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[OtaconPliskin]

What's the difference between retirement and saving and quitting? I understand that retirement allows me to make further adventurers/play Dwarf mode etc; but what else does this function do? Does it effect your character upon returning to them? Can someone break down retirement for me?

[Rumrusher]

Retirement lets you start up with another character, that and speeds up time around a month, allowing your adventurer to make trinkets and rest. not only that but retired adventurers will be in the spot you retired them so if you venture over to the area you can see and talk to them.

[OtaconPliskin]

Retirement lets you start up with another character, that and speeds up time around a month, allowing your adventurer to make trinkets and rest. not only that but retired adventurers will be in the spot you retired them so if you venture over to the area you can see and talk to them.

Make trinkets?
Edit: Will vampire adventurers kill people I leave him near/ Is there any chance that my retirees can die?

[Corai]

No and no.

[Rumrusher]

No and no.

that last one is a maybe, if you find your retired adventurers they have a chance to be killed during your visit.

[OtaconPliskin]

No and no.

that last one is a maybe, if you find your retired adventurers they have a chance to be killed during your visit.

In the sense that I'd be the one killing them, correct?

[Rumrusher]

No and no.

that last one is a maybe, if you find your retired adventurers they have a chance to be killed during your visit.

In the sense that I'd be the one killing them, correct?

any thing that attacks them while you are at the site will prevent you from playing them next time you are done with the recent adventurer. retiring places them down as a npc and save the game.
if the npc dies then you lose the character. be it by your hand or what not.

[OtaconPliskin]

No and no.

that last one is a maybe, if you find your retired adventurers they have a chance to be killed during your visit.

In the sense that I'd be the one killing them, correct?

any thing that attacks them while you are at the site will prevent you from playing them next time you are done with the recent adventurer. retiring places them down as a npc and save the game.
if the npc dies then you lose the character. be it by your hand or what not.

What else would attack them at the site? Are sieges and the like capable of occuring in adventure?

[Rumrusher]

well you can have 2 retired adventurers meet up and due to factions would end up attacking each other while you walk into the town.
or random animals roaming in, or you retired a werecreature and he/she turns on the day you arrive and start murdering townsfolk, or more likely scenario you bring in bogiemen and an retired adventurer gets unluckly and was caught outside or with the door open causing the bogiemen to enter the home.

[Thecard]

Or the always !!FUN!! loyalty cascades that can occur.

[OtaconPliskin]

Or the always !!FUN!! loyalty cascades that can occur.

How does this occur? What happens?

[Loud Whispers]

Or the always !!FUN!! loyalty cascades that can occur.

How does this occur? What happens?

Entity A attacks entity B. Both happen to be a part of the same civ.
Entity A is branded an enemy of entity B - A's own civ.
So now everyone who is a part of entity B's civ attacks entity A.
Because entity A is still a part of that civ, everyone who attacked entity A becomes an enemy of the civ too.
And then it becomes a cascade.

[OtaconPliskin]

Or the always !!FUN!! loyalty cascades that can occur.

How does this occur? What happens?

Entity A attacks entity B. Both happen to be a part of the same civ.
Entity A is branded an enemy of entity B - A's own civ.
So now everyone who is a part of entity B's civ attacks entity A.
Because entity A is still a part of that civ, everyone who attacked entity A becomes an enemy of the civ too.
And then it becomes a cascade.

How could I arrange for this to happen in adventure mode? inciting riots seems right up my alley.

[Thecard]

It's... not easy to do.  It can happen through companions, if you play it right.  Usually it's just a random occurrence that screws your op adventurer over.  I did something once, I don't remember what, but I snuck around and talked to civilians, whoever I talked to became an enemy of the state.  But yeah, in my experience, it's not something you plan, you just stumble upon it and run with it.
By the way, do you happen to be new?  It's always fun meeting new players.

[OtaconPliskin]

It's... not easy to do.  It can happen through companions, if you play it right.  Usually it's just a random occurrence that screws your op adventurer over.  I did something once, I don't remember what, but I snuck around and talked to civilians, whoever I talked to became an enemy of the state.  But yeah, in my experience, it's not something you plan, you just stumble upon it and run with it.
By the way, do you happen to be new?  It's always fun meeting new players.

Yeah, I tried playing a few fortresses a longgg long time ago; but I was terrible at it and sort of forgot about Dwarf Fortress. I got back into it and it's all quite overwhelming, but absolutely amazing. The whole idea that this is MY unique world, in which I can do pretty much whatever the hell I want in, and it has its own unique histories and characters etc etc. I was able to sustain a fort pretty fruitfully for awhile, but there is just SO much going on in this game. It's amazing, and what DOES happen I can usually flex my creative writing skills with. So, it's all around amazing. I constantly have the wiki and the forums up while I play, I do appologize for spamming SO many questions. Nice to meet you
Right now, I'm mostly messing with adventure mode. Fortress mode is a blast but it's something of a commitment, and I want to mess around a bit before I get serious again with Fortressing, My last fortress fell to a forgotten beast, and with the help of the forums I was able to take it down with a seven group reclaimation squad of what I like to think of as mercenary dwarfs. This game is nothing but epic.