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[Uzu Bash]

omg, I think I've gotten all the newbie mistakes behind me, so the *facepalm* moments I do have aren't terminal. At least not to me, but I'm glad I didn't give my Crossbowman any of my good weapons.

I wanted to explore the Magma Forges, but as per usual they're built up against the only way in. So I jumped across the magma to look around. When I came back, all of my companions were butting up against the wall, like they do when they hit a river I'm crossing. The Crossbowman just stood directly in my jump path, and I waited for him to move, and when he didn't, I took the leap figuring he'd either jump out of the way or get knocked back and I'd have to apologize.

He jumped directly toward my flight path instead, and turned into a Lava Mist so quickly that no one noticed. I didn't even have a moment of grief for him. Poof. I can't even tell stories about his death, they don't show up in his or the site's history.

Let's just leave the dwarves to build him a slab after they figure it out.

EDIT: Are all fortress taverns this cramped? It's like a vertical drinking establishment; it doesn't even have room for elbows, so you better drink it quick before someone  knocks it all over you.

[Shalderave]

Instead we must settle for ye olde DFHack.

Or...wait. Minecarts can dump contents and create a full tile of water, right?

Is it possible to, as a flying creature, dump a minecart of water and one of magma, fast enough to create a floating block of obsidian?

It would surely kill you stone dead (pun intended) in the process, but it'd also be exploitable by future adventurers.

If I knew where to find a minecart reliably, I would un-retire my raven man and experiment.

[Random_Dragon]

If I knew where to find a minecart reliably, I would un-retire my raven man and experiment.

Best option is to mod a reaction to just make a minecraft out of nothing.

EDIT: I murdered a tavern keeper, using grab-and-jumps to disrobe her AND send her sailing about, then snapping her neck upon realizing I somehow escalated from brawl to no quarter doing that.

I'm now hauling a barrel of wine I stole, intending to raid a bandit-claimed tomb and party with whoever or whatever I find.

EDIT 2: Oh hey, THIS one has a mummy in it! Time for !!SCIENCE!! it seems.

[Shalderave]

So I was testing that grab-n'-jump thing with my Statue of Liberty, and it works great. Hopefully controlled direction throwing will be part of the game eventually, because throwing an enemy *into* yourself and dying/mutilating yourself while hilarious, doesn't make any sense. I made my own nose explode into gore once because of that.

[Random_Dragon]

So I was testing that grab-n'-jump thing with my Statue of Liberty, and it works great. Hopefully controlled direction throwing will be part of the game eventually, because throwing an enemy *into* yourself and dying/mutilating yourself while hilarious, doesn't make any sense. I made my own nose explode into gore once because of that.

Yesss. Glad it helped.

So, this seems to confirm that my other tombs all lacked mummies.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tactic one: Stealth all the way, pick the lock, steal a thing.
...it seems this time the mummy will awaken upon the theft occuring. I can only assume that all my last games had no mummy generate.

Tactic two: Stealth all the way, pick the lock, observe the coffin. Touching the nothings.
Coffin contained a skeleton as expected, which remained inactive until approached.

Tactic three: Kick in the door with no stealth, but don't steal anything..
Coffin gives zero fucks unless approached.

Tactic four: Test toppling of statues. Not in stealth.
Mummy gives no fucks.

Tactic five: Steal stuff, initiate dance.
Mummy activates in other room, initially doesn't seem to realize I'm right on the other side of the door. Zooms who-knows-where before returning to curse me, right as I enter a chorus and verse. Everyone's a critic.

Tactic six: Yield, tell a story about being cursed by a pissed off mummy.
Mummy is a poor sport about it.

Tactic Seven: Stop. Hammertime.
Mummy with bronze carving knife beats human with copper maul.

[Max™]

Every time Max is right, an angel gets her wings. The same angel... she's just a horrific ass of wings and mewling flesh at this point.

"Horrific ass of wings" wtf, that's very df but I did mean mass, firefox aurora has been lagging pretty badly lately.

[Random_Dragon]

Every time Max is right, an angel gets her wings. The same angel... she's just a horrific ass of wings and mewling flesh at this point.

You'd get more wings if I knew WHY the fuck this has been the only DF2014 mummy I've encountered. ;_;

[Amperzand]

I heard somewhere that they only have a 1/6 chance to spawn now.

[Random_Dragon]

I heard somewhere that they only have a 1/6 chance to spawn now.

Fuuuck, that explains it.

That, and a few builds of Adventurecraft that broke necromancy. Maybe broke mummies too?

[Shalderave]

Every time Max is right, an angel gets her wings. The same angel... she's just a horrific ass of wings and mewling flesh at this point.

"Horrific ass of wings" wtf, that's very df but I did mean mass, firefox aurora has been lagging pretty badly lately.

I thought they started out that way.

Funny story by the way,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

On my way to the human town where I found a load of goodies, and a genial Lord and his pissy Lady, I got stopped in a hamlet by an event marker, telling me I felt uneasy. I thought maybe the town was under attack or was going to turn out to be an undead village. I was almost convinced when I saw a Goblin Bowman stroll up too, but using 'l'ook showed him as non-hostile. So I talked with him and he was rather nice, asked him where he was going, he said he had an important mission. Then I saw a human spearman walk up and I thought they were going to start fighting, they started yelling "you must yield!" at each other, at first. I think they "missed" their shout, because they were actually yelling at my maceman companion, who wasn't doing anything. He refused and told them to get stuffed but there was no fighting. Then the goblin walked up to him and, somehow, "pushed the copper morningstar" out of my maceman's hand. I thought "wTF is this?" and at first I thought they were soldiers from an enemy faction of the maceman's and they started spitting at him.

I got a bit pissed at the goblin and as I was going after him to "gain possession" of my friend's weapon, which the goblin stole off the ground, he started demanding my dude's bag. I looked at my dude, and the one the goblin wanted was his coin purse. I was being robbed and I didn't know it, and I just watched my friend get bullied. Well I had enough of that. I didn't want to get pegged for murder so I just wrenched the morningstar away from the goblin, traded it back with my maceman, punched the goblin in the lower body and somehow turned his spleen into jam, and then turned around and punched the human spearman in the face hard enough that he was stunned.

So now we were in a brawl but even though he'd been robbed, my maceman wasn't yet involved in the violence. Still not sure if killing them was justified, I started demanding the goblin yield, since the spearman was punchdrunk and I think he tipped over at that point. Goblin got feisty and started chasing my maceman out into a field. Well at some point the goblin had stolen the maceman's purse and then dropped it, and I noticed he was chasing my dude while I was collecting his money back into his purse.

I jogged, I love the visual of jogging by the way, towards them a bit and noticed the goblin was exceptionally fast and was catching up to my dude, and had drawn his bow. Well enough of that shit, I thought, and threw the coin purse full of money at the goblin's neck. BAM paralyzed by bruising the muscle and tearing the upper spine's nervous tissue and the goblin collapsed. Still conscious though, still swinging and now in "lethal" combat. After asking him to stop fighting a couple times, my maceman got tired of being the nice guy, told the goblin to drop his shield and then started kicking him.

Feisty bugger was going down swinging, so I granted his wish. The maceman punched and kicked the goblin while I tried to strangle him, I haven't gotten strangle to work right in .42, I must be grabbing with the wrong part. In the end I ended up kind of clawing at him and then smashing his skull in with my silver mace.

It's not over, because by the time the bowman died I noticed the spearman was gone. He recovered after I gave the goblin a spleen-ectomy and started screaming about how he didn't want to die. Apparently I had actually punched the spearman in the face first, and then the goblin.

Well I decided not to bother, so I was about to go on my way, until I noticed the asterisk event marker was still there. I hovered over it, pressed stop and behold the spearman and a goblin hammerman travelling together, and they started screaming and sprinting away when they saw us.

I decided "screw it" and chased them down, rather uneventfully, and killed them both. I did have to sprint until I was very tired to catch the goblin, and then the spearman. After I had bashed the spearman to pulp a bard walked up. He was on a merry stroll and unconcerned that I was covered in blood. Pretty cool guy.


That goblin hammerman though, in hindsight I should've let live because he is the funniest thing I've seen so far. While his comrades were bullying my companion and I, he was chatting with the locals, arguing about...something with two different people at the same time, and never once got involved in the fight. He ran screaming along with the spearman after the spearman recovered, leaving their bowman to die alone.

I love this stupid game so much.

[Amperzand]

Yeah, actually, I noticed that. Couldn't seem to get strangling to work.

[Comito]

Press shift+A and wrestle, grab with either upper arm and aim for the throat.

Press enter or period, whichever button makes it advance a turn, and if it works it'll say you grabbed them.

Shift+A again and wrestle again, wrestle with upper arm and choke throat.

Advance another turn and it'll say you placed a chokehold on them. Press a movement key like you're going toward them and it'll start strangling them.

 Continue moving into them until they are unconscious or suffocate. If they are diagonal to you, use the numpad and press the button corresponding to their position.

[Shalderave]

Citizen snips.

I remember all that, the option to choke just doesn't seem to appear. Let me try something.

EDIT: here we go

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

and then and lastly

no choke. Hmm, strange.

EDIT 2: Wait, was there always literally a throat? I think what gets me, is I don't know DF's difference between Head, Neck, and Throat. I kind of get it, but it seems odd I can't strangle the neck.

[Random_Dragon]

Citizen snips.

I remember all that, the option to choke just doesn't seem to appear. Let me try something.

It goes grab, establish chokehold, chooooke.

Only works if you grab the throat, not the neck.

[Shalderave]

Woopsie. Seems odd to me that 'Throat' is on the next page, and 'Head' and 'Neck' are right next to each other.