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Tetragenic

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The Dwarven Prison
« on: July 13, 2011, 04:01:39 am »
Ok. This is an idea for what you could do.

Take Girlinhat's Animal Powered Watchtower Idea. Make the box out of clear glass, and place a menacing spike trap in the bottom of the box. Connect it to a lever outside.

Take your prisoner elf and drop them in. Cover the top with a clear glass floor, so they are encased in a clear glass box entirely - pull the lever if you want to kill them quickly.

Picture it - a whole system of catacombs filled with boxed-in skeletons, the blood covering the glass boxes. Trapped forgotten beasts screeching in cages in your dining room.

Dwarfy? Any ideas or improvements?
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Forgotten Beasts seem to be akin to Toady playing Dwarven Roulette with your fortress, as they can be anything from harmless giant worms made of mud to necrotic-gas spewing nigh-invunerable iron hydras of doom.

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Re: The Dwarven Prison
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 04:12:33 am »
Make it out of ice.

Call it cryology.
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Re: The Dwarven Prison
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2011, 04:27:39 am »
Won't it scare the dwarves? A normal cage would work better, wouldn't it?
« Last Edit: July 13, 2011, 10:33:24 am by PCpaste »
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Re: The Dwarven Prison
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2011, 04:37:09 am »
Why not drown them instead? or mod in unburnable/melting corpses and put them in a !!science!! chamber?
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Re: The Dwarven Prison
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2011, 06:08:24 am »
You can't see through glass constructions (so dwarves won't run away). And cages won't produce the OP's desired effect.

I think to be really dwarfy, you should put expendable dwarves in those boxes...

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Re: The Dwarven Prison
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2011, 10:07:34 am »
That is cruel and horrific! What deranged mind had this SICK idea?

I'll build one.
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Re: The Dwarven Prison
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2011, 10:23:06 am »
For FUN make a self-release mechanism that opens all the prisons in your meeting hall, blocks the entrance with cave-ins and opens the magma-flooding gates.

Actually, that would be an awesome fortress "front-door" defense.
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Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on October 31, 2010, 09:08:40 am
Forgotten Beasts seem to be akin to Toady playing Dwarven Roulette with your fortress, as they can be anything from harmless giant worms made of mud to necrotic-gas spewing nigh-invunerable iron hydras of doom.

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Re: The Dwarven Prison
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2011, 12:21:45 pm »
Make your enemy catacombs into a series of half-boxes in the wall, with windows so the dwarves can see in. Preferably along your main hallway or in the dining hall. It would be like this:

#=wall, 0=window, E=elf and spike
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This would also be a great place to test the effects of various substances on body tissues. Make sure to include a hatch, floor grate, or open space above the chamber.
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