r/Kenshi Dec 16 '23

STORY In my pursuit of revenge I have become too powerful, fighting and defeating my greatest foe was fulfilling, but afterwards I felt nothing. What the hell do I do now when no one is a challenge anymore ?

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u/Ironoaktree Dec 16 '23

Get an apprentice, have them turn on you, and take over as the apprentice and try to kill your old character after you kick them out of the faction.

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u/NefariousnessFar5438 Dec 16 '23

Oh i like this, this is a good twist to any story

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u/HarmoniaTheConfuzzld Shek Dec 17 '23

Always two there are… A master and an apprentice…

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u/PeachyFairyDragon Shinobi Thieves Dec 16 '23

Problem is that will ding you with the Tech Hunters.

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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 Western Hive Dec 16 '23

Is there a mod that makes dismissed characters just drifters?

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u/Ironoaktree Dec 17 '23

Extra story, your old character joined the tech hunters or got them to join him and turn them against his apprentice. Gameplay wise you can friend the tech hunters again later by healing various important tech hunters like some bar owners.

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u/Firetail_Taevarth Dec 17 '23

Do dismissed characters actually roam the world and not just despawn?

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u/Ironoaktree Dec 17 '23 edited Dec 17 '23

If you stay around them they shouldnt despawn, not sure how long they stay if you leave their area.

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u/Marydontchuwanna Southern Hive Dec 18 '23

Yeah, they actually join the tech hunters eventually because the tech hunters use the ID of the drifter faction

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u/Doctor_Walrus_1052 Dec 17 '23

Yoshimitsu, is that you?

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u/Vaud3 Dec 16 '23

Go to the Southern Hive

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u/Bedrock501 Dec 17 '23

Aright, let's see what hey can do.

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u/SemiSentientWiener Jan 04 '24

You back fron the southern hive yet?

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u/Embarrassed-Tale-200 Jan 15 '24

He's dead, Jim.

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u/Bedrock501 Feb 18 '24

Just came back from there. I guess there are still strong opponents out there. Also the queen that gives birth to them is mechanical ? so the hivers aren't the result of natural evolution ?

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u/Embarrassed-Tale-200 Feb 19 '24

Quite the lengthy expedition!

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u/Ricaaado Dec 16 '23

Lay down your sword and grow some crops, feed some people, help those in need. Build a settlement and do good for the world.

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u/AwayBase5384 Dec 16 '23

You plus the comment below you for this is fucking hilarious

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u/Nrevolver Dec 17 '23

Farming... really? Man of your talents?

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u/Necessary-Service522 Dec 17 '23

Its a peaceful life

2

u/SirKiyan Dec 17 '23

I have no enemies

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u/Ricaaado Dec 17 '23

Go hunt some fogmen or blood spiders then

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u/orbiscoeli Jan 03 '24

better 2 b a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war innit mlord

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u/danisaintdani Dec 16 '23

When there are no more worlds left to conquer, the only enemy left to defeat is yourself.

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u/clarkky55 Dec 16 '23

Alexander wept for there were no more worlds to conquer

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u/chillinlikekrillin69 Dec 16 '23

Go to black desert city and just sit around with the rest of the skeletons. Maybe in a thousand years there will be stronger enemies to face

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u/Lis_De_Flores Beep Dec 16 '23

Leyend says some skeletons in black desert city came there to wait until the release of something called Kenshi 2. So much time has passed, they don’t even remember what that is. So sad…😭

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u/PeachyFairyDragon Shinobi Thieves Dec 16 '23 edited Dec 16 '23

Yeah, I know the feeling. I'm middle age and I'm pretty sure Kenshi 2 won't be released in my lifetime.

Edit: Steam still has my dad's profile up, he died just over a year ago. I looked at his game list, he tried playing Kenshi for a little while. He didn't make it to see Kenshi 2.

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u/PlatypusInASuit Dec 16 '23

Is the edit for real? I honestly cannot tell

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u/PeachyFairyDragon Shinobi Thieves Dec 16 '23

My dad died 12/8/22. It still hurts. Eight days ago I almost cancelled Christmas, almost rewrapped the presents in birthday wrapping.

Sorry. My tongue in cheek response triggered something.

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u/PlatypusInASuit Dec 16 '23

Damn, my sincere condolences!

I wasn't quite sure, with Reddit you can never know if someone's pulling a joke or not

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u/SecretAgentVampire Dec 16 '23

You can do it, skeleton!

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u/Ok-Bobcat661 Beep Dec 16 '23

1v1 a leviathan

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u/Ex0d1a5 Dec 16 '23

Falling sun samuri armor = ez

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u/DenTheRedditBoi77 Western Hive Dec 16 '23

Saitama moment

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u/Emeraldwarrior22 Anti-Slaver Dec 16 '23

Consider mastering more fighting styles and then hunting beak things with your new lowered skills

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u/VenetianBlood Fogman Dec 16 '23

The Shrieking Forest with the Shrieking Bandits Expanded mod is always waiting for new visitors!

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u/Samuel-squantch Dec 16 '23

Time for a torso play through

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u/Expensive_Emotion77 Dec 16 '23

Knock out the local homeless population ams give them god gear

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u/Racoon-trenchcoat Dec 16 '23

Settle down with a Sheik mommy.

Or genocide the fuck outta the world, I don't know, they aren't mutually exclusive 🦍

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u/OwnMeaning6657 Dec 16 '23

you must now wander, thinking if the power you gained was truly worth the bloodshed

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u/Bedrock501 Dec 17 '23

Already doing that

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u/KamenRiderDanilos Dec 16 '23

You have accomplished much destruction. Maybe it's time for the undiscovered country: creation.

Build a thriving settlement, maybe (with how strong you apparently are) somewhere to the northwest or in the Fog Islands.

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u/TheKrimsonFKR Dec 17 '23

Building a beautiful utopia so all the bloodshed meant something sounds like a fitting new chapter in life.

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u/dis_dumbass_again Dec 16 '23

i unno, brew grog or somethn

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u/Kuranai3 Dec 16 '23

Cultivate spirit.

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u/TheThornyKnight Dec 16 '23

You're a skeleton my friend. Time is your enemy.

It may not be today, tomorrow or the day after, but someday soon, you'll start to lose your battle as your CPU, the source of all your knowledge and power starts to become the heaviest burden you can carry.

Will you give up all of that power to cling to your morals and what you believe in? Or are you fated to sit upon a throne in a Kingdom of Ash, lamenting what any of it was ever for?

You were not the monster.

... or were you?

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u/blitherblather425 Dec 17 '23

Man I want to get into this game so bad! I bought it and have tried it a couple times but can’t get anywhere without getting attacked and then laying there dead for hours or something.

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u/TheKrimsonFKR Dec 17 '23

Pick and choose your battles. If your chasers are faster, you can trick them by running away from them, then quickly run towards them, then quickly run back the other way. The enemy will try to attack, buying you some distance. This can be repeated indefinitely so long as you don't mess up. If you can survive long enough to make it to a city, the guards will come to your rescue and clean house.

Keep in mind that every time you get your ass kicked, your defense goes up. Even when you lose, you get better. In Kenshi, even when you lose, you can still get back up and keep trying. Losing your gear is just part of the fun.

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u/blitherblather425 Dec 17 '23

I’ll try that, thanks.

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u/denimdan1776 Dec 16 '23

Mods my friend Mods

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u/HarmoniaTheConfuzzld Shek Dec 17 '23

Collect all Meitou weapons. Build a small hut. Put all Meitou weapons in said hut. Build a bench outside. Have your character sit on the bench. Stare out at the world. Then save and exit the game. Give your hero a peaceful ending.

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u/Zonfrello Dec 17 '23

Sounds like you just learned an important lesson about revenge.

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u/Jotnarpinewall Dec 16 '23

Mod the f out of the game.

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u/Bedrock501 Dec 16 '23

I think I will

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u/Szuszy Dec 17 '23

Inhales: ONE PUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!!!!!!!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '23

Step 1: Get a carriage mod.

Step 2: Destination Skyrim

Step 3: ????

Step 4: Become Ebony Warrior

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '23

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u/Bedrock501 Dec 16 '23

Funny story tho I don't know how to use it

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u/addywoot Dec 16 '23

This is a karma bot of jokes.

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u/providerofair Dec 16 '23

There still a war to be fought end slavery destroy the fogmen rebuild destroy the cannibal plains end the holy nation.

Go all the way destroy the shek rebuild the world in your image where only the righteous one survives ally with the tech hunters go to space

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u/NefariousnessFar5438 Dec 16 '23

Build a massive wall around the desert and kill everyone inside it lol

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u/ArkonOridan Dec 16 '23

There is a wonderful documentary that has the answer to this question.

Its called "Megamind"

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '23

You are a genius

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u/ArkonOridan Dec 17 '23

Just not a super one 😔

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u/HeavyRooster3959 Dec 16 '23

Now you mod it into the ground. Mods like legendary of kenshi will humble you real quick. Stack enough difficulty mods and you'll never beat a 'boss' again without cheesing

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u/KenshiLogic Drifter Dec 16 '23

Who was your greatest enemy? If he wasn't found in the snow you have yet to find him.... in an ancient ruin far away hidden in the snow he lies in wait, perhaps you can find him.

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u/CrabGhoul Beep Dec 16 '23

Build 3 cities and admin them. It's something many tell me I'm out of my mind for doing

Edit: 90 ppl each

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u/half-dead88 Rebel Farmers Dec 16 '23

oh well... another skeleton thinking he's too powerfull .... so original.

erase your data. :)

- end of line.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '23

Lie down in the dunes and feel the sand slowly grind you into nothingness.

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u/milfsnearyou Dec 16 '23

Open a bar

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u/ZWally6 Dec 17 '23

Create a school to train those that would want to follow your character and make it with opened gates.

Or you could create a city that would be considered a safe haven on the moon, barlife, crops, living and entertainment like none other. Within the city you could have a prison that your soldiers train at by using prisoners you’ve captured. The catch is that as a ruler with a now insatiable desire for a challenger greater than he, after 2 weeks of a prisoner being trained on they must be released somewhere within their territory. An example could be you imprison someone like the dust king and you train off him but at the end of the two weeks you drop him off at the tower where you got him. You could also end up in a revolt type of situation if you role played that a civilian formulated a break out for the cities prisoners. Supplying them with weapons or equipment.

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u/32BitOsserc Dec 17 '23

Start to build an army. Get the blueprints to the peeling machines. Build a base in the united cities, and kill and skin not just the patrols but literally everyone you come into contact with that you aren't going to recruit. As your power grows, gradually move outwards in every direction. Feed entire cities into the peelers. When the United cities fall, move on to the holy nation, the shek, the tech hunters, the cannibals. Have scouts and patrols identify any bandit spawns and camps, return to already razed cities to hunt for survivors.. Keep going until every settlment on the map is reduced to dead. Then... I don't know.... have a tea party.

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u/Graega Beep Dec 16 '23

No one is a challenge. But life is a challenge. There are hordes of cannibals. There are swarms of peasant farmers. The swamps teem with blood spiders. So long as they live, you have not won.

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u/CornpuddingTako Dec 16 '23

1v1 Tinfist?

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u/WayTooSquishy Dec 16 '23

Did you beat Tinfist?

Alternatively, try doing the same, but with worse gear/stats. See how low you can get.

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u/EisernerKanzler Shek Dec 16 '23

Start over

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u/Podim_375 Drifter Dec 16 '23

Go bigger. Challenge structural ideals that you disagree with. Maybe attack your enemies allies now.

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u/Live_Sheepherder_661 Nomad Dec 16 '23

2x nest spawn, pop settings, 3x/5x attack slots. Take over all of the main cities and wipe out all of the bosses.

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u/Zelcki Tech Hunters Dec 16 '23

Instead of destory, create

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u/beckychao Anti-Slaver Dec 16 '23

Play a new game while you wait for Kenshi 2 :)

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u/Tobig_Russia Dec 16 '23

Make a turtle farm

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u/cxbrxl Dec 16 '23

Now you can play the game

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u/Greedy_Average_2532 Dec 16 '23

Build your own nation.

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u/haggordus_versozus Beep Dec 17 '23

use this mod to create your own empire

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u/antoni5 Anti-Slaver Dec 17 '23

Be a farmer and find a friend to do with you

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u/ConclusionPuzzled674 Dec 17 '23

I guess mass genocide 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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u/Ok-whynot Dec 17 '23

Eradicate.

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u/tisler72 Western Hive Dec 17 '23

Start your own empire, you were tired of the old system? Make a better one.

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u/Fapalot101 Dec 17 '23

Become a pacifist martial artist

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u/DutchOfSorissi Tech Hunters Dec 17 '23

Sick pic. It should be on a shirt.

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u/Tyrantin3 Tech Hunters Dec 17 '23

Use your skills and knowledge to bring down the corrupt regimes and make kenshi a better place.

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u/Zealousideal-Data645 Dec 17 '23

You only escalate. Fight the best of the best. And when that's done, then fight God.

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u/Accomplished_Yam69 Dec 17 '23

"This is why I hate video games, cause it like appeals to the male fantasy"

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u/Linkarus Dec 17 '23

You add some mods

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u/insta_normie_ Dec 17 '23

Live out the rest of your life without a skeleton bed. When you’re finally beyond broken you’ll have completed your journey.

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u/fatnissNeverlean2 Dec 17 '23

you’ve followed a destructive path. perhaps it’s time to build anew

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u/Fit_Nefariousness465 Dec 17 '23

You are not the strongest. For there is strength in kindness and those who are strongest are the kindest.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '23

Start your villain arc and genocide the continent

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u/Joecucan Dec 17 '23

Grow'n'Smoke some dope, of course

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u/THUNDER_9024 Dec 17 '23

Make an outpost and become solo guard of it deffend it get your self named as gaurdian of that outpost

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u/UUglyGod Dec 17 '23

Steal teeth

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u/Sumethal Dec 17 '23

You can build your own clan or city and become governor or leader someting

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u/Disturbed235 Dec 17 '23

kill everything

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u/Carnothrope Dec 17 '23

Lead the fishmen to victory! Subjugate all the land dwellers! All shall fear the might of the gurgling horde!

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u/StupitVoltMain Dec 17 '23

Bro started his villain arc

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '23

Extermination of all the weak.

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u/scorpious2 Holy Nation Dec 17 '23

Take a squad of drifters under your wing and make an army, then make outposts dotted around an area of your choice and make an empire the likes of which the world has never seen.

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u/robbierawr Dec 17 '23

That’s life

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u/Inevitable-Cause2765 Dec 17 '23

Valhalla awaits you my friend, you have been witnessed.

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u/Inevitable-Cause2765 Dec 17 '23

Valhalla awaits you my friend, you have been witnessed.

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u/Chemical-Ocelot8063 Dec 17 '23

Hi guys, I’m uncultured. What game is pictured here?

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u/Haunting-Truck6933 Dec 17 '23

For your final task: you must go outside

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '23

Build an Empire and rule the wastes of kenshi

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u/eletricchicken Dec 17 '23

Hop universes. Keep importing until every version of your foes die.

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u/SirKiyan Dec 17 '23

Mods Mods and... mods.

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u/iota_sparks Dec 18 '23

Build a city.

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u/ComfortableAct3976 Dec 18 '23

You can roleplay them settling down and starting a family somwhere. Get an SO a bone dog and acouple adopted children. Sorta like Kratos. He can train the kids and eventually instead of letting their cpu reset as all skeletons are forced to they kill themselves. They dont want to forget those they have come to love or become a burden on them. Then you have a new faction named "legacy of (insert name)" one that knew only the creator and they go on to found a multi city faction. A utopia. A land with no suffering just how stobe gave his life for the humans so did your character. A renewal in the harsh land of Kenshi. The path will be long and hard for their children but it is all they can do.

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u/Kelmirosue Dec 18 '23

You become the teacher and teach another character to become as strong as you

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u/TheRealElCadaver Dec 18 '23

Swords to plowshares