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k33n

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A Friendly Visit
« on: December 03, 2014, 06:46:09 pm »

So a tribe of plump helmet men pathed from cavern two all the way into my fortress, meandered around there for a bit, then pathed up to my front door, into the overworld, and off the map.

What just happened?
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Re: A Friendly Visit
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2014, 06:57:32 pm »

A heartwarming animated adventure from Pixar, by the sounds of it.
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Re: A Friendly Visit
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2014, 07:07:56 pm »

But like, why wouldn't they just path off the map underground?
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Re: A Friendly Visit
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2014, 07:15:10 pm »

A plump helmet man expedition?
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« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2014, 07:18:52 pm »

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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2014, 08:59:10 pm »

The ingredients are finely minced plump helmet man and finely minced sun shine.
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Re: A Friendly Visit
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2014, 01:36:28 am »

A heartwarming animated adventure from Pixar, by the sounds of it.

I agree with this explanation! So very much!


...In a more serious tone, I believe it's related to when I had the merchants decide to leave not by the usual path, but through the fort, leading their beasts of burden, and leaving the carts behind (Although it took me a season and a half to realise that this had happened, funnily enough) and wandering down through the first set of caverns, to a path to the second set of caverns, then off the map. I am told that "They probably saw it as a faster path off the map" which is odd, as the trade depot wasn't even indoors that year.
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Re: A Friendly Visit
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2014, 05:21:27 am »

What, you haven't butchered them ? But plump helmet man plump helmet tissue is so delicious...

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« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2014, 07:55:41 am »

I got the same thing, more or less, with jaguar men/women.

They exist above ground, but tend to path inside my fort for whatever reason.
Noone minds them, except the dogs.

Got 2 weasel women and 1 man dead now
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Re: A Friendly Visit
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2014, 09:37:46 am »

I got the same thing, more or less, with jaguar men/women.

They exist above ground, but tend to path inside my fort for whatever reason.
Noone minds them, except the dogs.

Got 2 weasel women and 1 man dead now

Do your dwarfs not mind the jaguar people rubbing all over them?

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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2014, 01:45:52 pm »

Maybe they're all furries?  ;D
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« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2014, 11:12:31 pm »

I remember an aboveground fort I once ran that had fairly friendly relations with the local flying squirrel people. They'd drift through town every so often, hang out around the public park, then leave after a little while. I even held the door open for a few of them when they were running from angry goblins. None of the dwarves seemed to mind their presence, though they spooked the village cats. I never got to formalize the partnership before they met a tragic end, cut down to a squirrel man by the human caravan guards. Incidentally, that was the only time I ever attacked a caravan for any reason other than desperation for supplies. I still feel justice has been served.
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« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2014, 01:24:45 pm »

A heartwarming animated adventure from Pixar, by the sounds of it.
"Jyxn was not like the other Plump helmet men, and now he and his best friend Xnyk must leave their home in the underground and brave the harsh land of the surface to save the world from disaster! Can they venture through a dwarven outpost to reach the sunlit overworld before their time runs out? Featuring k33n as grand Overseer and Jyxn as himself."