bugfix release is so nice.... no longer to superbandits stalk just outside of town ready to strike me down before i can really even experience the content that has been added.
so, i gen a new world and start an adventure.
as always, i start looking around my starting hamlet for some companions... the third house i peek into has something odd in it... a flashing grey "r". i look at it, a reptile man master blowgunner. i know human towns have gotten a lot more cosmopolitan, but this is a bit much. i try to recruit it, but it just laughs at me. so then i do the next most logical thing.... i accuse it of vampirism. surprise, it is indeed a vampire. then every menial in the house goes nuts and attacks it, while i try to swing. being a hammerman (little skill, most of my points went into dodge) i started with a crappy maul. those few attacks i made that connected were just lovetaps.
the peasants end up killing the thing. i talk to the killer, brag about my "success" and instantly become a local legend. my fame shot way up there (was able to recruit 5 companions off of this one kill. normally i can only get two before first quest completion). i explore the village fully, and after my five companions, i end up finding two more vampires, and killing them. at this point, i cannot get a quest here, i have to travel a half day away and get quests from the lord in his keep.
he sends me to the hamlet not even a full maptile north of my start to kill a cave fish man vampire. before i find it, i end up finding and killing another three vampires. next quest was for another vampire, and in THAT hamlet, i only found one other.
then the lord sends me to a city. in this city i am supposed to enter the sewers, "the holes of holiness", and kill a criminal mastermind.... a serpent women ringleader. oh god these sewers. so confusing. they connected with the dungeon of the keep. long stretches of them were barren, but then i'll run across 5-6 groups art a time. i ended up killing 6 other "boss" figures of various animalmen before finding the quest target. it then takes me almost a full day to find the exit to the sewers and make it back to the lord.
oh, did i mention i was a vampire? after my forth total vampire kill, eating the blood finally kicked in, and i turned.
so, i make it back to the lord, and he sends me right back to the sewers. i dick around in them for a day before i say "fuck it" and leave. at this point i was a hammer lord with 30 or so kills under my belt... a few of my companions had earned names for themselves.
so i go looking for a necro tower. as i wander, i get ambushed by bandits. no big deal, i have 19 companions... i am quite skilled now... but what is this? the bandit ambush was made up of dwarves and goblins? and they started fighting each other, ignoring me. i guess i walked in on an internal power struggle.
this is where it gets weird. the goblins were marked as "friendly", and the dwarves hostile. my companions got thinned down considerably. there did not seem to be a "leader" bandit in the encounter. i chased down all the hostiles i could, and left. two map tiles away, i get ambushed by the same group, this time with a leader type. it is an elf, the ambush this time is made up of elves and humans. after one turn, all of my companions desert me, and most turn hostile. a couple of them even give me the intro spiel "i am blarg, killer of arg, prepare to die!"
sadly, i kill all of my former companions, except the two macemen i was able to re-recruit.
then i go to a nearby keep, so i can find out if i am indeed marked as hostile to the civ (and to get some "food" as i was thirsty). yes, i was indeed somehow an enemy of my homeciv, peasants in the keep attacked and me their doom. lucky for me, the lord was asleep. i bit open his throat and fed on him until he bled out.
so, like any vampire that has been found out, i left that civ. traveled across an elven retreat, and came to my new home. fed, then retired because i wanted to check legends.
at this point in time, i have 46 notable kills (one other, a giant magpie). hopefully today i can find myself a necro tower to plunder.