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[klingon13524]

This is less of a LP, and more of a demo of the sillyness that is DoD. My actions in this run will be based entirely on suggestions.


Actual adventure starts next post. Actions will be determined by common sense and popular opinion.

[klingon13524]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 

Choose difficulty level. Toggle permadeath, no time to grind, and DLC (all reccomended by me).

fakeedit: Sorry about the minor clipping, I'll fix that in future posts.

[shadenight123]

Going rogue.
Permadeath
No time to grind.

we are bay12. we expect HARDCOREEEE

[Girlinhat]

Well, we logically want to be as far away from Elves as possible...
In true Roguelike style, permadeath is mandatory.  I assume the option to disable it is for the aforementioned Elves.  We are not Elves.
Grinding is nice and all, but let's keep things quick for storytelling purposes.  Also raises the stakes a bit, gotta be careful on those monsters!

[klingon13524]

We're not cowards, we're men!


Or are we? Choose gender and name.


Also, what kind of skills will we have? (Choose swashbuckler, viking, Jones, generic RPG hero, wizard, necromancer, archer, painbringer, Bruce, gadgeteer, assassin, summoner, or random.)


I'll start taking these screenshots in a smaller resolution from here on, they're too awesome to be contained by the forum's boundry.

[Tiruin]

Hmm, hardcore, rogue, permadeath with small floors which may lead to quicker deaths for the unwary.

I love it.

Gender: Male.

Erm, Viking because we can take it.

Name: Sigurd

[klingon13524]

Hmm, hardcore, rogue, permadeath with small floors which may lead to quicker deaths for the unwary.

I love it.

Gender: Male.

Erm, Viking because we can take it.

Name: Sigurd

Don't forget a game with 50% more floors to descend than vanilla, and the new enemies in the DLC.

[shadenight123]

RANDOM
and let us be males.
possibly called "urist"

[klingon13524]

Added new char type to choose.

[Girlinhat]

Female Urist, as is the original Urist.  Take whatever skills enable battle axes, tanking, and booze.

I'm not familiar with the game, but the trailer showed a lot of magic.  If the game is more magic-heavy than melee, then go arcane.  Brutal elemental magic and raw power.  No tricks, just fireballs.  If there's a spell that makes magma, then forget everything and go for it!

[klingon13524]

Female Urist, as is the original Urist.  Take whatever skills enable battle axes, tanking, and booze.

I'm not familiar with the game, but the trailer showed a lot of magic.  If the game is more magic-heavy than melee, then go arcane.  Brutal elemental magic and raw power.  No tricks, just fireballs.  If there's a spell that makes magma, then forget everything and go for it!

This is what we'll go with. Lead her to glory, Bay12ers!

Our hero, who we must guide:


Crappy backstory I wrote:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A hot tempered redhead, Urist Mcviking is the daughter of Sven
Mcviking, the vilage cheiftan and his wife who died in labor,
Svenett. Urist was not content to take a subserviant role as
a warriors wife, and stopped training to be a 'good wife' at
age 9. She was determined to join her brothers and uncles in
their glorious conquests and busied herself with training to
be a warrior. Over the years, Urist went on hunting
expiditions with her brothers and trained with her uncle to be
a blacksmith. On her 14th birthday, she met a wizard that was
willing to instruct her, and she learned to harness her inner
viking fury.

One day when she was bathing by the river, Urist
was kidnapped and sold as a concubine to the king's favorite
son. She murdered the heir but could not escape the castle and
was captured by the guards. The king gave her a chance to
redeem herself and was put into the kingdom's millitary as
punishment. When her patrol neared her previous home, she
defected. Only to find that the village had migrated north,
far north across an ocean. She returned to the army, and was
giver trial by the king himself. Urist was sentanced to go down
to the Deep Dreaded Dungeon of the Despicable lichen Dredmor
with only basic equipment.

Will you succeed and become hero of the land? Will you not?
That is for you to determine, guiding ancesteral spirits of
Urist.

Official backstory:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now for the skills: Axemandwarveship (axe specialization), beserker rage (you get really angry and do more damage), Master of arms (good at armor and know how to take a punch), Viking wizardry (assorted spells that work well with melee), Promethean Mage (MAGMAAA), Smiting (more strength, crafting abilities), and Big game hunter (get meat from enemies, more xp).


You step into the dungeon, and iron grates close behind you. If you want to leave alive... you can't. Seriously, your going to die to a potato or something.


You take a few steps ahead, and take stock.


Urist is in the infamous Anvil of Births. There is a food and a drink vending machine. There are three doors. Shall you guide her to go west, south, or east? (GM suggests west, and reminds you that you have no money.)


Most information will be given on a need to know basis.

[Girlinhat]

No backstory.  Dwarves don't have one.  They never do.

"Why did you do this?  Why did you spend so much time building this solid cast obsidian phallus?  Why did you sacrifice 30 dwarven lives building this scaffolding alone?  Why are you on this god-forsaken glacier on the ass of the world?  Why are you here?"
"...I am here."
"Why are you here?"
"I am here!"

There is no story.  There is only a pile of Elf corpses and a single axelord who doesn't really care about anything anymore.  Any story made is done on the spot.

Failing that, generic "treasure hunter in over her head, but too stubborn to admit trouble and too motivated simply die" will suffice.

[klingon13524]

No backstory.  Dwarves don't have one.  They never do.

"Why did you do this?  Why did you spend so much time building this solid cast obsidian phallus?  Why did you sacrifice 30 dwarven lives building this scaffolding alone?  Why are you on this god-forsaken glacier on the ass of the world?  Why are you here?"
"...I am here."
"Why are you here?"
"I am here!"

There is no story.  There is only a pile of Elf corpses and a single axelord who doesn't really care about anything anymore.  Any story made is done on the spot.

Failing that, generic "treasure hunter in over her head, but too stubborn to admit trouble and too motivated simply die" will suffice.

Ninja'd. It takes a long time to make these posts, you know.

[Girlinhat]

Eyebrows of Greater Eyebrows (Effect: +3 Eyebrows - stacks with Eyebrows, effect nulled by Eyebrows)

[klingon13524]

The GM guides Urist Mcviking to go west, and she opens the door.


An odd wand on the floor, looks like it could be useful. You put it on your belt and move on.


These adventuring pants look to be an upgrade to your current rags. You equip these pants that are just lying on a dungeon floor without a second thought.


An unidentified potion. Might as well put it in your backpack.


You see three runes, three rune sized slots, and a lever in the Den of Gears. Do the herp derp thing to do? (The runes are the rune of Pillars, the rune of Growth and Decay, and the rune of Scrutiny)

There's a door on the northern wall of this room, as well as a staircase down and the door you just came through.