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[TheZoomZoll]

MY COVER IS BLOWN

And you forgot wüstite!

ACTIVATE SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE

And you forgot spiderite!

[Trif]

I liked this story:

So Im in a dungeon where there appears to be several non-hostile creatures. Including a commander and a captain. (There are also few hostile creatures). Are these bandits which dont recognize me as a hostile for some random reason?

When I reported kills to the commander he didnt say "thats good etc" and he also didnt say "foreign news dont help us". He said I love such stories. Also when I ask him about his profession and family he says I rather not talk about the past. So in essence can I kill him, take his loot and report his death to the joy of normal civilians?

Follow-up:

I just lobbed the commanders head off with my steel halberd before he could react. Still got my reputation for it and the whole dungeon instantly turned hostile. He dropped his masterworked longsword, helm and breastplate all made out of steel.

Adventurer dude meets a guy and his gang in the dungeon. They swap some stories, then it's head-chopping time. The gang is not amused.

[TheZoomZoll]

I spend 10 minutes running away from bogeymen.
Who likes bogeymen anyway?You cant get anything from them,killing them fills your kills page with useless bogeyman kills,always hit and always dodge.
I imagine getting a machine gun and just shooting at a bogeyman.The bogeyman will dodge every 30 bullets and then poke me with his little finger and my head and torso would explode in gore.

When Toady removes them from the game I will donate him a 50 dollar paper and buy him a beer. (not likely that either will happen)

[Trif]

I like bogeymen.

But if you don't, go to advanced world gen and set: [BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:0] .

PM me for payment options. You're welcome!

[misko27]

I think they are sorta supposed to be the reason you don't go out at night, it's the reason they are useless is because no one has ever heard of them, because people who go out are SUPPOSED to die.
 
I heard a interesting take on it recently where bogeyman are figments of your imagination, and you aer simply killed by demonic forces if and when you die.

[Crazy Cow]

Boogeymen are one of the few things I think are a complete mistake on Toady's part.

[GoombaGeek]

THEY SPY ON YOU

WHEN IT SAYS THEY PUNCH YOU AND YOU DIE THEY ARE ACTUALLY STEALTH KILL WITH BOOGEYKNIFE

[Splint]

If we're talking about boogeymen.....

On one hand they make solo adventurerers literally impossible. I've found that the more team meates you have, the more enemy bandits and such you need to deal with. However it does force you to have at least one guy with you. How that makes a difference though I have no idea. But, if you're a really well skilled adventuerer (which is to say you aren't unless you've been absurdly lucky in the current version) they're little more than a nusiance to be chopped in half.

On the other without them, bandit ambushes and animal attacks at night increase dramatically to compensate. Depending on the animals this may or may not be too bad. However unless you're away when the ambush hits, bandits will pretty much end you. Doubly so if they brought a marksman, because the AI is a cheating bastard who still gets full vision at night.

[GoombaGeek]

Hold it, I need to share my survey results with you all.

Spoiler: Rant-y, pointless, sorry (click to show/hide)

I hate social justice warriors.
Introduction
Are YOU a human being trying to do well in life? Maybe trying to express your opinions? Hold it! If you are not a minority, then you have "privilege". Privilege is BAD! If you have too much, you're too white and male privileged to express your opinion on ANYTHING! The less you have, the cooler you are. How can you determine your privilege level? Well, let's say you're a white male. Watch your privilege! Luckily, you could lower your dangerously high privilege by making something up about your gender. You're not really a man - you may be male-assigned and identify as a man, but you are ACTUALLY a wo-man. There! You are now so underprivileged that you are right about everything. Maybe you're even poor, autistic, or have a minority sexuality! Perfect. Now, normal people try not to let being gay, or disadvantaged, or diseased, or anything else slow them down, but if you don't wallow in your misery and oppression, you have too much privilege. Expressing a hopeful spirit and striving to be a better person even with your differences? Just sit back and let the Social Justice Warriors take care of it!
1. Race
If you are white, you win! Congratulations!! Asians also get bonus points. I don't know why. Maybe it's the "rich Asian" stereotype? The blacks get it the worst and I wish I knew why. I'm starting to think this chart is just a vessel for its creator's horrible urges.
White - 25 points
Total - 25 points
2. Sex
Remember, sex isn't gender! In this case, only men are spared. Women get -50 and any unlucky hybrids get -75. -75 is a lot! Wowzers! Gee whiz!
Male - 25 points
Total - 50 points
3. Orientation
There aren't enough minority sexualities here. You forgot demisexuals! And if gays get a drastic -150, why do bisexuals get +10? I don't think that reflects societal views from any period of time, ever. Not even the present!
Straight - 20 points
Total - 70 points
4. Gender
Gender: what you think you are. Apparently, the sexism from before has been completely forgotten in a new wave of cissexism: because it doesn't matter if you have any problems, transsexuals have more! They have so many problems that they get -500! That's enough to catapult even the most handsome Scandinavian plutocratic white male investment banker into the deep negatives. Are you a terrible, racist human being? It's okay, if you're trans (asterisk), you're better than everyone else!

Okay, a special note: I accept transsexuals. I don't accept people who say that by not being transsexual, I'm being a mindless follower, or that because of my cis privilege (which I guess I've saved up a lot of), no problem I could ever have really matters. I know most of you guys are fine. Every group has jerks! We can send our white male jerks to some desert island and you can send your militant crazies to a different desert island.

More to follow! Oh god.

[hostergaard]

Just stumbled on this oddness in adventure mode:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You are what now?

Its kind of a strange world this one, corpses everywhere, no one seems to mind them.

[misko27]

Accuse it of being a night creature. That may well be vamp.

[hostergaard]

Eh, tried that. He denied it. Maybe I should check legends?

[Drazinononda]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You are what now?

Was that on a world where you've played forts already? There's a bug that causes children to stop aging at worldgen and not be updated until their birthday comes around in Fortress mode (and possibly also Adventure, but I haven't scienced that yet).

Also, Goomba: where the hell did you find that?

[TheZoomZoll]

I like bogeymen.

But if you don't, go to advanced world gen and set: [BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:0] .

PM me for payment options. You're welcome!

Doesn't work.Good try though!

Only NightCreatures=0 works with bogeymen.

[MadocComadrin]

It works perfectly fine.