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[Mesa]

So, I generated a pocket world with a short history, average amount of sites and civilizations and other things that would make it a relatively smooth (for my PC) world to experience.

Because I never play Fortress mode, I went straight into Adv. Mode as a dwarf named Bomrek Ethabber "Rinseearth", your average axedwarf superhero demigod. I've been plunged into the only currently existing dwarven fortress, Likotsefol "Inkentered".

While wandering around the place I found some interesting things such a cheese store (from which I promptly stole a few pieces), but I was I was on the lookout for a lonely dwarf/goblin (since this was a dwarven-goblin fortress apparently) for me to horribly murder without anyone else's knowledge.
Finally, an opportunity arises. I prepare myself to strangle the poor dwarf when I suddenly realize it's Zefon Tunodor "Doorroot", the king of The Glaze of Rubbing (ie. the only dwarven civ around).

So I decide to take this further - murder the king, spread the news and claim myself as the new lord. So I proceed to wrestle the monarch, but he refuses to be strangled, so I pull out my weapons and hack his neck off, much to nobody's acknowledgement, despite his cries for help. I then carry the corpse away into a small nearby bedroom and butcher him there for the sake of it, because apparently people weren't all that impressed when I showed them his butchered remains.

Much to my surprise I wasn't met with much opposition, except for the occasional spits in my direction from people like the captain of the guard or a human (I think) diplomat. Otherwise people seem to either react with "It is terrifying." or "It was inevitable.", which may imply that he wasn't the best king around...Either way, I decided to change the name of the site to Boatmurdered (totally not related to the probably most famous succession game in DF's history), though it still remains as Inkentered in the legends mode. I then retired, and the history ends here for now.

What will happen next? I'm not sure. I will probably make another adventurer and visit the fortress again, 2 weeks forward, to see where things stand and if my previous character is still alive.
Also this reaction felt kinda ignorant when I heard it:



What I also did was give the stolen pieces of cheese (along with a stolen scimitar) to a nearby peasant and see what happens to him - if the original owner(s) of said items are now going to go after him, I think we may have some low-level framing in the game.

[Mesa]

Right, so after doing some retiring, picking another adventurer, killing off said adventurer and unretiring Gomrek, I've noticed something weird:

I occasionally talk to myself, primarily about the murder of the king. But when I come in contact with others, my character seems to either run away on his own and also talk to others, also without my input.


Did Toady just implement insanity in this game?

Now I've run back to my initial spawn bedroom and I'm talking to myself every step...
What the actual fuck?

EDIT:

This is really weird but cool, it's like my character has a split personality disorder or something...What is this?

[Wumpi]

Right, so after doing some retiring, picking another adventurer, killing off said adventurer and unretiring Gomrek, I've noticed something weird:

I occasionally talk to myself, primarily about the murder of the king. But when I come in contact with others, my character seems to either run away on his own and also talk to others, also without my input.


Did Toady just implement insanity in this game?

Now I've run back to my initial spawn bedroom and I'm talking to myself every step...
What the actual fuck?

EDIT:

This is really weird but cool, it's like my character has a split personality disorder or something...What is this?

I've experienced the same problem. It happened after murdering 36 unarmed goblins in a tower. Unarmed non-hostile goblins that made no attempt to defend themselves. When my character became sentient, she kept muttering things like "It was inevitable" and "It's terrible" and the various messages about fighting and death that you can hear villagers shout.

[Mesa]

Well, the king I murdered also was unarmed and couldn't really do much...
And now I can't leave this room (and when I retire this character he simply disappears for whatever reason when I try to visit the same place as another character).

This is so cool but it also ruins so many cool things I wanted to do. ;_;

[Mesa]

Okay, this has taken a very odd and buggy turn.
Because I'm constantly being pushed back into my room, trying to go anywhere is nigh imposssible once you meet someone. But if I manage to go to via a corridor to the bottom right of the spawning room, which IIRC leads into another site (or a world map tile...I think?), then something weird happens...

...I don't know even know how to explain it, but the character @ will switch positions between the original position in the hallway and a wall on the far left of the screen every couple of seconds. You can't move or do any other actions anymore in this state and while it doesn't crash the game, retiring the character is the only reasonable option.

I guess I should have uploaded this to File Depot instead but I don't even know how to word this bug in a way that doesn't make me sound like I can't speak English.
Uh...Sorry for that.

(It has happened to me before after doing those actions, so it's reproducible once you enter this "insane" state):

- pick Bomrek from Likotsefol
- walk out of the bedroom
- go to bottom right
-

I'm still not entirely sure what caused Bomrek to become "insane" like that in the first place, but IIRC killing unarmed civilian people can lead to this. (see Wumpi's post) I'm guessing that this "insanity" itself is an intended feature (seeing as it happened under similar circumstances and is overall logical, a mental breakdown) but this isn't.

[FallenAngel]

Goblin Mason has been struck down.
You have gone insane!

EDIT: ...why does he vanish from time to time?
IS HE A GHOST?
IS HE BEING ATTACKED BY ARMOK?

[Kamamura]

"I am a little angry." - best reaction to killing a king EVER. I  know this new version will be hilarious...

[KiBoy]

"I am a little angry." - best reaction to killing a king EVER. I  know this new version will be hilarious...

IT WAS INEVITABLE - Urist, Dwarf Fortress 2014

[Klitri]

It indeed does make sense, killing innocents would deal a toll on our minds. However I don't understand the other thing.. Strange..

[Blastbeard]

What's your adventurer's empathy level? Considering how sissified people have become, I'm wondering if removing points from that attribute to play as an emotionally dead sociopath is the way to go this release. We've been hardening our fortress dwarves against this sort of thing for years, maybe it's time to apply it adventurers too.

[FallenAngel]

LET'S USE EMPATHY AS A DUMP STAT.
ANALYTICAL ABILITY, YOU'RE OUT, SINCE YOU SOUND ALMOST USEFUL.

[RealFear]

What's your adventurer's empathy level? Considering how sissified people have become, I'm wondering if removing points from that attribute to play as an emotionally dead sociopath is the way to go this release. We've been hardening our fortress dwarves against this sort of thing for years, maybe it's time to apply it adventurers too.

Empathy won't make people less scared, it doesn't decrease your emotions. It only decreases your ability to sense the emotions of others. (IRL)
Maybe it could decrease chances of running if somebody goes "enraged", but he'll get the message after the arms go flying.
If anything, it would be hurtful, because they might run in a battle, and keep running even if the enemy starts running.
Though at this moment its not that complex of a interaction.

[EnigmaticHat]

Try granting your lordship title to someone else?  Or do the same thing with a new character (kill your current guy) and don't unretire them.  Maybe that won't cause the glitch.

Also I believe that "Boatmurdered" is now the name of your new government, not the name of the site.

[Blastbeard]

In the older versions, if a creature witnesses enough death, they get the 'doesn't care about anything anymore' personality trait, which makes them pretty much immune to tantrum spirals and other morale disasters. I know for a fact it applies to adventurers too, and they can gain it just from killing hostiles. I don't know if it's still in, but if it is, adventurers may shut up about all the horrors they've seen some time before or after the four hundredth kill.

[Zale]

I think this is a bug that stems from attempting to play a retired adventurer. I've had that bug out a few adventurers.