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[IceShade]

Oh, dragon. You were so beautiful. The prettiest of them all! All your bones were so dazzling. Yes, you will be missed One Glowedtreasure the Jewel of Fortune.

Ahem.

I had a few retractable bridges set up with pressure plates that would attract various useless nobles once they came to my fortress and started claiming stuff. Locking them up in their room was a tedious process and a long one at that. When One Glowedtreasure the Jewel of Fortune arrived, I was scared of her. A dragon, and undead at that. It leisurely walked through all my traps with one a minor injury to her upper spine and eventually ended up in a cage trap, as anti climactic it was. I was thinking of putting her to use in my future arena, but when I thought of the pesky nobles, I decided to make good use of her.

I put her in the pit where the nobles would fall into, and the dragon would burn them alive, rip them to pieces (one noble was absolutely shredded! He lost both his legs, his arms, his eyes and eventually his head. Apparently, he was conscious throughout the whole ordeal and was in "extreme pain". Yeouch. ) or both.

Now, another batch of those nitwits has arrived and I decided to throw them in again... but this time, there was no "Useless noble was struck down" message. I looked at the pit, and found only dragon bones and her skull.

According to the legends screen, she "Died in the heat". Considering I haven't found magma yet (and probably never will, despite all the obsidian lying around), she must have killed herself. I didn't know that this was possible, undead dragons being killed by dragonfire.

Sigh. Oh well. I'll have to find a new pet now.

You can finally rest, One Glowedtreasure the Jewel of Fortune.

She did her work from 210 till her death in 213. In her life, she killed fifty one elves, dwarves and humans (21 of those were mine. Lots of nobles and a few .. unfortunate.. accidents).

Suggestions for getting rid of nobles in a different fashion?

[mjo625]

Sorry about your dragon, surely it'll be missed. Especially by your hammerers.

Create a 2xwhatever bedroom, the floor of which is all hatch covers conneceted to a lever, beneath which is a 15 z level drop. See which noble splats into the most pieces. My money's on tax collector.

[Tormy]

According to the legends screen, she "Died in the heat". Considering I haven't found magma yet (and probably never will, despite all the obsidian lying around), she must have killed herself. I didn't know that this was possible, undead dragons being killed by dragonfire.

Yep, that's correct. Dragons are killing themselves with their own fire occasionally.

[Wahad]

...really?

Man, this game is getting more hilarious by the day.

[ArdentPenguin]

That happened to me once. I had a small entryway specifically for letting goblin sieges in, with a trained dragon on a chain. It set all the goblin's stuff on fire, started a huge fire in the small room it occupied, and burned itself to death.

[commondragon]

Well, they arent killing themselves with the dragonfire portion of it, but the fire-fire portion of it.

[FIREIMMUNE_SUPER] only helps from what directly comes from the dragon's mouth

[Phazer]

cant you fix so theyre fire immune?

[Smew]

Indeed, I'm pretty sure adding [FIRE_IMMUNE] or whatever the tag is will make them immune to all fire, aside from dragon fire.

[Volfram]

I believe [FIRE_IMMUNE] and [FIRE_IMMUNE_SUPER] stack.

The problem comes from the fact that [FIRE_IMMUNE_SUPER] does not imply [FIRE_IMMUNE], but the AI thinks it does.

Or is that the fact that the AI doesn't understand the concept of "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! I'M ON FIRE!!!!  HOT HOT HOT HOT PUT IT OUT PUT IT OUT, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!"

[tigrex]

So, to clarify, can it or can it not be fixed?

[Smew]

It can be fixed and has been fixed by most modders.
Sadly it's not considered a mandatory fix , like the cat mouth thing.

[IceShade]

Well, at least it had a weakness. I mean, it would probably take a few champions to take down a 200 year old skeletal dragon. Ouch, imagine the tantrums.

[Volfram]

Just add [FIRE_IMMUNE] to your dragons(in addition to [FIRE_IMMUNE_SUPER]), and they'll be properly fireproof.