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Author Topic: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!  (Read 29655 times)

Mrhappyface

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ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« on: February 14, 2012, 04:02:58 pm »

This is a really boner-killing piss off and makes me orgasmically joyful at the same time. A zombie kills a person, who then becomes a zombie who kills the next person and so on and so on. It's a fuckin' pain on embark (lost 5 teams that way; Damn zombie weaselpeople), but is awesome when a goblin ambush ended up fighting themselves after one lucky shot from a marksdwarf. Think Dead Space, including all the fun times with severed limbs.  8)
Share your zombie spiral stories.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2012, 04:25:19 pm »

Should be interesting to see what clever zombie quarantine efforts people come up with.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2012, 04:29:14 pm »

Should be interesting to see what clever zombie quarantine efforts people come up with.

ZOMBIE MOAT.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2012, 04:30:05 pm »

Should be interesting to see what clever zombie quarantine efforts people come up with.

ZOMBIE MOAT.

The main problem with that is getting the corpses to keep dead long enough for you to drop them there.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2012, 04:33:27 pm »

Should be interesting to see what clever zombie quarantine efforts people come up with.

ZOMBIE MOAT.

The main problem with that is getting the corpses to keep dead long enough for you to drop them there.

Kill all creatures on a retractable bridge which is over the moat. Retract bridge. Profit.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2012, 04:35:53 pm »

Actually, I'm envisioning a zombie pit to drop my captured enemies into. Heh heh heh...
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2012, 04:38:28 pm »

I'm just dumping all my dwarf corpses down a walled-off 2z-deep pit so they can't get out. They'll get incinerated once I get down to magma level.

EDIT: Also, I find it somewhat odd that my metalworker is still listed as 'missing' despite his zombie being listed as 'deceased'.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2012, 04:41:08 pm »

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.
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« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2012, 04:43:04 pm »

I'm just dumping all my dwarf corpses down a walled-off 2z-deep pit so they can't get out. They'll get incinerated once I get down to magma level.

EDIT: Also, I find it somewhat odd that my metalworker is still listed as 'missing' despite his zombie being listed as 'deceased'.
I wonder, are there ghosts from dead dwarves, even though they are zombies?
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2012, 04:43:50 pm »

I'm just dumping all my dwarf corpses down a walled-off 2z-deep pit so they can't get out. They'll get incinerated once I get down to magma level.

EDIT: Also, I find it somewhat odd that my metalworker is still listed as 'missing' despite his zombie being listed as 'deceased'.
I wonder, are there ghosts from dead dwarves, even though they are zombies?

I belive Toady said that it is possible to get both ghosts and zombies out of the same dwarf.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2012, 04:44:23 pm »

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.
I probably missed the note on this somewhere, but does anything that dies in a sinister area reanimate?
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2012, 04:45:08 pm »

Pretty much, yeah.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2012, 04:51:58 pm »

Any evil area, actually. So as long as it is a biome that is classified as Sinister (low savagery), Haunted (medium savagery) or Sinister (high savagery) it might rise up.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2012, 04:53:38 pm »

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.
There's a good reason why the dwarves in evil areas are vegetarians.
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Re: ZOMBIE SPIRAL!!!!
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2012, 05:01:52 pm »

Cool site, a brook dividing 2 mountain biomes (one is normal and the other is an evil mountain) with a grassland patch arround the river forming a valley. First 30 seconds : My wagoon spawned in the evil side, an evil sludge started falling and contamined everybody (Fever), one weasel body is killed (Again :P) by my dogs but one is bitten and get insta blistering on all body parts, after that a zombie eagle starts killing people (5)
And the situations ends with my expedition miner being chased by his friend and the miner who was away digging tunnels unaware  of the whole carnage.
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