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[Zantan]

I just trapped a cat in a room with five 1x3 bridges.  I retracted the one it was standing on, but before it retracted the cat moved to an adjacent bridge.  I retracted that bridge, and not only did the cat not fall, as I am accustomed to, but it flew (stunned) over the empty space onto another bridge.  This seems to be unusual behavior for both the cat and the retracting bridge.  I have used bridges for slaughtering for a long time now, and the only direction their victims ever moved was down.  Does anyone know what could be going on here?

[Niyazov]

Are you sure that it's a retracting bridge and not a drawbridge? Drawbridges are notorious for throwing things around.

[Starver]

I just trapped a cat in a room with five 1x3 bridges.  I retracted the one it was standing on, but before it retracted the cat moved to an adjacent bridge.  I retracted that bridge, and not only did the cat not fall, as I am accustomed to, but it flew (stunned) over the empty space onto another bridge.  This seems to be unusual behavior for both the cat and the retracting bridge.  I have used bridges for slaughtering for a long time now, and the only direction their victims ever moved was down.  Does anyone know what could be going on here?

There's another thread around here were retracting and raising bridges were tested for behaviour of items placed upon them.  I think "Dwarven Science: Bridgapults" was the subject.  Look at that.

Though I must say that I had always assumed things would fall (except for raising bridges, when they'd solely be catapulted in the direction of raising, which it appears is the one thing they won't do), and the fact that I'd never actually used a bridge in anger (only to create gaps/walls, etc) means that until I read that thread I was ignorant of the complexity.

[Sphalerite]

See http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=42111.0.

Retracting bridges may throw objects and creatures on the bridge, up to about three squares in my tests.  They can also throw objects up one Z-level.  This happens regardless of whether there is open space under the bridge.  Raising drawbridges also throw objects, and may throw them further than retracting bridges, but rather than throwing them in the direction of raising they seem to randomly throw them any direction other than the raising direction.

[Quatch]

I'd always explained the flying critters on a retracting bridge to be the cartoonish leap towards perceived safety by the bridged critter.