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Stopple

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random drowning / spontaneous lung damage
« on: July 06, 2008, 02:57:24 pm »

I'm going about my dwarvenly business when I spot a purple message: Obok Gailudil, Wrestler has drowned!

Uh oh.. that sucks.  How did that happen?

After searching for awhile, I find his body in an outside lake not too far from my fortress entrance.  What was he doing in the water??

Also, shortly after, i see:  Tun Kolkubuk cancels drink: unconscious

This guy I can zoom to, he's in the store room unconscious with a red wound on his right lung.  What just happened there?  I checked his thought history and it says he has received food/ water recently and sustained a major injury recently.  Is this guy walking around with a red lung wound and passing out?
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Samyotix

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Re: random drowning / spontaneous lung damage
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2008, 03:16:02 pm »

Is it late winter or early spring?
Dwarves will walk across ice ... if it melts while they're on it, they'll dtown. (I once started a fortress, spent an hour designating stuff, unpaused, and had 2 guys drown when the little lakes (ponds?) unfroze) :)
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Skanky

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Re: random drowning / spontaneous lung damage
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2008, 06:26:08 pm »

You wouldn't have recruits training with spears, by any chance?
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shadow_archmagi

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Re: random drowning / spontaneous lung damage
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2008, 06:41:22 pm »

You wouldn't have recruits training with spears, by any chance?

Or.. say... carp?
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Cthulhu

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Re: random drowning / spontaneous lung damage
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2008, 07:07:40 pm »

Maybe they've got that virus from The Andromeda Strain, and their blood is disintegrating.  Don't worry, in a few hours it'll magically mutate into something stupid.
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Dr. Melon

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Re: random drowning / spontaneous lung damage
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2008, 08:24:51 am »

Talking of spear-holding recruits, a newly-drafted peasant just poked the brains out of my Legendary Hammerdwarf.
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Re: random drowning / spontaneous lung damage
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2008, 08:37:22 am »

It's called "trepanation". Don't use sharp spears.
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