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I have become the first victim of calculator related accidents that my physics teacher has had in his fifteen year career.

Just discovered that I have to hunt vampires in Dwarf Fortress. He killed my axelord and I immediately go to the wiki because there is no way I can deal with a (literally) goddamned vampire. After the mandatory rabbit hole, I did manage to find out that this is a very common issue that I've somehow never experienced.

Anyway, I found the vampire (unfortunately they killed another dwarf and somehow no one saw despite being in a 5x10 burrow with the victim and murderer, and for whatever reason the vampire traumatized themselves) but I am keeping the rest of the suspects detained for investigation because now I'm paranoid.

Are there any trilobites on Tumblr or did they all die in the second Cambrian extinction of 2012?

The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

Fossil [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is holding two pieces of rock in a paleontological site. Megan, Ponytail and White Hat are in the background.] Cueball: It's weird to pry open a rock and see an animal that no one has laid eyes on for 400 million years.

[Zoom in on Cueball looking at the fossil he is holding.]

[Cueball pokes the fossil.] Cueball: Boop! Off-panel voice: Hey! Don't boop the trilobites!

Should bucklers be chop stops or nope frens?

Sword chart, funny.

A buzzard interrupted one of my axedwarfs in full steel armor while he was getting a drink and proceeded to get his leg busted up and his wing severed with no harm to the dwarf.

Did he attack the dwarf because he was shiny or did he expect to win or?

Hexagonal queen

There is a Dwarven child playing make believe in someone's (in use) tomb while saying trade is the lifeblood of modern society during a siege. I feel like I should be worried.

One time I had something that I thought was very simple set up. One of the players was absent so I thought I'd make a cool little quest for them to go on once they finished the one they were on by setting up a trap to send the absent player to the Astral plane once they walked through the door to a vault.

They refused to cut and run (with the copious amount of gold that they would have gotten) and spent a huge amount of time doing perception checks on things that weren't hiding anything. They rolled four nat 1s in a row, so they went temporarily blind and God explained a few things.

So then they went to the Astral plane and got the party member back and one of them got a rabbit made of sand as a familiar. So all in all it went pretty well I guess.

TTRPG Sunday~~~ 🧚🏻‍♀🧝🏻‍♂🧙🏻‍♂

A Dwarven child drowned in the river and I didn't realize until a year later when I launched an expedition to retrieve the body that the ghostly apparition was in fact not a glitch but a ghost.

Said ghost has since been put to rest, though I really should get around to building that bridge so this doesn't happen again.

I think I'm going to run a campaign where pretty much every item is magical and pretty cool but they're all cursed in some way, so it turns into a balancing act/find a priest. Or something like Bloodborne where you have to ration out the use of your powerful items but have to make do with weaker but less dangerous ones.

You must always have a table in the corner for Aragorn. 'Tis the law.

Playing Dwarf Fortress, I think dwarves might actually be able to make communism work. Pretty much all of them like their job, they're able to handle autonomy of taking resources when they need them with very little to no issues, and they are fine with working for the good of the Fortress rather than personal gain (even in pretty bad conditions).

In fact, they are kind of practicing it already. They don't really use money and private ownership is pretty low. The only thing really left to do is get rid of or never instate the nobility and go on a communist revolution of the rest of the kingdom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

HI HOW ARE YOU

I am fine, thank you. How are you?

Bison!

by James R. Page

Cool thing about this is that it is almost a completely outdated idea in that it isn't really necessary anymore, but you can't easily move a whole city. It was originally because when those areas flooded and then receded it would leave far more fertile soil, the Nile is the most famous example. So when people started farming they needed to stay in one place and the place where all the fish and yearly refertilised soil and a body of water for irrigation are is really nice. Later trade was a lot harder over land so coastal cities near rivers were important trade hubs, so there were more jobs, so more migrants, so more people and bigger cities. Nowadays overland logistics networks are efficient enough that inland cities have a lot easier of a time existing. So that's cool.

Where we put Cities