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Hmmm. If you got quite far already, starting over would be harsh as it was not intentional. Also, only limited time would be available for the rest of your turn, and the adventurers of this character would be lost even if they did happen. Being a demigod however does give advantages other players have not, and would be unfair.

How about you go to the nearest village, locate the nearest peasant, and bodyswap with him using dfhack. He could continue the quest from where the demigod stopped, the story would continue, and would remove the unfair advantage for the rest of the game. Drop any you'll need before bodyswapping so the new character can take them (but not that unfairly gained full steel set of armor)
I'm open to other suggestions too, like giving the character a handicap, like "you can only use musical instruments as weapons" or something.. 
Or we could continue without any restrictions if people agree on that.

I would in any case like to stick to the rules for future turns and keep the game fair for all players. 

As for how to bodyswap, from a discussion earlier in this thread about dfhack:

Quote from: Pie Maker on April 15, 2013, 09:13:29 am

Point the cursor at whoever it is you want to control and type:
adv-bodyswap force

adv-bodyswap force permanent

OK, that was certainly unexpected.  One of the guards I'd recruited from a nearby tower in the city wall attacked me for no apparent reason and I dodged it successfully... Right out into open space and down three z-levels into a pool with no exit ramps.  I quickly floundered to my death, my last gasps used completing my story in the traditional dwarvenly fashion. 

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OK, so I'll be working on my fortress now.

Unexpected indeed, I don't think I've seen such an act of treachery before. Are you sure you didn't dodge an arrow from the enemies below?
Also, those isoworld screenshots look great, I certainly have to use this tool more.

Allright, the save game can be found here
It includes a new fortress, Owlwalls:

As mentioned before, the Sluguflonkus corpses are my submission to the museum. Some of them display other names now when viewed, because they gained titles by killing stuf, but most do not, and all are clones of the same kobold.

All of this makes it Timeless Bobs turn. I've added myself for another turn.

The art of swimming.
When I read the book about life and death I only thought about helping Slugoflonkus, and never thought about the side effects. Like for example..... immortality.
More importantly, I never thought about the other side effect, about not needing to eat...
While previously not a minute could pass without me thinking about food, the thought of it makes me sick now.
The Slugoflonkuses on the other hand look very, very hungry.
I wonder if my current weight is fixed for all eternity, or if it will change.

We traveled south towards a place I had read about. All went well until we tried to cross a river just south of Mindfullring. We suddenly found ourselves in the middle of a herd of impalas. A horrible fight followed, the impalas were kicking the poor Slugoflonkuses all over the place. I had to raise them several times during the fight. In the end we defeated the impalas, but the Slugoflonkuses looked a lot worse than before, with caved-in skulls, and covered in impala bitemarks and hoofprints.

In the river we found a full set of armor and clothing. I heard people drown in rivers, but there was no corpse. I guess someone felt like swimming and took his cloths off. I noticed the armor was my size too! Incredible! The owner was nowhere to be seen. I took the armor and we quickly ran away. 


We made it to Lakelancers early the next day. The fortress was build near two rivers. A huge artificial lake surrounded the large island on which the fortress was build. Walking around the lake I saw someone swimming in the water. It was the count himself!
I wondered if I happened to be wearing his armor, but luckily I was not.


He greeted me. He was quite a good swimmer, but it was a bit of an akward conversation. I motioned him to come on land, but he took one look at the Slugoflonkuses and declined. He said there was a bridge to the island on the other end of the lake, I could enter if I left the Slugoflonkuses outside.

When crossing the bridge the Slugoflonkuses ran ahead of me, chasing a badger. So much for leaving them outside. There were a lot of animals here. Somewhere along the water I heard crying. There was a dwarven baby in the water! I tried to get to it, but it was too far from the shore and I can't swim myself. Flailing around in the water I looked forward at the baby, then back at the shore. The Slugoflonkuses where there, still looking hungry. This was a bad idea. Also the baby appeared to be doing fine, dwarven babies must be natural swimmers. His mother was nearby too, no need to worry. I had to continue.


It took a long time arm waving and issuing commands too get the zombies away from the shore and the baby. I kind of felt sorry for the poor hungry Slugoflonkuses.

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I had some nice artwork for this story, but my two year old daughter got a hold of it, and the crayons, and made some.. improvements  . So no art for you.
I'll update the turn list.

I arrived in the museum late in the afternoon.
The place was a mess! There was blood everywhere, and dead creatures, and random rubbish..
I really should have started cleaning the place, but I got distracted.
Between the rusted armor and rotting monsters, I found a stairwell leading down, into the dungeons.

The stairwell ended in a narrow hallway. There was a door to the north, a heavy door. The lock had already been forced, likely by previous adventurers. The next room had a dead kobold in it, his teeth were scattered throughout the entire room.
A dead kobold! I already felt like a real adventurer.

I walked through some other passages and came to another door and opened it, only to be nearly scared to death by a living kobold.
The creature hissed: "No!!  not again!"
It tried to stab me with a pointy spear. "This time, you will not pass!" it screamed. "Sluguflonkus will stop you!"
I counterattacked with the only tactic I knew, I threw my full weight at it. I slammed right into the creature, knocking it down, and pinning it to the ground. I then clumsily hit it twice with my axe. It was enough to kill the creature. I stood up puzzled by what the kobold had said.
 
I looked around the room. The dust was marked by signs of other battles. Several kobold corpses were scattered through the room. I looked more closely at one of them and was shocked.. it looked exactly the same as the kobold I had just killed!  I looked at the other corpses and the one in the previous room and found they were all exactly alike apart from the wounds they had suffered.

I panicked,  I ran back upstairs, ran out of the museum and into the courtyard, only to trip over another kobold corpse. This one too was an exact copy of Sluguflonkus. I ran further away, but quickly lost my breath as I'm not really build for this kind of exercise.   

While I tried to catch my breath my senses caught up with me as well. I would be a really bad adventurer if I let myself get spooked that easily. With shaking legs I went back down into the dungeon, slowly moved towards the door, and opened it.
There was no question about it, it was the same kobold again, standing over his own corpse.



It knew what was coming but would not run away and neither could I; It was too fast and aggressive, I had to kill it or die myself. With tears in my eyes I brought down my axe repeatedly, until Sluguflonkus stopped moving...again.

The poor kobold must be under some horrid curse. Bound by dark, unknown forces to protect this room from the adventurers send forth by the museum, and resurrected by those powers every time he failed. What had the poor creature done to deserve such a horrid fate?

Suddenly I had an idea, I ran upstairs and returned with a book. Sluguflonkus had not yet been resurrected, but he soon would be. It would however be different this time, and it would not just be him, but all of him. The book contained the secrets of life and death, and I would use it to raise Slugoflonkus from death, and change his fate. Slugoflonkus would be my personal cloned zombie kobold army. Together we would change the world and our future...

That makes it my turn.. Downloading now..

Bumping this thing here because.... IT HAS FINALLY BEGUN.

I have officially started the splinter side-story off of this, my quest to avenge the incredibly unceremonious death at the hands of two goblins. Disproportionate retribution, and how.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126829.0

Enjoy! (I hope)

Nice! try not to spoil any sites not yet visited in this thread though (like Dashedstake) 

Am I still next? I've been grounded from the computer because of bad grades, but now that school is over I can take my turn. I will post an adventure ASAP.

Yes, you're still in time for your turn.
I've updated the list with the new players.