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[smjjames]

Just had my adventurer get killed by a pack of giant dingo, haven't had that kind of thing happen in a long while.

[a smiling bearded cretin]

Genned a new world for 40.14, with a few changes:
-Elves use metal weapons/armor
-Goblins no longer immortal/must eat and sleep
-Cartilage and nails heal (as last adventure my speardwarf had a smashed open finger which never healed).
-Numbers for beasts: mega 33/semi 484/titan 44/demon 44/night trolls 484/vampire 111/werebeast 258

I've been rotating between a few dwarves retiring and unretiring them (some adventure, some don't) to move the world along and let it grow a bit.

This world's speardwarf recruited a drunk and armed him with a silver short sword and copper shield. Speardwarf, drunk and pikewoman are moving through the mountain range headed for a lair housing what I forget.

For some reason the pikewoman is unarmed (so we need to arm her) and unsurprisingly runs when a fight starts. The drunk on the other hand has had a very good run:


The interesting thing is:

Dishmab Letterlabors has a few trophies he didn't have before. I used to think it took a full retire before you'd see a character displaying trophies.

An interesting retirement note is any dwarf that fought any opponent of significance, upon being asked how he/she is (by my active character) responds with an assortment of "begone fear, how fragile we are, etc." So yes, hopefully next version with the stress timer fix will be put in soon. While curious, very undesirable to return to the main hillock home base to find bloodshed.

[a smiling bearded cretin]

A few things about stress. After finally finding a pike, my speardwarf, the drunk and the pikewoman unwisely tried to sleep a few squares (fast travel map) too close to a river. My speardwarf awoke because there were 3 dingos nearby:

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Dingoes!
You regain consciousness.
You stand up.
You eat the plump helmets [32].
You drop the +Æ+muskox leather bag+Ø+.
You are no longer stunned.
You pick up the +Æ+muskox leather bag+Ø+ and put it in your pig tail fiber backpack.
The Drunk Swordsdwarf draws the copper shield with his Right hand.
The Drunk Swordsdwarf draws the silver short sword with his Left hand.
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: A creature of the night has our people cowering in fear.  The creature is Abyssdeaths the Umbral Tomb the gloom horror.  This vile fiend has killed three in her lust for murder!
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: I have a part in this.  I will take revenge!
Dåshmab Lolorärith, Drunk Swordsdwarf: I have taken down one yeti while stalking The Barb of Meditating.
You drop the +Æ+muskox leather bag+Ø+.

Drunk charges them only to go down in pain. Speardwarf works them down as pikewoman takes the kills shouting:

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Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: I have a part in this.  I will have my revenge.

A short time later, my speardwarf checks in with the pike woman:

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You: Hello Pidud.  Life is, in a word, war.  Make any good deals lately?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: Hello.  It is good to see you.  Make any good deals lately?
You: How are you enjoying the adventure?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: This is the life for me.
You: How are you feeling right now?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: I have a part in this.  I will take revenge!
You: How are you feeling right now?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: I have a part in this.  I will take revenge!
You: What can you tell me about Dåshmab Letterlabors?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: He is a pleasure to speak with.
You: What can you tell me about yourself?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: I am a soldier.  I have taken down three dingoes while stalking The Fenced Forest.

Once on the road again, we stop before the lair of a night creature, and both are queried:

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You: Hello Dåshmab.  Life is, in a word, truth.  Make any good deals lately?
Dåshmab Lolorärith, Drunk Swordsdwarf: Hey.  It is good to see you.  Make any good deals lately?
You: How are you feeling right now?
Dåshmab Lolorärith, Drunk Swordsdwarf: Those injuries...  Begone fear!
You: How are you feeling right now?
Dåshmab Lolorärith, Drunk Swordsdwarf: How fragile we are...  Begone fear!
You: Wait here until I return.

So the drunk is traumatized, but the pikewomn has readjusted:

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You: Hello Pidud.  This servant of truth greets you.  Don't try to throw your weight around.
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: Hello.  It is good to see you.  Make any good deals lately?
You: How are you feeling right now?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: I was in a snow storm.  It makes me so grouchy!
You: How are you feeling right now?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: I was out in a blizzard.  It makes me so grouchy!
You: How are you feeling right now?
Pidud Nesimbugi, Human Pikeman: It was snowing on me.  It makes me so grouchy!

Fast forward to 1 day or so later:

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The Drunk Swordsdwarf slashes The Black Bear in the head from behind with his silver short sword and the injured part is cloven asunder!
A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Black Bear has been struck down.
The Drunk Swordsdwarf straps the copper shield to his Upper body.
The Drunk Swordsdwarf straps the silver short sword to his Upper body.
You butcher the Black Bear mangled corpse.
You pick up the black bear meat [15] and put it in your pig tail fiber backpack.
You: How are you feeling right now?
Dåshmab Lolorärith, Drunk Swordsdwarf: Never forget true loyalty.
You: How are you feeling right now?
Dåshmab Lolorärith, Drunk Swordsdwarf: Everything's fine.

And he's better it seems.

[StagnantSoul]

Well, tried ambushing a dragon, a cyclops somehow hopped in, killed most of my men, I start trying to save them, kill the cyclops, start throwing things at the dragon, run out of rocks and knives, butcher the cyclops, throw his gibbs, throw my axe. Barely hurt the dragon. Grab her own egg, throw it. Crushed her skull. VICTORY!

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

I just started a new, random fighter type guy, and the civ he was from (the only humans left) had no cities on the overworld map, which I thought was strange. When I started, the entire civ is just 15 guys, led by a military commander.

I really wish I could ask the commander (whom, oddly enough is the only person my character actually knows) what the plan was so I could maybe help reclaim our former glory from a world overrun with gobbos.

[StagnantSoul]

My first guess is get strong enough to take on a vault, and then get a clown on the side of the humans.

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

I took my fighter and found a somewhat weakened human village of another civ (Gobbo civ that took over the city) so I started terrorizing them, asking where the leader was and trying to get people to join me in an insurrection. Those who refused got booted in the face and either died or were left unconcious until I found the castle. Walk in, shout that the site is mine, all the warrior types shout "it must be stopped with violent force!" and tried to advance on me. I fired 1 arrow at the king, missed, and everyone in the room fled and it gave me control of the site.

[StagnantSoul]

Wait, you're the king of that civ now.

[ff2]

Found a human elite crossbow-woman in an town, who says she killed a dragon. Beat her up in a fist fight.

[Chevaleresse]

I genned a world where the only playable critters are goblins and kobolds.

Kobold Quest II begins now!


Killed a goblin, butchered him, and then got mauled by bogeymen because I can't get any traveling companions.

[EnigmaticHat]

Kobolds live in a bloody world.  Kobold Quest is often less of a fantasy epic and more of a short story.

[Nikow]

I genned a world where the only playable critters are goblins and kobolds.

Kobold Quest II begins now!


Killed a goblin, butchered him, and then got mauled by bogeymen because I can't get any traveling companions.

Find a lair, waterfall, mountains, cave...

[Astrid]

Within a thick forest i've had hit a horse into its teeth with my cave spider silk bag filled with edibles and water.

Not only did several dozens of teeth fly dozen of meters around no. I found dozens more of them In the trees several levels above ground....
Did i cause i explosive oral decompression or what? O.o

[pisskop]

Within a thick forest i've had hit a horse into its teeth with my cave spider silk bag filled with edibles and water.

Not only did several dozens of teeth fly dozen of meters around no. I found dozens more of them In the trees several levels above ground....
Did i cause i explosive oral decompression or what? O.o

That seems par for the course, actually.  Maybe not several dozens, though.

I am curious to know how that mechanic is handled. . .  several small, socketed items get hit, anf fly away?

[Eric Blank]

That seems to be the case, yes. If you hit one of the teeth, you hit all of those teeth defined under that part*, and the result seems to always be that they are broken off and launched away at high velocity.

*humans and dwarves have a tooth definition that includes multiple individual definitions for teeth in different parts of the mouth; hitting one of those will cause all of the teeth under that definition which you struck ("upper left back teeth" for instance) to fly out, but the rest will remain because they're separate body parts. Other animals have the "generic_teeth" definition (there are actually a bunch, for rodents and creatures with fangs or large canines), which includes only one body part, but there are 30 teeth to that body part. Horses are one of those creatures with the generic teeth definition, so if you punch a horse in the teeth, 30 teeth will fly out.

There's also the tentacle teeth definition; that attaches 30 teeth to a tentacle... multiplied by the number of tentacles on the critter. So many teeth!
Never seen anybody injured by teeth knocked out of a creature as they fly through the air, sadly, but I imagine a creature that has dozens of socketed parts made of a super-heated material would quickly become ‼fun‼ for everyone if those socketed parts are knocked off.