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[kefkakrazy]

Working on a project called the Maximum Fun Chamber. A winding hallway of spikes hooked to pressure plates, so that I have an automated system. Been testing it with caged gobbos-so far, results are very amusing.

so far it's only been used for disposal of prisoners, since I enjoy watching them run the gauntlet, but it's right under a bridge that invaders have to cross to enter the fortress, so... Heh.

Right now I'm working on other ways of dropping things into the chamber. I need to add bridges elsewhere, which lead underground and only come out via the MFC.

[Duke 2.0]

 What kind of spike action do you get? I know most people have them all go up and down at once, but I have always looked for a way to make random spikes go at random times.

 Also, fill the pit with a shallow layer of water! Make 'em miserable.

[FoboslC]

Quantum Cat Random Generator Switch. Thats pretty easy. An entire room with pressure plates connected to spikes, and lots, lots of cats.

[kefkakrazy]

I've just been doing "all at once", mostly because it's easier, also because it adds to the anticipation. However, as I add additional drop chambers (open pits that exit into the Maximum Fun Chamber), I may use a design using pressure plates triggered by those in the pit to trigger them. As in, one gobbo steps on a plate, and it causes spikes to spring up all around him. Useless for one gobbo, but if I catch three or four, they'll be skewering each other.

and I am already rigging the entire chamber to flood, as well. Good for cleaning it out, that or spreading the blood EVERYWHERE.

[Warlord255]

Quantum Cat Random Generator Switch. Thats pretty easy. An entire room with pressure plates connected to spikes, and lots, lots of cats.

A variant; the Quantam Cat Switch Tracer.

Have your pressure plates match up to the spikes one by one exactly, and let loose a single cat.

The results ought to be torturously fun to watch.

[Zorgn]

Quantum Cat Random Generator Switch. Thats pretty easy. An entire room with pressure plates connected to spikes, and lots, lots of cats.

A variant; the Quantam Cat Switch Tracer.

Have your pressure plates match up to the spikes one by one exactly, and let loose a single cat.

The results ought to be torturously fun to watch.

I like this better. Enter paranoia mode. But, since your chamber has a lot of spikes, and thus switches, you need to keep the goblins pathing for a lot longer to get the job done. A pressure plate near the end of the maze should close their exit and open a new one, forcing them to travel again through the chamber. Pressure plates by every exit for an eternal stay in the Maximum Fun Chamber.

Hell, for real fun, make it a multi-level maze.

[Duke 2.0]

spreading the blood EVERYWHERE.

Alas, we cannot say this truthfully 'till we eventually test if the sky can get blood splatters on it.

[inaluct]

Water can fall. Maybe, we can freeze a blood waterfall on it's way down, and support it with constructions?

[ArkDelgato]

I got an Idea for the cat chamber.

rather than the cat wandering aimlessly (thus slowly) fill the entire room with pressure plates,

[][][][][][][][][][]   Squares being doors, # plates.
[]########[]   Connect (for example) red plate to close the door infront of it, forcing the cat to path to
[]########[]   red door, which forces the cat to go to blue, and so on.
[]####c ###
[]########[]
[][][][][][][][][][]

[Warlord255]

Water can fall. Maybe, we can freeze a blood waterfall on it's way down, and support it with constructions?

I'm calling it now. The minute liquid-blood-globs go in? Dwarves encased in cubes of their own frozen blood upon being struck by a bolt.

When this happens, you had DAMN well better give me credit.

[Eatnobles4breakfast]

Sadly, ArkDelgato, cats obey no mortal, and seem to have no real pathing bilt-in...
They just wander arround...
A camel or mule would work, but a mule does not have the advantage of ever being refered to in conjunction with probability, or quantum mechanics...

[Martin]

Can you put a stockpile on a pressure plate? Put a plate under each tile of your booze stockpile, so each drink results in spikes shooting up. Either that or put one along each path to your various food/booze/ammo/etc. stockpiles.

[Zorgn]

Water can fall. Maybe, we can freeze a blood waterfall on it's way down, and support it with constructions?

I'm calling it now. The minute liquid-blood-globs go in? Dwarves encased in cubes of their own frozen blood upon being struck by a bolt.

When this happens, you had DAMN well better give me credit.

I thought blood couldn't freeze. Something about if not quite being a liquid yet.

[Warlord255]

Water can fall. Maybe, we can freeze a blood waterfall on it's way down, and support it with constructions?

I'm calling it now. The minute liquid-blood-globs go in? Dwarves encased in cubes of their own frozen blood upon being struck by a bolt.

When this happens, you had DAMN well better give me credit.

I thought blood couldn't freeze. Something about if not quite being a liquid yet.

Keyword: Yet.

[Hyndis]

When they add in more liquids, such as making lakes of booze and whatnot, why not also blood?

Embark on a cold climate such that you can freeze things if left outside.


An entire tower built of frozen goblin and/or elf blood!