As you all might know, the ‘Human: Play Now!’ embark option in Adventure mode means starting out as a human without any skills or equipment whatsoever, and you are dropped either in one of your abandoned fortresses, or in the middle of nowhere.
And boy, it is
hard.
So, I set out a goal for myself to create a legendary adventurer from scratch, with the ultimate goal being ridding the world of elves and ultimately orcs.
To assist me in this task (and to add an extra RP element), I started a human fortress for the sole purpose of creating masterwork adamantine armour and weaponry.
After twenty years in the fort, the smiths finally managed to create one full set of masterwork adamantine equipment; a two-handed sword, shield, suit of platemail, suit of chainmail, greaves, helmet, cap, pair of gauntlets and pair of high boots were made.
The equipment was placed in two platinum bins in the meeting hall, and the fortress abandoned, but not before ‘accidently’ releasing the horrors from the deep – tentacle demons.
The first adventurer to rise to legendary status in at least one combat skill may lay claim to this equipment, provided they defeat the demons infesting the fortress’ meeting hall.
Okay, enough for preparations, embark!
So, my first adventurer started out in my abandoned fortress. I travelled out of it and saw a huge migrant wave coming from it, all headed for the nearest city. Upon closer inspection these were indeed the very humans that populated my fortress before. I like to imagine they are migrating because of the demon infestation.
Time for some ass kicking now!
. . .
My first encounter was a pack of wolves. I lasted maybe 2 turns before I got torn to shreds.
New adventurer.
First encounter, pack of wolves. Insta-death.
New adventurer, pack of wolves. You have been struck down. Repeat *15
I was getting pretty frustrated now, because I couldn’t even make it to the nearest town without getting ambushed by a pack of wolves each time. Time to try a different method.
The one time I got lucky and didn’t start in the middle of the pack, I made a run for it. I ran maybe a full region tile before I finally had the chance to sneak behind a tree. The wolves approached tree, I set it on fire and watched them burn. Three out of six wolves quickly degenerated into a heap of wolf bones [5]. I took a stack in each hand and threw them at the remaining wolves until they all were gravely injured. It was only then that I took my opportunity and wrestled them to death, keeping them alive as long as possible.
Lit up the corpses, took the wolf bones. Kept roaming and killing wolves and all sorts of wildlife. Never knew those wolf bones made such great clubs! In the meanwhile I probably got up to around proficient in wrestling, ambushing and throwing, and finally gained some agility, strength and toughness without dying. Nice. But I was still naked and in need of clothes!
Being the savage that I RP as, I headed over to a capital forest retreat to pick on some lone elves. I [T]ravelled in and out a couple of times til I had the chance to go to a ‘creature’.
Boy, I’d pay money to see the look on that stray elf’s face when he got hit by a bear bone in the face out of the blue. And another. And another.
I can just imagine the adventurer being an extremely aggressive, foam mouthing, naked savage after how I bashed him into unconsciousness in only half a dozen turns, and ripping off his clothes and trying them on (I forgot they wouldn’t fit).
When I noticed there was another stray elf coming at me just before I wanted to burn the other, all sorts of crazy ideas came into my mind.
“Shall I strip them, burn one’s corps and beat the other to death with his friend’s hot bones?”
In the end I just strangled them and burned them though (and took their precious elf bones [7]!)
.
Time to check out some cities and see if I can get some followers and commit some serious genocide.
On my way back the nearest human town, I was ambushed just 1 tile before my destination by dire wolves. Crap. I decided to run for it, towards the human town. After a couple of minutes of running I came across a patrolling archer guard, who opened fire on the wolves. He got a few criticals on them, but they still tore him apart (I nerfed archery down to 30 damage, works wonders). I didn’t care, as it gave me enough time to hide and throw and wrestle the injured ones to death. Plus, it gave me a copper bow with 25 iron arrows, and set of clothes and leather armour. Thank you dire wolves!
Now that I had around 1400 skill in wrestling, I quite easily managed to get three followers to join me on my quest; an archer, swordsman and pikeman. We headed back to the forest retreat whose elf peasants I had killed. What followed, I can only describe as badass.
We started out at the edge of the forest retreat, and many elves immediately started to run towards us. We made a run towards the centre, where the leader was. The archer and I fired at everything that moved, incapacitating targets before they had the chance to close in. The swordsman was hacking off limbs left and right, and the pikeman twisted his pike around in gut after gut.
As we pushed on towards the centre, they started to come from all sides. I saw the druid and fired a couple of arrows at him. My companion archer was the badass who mortally wounded him though. It was satisfying to see him crawl away, leaving a trail of blood. A small morale victory for us.
In the meantime, while the elf corpses, blood, vomit and litter started to dominate the screen, the influx of elves into the battle didn’t seem to decrease. My swordsman was nearly overwhelmed and my pikeman was retreating because of a leg wound. My archer, whom had run out of arrows already, was enraged and fighting off 4 different elves with his iron bow. I fired as many arrows as I could into both groups, until I could safely take them on in melee. I killed the bowman’s attackers, but not before they broke both his arms. By the time I got to the swordsman, he was dead already. I shot and killed the elf standing on his tile, and took his iron equipment. Score! Playtime is over.
I killed off the remaining elves surrounding the swordsman’s corpse, and ran to the aid of the pikeman. I must have killed over fifteen of the beasts while protecting him. The archer, in the meanwhile was biting and tearing off elf chunks to no avail – he was killed. I was getting tired, so I travelled the heck out of there as soon as I had the chance.
When I checked if the pikeman was following me, I realized that I’d actually left him behind after all that trouble I went through. I went back to find him, assuming he’d be dead, but instead got messages of him punching the shit out of elf colon (he lost his pike at one point). When I found him I told him to follow me again, and we rounded up the remaining elves and burned everything of the forest retreat. Or should I say abandoned ruin. Oh, and he’s a wrestler now. Sweet.
I’ll update this thread further as I play.
So.. got kinda carried away there.
Have any of you guys ever attempted to play as a ‘Human: Play Now!’? Have you ever made it past getting ripped apart by rabid wolves?
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