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Kamamura

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That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« on: July 13, 2011, 06:05:15 am »
Anyway, I had this nice dwarf adventurer, he got a steel battleaxe from the start. Needless to say, he massacred everything left and right, limbs flying, night creatures dying.

But once, I witnessed that bizarre wilderness encounter, elves vs. goblins, and the elves were quite friendly. After killing the gobbos, I talk to one of them, hello, nice to meet you, could you do a few quests for us? Kill this one, and that one, and this guy too. Guess what - they were inhabitants of human towns. I did not even touch anyone yet, and every carpenter and soap-maker went like: "Don't talk to me!". Rude, isn't it? Not only that, he attacked me after, and all the poor sods in the town too. After I depopulated a few villages in self-defense, I wanted to repent somehow, but no. In the end, bogeymen got me, because, I had nowhere friendly to sleep at. How sad.
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Quote from: cephalo on January 22, 2012, 08:13:37 pm
The entire content consists of senseless murder, a pile of faceless naked women and zero regard for human life in general, all in the service of the protagonist's base impulses. It is clearly a cry for help from a neglected, self absorbed and disempowered juvenile badly in need of affectionate guidance. What a sad, sad display.

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Re: That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 07:17:26 am »
Couldn't you just sleep in the houses of your victims, or atleast a doorstep?
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Re: That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2011, 09:42:17 am »
What mods are you using?

If you're using Genesis, it's quite normal for there to be elf civs about.
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Re: That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2011, 11:31:06 am »
No mods, just vanilla 0.31.25.

And yeah, I probably could sleep in the houses of the people I murdered, but I was a bit disappointed how the game broke up. I originally thought I will be enemy only to those factions whose members I will kill as part of those elven quests, but no. Every human I met since then was: "Don't talk to me", and a smack with a soapmaker's laddle into face after that.
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Quote from: cephalo on January 22, 2012, 08:13:37 pm
The entire content consists of senseless murder, a pile of faceless naked women and zero regard for human life in general, all in the service of the protagonist's base impulses. It is clearly a cry for help from a neglected, self absorbed and disempowered juvenile badly in need of affectionate guidance. What a sad, sad display.

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Re: That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2011, 12:31:49 pm »
Presumably, those Elves were at war with the Humans, and the act of talking to them and asking for quests made you a friend of their civilization and thus an enemy of the Humans...
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Re: That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2011, 02:02:24 pm »
I actually had a situation like that once, but only humans of a single human civ treated me like a thief. I just moved to another civilization and continued on my questing.
Edit: That game was modded, btw. There were many different races of dwarf and elf, so that may have been a factor.
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Re: That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2011, 03:24:57 am »
this happened to me when badits became friendly after i killed a roc.  i think goblins were friendly till my companions attacked one and reflagged our group as an enemy.  or perhaps i attacked despite a "alt+y" prompt.  either way, i did recruit a bandit, and the local human civ became hostile after that.
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Re: That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2011, 05:26:59 am »
Why do so few people know that mountains and coasts are safe to sleep at if you get there before dark?
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Re: That's what you get for talking to an elf!
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2011, 08:00:39 am »
I know that mountains are safe, but I didn't know about coasts.

So, to sum it up, you became friends with the elves by accepting quests to kill humans, then went and slaughtered a bunch of elves, thus becoming an enemy of both sides?
Sounds like you should've sought out some dorfs.

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