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fluiddruid

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Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« on: September 22, 2010, 04:52:48 pm »

Dear human neighbors,

Look, we enjoy our trading and all.  It gives us a chance to shovel out a few tons of goblin pants and carved rock garbage from the ol' hovel, and get some fodder for our weapon traps and whatnots in return.

However, we really don't think deepening our relationship is going to work out all that well when your chosen diplomat spews noxious gas all over the place.  I mean, a winning smile only goes so far.

We tried to meet him halfway.  We tried to draft the mayor to directly order her to come greet Ambassador Freaky outside, on the off chance he wouldn't knock her unconscious or at least wouldn't attempt to come inside afterward.  After all, there are always more mayors.  Unfortunately, our mouth-breathing leader decided to eat something, then take a nap.  Figures.  Elected officials, sucking off the government teat.

When Diplomat Whiffy barged in through the door and destroyed our outdoor farming plots and knocked over a few statues, we tried to be gracious.  When wardogs chained to the main stairs started to pass out, we tried to offer him some mints and escort him onto my nice OUTDOOR statue garden to wait for my dumbass mayor.  Sadly, he decided to park himself right on the main stairs, knocking out dwarf after dwarf, and monopolizing a critical junction... and access to the hospital while he was at it.

We had all we could stands, and we could stands no more.  If it makes you feel any better, one of our wrestlers was promoted to Elite after the brief scuffle; unfortunately, our doctors believe he may not regain consciousness to enjoy the accolades.  In turn, Emissary Latrinebritches will doubtlessly enjoy his eternal rest gazing at the vast majesties of the heavens from the comfort of our dump outdoor mausoleum.

We appreciate the extension of your hand of friendship, and we hope that this will not jeopardize your willingness to take away our garbage trade with us in future.  In light of our continued friendship, I have enclosed a case of embossed stationary and a tamed cardinal, so that you may correspond with us without resorting to sending excessively-ocular infernal gas-bags.  Mr. Tweety knows his way home.

Sincerely,
The Dwarves of Ringtrumpets

PS Please send hospital supplies in your next caravan.
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Quietust

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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2010, 05:09:39 pm »

Are you running version 0.31.12? If so, 0.31.13 should have fixed the building destroyer behavior, though I don't know about noxious secretion attacks.
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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2010, 05:21:05 pm »

Good times! At least he didn't track noxious secretions everywhere...

fluiddruid

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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2010, 09:41:57 pm »

Are you running version 0.31.12? If so, 0.31.13 should have fixed the building destroyer behavior, though I don't know about noxious secretion attacks.
I prefer the Mayday tileset, so yeah.  Still thought it was amusing.  I didn't really lose anything of value anyway; the Elite Wrestler died, but he was actually a blowgunner migrant I had just drafted.  I kept trying to get him to use a damn crossbow like everyone else, but he got a blowgun from some Batmen (no ammo, mind you) and damn it, he was a blowgunner and he was keeping his blowgun come HFS or high magma.  So, when the order came in to off the diplomat, he decided to try to wrestle him to death ... never mind the boiling secretions.  Evolution at work.

The workdwarves overcome by the fumes seemed to come to shortly afterward with no apparent ill effects, and the marksdwarves (well, except Mr. Blowgun) got some good target practice.  That's worth a few strawberry plants and a couple of talc statues, in my estimation. :)  RIP Blowgun Sam.

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fluiddruid

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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2010, 11:16:54 am »

Actually, I spoke too soon; a bunch of dwarves suffocated and died, and a tantrum spiral ensued.  I'm trying to recover, but I suppose it was as fitting an end as any. :)
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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2010, 11:20:21 am »

Crafty human Bastards! We should kill all Elves!
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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2010, 12:58:04 pm »

Crafty human Bastards! We should kill all Elves!
Dwarven problem solving at its finest.
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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2010, 12:59:04 am »

You know fluid, I could see a wiki page with your OP content under the title "Diplomatic Relations". :D
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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2010, 07:43:54 am »

Crafty human Bastards! We should kill all Elves!

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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2010, 08:06:19 am »

That guy actually got my fortress destroyed by my ineffectual attempts to get rid of him.
It's a bug right ? Is he a diplomat from Hell or what ? Trap immune, can breathe underwater, heals like Wolverine.
Finally managed to kill him last night !

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Re: Three-eyed devilish diplomat
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2010, 12:00:22 pm »

Dare I say that Dwarf Fortress has the BEST community of pretty much anything?
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