Underdeep Discussion & Interest Thread

[Polycarp]

I will confess to being disappointed, but I also admit that bookkeeping for fungoids was catching up with me, and my time to write IC text has dwindled.  I will miss the interesting characters and ingenious factions people crafted, and the prospect of assimilating them all into the Glow's glorious light.

I wish you the best of luck with your other endeavors; if there's a silver lining here, it's that maybe we'll see more of your writing and creativity as a result of ending this particular commitment. :)

[sparkletwist]

I'll also confess to being a bit disappointed! But I also sympathize and agreeing with some of your concerns-- writing my positively baroque orders did take me far more time than I intended.

It has been fun. :grin:

[HippopotamusDundee]

It's been an amazing game and I don't think I could have asked for a better first-time experience and introduction to forum gaming.

Thank you for the truly excellent memories and good luck with all your future endeavors - I hope to play with you again someday soon.

[LD]

Enjoy time with your family!

As an aside about IC and turn times. About 3 or 4 turns ago when I sent a bevy of IC messages it took me over 12 hours to craft my turn(!) (It ate up an entire Saturday) Then I fully converted to Excel and got it down to 6 hours. IC may have suffered due to that; naming every kobold certainly did. But the main issue with IC was that I felt like saying things in IC was giving away my strategy, so I tried to avoid talking about controversial things... and as the game moved on and people became closer, more and more felt like it should be off limits.

Re: Rules;
It would have been nice if a limited number of Commanders with higher stats could move and have the bonuses and the "stewards" in each region would not have bonuses. That would encourage stories to be written about commanders in times of action rather than just when they are defending.

...Time to go read Humabout's goblin in-character talk earlier in the game. I was very curious how he decided to go to war with the dwarves.

At least one major benefit of ending this turn- Shee-Ra will now certainly not die at the hands of vile Greyskulls!

Thank you for a highly entertaining game!

~LD.

[Xathan]

I'll admit to being very sad with the end of Underdeep: I may very well write an epilogue for Llitul covering what I kinda wanted to happen with the whole Saerid/Overbrain thing. You've created a marvelous game here and it's been a crazy ride, and I'm sad to see it go - still, thank you for the amazing time! And it's totally revived my love for forum games. Thank you again.

I hope this does allow you to run other games - I would for a chance to reprise Gideon in Sixguns or rejoin Fimbulvinter.

EDIT: Also, is it too early reserve a spot in a potential Advanced Underdeep game? :P

[Raelifin]

At least one major benefit of ending this turn- Shee-Ra will now certainly not die at the hands of vile Greyskulls!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
She still dies in my fan-fiction! ;)

On a more serious note, I want to say that I completely understand where you're coming from, Steerpike. The time it's taken me to update City has exploded, and I've had to force myself to take my time with it to avoid burnout. The weight of "you need to update this" combined with the pages and pages of text is pretty damn stressful. It's a question of love; it always is. And if you're not loving it, I am behind your decision 100%.

That said, I too mourn the end. Thinking about Ashton and the deathless, spending conversations with Num discussing strategy and lore, and even running numbers and building the simulator were all a total joy for me. So much so that I simply had to start City to share that joy, and I feel like many of the other people who've started spin-off projects will say the same. Thank you, so much, Steerpike, for the time and effort that you've poured into something that I will look back on with fondness.

[Numinous]

I'm sure Raelifin is writing a response to this news at the moment as well, but I wanted to say thanks as well for running this vast machine that accidentally made its own little world.  Even though I'm not much for numbers, working with Raelifin on this has been an intense experience, plotting out the struggle of some simple, honest necromancers making their way in a cruel world too ignorant to understand their peaceful ways.  Enjoy your reprieve, if nothing else you haven't seen the last of us in forum games now or later.

Signing off,
- Dr. Robertson, Professor Immortal

EDIT: The jerk ninja-posted before me.  What he said, too.

[LD]

She still dies in my fan-fiction! ;)

She had an exit strategy :P. Apparently Dire Rats can escape out of Escape Tunnels. Which was good, because she wasn't going to surrender and although she probably could have repelled the ghasts... once you ghoulified my relief army, I had a big problem close at hand :).

If you attacked and won (and you would have won if you attacked this turn), you would have earned 400 gp/turn 50 metal (!) with the region's amazing mine, although I was doing what I could to wreck it.

[Xathan]

I will admit I'd love to know A) If I would have survived the Duergar counterattack and B) If I would have captured Saerensine this week. Because I was really hoping. :P

Ahh, well, she does both in my fanfiction! :D

[Ghostman]

The game was very much fun while it lasted, but I totally understand your reasons. It was at times a bit challenging to keep pace merely as a player, so I can imagine having to write updates for each player alone must have been an enormous burden, to say nothing of all the work going to resolving battles, drawing pictures, etc. So, kudos for keeping UD running as long as it did - and a thank you to all the fellow players that gave me interesting times. :)

[Rhamnousia]

I had tons of fun! While it was a shame none of my plans ever came to fruition (like the 60-strong legion of slime golems I was going to use to steamroll my way through the Lowerdeep and the ancient horror out of time I was going to awaken with the tablet shards), the Watchers were some of the most fun I've ever had roleplaying.

[Nomadic]

Much respect to steerpike for running it this long. I think almost any other member here would have crashed far sooner. That was insane commitment.