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Author Topic: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress  (Read 210696 times)

Huin

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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #345 on: October 14, 2009, 04:56:40 pm »

Probably one of the most disturbing things I have seen in Dwarf Fortress   :o

All was well and fine in my third year fortress, Farming was going well so everyone had plenty to eat. The local still was churning out vast amounts of alcohol and I had managed to pick out such a great spot that I was able to create steel items and my small army was able to keep the small goblin raids at bay pretty easily without any casualties... it was all a little bit too peaceful.

One day a dwarf by the name of Fath Urisstan is taken by a fell mood, I think to myself - fantastic! another one of my dwarves is going to create a legendary item for me to add to my collection.  He then looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible... hmmm that message didn't sound good.
He then proceeds to claim a butchers shop - at this point I don't like where this is going as all the goodies I had hunted had already been cut up and sent to the kitchen.

This is where is gets weird.
Fath grabs the nearest kid (who's name was Reg), drags  him back to the butchers shop and promptly chops him to bits! he then begins a mysterious construction... No one around took any notice, not even the guys parent nor did anyone punish Fath - Damn that kid must have been hated.

Anyway after Fath had finished 'constructing' his artifact I finally got to see what was so important that he had to carve a kid up to make...

"Moralgraves", a dwarf leather bag - worth... get this - 1200  :-\

You will be pleased to know Fath is still alive and well as a master Leatherworker, he has a wife and a only child named Cog. Lets hope he doesn't run out of bags anytime soon  ;D



Here's a screenshot in case you don't believe me




Yup, that's quite normal, albeit semi-rare: http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Strange_mood#Fell
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #346 on: October 14, 2009, 07:18:15 pm »

That's never happened to me. Maybe my dwarves are too happy...
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #347 on: October 15, 2009, 01:05:41 am »

Any dwarf like that I try to isolate immediately and let go insane. It is just not worth the potential unhappiness slide.
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #348 on: October 15, 2009, 01:29:49 am »

Any dwarf like that I try to isolate immediately and let go insane. It is just not worth the potential unhappiness slide.

You, sir, are no true dwarf.  And besides, think of how many people the craftsdwarf is related to!  They'd be crushed were he to kill himself...  At least with the victim of a fell mood, they're donating their body to artistic expression. 

Spontaneously.


Also, finding out that you can fill a backpack with blood and/or vomit to serve as long-lasting emergency rations was a rather fun discovery.  And I think there are a few people who would consider it mildly disturbing.

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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #349 on: October 15, 2009, 11:47:14 am »

IIRC, fell moods do not trigger unhappiness - even if someone loses his wife to the fell dorf, he accepts it.
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #350 on: October 15, 2009, 12:34:20 pm »

"He has been quite content lately. He lost a spouse to art lately."?
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #351 on: October 15, 2009, 01:10:11 pm »

I keep imagining how the bag that Fath constructed would look.

I bet its got the poor kids face sewn on it, like something out of the 'necronomicon' - see google images.

Now thats disurbing.
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #352 on: October 15, 2009, 02:53:50 pm »

or maybe he just used the kid's "sack" as the bag  :o.

For me, the most disturbing would probably be when I intentionally starved a fortress, leaving a lone baby survivor. As documented on the wiki, babies who have lost their mother will throw themselves off cliffs. This baby started doing that, but ended up in a pit where the only exit was blocked with magma. So yea, I witnessed infant self immolation.
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #353 on: October 15, 2009, 05:49:24 pm »

Every time the site finder returns a map that I don't like (say I wanted flux but it gave me only one square), I embark and intentionally kill all 7 starter dwarves with whatever comes to hand. So far I've drowned and magma'd them, crushed them in cave ins, fed all 7 to a werewolf, fed all 7 to carp, and dropped the floor they were standing on into magma. I'm running short on easy ideas, though embarking with a steel spear and three mechanisms then manually skewering all 7 would be funny, if disturbing.

I still find using a sacrificial miner to open a magma pipe to be disturbing, though I love imagining their reaction ("What's all that re.... AHH IT BURNS!"). The other funny if sad moment was when I sent my dwarves to go clobber some goblins with hammers modded to do 1 damage. Total slaughter, man gobbos are pathetic. Though when I forgot to unmod the hammers for a megabeast attack...
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #354 on: October 16, 2009, 09:22:51 pm »

I found a dead goblin while looting ( xD) and found a "Narrow TROLL leather cap" and many other troll items on it. LoL.
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #355 on: October 16, 2009, 09:40:13 pm »

I got a fair number of dwarf bone/leather goods from gob attacks.
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #356 on: October 16, 2009, 10:47:06 pm »

Funny and/or sad? I'm currently building an iron fortress on a cliff overlooking the coast of an enormous saltwater ocean.

I foresee fun.
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« Reply #357 on: October 16, 2009, 11:25:30 pm »

Funny and/or sad? I'm currently building an iron fortress on a cliff overlooking the coast of an enormous saltwater ocean.

I foresee fun.

Metal doesn't oxidize (rust, tarnish) in DF yet. So, saltwater has no effect on anything besides making water undrinkable atm.
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #358 on: October 16, 2009, 11:55:20 pm »

And no erosion to topple the fort off after worldgen. Alas.
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Re: Funny but sad/disturbing moments in Dwarf fortress
« Reply #359 on: October 17, 2009, 01:27:13 pm »

A pity.
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