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kirunobliv

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Strange Mood cause?
« on: December 06, 2007, 03:45:00 pm »
I dont know if anyone has ever investigated if there is a cause of  strange mood... but I had a stoneworker deconstruct a stone floor about 5 levels above the ground, promptly falling to his death. Not a few minutes later, another stoneworker (I'm not sure if they are friends) had a fey mood, commandeeed a craftsshop and made a stone crown, with a picture of a falling dwarf on it.

Coincidence?

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Mystry

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Re: Strange Mood cause?
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2007, 04:02:00 pm »
Dwarves will periodically put images of recent events like that on engravings and artifacts, decorations ect.
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Bullion

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Re: Strange Mood cause?
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2007, 04:03:00 pm »
that is odd, it would have been stranger if he used the bones from the dropped dwarf
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kirunobliv

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Re: Strange Mood cause?
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2007, 04:04:00 pm »
That would have been odd and quite interesting but it was SO soon after the death that his body hadnt even rotted. No one had even gotten around to draggin his corpse out of the way...
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Re: Strange Mood cause?
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2007, 12:19:00 am »
What [Mystry] said. I think the way that the system works is that it 'logs' all occurrences of certain types of events, and when a dwarf makes an artifact/engraving, it randomly selects one of those events and uses it. This is why newer fortresses mostly get 'the dwarves are travelling' - they haven't had a chance to accumulate other types of important events yet, and the 'travelling' thing is obviously a default.

It wouldn't surprise me if an event was logged as soon as it happened, which is why that image was made so quickly after the happenstance.

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