Dwarf Fortress 13, Warlocks

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:40 pm #125228

I am sure you folks know the drill by now. We make a quiant little fort of some kind, everybody claims a dude and you see how your dudes get mauled by bears, become war heros, hated politicians, or masterful craftsmen. Our last run, Souldefences, was left after i burned out real hard. However we still did manage to create our own little fishing town with more guns than you can shake a stick at, and right before i stopped with the game we fought an intense battle with a horde of greenskins, and paid a heavy price for victory.

This game however is going to be quite different. This time we are warlocks. An eldritch race, hunted to near extinction at the dawn of time. We wield the malign energies of foul sorcery, existing as outcasts and hermits in the fringes of the world. Until now, that is!

The way this mode works is that you get your starting seven warlocks, plus the first two migrant waves. That's it. This leads to a very small number of civ members, around 10-14 warlocks depending on how many of the migrants are ghouls. However each warlock is a powerful force unto themselves, and can be brought back from the dead completely using ancient rites of necromancy.

The way we expand our numbers is by trapping souls of creatures we kill into phylacteries which we use to assemble and animate skeletons. Skeletons are the backbone of a warlock military and workforce, taking on menial labour tasks and frontline fighting. We can make as many skeletons as we have materials for, and it is not unusual for a warlock fort to consist of hundreds of them in the endgame.

The other type of minion we can create are ghouls. These are a bit trickier to make, but are also wicked fast and very tough. Essentially we can use a special building to raid settlements for loot and prisoners. We can then torture these prisoners for the location of other settlements, and eventually corrupt them into ghouls for our armies.

The price we pay for our massive powers is the constant ire of the so called "civilized races". Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes and elves will constantly be on the assault, attempting to extinguish this last bastion of the old magics in the new world.

TL:DR: Dwarf fortress for a 4th time, limited warlock space get em while they are hot folks.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:58 pm #125249

In the very real event that no one gives a shit i will just let this thread die quietly

Post by **lumipharon** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:05 pm #125252

What happened to human fortress?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:07 pm #125253

I just got super burnt out on running it. It wasnt even playing so much as having to constantly screenshot and update the thread. Which is odd because usually that is the most fun part. In any case i still have the fort and can revisit it at any time. I just figured we could do warlocks for a bit since i have not played most of the content there yet.

Did i mention that we make spells in part by binding books in the scalps of our enemies? Because we totally do

Pascal123 · Post by **Pascal123** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:15 pm #125268

Warlock Fortress is a bitch, but this sounds interesting. Hopefully it can take off.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:19 pm #125271

I trust you'll name your first skeleton Mr. Bones?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:15 am #125282

I will name him whatever the people decide. It is of note that you could also claim a skeleton or ghoul if you want/if there are no warlocks. I will make sure that player skellingtons and ghouls get proper quarters and all that

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:57 am #125396

Zilenan91 wrote:I trust you'll name your first skeleton Mr. Bones?

Mr. Bones is so 2012, everyone names their skeletons Papyrus or Sans nowadays

tedward1337 · Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:40 pm

SANS
Also
Add me as a warlock, it's about time being a wizard finally paid off

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 1:37 pm #125415

I'd like to be a warlock named The Wiznard if possible

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:29 pm #125487

Tedward was frankly completely sick of this shit. Since before the dawn of time his people were on top. The best of the best. Fell magicks granted by their dark gods gave them absolute power and control. It was good times. As far as he could remember anyways, things start to blur together a bit after three hundred years. Funny thing is, the world is only 150 years old by the reckoning of mortals. Pathetic really.

Since the collapse of it all, Tedward's people had been forced into the shadows of the world. The damn mortals breed so quickly and hunt so voraciously that most of his kind had been completely destroyed. Those that hadnt lived in exile, hoarding what scraps of arcane power they had. But no longer.

After years of preparation Tedward was able to find more of his kind. Six other warlocks and witches, with a few more from around the world on the way. They would restore the warlock race to its former glory, using the recently rediscovered rites of necromancy. And Tedward would be their overlord. A dark age was coming.

It was just a matter of time before the mortals, fearful of the coming storm, came with their warriors to tear down what Tedward would have built. He would not let that happen. A location was chosen in a deep deep jungle by a stream. The slaves that bore the wagon finally at the breaking point. Inefficeint, they would be butchered and made into skeletal minions at the earliest opportunity. The dawn of a new age is nigh

http://i.imgur.com/L7sF5nB.png

(will update some more tomorrow, still have 5 of the starting warlocks left plus like 6 or so more on the way)

Takeguru · Post by **Takeguru** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:32 pm #125488

I'm always game for these.

Warlock/witch preferred, but I'm not against being a skelleyman

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:40 pm #125490

I'll be a warlock called.... Urist.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:28 pm #125509

Because of the nature of the game mode and because we have so few warlocks, everyone has a very well defined role and I will let you pick what you want.

We need a loremaster type librarian who binds books from the scalps of our enemies to research schools of magic.

We need a Smith to forge our weapons and armor, as well as the magic rites to create ironbone, bloodsteel and soul-infused dreadnought.

We will need a lady of pain to manage the dungeon, responsible for torturing prisoners, feeding them, and corrupting them into ghouls.

We will need an alchemist for spell reagents and stuff

EndgamerAzari · Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:29 pm

I call librarian!

Xhagi · Post by **Xhagi** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:45 pm #125514

I love reading and watching DF games. I really should get back into it myself, it's been too long.

I'd like to call the Smith.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:32 pm #125518

Okay, I call Lady of Pain.

Urista, the Lady of Pain.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:04 pm #125556

I'd like to 420 your undead /r/trees army please. (alchemist pls) Also if I'm made the alchemist I'd like to be renamed "The Kushznard"

ShadowDimentio · Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:31 pm

I want to be a ripped, tough warrior warlock named Muscle Wizard. I cast magic by beating people to to death.

Also I'm totally one of THOSE wizards that uses performance enhancing drugs magic to make my ripped bod even more ripped, and brag about it constantly.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:39 pm #125575

Rex the Eponymous!

Post by **lumipharon** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:07 am #125594

Lumi the Luminescent.

Gotta magic the shit out of things.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:11 am #125680

The crew is all here

http://i.imgur.com/5ovK55o.png

Muscle wizard gets to work hewing some trees for wood, a small hole is dug a rudimentary workshops are set up. Warlocks disdain manual labor, but until we get some minions we are gonna have to dirty our hands

tedward1337 · Post by **tedward1337** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:37 am #125712

It begins

AGAIN

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:41 pm #125756

Tried digging down below the sandstone so that we could carve some nice bedrooms and such in a better quality stone and we hit the first cavern layer. Damn that is shallow

http://i.imgur.com/qlL76GJ.png

We build a few receptacles and get our Soul Syphon created. This is a vital device that allows the trapping of harvested souls in a device called a phylactery. Souls are retrieved from butchered creatures, but unless properly stored will wither away after a week or so. We use souls for a lot of stuff, so this is pretty vital.

To make a Necromantic shrine and start building skeletons to assisst in the manual labor we need 3 souls, but we only have two slaves to butcher. Urista takes the hapless kobold and dwarf to the chopping block while Tedward gathers his mage staff and wraithblade and heads out to hunt some animals

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:51 pm #125760

Tedward sighed. While it was good to be able to flex his magical muscles again this is the type of shit he has minions for. Glancing at the surrounding woodlands he sees a pair of Centaur frolicking happily, and a wicked grin crosses his face

http://i.imgur.com/tl7Mks9.png

After playing with his pray a bit he puts it out of its misery. The old "smash the leg with magic slade so they cant run away" trick. Works every time.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 3:08 pm #125763

A pack of wolves and a few groundhogs later we have a nice stock of souls, bones and leather to work with. Kushznard begins constructing the first of what will hopefully eventually become a massive horde of undead servents.

http://i.imgur.com/cHvcyjm.png

Here is a snap of our current camp. There are quarters being dug out of fine marble below the ground, but all our workshops are up here. At present we are terribly exposed, and need to build a wall soon. We have set our sights on a building called an ethereal gate. This device allows a skilled sorcery to craft furniture and blocks from pure ethereal energy, and is an excellent way to power level sorcery on our overlord. These blocks will be used to build our walls, but we have a choice in color. Edgelord black, blood red, soul blue, puke green or warlock purple. Will leave it up to you guys to decide. This is also what all our furniture is gonna be made out of so feel free to decide what color furnishings your warlock will want in his or her room

tedward1337 · Post by **tedward1337** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:29 pm #125825

Hell yeah, purple walls

ShadowDimentio · Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:31 pm

I vote purple for the walls, because we are MANLY MEN who aren't afraid to loudly declare that we're a settlement of outcasts.

Muscle Wizard demands red furnishing for his room however, as red is a MANLY color.

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:40 pm #125831

Is this a warlock tower, or warlock underground city?
(Save a migrant warlock for me, "Mairon" )

ShadowDimentio · Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:47 pm

Muscle Wizard votes we build a glorious towering fortress for all warlocks to come to.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:59 pm #125838

I like to do a hybrid. Bedrooms are underground for now but they can easily be moved up. Besides Tedwards anyways, his need to be high value so they need engravable walls. I do like to keep the arcane library underground too

Takeguru · Post by **Takeguru** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:12 pm #125861

Or you could just make Tedward's room xboxhueg

Purple walls with edgelord black edging.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:22 pm #125864

Tedward is now spending his days at the ethereal gate, tirelessly conjuring piles and piles of purple blocks. Our few skeletons and some of the warlocks begin to assemble a dining area and start on our defensive peremiter.

Summer has come, and with it our first of two migrant waves. 5 warlocks from the frozen south reaches arrived, accompanied by Lumi the Luminous. A bit of an oddball for a warlock, seems to like happy bright things

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:59 pm #125874

Rex Desires White! Like Bleached bone because that's Edgy.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:00 pm #125875

With the help of our new expanded forces the wall is going up quite quickly.

http://i.imgur.com/zEKF5HL.png

While we cannot make white ethereal stuff i can actually just make all his furniture out of bones. We have advanced bonecrafting and stuff

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:01 pm #125877

Wyzack wrote:With the help of our new expanded forces the wall is going up quite quickly.

http://i.imgur.com/zEKF5HL.png

While we cannot make white ethereal stuff i can actually just make all his furniture out of bones. We have advanced bonecrafting and stuff

Well Rex IS a necromancer. IT FITS.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:54 pm #125898

whatever furniture is good until Kushznard can get his Kush Green ethereal furniture

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:19 am #126066

It is done. The final 3 warlocks have arrived, accompanied by a ghoul with two extra arms sewn on. 14 Warlocks, the totality of the remaining loyalists of our species. Now that our power is concentrated and the year draws slowly to a close the mortals are surly taking notice. The wall is nearly complete, and our ever-growing horde of skeletons churn out the labours of the fortress endlessly and without complaint.

http://i.imgur.com/NuIrTWP.png

Fortress TODO list tacked over the front gate

Finish the dining room and quarters for all the warlocks []
Finish the fortifications []
Arm a squad of skeletons with bows and arrows []
Start the metal industry []
Start magical research []
Start alchemy []
Create horriffic torture dungeon []
Start raiding settlements []

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:14 pm #126175

Tragedy! Not even into the summer of our first year and a fucking werelizard shows up just as Urista our collecting a freshly killed cougar to butcher

http://i.imgur.com/OvyaAql.png

Soon after mauling Urista to death he turns back to orc form and scurries away, the bloody coward. In these times the life of a Warlock is precious, given how close to extinction we are.

However Warlocks are know for nothing if not their mastery of life and death. Azari, reading from an old grimoire, lays plans for an even larger necromantic alter which should be able to restore Urista to life, given enough soul energy

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:22 pm #126180

And there you have it

http://i.imgur.com/SwC1gws.png

For the low low price of 3 souls we were able to return Urista to her mortal form. The alter itself cost ten souls, but this is certainly a worthwhile investment. We can also use it to ressurect our skeletons, raise all dead on the map as mindless undead (which unlike in souldefences will not attack us) or bring megabeasts such as cyclops or dragons back to life.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:39 pm #126187

This gave me a chuckle

http://i.imgur.com/Ri4YZ58.png

Apparently the symbol Tedward has chosen to represent the organisation we have formed is a pile of dead humans. Fitting i suppose

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:40 pm #126190

Even in death I still bring about awesome things

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:45 pm #126191

Hello Darkness, my old friend

http://i.imgur.com/kfVmswn.png

Apparently this world is rife with those four-armed dark wrestler fucks and they want a piece. I am pretty certain Tedward could take them on, but as a precaution everyone is called in and the new skeletal archer squad takes to the walls. All of our skeletons so far are cobbled together from dingo, wolf and cougar bones so it will be nice to have some larger creatures to play around with. Azari is unreasonably fixated on obtaining what she calls "Some good book binding scalps"

EndgamerAzari · Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:47 pm

MY KNOWLEDGE IS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN WOOOORRRLDDSSSSS

Also these fuckin pages of unholy knowledge ain't gonna hold themselves together

Yet

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:53 pm #126196

These fucking stranglers are dumb as a bag of fucking rocks. They decided that rather than attacking the open gate on the left side of the river they would cross the river to attack the gate on the other side. The river had just thawed, and was slowly refilling. Only problem is that it was almost done. Their leader jumped in the river, the river filled up completely, and now the dumb shits are just kinda standing there. As such, the Fragmented Leagues were sent to dispatch the feinds with arrows from across the river.

http://i.imgur.com/GAD43Ub.png

Once their numbers are sufficiently thinned Tedward will take the field to mop up the survivors

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:56 pm #126197

Tedward got stuck fighting a friggin wolf of all things, and most of the stranglers got away. We did get a few of em though, including some who bled out trying to flee through the river. We will see if we can retrieve the bodies in time

EndgamerAzari · Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:59 pm

>jumps in thawing river
>drowns

G FUCKING G, TARDZILLA

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:12 pm #126201

It went down more like

>Jump in thawing river
>Flounder about a little, tryna swim
>Get shot the fuck up with a shitload of bone arrows
>die

EndgamerAzari · Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:04 pm

To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to. GET THOSE CORPSES SO I CAN MAKE A BOOK WITH THEIR FACES

tedward1337 · Post by **tedward1337** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:24 pm #126216

Wyzack wrote:This gave me a chuckle

http://i.imgur.com/Ri4YZ58.png

Apparently the symbol Tedward has chosen to represent the organisation we have formed is a pile of dead humans. Fitting i suppose

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