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Nivim

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Adventurers, in your fort...
« on: July 05, 2009, 12:58:34 pm »
 I did a fairly quick look through the current developer list, finding something similar to what I want about adventurer entities coming and raiding you, but not the same.
 I would like to see something involving NP adventurers coming to your fort so they may...
 1. Receive a quest from your reagent, or influential member, to go and succeed or get themselves killed. This adventurer might be an aspiring peasant, or a different type of random immigrant.
 2. Stock up on supplies at your fortress. This type of adventurer would act kinda like a trader caravan. If you have shops, he would visit them, trading off assorted things he's collected (or strait money) for food, water, armament, and perhaps a trinket he likes. If there are no shops, he would try to do the same thing to your trade depot if it has anything in it.
 3. Mess around. "Adventurer" is sometimes just another name for "he who has nothing better to do", one might come to your fortress looking for a quest, find none, and then find something to entertain himself. Depending on the personality, this might be at the expense of your dwarves.

 An adventurer, or group, isn't that common, but still aught to be around somewhere. And you will surely get some if your fortress is the capital.
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Re: Adventurers, in your fort...
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2009, 01:12:17 pm »
A nice idea that has been drifting around my head for a while as well. Although I'd also like to add bands of outlaws (The less law-abiding adventuring parties.) to sometimes try to raid your fort. This would be rare, and only happen when the fort is still young of severely weakened. The adventurers wouldn't be too much of a threat, if you don't have a real military yet you should be able to just mass-recruit your fort and dogpile them, but they would cost time and some lives.
The bright side would be their equipment and any loot they're still carrying around.
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Re: Adventurers, in your fort...
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2009, 01:30:32 pm »
 Yeah, that one is already in the Core list under adventurer entities. I was targeting all the other reactions an adventur(er){ing} {party} could have with your fort.
« Last Edit: July 05, 2009, 01:32:32 pm by Nivm »
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Re: Adventurers, in your fort...
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2009, 02:17:21 pm »
They'd be really annoying if they just waltzed in and started taking your stuff randomly. I could see mugs going missing from the tavern if they're too valuable but beyond that they should be fairly harmless if you expect anyone to not set the spike trap on repeat when they show up

If the item prices are ever curbed, I could see them buying stuff from stores too
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Re: Adventurers, in your fort...
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2009, 10:03:47 pm »
Maybe adventurers may try to lure away some of you people to join their party, or maybe they will leave behind some of their own (In more ways than one.) Or maybe they will just settle down nearby (make their own home within walking distance of the bar, perhaps even start up a surface town or shanty-ville (perhaps buy land or permission from you, or in the case of bandits, and other squatters, perhaps not.)

A dwarf could strike of on their own (to avenge a wrong or simple wanderlust) and return years latter with some foreign princess in tow, a chest of treasures and enough stories to motivate even more adventurerers ( "I'm sorry you a hero... but you have to go..") Or maybe they will come home traumatized, shunned veterans with vile secrets culled from the dark corners of the earth.
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