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Argonnek

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How to deal with a salt blob. (Spoilers)
« on: June 28, 2011, 03:08:18 pm »
I've received a rather interesting embark, and demons are now flooding onto the landscape. One of these, the Salt Devil, is a blob with a shell. How would I deal with that? It can't bleed out (I assume), and warriors would rather bite it to death than use a hammer properly.
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Re: How to deal with a salt blob. (Spoilers)
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2011, 03:32:24 pm »
Anything made out of a powder liquid or gas will typically fold after a single hit.
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Re: How to deal with a salt blob. (Spoilers)
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2011, 03:48:56 pm »
Throw a bucket of water on it.
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Re: How to deal with a salt blob. (Spoilers)
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2011, 06:44:17 pm »
Dump slugs on it ... oh, wait ...
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Re: How to deal with a salt blob. (Spoilers)
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2011, 07:58:49 pm »
I just had a salt blob come to my fort  not too long ago. It had wings of skin, three tails and, of course, did some sort of funny type of of thing while movieng. I immediatly moved marksdwarves down to the caverns to test its might (as i was worried it was invinceable)

Imagine my surprise when one untrained marks dorf (who got there far before anyone, tha lil eager duck) with a iron crossbow flinging bone bolts insta killed it.

oh well.
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Re: How to deal with a salt blob. (Spoilers)
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2011, 08:15:25 pm »
Lucky you, it'd have been nearly invincible had it been made of meat. My legendary swordmaster with a masterwork admantine sword died about 10 times before I figured out how to kill a leech demon (body, shell, mouth) - prick its shell with the sword and hope it bleeds out. Death by a thousand cuts. Didn't help that it could (and would) latch onto my sword arm, suck out my blood, then tear it away all the time; or simply throw me into a wall, exploding me into gore.
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