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[Max™]

"If you live, say it was [Somebunch of Bastards]!"

[TheFlame52]

*game suddenly stops*
*you're dropped out of fast travel*
*an alert pops up*

Kilishreembus!

Ah, the nostalgia.

[Random_Dragon]

I miss that shit, yeah.

I also miss quests. ;w;

[therahedwig]

I miss that shit, yeah.

I also miss quests. ;w;

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=154579.msg6660840#msg6660840 this bodes well then.

[Silverybearded]

*game suddenly stops*
*you're dropped out of fast travel*
*an alert pops up*

Kilishreembus!

Ah, the nostalgia.

Care to explain for those who haven't been around since the forging of time?

[Nopenope]

Kobold ambush. They can speak but they have the [UTTERANCES] creature token which prevents them from having a proper language of their own, so they only garble gibberish.

Here's a way to generate such gibberish, for the record (taken from the wiki):

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

import random
 
def kobold():
    vowels = ['a','i','o','u']
    penvowels = ['a','o','u','ay','ee','i']
    frontcluster = ['b', 'br', 'bl', 'd', 'dr', 'dl', 'st', 'str', 'stl', 'shl'] + ['su','k','su','p','l', 'lr','sh', 'j', 'jr', 'thl']
    cluster = ['b', 'd', 'l', 'f', 'g', 'k']
    fincluster = ['m', 'r', 'ng', 'b', 'rb', 'mb', 'g', 'lg', 'l', 'lb', 'lm']
    finsyl = ['is', 'us', 'ex1', 'ex2']
    first = 1
    syl = random.randint(0, 3)+1
    firstname = ""
    vowel = random.choice(vowels)
    while syl > 0:
        if syl == 1:
            vowel = random.choice(penvowels)
        if first == 1 or syl == 1:
            firstname = firstname + random.choice(frontcluster)
            first = 0
        else:
            firstname = firstname + random.choice(cluster)
        firstname = firstname + vowel
        syl = syl - 1
    firstname = firstname + random.choice(fincluster)
    fin = random.choice(finsyl)
    if fin == 'ex1':
        if vowel == 'o' or vowel == 'ay' or vowel == 'u' or vowel == 'a':
            fin = 'er'
        else:
            fin = 'is'
    elif fin == 'ex2':
        if vowel == 'o' or vowel == 'ay' or vowel == 'u' or vowel == 'a':
            fin = 'in'
        else:
            fin = 'us'
    firstname = firstname + fin
    return firstname

[Silverybearded]

I, for one, would like a weapon generator, although I'm just thinking of more hilt designs for swords or engraved blades, or even battle axes with more than one blade (and then to figure out how this would affect combat).

[thvaz]

Do you plan to come back with quests or assignments in adventure mode in any way?

It is impossible to know how to build good reputation with a entity just following rumors. Killing bandits harassing a hamlet cause people to call you a killer. Kill a vampire and people will call you murderer.

[jaked122]

Or you could be a legendary singer and have people love you for a purely positive action.


Are there any plans to expand upon the information given about books, poems, music, etc?

[Random_Dragon]

Do you plan to come back with quests or assignments in adventure mode in any way?

This. Hell yes. I asked exactly this and suggested a few ideas how how it could work, at least UI-wise, a page or two ago.

[thvaz]

Or you could be a legendary singer and have people love you for a purely positive action ]

It's impossible to be a hero just singing.

[Silverybearded]

Or you could be a legendary singer and have people love you for a purely positive action ]

It's impossible to be a hero just singing.

The dwarven language does not know the word "impossible".
Maybe you're not trying hard enough.

[Max™]

*a door slams open, blasts of blood-soaked snow outlining a hulking figure clothed in polar bear hides and goblin bone armor staggers in, dropping a pack full of scrolls and books and musical instruments on the floor*

*her lips crack, and a gravelly voice begins to croak out as chunks of frozen vomit fall to the floor from her long double braided beard*

TOADY! Did ye' fix the random bard-and-poet-murderin'?

I mean, yes, it is more fitting for people to show up and perform and hang out and socialize without biting each other to death while shanking their neighbors... but dang.

Edit:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ok, it was just a really weirdly peaceful town I was in, but I found another town that had the proper amount of random murdering.

[TheFlame52]

Will settled dwarves ever leave the fortress for any reason? Like, say, an accused vampire fleeing justice? Or your dwarves fleeing a tyrannical overseer?

[Daniel the Finlander]

Will settled dwarves ever leave the fortress for any reason? Like, say, an accused vampire fleeing justice? Or your dwarves fleeing a tyrannical overseer?

Toady has talked about emigration before. It will be added at some point, probably after player fortresses can interact with hillocks, which will be possible after the starting scenarios update. Dwarves will leave the fortress if they are unhappy.