Dwarf Fortress Roundtable - Ep.110: Let’s Play Adventure Mode v51

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

Here's a gaming session where you can listen to us engage in banal conversation, terrorize kobolds, and generally set fire to things. Yes, it's Adventure Mode. Also check out the youtube video version of this where you can watch what's happening. https://youtube.com/@dwarffortressroundtable4624?si=RkDtlKbdJeEzR07E https://youtu.be/bVKhflVtT-w?si=iAtYf5iNbvq2rHcj

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, folks. Wow, what a great crowd in that. Don't know if it's the ale or the anticipation that I can feel the energy in here. No, thank you. But really, you're too kind. Yes, yes. Let's hear it one more time for the fourth-ish roundtable, huh? Ah, thank you. All right, folks. Tonight is a night to remember. You know why? Because you are tuned in for episode 110. Oh, yeah. Now, this isn't just any old episode. No, we're shaking things up. taking things to a whole new direction with a special adventure mode session. Oh, we're going wild tonight, baby. That's right. We've got our dynamic trio, Roland, Tony, and Jonathan,

taking the reins of the courageous newbie swordstabs. That's right, folks. Newby Sword Stabs is on a mission, and he's bringing you along for the ride. Now listen up, because you're not just here in the album version. Oh, no. For the full experience, you can hop over to the dwarf fortress round. on-table YouTube channel to see every gritty detail.

And if you're already watching from there, well, hey, pop on over to the podcast feed to catch that smooth audio-only version for whenever you're on the go. And hey, before we jump in, let's be sure to give a little love to your waitress, folks, because she's the real MVP tonight. All right, grab your goblets, get comfortable,

and let's dig in. This is going to be one for the history books. Okay, OBS is recording. Dwarf fortress is dwarfing. I can hear you guys. We're vibing. We're vibing. Okay.

So, Roland, did you hear me say that, so what I've done here is I went ahead and created a character last night and created a new pocket world as per Daufonso's suggestion. And it's a dwarf character who, has a sword and some stuff and he's probably just the worst character of the world but we're going to use that to just get going with yeah okay sounds good all right so continue active game and this is uh the universe of myth i think oh it's a good name look at all my planets man it's a jolly good name yeah that's it yeah i can pick his first name and i formed his uh

Newby is his first name. Newby. That's amazing. The Stotsat, I think that that translates to sword stabber or sword stabs. Accurate, yeah. Either does or gets done too. So sword stabs or sword stabbed. Perhaps both will be true as we load in.

Look at that aqueduct. Oh, man, are you going to be birthed into a world that you can't escape? Have you ever had those where you get in, you're like born into a fortress and you can never get out? Oh, I thought you were talking about like real life. No, in real life, I've been able to get out and do things. It's been okay for me. But in the game, I've noticed that sometimes I'll be trapped in my game world and I can't get out of this thing. So you're in a dirt.

Oh, this looks like this must be a really charming place to be. It's basically a dirt hole in the ground. I don't know. A ton of animals and Icelandic people. I really don't know how Dwarf can live like this in the normal generated villages. They just live in holes. Yeah, and they don't seem upset about it. But if I did this, everyone would lose their shit.

Yeah. Anyway. They're hobbits. Okay. So this dude here with the long beard and the spear. The Gandalf got. That's a newbie. Okay.

And he looks. And we have two war dogs. This is Fultig and Camille. Fultig and Camille are our ward dogs. We have Zulban the horse. And we have O'Nell the rooster. Oh, that's yours. That's funny.

That's your rooster. Okay, so you're why there's a whole menagerie of creatures here. Got it, got it. They're with us. So there was a couple of people laying down in here. I'm not sure why they're doing that. The rooster is kind of your bard, where he sings your songs to make you happy. Does he?

Is that what he's doing? I don't know. That would check out. What's the rooster doing? Oh, geez, somebody's doing something to you. I just walked over to the rooster. People are petting. Who's Stolting again?

Is that one of the dog, right? Is that the rooster or the dog? You don't really pet a rooster, maybe. Why wouldn't you pet a rooster? I don't like roosters, just in general. is a creature. Like, they're not very nice. They're really loud.

Zulban is the horse. Zolban sounds like a cream that you would treat like a rash with, don't you think? Hey, where'd you go? This room's crowded. I can't find my rooster. I think he'll be around unless they've, unless he's...

Okay, so here we are. I keep clicking him and it keeps sexually like bringing up a user interface. How can I... just look at the animals. Oh, here we are. Onol is the is the rooster. Okay. So I just float my mouse over things to just look at what's all's in that spot.

Okay. You could probably rummage through their cabinets if you wanted. Yeah, steal those things, although still there are things. And then if they get pissy about it, have the rooster kill them. Is it WASD for the? It's arrow keys, I think. Is that right? Am I wrong?

Am I right? Can you do a diagonal move? Yeah, you can do a diagonal move. I think he thinks you have a number pad on your laptop keyboard Okay Yeah it's it's number pad I think I just

Okay Did I just attack somebody Are they seeing That they Sometimes these people are really rude Well this is I'm just like listening into a conversation I can't tune them out

Every time I move It tells me everything that everybody around me is saying Yeah Sometimes it'd be neat if you didn't speak the same language, you could just, like, tune them out. So that is something that I have to deal with, right? Every turn I may have to dismiss a window of conversation. Is that correct?

I think so. I mean, why am I answering this? I don't know. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you do have to dismiss it. Okay. You can try just walking without dismissing it. Okay, I'll try walking without. My horse is standing on the cabinet.

Are you going to eat that? Who says that? Somebody said that. He's telling a joke. Sare me the compliments. And the elf said, are you going to eat that? It's such a joy to be with people. Yeah.

Can't relate. Who said that? Toasted the dyer. Toasted the dyer. He said that. to the farmer I nod who doesn't

handle pressure well oh that's tough okay so let me see if I can do I kind of interact with a cabinet that my horse is standing on do I click it

do I just run into it I think you go over the top of it and is it G to go rummage through things did you say G as in golf I think so let's try that let's try it G there we are okay

hey hey maybe it's G forget there doesn't seem to be anything interesting in here do you have a helmet because getting one of those helmets would be an interesting idea if you don't have it. Yeah there's like leather tunics and shit stuff in here sorry

where's my inventory trousers that sounds great is that my inventory yeah okay here's my inventory I have a sword a warhammer a battle axe I thought maybe I would need to cut a tree so um okay you brought all kinds of weapons okay that's uh interesting you never know what kind of enemy you're going to run into right stabby for the things that are easily uh damaged by edges and

a warhammer in case you run into someone who's wearing armor and uh you know a spear in case you're going up against somebody who's mounted i don't know if that actually makes a difference into a fortress but and I have socks and shoes I've got some trousers I've got a shield music instruments okay it's a tecid I got the

musical instrument called the tecid yeah why not let's play some tecid I feel like it would sound like metal that's what I would think a tecid would sound like it's made out of silver too so yeah yeah that's pretty rock can you actually use a rope for anything in dwarf fortress a rope rope in adventure mode i don't think you can't just climb a mountain or like buying stuff with it i don't think it works like you know

maybe uh you know string up a goblin with a noose uh that would be very cool from rope i don't think so okay uh see what we have food lots of food have some water A dye, okay. Two. We have a sheep will die and a silver die somewhere down here too. A wool cubic dye. What even? And a gold eight-sided line?

How do you make a wool dye? That's an interesting. Oh, I like the silver coins. I'm a big fan of coins in this game. Because you can throw them really hard. I've never tried, but I love it. Someday when the mythical economy is put back in the game, you can actually spin them. An echidna egg would be you could make a hell.

of an omelette with that. I have, I have, I'm carrying eggs in my hand. It's a great, delicious, an anteater. Okay, but that means you do not have a cap and you don't have armor. So, there's a leather armor in this chest. You could rob these people. Yeah, exactly. You can just rob these people and take a leather hammer.

Ooh, the silver warhammer is nice. What's that? There's a silver warhammer in there. There's, there's damp trousers. Maybe you don't touch those just as a, you know. You never know what they're damp from, right? I mean, yikes, they live in a hole in the downs. They could have a dog leather tunic.

And then there's a dog leather, yeah. Oh, yeah, there's a dog leather. Hemp trousers, okay. Ooh, a tow leather coat. Is that armor? Or is that just just? That's just normal clothing. How many toads do you think you have to kill to make a jacket out of them?

Well, it is a giant cave town. Yeah, so one. So one. But the normal toads, I would say 50 plus. Yeah, it would be a, it would be a lot of work, I think, for a toad leather jacket. Okay, so note to self with Control J. Does it not work here? Control J.

Oh, it does, the journal doesn't work in a Oh, man, feature request. DFX command launcher with any of it. I think you should venture out and get killed. I mean, explore. Control shift P. Same thing. Yeah, yeah.

I do need to grab some, some leather, is that right? You want me to grab? Yeah. Just grab that dog leather armor, I would say. It even is... There's a hungry head leather glove. That's what I don't know what a hungry head is, but it...

It's like a cavern dweller thing. Yeah, that's one of those things, isn't it? It's literally just a head dead. So the dwarfs took in the... and took a humanoid and made gloves out of them? It's not a humanoid. No, no. It counts as an animal.

But it's a head. But nothing else. I mean, how is it hungry if it doesn't have a stomach? Well, it's a large head, you know? It goes like a walka, waka, waka. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm thinking. It eats up all the dots. Okay.

You can say that about the Pac-Man Cave Monster, but whenever you talk about a troglodyte leather hood, we're talking about a humanoid there. troglita yeah they are humanoids but whatever anyway so we're doing that so which one of these should i get the mule leather helm or the sheep leather helm i i would go for mule why not why not yeah i'm you yeah the sheep owner probably smell like a mutton what is what is pete good for in this game uh i think you could possibly do pottery with it uh we're not going to worry about that we can come back forward if we need it. I can now build a campfire

in the room. What happens if I do that? Oh, do it. You absolutely should do that. Keep everybody nice and warm. Okay. You want to see him all freak out. You now have a campfire and the whatever this is. In the hole in the ground. I hope you can escape when you burn the place

to the ground. Oh my God. That's Pete. Okay. I'm sorry. I had to go to what the hell peat is. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it's a, uh, a organic plant material, like a half-rotted plant. Yeah, yeah, so no, you can't be pottery with it. That was, that was, it's, it's, yeah. You can make potting soil, though, out of it.

You can. Uh, it, it's what the ground in Scotland's made of. The ground. Just in general. Just in general. And then they burn it and they, and they malt their, their grains to make Scotch So that's good, Pete's good for, that's good for making whiskey. Are you, are you coughing because of the campfire in there?

You should move out. Okay, let's get. Let's make sure that you don't walk into the campfire, please. Yes. Oh, that would be tragic. The farmer says, don't waste my time. Someone says, try to keep it open mind. Okay.

Yeah, these people just, I don't see anybody saying anything about the fire. No, they'll, they'll, yeah, they don't seem very worried about it. Okay. Well, you know, to each their own. Maybe they like it. Yeah, it won't let me go on without acknowledging the wall of text. Yeah. Okay, how do I go up the stairs?

Can we get some? I think you use these stairs like you would change layers in normal mode. At least that was, how'd used to go? Yeah, is it like, is it E and C? Is that right? Oops. E opens up. Yes.

E is a correct. Oh, geez. Oh, there is a button. I think there is a button down right. Click a button with a stair. There is. Thank you. Yeah, move up.

Is that going away whenever I move off of it? Yep, it moves. It goes away when I move off of that. Cool. What about vomiting dwarfs? What, excuse me? Vomiting dwarves. Oh.

What? No. Is somebody making fried chicken? What? What? I'm sorry, I miss a bit about vomiting dwarves. Was that in the, uh, yeah somebody was trying to tell a joke i think oh okay wait wait wait wait you don't like fried chicken

no no i'm just saying that this dwarf here standing in front of the campfire is going to make fried chicken out of our rooster if we don't get the hell out of here yeah yeah oh absolutely i think everyone's okay okay okay we're up made literally beautiful we're living in a hobbit hole basically it looks like we're on the side of a mountain here or a hill okay oh look at the look at the neat little berry bushes Wow, we're still talking to them, people. We left because we didn't want to talk to them. Can you slam the door? I'll take my leave.

Bam. Jesus, these people. I wonder if there's a D.F. HAC command for suppressed conversation for three turns or whatever. I hate to say it, but like you might have to kill them if they don't shut up. I know. We do have a warhammer and we're not afraid to use it. I'm laying down. I'm laying down.

It's good. for quieting people down. We just have one, not 40,000, but I think it still works. I mean, do you just... Oh, look, you can pick the raspberry leaf or ignite the bushes. Okay, so for the watchers here,

I just right-click myself. So the right-click brings up a context menu. Nice to know. Oh, yeah, look, you can pick that raspberry leaf. I don't think that's... I can catch it on fire. That's the part of the raspberry that you want, though, is the thing.

you know what I mean the leave I do believe it's actually edible though yeah I think they make tea out of it and stuff if you go to those like you know bougy grocery stores you pick up the raspberry leaf and put it in your dog leather backpack okay

so now let's ignite the raspberry bushes oh it's stopping already you want me to not do that you're starting fires already I mean I'm just a little afraid about your frame rate, but... Yeah, oh, yeah, shoot, yeah, this isn't... Oh, God, if you're...

Oh, you just set fire to yourself. He's set fire to himself. Since this is turn-based and not real-time, the time is suspended here while I do this. So I'm going to go over here to this next thing. Oh, shut up, people. Okay. God, they're just...

I can pick it on me and leave. Oh, by the way, we... we did steal the armor so you should probably actually wear it. Oh, got to catch the onion plants on fire first. Yeah, you want to probably do that for sure. You know, burn them out.

Okay, so how do I put on my inventory? I think I inventories you, right? There's a little backpack picture icon, so I definitely can get to the inventory. Oh, yeah. The icons.

That's real neat. Yeah, you've got to get in on that. Those are useful. Okay, so. There, there, the little, the little, yeah, exactly. Wear this item. Wear this item. Okay.

Oh, look, I got a hand on that. Nice. The picture changed, too. Looks like he's got an acorn on his head. Oh, yep. It is a mule leather helmet, so. Kind of, did you just put an ass on your head? So, so here's what I can say?

say already about adventure mode with version 50, or what will be 51. It is already more accessible than it was. Because you have a mouse control. Previously. No, I don't think it's the mouse control so much as it's more accessible because things look like what they are. Yeah, things are happening for sure.

Okay, so I want to put on my leather armor. Okay, so, oh, look at me, I got my little portrait has leather armor on now. Yeah. Oh, that's nice. That's nice. I think it's hilarious that we ooh and awe over basically technology that is, you know, 40 years old for the, oh, look, the icon is wearing armor now.

I mean, we can put people on the moon. So there you go. Well, we can do that before we could text each other text messages. Yeah, we could do that before it seems like you should have been able to do that. Oh, yeah, we probably did that before we should have done that. I mean, I believe that it happened, but I think it's... Gotta beat the dirty commies, right? It's a wild ride we're on here.

Okay. This is not the politics podcast. That will be coming out in a future. We'll be covering our Dwarven politics. Yes. Featuring puppy lovers. Not as in the class 101, but the election for the year 101. Oh, God.

Yeah. Well, Lordy Lord. Okay. Long may it last. So I think I've got everything on that I need to take that I need to put on. I think it's get the show on the road. You'd probably climb on board that horse or donkey or whatever. Can I mount my mount?

You can, yeah, if you put skills into riding, you're, you can do it. I think that I did. Well, if you didn't, if that's fine. Is it, is it like reading where you have to be at least dabbling to be able to actually mount a horse? I wonder. I wonder Where do you go Below the door

Well it's on the same Tile as a dog Not necessarily below it Shut up you people The dawn is on the horse Look we've known each other for a while No need to be like that Okay now I'm in this

I'm occupying the same tile as the horse Good Now you hop on his old bones Um There is a little horse icon. There is a little horse icon to the left. Oh, yeah, there it is. Look at that. Yeah, I see it. It's between...

Movement options. Something in the backpack. How long you move? That's not it. That's not the right one. Maybe the picture with the hamster and the horse and the person? The hamster, the horse, and the person. A hamster horse and a person walking to a bar.

Tech companions, yeah. that's just my companion. Can you click on them? Maybe you have to click on the horse. Nope. The horse is on the ground. Why is the horse on the ground? Is it like lying down to let you climb on?

Yeah, it's, it's relaxed. It's a relaxed horse, you know. It's just chilling. That's cool. Horses like to lay down when they're... Okay, I'm going to move and get away from this door so that I can't hear these idiots. I think if I were you, I'd put a rock on top of that hat, just to be funny. Can I do that?

No, but it would be great if you could. Let's imagine that you did. I'm just going to imagine that that's what happened. Okay. Oh, look at this going. Okay. Okay. It's supposed to be H.

Mound or dismount, press H. H. Okay. You will also be able to pack an item onto a mount. You cannot climb or mount while prone. Why am I laying down? Oh, yeah. You probably have to push S, I think, right?

is that the one for stand up and sit down and here i am there's the icon for it it's a little dude who's her laying down yeah you can see those down arrows okay the dogs now laying down that's what they do so now i'm going to do h oh yes yes mount the horse there we go you can lead him you have to lead you can mount the war dog i have mounted zolban the magnificent okay so now do i use my arrow keys to to walk around? Mm-hmm. Yes.

Okay. You're moving faster, I reckon. Um, you know, I always thought it would be funny. What kind of horse is it? Is it like a normal full-sized horse? I think so. It's Clyde Stale. It's got those big, big, cloppy,

I like that. Zulban, Erbzvol. Arab Zafal. Okay. He's a five-year-old horse. He's healthy. has no official position and he is alarmed when a stranger he was alarmed when a stranger advanced to the weapon well i mean that doesn't sound unreasonable normal holds behavior yeah that sounds

expected he is a large curved mained herbivore he can run swiftly and many are domesticated as steeds he is very agile but slow to heal he is fat his hair is charcoal the skin is dark peach dark peach his eyes are black it's a Clydesdale it's a Clydesdale for sure it's a fat Clydesdale which is good because you're not going to feed him so you want him to just starvation simulator it out but yes you definitely not going to feed this guy oh my window went into the computer that's running

with a recorder went into into uh locked up never mind that will be edited up okay so yeah I guess we can't tell what kind of horse he is he's just a brown horse

well brown isn't brown is a kind of horse oh he's charcoal colored so the is that because you've been set in fires everywhere maybe he's just he's like covered with smoke what's that that is a sandstone boulder yeah can I care of that around

I don't think you want to do that yeah i don't think i can pick that up it's not you can't drop it on that hatch though it's still i still think about that anyway okay i'm on my high horse right my doggy wait where's my doggy where's my where's my they're around they're there they're not far i'm gonna hit my there they are here come my two war dogs fricking frack that's the way that's the way's the chicken all we're all accounted for yeah i wonder why the chicken is is is blinking alternating colors. Because the chicken is cool and changing colors.

One of those who's like a chameleon roosters. Is it like a rabbit? I mean, not a rabbit. What's the thing? Octopus. Why did I get octopus and rabbit mixed up? Let's don't focus on that too much.

Well, if you take two rabbits, they have the same number of limbs as an octopus. Yeah. Wasn't so good. What now? I'm going to zoom out and see if I can see anything. I would say, yeah, go and see what you can see in the world.

Oh, my heavens, this is a big view. I've never seen this finishing up stop action thing before. So now it looks like you're moving around. I keep seeing this little red thing in it. The tanner. Olin. Is there a tanner here? The tanner.

Oh, there's another door. Is that the same door we came out of? No, it's a different one. A different dwarven pit. Let's go in here and wreak havoc. is there something to be happy about yes we have arrived we have arrived hey guys and it's more dirt stuff this looks like the same thing this is the dirt civilization yeah the cabinet's in a different location though

check what's in that was yeah I'd rummage around in there see what she can steal from jerks okay fresh armor we don't need more more so you take the loam and you take the peat and you take the peat and you mix it to get this is going to be an herbivore dude isn't it uh okay well i don't see anything in here that's burn them out yeah burn them out okay guys we've done it there you go my god this guy i could really use a drink well you hate to see it's all every time that not every time that i move often when i move there's a little little short flash of red text and I don't know if I'm it says um I can see it it says

something like continue action or cancel action or something like that I'm unfamiliar with that pop-up having never seen it and I'm not dismissing it it's dismissing on its own so yeah yeah it's like waiting I think it's a processor queuing thing gotcha okay so if I had to guess there is no more downstairs so I'm going to go back up I rode my horse into the tavern. As you should. Sometimes you've got to do that. Yes.

You should. Yeah, I mean, why would you not? You can lead a horse to a tavern. So the spotted ratfish and the armadillo. I want to know how this joke ends. Well, I think we're going to find out soon. Um, so. The two-legged rival is it?

I'm trying to visit. Do I have a log of my, of the, of the conversations? No, I don't think it saves them. No, you'll just have to hold that in your heart, I guess. Oops, that's the wrong button. What's that? View your log. Ghost tunnels, the tables.

Oh, Lordy, I didn't know about this. Okay, so it does have, it does have elements of, of, it's, it's letting you track who you. you've met although I don't you've known this person your entire life well oh I see so it's like things that you know things that you should know okay I have no agreements yeah it's good to know okay didn't know where you stand all these layers abyss death that sounds like a nice place abyss death sounds like a nice place Abyss, that sounds like a place that you would definitely want to go visit.

Ardvark woman, a person with the head and a tail of an ardvark. Kill them. Well, it says that I've encountered these creatures in the past, but have not recently. This creature lives in the hills of celebration. Definitely. Okay, so you can click on them on any one of these, and there's a little expansion button in the lower right-hand side so that you can read more about it. That's kind of neat. However, what I had hoped to see here was the record of the conversation that I was just listening to.

Fair. Yeah, it didn't do that. That was disappointing. Ha, ha, you're funny. Oh, Lordy. Where's that Silver Warhammer? This little, rolling this, this bear patch here, is that supposed to be a road? Yes, because you're currently in a town, and the towns have, like,

made shift roads. Okay. Yeah, there's your dialogue box. It says finishing up and then it says stop action. I don't know. Gotcha. Thank you. I don't know. Maybe that's a D.F. Hack thing.

I'm not sure what that is. I haven't seen that. This town isn't that much going on. No, this town kind of sucks. Okay, so let's say that I want to travel somewhere. Can I open up a map and travel? Yeah, it's on the far right there, I think. There you go.

There we go. Now you can just rock these screens around now. So this is my world map. Oh, right. What is that? It's a Dorven, Dorven Hillix, overgirdle. Is that my home? Where's my home? A helix. I like the word helix.

Do you guys like Helix? I like Helix. I like Helix. Helix. Cobold camp. Cobalt camp. Oh, you should absolutely visit the cobald camp. Yeah. Okay, how do I do that?

Be aware that a cobalt camp can have like cave animals live in there. Because the last time I checked it out, it had like 400 billion cave spiders in there that just ate me. Like the big one. I'm got a Zoltan, the Magnificent, and the Warhammer. That sounds really good. I love it. Yeah, no, we should definitely try it. definitely

So how do I get there? Just walk to the left Like to the west I mean Okay So which one is Am I where the red is You're the red dot right

You're the red dot I thought I'm not sure where your cursor is I don't see your cursor I can't actually see what's happening There's like boxes popping up and down And I'm on the Oh can you not see my arrow

No No Oh okay You can only see this world map Interesting I wonder if the arrow is being recorded by OBS. I am confused by what's happening here. So what it is is I'm floating over the black shield with it looks like an ad sign.

Oh, there's an ad sign there. That's where I am. Okay. So the shield with an ad sign is where I am. And that's where it says the cobalt camp is. Oh, okay. Then the cobalt camp has to be here somewhere. If you go back to your thing, it should tell you what's like west north west.

Okay. So this is a closer in map. Is it up there by the? the river and it didn't it used to tell you like what was yeah yeah yeah up in the upper in the left corner yeah but i don't see it's like a weird brown thing uh to the left do you see it like far from the town there's like a brown spot three dots yeah yeah looks like 10s i want do you talk about this in trouble we can't see well we don't know where you're at the top left But it's to the left of the screen. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. To the left of the screen, I wish you could see my mouse pointer. So. Do you see where I'm pointing with my finger? No. No, okay. I'll look at my window and see if I can see your hand. Yeah, you can just look out your window and you'll see me.

Okay, so there's a stream that goes off the left side of my map. It's above the stream. It looks like it's either three boulders or three tents. Okay. I'm not sure what it is. go over here? Yeah. I think our Discord

refresh rate is like two seconds per frame. Yeah, I get exactly four pixels right now. I get blur, blur, crisp, blur, crisp. Oh, look, there's the thing in the top left

shows you your near stuff. Okay, so I'm going to stop traveling now. Yeah, you mean, yeah. Okay, yeah, and then you're going to keep heading to the west, I guess. Okay. Okay, so can you see my, uh... Yeah, I see your horse and your dude and your dogs, your Dobermans.

They're not poodles. They are war corgis. War corgis? The best. Okay, now it tells you that the star is to the west. I think the star might just be the cobalt cave that we're looking for. I'm floating over that star and now it says the cold camp is the short west. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thank you. short walk to the west, hey, hey, hey. I hope they stole some goodies, and we can, like, bonk them over the head. Oh, there we go. Oh, look at that. I see two cobalts already. Lute. All right.

Oh, nice. This is all the crap they've been taken from everyone, jerks. So let's have a fight. How do I prepare for a fight? I'm not sure. There's a good chance you have to. Can you fight on the horse? Oh, yeah, maybe.

Yeah, well, let's see. Ride up on him, try to attack him. What is it, Shift A? Well. Is the unapologetic balking? I have one, two, three, four weapons all in my right hand at once. Are you one of those creatures that can hold lots of things? No, you're a dwarf.

I'm a dwarf. One of those creatures. You know, that first time I played a Spider-Man and I could hold like ten things, and I was like, oh, yeah, that's right. Spiders have lots of hands. Sure. So should I put these other things in my pack if I don't want to use them? Do you want to take all the crap that the cobalds have left around?

Oh, there's a cobal with a bow and arrow. You might want to dust him first if you're going to be dusting anybody. I want to take care of the bad guys before I actually go for any loot. I'm not sure. Are they attacking? Do you want to kill them first? So a question of procedure here. Can you put them in your backpack by clicking on the chest symbol?

Put this item onto a container. Yeah, because then you have a more. hands free. So I have made that I set myself up to be an adept sword user. Oh, good. Do you have a sword? No, you've got a war hammer.

Steel short sword. I have a steel short sword. Oh, steel short store. It's good, though. That's that like 10 times in a row very fast. Steel short sword, steel short sword. That's enough times for me to know that I don't want to do that anymore. Okay.

So I'm going to put the spear away. And I'm going to put. The battle axe away. Okay. So now all I have left in my hand, wait, it looks like an axe. What do it do? You do. You've got an axe and a sword in your right hand.

That's a fun thought. Okay. There we are. I have my sword. Should I dismount or should I go fight him while I'm on my horse? Yeah, dismount. I think it makes more sense because then the horse can individually join into the fight. And hopefully, don't get in my...

It's a biter, the horse. This amount to dense hairgrass. Dense mount to the west. Let's do that. Okay. What's that? Wet hairgrass? Don't forget to set everything on fire before you leave.

Well, I'll do that after we take care of this. Let's forest. Cobold. Okay. The dogs seem to be joining into the fight, and the cobalts are running away, huh? They're very not happy with you here. Oh, somebody just shot you at arrow. Shot an arrow at you, that guy.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I just saw that arrow fly. He'll learn his lesson. Whack. I think Shift A does it, doesn't it? Really start a conflict with the frail cobald bowman? Yeah, of course.

Confirm. Strike. Let's see. Tricky, difficult, normal. I think tricky. I think you could do the tricky upper body. Yeah, probably not. Can you go down?

Tricky strike can only... A possible strike. Fairly solid. What is the easy strikes? No easy strikes for some reason. You're probably not good fighter yet, so that's why. Maybe one of the normals. Should I just go for the upper body or his head?

Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Sure. A or D, body or head? Oh, I do A. A, yeah, because it's easier. Higher chance with that.

Oh, now we have to what kind of strike? Oh, stab. Oh, stab is a good thing. Yeah, my name is a sword stabber. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Give him a good stabbing. Stab. This is B.

Just a good poking with the sword. Did he run away? Oh. Did you run away? I stabbed the frail cobal bowman in the upper body from behind with my steel short sword, tearing apart the muscle and shattering the left true ribs through the extra small Ramey tunic X. A tenor in the left true ribs has been torn.

I feel like these two ribs are in trouble. That's that this guy's. So I think it was Delphonzo. If I'm misidentifying the person who let me know this, then I apologize. But you see the little arrow now that's moving on the screen? Uh-huh. The green arrow. That's what I was trying to talk about.

Oh, yeah. Is that the way he's headed? This guy? That's the way he's wanting to flee, yes. Right. Well, I would kill him. So if I want to head him off, I should probably use that as my intercept angle. Yeah.

I think you're right. He's in trouble this cat. Oh, he's not one. Okay. So you said it was shift A for attack? I think so. Yeah. Strike him again.

Easier a strike. A body. Stabby. Ooh, yes. He's having trouble breathing. Oh, an artery. Yeah, game is done. Now you just go in and, like, cut his head off.

Ooh, yeah. No, he's laying in a pool of blood. So things, his day did not end the way he thought it would. I can steal from him. You can't actually get the iron bow and the arrows and the quiver. Yeah. That's actually my good. Can I shoot a bow?

I thought that I could only shoot a crossbow You should be able to shoot the bow Depending on how well you are with that I can shoot myself in the foot You can also fill your water skin with his blood Yeah, but he's not really a vampire So that doesn't make sense No, that's true, but it's fun to think about

True, it is Could he make himself a vampire? You have to kick over a statue It's very possible actually in adventure mode. I'm actually considering doing that. He doesn't seem to have very much useful stuff.

Yeah, it's just a cobalt. They don't really have anything. He's my first kill. Should I carry around his mutilated corpse in case I find a taxidermist? Nah, not yet. I mean, it's just a cobalt. He's not impressive. Okay, so I'm going to move over this way, one.

Oh, you can go rummage through all their bags. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to... I would just go loot the spoils. Gee, I'll make a campfire. to the west. You're going to burn his corpse. Can you cook him and eat it?

I don't think you can eat cobald meat. We got a cobald barbecue going on here, people. Delicious. In my left hand, I have a bow. In my right hand, I have a sword. I think I'll still away my, one of my favorite things to do is to have my archers beat the shit out of people

with their crossbows. Whoa. Can I not do that? You're roasting his body. Oh, God. You could play the silver tech. I'm very cognizant of area sanitation, so you burn the bodies. You don't let them fester in the sun.

What is this? Like some kind of World War Z mod with zombies in it? What's that? That's what it feels like. Why is my, I don't guess I can put my bow in my, in my backpack, because. I think the backpack is full, but we can try to store things on your horse. So your character is myself loaded. I put the bow into the quaver.

That worked. It's not the short bone. So what's the little blue dot mean? Um, good question. Maybe that your weapon is out. And my, and, um, Kumul, the dog has a, has a, uh, has a green dot by him. Good God. I have no quality right now.

I don't know what's happening. Yeah. I'm just getting wonka, don't. Are we getting, is this Discord being a jerk? Yeah, maybe we should, next time we should try it with a different method, but you'll get to see the wonderfulness of this. It's good. It's all good.

I'm going to look and see if we can find another Cobald here to kill. I think he might have egressed the premises. So I think what we should do now is we should go pilfer through these bags of stuff and then maybe save our game and call this a perhaps successful experiment. We'll see how it turns out. I didn't die.

I don't know how I feel about you surviving this, though. I felt like it was going to... I mean, it was just one cobald. Yeah, it's a hell of a cobald. Hell of a cobald. Hell of a cobald. Put up a real fight. And let's just see if there's anything good here.

Let's see if there's like... Yeah, I do want to unpack the loop boxes before we... Look at the gold coin that they've got. What is that? It's, like, quite named. Three names on that gold coin. Three names?

Yeah. Oh, let's say, a number I. There's something, onus, like of something gold coin. Yeah, that's, that's like that was a cobalt's name. Because it looks cobalty. That seems to me like it's an artifact gold coin. Ours now. Mine now, yeah.

Okay, so let's take a look inside the chest. sandal copper breastplate yeah yeah so I'm going to go ahead put that on monkey leather tunic

or whatever you had oh it's a lot to wear that it's large you can't wear it oh is that right uh

vertex verix uh yeah you can't wear it it's large that that blows so I'll drop it again where to go

Yep What's the same? Is this say I'm wearing it? No, you can't. I can remove it. You can't. It's too big. I can remove it.

If I removed it, that indicates I was wearing it, right? Or not? No. No. You can just drop it, honestly. Yeah. Okay. What else was in there?

Some more gold coins. Boy, these I think you think they were... Probably their dime a dozen. Yeah, they liked gold coins. They're a gold coin a dozen. I also like gold coins. Yeah, I mean, they're good for things.

Large copper gauntlet. A leather smender. Okay, cool. Basking shark. A leather vest. I love the, I mean, just the idea of catching the sperm whale is kind of amazing. that's true I always liked

a dwarf fortress shark leather like if I see anything made from shark leather I buy it it doesn't matter it's too large or I need it or whatever shark leather

it feels hard to get it's also too large to wear but there are iron boots damn that would have been very nice well next time I'll become a human and I can wear them. Honestly, I like the hyena men for their ability to wear both

dwarven and human-sized clothing. Oh, that's kind of cool. But I always play hyena women, just, you know. Hyena women, that's amazing. Copper Halbert. Oh, yeah, that's what you want. Yes, now we're playing. All right.

Is that my dog with the backpack? Are you strong enough to, uh, uh, use that? Well, I'm walking around, you know, silver warhammer so that. Oh, to use it. Oh. You're a dwarf.

You're good. You're not like a fish man or anything. Get these arrows. Iron arrows. Those are heavy. I wouldn't have thought. You have to, you know, you have to lead your, your target.

All right. Well, are you satisfied with our pilfering of the loot? Yeah. I'm thinking, I think that's fun. It's really good. The halberd was, I think, the delicious item that we needed to have this emotional fulfillment.

All right. So let's go ahead and save it. So this is, we have one burning. Let's go ahead and we'll camp by the burning. By the carcass that you're killing. Of the cobald. It's a shame you can't eat the cobald. Yeah.

Okay, so we are going to escape, save, and return to the title menu. Okay, so that's going to wrap it up for this episode of Dwarf Fortress, roundtable adventure mode playing, yeah, whatever we're going to call it, so. Yeah. So I hope people enjoyed that little foray, and I'll get this posted whenever I can. And, yeah. Taking requests. Yeah, we'll see how this little.

this little experiment goes so all right until next time stabby stabby stabby stabby choppy see you next time in the stealing simulator oh okay

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