Cthulu: Is that even possible without killing the person?
But I can understand what anvilsmith is saying though. As it currently is, we can't do any of these things, and the game doesn't do any of it in real time. The next release will essentially be the same thing for everyone with the addition of flavour text for background.
If you didn't know about the updates, you very well wouldn't know such changes were made. In effect, you would be playing the exact same game without any notable changes. I think the biggest difference, gameplay-wise, for this release would be the re-inclusion of mercenaries.
Furthermore, Toady himself admitted that the legends screen (which is the only screen you can currently use to check this kind of information) is horribly fragmented and convoluted, and trying to make sense of anything that goes on there takes hours upon hours... for a pocket world. I don't think imagination plays much here, more like the ability to resist tedium.
However, these are all just foundation for the meat of the arc. You can't have great things without starting somewhere. So while this update might be bland, gameplay-wise, the next update holds greater potential (due to the building-up of the foundation) to be awesome... gameplay-wise.
edit: I don't see the purpose of elven slaves until we can start prostitution or actual, visceral torture. Anything an elf can do as a slave, my own dwarven slaves can do better.
[ April 22, 2008: Message edited by: umiman ]