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Engineer a new magma forge near the surface

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Build some obsidian traps

2 (15.4%)

Build lava pump weapons on a tower/walls

3 (23.1%)

Make some minecart weapons

1 (7.7%)

Bah, who needs it?  We have axes, don't we?

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Total Members Voted: 13

[Meph]

First recorded hell-colonization in MasterworkDF. Well done.

Did you have no initial demon-spawn at the spire? (they sometimes spawn under another spire, is it far away and they havent fought yet?)

I have a note in my changelog about a non-flying hell-civ. Not a real entity, but chaos-soldiers that patrol the lower hell, with armor and weapons merged with their flesh. A bit tougher then normal demons... and then add flying custom demons for that rush up the spire....

Vanilla demons have to be removed for this, because they would fight each other, but I still like the idea. Sadly hell would be less random then...

[Broken]

That was glorious.

Did i managed to kill a demon, or was all the glory claimed by the rangers?

[smakemupagus]

Yeah, there was a demon-spawn event, but it was a couple years ago when we were mining adamantine.  It happened when I was carving fortification-windows into the spire to see whether each layer was solid and could be quarried, and eventually we hit the hollow one of course.  I could see that there spawned a bunch of devils inside, but since they couldn't get out, they flew down out of sight.  I don't know what happened to those demons.  Did they migrate off the map some time, or did they just disperse across hell and were among the guys we eventually fought?

[Gamerlord]

How'd I do?

[Meph]

I was carving fortification-windows into the spire

You know, here I sit and think I know everything about this game, and then I have to read something like that.

[smakemupagus]

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

None of the named Orcs racked up a lot of kills in the final assault, other than Dohon.  I never committed the sorcerers to the attack, they held things under control in some minor skirmishes on the surface as needed, not to mention caring for the wounded.  There were a lot of compound fractures and severe burns to look after.

I wonder, if any of the demon kills were caused by "gravity" when they fall from the sky and the credit is not assigned to an orc?  I remember this happening early in the fort when Firehawk and Ilena were shooting down the tigermens' moth-rider squadrons.

I'm not sure I searched for every last type of demon, but those are the ones I remembered.  The Horned Phantoms were the brutal ones, and the Red Ghosts and Flash Banshees were dangerous with fire if they weren't destroyed.  There were possibly a few others that migrated in off the edge in little groups of ~3 like the Brutes of Sand and killed quickly, that I may have forgotten.

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# Epilogue 1

COMMEMORATING THE LEGENDARY HONORED DEAD

Sgt. Srishak'glugburz - First Orc to set foot in the Underworld
Latuul Snazguuagrat
Snazguul Narkuumpmuzg

and the other orcs who fell in victory: there were at least nine.

THE SLAIN FOES WERE LEGION

3 brute of sand
13 shade brute
24 red ghost
14 steam ghost
15 horned phantom
13 white phantom
12 flash banshee
5 white ghost

including 8 named Lords of the Underworld.

the following kills have been recorded in the histories

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CLANGUARD
*Mavj:  1
*Dohon:  12
-Krat: 0
-Tugbuur: 8 + 1 named (Terrifiedlasted)
-Uduruk: 4

MALIGNANT DANCES
*Broken Mind: 0

DISTINCTIONS
*Trak'ruhn:  0
*Gasaad Grinbasher:  0

CANNONEERS
*Gamerlord:  1 + 1 named (Ruthlessnightmarish)
*Higgs: 0

BLOODGUARD
-Talata:  0

ORCISH ARROWS
*Firehawk: 0
*Ilena: 1
-Agradbug: 2
-Urb: 2
-Latuul: 5

GUNNERS
-Thashum: 2
-Malatal: 1 (Midnightpebbly)
-Agrat: 8 + 1 (Seduceplagues)
-Ugburb: 1

RUTHLESS MECHXBOWS
-Bolugd: 4

UNSPEAKABLE ARMS
-Ashaah'zaguul: 0
-Blademaster Uzgash: 0
-Yagduum'zaguul: 0

MILITIA
*Keita: 1

[Ruhn]

-- Epic --

[smakemupagus]

I have a note in my changelog about a non-flying hell-civ. Not a real entity, but chaos-soldiers that patrol the lower hell, with armor and weapons merged with their flesh. A bit tougher then normal demons... and then add flying custom demons for that rush up the spire....

A pity to lose the randomness, but I think this could be worth doing.  As long as there were still some fliers too, to harrass you.  The 3rd cavern in MDF is already tough, but of course the controllable civs get access to the high end weapons and skills and stuff to be able to deal with it.  So there's not a huge jump in challenge going down to the next level.  Tougher demons with more varied strengths and weaknesses could be nice.  Most of the ones I got in this world were glass-cannon types, deadly but brittle.

Being able to mine slade seems like a little thing, but it makes it much easier to get an Underworld settlement up, because defending your masons when they work in the open seems to be one of the hardest parts.  With diggable slade you just have to start with a simple enclosed stairway and you can dig out ammo storage/beds/whatever underneath in relative safety. 

(I guess if I wanted to be more careful I should have built some of this facilities nearby before touching down the tower to the ground level... I wasn't quite prepared for how dicey it would get when all the ranged troops ran out of ammo/drink at the same time, nor for how much more aggressive the demons would get once they had a ground path to the base.  But I wanted to finish the assault by end of year )

[Meph]

Well, not many people will enter hell, but two completely customwritten waves of enemies, flying and ground, I think I can give them pretty absurd attack ratings.

And then you gather the itemcorpses to summon 'Meph the great Defiler' or something at the colosseum, the final boss. (or, you summon your own friendly 'Armok, God of Blood' at the temple. Your reward for conquering hell is your own private deity that massacres sieges. I like that idea. Takes 50 demon-corpses to summon.)

[Broken]

Make a reaction that needs ten demon corpses, with a 90% chance of a superdemon and a 10% of bringing Armok.

[Meph]

You know what? I am bumping this, because its still relevant as a tutorial for MDF orcs.

[dshannon]

A pity smake doesn't seem to have been active in about a year, his style of story writing is exciting.