Fallen Gods is finally playable. Nowhere close to ready for sharing, but it's a game! Going to share some highlights from my last few runs.
I had a great warband going. I was a physically strong god, I had two sworn berserks (sworn followers will never leave you, and berserks are the best fighters), two fighters, and a priest. Visited a jarl's stronghold, and the senile jarl's son asked me to depose his father.
I agreed to try. This offense against hospitality and hierarchy annoyed my fighters and especially my priest (knocking their morale down). A fight began between the jarl's guards and my warband.
My god was wearing Oraekja's Folly, a dwerg-made byrnie that reduces damage significantly, but sometimes betrays you and exposes you to massive damage. (I had gotten it off a boastful fighter -- when I shoved him, Oraekja's Folly tangled up and choked him to death.)
Now Oraekja's Folly betrayed me, and a guard one-shotted the god. The god doesn't instantly die, but he's taken out of combat, and the warband takes a morale hit. This causes both fighters and priest to break, and they flee the fight. The two berserkers fight on valiantly but die
Now the god is helpless and a fighter kills him. Normally the god can respawn -- but the jarl, in a fit of pique, has my body fed to dogs and their shit spread in his fields, with is sufficient to kill me for good. Game over.
Oraekja's Folly, indeed.
Oraekja's Folly, indeed.
By the way, I'd gotten the two berserks as follows. First, by freeing one after he'd been crippled and tied to a tree to die of exposure for his crimes -- afterwards, brothers, fathers, a husbands of those he'd murdered hunted me down, but were no match for me and my warband.
The other one I met in a barrow: he was a dead man who tried to kill me for how the gods' death-cheating had caused him to linger on as a draug (undead), but when I used my Deathlore skill and three souls to bring him back to life as a berserk, he dropped his vendetta and joined.
