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[Rumrusher]

Went out to test if bogeymen can be butchered then notice my flock of bogies are in the 10s I was swarmed by them. I managed to invoke a modded bogie named "Seductress" which seems like some kind of humanoid bogeyman. next to the other humanoid bogeymen that just get beat up by other bogeymen the Seductress seems to not talk. some time out of the cackling I met a goblin bowman and well this encounter happen.

After that I poke around and wanted to see what happens if I fill a fort site with Seductress... only to learn something about site inhabitants also have their syndromes charted and you can have a race full of some zombie type.
as I notice with filling a goblin Mountainhome thats already filled with undead goblins with undead treents and undead seductress ... something about inhabitant unk_18 and unk_1c slaping an syndrome class type on the spawning npcs.
oh and when I used reveal I noticed this

The gobbos fort (before I started inplanting different races ) seem to wall up a dead goblin who's teeth are scattered. this would explain why the fort started already haunted.

if I remember this fort also dealing with an insurrection.

[Uzu Bash]

I wasted too much time chasing stale leads. The army on the march happened 5 years ago -- it was 2 guys, one died and the other went home. One vampire had already been slain and another ran off to become a fortress mayor. But the town harassed by a necromancer bandit was current, and that was the source of the smell of Death. I got cocky after I bashed one off a cliff and he died on impact, but these zombie elves were tearing my companions to pieces. I still can't account for all of them.

After they were smote, I got the scent of Elves. With my ruined nose? Wtf does elf scent like anyway? I thought they would smell like a canopy. Or not that but what is the word for a forest floor, with all the leaves in varying stages of dryness and decomposition and fungus and wormshit. It's kind of a melange of odors so mild that you can't really identify any of them as good or bad. Well, I stopped and had a rather pleasant chat with a trio of elves who didn't seem to be causing any trouble until one of them mugged my companion. That's it, I'm going to have to find this bandit warlord.

[Random_Dragon]

The army on the march happened 5 years ago -- it was 2 guys, one died and the other went home.

Dwarf Fortress: Derpy FPS Edition.

[Max™]

Bodies get stuck in walls when the site reloads the layout and scrambles the connections.

Had a site where I did exterminate troll before editing the amount down to sub 100 and when I came back later I used reveal to see where my folks had ended up and there were tons of troll corpses stuck in the walls.

[Uzu Bash]

A keep guard said I had too many already when I invited him to become hearthperson. Well, just wait around awhile, because there's about to be an opening soon. I'm losing way too many trying to get to this necro bandit. His camp is so far from any shelter that I can't find a place to rest that won't diminish my and my forces effectiveness. I haven't even gotten deep enough to find the bastard yet.

If I could just get a good pre-assault rest, I would go in for a phantom strike. Sprint at top speed, find the necro, assassinate, get the fuck out. But I'm always drowsy by the time I secure an area as well as I can, down at least a few men if not all of them. This isn't even the tower, that's further east. This is just a bandit camp!

[NJW2000]

Wow, you do well. I can't even get past bogeymen. Have nevevever sorted out anything for anyone in adventure.

[Uzu Bash]

Finally! I stationed 3 on one side and came around the other with another three. I let them go forward to engage and then charged down the center. They hardly lasted 3 turns, but I saw that pencilneck at the center of this all and put him in my fight plan. So necromancers can feel pain! I welcomed him to his mortality by grinding him across the desert.

There was one straggler I had to deal with while exhausted. No trees to climb, just flat 0 z and flat saguaros. I couldn't block this motherfucker, all I could do is wait him out to recover fatigue and creep toward the guys I had waiting west. It was fucking grueling. I don't know how grateful I feel to have gotten away; everyone I cared about was dead.

[Robsoie]

Wow, you do well. I can't even get past bogeymen. Have nevevever sorted out anything for anyone in adventure.

The best way to get past bogeymen is to never have them appearing

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- bogeymen do not appear everytime night is falling, you may be lucky and enjoy a lonely night walk without problem ... if you're lucky.
- when night is coming, make sure you are on a beach or a mountain tile (plan your world travels), bogeymen do not appear in those locations, safe sleep can be done there too, assuming a wild beast will not attack you of course
- bogeymen are very shy, so get at least 1 companion and bogeymen will never spawn in your night
- sleeping in house prevent bogeymen to appear, a few versions ago sleeping in a dwarven hillock did NOT prevented bogeymen to appear, it was a carnage everytime for the many dwarves living there if you had no companion in your party, not sure if it's fixed.
- climbing on trees isn't safe, bogeymen can climb and even better, some bogeymen can fly, so don't think sleeping in trees is safe.
- if you don't want bogeymen to appear at all and do not want to follow anti-bogeymen spawning tricks, the best way is to generate your world with advanced world generation and edit the paramaters to have Number of Bogeyman Types  = 0 , meaning there will not be bogeymen in your world at all

[Max™]

One additional method, if you're using dfhack but don't want to feel super cheaty, when it gets close to night time dig a downstair and one or two up/down stairs, they disappear if you go down to the bottom.

[Amperzand]

So I used the grapple mechanics for the first time today.

A newly recruited follower on his first combat encounter, a Dwarf Marksdwarf, enters battle by saying how much he misses his family. I, of course, being the totally-not-a-schitzophrenic-vampire that I am, immediately make his survival to be fired for inadequate genre-savvyness a priority.
Before I can reach him, a gobbo with a sword beheads him. Cue me strangling the goblin, then chasing all of his friends down, grabbing em' by the neck, and performing aesthetic surgery on their torsos with a pickaxe.

[Max™]

I still think this is my favorite thing I've done with grappling:


Catching a sword mid-attack and hacking off the arm holding it to gain possession, shame there's no way to toss a one-liner at the npc and walk off smoking a cigar which appeared along with the eyepatch due to the overwhelming badassery on display.

Bonus edit: I got ambushed but there was some activity going on when I arrived, I got closer to the melee on the edge of the screen and what do I find?





...what the shit?

"Hey, let's beat this bird up... oh god, that dorf is killing our squad, what should we do?"
'Maybe run?'
"Nope, dorf is too fast..."
'Surrender to the bird?'
"Surrender to the bird."

[Uzu Bash]

Fuck fuck fuck fuck FUuUuUuUuUk!

To articulate that more clealy, how do I get rid of a disturbance curse without cheating?  Is there a legit way to get rid of it, and if there isn't, is there a legit way to avoid it in the first place? I mean other than not looting the tomb, which isn't an option: that's what adventurers do, loot tombs.

[Max™]

Don't bump into the mummy, be undead so it won't curse you, MUMMYHAMMER, and I do not know if it is possible to remove it, I haven't found a way.

[Rumrusher]

A good way to avoid it is to be a necromancer and reanimate the corpse of the guy before moving too deep into the coffin. if the game gives you the chance to see a coffin before it's too late you can just 'L'ook at the coffin to check if there's a dead guy inside if there is you can just do what I said earlier and be safe to loot the place.


so uhh I guess inhabitants of necro towers are just like peasants but with an undead syndrome slap on which explains alot when custom interactions get towers their minions tend to self destruct or kill their formal masters or all burn up.
the modder has those interactions work on multiple steps to keep a minion alive and the game just assumes all it needs is the final step.
like now I think of it the world just litters loads of new dead skeletons into a tomb and one historical dead guy.
diving into how sites works opens the idea of the game is filling in blank npcs to make up space left from all the world gen historical guys getting into place and toady slowly moving in history changing effects while having those filler not interacting with it. though at least now I know you can do more with site.inhabitants now than I did before... which means max can walk into a site alter the locals to be vampire bears then get to fight off millions50 (that's cpu safe right?) of them in a spiraling tower vault made of burning cheese well if max (modded in a material that instantly combusted that is.)  that and maybe masterworks getting custom pregen sites with custom inhabitants?

[Max™]

WHY AM I THE WEREGUINEA-PIG FOR YOUR CRAZY CHEESETOWER BATTLES?

Srsly.