Dwarf Fortress is not to win. All but a very few of the most epic and well crafted fortresses will eventually fall from a combination of external threats (ranging from goblins through to titans, fell beasts and, if you should dig too greedily and too deep, the entire amassed armies of hell) and internal threats (dwarves wallowing in filth, going insane, autocratic nobles commanding your best craftsdwarves be beaten to death for failing to produce them enough green glass gewgaws, dwarves going on killing sprees and ripping dogs in half because you accidentally dropped their pet mole dog in the magma sea, and so on). The point is to have fun, to wrestle with disaster, to build awesomely complicated systems of traps that malfunction spectacularly and fill your main dining hall with pressurised magma during the queens birthday party, and to get lost in the emergent sandbox storytelling gameplay. In succession games it is CRITICAL that each player provides a detailed account of their time in charge of the fortress, oreferably in character. The games are enhanced massively, especially if the fortress looks like becoming really successful, by cheerful psychopaths who spend their turns hunting down and killing every cat in the fortress, or executing important dwarves for imagined crimes, or constructing a vast, electrum plated penis on top of the highest mountain they can find. Reading Boatmurdered (and also the much longer, but more up to date twin sagas of Headshoots and Syrupleaf, also from the Lets Play archive, or any of the games linked in the Dwarf Fortress forum's Hall of Legends) will give you a good idea of what is expected of you with regards to storytelling and general high-grade idiocy.

We will each play 1 year, from the First of Granite to the 28th of Obsidian (or around then, if you lose count). Then we will save the game, and upload the save file to mediaf!re or similiar for the next person to play their year. We will start the game when there are five people interested (which should translate to just over a week of play, when allowances are made for real life). Turns will be granted on a first come, first served basis, with me taking the first turn. We will use a random starting party. Those not interested in actually playing may also request a dwarf be named after them.

For this game we shall be using the current (at the time of writing) Version 0.31.12, unmodded.





I have taken the liberty of generating a world already. It is Defini Ametha, the Dimension of Winds:



(click on the image for a larger version)

It should be noted that although the Persuasive Continent would appear to be named for how inviting it looks to settlers compared to the other two landmasses, it includes such landmarks as The Intense Murk, the Forests of Eviscerating, the Somber Prairies, The Dunes of Carnality and the Hill of Mortifying. Surrounding all these landmasses is the Scarce Sea. Those purple blobs in the south of the Land of Dangers are vast Goblin Fortresses which we should probably steer clear of.

I'm open to debate about a starting location. I kind of fancy somewhere fearly bleak and harsh, but not too crazy (ie, not a haunted or sinister locale). I kind of want to try and find a Serene place full of unicorns with a magma lake underneath and turn it into a scabrous boil of heavy industry and fight endless wars with the elves. What do you guys think?


CURRENT TURN LIST:

1: KharBevNor
2: Boro_Bandito
3: KvP
4: Jeans
5: Christophe
6: Est
7: Damnable Fiend
8: Jace


CURRENT DWARFING LIST:

1: KharBevNor - DORFED
2: David_Dovey - DORFED
3: Scandanavian War Machine - DORFED
4: öde (or Danosaur, as I can't be fucked to try and get those special characters in game) - DORFED
5: Jeans - DORFED
6: Alex_C - DORFED
7: Boro_Bandito - DORFED
8: Thomas Edison - DORFED
9: Christophe - DORFED
10: Dicky - DORFED
11: The Pied Piper - DORFED
12: Buttfranklin - DORFED
13: Kris - DORFED
14: Falrender
15: Minty
16: Ackblom12
17: Jace

Boro_Bandito:
I'm in, even though I really, really suck, so there's a possibility that a little too much Fun will happen on my turn.

David_Dovey:
I have no idea how this game works nor do I have any interest in learning but I would be pretty happy if there was a dwarf with my name.

Also I pissed myself laughing at the OP so I'll keep reading this thread

Scandanavian War Machine:
Well, I'm still brand new to the game (just started today, actually) and I'm having a weird save glitch that erases some of my progress every time I save, so I'm gonna sit this one out and watch but a dwarf named after me who's moronic subterranean exploits I can follow would be fun.

KvP:
I think I'm foolhardy enough to try this, bearing in mind that our dwarves may find themselves suddenly retarded. If that's not up to your standards, name a dwarf after me.

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