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galmud

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Arbitrary justice?
« on: August 07, 2008, 02:30:45 pm »
So I recently had another mandate expire (cant remember what exactly) and this silly newbie guard Rimtar goes and chains my elite wrestler/hammerdwarf Zasit for a hundred days!

Rimtar claims he violated a production order, which is pure BS. Zasit doesnt know anything else than a thousand ways to kill a goblin. He would rather die than follow whimsical production orders from the nobility. And so now his entire squad is protesting by sitting out the sentence with him (not really but I'm imagining)

I have 14 craftsdwarves 8 metalsmiths and 8 stoneworkers. Why is Zasit and not any of them in jail? Maybe its Rimtars vivid imagination?
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Christes

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Re: Arbitrary justice?
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2008, 02:58:34 pm »
Welcome to the wonderful world of dwarven justice.

This is why most of us kill nobles!
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galmud

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« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2008, 06:30:36 pm »
What I'm wondering is.. Is Zasit doing time without the crime because of some bug in the justice system? Or is the game meant to work this way so that the wrong dwarf is jailed sometimes?
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« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2008, 06:50:30 pm »
He just didn't run fast enough.
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Re: Arbitrary justice?
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2008, 07:00:06 pm »
I just pretend I'm the one getting punished and it seems to make 100x more sense. 
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Christes

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« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2008, 01:23:12 am »
It's not really even a bug.  The justice system just sucks.  Toady will get to fixing it eventually.
« Last Edit: August 08, 2008, 01:42:19 am by Christes »
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Jackrabbit

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« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2008, 01:39:35 am »
which is what my flood-the-stupid-mayors-office-lever is for! but it flooded my fortress. yea I'll stop bitching eventually
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galmud

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Re: Arbitrary justice?
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2008, 04:08:31 am »
Ok. I'll just blame Rimtar then
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MercDraco

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Re: Arbitrary justice?
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2008, 06:40:33 am »
Encasing useless nobles in obsidion since year 102  :) only good nobles are the dungeon master and a blind deaf lame hammerer (i still whould like to know how he survived TWO firebreaths and a stonefall trap....
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« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2008, 12:56:16 pm »
Out of curiosity what happens if you order the hammerer's hammer to be dumped in lava?
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« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2008, 01:12:27 pm »
Quote from: Lalandrathon on August 08, 2008, 12:56:16 pm
Out of curiosity what happens if you order the hammerer's hammer to be dumped in lava?
You'd do better to slag it for the steel.

I never have enough steel, as I haven't found flux maps that also had the other things I wanted.

Anyway, he wallops the everliving fuck out of those sentanced to hammerstikes.  He is the Hammerer and he will do the best he can, but it tends to be more survivable.
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« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2008, 01:23:00 pm »
Just be sure he still has an arm. It hurts when they bite, supposedly.
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Re: Arbitrary justice?
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2008, 01:39:15 pm »
Quote from: Abbatoir on August 07, 2008, 07:00:06 pm
I just pretend I'm the one getting punished and it seems to make 100x more sense. 
Zero multiplied by one hundred is still zero :P
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