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Namfuak

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What was this
« on: November 12, 2010, 08:10:30 pm »
I just noticed a creature represented by an Ñ flit in and out of view, but there are just groundhogs on the unit list.  Any idea what that was?
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Internet Kraken

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Re: What was this
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2010, 08:14:11 pm »


Actually, I think it really is a ghost. They were added to the new version.
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Re: What was this
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2010, 08:14:52 pm »
Quote from: Internet Kraken on November 12, 2010, 08:14:11 pm


Actually, I think it really is a ghost. They were added to the new version.

OK, I knew I had a ghost but I didn't know that was what they looked like.  Thanks!
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Hokan

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Re: What was this
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2010, 08:52:30 pm »
They're called night creatures. Read the old blog posts before the version .17 update for more info.
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Re: What was this
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2010, 11:34:14 pm »
In fortress mode, they're ghosts.
In adventure mode, they're night creatures.
There is a difference between modes.
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Re: What was this
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2010, 11:45:22 pm »
Quote from: NewsMuffin on November 12, 2010, 11:34:14 pm
In fortress mode, they're ghosts.
In adventure mode, they're night creatures.
There is a difference between modes.

How is that possible? Unless you don't mean that they're the same creatures.
Night creatures are beasts that take refuge in usually underground hide-y-holes and then wait for their victims. Ghost seem to be smaller, slightly less terrible half-incorporeal entities that come as a result of corpses.
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Namfuak

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Re: What was this
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2010, 12:29:06 am »
Quote from: freeformschooler on November 12, 2010, 11:45:22 pm
Quote from: NewsMuffin on November 12, 2010, 11:34:14 pm
In fortress mode, they're ghosts.
In adventure mode, they're night creatures.
There is a difference between modes.

How is that possible? Unless you don't mean that they're the same creatures.
Night creatures are beasts that take refuge in usually underground hide-y-holes and then wait for their victims. Ghost seem to be smaller, slightly less terrible half-incorporeal entities that come as a result of corpses.

I think he means the Ñ is used for different things in different modes.
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Re: What was this
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2010, 01:00:55 am »
Was your world created in a world generated in a non-31.17 version? Or is it a new fort made using the latest release?
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Re: What was this
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2010, 01:01:55 am »
Quote from: darkflagrance on November 13, 2010, 01:00:55 am
Was your world created in a world generated in a non-31.17 version? Or is it a new fort made using the latest release?

New.  But we already figured out it was a ghost.
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Re: What was this
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2010, 01:03:18 am »
I asked because I wanted to know if there were sightings of ghosts in worlds made in older versions.

But it seems fairly confirmed that only new forts get them.
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