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Total Members Voted: 4

Voting closed: August 07, 2012, 12:18:36 am

[Wrex]

Well, rather than make a thread BEFORE seeing if the eponoymous adventurer lives or dies, I made a thread where I can post my intresting adventures. "But" i hear you say, "We have plenty of adventure threads!" Well, poo to you with great knobs on top, I say! Because, we shall have..audience participation! Yep, after each adventurer dies, I'll ask what you guys whould like to see. Even unusual races are fine, since I have done some (minor) modding to the current world. So, the choices are as follows:


Human, Elf, Dwarf, Goblin, Kobold, the outsiders for all of these, and the animal men outsiders. Post your vote down below, and I'll get to it.


Also, what button takes screenshots, and does anyone have an image host I don't have to sign up for?

[Frontestro]

I would like to see an olmman outsider who focuses on kicking things to death.

Print screen button should take screen shots.

Can't remember a non image hosting sunup thing blah. But I know they are out there maybe tinypic or something... Idunno

[Wrex]

Installed this: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2665 mod, so I can do cool stuff even if the character in question is a barbarian living in a ditch to hide from everything. Mostly, It lets me craft things with sticks, rocks, and other stuff.

[Frontestro]

Cool, I've been looking for this. Does it have leatherworking and bone carving enabled? I really like hunting animals and always thought it would be helpful to be able to make my own armor and bolts.

[Wrex]

I am Rane Erudon, and by the bones of my ancestors I will tell the truth of my journey.

But first, an explanation: My people are a calm one. We live in our humble abodes, harvesting the bounty of the great lakes. We are not a warlike people, you must understand, unlike the serpents. We hone our minds, and our bodies against the dangers of our land, but no more. Those ...things called dwarves attacked us, do you understand?

I still remember that day. There was a scratching noise, almost like the coming of a Great One, when two beings clad in shining rock emerged from a tunnel. They were short, very short. And their words, how strange they sounded, all gutteral, without any rhyme or reason. And they attacked, striking out at us with spears and blades that cut like the fangs of the great spinners below. Many of our warriors fell that day. The swallow men fought valiantly, but they were not match for the weapons these invaders carried. You are familar with the crossbow, yes? We were not, and neither were they. We were routed, our village burned, and many of us slaughtered as we ran. But, we were not to go unavenged.

Our lord, Anu, appeared before us that day. Anu is our creator, bedecked with the scales of the serpents, the legs of the antmen, the gills of the cave fish, the body of the olm, and the speed of the swallows. His glorious webs overtook the invaders before he devoured them as an offering to his greatness. He forced himself through the tunnel those burrowing demons dug, and we followed.

They were clever: They had left blades all over the tunnel behind them, whirring blades of metals, but none of them could find purchase on His glorious flesh. Nothing could stand before His anger at the mistreatment of His children, and the halls of that nightmarish dwelling ran with blood. So close set, covered in engravings as a testament to the vanity of these beasts. What survived, and what was lost that day, none may say, bit in the end, they were destroyed, and Anu set forth from the mouth of that hell to demolish these fiends wherever they stood.

What we saw stunned us: The world outside was so bright!. None of us had seen anything like this before. Green plants, everywhere, such a strange and alien shade. And the sky! It was blue, of all colours! You laugh at it, but we had never seen that before, ever.  We stood there in awe. We organized an exploration party at once, to see what we could see. And, here I am.

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A little background story. Dwarves attack animal men, FB bites back Will post screenshots of stats and attirbutes once soemone tells me where screenshots go when you take them

[Frontestro]

xD nice. I very much like the description of the FB and how it is the god of the animal men. Well done. Keep it coming.

[Xantalos]

Nice story. And holy crap you made me think someone unintentionally replicated MY thread!  Ah well. Again, nice story. It actually explains how the cave dwellers feel when their homes are DORFED.

[Fishybang]

PTW

[Wrex]

I bade the village of the Hu-men fairwell. They were a kindly folk, and if quite strange looking. I wonder what kind of creature a "hu" is.

I felt far more comfortable in the dense set trees of the forest outside the village. Although diffrent than the Tower-Caps of my homeland, wood is wood. I ambushed a pair of colourful birds, and promptly stove their chest's in.  More meat on them then a swallow, that's for sure. Drug the gobblers over to a nearby rock, and began to knap myself some tools. It took some time, but I managed to sew myself a bag to carry the meat in, and some armor to defend me from attacks.
 

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In the distance, I saw a nearby fortress, much like the one His grace so throughly devastated. But to my relief, it was owned by Hu-men. They told me they had no need of assitance, and that their "capitol" was far to the southwest, and was named "Musicalcharmed". Some bandit's accosted me, but the metal is no protection from the flesh, and they went down easily. I melted his dented armor down, and added it to my helmet. You can never have enough skull protection, I always say.

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Didn't cap it, but christ. Those legs are deadly O-o. Skull crushing roundhouse kicks are a regular occurance. Also, this:

One of them sputtered, begging for death as blood leaked from his nose and mouth. And after choking out the name of his base, he recieved it. This...Twinkledepths...Was about to recieve one very unwelcome visitor.

The Kobolds fell like flies. Their clumsy, untrained movements were no match for the honed flesh of my legs. They were many, but few of them had weapons, let alone the will to use them. By Knife, by axe, by hammer, by fist, I struck them down as more poured forth from that barrow they called home. Shattered ribs, spine's, skulls.
And there, amoung the gore, lay a figurine, carved from Larch, of Him. The cooincidence was too great, and I picked up the blessed totem, now baptized in the blood of my enemies.

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Good god, that's the first time I've commited civilization wide genocide. Here is a screencap of his kill list:

I slaughtered a few of those colourful birds the Kobolds left lying about, and fashioned myself three more cloaks.

Musicalcharmed was...a dump. Most of the houses and stores were abandoned, but a clothing shop bought the silk clothing, no questions asked. I think I'll rest for the night here, and continue on in the morning.

[wolfwood296]

Installed this: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2665 mod, so I can do cool stuff even if the character in question is a barbarian living in a ditch to hide from everything. Mostly, It lets me craft things with sticks, rocks, and other stuff.

umm dumb question but where do you download this to? (can't figure it out)

[Wrex]

 You need to drag the files into the raws, depending on how much you want installed. You need to start a new world after you have done this.

[wolfwood296]

thanks

[Sappho]

Can't read anything in your screencaps because you are making the images too big, they are being resized, and the text is too small. My guess is you are not experienced with image editing, so here's my explanation on how to take screen shots effectively. I hope it's helpful!

Spoiler: Screen shot tutorial for newbies (click to show/hide)

You might already be familiar with some of this, but I don't know how much you know about image editing and saving, so I'll just give you every possible step. As you have figured out, you take screen shots with the PrtScr button. Just hitting this button alone will copy the entire screen (including start menu, etc.) to an image on the clipboard. It's not saved anywhere, it's just sort of floating there waiting to be used. To capture only the window you're using, use alt+PrtScr.

Then, as you have also clearly figured out, you need to paste this floating image into a document and save it. It looks like you are using MSPaint, which is fine for simple images. You can also try using something more advanced like GIMP or Photoshop, but it's not necessary for this. Irfanview is also useful for simple cropping. I'll assume you're using paint.

As you probably know, you start by opening a new document. I can see from the white space on some of your images that you are starting with documents which are too big. At the bottom-right corner of the blank image is a little (probably white or blue) box. If you hover your mouse over it, the cursor will change to diagonal resizing arrows. Click and drag the image to be very small. Much smaller than the image you're trying to make. Then either select "Paste" from the menu or simply press Ctrl+V to paste your screen shot there. The canvas will automatically resize to the image, with no extra space.

You can save it now and use it as-is, or you can edit it further to eliminate unnecessary things. Maybe you only want to show a small area of text or image, or you want to get rid of the title bar at the top of the window. There are two ways to do this. You can select the area you want using the "Select" tool (location of this differs depending on your version of windows). Once you have the area selected, find the "Crop" command (again, location varies depending on version). This will delete everything but what you've selected and make your selection the entire image. Now you can save it as something easily readable and not gigantic.

Hope this helps.

Also, enjoying the story so far.

[Wrex]

As the word of the destruction of the kobolds spread, the hu-men began to call me "The Crux of Combating". Fine enough by me. If a fearsome reputation would deflect their questions, that would make it all the easier. I proceeded to the fortress in the center of town, only to be greeted with the horrible sight of a terribly deformed Hu-man. Please, allow me to describe him to you:

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He called himself the "Holy Gut" of 'Sluste", some sort of priest. He spoke of "Heretics" profaning the "Glory" of his lord under the fortress, and offered to pay handsomely for their eradication. A strange request, but the treasure of the keep was handsome indeed. I proceeded down into the crypts.

It was like returning home. Wonderfully dark, and so damp the moisture clung beautifully to your skin.  I was so caught up in the bliss I hardly noticed the small green humanoids standing around down there. Almost. With two swift strikes, I ended their pathetic lives. With a little effort, their armor was adjusted to fit me. This "metal" is much harder to work than tower cap, but in the end it bends just the same.

I started forwards again, moving up, down, and around the many hallways and staircases. Finally, I come to a door, and open it. Another of the greenskins was here, his knifelike ears betraying his presence even in the dim light. I crept up on him, savouring the moment until I lept upon him with the speed of the great weavers above. And that is when he hit me. My arm snapped like a twig against the force of his hammer, burning agony erupting from every fiber of my being. I stumbled backwards, dropping my tools as I went. As the pain took me, I gazed upon his triumphant features, as he brung his hammer done for the final blow.

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// Well, that was unexpected. Still, fair is fair. Time to start voting on the next guy

[Xantalos]

How about we take an elf this time? *waits for rioting to stop* Now, now...THIS elf should be different. Perhaps homocidal against elves? Or extremely racist in some way? I dunno. Pick one! And don't kill me.