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[talysman]

Any ideas what would make a dwarf child seemingly impervious to damage?

I took a long break from DF, but recently went back. I thought I was having a good run: hadn't quite set up the military yet and the fortress defenses were perhaps not as good as they should be, but I had an above-ground walled in area for foreign crops, fortifications on top of the wall, a spiral runway descending to a depot, a well fed by an aquifer, and plenty of underground pastures, so the dwarves could at least hunker down and survive an invasion. First vile force of darkness lost their leader to serrated glass disks, which put an end to that siege very quickly. And the minotaur walked right into a cage trap.

Then the second siege happened, right as the dwarf caravan showed up. I tried to keep the gates open a while for the wagons to make it inside, but when I saw the wagons were already being slaughtered, I shut the fortress up. Glass disks did some damage to goblins, but didn't break the siege this time. Goblins slaughtered every animal they could find and then just hung around... so I came up with a plan to lure part of them into a trap, but this required opening the main gate temporarily and then closing it.

It got jammed. Goblins and trolls swarmed the fort and started slaughtering every last dwarf, including the babies.

... Except two. The mayor was badly wounded and had crept away somewhere to rest, and the goblins didn't know where he was yet. The other was a child; I watched her creep out of hiding, trying to make it to a food stockpile, then running away as a goblin pursued her a short ways. This happened several times, then at one point she made it all the way out to the main fortress and fled down some stairs. Goblins surrounded her and attacked her, but... her health status was "stunned", "hungry", "thirsty", "drowsy" and "unhappy".

She was only a year old and born in the fort, so I don't think she was a vampire. Combat reports were showing goblins armed with silver maces and scimitars swinging and missing, repeatedly.

So were the goblins just incompetent, or is there some other way a kid could be invincible?

[kierkkadon]

I had this happen the other day with a minotaur. He showed up and started slaughtering all my dwarves (my military was busy killing giant mosquitoes on the other side of the map, of course), but every now and then he would stop on one dwarf and just keep swinging and missing. The dwarf was near death, lying there prostrate and bleeding, and the minotaur just attacking ineffectually. If new targets wandered nearby for one reason or another he'd move off and attack them and apparently return to normal until it would happen again a few victims later.

[Hurize]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

[Gentlefish]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

[Loud Whispers]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

[Ki11aGhost]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

How often do you change your avatar? O.o

[Bigheaded]

What was her dodger stats and such?

For Girlinhat's "Child Care" thread suggested making some very strong infants, which certainly works to some effect if you can keep them alive.

My guess is that the kid got a few lucky dodges first, then dodging skill began increasing then her dodges simply worked more often.
Would guess the goblins weren't particular good in "fighting" and in their weapon area, as high fighting skill makes them more accurate i think?!
The child quite probably had a few high stats such as high agility which would support her dodging.

[Mapleguy555]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

How often do you change your avatar? O.o

It's on a rotation.

[Ki11aGhost]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

How often do you change your avatar? O.o

It's on a rotation.

Huh? What's that mean?

[Mapleguy555]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

How often do you change your avatar? O.o

It's on a rotation.

Huh? What's that mean?

It cycles everytime you see it.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

How often do you change your avatar? O.o

It's on a rotation.

Huh? What's that mean?

It cycles everytime you see it.

How do you do that?

[Hurize]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

How often do you change your avatar? O.o

It's on a rotation.

Huh? What's that mean?

It cycles everytime you see it.

How do you do that?

you do that by doing a derail.

[Dutchling]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

How often do you change your avatar? O.o

It's on a rotation.

Huh? What's that mean?

It cycles everytime you see it.

How do you do that?

you do that by doing a derail.

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[GreatWyrmGold]

Kind of reminds me of "The Incident"

You mean kid-neo?

That thread has defeated my search-fu. I must be content with it being forever ingrained in my memory.

How often do you change your avatar? O.o

It's on a rotation.

Huh? What's that mean?

It cycles everytime you see it.

How do you do that?

you do that by doing a derail.

signavatar.com

Good to know. Thanks

[Loud Whispers]

Holy crap how did this happen?