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Author Topic: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.  (Read 14012 times)

Impending Doom

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You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« on: June 18, 2008, 03:33:05 pm »
My latest adventurer, a male hammerdwarf, was attacking a dark goblin fortress. Goblins and limbs were sailing through the air, and out of nowhere, an arrow strikes me in the arm and I enter a martial trance. Next thing I know, a flurry of arrows comes at me, and I get spammed with 'you bat the arrow out of the air' messages like I'm some kind of Matrix-dwarf. Is this something related to martial trances? I had heard of fortress mode dwarves dodging bolts during trances, but I never knew this could happen in adventure mode.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2008, 04:23:53 pm »
If you're supersomethingly agile and very skilled with what you're armed with, you can always do that. Demons and master elves do such stuff on a regular basis. Continuously swatting arrows away would really take a martial trance though.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2008, 07:13:54 pm »
You bat the flying -Ashen Baseball- out of the air with your *Cedar Baseball bat*.

The cool thing is, it's possible to get that message.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2008, 11:05:39 pm »
No, no, you make +cricket balls+ out of wood, a baseball needs Leatherworking.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2008, 02:23:47 am »
Cricket balls are made of wood?  I didn't know that.    All I knew was that you can't make weapons or ammunition out of leather.  You could make a tree that calls itself leather, but that would just be silly now wouldn't it?

Or you could make 'em metals...  You could have one "bat" weapon, which could be made out of "cricket" or "baseball".   Same goes for the balls, but I think you'd have to add in just "base" so that you get a "base ball" instead of a "baseball ball".
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2008, 03:30:13 am »
That would of course require the baseball bat to be called a "ballbat" :) Unless it's made out of baseball, and the balls are just made out of base.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2008, 02:02:16 pm »
Fun fact, masters of the art of the samurai sword do, in fact, do this.

Just yesterday I saw video of a Japanese sword-master cutting an arrow in half with a katana as it was flying right at his heart, diffusing its energy enough that it didn't wound him.

Mind you this was on an educational program produced by a public television station, so there's no motivation for them to have BS'd it either.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2008, 03:45:47 pm »
I saw one of them cut a tank in half.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2008, 04:15:50 pm »
I think one of those fancy new light tanks with aluminium armor wouldn't stand against a good katana. Like, an adamantine katana. :)
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2008, 05:14:15 pm »
Adamantine Rocket Katana.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2008, 05:27:29 pm »
Adamantine chainsaw.
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2008, 06:04:55 pm »
Adamantine Rocket Katana Chainsaw launching Crossbow.  ;)

I've even figured out how a katana chainsaw would work in my head.  :P
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2008, 06:07:41 pm »
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2008, 06:15:56 pm »
Quote from: Fishersalwaysdie on June 23, 2008, 06:07:41 pm
Like this?

No, thats a chainsaw katana. A katana chainsaw would have all the little blades replaced by katana blades.  ;)
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Re: You bat the flying Iron Arrow out of the air.
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2008, 09:10:23 pm »
Quote from: Neoskel on June 23, 2008, 06:15:56 pm
Quote from: Fishersalwaysdie on June 23, 2008, 06:07:41 pm
Like this?

No, thats a chainsaw katana. A katana chainsaw would have all the little blades replaced by katana blades.  ;)

 Only possible way of making this more awesome:

 1. Put it on fire.
 2. Have it mounted on your arm.
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