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[Bolzan]

I had a little unassuming hamlet that was apparently raided over OVER A HUNDRED TIMES by the same group of people.

Makes me sad just thinking about it

[Yacc]

i discovered a yeti which devoured about 100 animals in a single week. hell he must be hungry! then he ate like nothing for around 300 years, then he ate again around 30 animals and died 2 years after of old age, his age was somewhere around 700 years

there was a giant bronzen titan with a kill list of about 600 notable persons. some of the persons he killed where notable for killing one or two other titans, beasts, dragons.
then the titan was wandering around encountering a random elf. the titan got killed by the elf. the elf was unscathed in the encounter. i checked if this elf was maybe some mighty warrior, i discovered that the titan was the first and last kill in the live of this elf. the elf got later killed by some random wild animal.

in year 1 a dwarf named Kikrost Idolsabre from the handle of boars of the furnace of roars becomes the general of the furnace of roars,
in year 2 he marries a dwarf named Melbil Tinbreaches. shortly after he got abducted by a creature of evil. this creature turned him to a spouse of evil. 1 year after the transformation he got killed by his wife Melbil Tinbreaches in an ambush. the wife also killed the creature of evil which transformed him. 2 years after she became the new general of the furnace of roars.
its sad if you think about it. but its a story so plausible it could occur in a fantasy novel, its so cool these things are able to be generated by random 

[Enemy post]

What happened next with Melbil?

[Nasikabatrachus]

Recently, something strange happened to me in Adventure Mode, but which I was only able to fully understand with Legends Mode.

Entering a town called Bindeagle for the first time with a fresh adventurer (a human female named Lershi Ceruslenshi (yes, "Bottledskunk")), I talked to a goblin and found that I could Report Success/Spread News, which was weird because I hadn't killed anyone at all at that point. Apparently my adventurer took credit for killing two people she had never even seen (although they were probably visible through a sewer grate or something). Later, after earning some kills in the city dungeon, she visited a temple and randomly accused the "first flier," a goblin, of being a Night Creature. It wasn't exactly the smartest thing to do, but it turned out the goblin was a vampire, so my adventurer ran to the city walls to collect some help to take it down. On her way, she passed through a shop—and into a murder scene. Some random pikedwarf was slaughtering a shop full of dwarves, including one soldier dwarf (the city was mostly dwarves, with some goblins, and very few humans, even though the town belonged to a human civ). After the rogue pikedwarf was dead, my adventurer combed through the murder scene, looking for clues about its motivation. Being the incredible detective that she was, she noted that the dwarf's pike listed a human kill, but she could not find a human body anywhere nearby. After killing the vampire, she made the mistake of trying to deposit the bodies of the shop massacre victims in the city catacombs, which, okay, I was not expecting a mummy such a short way away from the surface, nor did I expect my adventurer to dodge the mummy's attacks by jumping down a Z-level straight into the mummy. It was ridiculous, but now at least I could check out Legends Mode. At first I assumed that the rogue pikedwarf was a minion of the vampire goblin, because they were the only two denizens of the city that I had seen with human bone/teeth jewelry, but when I checked Legends Mode it got much more interesting.

The chain of events, as near as I can reconstruct it, goes like this:

*When Lershi (adventurer) entered Bindeagle, she claimed responsibility for the deaths of Athra and Naspa.

*Naspa and Athra were members of The Geese of Helping, a criminal gang with a feel-good name. Naspa, an elf, was its leader up until her death. Athra, a human, was a mook.

*Naspa and Athra were killed by Tawki and Uthra, dwarven members of The League of Reigns, another criminal gang. In fact, The League of Reigns was the most prominent gang in Bindeagle.

*Tawki was killed by Bemta, a Goose of Helping, but that chain of events cuts off.
*Uthra was killed by Lasiv, a human Goose of Helping.

*Lasiv was killed by Erod, a pikedwarf and a member of The League of Reigns.

So far it's a straightforward gang war, all happening beneath my adventurer's feet as she enters the city (I presume). For whatever reason, the fight that originally took place on the South side of the city migrated to the North side, which is where Dothan comes in.

*Dothan becomes an enemy of the League of Reigns and Erod kills Dothan, Semod (Dothan's wife), and four anonymous dwarves.

*Erod is killed by Lershi.

Why Dothan? I have no idea what he did to piss The League of Reigns off. Probably he just happened to be near Erod at the time. However, his backstory provides some clues.

Dothan was a gemsetter who had lived in Bindeagle since around the beginning of the third century. He may have been the soldier dwarf I found dead—it was the only soldier in the entire city that I had seen wearing armor, oddly enough—but I'm not sure. I am sure, however, that he participated in an attack on a Dark Fortress, Growledwitches, where he killed a troll, and that he killed two criminals in two other towns in the same civilization (Rereomon). Nac Admiredair, an overlord of some bandit group, was killed by Dothan in Kegtempt. Tadin Bowmagic, a criminal in Reinmint, had his right eye pulled out by Dothan before Dothan struck him down.

This opens up a whole new way to look at events. The slaughter in the shop now reads as a mafia-style hit, a massacre to intimidate vigilantes and law enforcers, orchestrated by the vicious League of Reigns. Quite frankly, it's pretty darn cool that all of this happened while I was doing my own thing with my adventurer, and that I was able to cross paths with something happening more or less independent of my own actions.

But wait, there's more!

*After killing the vampire priestess, Zin Thamopra, who had profaned the temple of the strength-goddess Lecit three years prior in 247, Lershi Bottledskunk the Sprayed Decline of Bodies took the body of Semod to The Massive Sanctuary, the city catacombs.

*There, Lershi awakened the mummy of Irud Akanbengel, a Law-Giver of Rereomon who had died in 215. Her three soldier companions were killed and Semod was reanimated by Irud.

*Lershi was killed by Irud after foolishly dodging an attack by jumping down a ramp and straight into Irud.

*Lershi was reanimated by Irud.

Visiting the scene later with a demigod adventurer, I found Lershi's backpack and weapons and Irud's right hand lying on the ground just outside the entrance to the catacombs. Weird; I had no idea Irud's hand had been cut off. I wonder if Lershi did it, or if one of the soldiers did it and it was moved by [arglebargle forces]?

[Yacc]

@Nasikabatrachus
interesting story, really nice!

What happened next with Melbil?

thats very epic what happened next. i forgot about that. she got herself ambushed in the same year by a creature of evil. but she fought well and killed that creature too! then, few months later, she made a  a journey to the depths of the world and im sure because she was driven by hatred and the desire for revenge with eternal grim bitterness deep in her heart. she tamed the rutheres of the underworld and then she returned to the savage fields, thats the place where she was hunting forgotten beasts before she married her husband. (i forgot to mention that too!) there she encountered a cyclops, sadly that marks the end of her story, im sure she fought well, but in the end she got struck down by the cyclops. she was a great warrior with 31 kills. 9 of them where giant animals.

[Enemy post]

Roduk Twilightdismal was a cave fish man born in 232 who profaned a temple in 265, becoming a vampire. in 327 he aroused general suspicion by appearing not to age and a murder. He responded by attacking the human law-giver and taking over the nation. Later that year he aroused suspicion again and laid a series of oppressive edicts upon the population. He spent the next 706 years joining and promptly leaving various religions, starting a cult around himself, and starting wars with other nations. He has 15888 kills personally, mostly his own people. Also, before becoming law-giver he was a criminal warlord, right up until his coup.

[Tarqiup Inua]

I, too, have seen my share of homicidal vampires in the worldgen, but these days I just wave my hand over them.

The two most interesting things in the worldgen I encountered were

Dwarven monarch being elven werebeast (became one during elf's rule, if I remember well... and got subsequently removed from the position).

Dwarven queen who was 12 years old. (just became adult, got elected, at  which point the worldgen stopped)

[Khorinis]

In my current fort I've noticed that most of my statues and figurines are of a human named Tolis Dawnfocused, who apparently set out to hunt great beasts in the year of 29.

I figured I'd investigate further, since there weren't any engravings/statues of her doing anything else. It turns out that in the year 10, when she was 5, she was attacked by a thunderbird, and barely managed to escape. For the next several years she wandered about, until she eventually married and had several kids. Then one day, in 29, she figured she would try and hunt down the beast that attacked her. Spoiler alert: she failed. Kind of expected when she's going up against a megabeast.

Wait a minute, one of her kids has a title? Alright, lets see this. Threbe Petsoaked the Squeezing of Cacti. Heh... Anyways, she probably didn't know her mother that well, only being three when she left, but shared her mother's wanderlust, moving from town to town. Eventually, she settled down and married a man named Or Planesbited, and even became the warlord of a human civ. Why is her husband worth mentioning? Simple; one day, her husband became concerned with his own mortality, and left her. He found an apprenticeship with an experienced necromancer, and eventually became a master to another apprentice himself. He then spent years writing books in his tower until my adventurer came along and caved his skull in with one of his own poems. Oops.

Anyways, upon being abandoned by her husband, Threbe became enraged and profaned a temple, earning the ire of the gods and being forced to assume the form of a were-antelope. She spent years terrorizing lands, eating livestock but never successfully killing anyone, despite her best efforts. Until the year 103, where... Oh. She was the one that attacked my fort, and was killed by a recruit that was conscripted just because he was the closest to her at the time. Some warlord she turned out to be, getting killed by an unarmed milker.

There are also a lot of statues of another human, Ol Blazedcrew, who set out to "hunt great beasts", but because that was 2 years before world gen ended, he never actually killed anything outside of a few random animals. Though he did survive an encounter with a Bronze Colossus that left his leg mangled beyond recognition.

Was it a coincidence that your adventurer killed him or did, you try to kill him after you read the legends mode entries? :O

[BlackFlyme]

Was it a coincidence that your adventurer killed him or did, you try to kill him after you read the legends mode entries? :O

Coincidence. There was only one necromancer tower in the world, so the chances of me not killing him in the pursuit of the secrets of life and death were slim.

I hadn't actually checked legends mode until losing two forts after retiring my adventurer.

[Julien Brightside]

I, too, have seen my share of homicidal vampires in the worldgen, but these days I just wave my hand over them.

The two most interesting things in the worldgen I encountered were

Dwarven monarch being elven werebeast (became one during elf's rule, if I remember well... and got subsequently removed from the position).

Dwarven queen who was 12 years old. (just became adult, got elected, at  which point the worldgen stopped)

So the dwarf got bit by an elf during a fullmoon?

That must be horrifying.

[Hetairos]

Hear the story of Datan Natureboulders.

The two youngest of his seven children immigrated to my fort, Wirejade: Urdim Laboredbristle, a bone carver, who most likely ended up slain by clowns, and Ingiz Scouredmachine, who became the first melee weaponlord in the fort, received the title of the Umbral Omen of Trade and kept on fighting and training even though a Forgotten Beast tore off his right arm. Urdim and Ingiz were born in 53 and 54 respectively, and have (or had) five more siblings. Datan became a general of the Whip of Beaches in 92. However, in the early autumn of 121 Ber the Sweltering Spine, the kea god of volcanoes and mountains, cursed him to become a werehedgehog. He did the same thing to two queens of the Whip of Beaches before. I guess there is a reason Ingiz doesn't worship any gods. Later on, Datan arrived at Wirejade, and I had him killed, knowing nothing about his past.

[Enemy post]

I found a guy named Ceru Fruitamber who worshiped a hill titan, then 11 years later attacked and killed it.

[PlayingGood]

Great thread!

Was considering making something like this myself.


I was taking orders from a deity named Mukca for awhile, completing quests.

Until i randomly looked into legends and found out he was a lizard demon (i was looking for dragons to slay, found him accidently) that breathes fire pretending to be a god.

It started in the year 2 and proceeded to  write books for 200+ years, currently in the year 218 and its still alive and writing books.


Reminded me of david icke rofl.

[snjwffl]

I've been waiting for a chance to tell this story to someone (though it's been long enough that I've forgotten the awesome narrative I had planned out, so please forgive the quality).  What follows is the tragic history of one of my marksdorfs (whom I made captain after I learned all this), Bomrek Olinrimtar.

As a child, Bomrek was abducted by a goblin.  Shortly thereafter his captor kidnapped another dwarf, Momuz, and the two became friends.  Many years later the two finally obtained their freedom, and they went their separate ways.  Momuz settled in a small dwarven outpost and became a farmer.  Two years later, he was reunited with his parents when they fled their old hometown due to a goblin raid.  Driven by a sense of duty, he became a ranger; the next year he joined in his civilization's retaliatory strike.  The target was the goblin civilization's largest fortress, and the attackers were outnumbered two-to-one.  Many dwarves had already died by the time the goblin's general came out.  Knowing that the one responsible for his family's pain was upon the battlefield, Bomrek charged forward, killing nine goblins before reaching their leader.  However, once he laid eyes upon that monster Bomrek froze, for what he saw was not a filthy goblin, but... a friend.  It was Momuz, the kind dwarf with whom he grew up.  Bomrek wondered what could have happened to Momuz, and who could have been responsible for his actions.  But he knew it didn't matter.  What stood before him was not a dwarf, but an enemy.  And so Bomrek struck down Momuz.  Afterwards Bomrek returned to life as a farmer, and later emigrated to the glorious fortress WorthyBoulder, where he was, begrudgingly, drafted into the militia and quickly rose to the highest ranks [note: interestingly, before becoming an elite marksdorf the "irritated by the draft" and "long patrol duty" thoughts had him in a perpetually shitty mood, with far lower happiness than any of my other soldiers].

Though Bomrek would never learn of Momuz's life between their separation and fateful encounter, history did:  After escaping from GoblinCiv1, he joined GoblinCiv2.  He killed their general and took that position for himself.  With his newfound power he avenged his and Bomrek's pain and obliterated GoblinCiv1, leaving not a soul alive.  However, with this power came responsibility-- responsibility towards those he led.  GoblinCiv2 had been in a perpetual state of war with the neighboring dwarven civilization for decades, and Momuz couldn't change this.  Perhaps feeling a tinge of guilt, he chose to attack only a small outpost and brought only a very small force [note:this force really was about an order of magnitude smaller than any of GoblinCiv2's other recent attacks].  Ironically, this choice is what led him to damnation.

[Mr Space Cat]

Not from vanilla gameplay, but it was an interesting turn of events none the less. The result of modding a barbaric war-mongering race of beast-men named trollocks. I set the population to be 50% bandits at any given time, which ended up meaning that right at the start of worldgen, 50% of the race began as bandits. More interesting, as the 50% that remained had children, those children turned to banditry.

The general lifespan of any random trollock played out as so, edited for the sake of ease to read:

"So and So" was a trollock. "So and So" was one of the first of their kind.
In the year 1, "So and So" gave birth to the trollock "Firstborn Son of So and So".
In the year 6, "So and So" was murdered by the trollock "Firstborn Son of So and So".

Yeah. The race died out very early in worldgen because everyone was being killed by one another. Even the parents got killed by their own children. In fact, most of them got killed by their children. That was an unforeseen consequence, and it was pretty great to see. Totally not intended, and I had to tweak the race so they'd survive longer than the first 25 years, but still funny to see that play out on it's own in the DF engine.