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Title: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Adultratedhydra on April 01, 2010, 08:39:50 pm
Regardless of the fact the underground regions dont show up with names theres still some interesting stuff.

Had a dwarf who started as a farmer and then at world gen's end was a militia commander who made frequent trips to the nearby underground realm and tamed the creatures there (Giant toads, giant rats, giant olms) and she doesnt have a single kill.
 she still hasnt come face to face with the forgotten beast down there.

Loving it all so far. anyone else got some awesome legends?
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Aklyon on April 01, 2010, 08:56:57 pm
The deadliest (most kills) creature in my world is made entirely out of vomit.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Alkyon on April 01, 2010, 09:33:05 pm
Just started looking at the legends after doing what seems to be the standard "Dig until your fort is overwhelmed by FUN" run. (Got to z-45 before I found the CIRCUS and 50 CLOWNS spawned in and raped my fort.)

Were dragons able to be zombies before?  Because I have a zombie dragon on my legend list.

Edit:  Found a good one!
"Enure was a forgotten beast.  It was the only one of its kind.  A huge moose with external ribs.  It has knobby anennae and has a bloated body.  Its periwinkle hair is long and wavy.  Beware its deadly spittle!  Enure was associated with nighmares and caverns."
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: inteuniso on April 02, 2010, 12:14:30 am
I saw this in an engraving, and it's pretty damn cool to imagine.

Nek Nourishrelic is a human, surrounded by giant eagles. This artwork is related to the taming of the Giant Eagles of The Crest of Helping in 550.

I can imagine Nek standing on a mountaintop, with giant eagles flying around him, as he battles one for dominance. And then wins.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Wirevix on April 02, 2010, 01:06:16 am
I was mucking around in Adventure Mode and talked with some Elf locals (it was a human-owned Elf Retreat that I guess was captured in a war.)  They informed me that apparently, the warlord of this human society had been systematically going to every forest on every side of the city and taming all the grizzly bears from all of them until he had a massive army of grizzly bears.  I was hoping to see grizzlies wandering around the city, but sadly there was no sign.  (Also, one of the Elves was listed as a Farmer, but when I asked his profession, he said he was an engineer.)

So far I've seen lots of great forgotten beasts in my legends (my favorites are a winged hadrosaur made of fire, and a skinless gila monster twisted into humanoid form), but none of them have yet to make any foolery on the surface world.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: PsyberianHusky on April 02, 2010, 02:40:59 am
I was mucking around in Adventure Mode and talked with some Elf locals (it was a human-owned Elf Retreat that I guess was captured in a war.)  They informed me that apparently, the warlord of this human society had been systematically going to every forest on every side of the city and taming all the grizzly bears from all of them until he had a massive army of grizzly bears.  I was hoping to see grizzlies wandering around the city, but sadly there was no sign.  (Also, one of the Elves was listed as a Farmer, but when I asked his profession, he said he was an engineer.)

So far I've seen lots of great forgotten beasts in my legends (my favorites are a winged hadrosaur made of fire, and a skinless gila monster twisted into humanoid form), but none of them have yet to make any foolery on the surface world.

When that kinnda stuff gets implemented walking around in adventure mode is just gonna get weird
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: HonkyPunch on April 02, 2010, 03:03:49 am
Has anyone else had the the choice to play as a Forgotten Beast?
It popped up in my adventurer window and promptly crashed upon loading the game.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Jehdin on April 02, 2010, 07:54:26 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I imagine the Hills of Perfecting are now buried under a gigantic ocean of blood.  :o
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: carebear on April 02, 2010, 08:51:55 am
How do you see the notable and other kills thing in legends? I just saw a generic kills list of humans/dwarves/elves at the bottom of a hydra's legends page, none of the other creatures were counted even though he devoured lots.

Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Xanares on April 02, 2010, 08:53:48 am
Found two really funny ones in my first world gen.  ;D
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: tigrex on April 02, 2010, 08:55:24 am
I love how permanent megabeasts are in this version.  I was reading about a hydra in one of my worlds that had over three hundred kills, and was worshipped by lots of humans and dwarves.  I didn't even know that dwarves could worship megabeasts.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: carebear on April 02, 2010, 09:07:18 am
Okay either Toady made the megabeasts a bit too powerful, or my genned humans/dwarves are just horribly bad. Or maybe they live in small groups.

I generated a large island world which has 70 megabeasts, of which over a period of 1050 years, NONE died. And they weren't hiding either. One hydra had done 50 rampages, and there was one megabeast with over 1000 kills. They all have many worshippers.

There were also around 900 forgotten beasts but those weren't up to much. :P

Here's one:
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As for other monsters, one human town suffered over 80 Monster Rampages.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Xanares on April 02, 2010, 09:28:17 am
They are powerful, but on the other hand these humans/dwarves they battle in world gen are weaklings compared to legendary fortress dwarves (I don't know about adventurers).

So, either the skill progress code for world gen fighters/heroes has to change or you have to nerf Megas, with the sad effect that they will be easy peasy for your soldiers in fortress mode.

I would aim for the first one.

If I am mistaken on the skill progress in world gen I apologize in advance, but this is my exp.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: InsanityPrelude on April 02, 2010, 11:57:16 am
Wiki suggests that megabeasts have simply been made immortal during worldgen.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Wirevix on April 02, 2010, 12:10:32 pm
Not all of them have - checking my legends, I had a titan that died in year 2 (not entirely sure how, haven't checked), and a few other megabeasts had death-dates as well.  They're mostly just intensely tough, it seems.

I'm more used to it though, since I always used to mod all my megabeasts to be outrageously large (and designed a custom hydra bodyplan that made them much harder to kill, hehe) and I was used to only a small number dieing before worldgen finished.  It's more interesting that way!
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Knight Otu on April 02, 2010, 12:40:05 pm
A little nice one in my opinion.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Zonk on April 02, 2010, 12:52:49 pm
Forsaken Beasts are just wow...some are creepy, some are ridicolous.
 
I generated a few worlds with 1000 titans/megabeasts just to check them out. Interstingly, it looks like not all animals are eligible to be used as a base.

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I think Toady watched some japanese monster movies while coding this, since many of the beasts would be quite at home there 8)
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Grakelin on April 02, 2010, 12:58:08 pm
Not all of them have - checking my legends, I had a titan that died in year 2 (not entirely sure how, haven't checked), and a few other megabeasts had death-dates as well.  They're mostly just intensely tough, it seems.

I see a few megabeasts get killed by other megabeasts at times.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: KaelGotDwarves on April 02, 2010, 01:07:20 pm
My first world gen had beaver demons, beaver demons!  ;D
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Moose Fisher on April 02, 2010, 01:14:15 pm
My third genned world has two buffalo monsters.  They have the same characteristics and are both associated with murder.

One has the title of "The Nightmare of Deceivers", the other "The Deceiver of Wickedness".

I wonder what would happen if they encountered one another?
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Tyrving on April 02, 2010, 10:01:35 pm
I had a megabeast in one world, didn't grab a screenshot or anything, but it had over SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED kills. Over 1050 years of worldgen. Someone was busy.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Dakk on April 02, 2010, 10:20:52 pm
I had a pink giant rat demon who just happened to be an exactly copy of another, more proeminent giant rat demon that assumed the control of a gobbo civ. This one tricked a human civilization it was a manifestation of their god of wealth, around year 32. At the same time it forced the humans to create the position of master with threats of violence, and so it became the "master" of that human civ.

For about 30 years it moved out of a hovel to another, more times then I can count, until it decided to challenge a named bronze colossus to a fist fight in year 68.

It became the first and only megabeast/titan/fiend to die in my world, crushed under the mighty fist of an awesomely named bronze colossus with a 150~200 kill score. I'll check legends again and post the screenie later.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Aklyon on April 02, 2010, 10:42:57 pm
My third genned world has two buffalo monsters.  They have the same characteristics and are both associated with murder.

One has the title of "The Nightmare of Deceivers", the other "The Deceiver of Wickedness".

I wonder what would happen if they encountered one another?
Deception, of couse.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: AxisofLint on April 02, 2010, 11:14:04 pm
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f299/Lupiscanis/One.png)
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Retro on April 02, 2010, 11:27:02 pm
Before I even started playing fortress mode I popped open Legends in my first world and saw, at the very top of the list... Gasmsex the forgotten beast. :(
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: G-Flex on April 02, 2010, 11:29:14 pm
I had a pink giant rat demon who just happened to be an exactly copy of another, more proeminent giant rat demon that assumed the control of a gobbo civ.

I believe that demons are randomly generated as types, not individuals: Note the "number of demon types" worldgen parameter. So yeah, your world probably has a bunch of pink giant rat demons of the same demonic race or whatever.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Dante on April 03, 2010, 04:41:35 am
The first demons I found were Chocolate Demons, just in time for Easter.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: Zonk on April 03, 2010, 07:04:00 am
The first demons I found were Chocolate Demons, just in time for Easter.
I got a forgotten beast that was a dinosaur with chocolate scales. I laughed...then I realized that's because the game has a 'chocolate'colour. Still, hilarious.
Title: Re: Share your strangest or best new legends [High potential for Spoilers]
Post by: tombthedwarf on April 03, 2010, 07:27:16 am
2 giant fleshless giant skunk monsters in vaguely humanoid form break free from the underdark, one goes on a killing spee (amonst the elves) and ends up dead 608 years later: slain by an arrow, his tally 105 kills.

the other convinced a civ of humans to accept him as a judge (or something to do with law), and lived in that civ for the entire gen.