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[Corinthian]

So I've been aware of Dwarf Fortress for some time (mostly via screenshot LPs like Boatmurdered, which is fucking glorious) but just couldn't get into it. The graphics, the interface, it was all too much.

Fast-forward some many many months and I've been on a Nethack kick. Mostly with a tileset but sometimes on default graphics, and they're growing on me. So I stop and think "Hey, I'll give Dwarf Fortress another go, why not!" ...So I do. And the default graphics, while I can now appreciate the aesthetic, are still not doing it for me. Just...When I'm murdering a goblin, I want to see some semblance of a goblin.

Anyway I decided that, unable to penetrate Fortress Mode (I can't even figure out how to cut a tree, much less the mad chaos of the interface) and not really feeling up to learning at the moment, I'd give Adventure Mode a spin. Figure I'd lead this little fella on as long as I could then when he died, I'd have a nifty legend to justify a band of drunks venturing out to build a crappy fort.

So I grab a tileset (Ironhand, I think) and soundsense (the lack of sound was another problem for me) and set to generating the world. I decide my adventurer needs something...Unique. And then I decide that something is "He only ever fights via biting". This unique trait in mind, I dump all my points (I went with Demigod for max potential) into biting. Others points went into endurance, toughness and some other thing. Whatever. His surname (for story purposes, nickname whispered in terror by drunks) is Bloodtooth (Full name: Urist Bloodtooth, the Carnage of Brothers - The epithet will make sense shortly). The vague outline I gave myself for character backstory is "A fortress guard totally loses his shit and just starts biting throats out wherever he roams. Things proceed from there."  So I start in a fortress and wander my way to a room full of my fellows.

My first act of dwarven brotherhood? I latch onto a peasant's head with my teeth. Then his thigh. Then various other appendages and body parts until he bleeds to death. Rinse and repeat with a bonecarver and an herbalist. Viciously murdering the herbalist agitates a resident diplomat into trying to murder me, so now I've gotta kill him too. As I'm chomping on his hands, arms, feet, legs (by the end of it, his only form of attack was biting), I get a sudden urge to swallow his tongue. Chomp. Rip. E. And then disappointment. I can't eat his tongue.  I can lick it, which is amusingly silly, but that just doesn't provide the same feeling, you know?

So I bite out his eyeballs and leave him to flail blindly until he bleeds out, but not before he punctures my lung. It heals with some waiting and I take out my anger on a nearby surgeon by biting off all of his toes. Now I'm systematically slaughtering the rest of the room's inhabitants in similar fashion and still mourning that I can't eat their tongues. And now wondering if I can pick the tongues up and start a collection. All this while the rest of the folks in the room spectate with the occasional horrified or apathetic comment.

This was my first day in Dwarf Fortress. I feel it went well. 

(And I notice somehow I can latch onto an ear with one upper tooth and a toe with another upper tooth...What kind of horrific Lovecraftian beasts are these dwarves anyway? XD)

[Loam]

You'll need to butcher the tongues (or any body part) into meat before you can eat it.

You ought to live entirely underground, in the caverns, following the dwarf-roads and occasionally coming up into the fortresses to slay a single hapless victim, whom you drag down into the depths and butcher, feeding off their remains. All dwarves will come to fear you, and name you in legends and wives' tales after the horrifying guttural gasps you make in the darkness...

Sounds like fun. Maybe I'll try it out.

[Corinthian]

You ought to live entirely underground, in the caverns, following the dwarf-roads and occasionally coming up into the fortresses to slay a single hapless victim, whom you drag down into the depths and butcher, feeding off their remains.

That's more or less the plan, playing Sawney Bean (google him) as a dwarf and seeing how long it lasts. Speaking of lasting, it's nothing short of amazing how long it takes a dwarf to bleed out with three or four severed arteries...

Amusingly, today I found myself chatting up a fellow and planting rumors about the guy I'd gruesomely dismembered just moments earlier. Bizarre to say the least. 

[IndigoFenix]

This was actually the first thing I did when playing Dwarf Fortress the first time.  I'm not even joking.

[Icefire2314]

So I've been aware of Dwarf Fortress for some time (mostly via screenshot LPs like Boatmurdered, which is fucking glorious) but just couldn't get into it. The graphics, the interface, it was all too much.

Fast-forward some many many months and I've been on a Nethack kick. Mostly with a tileset but sometimes on default graphics, and they're growing on me. So I stop and think "Hey, I'll give Dwarf Fortress another go, why not!" ...So I do. And the default graphics, while I can now appreciate the aesthetic, are still not doing it for me. Just...When I'm murdering a goblin, I want to see some semblance of a goblin.

Anyway I decided that, unable to penetrate Fortress Mode (I can't even figure out how to cut a tree, much less the mad chaos of the interface) and not really feeling up to learning at the moment, I'd give Adventure Mode a spin. Figure I'd lead this little fella on as long as I could then when he died, I'd have a nifty legend to justify a band of drunks venturing out to build a crappy fort.

So I grab a tileset (Ironhand, I think) and soundsense (the lack of sound was another problem for me) and set to generating the world. I decide my adventurer needs something...Unique. And then I decide that something is "He only ever fights via biting". This unique trait in mind, I dump all my points (I went with Demigod for max potential) into biting. Others points went into endurance, toughness and some other thing. Whatever. His surname (for story purposes, nickname whispered in terror by drunks) is Bloodtooth (Full name: Urist Bloodtooth, the Carnage of Brothers - The epithet will make sense shortly). The vague outline I gave myself for character backstory is "A fortress guard totally loses his shit and just starts biting throats out wherever he roams. Things proceed from there."  So I start in a fortress and wander my way to a room full of my fellows.

My first act of dwarven brotherhood? I latch onto a peasant's head with my teeth. Then his thigh. Then various other appendages and body parts until he bleeds to death. Rinse and repeat with a bonecarver and an herbalist. Viciously murdering the herbalist agitates a resident diplomat into trying to murder me, so now I've gotta kill him too. As I'm chomping on his hands, arms, feet, legs (by the end of it, his only form of attack was biting), I get a sudden urge to swallow his tongue. Chomp. Rip. E. And then disappointment. I can't eat his tongue.  I can lick it, which is amusingly silly, but that just doesn't provide the same feeling, you know?

So I bite out his eyeballs and leave him to flail blindly until he bleeds out, but not before he punctures my lung. It heals with some waiting and I take out my anger on a nearby surgeon by biting off all of his toes. Now I'm systematically slaughtering the rest of the room's inhabitants in similar fashion and still mourning that I can't eat their tongues. And now wondering if I can pick the tongues up and start a collection. All this while the rest of the folks in the room spectate with the occasional horrified or apathetic comment.

This was my first day in Dwarf Fortress. I feel it went well. 

(And I notice somehow I can latch onto an ear with one upper tooth and a toe with another upper tooth...What kind of horrific Lovecraftian beasts are these dwarves anyway? XD)

I wish i could sig all of this

[Jebediah`]

I still remember the text I sent my friend who played DF the night he finally convinced me to try it.

"Dude, I'm biting water buffaloes! This is awesome!"

[Corinthian]

Now I keep getting mobbed and killed by boogeymen every time I travel outside the fortress. 

[Sutremaine]

Bogeymen are about at night. Get a companion, or sleep somewhere you can't see dawn (I think sleeping in an owned site is safe now? It's a new fix). Should be under "Ask listener to join you (new menu)" in the conversation list. Tal[k] with the 'k' button, using the yellow X cursor to select who to talk to. I'm guessing you haven't used that particular option yet.

[Astrid]

(And I notice somehow I can latch onto an ear with one upper tooth and a toe with another upper tooth...What kind of horrific Lovecraftian beasts are these dwarves anyway? XD)

Dwarfes have inbuild warpdrives and wormhole generators, allowing their bodyparts to bend and stretch into impossible directions without actually doing so.

Regarding Boogeymens, yes, they tend to maul anyone travelling alone in the night. Some of the few things of protection is either getting a companion or sleeping on an oceans shore. They apparently dont like beaches.

[Corinthian]

Bogeymen are about at night. Get a companion, or sleep somewhere you can't see dawn (I think sleeping in an owned site is safe now? It's a new fix). Should be under "Ask listener to join you (new menu)" in the conversation list. Tal[k] with the 'k' button, using the yellow X cursor to select who to talk to. I'm guessing you haven't used that particular option yet.

Slept in a tiny room with a bunch of drunks and a diplomat. Drunken diplomacy rightfully wards off night creatures, it seems, while my bag full of dwarf organs and meat probably kept the drunks at bay.

[tonnot98]

Whenever I bite something in adventure mode, I always think of Wario in Super Smash Bros Brawl

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[draeath]

You can also use advanced world-gen. Bogeyman types 0 means no bogeys

[xaritscin]

Bogeymen are about at night. Get a companion, or sleep somewhere you can't see dawn (I think sleeping in an owned site is safe now? It's a new fix). Should be under "Ask listener to join you (new menu)" in the conversation list. Tal[k] with the 'k' button, using the yellow X cursor to select who to talk to. I'm guessing you haven't used that particular option yet.

dont campfires keep them at bay too?

[Ziusudra]

dont campfires keep them at bay too?

It won't stop the event from happening, so they can still appear. They won't walk into fire, either campfires or undergrowth set on fire. Occasionally they can fly though.

You can throw things at them until dawn when they disappear, then jump over the fires.

Or you can leave one of the 8 squares around you without fire and try to take them on without being surrounded.

If you manage to kill any, their corpses will also disappear when the event ends. But, you can currently butcher them before the event ends and the parts won't disappear.