Long post incoming.
I've explored my destroyed fort of Boltthrone (original post here
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15096.msg6701359#msg6701359) with the goal of recovering the two artifacts that were made before the zombies came and ruined the place.
It was...surprisingly suspenseful. The aboveground area was completely charred and littered with skeletons and random articles of clothing. For whatever reason there were some people still left loitering around the area. People as in non-zombies. A vrykul poet bolted the moment he saw me and my crew. No idea where they went, decided not to stick around to find out.
Also for some reason my adventurer became a chief doctor out of the blue...
The underground area... due to being a human with non-perfect lowlight vision it was a lot more eerie than if I had been a dwarf. The old stockpile still had most of the old items left lying around, along with random corpse bits. A dwarf merchant was still hanging around there, Armok knows why. I found a tame crow and a tame chipmunk in two of the cages. A wagon was also stationed there, no idea how it got there.
Squatters seemed to have taken over the living quarters - dwarves, nagas, orcs, etc. Literal hobos - merchants, gem setters, poets, etc. all just hanging around in a total mess. The tavern was still intact, it seemed. A corpse was sitting on a chair in front of a table. Also 2 wagons for some reason were in the tavern...again, no idea why; one was even stuck in a wall. Random elf poet running around too.
This is the first artifact I found - it was in the inn area amidst corpse bits, including a severed dog head, some schist mugs and a few books. A corpse was also in one of the beds, so that's nice.
The temple I had made before was for the god of friendship, if I recall correctly. Funny thing is, only now did I bother to check out the statues that I planted inside - they all show violent acts, like a human tearing out an elf's cheek, a dwarf surrounded by fire snakes, or a naga being shot to death by an elf. Also a toad statue for some reason.
The sheriff's office was a mess - fitting considering it had been taken over by a plump helmet man. Nothing really substantial besides a statue of a human being killed by a puffalord and this simple but inspiring statue of dwarfkind:
The corridor towards the dormitories had another wagon stuck in a wall.
The dormitories themselves had more plump helmet man squatters. Also a troglodyte squatter who wasn't hostile in any way so I left her alone. Plenty of crazy orc hobos talking to wagons as well about how in a time before time somebody attacked somebody. Who would have thought living in a dark cavern snorting rotten corpse gas made you lose your sanity?
On one of the beds I found the other artifact amidst some books and non-assorted clutter.
Not really spectacular in any way but an artifact's an artifact, so I can't complain.
Lastly I checked the barracks where the survivors of the zombie invasion made their last stand. Aside from yet more clutter, there were only a dwarf swordsdwarf, a dwarf merchant, a horse and a mule remaining there. I decided to take the swordsdwarf along with myself, felt like she didn't deserve to remain in that decaying hole in the ground.
I returned to my hometown of Toothstrong, sold some of the books and a masterwork mitten I found in return for some practical clothing. Then I headed south to my civilizations capital, Confineequaled, and sold off the artifacts and remaining books along with some other baubles I took while in Boltthrone.
Lastly I went off to some ruined village and did what I was always supposed to do.
