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Fikilili

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Would YOU survive in DF?
« on: November 13, 2020, 10:22:54 am »

I'm not just talking about playing Adventure Mode or Fortress Mode and survive. No no no. I'm talking about being directly transported into a generated world and surviving in it. Would you be able to survive DF's bestiary and hazards?
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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2020, 10:51:09 am »

If I find a shield and a group of people bored enough to bang sticks against a crazy stranger's shield until he's a Legendary Shield User, I might just have a chance at living a decade or two.

And even then, it will very heavily depend on whether I encounter any large groups of undead. Zombies don't care about shields, they just keep attacking until you pass out due to exhaustion. Same with bogeymen.
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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2020, 12:24:49 am »

Maybe. DF world has a lot of possible unfortunate accidents.

I will become necramancer as fast, as I can. And then, retire in elfless Joyous Wilds, build a hillock in caves, but not too deep, teach migrants some secrets, drink valuable booze and write books for thousands of years.
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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2020, 02:02:45 am »

I'd be a peasant
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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2020, 03:02:29 pm »

Since any sane person has at least twice the common sense of a dwarf I think I might have a good chance. I agree with Riaktor, I'd definitely want to become a necromancer.
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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2020, 06:53:59 pm »

Would I be able to dig and build like a dwarf? Because... gonna need a gate and a hiding-hole, or that bestiary is gonna get me.
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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2020, 06:18:40 am »

I couldn't live in any fortress among stressed dwarfs, 3 or 4 years maximum in those conditions.
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TeaAndRum

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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2020, 11:59:13 am »

Hmm... Since there are no poisonous plants/mushrooms, nor diseases caught from nature, it leaves the hostile lifeforms as only concern. And clean water source should be located too, for cleaning wounds. And soap. Would try to stay near doors, since they're lockable. Preferably a drawbridge + lever, but drawbridges would be only found in player-made fortresses. So, if it's a building destroyer, I'm a goner.
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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2020, 08:45:44 pm »

If the economy is still borked I could probably survive bumming it in a human town taking people's food and buying nights at the tavern with plant leaves.
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Re: Would YOU survive in DF?
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2020, 03:09:48 pm »

Hah, of course not!
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