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[Ziusudra]

After slaying the last one from a prone position my character refused to get up for a few moments due to being entirely exhausted from the battle.

Sounds like someone went without coffee this morning.

Uhoh, sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

[Dunamisdeos]

I began my first real adventure.

Erith Tiristather is a (hero) female human raised by dwarves who enjoys brawling most of all. She was given mostly basic survival skills (swimming, climbing, tracking, reading, dodging, knapping, ambushing and some strike) with no actual weapon skills. Bit of an RP going on at character creation. Upon awakening a goblin apparently declared it was time for a violent coup and everyone started taking sides and murdering each other in the fortress she was in. She noped right out of that and went to talk to the broker at the depot.

She was told about some kind of beast trubble, and I wasn't really reading it and figured it was a particularly angry cougar and set off to find it. Turns out it was a three-eyed fire breathing stegosaurus. You may recognize this as "definitely not a cougar".

After noping out of that too (hooray for taking points in stealth), she met Smatru, a Yeti recruit. Assuming this to be some kind of gruff but friendly anthropomorphic snow-friend, I went up to try and recruit it as Erith's first adventuring buddy. It promptly took a swing at her head.

Being quite frustrated at this point, Erith is now boxing a yeti. Her dodge skills and strike abilities are serving her well, and she has taken no hits but dished out plenty. She's actually winning a fistfight with a yeti.

UPDATE:
Erith beat the tar out of this yeti. She killed it and promptly began carving figurines of it out of its own bones. Turns out it is quite the famous yeti, having gone on multiple rampages (at least 3). It severely injured/ate many dwarves and also ate a lot of ducks? Specifically ducks.

Ducks everywhere will rejoice.

[xaritscin]

been trying some peasant lvl adventurers, most epic deaths have been fighting a troll recruit (need to improve with crossbows) and succumbing to a bandit wrestling onslaught after killing some of them (i had an alligator adventurer, i was expecting more in terms of bite power, but oh well).

most recent was a mosquito woman (flying OP) but the most i got was to suck blood from the lef of a bandit chief and get rekd afterwards.

EDIT: made an axolotl man with crossbow, lvld it to legendary and most things die in a few bolts, also got a companion but somehow the guy ran away after i found a pack of dingoes (what a pussy). no problem with boogeymen for now, it seems resting in a site doesnt call them. should earn me some time to get another companion from a nearby hillock.

[StagnantSoul]

Some kid was just telling me how apparently dancing is the key to life... Wonder how right he is.

[peasant cretin]

Hillock Bim mimics mountain hall Bim, replacing the cave croc encounter with alligator wrestling. Like real world grappling where the smaller grappler uses a mobility game versus the larger grappler's strength/pressure game to outlast and tire out, Bim plays the exertion/penalty game against the alligator.

Pretty much the reason for making him an endurance—observer—dodger—build with above average endurance/willpower + the above average focus/intuition/kinesthetic sense to play against exertion effects and to buff his rolls.

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Bim starts off by spamming a multi-attack chain (grab teeth + bite lower body/head + dodge away). He's looking to cause nausea/KO and maximize his dodge roll.

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When nausea is achieved, nerfing all alligator attacks, Bim shrinks the chain (grab teeth + bite lower body/head) to remain in the same tile.

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When bites latch, they train wrestling. When a critter needs to break grips, this trains wrestling and begins adding to critter exertion.
Note: About the grab part of those attack chains. Grab isn't actually necessary since there's that dodge away, or when there's the nausea penalty it's even less helpful. I just had Bim work in the grabs to get a bit more wrestling XP.

Once the critter's unconscious due to over-exertion or KO, Bim punches its teeth out reducing the alligator to upper body push attacks.

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When the gator revives, Bim gets on the ground and begins granby rolling about (just directional movement) to increase number of defensive opportunities, as penalties have been stacked (nausea + tired, and/or stunned) which guarantee misses.

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It's just a deconstructed, atom by atom version of rolling around with wolves while holding several shields. But since it's with just one critter, no shield. In this way, Bim trains up dodger/observer to adequate.

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Unlike wildly exploitive mountain hall Bim, who fought numerous cave crocs and offloaded them to avoid killing them (1HR sleep/wait), hillock Bim does the somewhat more narratively sound thing.

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[Dunamisdeos]

This is very instructional!

My hero's tactics are gut punches combined with dodging. Time to learn about wrestling.

[Ember]

My surprise encounter with a vampire lord... at the end of the first day of the game

it was moving 2 tiles to my 1 so i decided to fight
first line is when it got in range

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not sure why learning those abilites came before the bite but w/e

also not sure if i have become a vampire as i haven't received the stat buffs of strength agility and toughness.. unless thats hidden and i did slaughter a group of bougeymen after i lost the vampire lord and recovered my stuff

[Ziusudra]

not sure why learning those abilites came before the bite but w/e

That's just the way Toady programed the game - effects are announced before causes. Opponents also drop stuff they're holding before you cut their hand off.

also not sure if i have become a vampire as i haven't received the stat buffs of strength agility and toughness.. unless thats hidden and i did slaughter a group of bougeymen after i lost the vampire lord and recovered my stuff

Yeah, that stat boost isn't displayed.

[Ember]

I found out very quickly that yes i am a vampire, while it will make things easier for me, im not a vampire person XD
i take it that there is no way to uncurse myself?

[Random_Dragon]

I found out very quickly that yes i am a vampire, while it will make things easier for me, im not a vampire person XD
i take it that there is no way to uncurse myself?

Nope. :V

[Ember]

wrong thread, though i did manage to decapitate a random archer from a criminal organization with one shot though im guessing thats easy against them

[Eric Blank]

You cant actually put individual arrows back into a stack, but regardless the stack is treated just like an identical number of individual arrows by weight and for shooting purposes.

You can work on your strength attribute to be able to carry more. Fighting in melee works as does swimming, i think.

[Ember]

dwarf fortress is weird, i got into a brawl with a sea dragon by accident and it basically played with my adventurer for a bit before getting bored and is now completely ignoring me

this encounter sorta gave me an idea though
i have the Masterwork Pack installed, anyone know of how i would take over random critters IE dragons and other unnamed things with DF hack? or should i ask this elsewhere?

[StagnantSoul]

Got into a fight with a giant cheetah in a cave, then proceeded to be knocked down a nearby hole. Wandered into the caverns, killed a draltha for food, now I'm cutting down trees to make a small shack. Upon some random wandering I found the tube leading to the second cavern layer, likely going to do some hunting down there.

[Ember]

talk about luck, just created a new world when i realized my tileset wasnt loaded properly and causing crashes, and the first character i make starts with an awesome candy axe, though id does say its hafted sea raider axe so im not sure that counts

now i i need to find some armor