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Quesa is awesome.

My current character has an interesting style...
They're a lasher, and with tricksy opponents, I -bite- their hand or foot so they can't sodge, and then whip them across the chest and stomach until either I get a clear shot at their head, or they fall unconscious.
Not being a piercing weapon, whips don't really deal a great lot of damage to bodyparts apart from the head.

Thrukti Othdorigu's first assignment from the townsfolk was to kill a bandit, encamped fairly close to town, but on the way he stumbled onto a band of kobolds, right next to the town!
Appalled by the thought of the vicious creatures ransacking his home village, the swordsman swung his longsword and hacked them to bits, then stacked their grisly corpses against some trees and fired them.

Continuing on, killing some wolves along the way, he reached the camp he was sent to destroy, and crept right up close to them and battered them with thrown spears and daggers before charging in, sending the leader's two minions fleeing with well-placed strikes, then charging the leader himself, a cowardly crossbowman.
He only got off one bolt before Thrukti was chopping him apart, a very slow and gruesome process, as the bandit was quite resilient.

He's now travelling to crush another camp of criminals, this time accompanied by a peasant and clad in mismatched armour.

EDIT: Well, he died, pathetically. Seriously, I dunno what happened, but as soon as he entered combat his ARMS IS STOP WORKS. Dur. Cue a ridiculous scene, lying on the ground with legs and arms screwed, and he couldn't even bite the ringleader, SOMEHOW still throwing things at him... Lodged a couple of spears etc. in him before he died.

My first adventurer finally died when my party got ambushed by something like 60 goblins. I managed to outright kill a handful and horribly maim a lot more, but eventually I got tired and an arrow took out my one remaining eye. I got knocked down, dragged myself up, got a sword in the belly but managed to hold onto it and strangle the bastard that stabbed me before two spearman impaled me and a swordsman decapitated me as I was strangling one of the spearmen.

Most badass death ever!
...Everyone, feel free to post your even awesome-er deaths!

I think they're perfect as they are...
Why do you think everyone craps themselves with shock when they realise you're travelling along at night?!?

Awesome!! I was so excited when I saw the .17 on the homepage!!
Now, if I don't get horribly killed within a few minutes, I'll be disappointed.
Great job Toady!

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I was most certainly not disappointed!! xD

Wooooow! This is so great! Everything works well, the map is very good, and I can actually bite people now!
I wrote out a whole paragraph detailing my adventurer's antics(The first several dying very fast), but I'm not sure people'd bother reading it. It's great fun! Looting bandit camps is just... Well, great.
The aimed attacks add a whole level of strategy to combat, like, 'Quick, I'll bash the spear shaft into their arm, then while they're off balance, I'll ram the spear through their eye!'
Just fantastic!
I haven't found any major bugs yet, either. Great job Toady!

Also: When you get 'You must leave this site to travel', that's not a bug. It's when you're either in an enemy camp, or some other important location like a fortress. I guess the reason the people there wouldn't talk to you is that you've comitted some crime.
That happens in other versions, when you become a criminal, people won't talk to you and you can't fast travel.

Awesome!! I was so excited when I saw the .17 on the homepage!!
Now, if I don't get horribly killed within a few minutes, I'll be disappointed.
Great job Toady!