#boatmurder

[lerudan]

Are you

[ ] - a man [ ] - a woman [x] - forever marked by what happened in Koganusân

[wouldyourfavepaychildsupport]

[dwarvendiaries]

WELCOME TO FUCKING BOATMURDERED HOPE YOU LIKE MIASMA!

koganusan dwarf fortress ost

[stainlesssteellocust]

I have to say, the Saga of Boatmurdered/Koganusab getting immortalised in the official soundtrack to the Steam release is utterly heartwarming

It’s been a fanmade tune for years but getting into the large scale game release is cherry

[eggchjf]

"Sankis, buddy? I'm sorry about the beard comment. Think you could calm down a little?"

AKA what happens when I re-read Boatmurdered

[fugu-in-f]

old lady a table over oozing perfume smell like the miasma of a rotten butterfly carcass wedged in the door that keeps the bloodthirsty elephants out

[fates-theysband]

i understand the risk i am taking here by reblogging a bunch of art by the same artist at once and not queuing it but. i have been Stricken With A Fey Mood as they would say in dwarf fortress and i simply must see one of my favorite takes on one of my most favorite of guys ever

[fugu-in-f]

you jammed the door open with your silly stinky carcass and let in the murder elephants!

Skitters into your megastructure and dies in a crawl space with an unknowable purpose

[echoequinox]

Dwarf Fortress... solo journaling ttrpg... is that something people would be interested in? Would you want that?

[riyasart]

[davidearle]

For 2025 I resolve to work towards the preservation of Internet culture.

By which I mean I'm going to assemble the Boatmurdered thread into a manuscript, vanity print it, and mail it to a bunch of libraries.

I encourage all of you to print out your favorite memes, shitposts and creepypastas on quality archival paper and secure them in containers marked "Time Capsule" this year.

Let future generations know we were here, and we got weird.

[cplus902]

There are several cautionary tales about the dangers of elephants and dwarves living in close proximity. The most famous of them is the Saga of Boatmurdered.

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These pictures are killing me

[kobbers]

The situation is getting grimmer in Guardedlabor. No matter what I do, half the wounded from the Loyalty Glitch Incident aren't being taken to the hospital. This probably has something to do with most of the hospital staff being among the victims, but adding more trainees, beds, and even a whole new hospital zone hasn't spurred the able dwarves to take them to rest. They just bring them water.

Then, out of nowhere, one of the invalids went berserk.

For those unacquainted with Dwarf Fortress, stress levels need to be managed for a healthy society, and there are two things that can happen as dwarves spend extended periods of time at high stress. The first is a mental breakdown, which comes in three flavors influenced by personality traits. Dwarves will cancel whatever they're doing for this, and resume life as normal once they've calmed down. They can serve as a hard warning that the dwarf is doing poorly, and needs help before things get worse. The second is insanity, which is permanent. It also comes in three flavors, which correlate to the type of breakdown the dwarf (usually) was having previously. A melancholic dwarf stops working and slowly trudges around the fortress, not eating or drinking, until they die of self-neglect. They may also purposely jump into bodies of water or off buildings. Dwarves that go stark raving mad throw off all their clothing items and run around aimlessly until they also die of self-neglect. And then there's berserkers, who become a hostile entity and will attack their former fellows until everyone is dead... or they are. Usually not a problem because civilians are weak, but look out if someone with combat skills goes on a rampage!

The thing that struck me about this, my first sanity break of the fortress, is that it wasn't telegraphed with a lesser breakdown first. There had been no tantrums from the wounded as a cry for help. Probably just an overwhelming load of bad thoughts that came from having a pile of comrades killed in front of them, suffering grievous injuries themselves, and the lack of positive thoughts from receiving care in a hospital (usually goes a long way toward balancing the previous trauma out).

Obviously the raging tanner who could barely move under his own power was not a huge danger, but the collective mood suffered as a result. Another of the wounded went berserk just a couple minutes later. And while this threatened to domino out of control, a massive goblin siege arrived at our border.

An additional wrinkle: there was a dead bee in the threshold of the main door, effectively locking it open. I marked it for dumping, but much like their injured brethren, the healthy dwarves ignored it in favor of drinking and praying. I posted the melee squads at the front door in case, while I turned my attention to a third berserk dwarf.

My sister: "Are you guys about to get Boatmurdered? :V"

maybe??

I didn't see when the goblins stopped milling around and charged because I was still busy elsewhere, but as soon as combat logs appeared I groaned and went up to check the front gate. I had 12 warriors and the goblins had, at last siege's count, around a hundred. I was probably about to witness the fall of Guardedlabor.

The number of participants fighting lowkey broke the combat log UI, so I didn't do my usual thing where I follow a combatant and frame through to get the blow-by-blow of their fights. There was just too much going on. So I sat, detached, and watched the bloodbath unfold. Teeth and limbs flew everywhere. But the fight, instead of being pushed past the gatehouse and into the fortress, moved outward - into the open field between the trade depot and the hospital building. The report came that one of my soldiers was KIA. Goblin corpses began to pile up.

I expected a decent K/D ratio from my warriors, but also expected vastly superior goblin numbers to surround and overwhelm them individually. I'd seen that happen in this very fortress, in the first comically large siege. But it didn't happen again here; as I watched, the goblin line churned, buckled, and then officially broke. Soldiers and war dogs chased down fleeing stragglers.

Ultimately, three of our soldiers sacrificed themselves to protect the fortress, one of them a human immigrant.

I just counted 115 fresh goblin corpses in my stocks.

The abandoned wounded dwarves languishing in the main hall are still being ignored, even as our returning warriors successfully check themselves into the hospital. Critically bad moods are gaining steam and I'm not sure if the fortress will recover from it, but I'm very proud of this ragged band of fighters. They've done their part.

[dwarvendiaries]

Bravemule is one of the greatest fortress diaries (aside from Boatmurdered). It's richly illustrated and features stonesense isometric pictures of the fortress. It's also literally a diegetic diary, so I guess I have to make at least one post about it.

It's Dwarf Fortress and it's illustrated so there's lot of blood.

[magicaltalkingpony]

Apparently, Boatmurdered has a wikipedia article. This is funny because 1. An LP was so relevant that there's a wikipedia page dedicated to it outside of the game's article. and 2. Sentences like this can be on an article on wikipedia and it's not even wiki vandalization

[mirrorbird]

Boatmurdered could never

just so everybody knows, the dwarf fortress community finally figured out how to domesticate and farm angels for infinite hellstone and godmetal