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You guys are awesome.  So awesome. 

I like how you dragged the body. That's a nice touch.

My man (A) made the hike back. A was getting quite hungry when he hit a town that was surrounded by spinach fields. He devoured the spinach, and heard reports of a criminal syndicate surrounding another town. Coming to the town, A slaughtered them in their tents, walked into the meadhall, and was declared lord. A then inquired into further troubles, and was told of another bandit camp in the opposite direction. He picked up a couple followers and sallied forth. These were goblins, and numerous. After killing most of the lieutenants, the chief showed up with a halberd. His archer was slain, but his swordsman saved him by crippling the chief, who fled.

A hung around a bit until we saw the chief again, standing alone in the trees. He snuck up and bashed the goblin in the head with his shield as his swordsman sliced the goblin open. And that was that. But the damage was done, and A's sword arm was useless. So they went back to the meadhall and retired. A shed his armor and supplies, left them in a heap, and settled into the throne with a trusty hearthperson alongside.

I then started a new game with a new adventurer (B) in a nearby town. He found the meadhall of A, and asked to become a hearthperson. Being rejected, B went to town with a sidekick (possibly the same one as A) and drove off the goblins. The sidekick was killed after killing one of four goblins. B finished off two more before the final one fled. He then went to the outskirts and wiped out a few camps in their sleep. B returned to A's meadhall, as A remained, flickering with nerve damage, and after telling of his exploits, was accepted as hearthperson.

I like the continuity of this.

Thinking of Adventure mode...

When I walk around with a drawn lethal weapon among civilians, they tend to get scared, reasonably.

But in the case of hardened criminals, I can walk up to one without the fellow so much as blinking an eye, and then cut him down in cold blood before he can react.

Surely, walking into a camp run by brigands, with weapons drawn, should elicit some kind of reaction. Even if it makes early quests a bit easier (sometimes embarrassingly so) it makes it really hard to suspend belief.

Quote from: Uzu Bash on March 04, 2016, 03:58:15 pm

Bragging will inform people, but increases intimidation, so it may leave them with a more negative view than if you told in rumor or badly told in story. Reserve it for people you're about to kill or are trying to shake down (like robbing someone or getting a tribute from a government group,) but try to keep it out of earshot of the general public. Unless you're trying to subjugate them all and rule them in your tyrannical fist, then nothing really holds you back, does it?

After you've racked up a significant number of kills, you'd have to spam brag a lot before your most significant kills randomly pop out of your mouth.

How do I rule or subjugate people? What does it do?

Is there a wiki article for this stuff?

I've been wondering also. So far, it looks like if you kill everyone in a keep or meadhall and walk into the throne room, you automatically become the ruler. 

I'm also not sure what the implications of that are, especially since you can repeat the process and establish a different "group" each time you do it.

Meanwhile, after taking over a keep, I noticed a bunch of camps surrounding. Most of them contained a bunch of random civilians, including a "leader" (boss, etc.) I assumed these were invaders and slew them all in their sleep (it was broad daylight, btw.) I also noticed that once I slew the leader, my followers made quick work of the rest, so clearly they were all of a faction. Of course, the only weapons they had were knives, and each one had a pouch of coins.

But then I found a camp where the only one in it was a human fisherman. Should I assume this is another dangerous invader?

And does it even matter that I systematically wiped out all of these camps?

And I'm also very curious about the implications of lordship in this game. It seems to be an incredibly easy title to attain.

Anyone tried building blocks?

Have you ever tried walking along a mountain "road" in 12th century Europe? (Well presumably you haven't...). It may be called a road, but it's more of a muddy steep track prone to attack from bears, snakes, dingos and bandits. Think 'narrow path through the misty mountains', you wouldn't fast-travel that.

Aside from the "steep" part (and the dingoes) how is this different from any other well-used medieval dirt road?