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Author Topic: Apology to the soapmaker  (Read 10233 times)

martinuzz

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Apology to the soapmaker
« on: February 22, 2012, 07:31:15 pm »
I am truly sorry for hammering, drowning, burning, decapitating, dropping down 20 z-levels, starving and similar deadly experiments I have exposed your worthless ancestors to. I really am.
I have come to realize that you have actually become useful members of my society now.
Not only do you prolong the life of my crippled veterans, by preventing infections.
I've also found that my friend Urist has "enjoyed a nice soapy bath recently".
What makes Urist happy, makes me happy. So I hereby declare that henceforth, I shall subject your kind to cruel experiments significantly less.

With sincere apologies, please excuse me now. There's some soap maker immigrants arriving, and I have to go and see who's most fit to replace you.
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 07:42:25 pm »
+1, would read again.
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 07:43:54 pm »
Agreed. Soap is seriously under-valued by dwarf fortress noobs, who as a group seem obsessed with piddling stone crafts. Let's see you disinfect that pus-oozing wound with your *gabbro mug*!!!
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2012, 07:45:01 pm »
Still, suffer not the potash maker to live.
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Coolnesstod

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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2012, 07:46:21 pm »
+3 I have no idea why soap was never appreciated before, it helps so much.  8)
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2012, 07:47:52 pm »
Quote from: Melagius on February 22, 2012, 07:45:01 pm
Still, suffer not the potash maker to live.

I see you have not yet discovered the joys of "this is a stack of 180 masterwork quarry bush roasts." :)
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2012, 07:49:32 pm »
High Master Small Animal Dissectors, though...
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2012, 07:50:55 pm »
Quote from: ASCIt on February 22, 2012, 07:42:25 pm
+1, would read again.

I read it again and it was great the second time around.
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2012, 07:54:29 pm »
Yeah, soap makers are now useful. Still not much, because an unskilled dwarf can do it easily as well, and you don't need much soap anyways.

Lye makers however...

And potash is too much bother. It's not like you do NOT overflow in grown crops after a while.
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2012, 07:56:41 pm »
Quote from: Coolnesstod on February 22, 2012, 07:46:21 pm
+3 I have no idea why soap was never appreciated before, it helps so much.  8)

The lye bug is why it was scorned.
Requiring 1-new-bucket per lye or micromanging the contents of all your buckets ...
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2012, 07:57:53 pm »
I only ever use potash for clear glass, and I barely use clear glass.
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2012, 08:16:45 pm »
Quote from: Naryar on February 22, 2012, 07:54:29 pm
Yeah, soap makers are now useful. Still not much, because an unskilled dwarf can do it easily as well, and you don't need much soap anyways.

Lye makers however...


But you need lye makers in order to make soap...
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2012, 08:18:07 pm »
Quote from: ASCIt on February 22, 2012, 07:57:53 pm
I only ever use potash for clear glass, and I barely use clear glass.

Who even uses glass anyway? Clay is better, if only for the less micromanagement.

Oh, and soap makers but one are shit, because you only need one. But the most useless skill is 'Military Tactics'.
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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2012, 09:04:08 pm »
Quote from: Coolnesstod on February 22, 2012, 07:46:21 pm
+3 I have no idea why soap was never appreciated before, it helps so much.  8)

Soapmakers really are and were useful members to Dorf society :C

The reason no one liked them was because they tended to be !FUN! magnets.
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Nan

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Re: Apology to the soapmaker
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2012, 09:08:27 pm »
Fisherdwarves!

Nothing like a high master <insert useless skill here> immigrant turning up for the job-allocation interview, I'm just like "dude, you've wasted your life"

But we should always remember that a dwarf's past profession(s) does not define him/her, that dwarf may well be fleeing an oppressive regime of soapmaking/fish cleaning in search of a better life. Having recognized the folly of their occupation, they should not be punished further for it, but should be allowed to start a new life of hauling junk and making stone blocks.
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