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[Lost Requiem]

I eagerly await the next edition, when I can tear up goblin clothing for bandages and dressings.

Traders already have that version, which is why they're interested in the narrow GCS clothing.

They do? Damn! I'll have to order it!

Also, Dwarf children don't wear clothes at all. Just a covering of vomit, water, blood, and mud.

Just like real life.

If they could unweave cloth, then why can't you? Is it a trade secret only the philosopher knows?

[100killer9]

The same reason you can't milk camels but they can.

[slink]

They don't have farms or shrubs at mountainhomes. This is the only way they make cloth.

Umm.... pig tails? Cave spider silk?

They don't grow pig tails. I guess cave spider silk would be legitimate, though.
The only place people grow pig tails is in fortresses.

They sell pig tail seeds.  Where do they get those, if they don't grow them?

[Moogie]

They don't have farms or shrubs at mountainhomes. This is the only way they make cloth.

Umm.... pig tails? Cave spider silk?

They don't grow pig tails. I guess cave spider silk would be legitimate, though.
The only place people grow pig tails is in fortresses.

They sell pig tail seeds.  Where do they get those, if they don't grow them?

Kobold thieves, who in turn steal them from fortresses. It's all part of the cycle.

[Deon]

I eagerly await the next edition, when I can tear up goblin clothing for bandages and dressings.

It's already possible with proper reactions (in smelter, which is weird).

Next version allows many more solutions .

[Danarca]

I eagerly await the next edition, when I can tear up goblin clothing for bandages and dressings.

It's already possible with proper reactions (in smelter, which is weird).

Next version allows many more solutions .

"Yes Urist, it's a crazy, crazy world. Now put the damn cat chunks in the glowing embers so we can get our purring maggot milk and get outta here before the smith catches us!"

[darthbob88]

I eagerly await the next edition, when I can tear up goblin clothing for bandages and dressings.

It's already possible with proper reactions (in smelter, which is weird).

Next version allows many more solutions .

"Yes Urist, it's a crazy, crazy world. Now put the damn cat chunks in the glowing embers so we can get our purring maggot milk and get outta here before the smith catches us!"

How'd that work, anyway? Last I heard, you couldn't use reactions to produce or consume extracts and powders like that. I do, however, cheat such that my produce steel reaction also produces a small batch of gems.

[bluea]

Traders mostly use all the crap I sell them as a futile last-gasp shield against the wave of magma.

[o_O[WTFace]]

Obviously the traders turn around and sell all the narrow clothing back to goblins. 

g: wow where did you get all these nice clothes
H: Oh well, <fortressname> has tons of them

and so a hundred goblins come charging into a suspiciously empty hallway leading into the fortress and the cycle repeats itself. 

[Innominate]

Traders mostly use all the crap I sell them as a futile last-gasp shield against the wave of magma.

I'm getting a vision of some traders clinging to each other for dear life, as a rising tide of magma causes their clothing to catch fire. They die in pain, huddled on a huge pile of microline crafts.

Sigh, if only you'd sold them a few more. Please, think of the traders.

[Kidiri]

Obviously the traders turn around and sell all the narrow clothing back to goblins. 

g: wow where did you get all these nice clothes
H: Oh well, <fortressname> has tons of them

and so a hundred goblins come charging into a suspiciously empty hallway leading into the fortress and the cycle repeats itself. 

g: I could've sworn my dad wore this very same <-<☼giant cave spider cloak☼>->...
U: Why do you think that?
g: I was looking when he made it. I do wonder what happened to him. He had a career as snatcher you know. He was very good at it. He liberated several elven, dwarven and hu- no human children. He was a master thief, you know. Then one day, he didn't come back... Where did you say you bought this?
U: It was in <fortressname>, if I'm not mistaken.
g: Hmm, I think I'll grab a few bodyguards and head to investigate. To seek out what happened to my father...

Some time later at <fortressname>:
An ambush! Curse them!