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Lexyvil

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Elves
« on: March 15, 2012, 10:15:44 pm »
If elves are going to live in trees, how will that be possible if trees are usually 1x1 tile wide? Will they be humongous circular trees with multiple floors or will it just be your average wooden human type of buildings for them too?
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Re: Elves
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2012, 10:30:31 pm »
There was a DF talk a long time ago where toady did mention multi-tile trees could come... can't find it offhand but it's somewhere.
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Re: Elves
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2012, 12:19:09 am »
Them damn elves be givin' the trees STEROIDS!
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Re: Elves
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2012, 02:21:49 am »
Elven trees, taking up more tiles than dragons?

Ah, the absurdity of spatial measurements in roguelikes...
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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2012, 06:24:42 am »
of couse not they build wood towers out of logs and call them "trees"
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« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2012, 08:16:14 am »
Forget steroids, you are ignorant in elvis(h) ways.

The elven builder-minstrel (Glu-Ta-Sol, as they call them in the native language) plays a complex tune on his flute that somehow "speaks" to the tree, telling it how to grow - wheter into a condo, penthouse, or a camouflaged wooden fortress - and the tree will obey the request. When a new tree-house is complete, the elves gather round, dance, sing and drink a special light-colored mead that does not make you drunk, but instead makes you see "things"...
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Re: Elves
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2012, 04:05:41 pm »
They use treeforming.

Which is the most-certainly-not-a-bullshit-hash-dream way in which you weave a basket outline of a house, and have the tree grow around your home, making living tree walls.

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Re: Elves
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2012, 06:35:51 pm »
If the elves want 'natural' houses, they should build them out of the bones of their dead. They eat their dead, right?
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