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Author Topic: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents  (Read 3755 times)

franti

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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2011, 06:25:32 pm »

"One of my dwarves is carrying around the ghost of her dead child. How can I use to kill goblins?"
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2011, 06:53:48 pm »

Behold! The amazing ghost child! Just add water.
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2011, 06:59:53 pm »

What happens when it grows up to be an adult if you don't lay it to rest?
Does it just grow up into a normal ghost?
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2011, 07:01:31 pm »

What happens when it grows up to be an adult if you don't lay it to rest?
Does it just grow up into a normal ghost?
It will become a Ghostly Peasant.  And then, if you wait a very long time, the ghost will die of old age.
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2011, 07:04:03 pm »

I just wish Dwarven ghosts where in the Raws.
And that there was some way to make them an actual part of society via modding.
That way, I could create the invincible Fortress.
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2011, 07:25:42 pm »

The baby may be the perfect shield, attackers might attack the invulnerable baby instead of the mother.
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2011, 07:34:02 pm »

The baby may be the perfect shield, attackers might attack the invulnerable baby instead of the mother.

It's good that dwarf ghosts aren't the sissy immaterial kind, but instead are simply able to phase through walls at will.
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2011, 09:09:05 pm »

"One of my dwarves is carrying around the ghost of her dead child. How can I use to kill goblins?"
Dwarven Philosophy class.
And that is why I love this forum.
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2011, 09:11:07 pm »

Find a way to weaponize it.

War Ghosts  :o

Put the mother into the militia.  Considering we know they sometimes use their babies as shields or improvised weaponry, the outcome of wielding a dead infant's soul should be interesting.

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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #24 on: August 24, 2011, 02:35:36 am »

It'll be worse when the next update comes and we get necromancers re-animating the dead:

Ral Egomlogem, Weaver cancels Seeking Infant: Interrupted by Zombie dwarven baby.

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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2011, 07:42:29 am »

Wow.  Examples of both why I love this game AND why I love this forum, all in one thread. 

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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #26 on: August 24, 2011, 08:57:40 am »

It'll be worse when the next update comes and we get necromancers re-animating the dead:

Ral Egomlogem, Weaver cancels Seeking Infant: Interrupted by Zombie dwarven baby.

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I think the mother will attempt to pick up the baby and carry it, even if it has been animated and wants to attack her.
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Re: Dwarven baby ghosts and their parents
« Reply #27 on: August 24, 2011, 09:00:12 am »

Better:
Ral Egomlogem, Weaver, cancels Seeking Infant: Interrupted by Zombie dwarven baby right arm.
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