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[Danaru]

So I've begun a new fortress after an unfortunate magma accident (which wasn't helped by the, er, "accidental collapse" of my tower/doomsday device, sorry, didn't get the chance to take pictures), and, as usual, I start my nigh exact carving as my OCD compels me to.

I started working on my drain for my water supply (routing the entire river into a bottomless pit, the true dwarven way. Nature is what I decide it is!), when I spotted a gremlin.

I. WANT. THAT. GREMLIN.

I don't know why, but I'm always compelled to capture rare(ish) creatures, I also like collecting gnomes for my gnome pits. sometimes I throw a cougar into the gnome pit and giggle gleefully. if I could butcher gnomes, we'd all be eating gnome meat and wearing gnome leather.

gnomes don't like me much.

So my plan was to cage trap the exit to my water drain, and then open it up, that went normally, but when I started sending my soldier out to lure it in, I suddenly got a pause message.

"Ambush! Drive them out!"

it was triggered by something getting caged. my first thought was "GOT THE GREMLIN", but when the gremlin was still out, I thought "wait, an ambush? uh, how did goblins get down there"

Then I looked at the cage.



HOLY FREAKING CRAP

if it weren't for my obsessive creature gathering, I would have had my first taste of the worst KIND of horrible fortress destruction. Armok must have been pleased with my last fortress's spectacular destruction in order to grant me not-rape.

I'm thinking of putting it in my Noble's closet, with a cage trap outside of course. Just in case someone decides he'd REALLY like a crystal glass table in his room. What do you guys think?

[Dragooble]

GCS are convenient pets in that they are SOOOOOOOO cute and cuddly the noble calls off the mandate. good idea.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Build a temple for it, and place it in a labyrinth beneath the temple. Drop nobles and captured goblins into said labyrinth as sacrifices.

[ArkDelgato]

Throw it in the gnome pit.
see what happens

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, you can harvest GCS silk! How awesome is that?

I never seem to get GCSs for some reason. out of all of my chasms and bottomless pits I've had one with a GCS. *sigh*

[ArkDelgato]

It's funny that tower caps are just hard mushrooms.

And a horse sized spider in a smurf house is HILARIOUS.

[Aqizzar]

Build a death pit to your trade depot, and record some videos of the spider slaughtering the hapless elven merchants you drop in.

DO IT NOW

With a cat on a chain at the end of a trapped hallway, so you can get some wonderful silk, and use the spider over and over again.

[LumenPlacidum]

Build a death pit to your trade depot, and record some videos of the spider slaughtering the hapless elven merchants you drop in.

DO IT NOW

With a cat on a chain at the end of a trapped hallway, so you can get some wonderful silk, and use the spider over and over again.

GCS are wild creatures and do not attack elves.

[Dragooble]

ok then. upload some videos of the GCS killing the gnomes that killed the elves.

[Aqizzar]

GCS are wild creatures and do not attack elves.

Damn crafty hippies.

Well, the humans bring better loot anyway.  And yes, gnomes.

[Cogsmith]

GCS's are Armoks way of granting favor (if captured) or venting his wrath (if otherwise)

*shudder*
Still remember when I started out right beside a chasm, and  was immediately slaughtered by 2 GCS. Re-claimed that area FOUR times, each time getting killed by GCS. I counted the corpses once. There had been over 20 GCS hiding in that chasm...

Did I mention this was my like...4th fortress?

[Rysith]

*shudder*
Still remember when I started out right beside a chasm, and  was immediately slaughtered by 2 GCS. Re-claimed that area FOUR times, each time getting killed by GCS. I counted the corpses once. There had been over 20 GCS hiding in that chasm...

I think that when you reclaim, animals like GCS repopulate... and when you reclaim, they repopulate based on fortress wealth... and when you come back the second time, you have the value of all of the first reclaim team's armor/weapons to add to it.

[Vincent]

I once started right next to a chasm as well.

I immediately got "AMBUSH! DRIVE THEM OUT" and I was greeted with the terrifying visage of a GCS. I activated my Woodcutter, Miner, Hunter and swordswarf, fearing I haven't slaked the blood god's thirst.

The GCS plastered the Hunter to the wagon and my Swordsdwarf brained it in one fell swoop.

I pid for it later, though. While mining out a gem-filled chasm room, My miners were ambushed. My swordsdwarf mercilessly beat it to death with his bare hands because I was getting him to train wrestling at the time. Lost 2 miners, 2 recruits and got 1 recruit crippled for life.

GCS=FUN

[Foa]

I once started right next to a chasm as well.

I immediately got "AMBUSH! DRIVE THEM OUT" and I was greeted with the terrifying visage of a GCS. I activated my Woodcutter, Miner, Hunter and swordswarf, fearing I haven't slaked the blood god's thirst.

The GCS plastered the Hunter to the wagon and my Swordsdwarf brained it in one fell swoop.

I pid for it later, though. While mining out a gem-filled chasm room, My miners were ambushed. My swordsdwarf mercilessly beat it to death with his bare hands because I was getting him to train wrestling at the time. Lost 2 miners, 2 recruits and got 1 recruit crippled for life.

GCS=FUN

I feed my Megas to GCS, and the GCS are giving holidays, preferably in the Purple Suite, subcategory, douches ( hammerer, loan sharks, monarchs ( I like to trade with my brethren ) , generally everyone ) .

Hell, I even devote guards to guard them, and I devote a brigade of these guys to last resort, just lock up some dwarves in a safety vault, and send in the ArachnaDemons, wait a while, and reestablish the fort.


I even made an Obsidian Song for them, which includes feeding them nobles, elves, champions, and other various nonentities.

)
Oh, and if you collect their silk, go into the sock industry, GCS silk socks, decorated with GCS silk = (:3) .

[Ampersand]

I think that when you reclaim, animals like GCS repopulate... and when you reclaim, they repopulate based on fortress wealth... and when you come back the second time, you have the value of all of the first reclaim team's armor/weapons to add to it.

Nay, it just respawns the animals on the site every time you reclaim. Regardless of whether or not they were dead or not.