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I don’t know what possessed me to do this. It’s a drawing of the ill-fated Dwarf Fortress <\/a>I ran a series about a while back. To compare, here’s a screenshot:<\/p>\n

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I took some liberties with the shapes of the dwarves, and screwed with the base design to make it a bit more realistic-ish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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