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[ZM5]

Made Tony the Tigerman axeman, was just fast travelling to another town when I got the biggest anti-climax I ever had in DF.

[Random_Dragon]

Made Tony the Tigerman axeman, was just fast travelling to another town when I got the biggest anti-climax I ever had in DF.

You've never tried to fight a mi-go, I bet. I've had to buff them repeatedly to avoid them getting brained 100% of the time by the first strike aimed at the head.

[Kadzar]

This here's the story of Amost Ragral the wolverine man and his band "The Merchants of Running".

Here's the follow up to that from after the bugfix.
And, after that fiasco, the Merchants of Running head for the southern lands.

Retired Amost and played as an elf bow woman for a while.

[Uzu Bash]

Heading toward what I thought was the capital, but now it's the second place to go from metropolis to shambles when I got within 2 region tiles of it. In other news, I finally found a quire, and can now practice writing squirrel girl love letters. Not that she'll like them, regardless the quality demons just hate everything. I may as well lead with this salutation, "Say, bitch!"

EDIT: I thought a vampire henchman companion would survive longer, but I ran into more than he was ready for. I mistakenly believed he was dwarven, so not only did I pass up great armor that would've protected him, I traded my small liquid darkness clothes for his clothes, not thinking for a second "His clothes aren't small." I gave him a masterwork iron longsword and exceptional iron shield, though.

I ran into another huge platoon of 'raiders'. Even if I went for a tree, I didn't expect the vampire to, so I had to face them. I managed 21 kills, my companion only got credit for causing the collision death of their leader, who I had jumped into. After the rest had fled too far to kill any more of them, I fast traveled back in to find them in formation again, 23 of them. I told them my story and recruited 14 of them as hearthpeople before they told me there wasn't room for any more.

Then I ran into another huge platoon while crossing the wild, all of them surrounding me again, but this time I was drowsy. I waited for them to approach, but instead of closing in, they kept marching the same direction they had been going. Apparently they really were on a mission, from some ringleader, probably to go harass another village.

[Rumrusher]

so playing a human outsider for the first time, I walk into a bar told a story and notice the axe brown recluse spiderwoman just sprayed everyone with lignite webbing(left over mod attempt to get a spider spray).
now I'm wondering ... where can I find a match to light the bar up.

[Shalderave]

So after not touching Dorf !!Fun!!tress for about a year or more, I remembered it existed and went to download the newest version.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Re-taught myself how to mod in a playable bronze colossus in adventure mod, turned myself into steel because I don't like playing fair I guess, and stomped around for a bit to get a hang of the new adventure format. I'm still working out doing anything in fortress mode so I figure adventure is my go-to for now.

So I screwed around a bit, punched some elves into trees, and found a weird little "hillock" that was one tower with no staircase with about 5 dwarves, some tables, and I think a statue in it. It was like some dwarfs settled down in someone's garage.

So being a colossus, everything hates me, and the dwarfs charge and I notice one has a steel pick. I know steel picks are broken OP and you don't screw with a miner dwarf with a steel pick. So I grabbed it out of his hand, kicked him in the chest, and then started decapitating his friends with it.

yadda, yadda, yadda, I took a level in reading at creation and decided it was time for necromancy. Went to a tower, got ignored by the dead,  stepped on some necromancers until I found a book called "more immortality."

Gave it a read and nothing happened. It specifically mentioned containing the secrets of Life and Death. So I looked around a bit and saw someone say something like "elves can't be necromancers because they're already immortal and can't understand death"

and as a Steel Colossus I am neither alive nor dead, so no magic for me.

I did discover that if I lied down in front of an enemy, a necromancer in this case, and mashed the full-stop button my skills in armor, dodging, and mining would go up because I was dodging or parrying most of the attacks, and the ones that hit me bounced off my steel flesh. So I did that for a minute and became legendary in a bunch of stuff. It was rather silly.


So I saved and made a new, larger, more interesting world to play in. I only made the first one to wrestle mega-beasts anyway but I can't find any.

Started my first adventurer as one of those newfangled "Intelligent Wilderness Creatures" although I was tempted to create a "Giant Kangaroo" adventurer because of the conspicuous lack of "man".

Long story short, I fine-tuned a Raven-man Lasher, wandered around for a bit wondering why I couldn't equip any armor when I thought I was human sized. I started in a human fortress as a hearthperson. So I went and found a dwarven fortress, a very lively one at that, but that's another story, and looked for some dorf gear. It was still called "Large *blank*" which meant I couldn't use it. I was confused and thought my game was bork or the dorfs were hoarding human armors. Looked it up on the wiki and a Raven Man is 35,600cm and a Dorf (and a full-grown Pig which I found hilarious) as well as Goblins are 60,000cm and humans are 70,000cm. I was barely more than half the size of a dorf.

So I was screwed out of anything other than the clothing I started with, kobolds are 20,000cm btw, so I thought "I won't need armor if I become a necromancer. I can just fly away while my undead do everything." So I trudged over to the necromancer tower with my one human axeman companion, nobody else liked me enough to join, and promptly shat my pants. A horde of 12 or more undead sprinted out the door to greet me. My axe man didn't last a second. I decided to save-scum and try fighting them, just to experiment. Whips suck against undead. Surprisingly, I was incredibly hard to hit, being knocked over by charging attacks notwithstanding, but once I got hit I turned into meatballs and spaghetti sauce. All the undead were faster than me too unless I was sprinting, also I think the undead have a huge auto-detect radius or something, because I couldn't sneak past them at all, whether I was in the red-vision circle or not. So I spent the night on top of the tower, went to the nearest hamlet and retired my arrogantly named, incredibly useless Tzeentch Beguilerlies the Profane-mind of Scholars.



I then made a human mace-man and I'm just getting started. I'll tell you though, giant tortoises are an awesome way to bork the game.

[Random_Dragon]

I recall starting a thread quite some time ago that demonstrated that yes, whips suck against zombies. Best to use...I think it was the flail and mace, turned out to be the best overall. Mauls were a sorta close second, being highly unpredictable as to whether they'll one-shot a zed or take a dozen hits.

[Rumrusher]

so just finished modding the game to include outsiders,
then I found where the elementalman of fire and magma are and gave them magma/fire webbing.
so this going to be FUN.

[Uzu Bash]

Finally found a library. There weren't as many bodies around the city when I first arrived, and the great majority of those were beast folk. Bodies did start piling up afterward. Academia is deadly serious business in this city. When I finish a performance and see everyone bolt for the door, I know there'll be more bodies in the street. The Pythagorean gang rides again!

Lots of books. I haven't found one about the Dewey Decimal System yet. Most of it is written for scientific/medical/engineering disciplines; interesting, but I'm looking for one with new dance forms. I still only have one.

[Max™]

Never found a book with dance forms in it besides one I wrote, they're pretty rare. I did find a poetry one once.

[Uzu Bash]

I did find one on a musical form, but I didn't learn from it. Might be a clue that it's learnable around town, at least if the author wrote it there.

All of my writing is forceful and compassionate. Squirrel girl should hate that. Prose ranges from passable to splendid. Being "Focused!" always gets better results.

EDIT: Just wrote a masterful play right after a passable biography of someone I don't even know.

[Max™]

The framework in place makes me think that you could at some point end up able to choose which historical figures/groups/events a story is written about... so you could make your own group of dancerthugs, go up to someone, and tell them a story about a group known as [YOUR_GROUP] and how in [THIS_SITE] on [THIS_DATE] they decided they were going to take [SOMETHING] from [HISTFIG_LISTENER]... *pause* ..."YOU MUST YIELD!"

[Uzu Bash]

A biography should be about someone I can at least tell stories about verbally. I did this book and still know nothing about the person (unless I check Legends.)  There are plenty of characters I tell stories of that are worthy of writing down. Like my companion who slayed the first dragon I faced.

[Rumrusher]

so made a dragon, retired it at a site, kinda hope it's megabeast instincts leads it to lay ruin to the area as I try to build a good spider shop/inn/tavern this time I made sure to make tools for the spiders to use called a Spide and Spidex.

[Random_Dragon]

Well, I became a fey elf I modded in, fumbled with a few crash-inducing attempts to make an interaction that would KO a target on command (because herpderp I'm too small to even choke out a child), then raised a few villagers as revenants.

At which point I discovered that zombies, even without having CAN_SPEAK removed, are unable to accept delicious mugs.