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salttotart

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Here's a good one.
« on: April 28, 2009, 02:20:29 pm »
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This is the first time I've every seen this.  You would think that being insane would help you in the dwarven military.
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Quote from: kinseti on April 09, 2009, 08:24:03 pm
If this all doesn't fix it, your dwarfs are lazy. Apply magma.
Quote from: dafinchy on April 23, 2009, 11:15:11 am
"And thereafter, all dwarven children were taught to mind their stools, lest the toilet-fiends snatch their souls from their bottoms"
Quote from: Untelligent on April 26, 2009, 01:55:39 pm
Try rubbing a cat on it, that seems to help.

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Re: Here's a good one.
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2009, 02:31:47 pm »
Yeah, that happens when a dwarf finally cracks. Amusing, innit?
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2009, 02:34:22 pm »
Urist McCoarcher: "This is madness!"
Meng Koganad: "Madness? This is BLAAARGHWARBLFLRRPLLAAGRHPLETCHUFAAAGHYBLOINGBLOOPBLOOPBLOOP!"
Urist McCoarcher: "I stand corrected."
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Sometimes, when my Dorfs are exceptionally stupid again, I wonder what exactly the [INTELLIGENT]-tag does.

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Re: Here's a good one.
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2009, 02:37:59 pm »
I've only lost 3 dwarves in my new fortress so far (my old one had lost about 10 by this stage to carp) and 2 were from insanities (my dwarves don't feel like eating turtle, apparently.  Even if I forbid EVERYTHING else).

The first one took off ALL their clothes (empty inventory) and gibbered in the dining room (noone seemed to mind).

The second went beserk, drove his copper pickaxe into a wardog, giving it a fatal wound (somehow) and was then apprehended by an axedwarf (who also happened to be a legendary wrestler).

His body was rent in 2 in one hit.  It made a frightful mess on the walls.
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Re: Here's a good one.
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2009, 02:58:06 pm »
It's important to assign wardogs to those who may go off the deep end.  If they do crack, they're immediately seen as enemies, and the dawgs take care of things toot sweet!
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Re: Here's a good one.
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2009, 02:59:52 pm »
Eh, didn't help my poor dog.  Stopping a pickaxe with your header is quite painful, apparently.

Although that's good advice, and I'll try it.
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2009, 03:24:34 pm »
Dead wardogs rarely start tantrum spirals, at least not when compared to dead dorfs.  And multiple dogs are the safer bet.
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2009, 03:35:33 pm »
Well, it was a stray, so yeah, no spirals.

I like to keep some of mine chained up at the entrance, anyway.  Oh well, I guess having wardogs wandering around decreases the chance of dwarven fatalities.
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Re: Here's a good one.
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2009, 03:55:43 pm »
Good way to spot ambushing thieves.
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« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2009, 04:05:57 pm »
Yep, that's the main reason I have it.  Although on my old map a single chained up wardog managed to kill 3 goblins in an ambush and send the rest into a confused retreat (into a pack of wolves, as it turned out).  Somehow.  He bled to death afterwards.  I have since made a memorial to the "Unknown Wardog".
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