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[Mesa]

This thread probably goes into a different section - but I don't know which one.
Oh well.

Anyways.
ITT: What generally Fun, badass or otherwise epic stories you had in the Object Testing Arena that are worth sharing?


I spawned a magma crab (after removing that mildly annoying [ARENA_RESTRICTED] tag), whom I killed a dwarf with.
Then I spawned a giant snail, thinking that I could also kill him - after having my very small crabby ass kicked (and the crab being killed while I was "off-body"), I spawned a bronze collosus to fight the giant vermin - I managed to punch the snail's shell out and it flew off in an arc. The giant snail died soon after that.
I commited suicide by jumping into the chasm and spawned a dron ant necromancer (you aren't going to be seeing that happening) and raised the dwarf and giant snail as my followers.

All of sudden, I must've accidently attacked one of them, because they both turned on me and got me killed - after that, the giant snail procedeed to attack the undead dwarf, and turned out victorious.
That was one hell of an undead giant snail, who lost his shell.

He was known as Eshimostar, or Freebury, if you will. (which honestly sounds like a sweet-ass British town name or something like this)
I'm sure he had a different name before that, but I don't really remember it. (despite this being the freshest news possible)

[Telgin]

No particularly interesting arena stories from me, but I've seen similar behavior with raising the dead.  I think arena mode must not set up the affiliations for reanimated dead properly.  I was testing out a megabeast with necromantic powers and her minions promptly tore her to bits in the arena.

[itisnotlogical]

Undead minions work properly if you control the necromancer and raise them yourself, but if you haven't assumed control of the necromancer the minions will attack whoever.

[Loud Whispers]

There was that one time as a demonstration for my friends I modded in an incredibly powerful metal. The thing was, it was incredibly volatile and prone to vaporizing in a cloud of pink smoke.
I would arrange fights with them, seeing units of Titanic proportions fighting until someone or some temperature check ticked and everything exploded. Or sometimes someone would win and walk off, or you would see random bits of armour and weapons vaporizing for no discernible reason.
Even arranged the notorious 3 bunny vs elephant scenario, where I got one of them to try and take the elephant down. He failed.
[It is possible!]

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Ah, I'll just pick my last one.

Something along the lines of 300 humans, 100 heavily armoured (steel), the rest either wearing lead training armour or peasants with sticks, against elfs lining the battlements with bows and elfs in the lower levels armed with spears and more bows. At the top was a necromancer surrounded by zombies with silver daggers, and somewhere on a spire was a flock of grand master nightwings. My goal was to sneak in as an adventurer and take out the generals of all four sides.

Damn nightwings.

It started off as that. Then I got bored again and one upped it.

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One thousand humans against each other.

Yes.

Then I got bored and one upped it.

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Topped my record. What started off as 300 Dwarf grandmasters vs several hundred mook goblins, goblin corpses, trolls and grandmaster vampire trolls *kinda* spiraled out of control as just when one side seemed to win, another wave would be created to balance the fight and perpetuate the bloodshed.

Creatures worthy of special recommendation :
*The necromancer dogs were very entertaining, and turned the Dwarf victory of repelling the goblins on the ground level into a very fun situation.
*The were-jackal trolls were a fun one. They were all grandmasters AND were created during the full moon - so they arrived as fully armoured and armed were-jackals. They unsurprisingly tore through the entire right wing of grand master crossbowdwarves.
*The vampire Dwarf suicide squads. Fact : Being undead does not make you immune to the hatred of undead if you're on team #1 and they're on team #2. They demonstrated this well by decapitating many heads. The crowning moment of glory for these lots is when the surviving two vampires fought against each other for ages, one taking a toe from the other, the other taking a finger, before getting swamped by grandmaster hammerdwarves. The hammerdwarves got killed by attrition.
*The crossbowgoblins from the very start. They held their line valiantly, but even their superior weaponry and numbers could not best against the elite marksdwarves in their fortress.

And now for the pic!



Case and point, I don't always play arena mode. But when I do, the angels cry and puppies worldwide implode in a shower of gore.

Dwarves - 487
Goblins - 987
Trolls - 60
Dogs - 40

And then I thought up a scenario. Many things were tested, of note was that I discovered in a humanoid against humanoid engagement the force which holds the fortified high ground with artillery will win as long as they maintain supplies.

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Ahem... Dwarf Fortress is two and two halves a game. Arena mode:

I would do a section going into depth of the depthness of each mode. As it stands, each game currently has enough depth to drown yourself in (barring maybe arena mode).
Also I would like to mention that adventure mode, much like Fortress mode, takes its appeal in that it is capable of creating such amazing stories, of outcast citizens returning as Necromancers who assaulted capital cities with legions of corpses, to the smallest Kobold making the largest impact in a terrible world. There is more to it than grind grind grind.

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Wow. That is an impressively set up arena battle. What happened?

First volley



(It injures a lot in the front ranks of both sides - but they just step over the fallen and continue to advance, Kobold front ranks noticeably suffer due to the biconcave surface whilst the human casualties are limited to the tip of the formation).



Kobolds attack a legendary vampire warlord and his body guard - they all have either a dagger or a single steel bolt to fire.


After a couple dozen (around 30 or so) more volleys, it's over.



No one isn't injured except maybe 4 of the Dwarf lords who fought among the Kobold ranks. Dem martial trances. Biconcave formation works well for assaults apparently. Every casualty could be safely ignored by the masses. The battle went on for so long, some of the Kobolds from the first volley had actually recovered and got back up to continue fighting... Not very well admittedly, but a valiant effort. The human guardsmen in the front ranks fell shockingly quickly, and though their champions fought well, superior numbers either drove them back or killed them outright.



Brutality. The humans above only lost because they ran out of ammo. The vampire lord attacked by the Kobolds took out all of the attackers - sustaining major injuries, and most of his bodyguard was slain or critically injured, having fallen down far. The vampire lord however escaped underground, fleeing before any Kobolds or Dwarves caught sight of it.
In the tower on the left, nearly all of the humans within rushed out to fight off the Dwarf and Kobold assault in a last ditch attempt to save the fortifications, and while the counter attack was effective, the true damage was done by the commanders in their black bronze armour who stayed within and fought the invaders from the high ground with morningstars in hand.
A Pyrrhic victory to the Dwarves and Kobolds.

And I've used it to conduct many and more esoteric scenarios since.

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As well as damming the river so that the entire south-east side floods (you have to close the bottomless pits first).

[Werehuman]

  I believe it is something with the independent thing overriding everything else, even undead bound to a necromancer's will. The undead match the team of the necromancer, and if the necromancer is independent, the undead become independent, so they start just attacking everything else.

[Loud Whispers]

  I believe it is something with the independent thing overriding everything else, even undead bound to a necromancer's will. The undead match the team of the necromancer, and if the necromancer is independent, the undead become independent, so they start just attacking everything else.

Oh yeah I know that. Some of those quotes are old. One of the esoteric experiments was to see just how much you could strip a reanimating being down to its base components. Eventually I got to stacks of [human bone 6] and their like with only one body part coming back to life to fight other singular bones. It used several independent necros standing on pillars.

[Pokon]

One hundred cats vs. One necromancer dog: kitty hell.