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[golemgunk]

Has anyone found one? I can see in the legends that there is a "vault" somewhere in the world, where a slab and weird stuff is stored, but I have no idea how to find the place.

[99Hedgehog]

Note the name and try to find it on the map in Legends. That's the best I can come up with.

[Arx]

Well, I just found one. I am under the impression that exploring it will crash my game. On a scale of one to ten, how badly do I want to explore/avoid it?

Edit: Spoilers hereafter!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ooh, stylish slade block wall.
It's rough. I'm gonna climb it.
Wow, these are high. On the roof now. Heard whistling once on my way up. Stopping to eat and drink.
Hm, I think I should draw my weapons. And discard my shield. Don't want to crash now!
Visual stealth: Average. I'm grateful for the pouring rain and fog now.
What the heck is a wolverine doing up here? It's standing next to the edge looking outward.
The vault is a circle with a rectangle sticking off one side. I'll post a screenshot.

The purple 'w' is the wolverine. How did it even get there?
I've hopped a level down the side of the rectangle. I can see a single-tile wide doorway just below the top-left corner of the rectangle.
Went inside. The rectangle is an entrance hall with a single tile of fllor around a hole.
Lek's Spirit Axelord, two thereof, at the bottom of a one-Z-deep pit. Also a 'Worker Of War (Tame)'
Okay, the axelords have *jagged pale metal battleaxes*, *square pale metal shields*, and +<<*large bell shaped never-still cloth skirts*>>+, and more normal clothing. Gonna kite one with some loam.
Drat. The only way down is a hatch, and it's squarely in the cone of vision of one. I threw a flower at one, I don't think it noticed.
This new sneak system certainly allows one to pull out all the stops. I have Great visual stealth without skill. I don't know if I can open the hatch silently.
Got down the stairs. I got in sight range of one of the axe lords, and died instantly. GG, Lek.

Edit²: I decided it was worthwhile. I'l keep putting it in this post for continuity, though.

[golemgunk]

Well, I just found one. I am under the impression that exploring it will crash my game. On a scale of one to ten, how badly do I want to explore/avoid it?

I'd do it, just to see what that slab does. Expect powerful enemies, though, in another thread some procedural "guardians" were found in the text dump, and they may be equipped with the weird new metals

[Arx]

I'm exploring it now. I decided to make a demigod to try to see maximum feature for minimum die, so I've got Adept in axe and a level or two in nearly every combat skill. I'll see how it goes.

Edit: You are deceased. My word that was fast. One of them spotted me after I got down the stairs, and then I died pretty much instantly.

[golemgunk]

would you mind uploading the save so I can try?

[Arx]

Be my guest.

I think the save has bugged out somehow now, though. DF crashes in the two weeks of world gen.

[golemgunk]

wow I actually just managed to find my own.

adventures within:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(I'm using a mod I made to make my adventurer super strong so I can stand a chance here)

a floor hatch in the entrance leads downward

at the bottom, I am accosted by "Soldier of Gicast" Oera Eumoukuy

(Gicast, of course, is the human godess associated with song, chaos, and war who once aided the ape monster Stozu Dustmenace the Hateful Lie in becoming a permanent part of the living world to sow the seeds of chaos therein)

the soldier's steamy body breaks easily under my blade, leaving behind its bizarre collection of equipment


the next room holds Hand of Gicast

the hand carries no equipment

this place is terrifying

there are a lot of these guys wow

another floor hatch takes me to a passage blocked by slade bars. a nearby lever opens the way.
the path ahead has a few more levers, but few of them appear to be connected to anything. I pull them just to be safe

after a lot of fighting, I finally reach the end: the aluminum slab sits atop a high slope


Interacting with the slab causes you to read aloud the inscription, but as far as I can tell it has no special effects

[RealFear]

I'm exploring it now. I decided to make a demigod to try to see maximum feature for minimum die, so I've got Adept in axe and a level or two in nearly every combat skill. I'll see how it goes.

Edit: You are deceased. My word that was fast. One of them spotted me after I got down the stairs, and then I died pretty much instantly.

Putting a level into every skill that you may or may not use is a really bad idea.
Infact my adventurers tend to be high master in one weapon category (or occasionally wrestler), and have a level in swimmer, observer, and reader.
I used a similar setup in 34.11 to actually once reach grand-master dodger by simply fighting guys going quest to quest, my swings didn't miss, and people in agony don't aim well.

[misko27]

PTW

[FallenAngel]

I advise putting skill into one weapon skill - axe or swords is probably the most efficient for INFINITE MURDERIZATIONS.
Fighter and Wrestler will go up pretty fast.

[Arx]

I meant I had a point in dodge, and one in armour user, and one in wrestler because it seems like it sould help those occasional throat grabs, and so on.

My current attempt to find a vault is somewhat delayed due to being lost in a wartime dwarf fortress.

[AirPhforce]

Very curious to see where this leads.

[Archereon]

I suspect it might become the only way to kill a named demon; destroying the slab that binds them to the mortal plane.

[Arcvasti]

This is, in a word, terrifying terrific.