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[misko27]

Didn't get a picture of it, but after i made a few "fun" mistakes (flooded the top layer of my fort in magma), and everything looked dead (and units list confirmed most of them were), there was two vault citizens left, swimming in the 6/7 lava. Instead of burning to death (as i thought) they remained alive for several months, swimming in the magma still, and died from starvation some time later (they had nothing wrong with them according to their screens, and the health screen, no burns or anything, and they weren't close enough for them to kill each other when they lost it). Unfortunately DF crashed shortly after  (hence the no picture)

Vampires.

There's no vampires (don't remember what they were replaced with, i'll go dig around for that) in the post apocalypse mod though  (and besides, i did a cursecheck before and it said there was none  )

I can confirm that they were not vamps - vamps are vulnerable to magma and do not get hungry (the post states that the two dwarves died from starvation). I am not entirely sure, but maybe temperature was turned off?

EDIT: Or maybe their fat was melted off

Well, I forgot about the starvation bit, but I know for a fact it does help slow deaths from magma. And it certainly doens't sound like regular dwarves.

[Snorunt30]

Didn't get a picture of it, but after i made a few "fun" mistakes (flooded the top layer of my fort in magma), and everything looked dead (and units list confirmed most of them were), there was two vault citizens left, swimming in the 6/7 lava. Instead of burning to death (as i thought) they remained alive for several months, swimming in the magma still, and died from starvation some time later (they had nothing wrong with them according to their screens, and the health screen, no burns or anything, and they weren't close enough for them to kill each other when they lost it). Unfortunately DF crashed shortly after  (hence the no picture)

Vampires.

There's no vampires (don't remember what they were replaced with, i'll go dig around for that) in the post apocalypse mod though  (and besides, i did a cursecheck before and it said there was none  )

I can confirm that they were not vamps - vamps are vulnerable to magma and do not get hungry (the post states that the two dwarves died from starvation). I am not entirely sure, but maybe temperature was turned off?

EDIT: Or maybe their fat was melted off

Doesn't that leave a mark on them in the description though (fat melting)? They had no mark what so ever, and no, temperature was on, else the entire good forest and evil glacier would not have been on fire  , and all the other animals/vault citizens had burned to death via the magma (how would they have died if it was not on, temperature that is).

[Ieb]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is pretty much a condensed version of what happened, but sums up the whole combat situation pretty well. To expand further:
- Migrants arrive.
- They soon are face-to-face with the fire-breathing, one eyed marmot that has been camping outside for a season already while I tried to get my forges set up near the magma pool and equip my soldiers for real.
- The titan finds the migrants before they realize they should run away.
- YOU SOLDIERS NOW, CHARGE

The only survivor of that titan attack was an Engraver(an animal trainer survived too, but were killed by a gobbo ambush soon after because they didn't feel like crawling inside with their injuries AND they weren't injured enough(lost an arm and a leg) to get Recover Wounded from anyone).

While most of the crappy suicide squad died several tiles away from the titan, burning to cinders, this engraver got to melee range and did 95% of the damage the titan sustained from the entire squad. She was also on fire, and had a broken liver along a nice laceration. Titan died from both lungs and the heart beaten to blue status.

[thiosk]

Alrighty I got one for ya.

Here's the setup:

Bad ass motha dwarves, thats what I'm talkin about.
Used to be, I couldn't figure out how to train or equip dwarves... The hilarity of facing an ambush with them.... Watching 8 recruits run up to a group of four goblins, when suddenly 16 dwarf hands go flinging in every direction was a test of patience.

I finally trained the armorsmith well enough that he turns out masterworks, so the first two axe squads are now in full masterwork and exceptional steel armor.  The dwarven caravan arrived, so I ordered the squads to escort them up. 

BAM SIEGE

The human caravan was butchered just last season, and by golly, we are inundated with socks, so we gotta get the caravan through.  Rather than close the drawbridge and funnel the siege in through the back door, I decided to STAND AND FIGHT.

It was GLORIOUS.  4 dwarves saw off the entire siege right at the gate.  Squad after squad goes in and the appendages just litter the ground.  The caravan did rout, but this was certainly suitable revenge for those poor handless dwarves I mentioned earlier.

So the scene I suggest:  4 dwarves facing off an army outside the gate, trying to make a path for caravan... Just because the parents of the fort are trying to savethechildren from drowning in an ever growing pool of worn out socks and trousers... Mommy, will the caravan take the socks away? Pray to armok they get through, urist, all we can do is hope..

[Reudh]

Over in the Dawn of Time Challenge thread during my turn:

The spinning water laced with bogeyman blood strikes the bogeyman in the upper body, jamming the ribs through the lung yatta yatta yatta.
The water laced with bogeyman blood has lodged firmly in the wound!
The bogeyman pulls out and drops the water laced with bogeyman blood.
The bogeyman has bled to death.

I like to think the bogeyman tried to pull the water out but instead pulled his lung out.

(Yes please this is a request! :E)

[Zivilin]

I like to think the bogeyman tried to pull the water out but instead pulled his lung out.

If cause of death was bleeding out, he must have missed and pulled out his heart O_o

Here is my request - it is fairly straightforward:

Spoiler: Battle Report (click to show/hide)

I guess the severed part which sailed off in an arc was... the rest of the body? Hm.

[GoombaGeek]

I did all these last night, so the most recent posts will not be replied to. Yet.

Could you draw this?

My carpenter, Armok may have his blood, began drowning near a waterfall and they would be 'missing'... forever and ever...

A romantic getaway <3

The marsh titan (a giant leech with a shell)
The marsh titan spits webs
you are caught in a web and fall over
the marsh titan
 bites your head
The marsh titan shakes you around by the head, breaking the upper spine
you drop the copper spear
the marsh titan shakes you around by the head x4
the marsh titan sucks all your blood out through your head
you have bled to death

That was the whole fight. I think i remember it correctly.

Things are going okay.

Drunk fortress.

It doesn't matter what's in the barrel, because he's had far too much of it.

Was just mopping up the last of a seige and decided to check the reports.  Found this one and after reading it was thinking "stop playing with the poor Giant Olm already"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Axe Lord punches The Giant Olm in the right front leg with his left hand, bruising the muscle!
The Axe Lord scratches The Giant Olm in the left front leg, tearing the fat and bruising the muscle!
The Axe Lord punches The Giant Olm in the head with his left hand, bruising the muscle!
The Axe Lord hacks The Giant Olm in the left rear foot with his =adamantine battle axe= and the severed part sails off in an arc!
The Axe Lord strikes The Giant Olm in the lower body with the pommel of his =adamantine battle axe=, bruising the skin!
The Giant Olm has become enraged!
The Axe Lord hacks The Giant Olm in the right rear leg with his =adamantine battle axe= and the severed part sails off in an arc!
The Axe Lord hacks The Giant Olm in the left front foot with his =adamantine battle axe= and the severed part sails off in an arc!
The Giant Olm falls over.
The Axe Lord kicks The Giant Olm in the left rear leg with his right foot, bruising the muscle!
The Axe Lord slaps The Giant Olm in the left rear leg with the flat of his =adamantine battle axe=, bruising the skin!
The Axe Lord kicks The Giant Olm in the right front foot with his left foot, bruising the muscle!
The Axe Lord strikes The Giant Olm in the right front foot with the pommel of his =adamantine battle axe=, bruising the muscle!
The Axe Lord scratches The Giant Olm in the upper body, tearing the fat and bruising the muscle!
The Axe Lord hacks The Giant Olm in the upper body with his =adamantine battle axe=, tearing apart the muscle and tearing apart the middle spine's nervous tissue!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
A tendon in the middle spine has been torn!
The =adamantine battle axe= has lodged firmly in the wound!
The Axe Lord twists the embedded =adamantine battle axe= around in The Giant Olm's upper body!
The Axe Lord slaps The Giant Olm in the left front leg with the flat of his =adamantine battle axe=, bruising the skin!
The Axe Lord hacks The Giant Olm in the right front leg with his =adamantine battle axe= and the severed part sails off in an arc!
The Axe Lord hacks The Giant Olm in the head with his =adamantine battle axe= and the severed part sails off in an arc!

Admittedly there were two Axe Lord's in the fight as well as two Giant Olms along with two goblins and the militia captain.  I think the report is from the last Giant Olm, the last one standing also.

"I heard that if you surprise a Giant Olm and grab it by the tail, the tail will fall off!"
"Would that work with the rest of its limbs?"
"Uh..."

Stray Ewe (Tame) has given birth to a lamb.
Zefon Eguluzol, Metalsmith cancels Smelt native gold Ore: Interrupted by Deer.
Zefon Eguluzol, Metalsmith cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Interrupted by Deer.
Zefon Eguluzol, Metalsmith cancels Construct Building: Interrupted by Deer.
The dwarves suspended the construction of Bed.
Zefon Eguluzol, Metalsmith cancels Smelt native gold Ore: Interrupted by Deer.
Ral Rigothkol, Bone Carver cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Interrupted by Deer.

I'm seeing this as a dialogue situation.

aww what a cute little lamb
on a related note, smoked lamb is way too strong for me
but it's pretty much all they eat in Iceland
even the hot dogs have lamb in them

GoombaGeek, I fucking love you, you're awesome!

I was just in Adventure mode, cause I decided to actually learn how to play. Anyway, I killed a dog or thirty, and I didn't know the people of the town would take it so personally. So I go to the meat-market section of the town, thinking nothing of it, and about 120 enemies start attacking me with whatever's in their hands. I've got Elves, Dwarves, Humans, Dogs, Various other domestic animals, all beating the shit out of me at once with various meat and fish products. I died in like two seconds.

Wow I am quite flattered that you drew all mah reports.
Has anyone suggested the classic raw dupe weirdness:

World filled with leathers, boiling leathers, people wearing boiling leathers (which are melting) and possible leather FBs

New rule: nobody is allowed to talk like a gushing DeviantArt comment.
"omgggg i luv ur skwirl art!!!! mah tablet is brokenz so ah cant draw u an art trade....... plz faverite desu~~~ <3"

I once had a siege, that ended with the first ballista arrow i fired, it took out their leaders eye, leaving him unharmed apart from losing his left eye. He freaked and ran, everyone in the siege followed him.

This came from one forum I read, could you draw this?

If that had been my fortress there would have been no Balista, he would have been caught in a cage and used as target practice by my marksdorfs.

On a side note, plump helmet men make excellent targets.

Another day in Silentthunders, and a milestone!

Atis Lancecalm has become the first Dwarf to use the patented Dorf baby shield^TM.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And Uvash decided to solve that lil' problem by shooting at the raven and the baby. Legendary marksdwarf, but still.

Can you draw a 4-armed, 3-indigo-eyed, carmine-skinned, blond-haired demonblood (modded race, only displays traits that the human body managed to accept, bit bigger than humans) hacking up a bunch of goblin lshers with a shardgun (shoots shards of metal at people, usually severing limbs)?

One time I had a noble start tantruming in the middle of the dining hall, only to be quickly subdued by the surrounding dwarves. A bone doctor punched him in the right hand with his right hand, while another dwarf punched him in the right foot. The bone doctor then punched him again in the LEFT hand. Upon this, the noble gave into the pain.

I once had a 3 z-lvl tank of water underground, to provide water and power to places that needed it. As such, I had a door at the bottom for access when the whole mess was drained. I didn't forbid the door nor did I lever link it - I didn't think it was necessary, as there were no tasks that a dwarf could have at the bottom of the tank.

Then someone who was on break decided to enter the room. They met with a wall of water, their corpse blocked the door from closing, and the entire fort was flooded (the tank was supplied by either an aquifer or a river, and was some 25x25 tiles large - a total of 75 cubes of water, or 525 units of 1/7 water). I just imagine the moment of time when the door gets opened and the dwarf sees the wall of water.

Bonus points for fish in the water, as I know fisherdwarves were fishing at the time - I got job cancellation spam from the incident.

I also made a 3-level deep reservoir!

except there was no way to enter it except from the top
there was also no way to empty it
the only thing it actually drove was a little aqueduct that constantly pumped water into my goblin room, so if they didn't fight the current at all times they would get swept into a 50-level drain ending on some nasty spikes

One time I had a noble start tantruming in the middle of the dining hall, only to be quickly subdued by the surrounding dwarves. A bone doctor punched him in the right hand with his right hand, while another dwarf punched him in the right foot. The bone doctor then punched him again in the LEFT hand. Upon this, the noble gave into the pain.

It's surprising how many people make their first posts on this thread...

Either it's the fact that large active threads on the upper boards are hard to come by and few between, or Goomba is masta sock puppet masta.

From this point on, I was asleep. :U

[Bigheaded]

my dog decided it was now a hunting dog and ran off from about 3 z levels for this:




Don't ask why so many of my posts have badgers in them, and sorry about the dog. I was just utterly confused at how this dog reached the surface to attack these badgers who weren't even enraged :/


Also, literally just happened about 5 minutes after checking this thread:

I believe that is what is on my fortress floor
This is a newish fort, so you arn't "legendary" yet in it, don't worry, you're working on it

[Slayerhero90]

That skin was not carmine.

[Loud Whispers]

oh goomab you so talented and good at arts and things like that because for that waterfall was amazing ballista but no i don't so the dog was fire to blazes but then potash maker
but you must think believe that very good so i yes dont french well very to the roads so YOU SUCK
but not really because you make good drawings yex

[Slayerhero90]

c:

Dafuq did I just read.

[Loud Whispers]

c:

Dafuq did I just read.

OBEY LUNGFISH

[Slayerhero90]

Okay!

c;

[agambadi]

the second line in this report is the most mysterious thing I've ever seen. It's how I'd imagine an attack from giygas would show up in the combat reports.

Or if this one isn't bizarre enough there's the one where a dwarf removed a floor tile over my well of immortality (a well with a vampire impaled by a upright spear trap at the bottom), fell onto the spear trap and somehow AVOIDED being impaled by all the spears Then got up and walked away.

[Ki11aGhost]

Love it. Mind if I avvy?