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[SHAD0Wdump]

I have GOT to try that.  

[Dr. Melon]

Let's let the log speak for itself;

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The Peasant jumps up, roundhouse kicking You in the head with her right foot!
It is mangled!
Your nose has been badly bruised!
The Child releases the joint lock of The Child's left hand on Your left lower arm.
The Child kicks You in the head with his left foot!
The shot glances away.
The Diplomat kicks You in the left lower arm with his left foot!
It is mangled!
The Child scissor kicks You in the right lower arm with her left foot!
The shot glances away.
The Peasant swings, punching You in the lower body with her left hand!
It is mangled!
You vomit.
The Child roundhouse kicks You in the lower body with her left foot!
It explodes in gore!
You have been struck down.  

[Logical2u]

The longnose gar has been encased in ice.
The pike has been encased in ice.
The sturgeon has been encased in ice.
The pike has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
You have been encased in ice.

Then another three pages of frozen fish.

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Curse you instant seasons! I was busy slaughtering carp... and throwing their corspes at them...

[Asehujiko]

I built some realy nice surface farming spot(good forest at the feet of the mountains so i planned on using sun berries for everything) and the entire thing froze over with all my farmers in it in early winter because there was a pile of 1/2 water all over.

[Cthulhu]

My greatest failure was also my best character ever.  Every piece of armor he had was of the highest quality, same with his bronze two-handed sword(I always imagined it as a falchion for some reason), and he was a beast.  I can't remember his stats, but suffice it to say he went toe-to-toe with a goblin axelord and completely dismembered it without a scratch.  The failure part was when it crashed, and I lost like twenty minutes of gameplay.  This didn't bother me too much, as I had to get off anyway.  (Here comes the fail) I went to save, but in my constant state of hurrying, I accidentally starved him to death, and didn't close it in time to save him.

The greatest failure I've ever witnessed was also on that character, he climbed to the top of a goblin tower, and was faced with the swordmaster of the tower, and at least ten lesser goblins.  I thought for a second I might actually have a challenge.  The swordmaster worried me quite a bit, as I had never fought one on this character, and didn't know if he was up to it.  I threw a spear to initiate combat, and hit him in the chest, piercing both lungs and his heart and becoming imbedded.  The rest of the battle was spent mopping up the goblins as their leader crawled around at the fringe of the battle, bleeding everywhere.  Epic fail on the goblin's part.

[Aqizzar]

Have to try that townie free-for-all.  I didn't know Companion worked with Adventure mode.

My worst death ever, that didn't involve drowning, was an awesome human swordsman.  Didn't reach legendary in anything, but I did manage to very slowly wrestle a hydra to death.

Then, while trying to find to a minotaur to ruin his day, my heart was pierced by a naked mole dog.  I tore him limb from limb, drank my water, then lay in the corner to await the end.

Since then, I've had an irrational hatred/fear of the things, and when I find them I like to practice up my wrestling by breaking everything I can.  And searched out a cavern in Fortress mode just to kill a bunch with a cave-in.

[Cthulhu]

You probably could've just traveled, I'm pretty sure it cures any wound except dismemberment.

[Aqizzar]

quote:You probably could've just traveled, I'm pretty sure it cures any wound except dismemberment.

I'm pretty sure it said I couldn't travel with a mortal wound.  I could be wrong though, it was a while ago and I'd just gotten into Adventuring.  Regardless, I know thought the epic ignomity of it was cooler than just magic-ing it away, otherwise I would have just save-scummed.

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, I've done that before with a companion, when they were still in the game, he had a mortal wound from a werewolf, and we just stood around him in the tundra and waited for him to die.

[Anfold]

quote:Originally posted by Cthulhu:
<STRONG>You probably could've just traveled, I'm pretty sure it cures any wound except dismemberment.</STRONG>

You can't travel if you are bleeding.  

For fun I made a massive tower (about 10 levels high) supported by a single pillar of rock. I then told everyone to stay inside (the first level of the tower was technically underground), locked the doors, and sent a miner down to destroy the support and bring the entire thing down in one massive collapse.  As he slowly walked to perform his murderous act, he was ambushed by some goblins and died.  Angered, I sent my military to handle them. They finished off the ambushers easily enough and were on their way back as I designated another miner to finish off the tower.

Unfortunately the goblins decided this would be the perfect time to siege me, spawning on the same side of the map as my fortress. Annoyed I released a caged titan to deal with the problem.  The fight was epic, The titan chasing the goblins across the map, ignoring the fire from their machi... crossbows as if it was nothing. The titan, covered in gore and a thousand projectiles sticking out from his hide chased the goblin leader into the pit where the support strut lied... and then destroyed the stairs leading out.

No problem I thought, as I had a system set up to flood the mine shafts and then pump it out using a windmills and a not so cleverly placed lever. Too late I realized my mistake when the titan swam free of the foundations and began to slaughter the already doomed populous. While this was inline with my goals, I really wanted to see that tower collapse, and so I prepared to reload when my sister decided to surprise me with a visit.  As she bounded into the my apartment, she tripped on some trash I had neglected to clean up and knocked my tower off of the desk and into the floor.  She had decided that my refrigerator was lacking of essentials and was carrying a half gallon of milk and various other groceries that just happened to spill onto the fallen tower and my serge protector.  Fortunately, I had a fire extinguisher nearby, and so the burning carpet was quickly contained but not before it caused irrecoverable damage to my poor computers sensitive parts.

tl;dr
Hardware is expensive

[Cthulhu]

Owned.

[Aqizzar]

Wow.  Everythings trying to kill your fortress except the disaster you planned yourself, then your hardware gets sieged.

A fire spiral that spread right out of the computer.  Now that is an epic fortress demise.

Condolences on the tower man.

[Strife26]

You get the cake, Anfold. Although it's not really right to have this thread here in the adventure mode discussion is it?

[Anfold]

quote:Originally posted by Strife26:
<STRONG>You get the cake, Anfold. Although it's not really right to have this thread here in the adventure mode discussion is it?</STRONG>

Doh! I had several threads open and forgot which subforum this was.  I was responding to Cthulhu's question and then decided to add my own epic fail without thinking.

quote:Originally posted by Aqizzar:
<STRONG>Wow. Everythings trying to kill your fortress except the disaster you planned yourself, then your hardware gets sieged.

A fire spiral that spread right out of the computer. Now that is an epic fortress demise.

Condolences on the tower man. </STRONG>

I bought the extended warranty (what a waste of money right?) because of the faulty wiring in the building (not much of a fire hazard but a lot of power surges etc.) On the up side, I had the carpeting replaced by the landlord into something non-flamable for free and got a 1 month extension on my research paper   that I may or may not have started on at that point.

Pro-tip: bringing a scorched hard drive to class is fun and profitable.

[MuonDecay]

quote:Originally posted by umiman:
<STRONG>I constructed a large castle out of silver floating on the ocean which was built to house masterwork gear and artifacts. The housing chamber was located under the ocean, with a large set of draining pumps allowing a single tile entrance that was 3 levels high from the main silver castle to the housing chamber.

I took an adventurer all the way back to the fortress to claim my gear, and went back down into the chamber. I flipped a lever that opened the hatch that allowed me access to the artifacts and happily went inside like a fedora-wearing archeologist with a whip. Little did my character notice the distinct rumblings above.

It turns out that during construction, I accidentally had the lever used to open the hatch connected to another hatch inside the bowels of the fortress that allowed drainage of the pumped seawater to escape back into the ocean. The water accumulated and poured back out of the drains. It flooded the entire fortress basement and came tumbling down the entry passage into the chamber.

The force of the water came like a moving wall and before I knew it, I was completely submerged underwater. I managed to swim out while water was still filling the chamber (which was rather large as I thought to put a throne room in there as well as plenty of food and drink (which unfortunately was scattered about) and reached the entryway with the lever. There was another lever in an adjoining room. That lever was the one controlling the pumps pumping water out of the entryway.

The train of thought was:
1. Water is flooding in
2. The pumps must have stopped working somehow when I pulled that lever
3. I must get the pumps working again

So I pulled that lever. As you can guess, more water came gushing in to my horror and worse off, the level above me was sealed by a silver hatch. During construction, I must have thought that if the dwarves were to retreat to the panic room, they wouldn't want the water to flood in. Even if I broke the hatch, 5000 metric tonnes of seawater would just crush me. Thus, my fate was sealed and I left my adventurer to starve inside that chamber under the ocean.</STRONG>

That's a failure?

Hell, that's a pretty great example of extreme adventurer-trap win right there.

Shame you can't get back into that flooded mess now or you could go back as Dr. Jones   :p