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Abimu Ocimaasada, minotaur lasher, went out on a quest that had tempted many of his kind recently: To kill the necromancers in a nearby tower and steal their secrets. He trained in the arts of stealth and use of the horned chain, before recieving one as a gift, along with a dagger and an iron shield. Taking some cave fish and filling his turkey leather waterskin, Abimu set out on his journey.

While going to the tower, little of note happened. A group of foul ogres known as the Lesser Salutes sent a single axeogre to accost him, but after lashing at his heart and goring out his brain with his horned chain, Abimu claimed the ogre's axe and cap as his own. Also, he slew a honey badger who accosted him at a river crossing, and took the beast's skin and bones for later reanimation, its meat for sustenance, and its skull as a trophy.

Upon reaching the tower, Abimu noticed a pile of bodies and such, clearly the result of a previous battle for the secrets within. Curiously, the necromancers had left the bodies and parts thereof--arms, heads, turkey skin, etc--completely untouched. Sneaking towards the entrance, Abimu saw an ogre--the latest victim of the necromancer--standing guard at the door of the tower. He anointed himself with rare herbs that would disguise himself as an enemy of all life.
[Read: I added [OPPOSED_TO_LIFE] to minotaurs in the region's raws]
He snuck past the dead guard and others ike him, until he found a necromancer. He revealed himself and tried to greet the dark master, but was rebuffed. Undeterred, Abimu squeezed past the dead and found what he was looking for: Ushmalloslal, "Pulpystarve," an ilmenite slab with the secrets of life and death engraved upon it.

With his prise in his skunk leather backpack, Abimu snuck out of the tower, pausing to peruse some books. As he left the tower, he paused to read his trophy. He pondered why he did not feel more powerful as the ogre guard slowly recognised the scent...of life.

More tomorrow, I'm tired right now.

I've spent the lives of dozens of adventurers trying to get ahold of necromancy in this one world. (Around half of them died from bogeymen, but that's not important right now.) I'm wondering: Aside from raising the dead as your unholy minions, is there any benifet to necromancy? And is it all worth spending so much time and effort? Finally, how high of an Ambusher skill do you need for zombies not to notice you if you're right next to them?

EDIT: Through cheating, I managed to get ahold of a slab. What do you need to do to learn necromancy, and would having [OPPOSED_TO_LIFE] affect it?

Cobaltite sounds like a very dangerous choice of gizzard stone. Considering it has at least the same molarity of arsenic as of cobalt. (Its chemical formula is CoAsS, but the stone is still called cobaltite with up to 10% of the cobalt replaced by iron.)

If DF were aware of that, it'd be a bad idea to eat that bird. As it is though, I'm sure it's perfectly safe.

Circus-tent gizzard stones would be worse, no? The density alone would rip holes in most creatures' digestive tracts.

Nothing, except:
The Marksdwarf pistolwhips the Goblin Master Lasher with his iron pistol, but the attack is deflected by the Master Lasher's <<iron helm>>!The Goblin Master Lasher whips the Marskdwarf in the head, tearing apart the hair, tearing apart the skin, shattering the skull and bruising the brain!
The Marksdwarf has been knocked unconscious!
The Marksdwarf has been struck down.

Nothing, until a lucky marksgoblin shot kills it. What's a headcrab, by the way?

What would Urist do if he had a gun AND bullets?

I never use danger rooms, mostly because my militia is the dwarves I want to die, plusa few decent dwarves. I'd probably make a danger room with 9 training spears and a menacing spike or something per trap, plus maybe a few repeating spikes with a few training spears each in the barracks for my normal militia.

No. Sorry.

One "simple" solution might be to add a [REPRODUCES_BY_FISSION] token or somesuch, then worry about hermaphrodites that don't self-fertilize once we know how it'll work.