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[Raz]

Sure, but not before I spice the fortress up a bit.

I'll clean the fortress of any potentially scattering items (looks a lot cleaner, no taking advantage of wealth and gear), and create three trials before the adventurer may obtain the armour. I'll also see if I can make that an artifact weapon instead.

Don't read if you want the trials spoiled.

Spoiler: The Trials (click to show/hide)

First I'll relocate the meeting hall (with the gear in a room behind it) far deeper into the fortress. The entrance to this hall will be locked by two (artifact) floodgates.

The trial is the Trial of Agility. You enter a long hall with a door somewhere along the center, which requires you to step on a pressure plate in the beginning. This opens a floodgate on the other side of the corridor which releases magma. If your agility isn't high enough, the magma reaches the door before you do and you are consumed by the heat. The next room will have a pressure plate which opens the first floodgate. There's also a lever which lowers a drawbridge that allows you to enter the room before the floodgates again. I'm thinking about leaving it permanently inaccessible if you fail, to increase difficulty, but there's also the option of a draining system.

With the opened floodgate, you may now enter the Trial of Toughness. You climb up a tall tower, and have to survive a fall of ~6 (may require thorough testing ) z-levels. Once you're down there, there is no way back up. After that, you walk down a 1 tile wide corridor which forces you to trigger several gore, blunt and slash traps. Having several broken bones from the fall (probably), you'll have a harder time dodging them. At the end of the corridor there's another room with a pressure plate which opens the second floodgate. You can leave this room in the same way as before.

You now have access to the Trial of Strength. In the corridor leading to the meeting hall, there's a 5 tile long (and as wide as the corridor) open space, filled with magma. Pulling the (artifact) lever will trigger a cavein that fills the gap, allowing permanent access to the tentacle demon infested meeting hall (bridges could be exploited ). Now, if only there was a way I could get all the demons, including their leader to hole up in there..

Defeat the demons, get the equipment, rid the world of the subhumans/dwarves!

Oh, and there's also an artifact adamantine ring called Mythacrid in the fort, worth a million 'umiebucks. You'll find it decorated on armour a lot.

This might take me a few more days, unless you want it immediately of course. Take note that I lowered the orcs' damblock to 2, and lowered ammo from 100 to 20. They're still overpowered, and you can't kill them as easily with ranged weaponry anymore. So that might explain why they haven't trampled everybody yet (I wanted an old(er) world with all the civs where orcs weren't too overrepresented). It's the year 603 by the way.

Edit: I also found out what my humans were up to after the abandoning - They formed a new group and reclaimed a destroyed human town called Twisteddawn, not far from Escema "Pointcries" (the fort). When I first entered the city I got a message that 4 or 5 wagons were scuttled, followed shortly by an insane amount of combat messages of human champions kicking the shit out of 2 orc caravans from the orc civ (The Hermitic Flies) that used to besiege us. Awesome. I even managed to recruit a few of my old elites.

[WorkerDrone]

Well you could release the regular saved file, and then the 'fun' version in a few days. I'd be willing to play both.

If you want to make a point out of this, perhaps you might withhold it for a few days anyway, just to give us a challenge. Depends on what you want to do, though the latter sounds both fun, and 'fun'.

Also, please don't make it so that it can be sealed off. I'd like a few attempts if anything. It sounds really hard as is, with the demons and all. Traps and fall down several Z-levels sounds like insanity. In a good way.

[zchris13]

I think an ~3 z-level drop with booze and food.  Please. Don't put more than a single weapon in each trap.  Ummm... Try to make it actually beatable... Please?

[Broose]

Pressure plates don't work in adventure mode. Weapon traps might, but you'll have to enable traps in the init file.

[zchris13]

Cage traps break the game, btw.

[WorkerDrone]

If you get caught in a Cage Trap, its akin to being insta-killed.

[zchris13]

Since there is no one to free you, and time hinges on your move... And your turn doesn't come up in a cage...

[nichaey]

Sounds awesome; the Play Now, not the cage thing. I'll definitely have to take a swing at it.

Do we have to genocide the elves for your door to open, or do we just have to say "friend"?

[Roundabout Lout]

No traps of any kind work. Just a heads up.

[Raz]

Thanks for the advice guys. I finished the construction of the trials today and will proceed with testing tomorrow.

Oh, and I added quite a bit of magma to make the final battle extra epic.

[WorkerDrone]

I'm sure it will be epic.

A tale to end all tales.

A tale that 300 1 man stood against 1 Million countless Demons from the deeps.

[Shima]

I like this.

I do something similar.  Since I've added a fair amount of weaponry to the game, including daggers, I have something I call a "thieve's challenge", which requires finding the Capital of a Human or Lizardman civilization (Made them a civ myself, even working on graphics for 'em) and finding and stealing A: the best possible equipment (To clarify, starting with the best leather and almost always keeping a dagger as the primary weapon throughout) from the stores, and then B: stealing the best items from the shops.  And then fighting the way out.

As an aside, how well does that 30 damage from arrows work out?  Are they still deadly but not so instant?  I might just add various levels of arrows to my game -each with a different damage/ability- if that's the case...

[Raz]

I found that 30 is quite alright, although you might have to increase armour by 1.5 or 2 to reduce chance of those criticals. I'll do some testing on this.

[Shima]

I'm thinking it might be feasible to add different kinds of arrows for different situations.  Regular arrows, Bodkins (higher damage), broadheads (always get stuck), fire arrows (Fun in a can), flathead (blunt damage), so forth.

[ProfessorA]

Trials?  Reading those I'm surprised you didn't name your fort "HiddenTemples" or mod in a deity named "Olmec"
That said I think you're onto the epic apex of adventurer mode and can't wait for its completion.