PorkrollPosadist

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 2d ago

Cloud? No thanks, I would rather delete it.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I found the learning curve on FreeCAD (and other similar parametric solid-modeling software) to be a lot smoother than Blender.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

I think the highlight of the year was winning Another Crab's Treasure. Started out playing a bunch of Celeste, completed several of the 3D Legend of Zelda games (plus Minish Cap), went down a Workers and Resources rabbit hole, then an even deeper Dwarf Fortress rabbit hole.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

The Elven werelemur who attacked us, Alala Lenavaci, was born in the year -21 (nothing untoward here, Elves are naturally immortal). In 70, he settled in Yelltarget to pursue scholarship. He became an accomplished naturalist, the author of several books on the subject. He is known for being the first to develop the theory of classification by physical features. In 104, he became the Head Executioner of The Curious Coalition, the local government of Yelltarget.

Alala developed a gambling problem, and later became the subject of political intrigue due to his position in Yelltarget. He was the subject of a number of espionage attempts, some which succeeded. In 179, he had been corrupted completely and became an agent of Human outcasts. Bandits probably, or some other criminal conspiracy.

In 184, he profaned The Sanctuary of Menacing in Yelltarget, perhaps by attempting to steal artifacts from the temple. He was cursed by Tacnu Buriedfatal the Fated Skulls, the human deity of death and murder, to take the form of a lemur-like monster every full moon. Shortly after, he fled Yelltarget. The rest of the chronicles detail a series of rampages and expulsions from a number of sites. That's about 20 years worth of full moons for those of you keeping track.

Interestingly, Alala was the patriarch of this curse. He recieved it directly from a deity, not second-hand through infection. This either means we actually ended the curse (unlikely, lycanthropic curses don't work like the White Walkers), or that he simply has been expelled from more sites than anyone else with this curse and our fortress just became a suitable place to visit (I am not going to look up the number of people sharing this curse. That's quite a bit more spoilery).

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

21 Hemantite - The horrors persist and I do not (I was bitten by a werelemur, became one, got hacked to bits by my comrades and then those bits got revived by the necromancer and also those bits got killed again. It is not going well for the remains of gay king prince charles).

lol. lmao.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Well played and a great write-up.

I think I'm just locked out of posting more images atm? I'll see if I can insert them later or something.

What I did was cheat a little. I drafted my post in a text editor and uploaded the images as I was writing them. For better or worse, Lemmy doesn't attach image uploads to posts or discard them if the post is abandoned. The Marktor app on F-Droid even displays them inline.

in my defense flipping the lever once didn't actually fix it

I discovered this recently when trying to be cheeky. I was trying to build an irrigation system where pulling one lever will open one floodgate as the other closes. Turns out, levers don't toggle - they set every attached building to either on, or off. Depending on the state of the attached buildings, a lever pull might not cause it to change state. When I pulled the lever on my irrigation system, both of the floodgates opened, even though I had one open and one closed when I attached the mechanisms. Fortunately this was a dry run.

We have a necromancer. No idea what the best thing to do with him will be, but we should try to keep him away from bodies and away from things that frighten him.

Yeah. I just recently had this problem. Thought it would be cool to have a necromancer as Captain of the Guard, but some troglodytes started getting chopped up unexpectedly and absolute chaos ensued with dozens of re-animated arms and legs and Dwarven babies brawling next to the trash chute. I'd definitely give him a well constrained burrow to keep him away from problematic functions of the fort. Technically, these guys don't even need to eat or breath, so you could completely isolate them, but this dumps on their mood (unlike a vamipre, who will not eat or drink anything except blood) and will decrease their efficiency if you choose to make them a book-keeper or lever-puller or something. Could also be funny to wall them off and make them a pump-operator, but unfortunately manually-operated pumps do not transfer power to other machinery.

Regarding the werelemurs, lycanthropic curses begin during world-generation (or gameplay) from characters being cursed by the gods for rolling a critical failure on divination dice or causing damage to holy sites. Like vampirism, it continues to spread through the population from character to character. There are likely more werelemurs at the site this attack originated from. Makes sense - it was an Elf, we're surrounded by Elves. It is very likely we will see more visits from werelemurs specifically (even though there are dozens of other potential lycanthropic curses). They are coming from one (or more) specific nearby settlements. This is also why I prefer not to expel them. It's like catching a mouse and releasing it on your porch. Without boats to deliver them to a remote island, the only solution is magma.

The Goblin visit is interesting. At first I assumed it was just baby snatchers (a relatively benign event, like Kobold theves showing up), but the fact that it is announced as an army with a commander rather than "Snatchers! Protect the children!" means we're definitely in the crosshairs. You are correct, this is not the last we'll see of them. By moving things downward you have cleared space for a Goblinite farm (another potential solution to our coke problem), or any number of other potentially deadly Dwarven hijinx. The original dining hall could potentially drown a whole army, if we find out how to put enough water above it (there IS an aquifer above it, but it would need to be drained into a LARGE cistern over a long period of time in order to be weaponized).

Edit: looking at the save, it might just have been snatchers after all. Guess we'll see.

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Perfect! I didn't know you could update files on DFFD, that's pretty cool.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

The file you uploaded appears to be in the same state as Moonworm's save from last week. Before doing anything, make a backup of your save folder, and then try to find the correct save. If you didn't choose "Save and return to title menu" followed by "save to this timeline," the original save never got overwritten. Your current save likely still exists in an autosave (assuming this is how you stopped the clock), possibly in addition to a named save, depending on which save option you chose.

~~With a back-up prepared (just in case) you should be able to load the autosave and then quit, saving to the timeline.~~

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

I've got unfortunate news for you unless Doubledee managed to step on the same rake Prince Charles did.

Update: lmao looks like they did step on the same rake.

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

A convenient ret-con :)

I guess it's pleasing to know I didn't choose an embark which was too safe.

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Uhh, your turn is supposed to start today from the save file @Doubledee@hexbear.net hasn't uploaded yet.

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 6d ago

Gefilte fish boogaloo

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 1w ago

Totally helps. Yeah push the flour through a sifter, don't just spoon rocks of 5 year old flour into the batter. Melt the chocolate in a pyrex bowl floating in water, don't just microwave bars of hershey's "chocolate" on a paper plate. Smother the pan in something butter-equivelant so the thing actually comes off. Okay maybe the recipes don't say this shit but you only gotta fuck up a cake like two times to figure out it's OBVIOUSLY the unmixed chunks of shit floating around in the batter or the completely ungreased cookware.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 1w ago

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 1w ago

I'm gonna have to get divorced and remarried like 10 times to get enough stand mixers and food processors as wedding gifts to do this and I have zero game.