soo.. i am still pretty new DF and have been playing around on adventure mode mostly just short lived adventurers usually meeting a quick demise from boogeymen,ambushes or arrows always somehow causing me to crawl away and suffocate from lung damage every time before i can really do anything.
so i am on a new adventurer an outsider human with most of my stats put in to observer and dodge and 1 point in to reading and swimmer. and i decided to try out hand to hand fighting skills this game as whip and archery dident work out so well on my previous adventurers.so i was planing to go get some practice for striker and wrestler on some weak animals after getting a backpack/waterskin then start on some quest.. sadly after searching the nearby towns and fortresses for a while looking for a backpack in vain. all i manged to find was a sack of berries and a few bits of armor.i did manage recruited some companions a lasher, maceman and a 200 year old goblin mason prisoner that was chilling in a human village that asked for me to free him which i did by simply recruiting him...anyways figuring i was probably doomed with out a way to carry supplies, so i head off to try to get a bit of exploring done before i meet my inevitable demise. so i head to something marked on my map called a dark fortress in some evil lands.
when i arrived there was nothing at the site so i wondered around there a bit looking for something to fight so i could face my death with some dignity before starting a new adventurer that would start with a backpack and i happened across this cloud like dust thing that was moving around called vile gloom so i decided to walk in to it to check it out and it kept spaming i was caught in a cloud of vile gloom i could not really see my self under it but i noticed in one of the holes in the cloud there were zombies and when went to do aimed attacks i saw they were right next to me and i was confused and panicked so i attacked despite the alt y warning and missed then promptly got my spin and legs all smashed up by them and i bravely tried to crawling away from my enemies as they beat me to death..except after crawling for a while i did not die despite it flashing mortal wound and getting my brain smashed so i check my status just about everything that could break was broken/smashed and i noticed i had a vile gloom zombie added to part of my name and that the 3 zombies i had attacked were in fact my companions that turned zombie as well when we walked to to that vile gloom cloud thing.
after about 15 min of hopelessly fighting my former companions by scratching them as that was the only way i could attack at that point as i was to badly beaten to do much else. but i got board since we were all immortals so decide to ditch them by a river as i was to slow to out crawl them any other way. so after crossing the river and ditching them i fast travel away, to see what wounds would healed. i got use of my legs back but could only move and a speed of 800 now i had also lost all my teeth and my left hand but i still had my right hand i could use also i was now really high legendary levels in armor user,observer,fighter,wrestler,striker and dodge and had superhuman on several attributes which i got all that in a matter of like 15 min of getting beat down..so now i have them best adventurer stat wise i have ever gotten all by accident that seems immortal. immune to pain,losing consciousness,drowning,internal injuries,blood loss, brain damage,hunger,thirst,sleep and possibly fire. though i suspect freezing water. and decapitation might do me in. dismemberment of my limbs could be troublesome for me as well.
a huge irony in this was the fact that i actually wanted to kill my adventurer off for once for not having a backpack and the game somehow manages to pull its infamous "FUN" factor in and makes it so she cant die and is just way to good now to kill off even if she is a bit handicapped from getting kicked around for a while.
anyways after escape from my former companions by using a river and healing up i get attacked by boogeymen and decide to test out my new skills my first attack i punch one in the face and kill it...they still dodge about 50%-75% of the time but when i hit they go down fast so after fighting them off i head off to town to continue my search for a backpack and a quest to further test out my new immortal adventurer. sadly the humans are all hostile and attack me on sight but my punch takes out all peasants and swordsmen alike in 1-2 hits to the face.
after raiding a few villages and forts on the map i make my way to a tower that had a bunch of zombies and necromancers they seemed pretty cool with me walking in and around the place though the necromancers did not want to talk so i went around reading their books and learned to summon zombies...so now i am like a immortal zombie that can summon other zombies and now i attack villages,towns and forts with my hoard of zombies and my one arm, one punch kill attack looking for a backpack or better gear.i have yet to find any steel armor/weapons or backpacks so i might go see some elves and dwarf towns to check if they have anything nice or go see if i can find some lairs or camps or something.
but ya that is my current adventure right now i did a little search on google and the forums to see if i could find out more about the vile gloom thing but all i could find was one other guy that got turned in to gloom zombie from wrestling a zombie animal that would spread when he got close to other living things which seems a little different then what i have as i have not seen mine spread.is that vile gloom cloud part of the evil biome or the dark fortress? how common is it for a cloud to go around turning people in to immortal zombies and what is it or causes that cloud as it seems a tad bit OP?also i am using the lazy newb pack v0.34.07 and using texture pack but other then that i think its vanilla.