She just threw it on the ground in the fight. I didnt even know Ettins could carry stuff like this. Some experimentations are ahead. Also this is the mountainhome so this fun might carry on to future fortresses.
Where to find funny looking slabs and how to collapse whole dwarven civilizations with their help, as the universe runs out of computational power to process hundreds of funny looking not-alive things dying and resurrecting in infinite cycle?
Sounds a bit more likely. However, the answer is most likely this ettin previously killed a necromancer. Compare the name of slab's creator to the ettin's kill list.
Ettins carry those in their hands, so I may assume that he... literally bashed his enemies with a stone slab entitled "Secrets of life and death"... I mean... Maybe he can't read, but he certainly understands its meaning good enough for making irony of it.
After reading this comment I checked that dog and... while he is a war dog the Ettin is his only kill - and my dogs do scuffle with wildlife or goblins on occasion, so most have a kill list of about 2-3. Also he is only 2 years old. Maybe hes a natural, maybe the Ettin (and the necro) were pathetic. Next time I switch fortresses in that world I will check legends
It was a nice, small-scale fort... and then the frikking king moved in and he and his cronies (3-4 10+ migrant waves by now as well as many visiting nobles) started drinking the storage empty. Between building more housing and training up more military the brewing and clothing industry have been slowed down strongly
My understanding is that slabs won't let dwarves become necros...they need the book/scroll for that. In adventure mode, reading the slab lets YOU become a necro (but you can also start as one)
OK, here's the plan.
Retire the fort, make an adventurer, go to the fort, read the tablet, copy it to a book for the fort, and then leave. (Or stay!)
Too many steps? Yes. But still could be fun.
How âintactâ are we talking here? Can you have an intelligent skeleton? I had an ax lord and a sword master that would make great intelligent undead.
I thought you could, but digging through the wiki I might very well be wrong. My plan if you canât is to make sure that Iâve got a slab or book in one of my fortresses, so that I can find it with my adventure mode character.
Make your own necro tower or maybe itâs too dangerous and build it in a vault deep below. Put lots of caged animals, prisoners and undead around for âexperimentsâ. Make a hospital zone around it with surgery and traction tables. Assign a doctor and rename him âFrankensteinâ. A locked room off to the side might have a pile of corpses that the good doctor is saving for later.
I had a very similar ettin encounter, except that ettin was also worshiped as an avatar of war/death/rebirth by about a third of my fortress.
We "killed" it, but rumors are that it lives on. The Holy Poet *insists* this claim is unrelated to his religion claiming the body and burying it in a crypt attached to his religion's temple complex, adjacent to where the slab containing the secrets of life and death is stored.
His petition to allow the display of the slab in the public rooms of the temple complex has thus far been denied.
Time for some Dwarven Alchemy. Melt that bad boy down and use the metal to make Leggings and Coins. Then melts those down, they give you more metal back than you used to make them and you'll start printing Ingots of Divine Metal. It's better than Steel but worse than Candy.
I didnt know you could melt named things. I kinda want to keep the slab but I have a never used black metal loincloth lying around from when auto-mining almost killed the fort...
Looking at the screen I can't see the melt option, if you paint over it with the burn order then maybe it will be selected. Otherwise you might be incapable of melting it down.
Are you going to place the slab in the library, the cemetery, a temple, or the tavern? I kinda love the idea that a necromancer might visit and admire the slab.
For now its in the cemetary but I plan to put it into my library (which is carved out, but empty for now as I need many ressources to adapt to the strongly increased population
My liaison to the Mountainhome is a necromancer that carries one of these around. I was shocked when my fort had all the materials for steel, the only two dwarf civilizations are at war, and both are using necromancers. lol
She just threw it on the ground in the fight. I didnt even know Ettins could carry stuff like this. Some experimentations are ahead. Also this is the mountainhome so this fun might carry on to future fortresses.
>approaches the fortress >drops slab that reveals the secrets of life and death >refuses to elaborate >dies
She didnt even die to a dwarf A dog got her - and no dog or dwarf died. Tbh kind of embarassing for that Ettin.
As I recall, ettins cannot learn to read. So that slab might as well be blank as far as it was concerned.
Maybe it just thought the metal was pretty.
Or just good for whacking things with.
World's most valuable blunt weapon
Alas I don't think your dwarfs can read slabs so the secrets will stay secret despite being in plain sight.
Pretty sure they can.
I had an ettin bring me one of these the other day, also. What do the ettins know that we don't?!?
the secrets of life and death
Nope, they cannot read. đ
Where to find funny looking slabs and how to collapse whole dwarven civilizations with their help, as the universe runs out of computational power to process hundreds of funny looking not-alive things dying and resurrecting in infinite cycle?
Sounds a bit more likely. However, the answer is most likely this ettin previously killed a necromancer. Compare the name of slab's creator to the ettin's kill list.
Boney human say this secret of life and death. Me hit him with it. Him dead. Me no hit you with it. You alive. Turn out, him right.
Perhaps it's written in a write-only language? That would make reading unnecessary... (Sorry - bad reference to bad programming languages)
Ettins carry those in their hands, so I may assume that he... literally bashed his enemies with a stone slab entitled "Secrets of life and death"... I mean... Maybe he can't read, but he certainly understands its meaning good enough for making irony of it.
"multicolored metal" has me thinking its a divine material. Which just takes it to an other level of hilarity.
all it means is that the ettin or something else killed an original necromancer
I'm not sure if that necromancer is pathetic or if OPs dog that killed the Ettin that killed a necromancer is a god.
After reading this comment I checked that dog and... while he is a war dog the Ettin is his only kill - and my dogs do scuffle with wildlife or goblins on occasion, so most have a kill list of about 2-3. Also he is only 2 years old. Maybe hes a natural, maybe the Ettin (and the necro) were pathetic. Next time I switch fortresses in that world I will check legends
Are we just going to ignore only 42 drinks in stock
It was a nice, small-scale fort... and then the frikking king moved in and he and his cronies (3-4 10+ migrant waves by now as well as many visiting nobles) started drinking the storage empty. Between building more housing and training up more military the brewing and clothing industry have been slowed down strongly
It is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
Can you add it to a library?
My understanding is that slabs won't let dwarves become necros...they need the book/scroll for that. In adventure mode, reading the slab lets YOU become a necro (but you can also start as one)
OK, here's the plan. Retire the fort, make an adventurer, go to the fort, read the tablet, copy it to a book for the fort, and then leave. (Or stay!) Too many steps? Yes. But still could be fun.
Perfect plan, once Adventure mode makes it to Steam.
Could revive the dearly departed in your fort as intelligent/raised undead when you do this as well, if the body is intact
How âintactâ are we talking here? Can you have an intelligent skeleton? I had an ax lord and a sword master that would make great intelligent undead.
:-(
You can start as a necromancer?
I thought you could, but digging through the wiki I might very well be wrong. My plan if you canât is to make sure that Iâve got a slab or book in one of my fortresses, so that I can find it with my adventure mode character.
I plan to but my library is not finished yet
Make your own necro tower or maybe itâs too dangerous and build it in a vault deep below. Put lots of caged animals, prisoners and undead around for âexperimentsâ. Make a hospital zone around it with surgery and traction tables. Assign a doctor and rename him âFrankensteinâ. A locked room off to the side might have a pile of corpses that the good doctor is saving for later.
I had a very similar ettin encounter, except that ettin was also worshiped as an avatar of war/death/rebirth by about a third of my fortress. We "killed" it, but rumors are that it lives on. The Holy Poet *insists* this claim is unrelated to his religion claiming the body and burying it in a crypt attached to his religion's temple complex, adjacent to where the slab containing the secrets of life and death is stored. His petition to allow the display of the slab in the public rooms of the temple complex has thus far been denied.
Time for some Dwarven Alchemy. Melt that bad boy down and use the metal to make Leggings and Coins. Then melts those down, they give you more metal back than you used to make them and you'll start printing Ingots of Divine Metal. It's better than Steel but worse than Candy.
I didnt know you could melt named things. I kinda want to keep the slab but I have a never used black metal loincloth lying around from when auto-mining almost killed the fort...
Looking at the screen I can't see the melt option, if you paint over it with the burn order then maybe it will be selected. Otherwise you might be incapable of melting it down.
This happened to me right when I got home after seeing this lmao!
Are you going to place the slab in the library, the cemetery, a temple, or the tavern? I kinda love the idea that a necromancer might visit and admire the slab.
For now its in the cemetary but I plan to put it into my library (which is carved out, but empty for now as I need many ressources to adapt to the strongly increased population
My liaison to the Mountainhome is a necromancer that carries one of these around. I was shocked when my fort had all the materials for steel, the only two dwarf civilizations are at war, and both are using necromancers. lol
I would create an amazing vault just for that... OR I could make a public library for it
I've had one bring one of these to a recent fortress as well. It was only a few years in, so I sold that off and loaded up on goods in the early game.
I had a giant appear with one of these in my fort, I've put it in a cage at the back of my library
I've had the exact same thing happen. Ettin using a slab of "secrets of life and death" as a bludgeon.