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Callista

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Dwarves with Major Injuries
« on: January 30, 2012, 10:25:55 am »
So your legendary axedwarf came home victorious from battle... leaving his arms on the battlefield. Or your stupid miner dropped someone two z-levels and broke his back. Result: permanently disabled dwarf.

The usual option, of course, is to immolate them in magma; but I'm looking for alternatives. I thought of this first when I assigned a paraplegic dwarf to be the broker, stuck him in a burrow with the depot, and it worked very well.

So these disabled dorfs have got to have some use. Just throwing them in the magma seems wasteful, somehow. And I know that it's possible to weaponize things like blindness.

Anybody done the research on what a disabled dwarf can do, and what he can't do? Of course, it depends on the injury.

For clarification here, I'm talking about permanent injuries here--you know, missing arms and legs, broken spines, nerve damage.
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 10:27:39 am »
I have some experience with this.  Meet Eral Larurdim, the unluckiest dwarf in existence.

But yeah, paraplegic dwarves make great nobles.
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 10:30:35 am »
Note: Legendary+5 crutch walkers move faster than a normal dwarf. Just saying.
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 10:42:25 am »
Legendary +5 biters. Enough said.
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 12:06:57 pm »
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2012, 12:09:09 pm »
If he's a decent fighter, I'll make him a militia captain of a training squad. 
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2012, 12:17:26 pm »
Quote from: Callista on January 30, 2012, 10:25:55 am
weaponize things like blindness.
1. It's possible to weaponize anything.

2. Loud Whispers. :D
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2012, 01:07:53 pm »
Quote from: Agent_86 on January 30, 2012, 12:09:09 pm
If he's a decent fighter, I'll make him a militia captain of a training squad.

Which raises the logical question of how a soldier with no arms can show someone how to use an axe...

I assign them to tasks where speed is not critical, but that they can still do. For example, my ex-mechanic who got his spine broken so long ago I can't remember how, and spent forever holed up in a hospital bed until crutches were fixed, now whiles away his days crawling around his own personal kitchen, making *dwarf syrup biscuits* and telling stories to the young'uns.
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2012, 01:17:39 pm »
Quote from: imperium3 on January 30, 2012, 01:07:53 pm
Which raises the logical question of how a soldier with no arms can show someone how to use an axe...
Isn't it obvious?  He holds it with his beard.
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2012, 02:22:54 pm »
Quote from: Elifre on January 30, 2012, 12:17:26 pm
Quote from: Callista on January 30, 2012, 10:25:55 am
weaponize things like blindness.
1. It's possible to weaponize anything.

2. Loud Whispers. :D


Blindness in Dwarves =

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Except with more alcohol, battle axes and of course rage. Do I need to go into specifics? :p
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2012, 02:25:58 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 30, 2012, 02:22:54 pm
Quote from: Elifre on January 30, 2012, 12:17:26 pm
Quote from: Callista on January 30, 2012, 10:25:55 am
weaponize things like blindness.
1. It's possible to weaponize anything.

2. Loud Whispers. :D


Blindness in Dwarves =

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Except with more alcohol, battle axes and of course rage. Do I need to go into specifics? :p

You forgot the beard.
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Re: Dwarves with Major Injuries
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2012, 02:28:02 pm »
It's covered by his DRAMATIC POSE. :P
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