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[Loud Whispers]

Loud Whispers, you are epic. Take my sock.

Lord Whispers that must have been ;FUN! for the humans.

Can I get that world save after your adventurer dies? I wanna read the legends.

Haven't even begun the main invasion yet, had to take a detour through another town I bumped in, raising the undead count to over 600. Also @Corai thank you :£ @Coolbay1 The zombies appear to be getting faster >:] @Scelly9 sure

[bitesh]

You know, you should write that. Or put it into song.
Along these lines.

[Haspen]

I also like the name of the region, 'Killer-Steppes of Euphoria'

Strangely fitting for a person having fun with killing and zombifying people :3

[lionstar]

Finally killed that Hulk-dwarf. Then I get ambushed by a fat but very quick-moving Baldur Monk. FUUUUU

[Intro1827]

I can confirm that having a legion of zombie servants materialize with you in the middle of the town market is the best thing ever. If you leave your zombies behind and come back, they'll still be there, chilling in people's houses.

[Sappho]

I just finally encountered my first vampire. Accused her, she was immediately nibbled to death by neighboring villagers. And she left no blood! Is there a way to get blood from the corpse? Since we can't butcher sentients I couldn't think of a way. :/

[Angel Of Death]

Recently, I discovered a fortress full of hostile Dusk elves (Genesis mod). Only 2 were competant fighters. These 2 were tortured horribly, but given a funeral at sea. Both of them were buried with the same items, 1 gold coin, 2 swan wings, 1 duck skull and 5 chunks of crab meat.

[Uzu Bash]

I genned a world with 1050 years of civilization, and vampires have become a plague. Towns, cities and even keeps are abandoned. Vampires have kill counts of 50 minimum, typical ~400, with the upper limit I've seen over 2k. About 1 in 8 people remaining are vampires, except in abandoned cities where the only living are the merchants in the bazaar, trading with...each other, I guess.

I couldn't even consider the advantages of vampirism under these conditions; the herd has been overgrazed. I'm lucky enough to even find a living blood supply. I wonder why these bloodsuckers aren't dying out from overpopulation.

EDIT: I found a tower of necros who were friendly and quite helpful in mapping out the surrounding areas. Their minions not so much, so I led them outside to have some stern words with them. I found that if you stack them all up next to a plant and set it ablaze, in an hour or so they'll all respawn back inside, animated again. After going through tedious reclearing, I got to the slab, examined it, picked it up and read it, and sure enough, it said "The secrets of life and death". But I didn't get any new abilities, and the corpses were still hostile.
 
 Do elves not get to learn necromancy? They're already ageless, so I guess they'd skip that chapter, but the ability to command and pass through zombies would still be useful. Is there a bug or am I doing this wrong?

[Xantalos]

Elves cannot necromance because they're already immortal, therefore they will never learn the secrets of death.

Also, I just realized: What if the secrets of life and death are the words: "the secrets of life and death"?

[MHpersonalDwarf]

So, I'm trying to assemble a group of adventurers to return to an old fort I lost to cave monsters and avenge it, to make it safe for reclamation.

First up, Erin SensualBaker of Brushing, a female human zombie necromancer swordsman:

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Erin began in the world of Onra Antho, a maximum size world with large number of civilizations that I let run for 1050 years over one night in February. Brainpath had seen this world to the year 1061.
She began in a human town just south of a large ocean/lake that separated the continent from the glaciers to the north. She Recruited a crossbowman and set out to slay her first vampire. Even though I willingly drank the blood, I like to think the crossbowman made her drink it to have her survive a "mortal" wound in her leg. From here, she wandered around, killing as many vampires, warlords, and were beasts as possible. I tried to have her cross the mountains into the southern continents, but it would have taken too long, and so I went north. During a scuffle in a savannah, Erin took a nasty slash to the right arm and dropped her silver longsword for good. She also took an arrow to the lower spine from behind, making her a paraplegic. I assume she stole a horse somewhere, and made a journey to a necromancer tower far north to learn the secrets of life and death. Clad in a headscarf, human bone crown, and iron armor (holding her sole weapon: her trusty <<+iron shield+>>) she traveled to the tower of (I believe) Planespaced and waded through the sea of reanimated corpses in there. She picked up every book in the tower and began reading them furiously. After learning the secrets of life and death and recruiting several necromancers, she (totally) reanimated her lower body and right hand, but still couldn't pick up any weapons, reserving that hand for magic use (I just say that to explain why I refuse to take off her shield and use a crutch, if that's even possible, also I thought the idea of her body rotting away while still being alive and pouring miasma was cool)
From here I just sort of walked around, killing and reanimating small creatures. But I dreamed of something bigger. I entered a warlord camp that I had neglected, and by spamming reanimation, killed everything within my reach. Reanimating the corpses, I ravaged the countryside, feeding on my victims to satiate my bloodlust. Erin had grown crazy with her corrupted nature, killing left and right. With an army of 500 dead, she attacked a nearby city. Of course, this being the year 1061, vampires had already cleared it out. Realizing (of course this happened) that her kind was killing all of humanity, she retired in the glaciers north, where the blood supply on her corpses would not rot away, donning a mask so that no-one may ever see her face, now far gone from the pretty, irish cake it once was.

Then Jupiter Twilightsparkle (I name these after people I know, this one happens to like ponies a lot)

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Jupiter started on an island far away from the main continent, thinking I would just swim over when I reunited everyone. She began like Erin, only with a double-handed silver sword. She vanquished every vile creature who decided to infest the lairs of the island (I could never find the ones in the sewers!) and retired in 1062 after becoming a knight in iron armor. After a (corrupted) save in which I tried to bring up Donzol the Dwarf (I'll post about that later, I guess) I brought her out of retirement to battle Erin and her zombies (hopefully leaving Erin relatively unscathed, I just want backstory for them ) So, she swam across the ocean. Wow, I have to tell you, that is the most boring experience in dwarf fortress I have ever had. But, she reached the mainland. Literally about halfway around the globe from Erin. So, she takes some time off to kill vampires and the like to amass an army to help her travel across the world. She does this, then out of curiosity I ask a lord to give me a quest, seeing if it would be in the sewers or not. Instead, he asks me to kill a !!dragon!! which had been the first time I had been asked to kill a non-humanoid creature. Then I saw he said "far north" and figured it was just a couple days away. Go to the quest map, it's literally on the other side of the globe, going along the X-axis! So, now Jupi walks the barren landscape with her band of misfits, getting into heroic fights with giant desert scorpions, and something called a "bleak ogre" which I cannot find anywhere. It is a creature of the night, however.

[Uzu Bash]

Came to a city surrounded by a cluster of lairs and didn't even bother visiting the lord before getting to work. Turns out it's full moon night, and the beasts are hunting. Found a wereskunk, already killed by a family of four vampires, a weregila, two werelizards, a werejackal, weremonitor, and weregiraffe. That was done in just a few hours and it was still night, so I went to town and hit the sewers. It happened to have no water, so I could wander the whole thing unrestricted -- except for one drop-off, two levels deep that ended in only 5/7 water. Cleared everything else, visited court and got my applause for the mighty slaying I'd done.

Then went around the walls to check for another entrance to where I couldn't get in, and found a deep, 4x4 pit. I walked around to survey it, and a single blowgun dart made me dodge right over the edge. I fell four floors into the middle of a dozen of serpentfolk with their chieftess and broke everything except my legs. I kicked about half of them to death, and they knocked me unconscious about 3 times before they finally killed me.

[Uzu Bash]

Found a law-giver vampire with a kill-count Over 9000! No wonder the city is abandoned, all the critters in the sewers combined hadn't killed that many. When I called her out for being a vampire, naturally all the faction heads standing around turned on her and attacked. But this is a new one on me; all the commoners standing around revealed themselves to be cultists, and turned on them.

[niltaff]

My dwarven swordsman spent half a day throwing rocks, then after becoming a Legendary thrower and archer, he killed some local vampires.
Then he went looking for a nearby lair only to get charged at by a Yak Bull, which instantly broke one of his legs and knocked out half his upper teeth, which knocked him unconcious.
And then he died.

[Hanslanda]

Found a law-giver vampire with a kill-count Over 9000! No wonder the city is abandoned, all the critters in the sewers combined hadn't killed that many. When I called her out for being a vampire, naturally all the faction heads standing around turned on her and attacked. But this is a new one on me; all the commoners standing around revealed themselves to be cultists, and turned on them.

That is awesome.

[Jacob/Lee]

I accused a law-giver of being a vampire based on his 5 human bone jewelry items. Cue the entire keep metaphorically exploding as loyalists and cultists show themselves and start fighting. Since I couldn't walk and was surrounded by cultists, I rolled down the stairs to the dungeon and sat there for a bit. I saw a wounded cultist come down the stairs and run off into one of the dungeon doors so I followed him. I couldn't find him, but out of nowhere a kobold/human band of brigands storms through the door and attacks. I kill all 6 of them, collect their purses, then walk crawl back up the stairs to see all the people in the room, vampire included, dead. I go up and around the stairways to get back to the front and see 3 cultists and a dead person. I dispatch all cultists easily, one miner was especially entertaining because I made him fall off the 3-story high stairway and shatter a lot of bones, then go back up the stairs to get the rest of these douches in the building. A cultist hunter attacks me on the stairs, but I kill him easily. I come to a room with 3 elven cultists and 1 human, kill them all easily. 1 room left. I walk up there to see a horror show.

First, there's a pile of crap that you normally find in keeps. Then there's a layer of blood on them and every inch of wall and floor space in that half of the room. Then there's 6 bodies strewn about, most of them lying on said piles of crap. Then there's 2 unharmed cultists standing on top of them. We charge, and suddenly another appears out of the stairs and 1-hits my ally who was badly wounded. Those 3 cultists stabbed me dozens of times, drove me down the stairs, across the building and then finally made me die of bleeding on top of a stairwell. I roll down 3 floors' worth of stairs then my body slams into the floor at the bottom in a puddle of blood, most of it my own.

This is why I love adventure mode, stuff like this.