second update:I walked out of the door of the museum and found a couple of shale rocks right next to it. I used my knapping skills to create an exceptionally sharpened shale rock, and placed it on a table in the museum, as a promise of things to come. It truly was an awesomely crafted rock.
The rest of the day I walked around trying to find other rocks. I was slightly dissapointed to learn that Dinnerwandered is build on top of a massive shale formation. I was unable to find any other type of stone. A minor setback, but I don't give up easily. One of the traders in the marketplace told me about the ruins of Sunkengem. This former mine can be found right outside Dinnerwandered and has an access tunnel to a vast cavern system below. Certainly there will be other rock types that deep down! I thanked the trader for his idea and travelled to Sunkengem. I was quickly reminded why I don't leave the city unless I have to:
Yuck!, and the vermin was just a minor part of the problem at hand here. The stories I heard from the traders indicated it should have been an empty abandoned mine. In reality however Sunkengem appeared to have been invaded by hundreds, if not thousands of wild animals!
I have no clue what happened here, the elves must have somehow cursed this place, there is no way the ecosystem of the area could support such a number of animals without the involvement of dark magic. (ot: my fps, or should I say seconds per frame, turned into really ugly values here. Each step taking several seconds due to the sheer numbers of animals. Reading back in Eric Blanks report of this site I realize that the animal problem must have been here for a while, strange as it was empty when I constructed and abandoned the site)
Most of the animals were afraid of me, they formed a large creepy circle around me. However, small groups of more aggressive animals jumped out from the circle: cougars, boar and peregrine falcons lashed and clawed at me, with difficulty I managed to kill them even though I got a lot of nasty bruises. I made it to the vertical mineshaft and started descending. There were no animals down here, but it was hard to find my way in the darkness. I indeed found a huge cavern at the bottom of the stairs, but the ground was completely covered in thick sticky webbing, there was no plant or animal life down here that I could find, except for, I must asume, spiders. This was definitely the most creepy place I had ever been to. While the rocks were definitely not shale, there were no loose rocks or pebbles I could take with me for my art project, even though I looked real hard. Disappointed I returned to the surface and made my way back to Dinnerwandered through the horde of watching animals.
I decided I had to travel further to get some useful materials for knapping, I tried to convince some of my friends to join me as traveling out in the wilderness alone can be dangerous, but nobody wanted to join me. I decided to travel alone which was a mistake, as I was soon ambushed by bandits. Their leader was a bowyer, and there were at least two other guys I could see. I managed to get a tree between myself and the bowyer before he could shoot me, then decided to drop my heavy armor so I could outrun my enemies. It worked, I managed to get out of sight of the bandits and started sneaking. I had lost my armor but I was still alive.
I traveled for the entire day,slept in some village, and traveled one more day, finding nothing but shale. It seemed the world was mocking me, but they say good art can only be produced through hard work and suffering. I made it to the coast, which disappointingly was made out of shale pebbles, and fell asleep.
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Topic: The Museum: Adventure mode succession world (DF 34.11) (Read 819631 times)