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[deoxys413]

Back to the new version, hydra blood is worth 1000☼ per backpack-full. Neat.

It's also flavorful in that case, because one would imagine that the hydra blood regenerates.

There's an interesting mental image. An insane adventurer running around with a backpack that permanently overfills with blood. That continues to regenerate on the ground...
Several weeks later, we're all drowning in the stuff.

...I think I may have missed what you were going for.

*Takes backpack to the highest mountain in the region.

*Leaves it upside down at the peak.

*walks away, whistling...

Do you realize what you've done?!

Well, when one is unable to flood the world with magma...

I wouldn't nescesarilly say unable...
If this is at all possible, I beg you for a save if it surfaces.
*UberNube has claimed a craftsdwarfs workshop*
*UberNube has begun a mysterious construction*
*UberNube has created FireyDeath the Curse of Eternity, a bauxite backpack*

OH GOD IT BURNS!

[Kagus]

I'm going to assume that something just got messed up while you were posting, and that the actual content that you were trying to post got lost somewhere along the line.  I'd really like to think that it was a harmless mistake, rather than a conscious attempt at making a quote pyramid.


Slightly more on-topic...  This could probably be avoided if monsters weren't so keen on stealing individual items of booze and then just leaving them strewn all over the place.  I mean, honestly, can you picture some minotaur bursting into a brewery at midnight, smashing open a barrel of wine, grabbing a couple handfuls of the stuff and then running back out the way he came?  I know I can, and it's quite an entertaining image.

The slightly more pressing matter is the fact that we can pick this stuff up with our hands now.  It was pretty good before, with just smearing your hands with the liquid if you tried to pick it up, but now it allows you to hold an item of the stuff without coating your hands.  Weird stuff...

Anyways, it does make things a little easier on the Play Now! types.  Just run off to some cave and snatch up a couple fistfuls of sunshine before running away again before something viciously murders you.

Hmmm...  A stealthy nudist running across the landscape with hands full of sunshine.  Nice.

[ManaUser]

It's difficult to say what part of this whole thing is most wrong, since there's a whole confluence of things, but I'd probably have to say it's the fact that picking up liquid (whether in your hands or a container) doesn't actually remove that liquid from the ground. Apparently the game just doesn't keep track of contaminant quantity, at least not in much detail. That being the case, a more reasonable behavior would be that you could only pick up one unit of liquid before the pool was reduced to a "smear".

Well, that and the part where Play Now! dumps you into the world naked, that's quite bizarre too.

[rat_pack40]

Back to the new version, hydra blood is worth 1000☼ per backpack-full. Neat.

It's also flavorful in that case, because one would imagine that the hydra blood regenerates.

There's an interesting mental image. An insane adventurer running around with a backpack that permanently overfills with blood. That continues to regenerate on the ground...
Several weeks later, we're all drowning in the stuff.

...I think I may have missed what you were going for.

*Takes backpack to the highest mountain in the region.

*Leaves it upside down at the peak.

*walks away, whistling...

Do you realize what you've done?!

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
sorry, I really had to.

[Eric Blank]

And throughout the whole thing the only image of this woman i could think of was Tastysaurus Rex's avatar:


but naked and anorexic.

[Haus Party]

And throughout the whole thing the only image of this woman i could think of was Tastysaurus Rex's avatar:


but naked and anorexic.

I'm fairly certain that's Kefka. Kefka is a man.

[Diablous]

And throughout the whole thing the only image of this woman i could think of was Tastysaurus Rex's avatar:


but naked and anorexic.

I'm fairly certain that's Kefka. Kefka is a man.

Yep that's Kefka. He is indeed a man. Also, batshit insane.

[Quietust]

Someone really needs to upload a video of this to Youtube. I've tried following the steps described, but there's some significant oddities - I dropped two backpacks and a carp brain on one floor tile, dropped my handful of whip wine, picked up both backpacks and filled them up (100 units each), sold them, then dumped them out only to find that the pool of liquid had vanished entirely (if I dumped them onto a DIFFERENT floor tile that didn't already have a pool of liquid on it, then it worked), and if I ever stepped off of the floor tile containing the pool of whip wine, it turned into a smear that I could no longer pick up.

[edit] Also, it was definitely possible to pick up stolen puddles of booze in 40d with your bare hands, but they were always treated as items (so you couldn't use them to fill a container) and if they dropped on the ground outdoors they instantly vanished.

[Skid]

+1 Epic Thread

Now, can this be done with some form of toxic liquid so that you can use it as an infinite throwing weapon? 100 rounds of acid sound like all sorts of fun.

[Kagus]

Yeah, it can.  I happened to use that very method for testing some syndrome capabilities for the Chemical Warfare thread.  I was throwing a modified Gnomeblight at some wolves to see if/how they reacted.  Got some interesting results.

[Quietust]

Poisonous blood from a titan/forgotten beast/demon would probably work quite well, provided you don't kill yourself in the process of harvesting it.

[Shrike]

Would gloves and boots protect you, provided you got rid of them by throwing them before they wore out?
 
If only you could do this in a temple or something, turning their sacred water into a pool of deadly blood.
ARMOK'S WILL BE DONE!

[ManaUser]

Someone really needs to upload a video of this to Youtube. I've tried following the steps described, but there's some significant oddities - I dropped two backpacks and a carp brain on one floor tile, dropped my handful of whip wine, picked up both backpacks and filled them up (100 units each), sold them, then dumped them out only to find that the pool of liquid had vanished entirely (if I dumped them onto a DIFFERENT floor tile that didn't already have a pool of liquid on it, then it worked), and if I ever stepped off of the floor tile containing the pool of whip wine, it turned into a smear that I could no longer pick up.

Yeah, that's true. I could never quite figure out when the liquid vanished and when it didn't. Except that it only smears when you step off the tile, so as long as you dump it and fill your new container(s) straight away without moving, it's reliable as far as I could tell.

P.S. I noticed a barrel holds 100, same as a backpack (how come they only hold 10 units in dwarf mode?) I'm gonna have to try this with poison blood sometime, but it sounds a little hard to pull off without dying. Hmm. There's a standard (non-forgotten beast) cave creature with toxic blood, isn't there? Cave Blob or something?

[Kagus]

Yeah, cave blob is toxic.  Unfortunately, all it does is make the skin blister and hurt like hell.  Plus, it would mean that you'd have to venture deep, deep into the underground in order to get your goo.

Also, the stuff has a tendency to go everywhere.  Make sure you're wearing full gloves, boots, leggings, helmet, so forth. 


And to answer Shrike's question, yes they do indeed protect against contaminants.  There's a catch, however.  Any sort of mist/cloud will automatically hit every bodypart, regardless of what's covering it.  However, if there's a puddle or a smear on the ground, you can roll around in it without getting slimed (at least I've never had it happen, the clothing always seems to take it instead of me).  Your equipment will all get covered though, which might actually end up as a kind of defense against wrestling creatures.

...not the most effective one, but still better than nothing.