Started a giant party of demigods just to see how far character creation could go. I gave them all different skill-sets and loaded them with pets and stuff, including perhaps 50 bunnies. This was a terrible mistake. As a consequence, I retired the entire party in a hamlet and resumed with just my two more martially skilled characters: a marksdwarf who used to be a hunter, and a swordsdwarf. We did a little bit, killed a little goblin band that ambushed us, some alligators, whatever. Then we wandered into a town, where we found some dice. The swordsdwarf rolled the dice, got bad luck, then rolled again a couple times (this was my first time messing with them) and got hubrised. I was so mad about this that I fast-traveled to a river to throw them in, but I threw from like 2 tiles away and didn't realize the marksdwarf was standing between the swordsdwarf and the river, so they hit the marksdwarf and aggro'd him to me. He immediately shot me in the heart with a crossbow bolt, at the same time that I jumped toward him into the river to try to peacefully get him to back off. He ended up jumping out of the way of me, and also landed in the river, where he was instantly set upon by alligators.
I managed to swim to shore, but suddenly realized that it would be way cooler if I could somehow salvage this whole thing by at least saving the marksdwarf, so I bodyswapped to him (it's really cool that you can do that with party members now, and it absolutely makes this update for me!!!), but found that he was blind and in heavy bleeding. I checked the announcements and found he had been hit really hard in both eyes by two alligators in the same turn, and his eyes were destroyed. Moments later, one had bitten off his nose, and two others had scratched off his ears. A couple of his limbs were broken. This had all happened in the time it took the swordsdwarf to get back to shore. So I had to bodyswap back to the swordsdwarf and jump back in (while spraying blood from the heart) to save the marksdwarf. I slashed and stabbed, and by the end of it, the alligators had all either died or fled, and the swordsdwarf was pale. The marksdwarf was beginning to drown, but I managed to bodyswap to him and guide him to shore. By the time I had done this, trying to bodyswap into the swordsdwarf revealed he had already bled to death from the crossbow bolt to the heart.
So I wandered back into the town and retired the now-blinded, noseless, earless marksdwarf there, then immediately restarted with the marksdwarf and a bard-ish human woman from the big party from earlier. The bard arrived from the hamlet where the party had retired, and the blind dwarf and the bard wandered into a tavern. The bard had had a pet eagle that flew around with her. Both told stories for a while, I messed with the sermons feature, etc., etc. Then I saw that there were a lot (6) of goblins in the tavern, so the bard tried asking them questions, but they refused to answer. The bard (read "I") got angry about this and punched one, at which point they all instantaneously went lethal aggro and arrows started flying everywhere. A spear goblin stabbed the bard in the leg and the bard lost the ability to walk. The blind dwarf seemed to be entirely incapable of self-defense due to the way combat interacts with player blindness, so he just sort of sat there and took a beating.
The spear goblin then stabbed the bard in the lower body and tore apart the guts, then one of her arms. Helpless, I watched as the spear goblin stabbed the bard's pet eagle's leg off, then disemboweled it, then split its head open. At this point, having failed at many attacks, I realized the bard had no combat skills, and guided her outside, where she crawled off a two-z-level ledge into a little ditch to hopefully heal from her injuries. The goblins didn't follow, and I suddenly realized the blind marksdwarf was screwed, so I bodyswapped back to him.
Fortunately, the map is still shown (but shaded) when you bodyswap to a blind character, so he was able to run for the door, but on the way, a hammer goblin hit him in the chest, breaking a rib and sending it through a lung. Then, the spear goblin from before stabbed him in the neck, just as he stumbled out the door onto the street. I led him to the same ledge, and he fell in on top of the bard. I bodyswapped back to the bard to watch as the goblins broke off their attack to murder some random dwarf that had decided to be our ally but hadn't really contributed, and afterward the goblins just sort of wandered back into the tavern.
I tried to sleep, and was surprised to see that work when the marksdwarf couldn't breathe, even though I knew that he would suffocate a little while after we regained consciousness. The most important thing was that the bard regain use of her limbs (if possible). Fortunately, the bard was mostly okay after waking up, except for superficial stuff, so I immediately began plotting revenge. I knew the marksdwarf, who now was blind, had no ears or nose, and couldn't breathe, wasn't going to survive, but I brought him along for as long as possible.
Since the bard didn't have any offensive abilities whatsoever, I went to the keep to try to ask some fighters to join me who could maybe kill all the goblins for me. The marksdwarf lived until I was one tile away from the door to the keep, then finally suffocated. I went inside, and found it entirely populated by politicians, with no warriors at all, and I was really disappointed... until I looked in the back.
On a pedestal in the back, I found the answer to all my problems -- an artifact that this civ had somehow come across: a slab. I thought it was optimistic to assume it would have the secrets of life and death, but I picked it up and read it anyway, out of desperation. And it worked. I don't know, this civ must have stolen it from a tower or something. No idea.
What was important was that I ran outside and immediately raised the marksdwarf as a -- a what? A pale zombie? That's new. Okay, sure, let's see what that does. It didn't immediately seem terribly interesting, except for the fact that he didn't aggro the people in the keep, and they didn't aggro him. But I would need more than this one zombie to kill all the goblins. I ran directly to a temple I had seen earlier, and lucked out. It led into a set of catacombs, where I raised 15 skeletons and ran back to the tavern, where the goblins recognized and aggro'd me.
It didn't go well at first, and several skeletons were lost in the battle with the goblins, but, once again, some of the dwarves in the tavern, including a random dwarf labeled as a wrestler, decided to align with me. But they too fell pretty quickly. Then I raised them as pale zombies. Things were quickly settled after that. The zombies managed to kill most of the goblins, and immobilize a few, including the speardwarf and hammerdwarf from before, whom I both killed personally by picking up a stone barrel of alcohol and smashing it on their heads while they were on the floor being scratched and bitten by zombies.
Then I accidentally hit tab, and realized suddenly that the marksdwarf I had raised before was not just another of my zombies, but was actually still considered part of the party, and I could bodyswap into him. And control him. And he could talk and dance and sing and recite poetry and do absolutely everything... including SEE. So I went back and got his clothes and equipment from the keep, and equipped him back to normal.
So now the status was that we had a human bard necromancer, a blind, faceless marksdwarf who had died but was resurrected as a fully sentient (and non-blind) zombie, and 3 pale zombie resurrected dwarves from the tavern.
I've never liked having a lot of zombies with me in DF, so I went outside and killed a couple of them, but one had gotten lost somehow, and I managed to find him with the fast travel map. This was that wrestler I mentioned before, and this fight took a lot of work. He managed to bend and break the bard necro's hand, then punch her hands into gore, then punch her in the neck and smash that into the body. It was clear this was going nowhere good, so I bodyswapped to the marksdwarf zombie and managed to crush the wrestler zombie's head with the necro slab.
Since the bard necro's neck was smashed, she was guaranteed to die in some number of non-fast-travel turns, so I fast traveled back to the tavern because it seemed fitting, and had her tell a story until she died of suffocation. But then I had my most brilliant idea yet.
The marksdwarf zombie was holding the necro slab, which he had used as a weapon. Was it possible that he could become a necromancer by reading it? No way, no way -- yes way. I had the zombie read the slab, and he managed to resurrect the bard as a pale zombie.
That's where I'm at. I don't know how this is going to go, because now I have two nearly-invincible (to everything but head-crushing) necromancers with horrible injuries that don't appear to affect them(?), and who are themselves zombies, and the AI is such that during any fight a necro automatically starts raising corpses, so things are bound to get horribly ugly, because having all those zombies will be a pain. Idk. We'll see.
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