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And You Sang 'Storage!' was a 283 page novel, written in the mid-autumn of 176 by the dwarf necromancer Tekkud Apexsteel. It concerns her storing Kol Futuretrades And The Nails (a 158 page novel concerning her apprentice) in Boargild in the early winter of 168.

If only we could actually read those books. I'd love to see how one could write 283 pages regarding a single mundane event such as storing a book.

There's also one called Give Me After Can The Market The Easy Way Save The World?

Wow. If I read this correctly, the sequence of books goes like this:

1. Wrote The Market The Easy Way (or maybe wrote The Market, and then wrote "The Market" The Easy Way)
2. Wrote Can "The Market The Easy Way" Save The World?
3. Wrote After "Can The Market The Easy Way Save The World?"
4. Wrote Give Me "After Can The Market The Easy Way Save The World?"

That's a sequence of four, maybe even five layers of bookception.

You don't gain armored zombies, if I'm understanding it right.  Upon death all items drop, and when they reanimate shortly after, they return naked.  I haven't fort'ed yet, so I haven't witnessed a zombie killing, but if it works the same as regular death...

I've killed a mummy by throwing weapons at it, some of which lodged in its body, and on death they all dropped off the corpse as usual. If that's any indication, I guess we'll have to wait until corpses-as-containers are in.

On another note, can a zombie necromancer (or his limbs...?) still raise corpses? If so, you could set up an arena with two or more necromancers, and if one is killed, he is raised by the other(s). It's sort of like a tag team of two medics with übersaws in TF2, constantly keeping one another invulnerable.

I'll make the appropriate changes. Mist does not go down stairs, nor does it go through walls. It can however go over walls.

Then does it drop down at all, or does it stay on/around ground level?

On certain creatures only a certain weapon type will work i.e. vampires, werewolves.

I can this confirm to be partially false. I was able to kill a were-something (he never transformed during the fight) with a bronze sword although he was "cut more deeply" (so said the person who sent me to kill him) by iron. Hitting him with my iron shield didn't seem to do anything out of the ordinary for what I'd expect the effect to be on a human. I recall from the devlog that blunt attacks were magnified by the damage multiplier too, but maybe that was changed later on.

I don't know if weapon materials that are not the creature's weakness are actually less effective, or just normal.

Also:
- In adventure mode, vampires can become the law-giver of a civilization. If accused of being a night creature, they'll attack you, but attacking them will not make the civilization's other members hostile. (I was helped out by two other humans, in my case.)
- Accusing a non-night-creature does nothing as far as I can tell.
- An amusing fact, if nothing else: if paralytic/unconsciousness-causing rain occurs in a biome containing flocks of birds, they'll fall from the sky and occasionally explode on impact (depending on how high up they fly). This may be a decent way of getting meat, if the rain can be avoided. On the other hand, the dismembered bird parts might reanimate shortly after, although I'm unsure of how that works.
- Although werecreatures can probably transform in adventure mode, it's seemingly very unlikely to come across them at the right time, so they tend to be in human form when you encounter them in their lairs.

Things to check for:
- Can poison/blood rain go through grates?
- Can mist change Z-levels (e.g. going down the fortress stairs)? Does it evaporate once it goes underground, or does it stay there for a while?

I don't see the Reader skill in my character creation screen... Is it elsewhere?
Also, can I see the effects of curses that have been placed upon me, and if so, how?

EDIT: Also, can books be read from Legends mode?

Trying adventure mode first. Asked to kill Jirdo Mobtactic, "the boss". Eh?

EDIT: Brutally slaughtered before I could get to the mafia boss. Going after a dingo-man.

EDIT2: Killed the dingo-man. Ambushed by seven more on the way out of the lair. They decided to line up between two trees in an orderly fashion as I wrapped their intestines around my two-handed sword.

EDIT3: Kobold ambush. Got punched in the head and my teeth flew everywhere, just like that hamsterwoman from earlier in the thread.

I already fixed my terminal for games of this nature after finally getting Cataclysm to work on my Mac.

Sorry to derail a bit, but how did you manage to make Cataclysm run natively in the terminal whilst still being... visible? When I do so, the many of the colors are extremely similar (e.g. dark blue is nearly black) and it's quite hard to make some things out. I therefore run it in an X11 terminal, (which has distinguishable colors) although I'd much prefer to use it in Terminal.app. Is that what you've done, and if so, how did you do it?