Lately i've been playing a lot of Rougelikes, namely DoomRL. Dwarf Fortress, always the exception in the past, is my latest conquest. Its less a rouge-like and more a tamagachi. Conquest in the terms of learning *how* to play, as this game has the steepest learning curve known to man.

Anyway, I'd start a new Fortress in the morning, get my dwarves initially set up, and then let it run at work all day, and see the aftermath.

Its always interesting to see what happens in a procedural game.

Last iteration, I came back to discover my dwarves had children (oh nice). However, they lost them, and were spending the time they weren't sleeping or getting sh*tfaced looking for them. A dwarf had a temper-tantrum, and everything was generally chaos. I was surprised, however, that they were *still* alive.

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i got the BFG9K.

sadly, during the next mission, I was treading through an empty corridor, when suddenly the walls disappeared and I was surrounded by demons, cacodemons and lost souls. Luckily, I had a phase device, teleported out, then was caught by an enemy i never heard of, "Bruiser Brothers", which as Bs are variations of Hell Knights, or Barons of Hell. So, after soaking a ton of dmg while keeping one in melee while i grilled him with a chaingun and eating large health packs, I whipped out my BFG and fired two rounds, killing them both. I had two options 1.) go to the teleporter. 2.) go back to the original room, and BFG the hoard of low-level monsters. I took the latter, they flooded the doorway, and as I powered up the BFG, with barely any health, I realised I didnt have enough cells, so I was killed by a demon.

I've killed at least 400 demons in this round alone, and fought Ravenants, Barons, Former Commandos (armed with plasma rifles), yet a lowercase 'c' defeated me. Looks bad on the postmortem.

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