My recent adventurer's first week has been wildly successful. I've succeeded in bringing down a giraffe in melee (very risky. Damn ungulates will knock your face in.), followed by a lone carp man bandit who had but a single bag. After that I could get some peasants, so I found two peasants and a hunter, sold the bag and giraffe goodies for a bit of armor, and went on to the next bandit camp. On the way there the four of us were attacked by a tiger, killing it easily but somewhat slowly, providing me with good butcherings to sell, and then stopped by a night creature lair and slaughtered her in a somewhat long fight, but very little injury to the party.
The carp man bandits were fairly weak, but it was somewhat pressing considering one of the peasants got herself mauled and kept passing out, so we stopped to defend her. Luckily the carp men came at us pretty much just one at a time, and they were slaughtered. The peasant received one red injury, and a few yellow ones. They've healed well. The important thing though was the huge hoard of loot they'd amassed, including an iron breastplate, which I hadn't seen in any of the shops, even of poorer materials Needed some sort of chest armor besides a shirt. I sold it all when I returned to town, along with the tiger products, for between 1000☼ and 1200☼, even after purchasing a new iron scimitar (I had a copper 2-h sword) and a copper maul. Multiple weapons, especially combining edged and blunt, is always a good idea in my opinion. Too bad I couldn't find any good silver weapons.
Next goal is a cobald camp. I expect a real fight from them, with the higher natural skills and high-quality equipment, and probably a greater number of them overall. Lots of bowmen...
At least it's not Paklaras. They comprise 30% of the living historical figures in this world! Probably from their wars with a human civ, conquering all of it by 67 (it's 212 though so I presume that they're all dead with a short lifespan, but I wanted to give you a history lesson), and the more recent wars with the dwarves. Paklaras are apparently masters of war... Dwarves have a low population currently, and 29% of all dead historical figures, from the southern civ's war with the southern elves, who kicked their asses. Damn weak dwarves! I'll be down there next year to show you how to conquer elves! Of course they DO have dragons of
various sorts on their side, who have no doubt been killing dwarves in droves. (freaking frost wyrms are ungodly war machines)