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Veroule

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The ultimate fell mood
« on: November 23, 2008, 11:39:10 am »
First a small back story.  It was only spring of year 100, the elves were wiped out except for some running wild in the woods.  My adventurer after a bit of practice on groundhogs thought himself ready for a quest.

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I talked with the Mayor of Paddletaper and was sent to slay a giant that had recently become a problem.  A short trek later and I had located the villians lair.  After a series of battles I had eliminated my target and his entire family.  I had also recovered everything he had stolen from us.

I returned to Paddletaper to tell the good news.  Much to my dismay when I arrived the mountain home was overrun by antmen, gremlins, and naked mole dogs.  The King, his guards, and the Mayor had all fled; the other guards were running to catch up.  I quickly set to exterminating the vermin, but I just was not fast enough.  Peasants and farmers were dying in the halls nearby, and all I could do was slog through the fray.

When the battle finally ended, I approached the only other survivor.  A simple farmer, that had fought like the goblins demon; once he was crippled the beasts had ignored him.  He lay there screaming in agony, slowly bleeding to death from all the places his bones stuck through his skin.  After just a moment I decided.  I raised my hammer high and smashed the farmers head into the floor.  He didn't deserve the agony he was in.

I turned to walk out of the mountain home for good.  In that moment I saw a young guardsman had been watching from around the corner.  As he raised his crossbow to shoot me I was stuck by a berserk rage.  Licking the mixtures of blood, guts, and gore from my hammer I charged the guard. My fell scream could be heard by those that still fled the mountain, "All dwarves will die, and I will rend the limbs of that cowardly king."
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So after a very mean assault on the place they fled to I spent quite a few months tracking down those that fled from me.  I took a little break in there (34 dwarves left scattered, and 40 notable kills to my name) to make a fortress with some cheats for the sole purpose of decking out adamantine gear.  I finally caught up with the king a month after taking possession of all my new gear.  I should have recorded the fight, but I didn't.  The log is plenty amusing enough though.

-----excerpted for brevity, and funny dialog added-----
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Now to find 14 more dwarves.
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Roundabout Lout

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Re: The ultimate fell mood
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2008, 12:12:55 pm »
New combat option: Taunt
Seriously though, adamantine backpack? I trust he has adamantine socks?
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Veroule

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Re: The ultimate fell mood
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2008, 02:03:35 pm »
I would seriously love to have some taunting stuff as a free action during combat.  I was actually very seriously in character when my dwarf hunt brought me to a ruined human town.  When I said goodbye to the town leader he said something like, 'you should be joined with ____'.  Referring to the dead hydra that had razed the town 7 years ealier and had most dwarves now worshipping it.  I took it to mean he was suggesting I should be dead and was very insulted.  I immediately killed him, and slaughtered the last remants of humans in the town.

Getting really strong immersive role play in a single player game is rather rare.  Being able to talk your way into and out of fights adds a lot towards that kind of thing.

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I pushed 7 dwarves pretty hard to crank out a decent set of complete adamantine clothing and armor by early autumn.  My final goal with the adventurer is to wipe out all the goblins and thier demon too.  Then turn on the human town that gave him shelter.  I want to wipe out all the populations that are attached to civs still.  It will leave only 5 elves hiding in a forest that abandonded thier civ.  As i say, the ultimate fell mood.
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"Please, spare us additional torture; and just euthanise yourselves."
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Roundabout Lout

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Re: The ultimate fell mood
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2008, 04:16:27 pm »
Heh.
I forgot that all or some clothes offer some armor, so an admantine cloak would actually be fairly handy.
If you kill every civ, the option to retire will be gone, so you will need to find an epic form of suicide when it's all over. ;D (Magma would be good)
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Re: The ultimate fell mood
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2008, 09:19:40 pm »
A little noobish, but how can you attack friendlies in adventure mode? That is, if you weren't just telling a good story. Is it even possible to attack friendlies, such as your own people in the town you start?
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Re: The ultimate fell mood
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2008, 09:52:45 pm »
Stand next to them and press Shift + A.
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mythmonster2

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Re: The ultimate fell mood
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2008, 12:09:34 am »
Thank you! Now I can finally have a challenge.
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Quote from: Slappy Moose on March 21, 2009, 05:21:46 pm
Personally, I can't wait for doctors to get possessed and start surgically attaching axes to champion soldier's arms.
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