#bay12

Necromancers in the world are now being tied into the villain mechanics toady has built up. Instead of becoming hermits and writing books for the rest of their lives, necromancers now go out graverobbing, invade nearby towns, and plan world domination.

There are all sorts of variations on the general pattern. In one world, a militia commander obsessed with their own mortality defected to the necromancers, was killed, raised, and imprisoned for decades (and still in prison at game start.) In the same world, the main necromancer was also killed, but was brought back by an apprentice who had assumed control, who was later killed, and the now truly undead main necromancer became the leader again, until the alliance was finally fully successful. I only had one small world where the wind just blew the wrong way for everybody and the necromancer completely won, after 700 years of tracking down the last villages. In the end, heroic animal people were the last resistance, settling in the final holdout locations, slaying multiple forlorn butcher lieutenants as they inevitable fell to the army of 10000+ zombies and became forlorn butcher animal people themselves. By the year 834, every settlement was destroyed, and history effectively stopped, aside from chronic book writing and some animal heroes that still arose and wandered the regions (they found nowhere to settle and died of old age peacefully.) The necromancers don't yet attack the wilderness.

- DF Devlog May 22, 2019

Finally! Someone who recognizes me from somewhere other than the Worm comment section!

During the early part of the game where my prison was not yet built I appointed 10 dwarves as guardsmen to keep the peace. Shortly after there was a mayor that violated a trade agreement. What did my fine upstanding bastions of justice decide was the appropriate response to this minor, white-collar crime?

Immediate. Fucking. Gang. Beating.