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guitarxe

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So what use have you found for your vampires?
« on: July 01, 2012, 12:31:16 pm »
I've heard a few different ways people put vampires to use. Some make them their manager/bookkeepers, others isolate them and give them a pick and let them carve out palaces in the underground. Some let them wander the caverns and pick fights with creatures. I think some have even tried making them into military? Although I don't understand how effective that can be since they still need booze.

What use have you made out of your vampire?
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 12:36:01 pm »
Fortress anchor/prisoner. Really though, I rarely have vampires and when they do show up, they tend to suffer horrible accidents.

As in, actual horrible accidents, not unfortunate accidents.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 12:56:17 pm »
One is the sealed off magma pump operator for my obsidian caster. Permamently happy because of that sublime magma pump. The other one is mayor, manager and bookkeeper and sitting in his sealed off room. He's not needed for meetings anymore since the baron does this now.

Quite relaxing that way.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 01:54:32 pm »
I've got a vampire in Zonnish. My plan is to use him to keep the prisoner population down.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 02:05:10 pm »
I rarely get vampires but when I do I use them to incriminate people I don't like.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2012, 02:08:13 pm »
I usually contaminate a separate cistern with its blood, and vampirificate my expedition leader/duke/mayor/broker/manager/bookkeeper, so he can theoretically lead for eternity. If regularly fed enough children through the airlock, it's fine to let him out of his palace to meet with diplomats (most of the time).

Some random haulers also get vampirificatized, and form a core group of completely isolated glassmakers spending eternity making glass crap at magma furnaces, kept in reserve to dump food/booze down the chutes if things otherwise get gnarly. They don't get fed children, though.

I haven't had a vampire in quite a while though, which is rather depressing.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2012, 02:28:58 pm »
Quote from: UrbanGiraffe on July 01, 2012, 02:08:13 pm
I usually contaminate a separate cistern with its blood, and vampirificate my expedition leader/duke/mayor/broker/manager/bookkeeper, so he can theoretically lead for eternity. If regularly fed enough children through the airlock, it's fine to let him out of his palace to meet with diplomats (most of the time).

If you manage to get your mayor convicted of something, you can get him permanently locked up by forbidding the chain after he gets chained up.  If the chain is in his office, he can still have meetings.  It's even safe to put a clothing stockpile around the chain so that he can wear clothes.

The same can go for a baron, but of course you have to get him convicted before promotion.  Their meetings aren't as important though.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2012, 04:12:15 pm »
Depends on the situation.  The last one I got, I spotted before it ever reached the fortress.  Right now my biggest problem is too many idlers and not enough unskilled labor to go around, so I just nicknamed the vampire so I don't lose track of it, and am allowing it free rein.  If it solves my overpopulation problem, great.  If not, I got a healthy and active vampire in reserve for when I come up with an idea that needs one.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2012, 04:17:01 pm »
Eh, actually, feeding them children is more just for giggles than anything else, now that I think about it... the only meetings that require a breech are with disgruntled citizens, as I usually give him a direct route to the depot, which I couldn't care less about.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2012, 09:14:41 pm »
Hm...If I got a spare vampire caught in a cage trap and assigned him to a chain before he could be freed, then forbade the chain...could I get a chained-up vampire, possibly for a silk farm?
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2012, 12:18:22 am »
I have a vampire currently spending 804 days in prison for his 4 murders. Last time he was released, he came out "ecstatic"... after 402 days in prison you're still happy as all hell? must be a bloody good chain. I'm thinking I'll keep him there just in case my fortress has a little too much !!FUN!!
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2012, 12:19:52 am »
I make a seperate fort, I wont kill a hardworking citizen just because a god got mad at them.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2012, 03:50:24 pm »
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on July 01, 2012, 09:14:41 pm
Hm...If I got a spare vampire caught in a cage trap and assigned him to a chain before he could be freed, then forbade the chain...could I get a chained-up vampire, possibly for a silk farm?
Get a minecart and stockpile and you could build an autocollecting silk farm?  :D  Drop the gates to get the spider to fire silk, dwarf freaks out, gates raise and he proceeds to dump silk into the minecart and push it to the looms.
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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2012, 04:09:47 pm »
Quote from: Corai on July 02, 2012, 12:19:52 am
I make a seperate fort, I wont kill a hardworking citizen just because a god got mad at them.

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Re: So what use have you found for your vampires?
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2012, 05:00:10 pm »
How do you feed them children??? Also, how do you seal them off? But how do you feed them children?
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