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I came across a village that had been taken over by Kobolds, according to my adventurer's Lord.

I arrived at night, everyone was asleep. I saw that every home had 2 or 3 kobolds and a bunch of Dwarves. I tried to sleep to wake someone up, and asked them about the ruler. They told me it was Bolbar and knew nothing about *them.* The key word being "them."

Every Dwarf in town knew the name of the conquering army's group, but not who they were. I finally asked permission to sleep, slept and awoke to all the dwarves attacking the kobolds. I joined in and killed a few myself, and the dwarves praised me for it. So I think I may have found the root of some issues with the morale system as well as having an interesting adventure.

As I posted in the conversation thread, I tried to beat information out of one of the last remaining kobolds:

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You: Let us stop this pointless fighting!
Munosh Specutsi¤ur, Spearman: Death is all around us.  This is truly horrifying.
Munosh Specutsi¤ur, Spearman: Our time in The Windy Universes is so brief...  Begone fear!
You: Tell me about the local ruler.
You strap the +iron long sword+ to your Upper body.
You strap the +iron shield+ to your Upper body.
You grab The Kobold Administrator by the throat from behind with your right hand!
You: I hate it.
You: Where are their forces?  Are there patrols or guards?
You punch The Kobold Administrator in the head from behind with your left hand, bruising the muscle, bruising the skull!
The Kobold Administrator has been stunned!
You: Tell me about the local ruler.
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
You place a chokehold on The Kobold Administrator's throat with Your right hand!
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
You: We are in the right in all matters.
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
You: Do they have a firm grip on these lands?
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
The Kobold Administrator is no longer stunned.
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
You miss The Kobold Administrator!
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
The Kobold Administrator misses You!
You punch The Kobold Administrator in the head from the side with your left hand and the injured part explodes into gore!
The Kobold Administrator has been knocked unconscious!
Kobold Administrator has been struck down.
None of them would talk; with or without my hands upon their throats. I thought Kobolds were intelligent enough for speech? Even when they are peaceful toward me, they remain silent. I guess that's why none of the Dwarves knew about them: They didn't talk. At all. Which makes me wonder how they gained control... Did they just show up and start hanging out, not being violent, not saying a word, and all the dwarves just suddenly felt that they had to obey their silent commands?

Quote from: Alev on July 14, 2014, 03:01:30 pm

Here are the pixel-y sprites I made:

Sorry for the quality drop, and how do you resize images with BBCode?

It's amazing, I love it!
I have no idea how to resize, though. I can go dig through some threads to find a way, if you want.

It would be nice to have a way to gather information (through talking) about who likes/hates whom in a given town.
This will be a lot more relevant once we get to more intricate politics, intrigues and the like, but I think it would add something even with what we currently have.

The most simple example would be figuring out who would probably react how if you kill person X.

Looking at those pics I feel bad seeing how all of you play with the default ASCII while I use a map pack 

This already seems to be working good for habits at least.   I drink too much soda.

I put a positive habit of drinking an entire bottle of water (I have an old soda bottle that I fill with tap water), and I put a negative habit of finishing off a 12 pack of soda cans. 

I usually go through 4 or 5 cans of soda per day.  Yesterday I drank a total of 2 cans of dr pepper, and 2 bottles of water.  Today I'm at 1 can of soda and I'm halfway through a water bottle.   I've drank more water in a day and a half than I've drank in months.

yup that's 40.0x in the nutshell right down to confuse look in everyone's face when you come barreling in like a mad man murdering everyone.

also I think I found the first Adventurer King of 40.0x

 this kinda explains why his kingdom is just a camp in gobbo lands, he's out murdering goblins for fun.

also Kadol is in a war with the Dead Periwinkle which starter over treatment of plants...