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Repulsion

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Oooh, Surprise.
« on: March 10, 2010, 09:33:13 pm »

So, I just got the announcement that a caravan had a arrived, so I bustled around, getting the small amount of goods to my trade depot, and such, but the caravan never came. The Liason did (Stayed a long time too), but no caravan. I didn't think much of it until I was scouting for some hematite and saw a particular symbol on the ground. Hello various steel and GCS goods. There was also some gold in there...
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 09:34:05 pm »

Any idea how that happened?
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 09:37:30 pm »

 Well, on my unit list, I got a lot of various chasm creatures and some magma pipe creatures, but they wouldn't be on the mountain, so it was probably some ferocious Mountain goats, Llamas, Rabbits, or Geese.
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2010, 12:09:23 am »

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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2010, 03:03:34 am »

I think you can rule out a GCS attack, else you would see everything covered in webs, and I assume by GCS goods you mean socks and cloth. Caravans also reveal ambushes, and that includes GCS that were hidden before fighting.

This is strange, caravans are protected with nice soldiers, but if there's only one pile of goods then only one wagon was destroyed, and that's enough to get them to turn around and run. It might just be possible a stray fireball from an imp got the wagon, burned it down, and then the imp ran, but that seems unlikely if the magma pipe is far away.
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2010, 04:15:12 am »

 CSI: Dwarf Fortress.

 *That's Our Theme*

 Can you get us a DFMA?

 Or, better yet, upload the save.
« Last Edit: March 11, 2010, 04:18:14 am by TKTom »
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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2010, 04:31:26 am »

CSI: Dwarf Fortress

Magnify that image.

Oh, dear god, it is a GCS. ...Wait. It can't be it. That spider looks terrified.
Magnify the image on its eyes.
Now magnify on the reflection in the GCS's eyes.

...Holy shit, it's a zombie carp.
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2010, 01:21:39 pm »

CSI: Dwarf Fortress

Magnify that image.

Oh, dear god, it is a GCS. ...Wait. It can't be it. That spider looks terrified.
Magnify the image on its eyes.
Now magnify on the reflection in the GCS's eyes.

...Holy shit, it's a zombie carp.

Zoom in on the zombie carp.
A finger print? Run it through the database.
Osama Bin Ladens finger print is on a zombie carp?
Zoom in on the thumbprint.
There seems to be an image on one of the skin particles that left the finger print, zoom in on it.
My god, it's a picture of a second gunman on the grassy knoll. Wait, he seems to have a water bottle.
Zoom in.
It's a license plate, run the numbers.
Dear lord, those plate numbers belong to Hitler. Open reference files on Hitler.
Zoom into the crowd in this Hitler speech video.
Oh christ, Elves.

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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2010, 01:39:40 pm »

CSI: Dwarf Fortress

Magnify that image.

Oh, dear god, it is a GCS. ...Wait. It can't be it. That spider looks terrified.
Magnify the image on its eyes.
Now magnify on the reflection in the GCS's eyes.

...Holy shit, it's a zombie carp.

*snaps off raybans*

... YEEEOWWWWW!! DUN DUN!

*is eaten by carp*
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2010, 04:36:34 pm »



...Holy shit, it's a zombie carp.

Looks like this case...


Just got a little fishy.





YEEEEEEEAAHHHHHHHHHH!
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2010, 05:20:46 pm »

Perhaps some pathing mistake that got the wagon stuck in some terrain feature? They sometimes blow up when stuck... You'd get crazy beasts of burden after some months though...
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2010, 10:16:39 pm »

CSI: Dwarf Fortress

Magnify that image.

Oh, dear god, it is a GCS. ...Wait. It can't be it. That spider looks terrified.
Magnify the image on its eyes.
Now magnify on the reflection in the GCS's eyes.

...Holy shit, it's a zombie carp.

*snaps off raybans*

... YEEEOWWWWW!! DUN DUN!

*is eaten by carp*
Beat me to it, oh well.

It looks like...
*Dramatic Sunglasses Equipping*
crime might pay.
YEAAAAH!!!(Shot of city, then an airboat)

Edit: 3rd place, I think a Horatio Caine chain(pun intended) is starting.
« Last Edit: March 11, 2010, 10:23:08 pm by OldManNeck »
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2010, 10:48:50 pm »

It looks like...
*Sunglasses*
...a caravan was destroyed by something.
YEEAAH!!!
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2010, 12:47:25 am »

"Sir! The traders' corpses were found encased in silk! We also found several iPhones at the scene."
"It looks like..."

*Sunglasses*

"...they were caught in the spider's web."
YEEAAH!!
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Re: Oooh, Surprise.
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2010, 01:20:01 am »

"It looks like..."

*Sunglasses*

"We got free stuff."

*YEEEEEAAAAAAH*
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