abc [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I feel like the game was absolutely balanced to an extent around spirit summons - especially the NPC companion ones you can get for certain bosses like Rogier for Margrit. If a NPC has a summon, I’m summoning them every time if I have trouble soloing the boss but I will usually rarely also do a spirit ash; but I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with doing so.

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    and if I’m being honest, I went into the DLC with a lvl150 fucking dex/faith/int build and the goddamn moonveil katana because I’d apparently been fucking around with a really annoying blackflame pvp build at some point in between putting the game down like a year ago and picking it back up for the DLC this weekend. And I got so mad dying to Rellana for the like 30th time in a row that I went ‘ok fine fuck it’, equipped Mimic Tear +8, summoned Leda the NPC and used Golden Vow on her, walked into the boss and immediately summoned my mimic. watched in awe as they fucking ganged up on her as I just used the Magma Breath incantation, rolled 15 feet away and spammed black flame/blade & spinning disc incantations with the occasional flask refill at her until she died. kinda trivialized like 90% of the fight because I would just camp on the sides throwing blackflame and when she’d attack, run away from her going ‘help help!!!’ until she realized Leda and my mimic were still throwing shit at her & resumed fighting them. Immediately clipped it and sent it to my tryhard friends & they were actually irate with me but fuck it I’ve fully embraced the ‘useless priest’ RP I’m doing through the DLC. There’s nothing wrong with doing this - the game was built with these mechanics in mind. If Miyazaki cared about me spamming Black Blade that much, he’d patch it out of the game!!! Hope this helps: https://streamable.com/lp6gwy


  • If I could just designate a whole 10x10 area with multiple levels as a ‘catacomb’ and not have to worry about only a single dwarf being buried there; I would absolutely be way more into the kind of Moria style of tomb/catacombs with statues and slabs but having to add a door aggravates me so my dwarves tend to get chucked into warehouses unless they’ve done something really badass like die fighting a forgotten beast


  • The coffins by the apartments is such a great use of the extra space I’m weak but think we should do this in real life. Imagine walking through the Hall of Past Tenants on your way to your apartment with a bunch of coffins and slabs memorializing the fallen. One day I’ll be able to just designate a whole 10z level deep square as a tomb and fill it up with 200 coffins and be done with the annoyance. (although in the current fort I’ve been fucking around with I’ve just stuck a bunch of coffins in a single room as dwarves/pets die and designated them as a 1x1 tomb each time…)








  • It’s up to you whether or not you want to try to complete out the year comrade! If you haven’t done anything of note with the fortress and it hasn’t been too long, I think it’d be perfectly fine to just move down the list of people interested in running a year and come back to you at a later date!

    I believe the general consensus for time-limit was about a week or so - so we’re at that already, but if you think you can get the year done over the weekend or in the coming week, I think everyone would be fine with letting you finish it out.

    If you don’t think you can do it in a reasonable amount of time and the fortress does have some construction or some event that occurred during your month or so that you think is worth passing along - note it up with the save and either just make a new post to pass it off or I can do it here in the comments.

    @Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net was next officially, so if they are down to just pick up where you left off, I’m fine with letting them continue Year 103 (so the remaining like 11 months of your year) as well as Year 104.

    If not, it’d probably be best for either me (as the last previous person to complete a year) or @radiofreeval@hexbear.net or @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net to finish out Year 103 and then just pass it along to the next person (Beetle or @Doubledee@hexbear.net).

    Tagging them all so they can post their thoughts as to how to proceed. I’m willing to set aside Shadow of the Erdtree this weekend if needed to bang out the rest of an unfinished year so we can get it passed on - but expect many more mist generators LOL