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The_Jakey

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Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« on: October 06, 2010, 06:10:11 am »
So I just introduced my friend to Dwarf Fortress - he hasn't even got the hang of the military screen, however, he has stumbled across this listed in (R):

Upright Cotton Candy long sword at z-level 84

This is his first embark, he hasn't got a clue what's going on. Naturally though, he goes to explore and find the sword in the fucking stone. When he gets to z-level 85 he finds that 84 is primarily made of slade. I instantly shit myself. Anyway, we manage to find a place that isn't made of slade and dig towards the sword, only to find the magma sea and also something of some interest...

A fucking skeletal elephant and buzzard tea party.

I have never, ever experienced this. There's an entire room complex made of slade full of zombies and skeletons, all guarding this mythic sword, which is sat next to a glowing door.

Is this shit normal? Or have we struck something awesome? Will post pictures/save if requested.
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2010, 06:11:50 am »
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2010, 06:36:31 am »
I thought this initially, is it usual for it to be full of skeletal/zombie animals though?

Cheers for clearing that up. :)
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2010, 06:38:47 am »
Yes that's normal, although the type of undeads varies a lot.
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2010, 08:57:44 am »
My fortress has a demon fort with SIXTEEN PAGES of undead amphibian/reptile/serpent/ant men. O.o
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2010, 09:07:23 am »
Do you get to keep the sword once it's out? If so that would make for an awesome weapon for a swordsdwarf, if you allow such abominations before armok to exist in your army.
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2010, 10:36:45 am »
Quote from: BigJake on October 06, 2010, 06:11:50 am
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It's my understanding that they only occur within Mountain biomes, so they're just like the HFS back from 40d except that you can't make them show up during embark.
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2010, 10:37:46 am »
They occur everywhere. My last one was in a completely flat forest.
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2010, 10:57:05 am »
A question. Is this sword available in Adventurer mode? I know it's technically a building, but it'd be awesome to yank a sword out and unleash a horde of demons.
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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2010, 10:58:06 am »
Yes, yes it would. Killing clowns with the sword in the stone in adventure mode sounds completely awesome.
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Re: Skeletal Fortress (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2010, 12:50:22 pm »
Haha OP reminds me of myself first time I found one of these.

Holy shit, what are those zombie-filled slade halls doing here?
Holy shit, there's a blue sword just standing there!
HOLY SHI--
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