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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

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We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

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I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

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Total Members Voted: 77

[Nakéen]

Oh, you are right. The true old ones are small-sized ! I checked the current old ones, which Mr Frog seems to have strengthened.

To shed some light, the "updated old megaspawns" are currently really strong. A good (=nasty) kind of strong, according to my FUN criteria

[Splint]

Old megaspawn: Giant-sized warriors.
New megaspawn: Necromorph-esque horror from beyond all realms of reason, a place dwarf was not meant to tread.

So you're saying the old megaspawn got buffed? Or were you talking about those conjoined abominations?

[Amperzand]

I approve of the Spawn having a troll-equivalent Megaspawn, then making the current necromantic abomination of flesh a semimegabeast Uberspawn, this seems like a good way of solving the problem.

[Nakéen]

Old megaspawn: Giant-sized warriors.
New megaspawn: Necromorph-esque horror from beyond all realms of reason, a place dwarf was not meant to tread.

So you're saying the old megaspawn got buffed? Or were you talking about those conjoined abominations?

Spoiler: New Old Megaspawns (click to show/hide)

The "new" old Megaspawns are now slightly bigger than a yeti and got granted a material force multiplier that render them resistant to all materials except Adamantine.

Current "variant" Megaspawns are as big as an adult horse and can reanimate their lost limbs.

Oh I'm so stupid ! Mr Frog already created a semi-megabeast Spawn Variant, it's the Spawnfalloon ! I forgot them, because I didn't encounter them yet.

[Splint]

The hell is a spawnfalloon?

[Nakéen]

The hell is a spawnfalloon?

You should find it in the same file as the spawn variants. It's basically a mega-megaspawn reading its description.
They were mentioned several times during the thinking phase, but it never seemed to garner a lot of attention. It may be why everyone forgot about them.

[Mr Frog]

Unless my memory is severely faulty, I can confidently say that I had never so much as touched a megaspawn until I made the big amalgamated thingy I submitted earlier, and Nakeen is probably looking at the greater spawn, which are clowns, and are indeed only vulnerable to adamantine (since the ones in Clobbermountains were... somewhat less than impressive).

Also, thank you for mentioning the Spawnfalloon. Yeah, if Splint really doesn't like my megaspawn y'all can feel free to get rid of them and keep the 'falloons, since I think the whole reason I put them in was because I wasn't sure whether I wanted the megaspawn as a random nasty encounter that would constantly be a threat or an extremely-sporadic, limited "OH SHIT" event.

@Splint: they're literally just gigantic versions of the megaspawn I made. I believe I already mentioned them a few times.

[Nakéen]

Yup, I was speaking of the Greater Spawn. I thought this were the closer to "old megaspawns".

By the way, where does the name "Spawnfalloon" come from ? I'm still wondering what does the -falloon mean.

Oh, and I think Splint got a bit traumatized by the early Megaspawns, haha    I can comprehend the shock though x)

EDIT: Forgot to say I can stop laughing everytime I see a Mugbot-named creature. They seem to be fond of naming Megabeasts, which lead to some like Bloopy Beep Tweepdoop-something "The Infernal Death of Bridges" xD

[Splint]

By the way, where does the name "Spawnfalloon" come from ? I'm still wondering what does the -falloon mean.

I'm wondering the same.

And frankly I did forget about them. Must've been the name or something, but they certainly seem like they'd fit the bill for a mid-/late-game fort scare.

[Nakéen]

Totally unrelated from Spawn variants and all.

I'm having an incomprehensible problem with Ballpoint. They seem to utterly refuse to wear battle-equipment @_@
I was sure I copied the raws from Parasol... Will have to look if it's because of some value or something.

[Amperzand]

Yup, I was speaking of the Greater Spawn. I thought this were the closer to "old megaspawns".

By the way, where does the name "Spawnfalloon" come from ? I'm still wondering what does the -falloon mean.

Oh, and I think Splint got a bit traumatized by the early Megaspawns, haha    I can comprehend the shock though x)

EDIT: Forgot to say I can stop laughing everytime I see a Mugbot-named creature. They seem to be fond of naming Megabeasts, which lead to some like Bloopy Beep Tweepdoop-something "The Infernal Death of Bridges" xD

You should just make them speak in binary.

[Mr Frog]

By the way, where does the name "Spawnfalloon" come from ? I'm still wondering what does the -falloon mean.

Their name is a play on "Granfalloon", a Castlevania enemy which is also a giant amalgam of bodies, which itself is named after a term from a Kurt Vonnegut novel which I've never actually read, but I'm sure I look smart by alluding to.

A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless.

It seemed an appropriately-nihilistic name for what amounts to a barely-functioning biological accident that knows only pointless, wanton destruction.

E: I can't grammar tonight.

[Nakéen]

/snip

Ooooh, I feel less stupid tonight. And also it reminds me that I never played the classic that is Castlevania. Sigh.

[Splint]

Maybe those particular spawn variants are what happens when a bunch of warriors jump a trash golem. At any rate, bedtime.

[Mr Frog]

Maybe those particular spawn variants are what happens when a bunch of warriors jump a trash golem. At any rate, bedtime.

I personally imagined them as basically a result of the Spawn growing unstable and mutating wildly due to being separated from Holistic for so long. Ballpoint's experimentation ( is that still canon?) on them probably didn't help matters much.