Taverius

Man, you spend a full minute writing a masterpiece like this and then its lost in seconds because in there its TURBOCHAT. This a masterwork idol of the God Frogboy in Chalchedony and Lead Pewter. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It dazzles with inlay of gold. It is ornamented with Diamond. It menaces with spikes of Puppy Bone. On the the idol is a picture of the God Frogboy and the Players at the release of the game Elemental by The Dock of Stars in 98

Reading the Dwarf Fortress wiki ...

There's no copy protection so you can just install it once per machine. I imagine it does need a number of registry entries, however, and save games are likely to be in some subdirectory of %HOMEPATH% (eg :\Users\NAME\* in vista/7), so a "portable" install is unlikely. In any case, USB keys are so painfully slow you don't want anything which has performance requirements of any kind on them.

Fell mood -> no damned turtle shells -> berserk craftsman -> dead dog -> dead hauler. Like Haskell, except with beards. And beer. ... all the best games are made by amphibians ... edit: :%s/beer\.$/booze\./

I expect you'll be able to mod something like that - I'm thinking Last Exile here :D