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Guys, am i on something or what? I just bought on the embark two peacocks and two peahens. After the passage of some time, i noticed that the four were actually peahens. Are my peacocks changing their sex or am i missing something? 

EDIT: I have observed this in my previous embark, so i tought i confused the peacocks with peachicks. But this time, i was sure i picked peacocks.

BONUS: Also, they're laying eggs 

In this very moment there are two miners on my fortress. One of them is digging the workzone and the other is...in the meeting area, scratching his balls. It reads no job and i thought: "Hey! Maybe i forgot to bring a pickaxe!", but nope, he has a pickaxe, he is assigned to mining, he dug a moat and a farm just some moments ago and now he just stopped working. I'm seriously about to throw the fucker down the filling moat and watch him drow just for my amusement.

EDIT: And no, there aren't any burrows.

Here is his personality and all that crap, if this is relevant

The flying/walking lungfish glitch is quite well-known in our community, but i think this bug has got quite out of hand in my map. It isn't causing any trouble and is quite amusing, but the amount of lungfish appearing and disappearing in my map is outrageous. What do they want? Are they friendly? Is the Lungfish Empire planning something? Why is there a chained cat in front of my fort?

Recently downloaded the 40.24 version and immediately went to the raws, so i could remove those pesky aquifiers. Deleted the [AQUIFIER] from every layer that had it and then created a new world for test. I attempted to embark, but guess what? Yeah, Aquifiers! Created a new one: Aquifiers! What am i doing wrong?

Being away from this community for a while, since the 40.13 release, and i recently got an urge to play this game again.
Wow, poets, libraries, festivals? Can you guys sum up what changed from 40.13 to now?

Recently, while trying to dig a channel with purposes involving rotting food and butchered puppies, a cave-in happened and my two miners and a kitty were knocked unconcious (Both had their legs broken). I demanded the cook (Who is btw a high master miner) to dig to the place where it happened, but when he got there, he just "meh, wounded dorfs and a kitten" and leaved. After a while, a stray cat came and took the kitty with him (Which by the way, was the more wounded than the dwarfs). After more time passed, a dwarf brought water to them, by the time he did that, they weren't unconcious anymore, but they're just standing there, doing nothing. I have no hospitals.

I remember having a dwarf wounded by a giant kea in the same version, it was on the outdoor meeting hall. I demanded some soldiers to kill the bird and the dwarf, after waking up, crawled toward his room and rested, but for some reason, the miners aren't resting. Also, while writting this, i forgot to pause my DF and THEY'RE STILL THERE. They're also drowsy.

Welcome to Hellvalle! As the suggests, you're in hell! Prepare to be tortured in this wonderful world of 2 meter tall Frogmen and Muscular Lizardmen bandits trying to stab you in the face! Enjoy your stay!

Here is a map of the place:

Rules

The rules in combat are very basic: 1 is fail and the enemy gets a free 3 attack on you. 2 is miss. 3 is a low-power attack. 4 is a medium-power attack. 5 is a high-power attack. 6 is a high-power attack, but with terrible consequences. Low-power attacks will give you small bruises, Medium-power may give you some really serious ones, such as bleeding and High-power attacks are likely to give you a wound that you will carry along for the rest of your character's life, such as broken bones and cut-off hands. Don't worry! Go visit a cleric!



 Now for the encounter rules. If you travel, for example, from a town to another town, there's a chance of you encountering a monster. The difficult varies according to the roll. 1 is a weak-ass monster, 2 is average, 3 is above average, 4 is dangerous, 5 is very dangerous and 6...well, you certainly don't want to get a 6, i'm warning you.The GM is the one who is going to make the monsters. They may repeat.
 The encounter rate will be like this: The GM rolls the dice once, if it is more than 4, encounter time! If you feel like fighting something, just say that you're hunting around the area. This way, you will always encounter a monster. The rules of difficult still applies here, obviously.

When travelling, for example, from Magmakittens to Ghoulfang, you will have to travel from Magmakittens to point B, not directly to Ghoulfang. Why? Because without it, it would be too easy! We will call them medium-points.

If you're in a place where the civilization is hostile towards you, there is a small chance of getting an encounter on each movement command you give to your character.

Someplaces, such as the whole Eastern Island, the encounter difficult is different. They are:
What are the changes, you ask? Instead of the normal encounter difficult rule, it will go like this: 1 or 2 is dangerous. 3, 4 or 5 is very dangerous. 6 is extremly dangerous.

On your character sheet, put your name, your class, your race, your weapon and your armor. I will now explain the classes:

The power of attack will vary with your attack power (Or magic attack power, if you're using magic) and the enemy's defense/magic defense. For example. Let's say there is a mage and he is attacking a fighter using a fire magic. He gets a 5 and, as his magic attack power is high and the fighter magic defense is low, it's a OHKO and the fighter is dead. But if the fighter was attacking the mage with his sword and got a 5, it would be a OHKO too, because the mage's defense is very low and the fighter's attack power is high. It goes like this.

Let's say you found yourself into a very difficult situation, like, you encountered a group of 5 Angry armored minotaurs. Fighting is likely to get you killed. What do you do? Run! No need to feel shame for it! Running works like this: You declare that you want to run, the GM will then roll the dice once. If it lands on a number higher than 4, you ran away! If it doesn't...well, you know what happens.

You can also create parties with other players, but your civilization must not be at war with him. Parties are simple. There is the party leader, he leads where the party goes. If he encounters some beast(s), they fight against it together. The max number of people in a party is 4.

Pvp is allowed in the Eastern Island.

Let's talk about magic. You can't just use a Meteor XI or ban your foe to obilivion. There's limitations! There are

You can be creative on what you do with your magic, but you shouldn't use them in a overpowered way. Using a Fireball is ok. Using a Wave of Fire is ok. Making the sun crash into the place IS NOT OK. Using low-level magics, such as Fireballs, Gusts of Wind or Basic healing spells doesn't require anything, but using powerful magics, such as Explosions of Fire, Spikes of Ice or Complete Healing require your vital energy. Using one of them will downgrade your magic power and magic defense to low-level during one turn.

Dodging in battle will go like this: Everyone, when attacked has a chance to dodge, depending on their speed. Low Speed characters have a 1/6 chance of dodging, while High Speed characters have a 4/6 chance of doing so.

You character has a 2/6 chance of getting caught by surprise in a random encounter.

Well, let's go for the sheets. Here is the example of one:

You will always start off with a backpack, your weapon and your armor at a place that belongs to your civilization. Here is a list of all the playable races:

Don't overpower your character without a GOOD explanation, like, killing a entire demon family, slaying a horde of Bullfrog men and kicking a minotaur at the balls.

Be creative at your actions, don't just go off killing everything! Recruit other players to your clan, become a vampire, become a necromancer, investigate some places, talk with some random people at a town, try to sneak past a horde of angry minotaurs, have fun!

The rest of the actions you do that aren't [AUTO] will be defined by the traditional dice method: Epic fail, fail, partial sucess, sucess, amazing sucess and overshoot.

[AUTO] actions are those that don't need to be rolled, like, taking a step, looting or drinking vampire blood.

If you think there is something crucial that i forgot or a suggestion, PM me! For now, leave your character sheet here if you're interested in joining. Welcome to Hellvalle!