Following up from last week, @Doubledee@hexbear.net seemed eager to play, so I don't see any reason why not to give Beardrenched another year. No turns have been played since Episode 7, two weeks ago (here's the file). I'm going to ask anybody else who is interested in playing to re-apply here in this thread, so we have an idea of who is still involved and who's turn is coming up in the near term.
In the meantime, there was some discussion of retiring. We could take a poll, but last week a number of people chimed in basically saying they could go either way, so I think what we'll do is play it until the roster dries up. We'll be doing this on a more ad-hoc basis from now on.
We have learned a lot about the lore and nearby societies in Teyo Ametha and the thought of continuing in this world is appealing, but the current save file appears to be corrupted. DFHack gives a scary warning about "Missing Nemesis Records." I noticed this for the first time at the end of turn 6, so if we do want to continue playing in this world, we might want to go back, load Episode 5, and retire the fort from that save.
Finally, if you have anything else going on related to Dwarf Fortress, the floor is yours. This thread is not limited exclusively to the succession game.
Update: So we've still got DoubleDee, Booty, Gay King Prince Charles, and Oreb on board, so it's adamantine or bust, I guess.
I'm still up to play, however:
My assessment of the situation is that I could probably bury the bodies and memorialize everyone that died in my turn, and maybe get things stable again. It would probably be a less narratively interesting post but that might be the price of saving the place.
The question would be if that's more satisfying to everyone than letting it rip and seeing what happens. It would be a bit of a bummer to dig in and try to fix everything if the plan is to run the fort off the rails soon, I would rather let someone else do that if that's what the community would like.
If there's some way to get a sense of what everyone would prefer that would be great.
I’m down to put effort in to save the fort. So a clean-up year works for me. I’d just be worried you put in all the effort and things still go off the rails no matter how hard we try. But like I said, willing to try and keep this thing going!