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Heres an idea, which i decided not to present in 'huge wallo text' format. It's partially inspired by the dev updates on healthcare.

Mod ogres as a 'play now' race. Painstakingly train up sneaking skills to legendary, this will take a while because ogres are slow learners. Make a leather hooded cloak and mask, dye them black and wear them, along with other black dyed leather clothes. Maybe make and wear an iron mask instead of a black leather one. Find a cave of kobolds and wipe them out, making sure to capture several. Dig out a number of rooms and make wooden furniture for them, beds and doors. Widen out the central part of the cave and put in tables, shelves and chests. This is your operating room. Also a room of cages to put captives in.

Gather a large supply of food and water and store it away in the cave. Make another huge supply of splints, bandages and the like. Now practice wrestling by breaking every bone in your captives' bodies, one at a time. Then train health care by setting every broken bone and letting them rest in the cells with beds until their bones have healed. Then repeat the process. While your 'patients' are healing, take some nets and sacks and sneak into cities, dark fortresses, etc. Kidnap random members of the races and use them as wrestling/healthcare practice. Keep doing that until wrestling and healthcare are legendary, which should take a long time since ogres are slow learners.

Get yourselve a big iron cleaver or bonesaw. Add a white butcher's apron to your outfit. Do interesting things to your 'patients' or just dispose of them. Make sure not to clean the bloodstains off the apron. Now go happily terrorize settlements, using your legendary medical skills to quickly recover any injuries you sustain doing so. Be sure to capture more subjects for experiments and stuff along the way too.

I was using a modified version of The Dangerous Wilds Mod (I didn't mod the wild animals though)
and I was playing as a Tweaked in SoF, with Ultra-Mighty and Super "SoF"ingly Tough, no way that anyone will ever bring me down, I thought.

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I head out lighting fires as I walked and evaporating Oceans with ease, take out a  hobgoblin Dark Fortress no big deal.

by the time this story takes place I'm "-- the Incinerated Murder" 

I load up and Travel into "the jungles of trickery" (a Sinister Forest) where I meet a Skeletal Grizzly Bearmen Ambush stops me and I fight a little and then start waiting just to see if they melt in my fire.

so from the log:

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The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman punches You in the upper body with her left hand!
It is damaged!
The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman bites You in the right hand!
The shot glances away.
The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman punches You in the left arm with her left hand!
The shot glances away.
The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman punches You in the right leg with her right hand!
The shot glances away.
The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman punches You in the left arm with her right hand!
The shot glances away.
The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman punches You in the lower body with her left hand!
The shot glances away.
The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman punches You in the head with her right hand!
The head flies off in an arc!
You have been struck down.
The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman has died in the heat.
The Skeletal Grizzly Bearman has died in the heat.
Lebovoici, Skeletal Grizzly Bearman has died in the heat.

Damn you Lebovoici! (Washstoked)

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Skeletal Grizzly Bearmen the only thing that kills Spirits of Fire

Only you can prevent forest fires! - Washstoked the Skeletal Grizzly Bearman 

Dude, dwarven doctors would probably all be like House.

Not a literal dream, that would be just sad.

Edit: Thread title changed because i plan on dumping more of these (in huge wall of text format) in this thread. Feel free to add your own huge walls of text about similar future endeavors. They have to be things you do in adventure mode though.

WARNING! HUGE WALL OF TEXT!

So i've got this image of greatness burned into the inside of my eyelids of what would be possible in a future version of this great construct known as Dwarf Fortress. Specifically that of the possibilities of all dwarf mode skills being available in adventure mode (and then some). I feel that i must share this exquisite deformity with the world.

It starts with a lone human (or dwarf) spawned into the world with nothing. No skills, no equipment, no past. Also no clothes. This individual is dumped in the middle of the wilderness with no civilization in sight. The individual picks up a small rock or a handful of dirt and chucks it. The process is repeated, the individual stopping only to drink from a nearby pond, eat a scavenged prickle berry or worm and take a nap under an oak tree. In a couple days our friend (or rather puppet) is a legendary thrower, able to clip the wings off of a batman 10 z-levels up with a spinning beetle. A similar process is used for sneaking, herb gathering, swimming and whatever else one can do with no infrastructure or equipment. This would leave our naked friend with joyously overinflated stats.

Suitably girded with capability, the individual is compelled to seek out a particular living entity to slay. Creeping through the undergrowth, our friend sights his intended target. The individual leaps upon the victim and savagely throttles it, grappling with it until it is ripped in half with a sickening pop. The individual immediately sets upon the carcass and begins tearing it into small pieces. Soon finishing this grizzly task, the individual begins weaving the newly processed rope reed thread into cloth and then sews it into a sack which is then filled with stones. With that done, our friend is now ready to actually go hunting.

The individual travels out and tracks down a creature: a deer, a groundhog, maybe a raccoon. Whatever it is, it is quickly slain by surpisingly aerodynamic minerals (well, the animal was sure surprised). The individual then butchers the animal and takes the bones and meat, leaving the rest which cannot be processed without proper equipment. The bones are used to fashion a makeshift digging device. Now our friend seeks out a particular landmark: flint or obsidian boulders. Upon finding it, the individual sets to with his bone shovel/whatever and excavates several of these large rocks. Then the individual spends some time knocking these rocks together until he gets a makeshift axehead and a makeshift pickhead. Another quick hunt or two provides bone hafts for both these tools. Now the hardcore crafting begins.

First our friend sets to felling those dastardly trees that kept getting in the wayof walking in a strait line. The wood is used to make a cabin, campfire, furniture, and a ridiculous number of earrings until the individual can easily make a masterwork oak chair or masterwork cedar nosering in one try (all lesser works created to reach this stagego on the fire). Now with semi-permanent lodgings and masterwork tables, buckets, barrels, etc. our friend can use these to work on other skills. Tanning, cooking, bowmaking, archery, bonecrafting, leatherworking are all practised until theyre are in the multiple legendaries. Wrestling, butchering, tracking, weapon and armor skills are also practised with use of masterwork bone and wood equipment. Our friend is now girded head to toe in masterwork wolf leather and wolf fur clothing (decorated with images of wolves in masterfully worked wolfbone).

Now to the underground. The individual heads to the nearest mountain and sets to with his stone pickaxe not stopping until usable stone is produced from every wall hewn down. Our friend stops to work masonry and stonecrafting into multiple legendary level and then makes a masterwork anvil. Ore is hewn, woodburning and furnace operating are practised into legendary levels to make heaps and heaps of charcoal and various metal knick-knacks. With blacksmithing, metal working, armorsmithing and weaponsmithing at multiple legendary levels or hero makes a masterwork set of steel armor and a set of masterwork steel weapons of various types. Our friend may even use a bit of assisted intuition to find Hidden Fun Stone to make masterwork adamantite gear out of. Then the fun stuff can begin.

Our friend treks out to locate the largest human civ in all the lands. The individual pays a visit to the capital and explores the city paying special attention to the keep and any temples. Then he kills everyone. In variously entertaining ways even. After depopulating the city, the individual gathers every item in the city and burns it in a massive bonfire. Metal objects are set to one side for later processing while everything else is rendered to ashes. All wooden buildings are torn down, leaving only the keep and temples. The temples are torn down and the road is ripped out to provide stone blocks which arethen used to upgrade the keep. The same treatment is given to all of the other towns in the human civ except all materials are brought to the former capital. No trace of the human civ is left except for some refugees out in the wilds. The keep is upgraded and rebuilt until it is a massive citadel of stone blocks with an equal number of z-levels underground made into dungeons. The wood from the old houses is rendered into masterwork beds, doors, etc. to furnish the rooms set out inside the menacing edifice. The number of rooms is equal to the number of houses and apartment rooms in the old city.

Now our friend sets upon the longest part of his quest. The individual sets off to a cave or chasm and uses masterwork nets to capture members of a chosen race of animalmen. These captured creatures are kept in a secure enclosure and left to their own devices for however long it takes for them to produce offspring. While waiting our friend becomes a legenday animal handler, trainer and breeder and gathers whatever large predators tickle his fancy as pets and mounts. Once the next generation of enslaved animalmen is born, the young are snatched away from their parents (who are then released, one way or another) and indoctrinated to be loyal to our friend. They are taught appropriate skills and are selectively bred to produce the strongest and most menacing looking minions. Once a large enough army is amassed, our friend declares all out war on all other civs and sets out to wipe out all traces of them. Each human keep in their capitals is rendered into a fortress similar to the first and is populted with a different type of educated animalman. Once all original civilisation is wiped out and replaced with animalman civs, our friend relinquishes control of each new nation and leaves them to develop on their own.

Having achieved a new world order, our friend can rest in piece. After personally making an enormous dungeon around their opulent tomb and filling it with gaurding creatures and priceless treasures wrought with their own hands of course.

Then, through one method or another, we let time run it's course for several hundred years and start an adventurer from one of the new civs that our friend helped create.

(Note: Yeah, i started writing lazy after the third paragraph.  )

I hope the guy doesn't have too many red injuries, or even a light grey spinal problem.

Bet he had a dark grey Employment after that...

As far as morality goes, plants are fairly closely related to animals, genetically, so whether you live on acorns and dandelions, or you eat chilled monkeybrains for dessert every night, you're still destroying a living thing to perpetuate your own existence.

Atleast an animal has half a chance to avoid their fate. Plants can't even run away.

This reminds me of an Arrogant Worms song: Carrot Juice is Murder

Also, read`or the Sky Nacho will eat you. 

Or anybody really, fisherdwarves will only attempt to catch a live fish after several dozen dead ones and then will usually cancel the job for one reason or other. And you can't turn off 'kill-fishing' and leave 'live-fishing' on. And then if you're not quick enough to forbid it some random dwarf will gulp down your long awaited piscine prize live and wriggling. If someone else took the job, then enough fish will survive long enough for you to get them to their intended tanks and forbid them.

It would also be better if dwarves wouldn't automatically eat live trapped vermin instead of food, maybe be able to assign cages/aquariums to eat from or something.

Elemental Domains. Aligned Territory. Place of Sphereishness.