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[Bryan Baywood]

Okay, so I started this adventurer, and I was all psyched up to go start trouble, so I go find a river, and I'm swimming around, and I'm like "Well, there's no carp around here... But I guess I'll swim around for a while..."

So I'm swimming around, just minding my own business, haven't seen any enemies at all.

Then BAM!! "You have been encased in ice" and all in one turn the whole damn river solidifies, instantly.

That was a disappointing character. I guess eventually, when they start filling out adventure mode, they'll put a message like "Hmm. The water's getting really cold. Get the hell out before you die."

[umiman]

*cough* http://www.bay12games.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=12&t=000480

[Dwarfaholic]

I guess the thing is, the whole river was encased in ice while he was still awake.
You know... Bob is swimming. Suddenly, with no warning, the whole river freezes at once.
Bob is pwnt.

[Bryan Baywood]

quote:Originally posted by Dwarfaholic:
<STRONG>I guess the thing is, the whole river was encased in ice while he was still awake.
You know... Bob is swimming. Suddenly, with no warning, the whole river freezes at once.
Bob is pwnt.</STRONG>

Well yeah. Different situation. Can't complain about dying in your sleep if you fall asleep in the river.

But being frozen into a solid block of ice mistroke...

[Anti-Paragon]

I've had an epic battle with a goblin king axelord ended very anticlamatically before by an instantly freezing river.
It was a stalemate.

[isd]

quote:Originally posted by Bryan Baywood:
<STRONG>
Then BAM!! "You have been encased in ice" and all in one turn the whole damn river solidifies, instantly.
</STRONG>

You would die of coldness before being encased by ice, in any case.
It should be reported as a bug.

[ March 26, 2008: Message edited by: isd ]

[Jurassiced]

quote:Originally posted by isd:
<STRONG>

You would die of coldness before being encased by ice, in any case.
It should be reported as a bug.

[ March 26, 2008: Message edited by: isd ]</STRONG>

psh haha my legendary axedwarf would become a block of ice BEFOR he froze to death makes sence to m3h

[Jay]

Dwarves can stand much lower temperatures then humans.
However, it should give like 10-20 turns warning like "The temperature is dropping."

[Bryan Baywood]

Haha. Sure. Like "Hmmm, is it just me or is it getting kinda chilly?" or "Wow, this sheet of ice I've been breaking through is just getting thicker every day! Should I swim for another month?"

EDIT: As for reporting it as a bug... Uhhh. I didn't really care, but I GUESS I could do that if nobody else has. I was just trying to 'discuss' the phenomenon in a humourous context.

[ March 26, 2008: Message edited by: Bryan Baywood ]

[SmileyMan]

Can't find the original sleep-swimming thread, but I note from the dev log that this will be nerfed in the next version.

So it looks like waterfall-hopping for all.

[Reasonableman]

quote:Originally posted by Anti-Paragon:
<STRONG>I've had an epic battle with a goblin king axelord ended very anticlamatically before by an instantly freezing river.
It was a stalemate.</STRONG>

Anticlimactic?! That's pretty freaking badass!

"I thrust my sword again and again, striking him repeatedly, but to no avail... His axe came at me with ever increasing force as a berserker's rage took hold; only moments more and one of us would collapse from loss of blood. I pushed him back with a final volley of blows, expending the last of my strength in the hope that the water of the roaring river would give me time to recover. Suddenly, without warning, a crackling sound tore through the valley above as rushing rapids became sheer cliffs of ice. The goblin pushed his head above the torrent just in time to look toward the creaking doom, and was instantly encased by the frozen rapids. Within the goblin's frigid grasp gleamed his legendary axe. A look of abject terror was still upon his face, as I clawed my way into the block that held me. It takes a lot more than a little chill to keep a dwarf away from his loot."

That's assuming of course you were playing as a dwarf, 'cause if you weren't it'd be something more like this:

"AIEEEEEEEEEE" *stab* "uuuUUUUHHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAA" *axe clangs against rock* "WoouuuuUAAUAUAUAAAAAA" *crackling sound* "EEEEEEAurk" *dies*

[ April 02, 2008: Message edited by: Reasonableman ]

[ April 02, 2008: Message edited by: Reasonableman ]

[grukobok]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bryan Baywood:
<STRONG>
Then BAM!! "You have been encased in ice" and all in one turn the whole damn river solidifies, instantly.
</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>You would die of coldness before being encased by ice, in any case.
It should be reported as a bug.<p>[ March 26, 2008: Message edited by: isd ]

/signed

Like someoned said, it should atleast give you some kind of warning.

[Yanlin]

Pfft. I just sleep on carps.

[Kidiri]

Pfft. I just sleep on carps.

I can't. They always swim away from me. However, when there're a lot of them, I can sometimes swim through a school of carp/sea lamprey (in a river, strangely enough)/longnose gar and leave behind a red river filled with dead fish and lopped of fins.

But heay, whenever I get the 'Night is falling.'-message, I get the hell out of whatever body of water I'm in.

[Deon]

ALso you may check the temperature by shift+p anytime .

The warning is needed indeed .