Another caravan arrived:
Dwarves built second cagebreaking ice floor, one z-level higher than incorrectly placed first one. Loaded the cannon with a crocodile, no, new floor appears to be too short:
Dwarves legthened it a bit and it's been total success:
When striking the virtual wall located 48 tiles before map edge, the crocodile entered the quantum state of half-existense. Object in this state is visible only in the main window of the game but not in Stone Sense, Armok Vision and even looking at it with the k key shows nothing except open space. The cage didn't enter that state, only the crocodile did.
Next time dwarves loaded the cannon with a cave dragon:
The fort is 94 years old:
Dwarves redesigned the system of water and magma cisterns in the icy construction. Near the ovens and forges they constructed two one z-level deep basins made of tempered (b+C) ice and filled with monolythic (cast from buckets) ice:
Filled the magma cistern, the inside ice thawed:
In Armok Vision water upon magma looks beet red, it's ugly:
In Stone Sense it looks even more ugly, like diarrhea:
Soon I found something strange, some portions of water in the basins randomly freeze regardless of magma beneath:
It's probably because that the level of magma in the cistern beneath happened to be almost flat, 4/7 almost everywhere.
Dwarves loaded the cannon with 16 captive humans:
There's a lot of very strange phenomena:
- in the first tick of the shot 7 random items fell from the cages and remained on the track stop;
- at least one missile entered ascending trajectory, climbed one z-level up;
- all missiles slightly but significantly turned right as if under magnetic field or Coriolis force;
- it seems that some cages, may be all, lost their inside objects before hitting the cagebreaking floor. It looks like a bizarre quantum effect - the cage knows for sure that it'll hit the floor soon so the cage behaves like this in advance;
- one human fell from his cage upon the floor, immediately stopped his movement and lived few ticks until he died. All the time when he lived he was in quantum half-existence, he left this state the moment he died;
- after striking the virtual wall 48 tiles from map edge, humans, unlike crocodiles and the cave dragon, did not entered quantum half-existence, but fell down being fully material;
- the virtual wall blew the humans apart with a great force. Raspidarasilo;
- small fragments of creatures fall very slowly, just like leaves on a wind;
- some of those fragments were thrown up by some unknown force.
Edit: Thrown up, ha ha. Well, English is not my first language. I let it stay for lulz.
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