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[Zale]

Yep, tested out the genned metals in the area.

5 vs 5 dwarves kitted out in Adamant/Genned Metal with longswords, those in Adamant won handily, taking only one loss.

The 5 vs 5 of Adamant/Genned War Hammers has turned into an endless slog of tired beating followed by exhausted collapses. Those wielding the genned metals won eventually.

[PersonGuy]

Still has anybody found out what the slabs say and that is a bug if they don't do anything?

[Wimopy]

Still has anybody found out what the slabs say and that is a bug if they don't do anything?

Slabs say "I am (demon name), (demon name translated), once of the Underworld. By (god name with translation), I bind myself to this place."
Or well, that's what the slab I found says.
Even with practically invincible adventurers it takes a while to get to them. Especially with occasional crashes.


I believe most have similar writing on them. So far, the best use I found is smashing people with them. Translated, mine is actually named (the slab): Crushjewel, the Help of Driving. (They are all named before use, so I'm just doing what it says!)
Now here's where it gets interesting: the demon who made the slab and bound himself is called "Elo Takenrighteous". The demon calls himself Ithbiatal on the slab.
Elo, in the legends, is the master of a goblin civ and still alive. And stated to be a part of the living world that war might rage. He's doing a good job.

I'm going to see if I can get the slab to Elo. The legends say he rules from a slade spire. Though it's slightly fuzzy, I believe the goblin dark fortress capital was actually established because of that spire.
Elo has also tamed giant olms and giant rats during his trips to the underworld. This should be a fun trip.

EDIT:
I arrived to the master demon. Now here comes the epiphany:
The spoiler contains 3 pictures. Yes, it's a spoiler in a spoiler thread. Take a slab and talk to the demon that made it if you want to find out the truth for yourself.

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Now, remember that I had a problem with the demon having a different name on the slab? Turns out that's the plot of it all!

It's his true name, that's why there's a difference.

I saved and went ahead to see what each option does.
Banishing:

It just says that "(Demon name) has vanished.", leaves a puff of smoke and all their clothes. Mind you, my race is 100x human size and the clothes are still large for me. This thing was a beast that I just deleted from existence.
The legends simply say "In the early spring of 111, Elo (only first name!) vanished in Sinfultender. (the dark fortress)

Commanding:
Messed up. Made a copy of the save so I could view legends, but it was incomplete. Unuseable. There's another vault nearby, I'll try to get that slab and make my way to that other demon. 
No, I'm crashing now. Making a new world and hunting down andother slab/demon. Eh...

[PersonGuy]

Still has anybody found out what the slabs say and that is a bug if they don't do anything?

Slabs say "I am (demon name), (demon name translated), once of the Underworld. By (god name with translation), I bind myself to this place."
Or well, that's what the slab I found says.
Even with practically invincible adventurers it takes a while to get to them. Especially with occasional crashes.


I believe most have similar writing on them. So far, the best use I found is smashing people with them. Translated, mine is actually named (the slab): Crushjewel, the Help of Driving. (They are all named before use, so I'm just doing what it says!)
Now here's where it gets interesting: the demon who made the slab and bound himself is called "Elo Takenrighteous". The demon calls himself Ithbiatal on the slab.
Elo, in the legends, is the master of a goblin civ and still alive. And stated to be a part of the living world that war might rage. He's doing a good job.

I'm going to see if I can get the slab to Elo. The legends say he rules from a slade spire. Though it's slightly fuzzy, I believe the goblin dark fortress capital was actually established because of that spire.
Elo has also tamed giant olms and giant rats during his trips to the underworld. This should be a fun trip.

I do wonder how much importance it has like if there is something you can do with the slab to affect the demon or the slade spire in some way or one can get reward or power of some sort by using it for a specific purpose as i think toady wouldn't mention it specifically as a part of the spire for it just to be a statement of something you can find out through legends mode.

[Wimopy]

I do wonder how much importance it has like if there is something you can do with the slab to affect the demon or the slade spire in some way or one can get reward or power of some sort by using it for a specific purpose as i think toady wouldn't mention it specifically as a part of the spire for it just to be a statement of something you can find out through legends mode.

I updated my post with my findings so far as you posted. I added the slab's power in spoilers.
This is awesome.

[PersonGuy]

That is interesting.

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I wonder if there is some larger consequences to banishing the demon does that possibly confer some authority to you does it draw the ire of the god who they made the deal with could it possibly lead to something like the various inhabitants seeking you out to be killed and i wonder just what is the extant of the service the demon will provide?

[Wimopy]

That is interesting.

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I wonder if there is some larger consequences to banishing the demon does that possibly confer some authority to you does it draw the ire of the god who they made the deal with could it possibly lead to something like the various inhabitants seeking you out to be killed and i wonder just what is the extant of the service the demon will provide?

Then let's talk in spoilers:

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Goblins hated me by default. Even goblins of a dwarven civ attacked me in another save and I was soon fighting a dwarven countess.
Banishing the demon doesn't come up anywhere in legends except in the demon's history. Not on the slab, not in the adventurer's history.
I believe gods still don't give much of a damn about anything that happens.

I expect that commanding the demon simply means an extremely powerful companion. But I'll be frank: other than his size, the monster-type guard of his slab seemed more dangerous. Then again, demons can have instakill powers so I guess I was lucky he didn't just blast me away (my race is NOT syndrome-immune).

I'm working on getting that second slab. Worldgens like placing vaults in hard-to-reach places. That other world was ideal, as I only had to walk for about half a week in game to get to the demon. Too bad it's corrupted now.

[MagmaMcFry]

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I grabbed the slab I found earlier in this thread and visited a nearby demon. I bound him, and he said "Yes, master" and was my companion forevermore. It was a pain in the ass to get out of the dark fortress though, since he was suddenly scared of all the troll fishery workers in the fort, which in turn were scrambling up the walls just to get away from him. When I attacked some trolls, he didn't help me. Eventually I got him out of the fortress, but then he started going in all sorts of random directions except out of the site, and since I couldn't fast-travel in the goblin site, I tried out the companion army thing Toady mentioned and left the site by myself, hoping he'd follow me. Well, he didn't, and I'm currently scouring the countryside for any wandering armies and killing them all until one of them happens to be my pet demon again.

Also you should take care when talking to bound demons; the first conversation option is apparently always the "banish" option.

Screenshots, as usual

[Wimopy]

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I grabbed the slab I found earlier in this thread and visited a nearby demon. I bound him, and he said "Yes, master" and was my companion forevermore. It was a pain in the ass to get out of the dark fortress though, since he was suddenly scared of all the troll fishery workers in the fort, which in turn were scrambling up the walls just to get away from him. When I attacked some trolls, he didn't help me. Eventually I got him out of the fortress, but then he started going in all sorts of random directions except out of the site, and since I couldn't fast-travel in the goblin site, I tried out the companion army thing Toady mentioned and left the site by myself, hoping he'd follow me. Well, he didn't, and I'm currently scouring the countryside for any wandering armies and killing them all until one of them happens to be my pet demon again.

Also you should take care when talking to bound demons; the first conversation option is apparently always the "banish" option.

Screenshots, as usual

You beat me. Damn. Can't claim I'm the first player to

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tame a demon.

Ah well. Funny dialogue (spoiler!!!)

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Bring up journey together:

I like his enthusiasm. Too bad you can't chat to him with his true name. He uses the one in legends. Check the legends to see what they say.

Legends say:

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In the early spring of 5, Mothi joined with the adventurer Xaki Utteredrisks after being compelled to serve.

In the adveturer's legends, the same sentence is written, but the adventurer uses first name and the demon the full.

Artifact legends only list kills made with the slab.

[Alkhemia]

That pretty sweet we are starting to get into the whole

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Deal with the Devil kinda stuff,

I've always been a big fan of the

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True Name giving power over something

stuff.

[MaskedMiner]

Huh, cool. Though at the moment it seems kinda useless since

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demon leaders are kinda useless now. I mean, it appears that now everyone in leadership position has same AI, so demon and goblin masters act like other civilizations' nobles... So they runaway at sight of trouble even though they can kill everyone in the room. I know that from experience, I was trying to kill demon that kept running away in adventure mode until it got enraged after which demon master went straight for sleeping lady(of goblin civilization, dunno why demon's first target upon going berserk was to kill her own underlings :p), tore her upper body from bottom and threw it and one shotted me and my companion <_<

[Sergarr]

Wait, people can now throw things?

[MaskedMiner]

Wait, people can now throw things?

Let me fix that, I don't remember exactly what she did, but I think she punched or kicked her that hard that one hit tore upper torso from bottom and made it flew across the room.

[Wimopy]

Huh, cool. Though at the moment it seems kinda useless since

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demon leaders are kinda useless now. I mean, it appears that now everyone in leadership position has same AI, so demon and goblin masters act like other civilizations' nobles... So they runaway at sight of trouble even though they can kill everyone in the room. I know that from experience, I was trying to kill demon that kept running away in adventure mode until it got enraged after which demon master went straight for sleeping lady(of goblin civilization, dunno why demon's first target upon going berserk was to kill her own underlings :p), tore her upper body from bottom and threw it and one shotted me and my companion <_<

I dunno, the masters I encountered both ran at me boasting. Though I didn't give them a chance to escape.

[Jarod]

Just in case anyone wants to find an Underworld Spire (I didn't see anyone mention any) I found them in the centre of the dark pits near the goblin tower things but further in (I found them using Legends mode and seeing where the Demon ruled from and in what area it was), they're shaped similar to how the vaults are in your screenshot and they have long winding tunnels of what I assume are prison cells, you keep going down and then you get to this massive pit sort of thing that has holes that drop down further than my line of sight goes. These areas are filled with weapons just lying all over the place as well as crafts of differing quality. You can keep going even further down this long windy passage sort of thing that has no walls and sheer drops off to the sides, the stopped at different point and came to these sort of big room things that were just uninteresting and had entrances to paths that kept going down.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to go further than that because my character needed sleep and I was woken up (rather rudely I might add) to a crossbow bolt to the face. I assume they go all the way down to the underworld because there was no indication of the passage stopping.
If you go up from the ground you'll meet up with the demon and some weird dead end rooms and this massive room that was filled with just pillars.
I hope to go back and fully explore as a new character, will update when I reach the bottom.