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"I feel like making a peasant girl who finds the set of artifact gear her dad left behind and decides to take on the world with it."
*reclaim fort -> force strangemood on the dorfs and get a suit of steel helm/mail shirt/gauntlets/greaves/pick/shield, plus masterwork boots*
*retire fort, start peasant girl there, go downstairs and grab the gear*
*head upstairs, use advfort to dig all the soil, all of it, took so damn long, wrestled a cat a bit until I got worn out/bruised up, but got my armor/shield/mining/fighter skills up enough that her training montage was complete*
*find out about various local beasts and bandits, sneak into a bandit camp, slay them all*
*sneak into a dragon cave, behead it with a single strike to the head*
*almost legendary miner now, for some reason after fast traveling most recently the game decided I was now a chief medical dwarf... the only surgery I've ever done involves the removal of heads... this is very confusing*
*find an elf retreat, slip in and spend a good while tossing elves out of trees, at one point I accidentally grabbed a prone elf next to me and after seeing I can't throw them I noticed I could grab the standing elf up and behind me and proceeded TO USE THAT ELF TO KNOCK TWO MORE OUT OF THE TREE... BAHAHAHAHA...*
*in the process one of them scratches me and MY NOSE CAME OFF... so I started removing ears, deciding these elves were clearly suffering from too much elfery, and later uh... I had no way to sanitize the wounds, which leaves only one method: cauterization*
So, after all this, after becoming Deler Bloodypick the Mechanical Finger of Smokes, 84 notable kills, I decided to flesh out another part of the map on my way back to the fortress to regale folks with stories of my journey.
*heads north through a narrow isthmus, skirts some mountains, drops out of fast travel to jump a river... right into some sludge*
*feverish*
"Bleh... well, still gotta get out of here."
*tries to jump the river, only makes it halfway*
You are drowning.
You flounder in the water.
*makes it just barely to the other side, and flops out on the bank*
You have suffocated.