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I bet some people here know about this saga (almost positive that you'll like it if you like Dwarf Fortress, too).

If you've read the books, you probably have realized, as I just did - that the characters from the saga are SCREAMING to be made into DF characters and sent into the arena. I drew inspiration from http://www.towerofthehand.com/essays/mikelight77/dw/index.html - The Deadliest Warrior Tournament.

- Has anyone attempted to do this in DF?
- If you know the series, will you be willing to do it and post screens/logs?
- If you don't - I assure you'll like them

(HBO will premiere a series tightly based on the books, April 17th, btw)

Alrighty..something pretty interesting here. I've never heard of stuff like this before, and honestly now it happened, I don't wanna look it up at the wiki or something, and spoil my excitement over this:

The second my 7 dwarves appeared on my most recent embark, the game paused, and zoomed to an area 40 z levels below my starting place. It was all dark, unknown territory; an announcement stated "a section of the cave has collapsed" - or something to that effect.

Now, let me tell you a couple of three things.

- I thought cave-ins were disabled in recent versions of the game?
- Why would I get a message about something that happened in uncharted territory, 40z levels below?
- What can possibly cause a cave-in right after the game starts, not during world-gen, and without my dwarfs doing anything?

There's no scraps in my scrapbook.

I asked myself these questions at the embark, but after 5 minutes I had forgotten all about the incident. It would soon enter my thoughts again, though.

When my fortress was about 1 year old, I appointed a record keeping noble, and decided to check my stocks and the now more accurate numbers.

The following is what I found in my weapon stocks - note that I haven't forged or bought a single weapon yet (I'm probably gonna have some Fun with that):

1x Copper Battle Axe, from embark.
2x Copper Pick, from embark.
1x Adamantine Two-Handed sword

Here's the description of the sword:

"This is a masterful adamantine two-handed sword created by an unknown artisan".

I couldn't for the life of me figure out how I got that thing into my weapon stocks. So I turned my attention to another question: "who's wielding this thing?!"

I zoom to the sword. It takes me to a dark, unknown place...40 z levels below.


...yeah.


I can almost hear it calling me...