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r/Succession•
Matt872000

First Forts List and Rules

Here are the rules:

  1. You have three days to take your turn or you will be skipped.

  2. Each turn lasts 1 in-game year.

  3. The first person on the list is responsible for the embark.

  4. You must make, at the very least, a small writeup about what was done on your turn. Feel free to editorialize, sensationalize, and generally be creative. That is half of the fun.

  5. This post must be in the format: "-Fortress Number- [Fortress name] (Turn number) Headline" (Add "Successor Needed" if you are the last person on the list.)

  6. It is your responsibility to PM the next player on the list and make sure they take their turn. If they don't take their turn in three days then you must PM the next person on the list.

  7. If the fortress dies on your turn, you must notify the next person on the list. They will start a new embark.

  8. If you are the last person on the list, you are responsible to find a successor in your post. (Please be fair)

  9. You may use dwarf therapist but no other hacks.

Fortress List

Fortress 1

Matt872000

ClogGear

katringa

cypherwulf

valent1ne

hello_asdf

rnway

deathcool

svyatoslov

vexstream

emiteal

Fortress 2

bandicootT802

leblanck

TakenakaHanbei

smaug13

isaacnewton1643

youraveragewalrus

vonguard

Wyzack

PaulboBrookins

causticint

Fortress 3

Limiate

gozergozarian

borntowheep

kristofenpheiffer

tdreyer1

milkb0t

finalfrog

nix413

aedoss

DarkishArchon

Fortress 4

Fake_robot

NaricssusIII

NakedLoki

forlasanto

aelendel

working_keyboard

postal83

loganis

fynz

soiducked

Fortress 5

Sauliustheblack

Mad-Dee

captainmustard

darphoghostofgod

apathia

trailrunner1

DemonOWA

drfeargood

chalkface

joshywantsyou

Fortress 6

Johrues

oneoneoneoneone

stopthinkact

poetfoxpaul

papapetro

donkeyguy

scix

buttersnap

xgamer4

questionquality

The Fuckups (Amateurs by request)

square_one

kampfketchup

starfighterpilot

bjorngylling

HeadrushReaper

PlastixMonkey

May I also suggest dropbox for save-file hosting?

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If you choose to host somewhere else, that's fine.

Posted Apr 21, 2012, 7:52 AM UTC · edited

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CausticInt•

3 days is rather long. The forts have 10 people, taking a minimum of 10 days, or less if overachievers.

Is it possible to arrange the subreddit by selectively stickying the main posts?

Maybe an appropriate notification service is in order, for a succession game of this scale. I could program a small webpage to do the honors, if you officially support it.

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

What do you have in mind for notification?

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CausticInt•

I was thinking of a live feed that you could access, it could inform you when it was your turn for a game, and brings up the previous notes from your predecessor, etc. It's rather ambitious, and I need some kind of server to host this on. Maybe, I could just take down to a telnet server, but people might find that troublesome to use.

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

If you're up for it we could give it a go and plug it in if it seems doable. Maybe include email notifications?

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CausticInt•

If people check their emails frequently.

I will make a domainless webpage for people to access and see if they it's their turn. Maybe make an RSS feed. Yes, if you don't mind an experiment, I'll start programming right now.

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[deleted]•

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NaricssusIII2nd Overseer of Beaklabors•

Can my turn be switched for a later one? I'm going to be away until Monday night.

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postal83Urist in Wonderland•

you might want to pm the OP since you are the first for team 4

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Fynz•

I'm in 4 too, i'm not too fussed though if we start later, busy doing assignments

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

I just bumped you down to second in the succession. That will give you at least 4 days.

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NaricssusIII2nd Overseer of Beaklabors•

Thanks mate.

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emitealImposter Empress of Rockmeet•

I missed it when sign ups were held (was offline for a bit) but I've been following this ever since the subreddit was set up and while I'm not exactly a DF newbie, I haven't had the chance to play the most recent release yet, nor have I ever done a succession game. So, basically, I'm asking if I can join the fuckups. I have so much free time right now, this seems like a good use of it!

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

Do you mind if I throw you on the bottom of one of the 1-6 forts? 1 seems to be progressing quickly. Either that or you can gather your own crew and start an 8th fort, I think there could be capacity for it.

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emitealImposter Empress of Rockmeet•

Actually, yeah, that'd be fine to join one of the main forts!

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

Hey now! The fuckups really aren't that bad! And we need more leaders! :D I think we're actually completely out of leaders because we've already had one drop out and I think we're about to lose HeadrushReaper as well. Which would mean we're already through the list.

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

I would love to join in on the !FUN!, preferably the fuckup fort since I'm very new to DF!

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Square_One1st Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

We'd love to have you on board. I'm starting the embark as we speak, and we certainly need more than 3 rulers to coherently shit the bed on this one.

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

I added you to the fuckup fort!

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postal83Urist in Wonderland•

oh man this is great... can't wait to watch the disaster unfold

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Hellothere1990•

may i suggest a change to rule 7?

"If the fortress dies on your turn, you must notify the next person on the list. They will start a new embark."

to

If the fortress dies on your turn, you must still upload file and notify the next person on the list. They will then embark and try to retake the fortress back

ensures more fun ;)

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nuker1110•

New succession idea:

Only your variation of Rule 7.

Players continue until the fortress falls. Next player jumps in, reclaims, ad infinitum.

EDIT: fortress can fall through any means, intentional HFS release and abandonment due to boredom included

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DonkeyGuy•

w00+ FORTRESS 6 REPRESENT!

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StopThinkAct•

YEAH BABY

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SauliusTheBlack•

Fortress 5 - Undecided - Turn 1:

Our glorious leader has called me to his chambers to discuss the location of the next expansion of our formidable realm. Upon arrival I find that the local guildmasters are present as well to supply me with food, booze, and kind of experienced dwarfs.

Fortress 5: Unite: All input appreciated concerning the embark.

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SauliusTheBlack•

if no answers are given by 18:00 GMT+1, my default embark will be used. this is a collection of foods and drinks, a miner, a carpenter, a hammerdwarf, a shielduser, a farmer and a craftsdwarf. also some animals are taken.

Greetings to all and hail to to Armok

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GhostofGodThe Candy Hammerer•

What are we looking for in terms of embark location?

Also I'm assuming "darphoghostofgod" is really me and another guy without a break between the names. Unless there is a darphoghostofgod in which case...huh

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SauliusTheBlack•

I usually go for no-aquifer, lots of trees, although with the elves of nowadays it isn't that necessary. shallow metals is nice, but deep metals is needed. Usually temperate, and always untamed wilds as surroundings

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GhostofGodThe Candy Hammerer•

Sounds prime to me. Looking forward to see what we've got for my 4th year of ruling.

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SauliusTheBlack•

only 5h remaining till deadline

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[deleted]•

[deleted]

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Johrues1st Judge of Ebaszmokez•

Fortress 6: any special wishes for embark?

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

Not at all, go nuts! I just want to see some DF-assisted creative storytelling. :D

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fake_robotSentenced to 327 days in prison•

Hello Fortress 4. I'm stuck on world gen... so many options... I discovered a 1 tile ocean... complete with waves spawning off the corners... 2000 year history... but no minerals anywhere. I swear I'll get this done before my 72 hours is up.

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NaricssusIII2nd Overseer of Beaklabors•

1 tile ocean

I would love to rule a fortress that contains a blatant middle finger to plausibility.

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fake_robotSentenced to 327 days in prison•

I'll try to upload the save for that one, I ended up going with a safe embark on a mountain/forest after getting slaughtered multiple times trying to set up a haunted fort.

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fake_robotSentenced to 327 days in prison•

Can't get the save up to dffd at the moment, but I got a couple screenshots of it note that I did cut out a small channel next to it, still not sure why I did that.

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NaricssusIII2nd Overseer of Beaklabors•

You were in a crazy mood, I suppose.

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fake_robotSentenced to 327 days in prison•

I think I wanted to cut it out and make it like a big sloshing cup. Then I realized how insanely difficult and time consuming that would be.

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Fynz•

BEACH FORT! always wanted to embark on a haunted ocean for the sea monsters

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

Are ocean embarks really plausible? I think that would be awesome...

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fake_robotSentenced to 327 days in prison•

Ocean embarks are awesome, waves tend to eat FPS though.

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postal83Urist in Wonderland•

Yeah, this should make for an interesting one :p

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Fynz•

Yeah nice waves, but salt water and lack of wood :(

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fake_robotSentenced to 327 days in prison•

If you can breach the caverns, neither of those are problems. Even without the breach, trade caravans and magical screw pump desalinization.

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HeadrushReaper•

Can I join the fuckups? i'm a meganoob and would have fun laughing at my own mistakes and the mistakes of my predecessors.

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

The fortress is in excellent shape so far! Babbies are being born left and right.. Haven't decided if that's good or bad yet!

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

You're in. :)

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katringaSadist Beekeeper•

Hey Matt, I'm from Fortress 1 but if there's no opposition to this idea, I was wondering if I could also join the Fuck-ups after their last guy finishes - (assuming they survive this long).

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

Hey why didn't I see this post before I posted mine. Dashedarrows would very much appreciate your support.

I think we're about to run out of leaders if we haven't already. HeadrushReaper mentioned being quite overwhelmed with complicated lever-setup!

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

I'd like to advertise for the Fuckups! We're doing really great so far (except for the lack of iron)! We could use a leader with some military skills to get our sorry excuse for a militia going. Right now it consists of two squads, both very confused and ill-equipped. I'm not even sure they each have a quiver and crossbow.

We are down to our last leader whom already seems to have water well up to his beard. Any assistance is appreciated!

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

Yep, HeadrushReaper has dropped out because he didn't feel experienced enough to take over our mess of a fortress. Next one who willingly accepts the leadership of Dashedarrows, the Fuck-Ups can begin playing right away!

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katringaSadist Beekeeper•

I'd love to try! Send it over and I'll do my very best ;)

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

You have begun year 4 now correct?

Matt should add you to the list if that is the case! :)

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katringaSadist Beekeeper•

That's right, year 4. I'm about half way through, should finish tonight!!

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smaug13•

thank you a lot for including me :D I will try to get better at dwarf fortress immdiately :D

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leblanckSavior of Dangletools•

AHHH So excited!! I hope bandicootT802 gives Fortress 2 a great start :)

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PaulboBrookinsFugitive Animal Keeper of RM, IC•

Yeah. I've never jumped into a fully developed fort that I hadn't controlled from the onset, so I'm excited to go "exploring" by the time my turn comes around! Hopefully the fort survives that long. Go fort 2!

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leblanckSavior of Dangletools•

I'll do my best to set us up well so you get a chance to play!

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Wyzack•

Any word from bandicoot? Im really excited to play, i was hoping for a haunted or terrifying embark

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PaulboBrookinsFugitive Animal Keeper of RM, IC•

I don't think so. If he's a no show, then the embark defaults to leblanck. So the messages were sent out around when this post was created? I think this post started about 3AM EST On 21 April, so if by 24 April at 3AM the fort goes to leblanck.about a day and 6 hours from when I'm posting this.

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

I'm running Korea time and I'll be busy at work at 4PM KST (3AM EST). I'll probably send out the second on the list embark notices at 9PM 24 April KST (8AM 24 April EST)

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leblanckSavior of Dangletools•

bandicoot has messaged me telling me he'll have the write-up tomorrow, don't worry about pm-ing me to start.

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HeadrushReaper•

Fuckup fort represent! You buttmunches better find some magma, I've heard stories of the endless floods that are so much !!FUN!!

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

Hrrmff... Auhm.... My tale will most likely come tomorrow!

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SauliusTheBlack•

Fort 5 - Year One - Name: I forgot it :$ link to story: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=108050

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ChalkfaceFirst of Spearsold•

And when you do make the post, the name of the fort is "Matulkib"! Thanks for the post, looking forward to Mad-Dee's take on what you left him.

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

You should probably make a selfpost to /r/succession

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Mad-Dee•

Saulius has sent me a download link but hasn't made a post detailing his year. What should I do regarding fort #5?

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

Right here.

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StopThinkAct•

We should make a subreddit to post updates and stuff. We can name the threads "Fortress X: <Name>" and the players could post to it.

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

Like /r/succession ?

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StopThinkAct•

Lmao sorry I thought I posted on a thread in dwarfortress, didn't realize I had been linked here. Damn phone!

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

No worries, mate. :)

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Mad-Dee•

Fort 5 Here - Savegame I was given does not work. SauliusTheBlack has yet to reply to my messages. What do?

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bjorngylling3rd Fuck-Up of Dashedarrows•

He might be working / sleeping / school / etc. Send him a PM and give him some time to respond?

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Matt872000OP1st Judge of Ringfed•

give him at least 48 hours to respond, then re-embark?

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SauliusTheBlack•

have never seen the messages sent to me, mayhaps a missend? Quite possibly dropbox wasn't synced completely. I'll try myself to load the save.

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SauliusTheBlack•

Point of inquiry: you have taken the region2 folder out of the current folder in the link I sent you? That was a fail of me, but just using the current will probably not work. I'm downloading now to see if I get it to work.

EDIT: for me it works. What I did:

Take region2folder out of current-folder.

move region2 folder to <DFLocation>\data\save\

enjoy

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