That reminds me about this "random god of death" idea... with a 1% chance of a random death every year. I never modded that in.
I feel that DF
already has this. I remember when one of my brave orcs falling in battle, being rescued, and spending a month slipping in and out of unconsciousness in the hospital. When she finally awoke to find her wounds tended to, she went back into military service, the enemy still lurked outside the gates.
Not long after, she was on a missing to displace a small number of humans that were camping near the raider's dock. She dealt with them admirably, and then rather than returning to the safety of the camp walls, she instead goes charging across the map, directly into the drow invasion force camped well to the west, while the rest of her squad returned home.
Surprised, I looked at the units display. "Seeking missing infant", it read. Then I recalled that yes, she had a child, and yes, it was carried into battle when she first fell.
My brave orc plunges into the amassed forces of the drow. Despite taking many wounds, she continues her trail of carnage with parental fury. However she dodged too close to the edge of a pond, losing her footing and slipping in. The drow surrounded her, and yet she still sliced at their ankles, before a spear strike to the head knocked her out for good.
Amazed by the single-mindedness she had in rescuing her child, I checked to see its location.
It was in the dining hall, admiring an engraving of a mole-weasel. Nobody had told her that her child had been rescued from the preceding fray...
~ T
