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[Gaybarowner]

Armok must hate my soul..

[Loud Whispers]

Nah, he lurves you. Children are the children of Armok.

[FearfulJesuit]

But Armok has lost them. You must bring them back to him by baptizing them in magma, Armok's blood.

[Mr S]

Zealots 

[NW_Kohaku]

Actually, baptizing your dwarves in magma and seeing who survives the "purification" sounds incredibly dwarfy.

One of the things ancient Christians did in trying to evangelize was walk over hot coals to display how, supposedly, their faith in the One True God gave them the strength to do so, while they invited the priests of whatever native faith they were competing with to do the same.  Firewalking is more keeping a calm mind in spite of walking on hot coals, though.  The faster you try to walk, the more your feet dig into the coals, and the more you get burned. 

It was on Mythbusters once.

You'd just need to devise a "baptism" with a reasonable path to survival.

[Mr S]

So, this is an "improved pathing to not die" kind of thing.

How closely is this related to "press X to not die" twitch encounters that pop up in so many other games? lol

[daveralph1234]

Actually, baptizing your dwarves in magma and seeing who survives the "purification" sounds incredibly dwarfy.

I remember being in a disscussion along these lines about trying to find magma safe dwarves for military application.

Also, try using the child cap in future (in the init file).

[NTJedi]

Well if you keep the children and allow them to grow into adults many will have legendary skills due to strange moods and your ratio of children vs adults.

[diefortheswarm]

Dwarfs drenched in magma then immediately submerged in water to put out the fire.  Survivors become the leaders of your civilization or just your fort right now.

[Loud Whispers]

Dwarfs drenched in magma then immediately submerged in water to put out the fire.  Survivors become the leaders of your civilization or just your fort right now.

Only 7/7 will put it out. The same amount that causes drowning.

Not that I don't disagree with the sentiments, just I have a feeling the civ would be leaderless for quite a while.

[NW_Kohaku]

Dwarfs drenched in magma then immediately submerged in water to put out the fire.  Survivors become the leaders of your civilization or just your fort right now.

Technically, wouldn't immediately drenching dwarves in magma cause them all to be obsidian-cast?

Only 7/7 will put it out. The same amount that causes drowning.

Not that I don't disagree with the sentiments, just I have a feeling the civ would be leaderless for quite a while.

I thought drowning starts at 4/7. 

Anyway, if you can take away magma fast enough from a tile to prevent death, you can almost certainly also remove water fast enough to prevent drowning. 

Hmm... maybe if it was a grate, and you dropped magma very temporarily down, and then had the dwarf step somewhere closer to an active water pump or two, and let the pump keep the water level high enough to overcome what was lost to the grate and create a deep enough water tile that the dwarf could be extinguished before draining into the grate.

It would also be funny to have a fortress whose leaders were all horribly burned and half-balded.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Just have a pump pumping out the square the child is standing on.  Dump 7/7 magma onto the square, baptizing the dwarf.  It will immediately be sucked up by the pump, preventing obsidian casting.  Then dump 7/7 water on him, putting out all the fires.  The water will also immediately be sucked up, preventing drowning.

Or just obsidian cast all of your children, have a legendary mason carve them into statues, pick the baddest-ass one, and make that your leader!

I can't decide which is more dwarfy...

[Angel Of Death]

Simple! Dig a huge drawbridge trap where most of the children will go. Make the pit 6 z levels deep. Put the adults in the pit and have them watch as all of the children splat. It should eventually make them not care about anything.

[Man of Paper]

Magma Showers: The only method of cleaning a dwarven beard.

[oven_baked]

Assign outside bedrooms for children.
Siege early warning system.