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Ascii Kid

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Zombies and Skeletons
« on: July 23, 2008, 01:16:17 am »
An interesting idea occured to me while working around a bunch of skeletal monkeys; what if undead gave off Miasma/flies/packs of rats followed them around?  I'm not sure if that could even be done with modding, but it would add an aspect of active decay to them that I think would be just dandy.
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Re: Zombies and Skeletons
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2008, 02:22:55 am »
Zombies already give off puffs of miasma if the get underground.  Remember that outdoors, the miasma disappears.
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Re: Zombies and Skeletons
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2008, 02:41:10 am »
Well I never knew that, I've only ever seen them roaming the wilds  =->  That's freakin amazing
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« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2008, 03:37:32 am »
What you need to do is that corspes left outdoors will turn into skeletions if left out too long.
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Re: Zombies and Skeletons
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2008, 06:10:13 am »
Quote from: RebelZhouYuWu on July 23, 2008, 03:37:32 am
What you need to do is that corspes left outdoors will turn into skeletions if left out too long.
I'd really like that! Leave corpses outside for too long on evil biomes and they get up again. Sometimes as a zombie, sometimes as a skeleton. Forget to clean up the battlefield properly after a siege and BAM! Undead all over the place!  ;D
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Re: Zombies and Skeletons
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2008, 06:57:30 am »
I think I remember reading somewhere about how that used to be the case, it was an event that happened, the dwarves that died on your site where raised by a wizard or something. 
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Re: Zombies and Skeletons
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2008, 07:17:06 am »
Yes, rising dead used to happen, previous versions even had the dialog text for it - "It is a place of great evil. It is rumored that the dead rise and stalk the living!".
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Re: Zombies and Skeletons
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2008, 07:26:13 am »
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Nooooo, they never actually "rose up". There were undead civs a long time ago, but I don't think we've ever seen the undead animated before our eyes.
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