Another death, this time while infiltrating a goblin dark fortress. I had cleared out the main level and the level above it, and had two more trolls to kill on the uppermost level before descending to the depths. I had killed, to date, 16 trolls, 4 wolves (which were stupid enough to try and attack me while I was wandering around), a goblin weaponsmith (headshot from stealth, decapitation with silver battle axe!), and a goblin hammerman who was at least equally skilled with me and who I finally killed by removing his helmet with wrestling (which neutralized my ability to dodge or block for a few seconds) and beating him over the head with my axe until I split his skull. This was after I'd had to repeatedly bash him against a wall (throws when he was next to the wall) in order to buy myself time to fight a troll. Which made it all the more humiliating to be killed by one of the trolls, who wizened up and decided to attempt wrestling against me instead of punching me. It got a hold of my arm, shattered the bone with a joint lock, which knocked me out, at which point it whaled on me for TWO IRL MINUTES before finally killing me (I was wearing the helmet I'd taken from the goblin, which is probably why it took so long).
My adventurers in this world have a tendency to get killed off fairly quickly, with the only living one being the one I retired to a human site after taking it over. I had one die to a stealthed night creature, another to a lone speargoblin after having killed off THREE night trolls in the same town (for some reason, night trolls hate the town my first adventurer settled in), and I'm pretty sure I've lost another to who knows what. This was the first adventurer to actually die in an awesome way, if somewhat trivial.
Update on stuff: I've lost quite a few more adventurers in the same world, including the still-living one I mentioned above (I frankly don't remember what killed him). As a matter of fact, that entire town has basically been populated by goblins while nominally being under human control, resulting in near-constant uprisings and the murder of at least one ruler who came after my original adventurer (who, amusingly enough, was a dwarf, and I think the group (made up entirely of humans) is actually considered a dwarf group). My most recently dead adventurer was one who was created, took over another human town (as a human, this time), retired, then unretired out of boredom and I decided to go fight the last remaining surface megabeast: a hydra. So, I go to said hydra's lair, enter stealth mode, and enter. Which was my first moment of stupid: hydras have no blind spots. I'm assuming that my iron halberd or whatever will be enough to hurt it, right? Well, second mistake was forgetting the hydras have a boatload of attacks, which makes it extremely difficult to get in one of your own. And the third and worst stupid was forgetting to draw my weapons, which had been sheathed in town earlier. Thus, the hydra got in a round of attacks against me without my shield or weapon, savaging my lower body and left foot. Well damn. I draw my weapon and shield and have at the hydra, happily slashing away at the thing. I keep missing, but I'm keeping it at bay, so that's good, right? Fourth mistake: Never play save-or-die with a hydra, they have a boatload of attacks and "extra lives". Even if I could chop off a hydra's head with a single lucky hit, that wouldn't eliminate it, and any one of the hydra's attacks could spell my end. Pretty soon, he grabbed my right leg and latched on, badly wounding it, and in desperation I lashed out at one of it's heads. I hit and... dented the scale. Fuck. It then proceeded to rip off my leg and, despite my best efforts, destroyed me in short order with hardly a scratch.
That's it, I'm starting as a axedwarf from my first fortress (where there were quite a few steel-armed warriors wandering about) and wasting that thing. Of course, the only dwarf with any real skill with the axe is, naturally, my militia commander, who won't go with me, so I'm bringing a couple of my recruits, and unfortunately I ended up with only a bronze axe. Still, I'm going in. Maybe I'll kill some night trolls first to gain fame (if that still works), there are still a boatload of the suckers despite my best efforts at extermination.
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