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[Bumber]

That needs more images of giant wolves devouring the moon. :V

Perhaps three of them? You could sell «shirts».

[thisistherevolt]

So today I beat a Dragon to death with another Dragons head. Afterwards I composed a poem and a dance form about the event while standing in the Dragons blood. The poem was called "Happiness of Blood" and the dance "Abysmal Undulations." I died while in a Human town a few in-game days later due to accidentally calling out a vampire queen while attempting to report my success. I wasn't paying attention and started to perform the dance. After creating a new adventurer (an Osprey Man) simply to get to the site quicker, the vamp Queens subjects had killed her, but most died trying to subdue her. I also tried killing a Bronze Colossus with thrown coins. It did not go well.

[Uzu Bash]

Toady is putting in treecutting, looks like it'll be a composition/travel screen type cutaway for an hour but it should be permanent unlike advfort, and it'll be the foundation to add in construction/player site creation apparently.

An hour? That doesn't get better with practice, like it does in fortresses?

After creating a new adventurer (an Osprey Man) simply to get to the site quicker, the vamp Queens subjects had killed her, but most died trying to subdue her. I also tried killing a Bronze Colossus with thrown coins. It did not go well.

Osprey Men have wings, don't they?

[peasant cretin]

After healing the arm through fast travel, Bim remembered he wasn't at focused so he read the book he had found at Rockzenith. Then he and Cerol scouted the mound by walking around it. They tried to reset Iquila's position (the !! ! was near the door) so she'd end up westward, by playing against her EXTRAVISION.

They dropped in and out of fast travel two or three times to try to reset her position, until it was remembered there was a better way:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bim had Cerol wait on the far side of the mound (where he eventually drifted slightly south). It seemed to have moved Iquila westward, away from the door. Bim took a long U-turn before ending up at the mound's entrance. The door received a campfire barricade in preparation for melee. But as there was no !! movement from the west, Bim slowly staggered the corridor with campfire barricades, two at a time to prep for range combat. Fires set, it was then time to begin volume shooting.

Once she dodged out of view, Bim advanced his position and added two more fires. When shooting, Bim was careful to make sure there was always at least a two tile separation between himself and Iquila. After a bit more arrow volume, Bim got the wing shot and then a few shots later, the leg shot eliminating flight, charge and cutting speed:


After doing enough damage with arrow volleys, Bim leapt over the firewall to finish:

Iquila laid low, they head for the hamlet of Coastalaged. Bim had left a few bags of twine and extra clothes at the mead hall.

There, they met the swordself Nisa Aleere (Nisa Leafybells). She tells them about Inen Waveclams the desert titan. Bim spammed how are you feeling to try to gauge her tendencies for battle, but came away only with the fact she has no family to speak of. So, why not?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bim (this time wearing the brigandine), Cerol, and Nisa take the short walk, but Bim has Cerol wait some distance off as they don't know what sort of titan this is and an errant shot might cause chaos.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bim and Nisa sneak in, hiding behind a level change, and discover it shoots webs.

Bim has Nisa wait in front of him (which only partially works since she shifts one tile over after he fires), and gets a lucky single shot bulleye.

When they're made of powder it makes much more sense.

It's silly when that happens, but hunting titans is either about the good stat haul if they can be melee'd, or volume shooting if they can't. None of them will ever be as hard as a good night troll melee, but somehow Bim knows renown is about things that don't really matter. It's all about luck. Ask any kobold.

[Untrustedlife]

After healing the arm through fast travel, Bim remembered he wasn't at focused so he read the book he had found at Rockzenith. Then he and Cerol scouted the mound by walking around it. They tried to reset Iquila's position (the !! ! was near the door) so she'd end up westward, by playing against her EXTRAVISION.

They dropped in and out of fast travel two or three times to try to reset her position, until it was remembered there was a better way:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bim had Cerol wait on the far side of the mound (where he eventually drifted slightly south). It seemed to have moved Iquila westward, away from the door. Bim took a long U-turn before ending up at the mound's entrance. The door received a campfire barricade in preparation for melee. But as there was no !! movement from the west, Bim slowly staggered the corridor with campfire barricades, two at a time to prep for range combat. Fires set, it was then time to begin volume shooting.

Once she dodged out of view, Bim advanced his position and added two more fires. When shooting, Bim was careful to make sure there was always at least a two tile separation between himself and Iquila. After a bit more arrow volume, Bim got the wing shot and then a few shots later, the leg shot eliminating flight, charge and cutting speed:


After doing enough damage with arrow volleys, Bim leapt over the firewall to finish:

Iquila laid low, they head for the hamlet of Coastalaged. Bim had left a few bags of twine and extra clothes at the mead hall.

There, they met the swordself Nisa Aleere (Nisa Leafybells). She tells them about Inen Waveclams the desert titan. Bim spammed how are you feeling to try to gauge her tendencies for battle, but came away only with the fact she has no family to speak of. So, why not?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bim (this time wearing the brigandine), Cerol, and Nisa take the short walk, but Bim has Cerol wait some distance off as they don't know what sort of titan this is and an errant shot might cause chaos.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bim and Nisa sneak in, hiding behind a level change, and discover it shoots webs.

Bim has Nisa wait in front of him (which only partially works since she shifts one tile over after he fires), and gets a lucky single shot bulleye.

When they're made of powder it makes much more sense.

It's silly when that happens, but hunting titans is either about the good stat haul if they can be melee'd, or volume shooting if they can't. None of them will ever be as hard as a good night troll melee, but somehow Bim knows renown is about things that don't really matter. It's all about luck. Ask any kobold.

What tileset are you using because that doesn't look like the standard ascii/color scheme? Also, my Bone-peddler adventurer (who started as a peasent!) has been hunting named giant alligators and Giant dingos and such. People call me out about how good I am for a deal and my hunting prowess. But you..you are the greatest hunter.

[Rumrusher]

max you said something about Clearing the Death flag or something on a ghostly adventurer to gain access to playing them again?
how do I go about this with out using dfhack? use an resurrect interaction on the corpse after they came back from the dead as a ghost?

[Max™]

Oh, no, I meant literally with dfhack, gotta remove the entries showing you had a death, what death it was, etc.

[Uzu Bash]

Met the tree dwarves, but I didn't find anyone qualified for adventuring or performing. At least the kid had a musical and poetic form to share. I think I'm stuck with Cog, because it's too late in the game to get a rookie to catch up to the rest of us. He doesn't really annoy me so much, but listening to everyone's bitching about him does. They need to learn not to let him get under their skin; just fuck with his head, like I do. I argue values I don't care about or believe, then act outraged when he rejects my premise, then repeat when he brings up another value, or just flatter him to shut him up.

At least he's gotten braver, rushing in first with teeth ready to latch on. Or maybe he's just suicidal now that he's so physically broken. I have a week to decide whether to pass the curse and give him another chance. I probably will out of necessity.

The same retreat had a goblin dancer -- all dancers in this world are goblins, so I wish they'd stop their suicide attacks. I've gone through the history of every site in this civ to find at least one resident who took up the occupation of dancer, and have found nothing so far. A reasonable explanation for this is that their dancers joined a troupe group and left their site group before becoming dancers. I got some nice dances from the goblin, but they were all ceremonial and/or improvisational forms, so I can't compose for them unless I get them at random by scribing straight to page.

[Rumrusher]

Oh, no, I meant literally with dfhack, gotta remove the entries showing you had a death, what death it was, etc.

well then this means I can't basically Tell toady about the ghost lack of flying gaits through legit means or uhh prove ghost adventurers aren't a Dfhack construct.
well atleast my ghost studies prove ghosts can be effected by interaction transformations.

[Max™]

I might have missed you trying this, but have you resurrected your body as a different species while your ghost was around?

[Droggarth]

Made a second active world where I am my actual demon embodiment, had to make some slight modding on my adventures to my character's race to get him the way I wanted him to be. Made an awesome name for him and by killing the first opponent which was an ambushing jaguar I got an extra name: "Wurág" (aka Standreign)

His name is "Dhor Wurág Kar Strir" now aka "Dhor Standreign the Lord of Rage".. out of all random names this gotta be the most spot-on name for a character so far. Instead of sitting he reigns the battlefield and his profession is 'Battle-Lord'.

Stabbed a bronze colossus to death with an adamantine dagger that was the only thing able to damage it at that moment as my platinum masterful greataxe and shield didn't do squat. Later on I hacked hydra to death with my greataxe, it bled to death though but the damage I did to it was more than satisfying and by the time I got to kill a dragon, my character was/is stronger/tougher than ever and this time around the other hand wielded the same greataxe that I upgraded to adamantine and to artifact quality and the main hand has an adamantine greatsword which too is an artifact in quality only (wish I could give them all custom names and descriptions).

Anyway I did a short work of the dragon and not ONCE was it able to damage me even though I had all the automatic dodging turned off. Once the final blow to it's head was made with the greataxe I butchered the dragon and it's hacked off head and got the dragon bones that I needed for my quality bone gear and trinkets. I am now back somewhere in a nearby dwarven village/hamlet/hobbit hole thing spreading rumors of my kills and trying to be nice to dwarves since they seem to be quite friendly with me.. I guess that's what [POWER] tag does.

[peasant cretin]

What tileset are you using because that doesn't look like the standard ascii/color scheme?

Here (I do love this tile set):
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository
Author    Xenomorph
Dated    2008-8-9
Tile Size    8×16
Resolution    640×400
Comments    This is the tileset used by Acorn computers, starting with the BBC Micro. This version is as it would have appeared in 80-column modes (albeit adapted to CP437). Download the BMP.

Also, my Bone-peddler adventurer (who started as a peasent!) has been hunting named giant alligators and Giant dingos and such. People call me out about how good I am for a deal and my hunting prowess. But you..you are the greatest hunter.

Sadly (YMMV), any peasant can take a bow and say 100 arrows and go shoot a meat titan down (Bim started as a peasant too). It's like The Brave Little Tailor with his "Seven at One Blow" so the renown feels very unwarranted. I guess the difference is your character isn't trying to trick the world though. The world has tricked itself.

[Elfhater69]

I created a peasant dwarf bonecarver on a world with only 5 years of history (i like being part of the devolping history)
Anyways i killed some animals to create bone carvings and i created a few well crafted and masterwork figurines and went to sell them at a nearby fortress (hillocks didnt seem to have markets) i went there and went to sell them but they had no forn of currency yet. So i traded them for other items to sell at a human settlement where i knew there were markets (played a previous game before at a human town) But the problem was that the only way to get to them from where i was, was across a great mountain range. I couldnt travel alone because well boogeymen. So i searched the fortress for warriors to join me on an adventure but none of them wanted to so instead i asked them to join me as entertainers but they wanted me to demonstrate my abilities. So i sang and got 3 other dwarfs to travel with me and we headed for the mountain range. We traveled for a full day and i had plenty of food, water on the other hand... not so much. Thankfully there was a lake nearby and i got some water and rested. Well when i woke we started to head out, we barely took three steps before being attacked by a yetti! We managed to kill the yetti, butcher his corpse take his meat and bones. But my ankle was bdly injured and one of my other mates was injured as well. We rested again to heal then on our way out, guess who decides to show up? Another yetti! Thankfully nobody got hurt this time though. Anyways i went to save the game and exit cause i had things to do. So i clicked save and the game crashes. All that work for nothing. It restarted me back at the fort

[Uzu Bash]

A masterwork platinum greataxe. That sounds really special, Droggath. Did you think to check the material's shear values before gifting yourself that, genius?

[Random_Dragon]

A masterwork platinum greataxe. That sounds really special, Droggath. Did you think to check the material's shear values before gifting yourself that, genius?

It would've made a badass maul though.