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Gigalith

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Bizarre stories and strange happenings.
« on: February 06, 2007, 03:29:00 pm »
Ever had anything weird, insane, or otherwise abnormal happen in-game? Post it here!

In my second ever fortress, I had a Trade Minister who liked to ban things from being traded. Once, he had a random dwarf, the Sheriff, and himself arrested for violating his export bans. The Sheriff was quite happy to arrest the other two implicated in the "Scandal", but he let himself go free. But once he got promoted to Captain of the Guard, he was arrested by his own deputy.

In that same fortress, I had a legendary jeweler who studded his masterpiece turquoise with even more turquoise.

In my current fortress, there was a dwarf who managed to disturb some elephants, and ran over the bridge into the fortress. Said dwarf then decided to take a drink. Meanwhile, a elephant took offence at a farmer, and chased him to a pool, where the other dwarf was drinking. In a single hit, the elephant caused a huge number of red and yellow wounds. Blood splattered everywhere. I paused the game to take a look, and I noticed that the other dwarf had a red arrow. Why? "He was forced to drink bloody water". I can just imagine this dwarf going though therapy.

Dwarf: It was horrible! There I was, just minding my own business, when *sniff* the dwarf right next to me got mauled by an elephant *sniff* AND I HAD TO DRINK BLOODY WATER! *SOB*

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Re: Bizarre stories and strange happenings.
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2007, 05:24:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Gigalith:
<STRONG>Dwarf: It was horrible! There I was, just minding my own business, when *sniff* the dwarf right next to me got mauled by an elephant *sniff* AND I HAD TO DRINK BLOODY WATER! *SOB*</STRONG>

Bwahahaha! That just made my day.

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Re: Bizarre stories and strange happenings.
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2007, 01:40:00 am »
I remember my first fortress was eliminated in a battle royale, where everyone killed each other and then the last surviving person starved to death.

But that was before the bug was fixed. ;-)

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Re: Bizarre stories and strange happenings.
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2007, 12:03:00 pm »
I was watching the human merchants approach and while one of the wagons was crossing a bridge a fox ran over top of it and the wagon turned into a log...

Then all the merchants left, we shall see how this turns out, maybe I'll get my first human siege.

Nothing else of note has happened to this fortress so about 1/3 of the engravings are a picture of a wagon.  The wagon is falling.

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Re: Bizarre stories and strange happenings.
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2007, 10:02:00 pm »
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<STRONG>I was watching the human merchants approach and while one of the wagons was crossing a bridge a fox ran over top of it and the wagon turned into a log...
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I've had a kobold ambush take out a human wagon and a bunch of their soldiers.  The rest of the caravan turned tail and ran, but they came back next year.  The death may sour relations a little, but if someone makes it back, I'm pretty sure it would work out just fine.  Just offer some extra random crafts to them after you trade all of their 'large' equipment back to them.

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