I'd genned a world and aimed my timing to play an elf adventurer while his civ was at war with humans or dwarvs. Etini Angerfist the Magical Bloody Apples of Disembowlment had an aggression issue. Anyway, the elf civ had a total of 3 forest retreats. And I took up the quests against the humans.
Returning from a quest, I find that a herd of Unicorns are attacking my civs children. Hey I need those for colonization!
So, quite alarmed, I cut the lovely things down with my wooden sword. Check to make sure everything is fine, and see the Druid who tells me that it's of the utmost urgency for the sake of our race and nation that I kill a shopkeeper, and then some children. Sure, I've no problem with this. After a good slaughter I head back to find that the unicorns are at it again, and before I can intervene they slaughter my delightfully bloodthirsty druid. Darn. Well, let's see the other ones at the other retreats.
Dead. Unicorn. Next.
We're quite untroubled here? But we're at war! And have you heard about this unicorn problem?
A visit later would reveal that druid got penetrated by a unicorn as well.
The other elven civ was close, and had one retreat. Maybe they had an undying thirst for revenge.
No, he wants me to aquire glory instead.
Go kill this dragon. Fine. Beyond two inconvenient mountain ranges the dragon awaited. By this point I'd maxed the elven move rate, so moving out of the way of dragon fire worked pretty well. Dead dragon. Even brought the body back incase someone wanted to devour the corpse. (I did. Wanted to anyway. Don't know if I can or how.)
Go kill this other dragon even further away. I depart. Arriving on the scene, I learn the dragon is having a pain probem. Strange. Meeting up with him I find the dragon had lost a rear foot somehow. Tough break. I exhaustively hack at him when he stands up for a lengthy battle with little of interest happening, thinking back to halfway around the worlds where I could be slaughtering humans instead.
Bring the body back.
Go kill this other dragon. AW COM'ON. I go and arrive at a very cold area, and creatures are freezing to death. The dragon dies before I can find him, and I give up on bringing back the dragoncicle.
Go kill this Titan. Well it's variety finally. I go, on a desert plane, the Titan cries out with a mighty roar. From the ground. He'd lost a leg. Right, all the other civs are sure going to respect this.
Anyway, rambled a bit there.
two points
one: unicorns attacking elves. how'd this happen?
two: i'd really hoped that by doing quests for the civ at war i could affect the course of events. but with the druids dead, no new leaders were elected. is the course of historical events basically stopped by starting play? dag.
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