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Hold on. You can become a vampire by drinking the blood of one?

I believe so. At least I read reports here indicating it's possible.

I have started a fresh new human outsider. Teleported naked to a village square, as usual. Mission priorities - 1) get armor 2) get henchmen 3) get out!

I have entered what seemed a local tavern. Few friendly folks scattered around, an architect, a soapmaker, a lasher and a spearman which I promptly hired (adventure? Hic... let's go!). Then I noticed a serpent man in the corner. I decided to chat with him a bit:

"Hello ssssstranger, I am a woodworker of CCCCCCelebrated Nationsssss"
"A woodworker, really? Well, sir, you look like a snake to me. A vampiric snake, to be precise."
"Pessssstilent pessst! I am Smesp Assubodsa, and I will kill you all."
"Help, help, heeeeeellppppp!"

My hero did not wait for the monstrous woodworker to reach for his favorite woodworking tool, and darted to the door. The second later, the room turned into a mess. Startled villages still stared in disbelief ("Ol' Smesp a vampire? How could we know?"), while smesp drew his carving knife with an inhuman speed and slash-slash, the architect was suddenly on the floor, blood spraying from the stump of his leg, and a glassworker was bleeding from several cuts. Then the people came to their senses and jumped the vampire - bloody mess of waving knives, clubs and hammers, with blood splatters and sickly smell everywhere. All of a sudden, in a dreamy slow motion, an unknown child flew through the room, landing in the opposite corner.

My two fresh recruits reacted with unexpected cool professionalism. The lasher raised his silver whip/lightsaber and the spearman approached the fighters from an angle. Suddenly, a few more villagers fell to the uncanny vampire, the whip lashed into the opening, fracturing vampire's hand, and when the angry beast turned to punish his tormentor, the spearman ran him through with his flimsy looking copper spear. The vampire fell, and in this moment, his left hand opened - and dozens and dozens of sickly jewellery pieces made from human bodyparts clattered to the floor. Crowns from human teeth, rings from human hair, bracelets from nails. Having no backpack, he just carried them in his left hand all the time.

The fight, however, was far from over, since the beast still lived, and it took many blows, stabs, cuts and thumps to beat life out of its broken body. My hero was not paying attention, though, he was busy licking Smesp's blood from the dirty tavern floor. Power, immortality, glory, everlasting life, limitless possibilities - all that in a few drops of sickly red fluid.... But that was another story.

I would propose this - in good biomes, special mists would exist that would turn any dwarf armor in a shop into "living armor" creature that would be non-aggressive, would look for the nearest dwarven fortress. When killed (would be easy), it's corpse would yield an instant set of metal armor. Why set a metal industry when the finished goods can just come to you?

Toady, if you are reading this, do something with the user interface, because it has become too easy to figure out and too many dolts are starting playing the game, and whine here about how the bandits are difficult, which is nonsense - bandits are supposed to be difficult, because otherwise they would be no bandits, but sissies.

Also, rack up the difficulty a notch. It's coming, but it's not there - I love how my adventurer has become delirious from thirst last time, because all his water in the water skin suddenly froze up, but he was still able to get some water by licking the ice. Next time, make his tongue freeze stuck to the ice, that will teach him to lick it in winter, stupid bastard!

The encounter frequency is fine, wilderness is often as densely populated as tents and caravans on Woodstock - you can't make a step without tripping over someone. That's how I like it.

So keep up the good work - and Don't give in to the WHINERS!!! So long...

Human outlaw group called "Autonomous Aunts"

Gang called "Controllers of Adventuring" that always finds and kills my characters.

Human civilization called "The Amusing Society", who built a tomb called "The Comedic Hour"

My best yet:

"The Autonomous Aunts was a human collection of outcasts from Mythical Dimensions"

There is also a human group called "The Amusing Society" who build themselves a tomb called "The Comedic Hour". Somehow, The Joker from Batman comes to mind...

Careful, dont give him too much ;-) Remember what happened to Minecraft...