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Emmanovi

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Melancholy
« on: November 29, 2008, 12:48:13 pm »
I know melancholy dwarves(/humans, since I'm playing a humie fort) are suicidal, but I never knew they were stupid.

I have a lovely little wrestler, who was training to be a spearman, but I think someone broke his arm in training... or he might have been the one who was hit quite hard by a foul blendec.

Anyway, he's been resting for a long while, but seemed to somehow be disturbed. I'm guessing whilst he was being fed someone stole his bed, because he was complaining of drowsiness and very-drowsiness.

This got to the stage where he went all melancholy and crawled around the fort slowly... he crawled over to a lake outside the walls, then seemed to change his mind and came back. He dragged himself up one flight of stairs and threw himself off the wall.

Unfortunately, his suicide attempt was nothing more than that, as all he got was stunned. Now he's crawling around seemingly randomly.

Are they that foolish? There are umpteen 2-4 high towers he could have jumped off, and endless lakes, moats and rivers...
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Re: Melancholy
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2008, 12:54:34 pm »
I think they usually try to just off the closest z-level.
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Re: Melancholy
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2008, 01:24:56 pm »
Urist McEmo cancels suicide: trying for attention.
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Re: Melancholy
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2008, 02:25:00 pm »
Quote from: dizzyelk on November 29, 2008, 01:24:56 pm
Urist McEmo cancels suicide: trying for attention.
Do'h!

Beat me to it  :D
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Re: Melancholy
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2008, 04:49:23 pm »
I recently had this melancholy dorf that tried suiciding by constantly jumping into my, at that point, empty pool. The height difference was only 1 Z-level so he couldn't really hurt himself doing that. That didn't stop him from trying though, so he always climbed back up and jumped again until he finally died of dehydration.

So yes, it would look like they can be that stupid.
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