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Skid

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Re: I noticed something about HFS
« Reply #30 on: June 07, 2009, 01:49:30 pm »
I've beat  a SoF pit with a 30 dwarf fortress. I first forcing the spirits to run down a long hallway where 25 of the dwarves are pelting them with bolts, then into a twisting path where they were attacked by 5 champion hammer and axe dwarves wearing and wielding +iron+.

Of course I lost half of my fort in the process and almost all the rest killed each other from going emo, but as a few survived I assume that if I did it with a larger fort I wouldn't have much trouble at all.
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Quote from: Yoink on May 16, 2011, 11:45:20 pm
Playing a cheesemaker in an average Fortress 'round here would be. Freaking. Terrifying.

Byakugan01

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Re: I noticed something about HFS
« Reply #31 on: June 07, 2009, 01:51:33 pm »
I assume that if you let them loose on a glacier, they would kill themselves with cave ins. Anyone ever tried that?
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148. There is no Gnomish Deathgrip, and even if there was, it wouldn't involve tongs.
171. My character's dying words are not allowed to be "Hastur, Hastur, Hastur"
218. No matter my alignment, organizing halfling pit fights is a violation.
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240. Any character with more than three skills specializing in chainsaw is vetoed.

Lymojo

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Re: I noticed something about HFS
« Reply #32 on: June 07, 2009, 02:30:32 pm »
Short answer, "no".

HFS is only found in mountain biomes, and will be found within solid rock.

If you were to funnel them up to the surface and through an ice wall section, then the ice would melt. However, any resulting water would evaporate as soon as it got within five tiles of the SoF.

Ice melt is unlikely to ever cause a cave-in, as you will never find an ice section supporting a stone layer. This is because tiles underneath a stone layer count as "inside", and ice melts when inside anyway.

Walls constructed from ice blocks built at a mason shop are, like all constructions, completely invincible to everything but a miner, and will not melt ever, so don't bother trying to use that as a trap trigger.

You could conceivably do something where you dug and built the mountain in such a way that the only thing supporting a large mass of rock is a pillar built on top of ice. When the SoF walks by and melts the ice then the structure would collapse. However, you would have to engineer that yourself; I can't imagine any circumstances under which that would occur naturally.
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Yanlin

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Re: I noticed something about HFS
« Reply #33 on: June 07, 2009, 03:55:04 pm »
Quote from: Lymojo on June 07, 2009, 12:01:57 pm
Quote from: Yanlin on June 07, 2009, 11:36:50 am
You know what would be funnier? If the prisoners in the tentacle demon pits were completely naked and covered in the unknown substance.

It's been awhile since I've had them so I can't say for sure, but I believe this is exactly what happens.

Awesome...
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Re: I noticed something about HFS
« Reply #34 on: June 07, 2009, 05:54:10 pm »
The ampersand has been tainted eternally after this revelation... :-[ :P
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Quote from: ArkDelgato on June 12, 2009, 10:32:13 pm
This game is so strange.
The horses have TEEN ANGST.

ein

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Re: I noticed something about HFS
« Reply #35 on: June 07, 2009, 06:51:06 pm »
Ha! "&" is tainted you say?
Only if it's purple.
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