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I have encountered a Mummy.

Thankfully, I am a necromancer. But I figured, what the hell, and have been trying to kill it for the past 20 minutes real time.

I am using a flail, but I have still bashed it into itsy-bitsy pieces. And yet it continues to... er... "unlive." It's not even reanimating it's own severed parts. I am basically fighting a torso right now. If they follow the same rules for normal undead (in that they have hitpoints) how many hitpoints do these blasted things have?!

Interestingly, it does not have a throat; yet it's head is actually still attached. It is literally, at this point, just Upper Body, Lower Body, Head, Right Upper Leg, Left Upper Leg, Left Lower Leg, Right Ear, Left Ear, Upper right back teeth.

Eventually, I won't even have anything to aim my flail at... If it's still alive when it's nothing but a grease spot I'm going to force this character to retire out of shame.

Also, I hope necromancy doesn't require verbal components, because the mummy ripped my tongue out.

While walking around in an abbey, I discovered a room chalk full of bodies as well as a slab with the secrets of life and death (score!).

I decided I needed some muscle and raised EVERYTHING.

Now, I entered this room, walked every inch of it and found no hostiles. As I was making my way back to the main hall, I noticed some red text zip by. I open the log and see:

The X-iron mace-X strikes The peasant corpse in the lower body, brusing the muscle and brusing the left kidney!
The peasant corpse has collapsed.


This is printed about 4 times with a bunch of "the peasant corpse stands up" spam between them.

There is absolutely nothing in the room but my zombies and I. I am thinking that maybe I have too many zombies and there's something that just kills them like this. I currently have 57 still moving.

EDIT: D'oh! I see what it is now. There are some weapon traps that I could not see as my zombies were standing on them XD

In my experience, sewers are crap.

You may get lucky though and find who you're looking for if you can explore them without being trapped in a situation where you must swim an absurdly long route with no way to surface. Churches like what you found sometimes have entrances to them, as well, but you're probably better off exploring the dungeons under the actual keep (looks like a fort in the middle of a walled section of city), though because the Tombs, Sewers and Dungeons are connected.

You're probably never going to find it if you have to go into the sewers.

They don't really move around, but the sewers can, and often do, connect to dungeons underneath city keeps, which the beast may have taken residence in.

In my current world, for example, there are a couple of MegaBeasts in a cave system SOMEWHERE accessed through the sewers under the city, but the only areas I have left to fully explore are through about 20-30 blocks of water tunnels, filled with water, so even with a legendary swimmer, you can't get across the passageway without drowning. I may use DFHack to build a fortress over the city just to pump out the sewer waters.

Yeah, if you want to have ramps instead of stairs, you need to pretty much do it like this:

RCRCRCRCRCRCRCRC

Where R is the ramp, and C is the channeled area. Obviously, you would want to go down 1 z-level for each ramp and channel sequence.

This is actually a bit how I made my fortresses entrance, as well as an actual swimming pool, complete with shallow and deep end

Bogey. Fucking. Men.
I HATE bogeymen.


Not being able to find sewer entrances is sorta annoying, too.

The entrances are fairly easy to find, but I feel you on the Bogeymen. They are weak as shit, most of the time taking only a single blow to fell; the problem is landing that single blow. Usually, I advance world gen a world without Bogeymen, just because I like to travel alone.

The peasant was probably a werebeast or vampire. People don't usually give quests to slay weaklings.