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Isaac23

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Why do children love corpses?
« on: January 07, 2016, 10:11:56 am »

Context is, we have a siege every 1-2 years. The last battle was 150 goblins, trolls and beak dogs against 30 militia and 20 marksdwarves. Lost four good dwarves. Anyway, look,



This isn't the first time, they go out to the bloody battlefields and play among the corpses. I'm not sure why they do it, but that's heavy metal.
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FallacyofUrist

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Re: Why do children love corpses?
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2016, 11:32:29 am »

CORTANA's invading DF!
But seriously... interesting.
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Re: Why do children love corpses?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2016, 12:04:13 pm »

I think children like to play in an area where other dwarves have been in large numbers.  I noticed some kids playing around the trade depot after I had a whole bunch of haulers bring stuff there to trade.
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Roxfall

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Re: Why do children love corpses?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2016, 01:32:06 pm »

Sounds like ants, maybe children really like that dwarf smell?

Wonder if they could end up in a death spiral.
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Isaac23

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Re: Why do children love corpses?
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2016, 07:01:02 pm »

I think children like to play in an area where other dwarves have been in large numbers.  I noticed some kids playing around the trade depot after I had a whole bunch of haulers bring stuff there to trade.

Sounds likely. It's dangerous, they spend a while after everyone leaves before going back inside. I had a kid get jumped by a giant jaguar out there. He managed to beat it up until a miner picked it's brain, but still.
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ClorrProdigal

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Re: Why do children love corpses?
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2016, 08:16:05 pm »

Are the kids related to any of the dead dwarfs? Maybe they're trying to play tag with their parents but don't realize that they are dead.:P
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Re: Why do children love corpses?
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2016, 12:32:26 am »

Sounds like some aspiring necros, keep an eye on your library.

MobRules

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Re: Why do children love corpses?
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2016, 08:10:20 am »

Ever since my last seige, the trap-corridor has been a favorite place for kids to play, for whatever reason.
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Is this biome reanimating? I really don't want to know what happens when "absurd numbers of megabeasts" is combined with "reanimating biomes".