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[Urist McVoyager]

If that's an option!

But no, I kid. Next is actually a new adventurer. Aiming for another Tigerman like the last time. I love playing as those guys. I learned from the Jaguarman that I love dual wielding, so this time I'm going straight up double axes to save on skill points. I'm putting points into ax, armor, and dodge, eschewing shields since I'm doubling weapons. Going to also invest in bone carving and appraisal as well as the usual smattering of reading, swimming, and observation. I loved my little Kaijit dragonborn so much I want to play this next one exactly like my Skyrim campaigns: as a self-supplying merchant who sets up a base camp and goes from town to town wheeling and dealing.

Where does lesser dragon bone and tooth weigh in on weapon effectiveness? Gotta say, the only things I really killed myself were sleeping humans, and that lesser dragon tooth sword didn't seem to perform to my ideal specs. Didn't like how the shale ax did either, but that was expected since it was a stone ax, and we humans switched to metals for a reason in real life.

[Random_Dragon]

I added skulls as a guitar body option for exactly that reason, it's funny.

And they're just mid-tier like a lot of critters, any +tier stone should be close to it if I recall, while it's megabeast/titan/etc where you get the ultra-tough ++ stuff.

[Urist McVoyager]

Okay, well, I didn't manage to get a Tiger Man, but I did get a Lion Man. Not quite as awesome, but awesome enough. Sadly, I haven't been sent against any dragons or anything. I've killed a few Lords/Ladies/Recruits of the beastman varieties, been ambushed with allies by a small horde of ten hyenas we slew with minor injuries. I made them into armor, clothing, and containers but not much else. Filled my pack with food and my skins with water at least. Won't starve between battles! And we just slew a giant who did nothing but run away until we got enough hits in on him that he knew he needed to fight back or die a coward. He died, but not as easily as he could have.

I'm dual wielding a battle ax and a halberd. XD This is fun, though I'm realizing that hitting with one thing at a time is better. Just means I slash with the halberd til it lodges, then strike with the ax until it, too, lodges.

[Urist McVoyager]

Being an ax berserker makes having an army that much more important. We were able to take out a dragon as a team effort, with all of us doing our part to bleed the thing out. I replaced my helmet, armor, and greaves with ++dragon gear, and grabbed the teeth, claw, and heart for later. I've already distilled the heart down to an essence of draconic fury, so there's that.

[Random_Dragon]

Nice. Being able to breathe fire is definitely a good advantage. X3

[Urist McVoyager]

o.o Is that what the essence does? Holy shit. I figured it was a rage or strength thing. It lets you breathe fire? Dude, that is fucking metal! But damn, I don't wanna waste that on anything I can kill with weapons alone. I want the skill building. Might wanna use it on Vault Dwellers or something. Any idea how long it lasts?

ETA: Nope, looked it up. Willpower boosting and trance inducement. Still useful, without being an overkill ability.

[Urist McVoyager]

Is there a way to kill a shoggoth with sharp weapons? Because I'm up against one and just can't win no matter how much I slash and stab my way into it. I know, "Blunt weapons and pulping!" but I'm a sharps expert in this campaign.

[Random_Dragon]

o.o Is that what the essence does? Holy shit. I figured it was a rage or strength thing. It lets you breathe fire? Dude, that is fucking metal! But damn, I don't wanna waste that on anything I can kill with weapons alone. I want the skill building. Might wanna use it on Vault Dwellers or something. Any idea how long it lasts?

ETA: Nope, looked it up. Willpower boosting and trance inducement. Still useful, without being an overkill ability.

Odd. There should be a "can do interaction" effect in the syndrome too, willpower and traces is ooold effect, back before I realized I could make it temporarily grant fire-breathing.

Is there a way to kill a shoggoth with sharp weapons? Because I'm up against one and just can't win no matter how much I slash and stab my way into it. I know, "Blunt weapons and pulping!" but I'm a sharps expert in this campaign.

That's actually good, sharp weapons can cleave parts asunder, and in fact it's immune to blunt weapons for reasons I keep forgetting to fix. Because making blob monsters neither squishy NOR unkillable is annoyingly difficult, it's a bit of a puzzle boss...

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The tendrils have the PREVENTS_PARENT_COLLAPSE token, which means the body can't be pulped until the four tendrils are pulped first. Note that in older versions of the 43.05 version of the mod, tissue healing rates are evidently faster than they were when I balanced shoggoths around this idea, making them bad about regenerating tendrils before you could land the killing blow. This should be fixed now.

[Urist McVoyager]

Okay, then I'll give it a few more goes in save scumming. I was thinking I'd need to retreat from this one, report a failure, and go on to other missions. Knowing what I know now . . . this should get better.

ETA: It takes three steps for the Essence to kick in, and it indeed does give the power of fire breath. I'm roasting that fucker alive as we speak.

[Random_Dragon]

A little belatedly, niiice. Even after I gave the essences the syndrome effect that makes their effects trigger instantly, some effects are annoying incompatible with

Side note, finally fixed the whole "can't kill shoggoths with blunt weapons" thing.

[Urist McVoyager]

Awesome. I Roy Mustanged that shoggoth out of existence and then got sent against other things. Kind of irked that doing it that way doesn't count as a proper kill for rumors, but the mission was completed anyway. Right now I'm in a town dungeon trying to see if it connects to the catacombs where a criminal organization lurks. I don't have climbing skill yet, so going the direct way is a pain in the ass.

[Urist McVoyager]

I made a new adventurer. A hamster woman with singing and stringing skills. She has a self-made saguaro guitar and several songs to sing. After bouncing around the country side singing and swiping goods, she's in a town. She traded in every spare item for about 60 gold coins. Then spent four on leeks and she's now in a tavern, deciding if she wants to spring two more coins for a room and some booze. She could get five mugs of raspberry wine for the remainder of the second coin.

I love this game. Even when you're not violent there's stuff to do.

[Urist McVoyager]

I can definitely say that until Toady expands the crafting parts of Adventure mode, I am never playing that without this mod again.

It's nice to be able to build your own equipment to your specs instead of having to roam around hoping you can find the right things. Especially if you're playing a non-standard character like one of the big cat people.

[Random_Dragon]

Ah, thank you. And yeah, awkward-sized characters are a big reason for adventurer crating mods in genera these days, I suspect. That, and for worlds deliberately generated to be Monster Islands or otherwise outsider-only. Though now you have to mod to ensure such a world won't be legends-only.

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what all I can do with the stuff Toady has planned for next update. If anything, the rework to kobold caves is likely going to be more interesting to me than the whole "you can fight over fancy named items" thing, since both my released mods allow playing as kobolds in some fashion.

[Urist McVoyager]

I'm more interested in the possibility of display stands. I could build a temple to a god of the Hunt or something, and display all the skulls of my kills as totems.

Totally doing that in a way with my current hunter character, Ases. His name literally translates out to Danger Clawpelt, and he's a Jaguar Man. Can you tell I love the big cat folk? I might make a thread about him in the future if he does much of note. Right now he's working on his lodge and hunting for food and crafts. My hamster woman bard taught me how to work the merchant system and I'm going to use that to get rich. So much leather between seven of the other nine kills I made giving up leather (minus one made for his spear-quiver) and I just took down a six-wolf pack with no injuries.