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[zazq]

funny you should say that puppyguard.  you are the only dwarfed necromancer.

[zazq]

Winter 54 “Histories of the Great Culling”

I have decided that this necromancer book is no good.  Now we have dwarves wandering about talking about the secrets of life and death, and just no good can come of that.  I have ordered the book forbidden behind a locked door near the library.  Now we only have to figure out what to do with all these necromancer dwarves...

Cursecheck indicates that we have 10 necromancers, including our doctor, legendary brewer, and humorously enough, puppyguard.  I’ve burrowed them in the corner of the map and locked the door.  They also now all have the profession “4 Necromancer” for ease of identification.  I also stuck Sodel in there because i don’t trust that guy.

We have a Divine Fabric musical instrument that’s worth all of the money sitting in the depot and i can’t get it moved for the life of me.  Can someone deal with that?

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Necromancer book, sealed away near the library. Layer -1.

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New cave-adaptation free barracks. Layer -1.

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Layer -12 complex.  Tavern, hospital, food and drink storage.

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Necromancer Storage, layer -10.

Dear diary, this year I ZAZ QUELL THE COMBAT EPISTEMOLOGIST have significantly advance our efforts from caravan to happy dwarves.  I have helped to defeat ettins and become necromancers.  I have dug holes and made doors.  It was a good year.

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SAVE: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12903

[Derpy Dev]

Thanks zazq. I needed to hear your all-caps motivation. Thanks.

In other news, why is everyone not a necromancer? We have an opportunity here to make an all necro fort. Literally everyone can be a necromancer. We can have a pet zombie forgotten beast. WHY DO YOU NOT WANT THIS?

[Puppyguard]

Zazq... how could you let me become a necromancer?
WHY?
Maybe my dwarf has a child of some sort that can succeed me.
_{doubt it.}

Can't wait for my turn!

Also, having a pet zombie forgotten beast would be cool, but would not let us trade with caravans or receive immigrants.

[MrLurkety]

Zazq... how could you let me become a necromancer?
WHY?
Maybe my dwarf has a child of some sort that can succeed me.
_{doubt it.}

Can't wait for my turn!

Also, having a pet zombie forgotten beast would be cool, but would not let us trade with caravans or receive immigrants.

Just lock it in a room.

[Derpy Dev]

Can't wait for my turn!

Also, having a pet zombie forgotten beast would be cool, but would not let us trade with caravans or receive immigrants.

Just lock it in a room.

Would be difficult without mechanisms. Transport would require some creature logic witchcraft.

We must have a necro fort. WE NEED THIS IN OUR LIVES.

[MrLurkety]

Can I have a turn and dwarf? Not much experience with succession games, so expect this to go horribly wrong.
But that's just part of the !!FUN!!, isn't it?
Anyway, here's a zip of the latest save.

[MrLurkety]

Can't wait for my turn!

Also, having a pet zombie forgotten beast would be cool, but would not let us trade with caravans or receive immigrants.

Just lock it in a room.

Would be difficult without mechanisms. Transport would require some creature logic witchcraft.

We must have a necro fort. WE NEED THIS IN OUR LIVES.

Just drop the corpse in the room before it's reanimated. Boom. Problem solved.

[zazq]

Pretty sure it's hun's turn.  The order is something like:

zazq > hun > puppyguard > derpydev >

If hun doesn't show up, we should give mrlurky a turn i think.

[Derpy Dev]

Pretty sure it's hun's turn.  The order is something like:

zazq > hun > puppyguard > derpydev >

If hun doesn't show up, we should give mrlurky a turn i think.

That makes sense.

If hun does show up though, mrLurkety is getting added to the queue.

[hun]

So, then I do the turn, and then MrLurkety, right?
I'll do in the few next days.

PS. I also like the idea of necro-fortress. Not sure if I'll venture in the end though...

[zazq]

It seems like the dwarves that were going to read the book did so almost instantly.  By the time i noticed it we had like 10 necromancers.  I left it unforbidden for most of the year and hardly any other necromancers were created.  So getting more dwarves to read is would be a problem.  Perhaps we could make all the necromancers into scholars and they'd make more books about life and death, and maybe more books could encourage more reading? 

The wiki seems to indicate that dwarves with a 0 in Reader can't read.  Its a skill you can train on embarking dwarves, but therapist doesn't list it, least i can't figure out how to make it.

Also it is probably the case that fortress dwarf necromancers make uncontrolled undead when they animate things, which is probably bad.  They'd get into combat, panic and animate things, and those things would attack them, making them panic and animate more things, and so on. 

Maybe it doesn't though.  I've never played with fortress dwarf necromancers so do some science and figure this stuff out. 

[Derpy Dev]

It seems like the dwarves that were going to read the book did so almost instantly.  By the time i noticed it we had like 10 necromancers.  I left it unforbidden for most of the year and hardly any other necromancers were created.  So getting more dwarves to read is would be a problem.  Perhaps we could make all the necromancers into scholars and they'd make more books about life and death, and maybe more books could encourage more reading? 

The wiki seems to indicate that dwarves with a 0 in Reader can't read.  Its a skill you can train on embarking dwarves, but therapist doesn't list it, least i can't figure out how to make it.

Also it is probably the case that fortress dwarf necromancers make uncontrolled undead when they animate things, which is probably bad.  They'd get into combat, panic and animate things, and those things would attack them, making them panic and animate more things, and so on. 

Maybe it doesn't though.  I've never played with fortress dwarf necromancers so do some science and figure this stuff out.

So... the question is still, "can we make an all necro succession fort?" It will be challenging, as we will effectively have to quarantine vanillas so they do not get devoured by undead. And the children won't be necromancers because they won't learn how to read, am I right? Who else wants to turn this succession fort into a madhouse experiment on necromancers?

[hun]

One thing that bothers me, is that, to my knowledge, undeads do not attack the necromancer who created them, but can attack any other living beings (including other necromancers as well!).

They should not attack other undeads though. If only we could find a vampire, to make everyone in the fortress vampire necromancers!

[Puppyguard]

I think being a necromancer removes the living tag from a unit.