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It was my first time playing adventure mode again since the new release.
I was a peasant who managed to grab some armor, a spear and a shield and a member of the glorious Group of Cheese. Apparently we are nomadic and the hamlet I was born in is destroyed.

Our group consists of two dwarfs in the mead hall and me, a human. We have no leader and no one knows what we're even doing here.
Since the only trouble we had was an abduction 50 years ago I decided to ask if the dwarves wanted to come with me to the next town in search for wealth and glory.
They all declined... whatever, I didn't like them anyway.

So when I arrived in the human town the first thing I saw were elven merchants talking to some goblin merchants about dragons, titans and such. I knew that I was only a lowly peasant so for now I decided to ignore them and headed to the first house I saw.

Inside was a human thief who has been "rescuing" children for the last three years. After some small talk about the freezing weather he told me about a vampire consort living in a lair just a short walk south of here. I took a liking to him and asked if he wanted to be my companion.

Unfortunately that feeling wasn't mutual and I set out alone on my first quest to slay that night creature.

I sneaked inside the lair. There it was. A skinless humanoid... thing... with wings. I braced my spear bravely and pressed "." to let the beast approach me.
Suddenly I'm on the ground. We were at least 3-4 tiles away from each other and my speed was at 1.000.

What followed was a quick and brutal battle where that thing broke most of my bones and punched through my skull without me being able to do anything.

Why is everyone so fast now? And how can I avoid situations like that?

Let me tell you my story.

I was enjoying myself on nightmare mode fighting against the CCS and death squads.
The CCS Agents betrayed their own comrades and revealed the hideouts which were quickly cleansed by the Liberal Pest Control Squad.
The Liberal Guardian continued to publish the truth (after the firemen got what they deserved) and soon 99% of the country was liberal.
All laws were green and the elite liberals had everywhere a majority but the supreme court.

So I thought I could disband the organization and wait.
Wrong... every time I do that the country slowly becomes conservative again.
Every. Single. Time.
The CCS was dead and I had sleepers everywhere advocating liberalism!

Is there a trick or something? I want to use a feature like it's supposed to work and not to worry that the game fucks everything up I achieved.
When is it safe to disband the LCS?

Also I let the game advance a few decades and they are now back to their arch conservative state...

One word.
World Domination

Err... or two.

You can't see the night in fortress mode and there are some good reasons for this.
The time goes way too fast to add this feature. Changing from day to night in just a few seconds and that everytime would be way too FPS instense and not necessary.

Your dorfs wouldn't even had enough time to charge at the enemies because it would be already day.

I like what happened to this thread.
Dwarf Fortress and Spongebob.
Two awesome things combined to be even more awesome.

Anti-Off-Topic (Don't let it touch any Off-Topic or it will result in an big explosion!):
But what about ‼Science‼?
It doesn't contain any magma or fire sometimes.

I actually support the idea.
Well, maybe it should be less industrial revolution but more medieval fantasy but I always wanted to make a cruel dwarven dictatorship.

Have you assigned a barrack for them to train?
I'm not sure if they need one but I always did and it worked perfect.

Until I atomsmashed my whole squad by accident.
No more testing of my emergency plans...