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Dwarf Fortress Megathread! - Necro'd enough to count as a vampire
Doomonkey:
I played a couple more adventures the other day. One where the first enemy killed me instantly. Another time I did a couple quests and was doing well, and then I ran into a bandit camp where I was well outnumbered and died. In my last game I got annoyed because the nearest castle didn't have any soldiers to recruit, so I just started killing villagers. I was wrecking them until one managed to get a dagger in me by a stroke of luck, I died the next turn.
Doomonkey:
After quite a few games of trying my new strategy (vampire hunting and then becoming a vampire), I finally made it. I now have many companions and have never even been injured in battle. My strength will only grow and soon I will be the most powerful creature to ever live.
Flush535:
How do you get turned into a vampire? Just by having one fight you?
Jacob/Lee:
--- Quote from: Flush535 on June 09, 2013, 04:43:07 PM ---How do you get turned into a vampire? Just by having one fight you?
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Drinking a vampire's blood. This is usually easy enough as stabbing one and licking the blood off your sword.
Being a vampire is wonderful. You don't need to eat, drink (normal fluids, anyway), or sleep, and zombies totally ignore you. If you wanted, you could stroll through an entire necromancer's tower unmolested and stab the necromancer in the face. When you become a vampire, some of your physical stats are doubled. On top of that, you don't feel pain, don't suffer exertion, don't need to breathe... You're effectively a living god of combat.
There's a couple issues, though. Vampires need to drink blood from living, unconscious opponents, which can be hard to come by without turning an entire civilization against you when they wake up. After your physical stats double, they also lock so you can't improve them further. Even with these problems, being a vampire is awesome.
Doomonkey:
--- Quote from: Jacob/Lee on June 09, 2013, 05:16:11 PM ---There's a couple issues, though. Vampires need to drink blood from living, unconscious opponents, which can be hard to come by without turning an entire civilization against you when they wake up. After your physical stats double, they also lock so you can't improve them further. Even with these problems, being a vampire is awesome.
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Drinking the blood of your enemies won't make your pals angry, so as long as you fight a lot you should be good. And your stats are normally capped at double your initial value, so by becoming a vampire you will only end up greater than or equal to your max potential, although ideally you would become a vampire after you already max everything.
Also, I had to kill 3 separate vampires and had to drink every last drop before I become one too. I also had minimum disease resistance.