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Tumam stared down the Cold Hunter. He felt an endless sea of malice and murderous intent behind it's eyes! Tumam blinked first. He quietly backed away and decided to go around and focus on the other dwarves.
He hunted each one down! He bashed a baroness' skull in and dueled with a dwarf sworn to a long dead goblin kingdom. Tumam supposed it was fitting that all the players in this war represent things dead and gone.




From here the momentum of destruction sped along at an unbelievable rate. Cor's conquest of Adelaathira was far different from Tumam's. Hers was slow, patient and methodical as she played forces against each other, assisted the alliance with defeating the demon invasion, and raised the greatest heroes from each of these wars. Cor sought to rule the world and its inhabitants. Tumam only wanted to purge it completely.
Without being compromised by greed or a desire for minions to command Tumam had no need to slow himself down. His horde advanced and what took Cor decades to achieve: Tumam accomplished in a week. The dead do not sleep or hunger and advanced ceaselessly.

The first two hillocks were caught entirely unawares. Zombies and wights brutalized the populations. Undead horses in particular were overwhelmingly deadly for they lacked the fear that kept their living variants from unleashing lethal force. Each kick of a hoof left a dwarf dead!
The new queen of the silver of staves hid while a brave woodcutter tried to buy time for her to escape. In her fear though she merely cowered and was swarmed. The woodcutter slew two zombies and attempted to break free when realizing it was hopeless, but he too fell.

All were raised, but Tumam couldn't recognize which dwarf was the former queen with what a brutal state they were all in.

Oh there were many tragic scenes too. Whole homes full of children that Tumam himself looked away from as his horde did their work mercilessly. In the very first hillocks a sheriff ran in fear from the horde, but was too slow. A child charged in and bought him time and he continued to run as he left the little girl to be torn apart. The sheriff was still hunted down anyway.

The next few hillocks had time to prepare a motley defense. New self-proclaimed warlords rallied dwarves clad in steel encrusted with jewels. The finest soldiers left in all of dwarfdom: veterans of the war with the demons!
New barons, counts and kings were selected since the last hillocks was destroyed and these were now also steel warriors.

They seem to finally be responding to us fittingly, right?
Tumam briefly retreated, but only to find a graveyard...

Someone had left a whole fortress of dead bodies ripe for the resurrecting.

With this horde and the last elite of the combined Silver of Staves and Craterous Glazes a battle of legends ensued.
The outnumbered dwarves danced in martial trances and weaved bloody ruin amongst the horde. The undead nails and teeth could do little against the armor! Each soldier took a name for himself or herself as a warrior of this world's legends!


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The dwarves would most certainly have won the battle were it not for the glaring weakness of the living: They grow tired.
One by one dwarves would fall in exhaustion and the dead would pummel them and pull their armor off.
The whole time Tumam floated in the background and watched the carnage, but as dwarves would fall he would often hover in and deal killing blows instantly.
This might seem a mercy, but in reality he wished to preserve the legendary warriors for reanimation. The new legendary zombies could punch and kick with such strength as to collapse in the skulls of enemies completely!



Dwarven civilization would fall with a battle-cry and piles of dead mangled enemies. Although the bearded fiends would surely never choose extinction this is likely the only ending they would ever find acceptable.

Source: https://rare-gallery.com/4563265-dwarfs-warrior-fantasy-art.html


Tumam's horde shuffled around as he floated a few feet from the ground and looked up.
His work was partway done. Dwarven civilization was all gone. All of it!
Yet, still, many of the bearded vermin dwelt as bandits, nomads, refugees and mercenaries in the anarchic human lands to the south. The majority of the species, in fact.

His quest was entering its most important phase. Tumam was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he did not even notice the living dwarf standing beside him until the dwarf coughed "Ahem"
Tumam turned slowly. Shocked that the creature wasn't torn limb from limb by his minions.
"Found yourself yet, Tumam?" he said
Tumam recognized this one. He was the tavern keeper from Oarpassionate the dwarf capital!
The dwarf didn't even seem concerned that he was standing on the ashes of his own dead kingdom, but instead pulled out two mugs and a flask and began pouring. He handed Tumam a mug of dark liquid and smiled warmly saying "Let's have a chat for old time's sake"


OOC:
The number of epic battles and horrifying moments was beyond counting and I love that about dwarf fortress. It is a story generator! The most interesting ones will probably be lore posts instead of forcing myself to slow down the progress to fairy tales just to fit every little thing.

I've done an incredible amount of genocide while the forums have been down! Chugging along to achieve our goal!

I'll probably make one or two big posts about what all happened and go from there. Also expect more lore posts.


Of the people who read these updates: Any of you want to take a copy of the save for my "exterminate the elves" competition? I'd like to see more than one of us doing it at a time and basically we all just vote on the cannon extinction event!

This has been me without the ability to check the bay12 forums three times a day:



Here is the save: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lU8nq7_ULL-VVj1w9XTTKpvo7Pd94n31/view?usp=sharing


I mostly spent the turn preparing for our game ending scenario! I made an army of warriors of udir in blistered armor chilling in Razorbridge. I also worked on population in Incenseorder to see if there was a way to prevent it from turning back into a half-deserted ruin once a generation dies from old age. Feel free to check out my work there lol.

Also on Makbor notes. My kingdom is infested with bandits now! Little asterisk everywhere! High Confederacies likes me again despite me killing the previous government. I still don't trust them

Dwarven adventurers are only available as outsiders now. It seems the entire species has been displaced from their own kingdoms. Hopefully me filling one up with angels didn't contribute to that.

Fortress mode silliness

Dude that is an insane turn! All that happening in a single year. Yeah this'll be a fun world to take down.

I didn't realize we were in range of goblins. The humans we are at war with actually conquered an entire goblin civilization and killed their clown king.
Also I like the fort additions! Flows well with what is already there! Good news:

1. if our civilization tamed elephants that means other ones in the areas probably did(not to mention the elves and humans surely stole some from us at some point) so we can recover war animals by taking them from the enemy!
2.What if we set a cage trap wall somewhere? Where if we hit a lever enemies have to go through it and they will hit it. We could use it to trap creatures like hydras or dragons and create the ultimate war beast!(especially if we get a mating pair)


I think you did pretty fantastic considering!

@Salmeuk you wanna set up a butcher shop near the hydra so we can get those rare goodies?

Quote from: Maloy on February 17, 2024, 01:33:49 pm

Also Kesp's earlier entry mentioned me in Bismuth Bronze so I thought he was posting about an old visit, but no for some reason I lost all my blistered metal gear and I was given random Walled Dye engraved armor.

It might have something to do with your were-curse. Thikut and Wo were present during a full moon and slayed a few werecats, so presumably Lord Maloy changed too? Have you checked that the armour isn’t in the main keep?

No dice. Found my old armor I wore for most of my adventures though as well as the sword I looted from Bral.
I'm about to make a ton of blistered metal gear anyway

Points of interest in Makbor:
Dead werebeasts
vampires!
Mountain Gnomes have rebelled and joined the High Confederacies(who still occasionally attack me)
Gremlin bandits roam the countryside
A certain terrifying honey-obsessed bear wiped one of my villages off the map

All this talk about engame shenanigans remind me of museum I, where somehow through the game mechanics all the past adventurers ended up squating the same house, and they started fighting as soon as anyone got near. At some point it did turn into a massive fight were all of them ended up tearing eachother to bits. It was not really an end-fight, more something that happened half-way the museum game, but epic nonetheless. It could be fun to see all the current characters have a go at eachother, controlled by AI. 

As for this suggestion, and the previous ones. I'm not qualified enough with DFhack to get any of those organised, but I have my popcorn ready in case someone does.   

Hopefully we can end in a very epic way! I'd be sad if this world that has seen so much playtime went out quietly through mere disuse!

As far as contributions go.

I'm fairly decent at dfhack spawning and equipping
My fortress designs are incredibly plain and boring though. Unless we wanna use an already pre-existing site(such as dark fortress or a player fort) then someone else should definitely handle design
QD got the story ideas brewing and I love it!

Very neat! We are attempting a community fort of similar scale! Bring back those extinct dwarves and put them on top of the world!

Downloaded and exploring around.
For some reason it says the entire population of Incenseorder is dead other than a few humans and my dark gnomes and self, but showing up we still got the circus of a population we had before!
Also Kesp's earlier entry mentioned me in Bismuth Bronze so I thought he was posting about an old visit, but no for some reason I lost all my blistered metal gear and I was given random Walled Dye engraved armor.

I'm planning to use this turn to actually prep for our "final battle" we are thinking on.

Story wise is there anyone interested or have any good ideas about how or why this is gonna happen? Like if it's gonna incorporate the blight, demons and goblin hordes what is happening exactly? I know QD and Kesperan are some of our masterwork writers here, but no pressure lol


EDIT: Y'all really did some shenanigans in Makbor lol

Also what an insane conicidence. A few turns ago I recruited random goblin soldiers from a dark fortress to be soldiers that wouldn't die of old age.
Turns out one of them was a soldier in Pis' army that occupied Incenseorder originally. She's also one of the most ancient goblins I've met and has declared herself a warlord