Topic: Children down the drain (Read 899 times)

martinuzz · « **on:** November 02, 2012, 11:02:09 pm »

In the following setup, I notice that children following around their parent pump operator get sucked into the pump, and blown out on the other side.
I leave it to the community to think of various possible nefarious uses for this.

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wwww..w
21ww..w   w = wall
21w...w   . = floor
@2<<#.w   @ = child that was standing on the grate in the other room
11w...w   << = screw pump, dwarfpowered. The left tile is impassible, so the child can't walk through.
11wwwww   # = floor grate, built on single tile channel over aquifer
wwwwwww   1,2 = water

Eldestish · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2012, 11:31:34 pm »

Dwarven daycare drop off stations anyone?

martinuzz · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2012, 12:09:33 am »

It does not seem to happen very often, or consistently. I watched a kid stand on the grate without being sucked in. Somewhat later, another kid got flushed through again.

Some crazy thought:

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If not only children can be sucked through.. We could have a

Zombie Cow Infested Watercannon

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wwwwwww   .=floor
.wwwwNw   N = necromancer
.wwwwFw   F = fortification
.wwwwXw   X = floodgate, to block line of sight for necro
...<<#+.............this leads to garbage dump above pump input grate, livestock pen and butcher shop / other means of producing livestock corpses
.wwwwww   + = door
.wwwwww   # = grate above input channel

A vampire would butcher livestock (or impale them on spike trapes to get bigger corpses, dump stuff that can be animated on the grate, pull a lever that gives the necro line of sight, and start pumping, hopefully blowing animated cows through the pump. The whole system could be self contained and closed, keeping the vampire away from your population.

Loud Whispers · « **Reply #3 on:** November 03, 2012, 04:44:55 am »

Wouldn't a corpse stockpile pushed by a water pump past a necro be better? Conveyor belt of doom?

Zaffre · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2012, 05:05:48 am »

Make some !!elf corpses!! the projectile and fire them. Collateral damage is likely.

Tirion · « **Reply #5 on:** November 03, 2012, 03:10:17 pm »

Quote from: Zaffre on November 03, 2012, 05:05:48 am

Make some !!elf corpses!! the projectile and fire them. Collateral damage is likely.

I believe glass windows are magma-proof, so line of sight could be given to pressurized magma, too.

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