Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Praise the useless migrants!*spoilers*  (Read 1363 times)

Medicine Man

  • Bay Watcher
  • Pile the bodies, set them aflame.
    • View Profile
Praise the useless migrants!*spoilers*
« on: August 01, 2010, 02:27:16 am »
My fortress got its first wave of migrants recently I had embarked on a site with a volcano on it so I decided to drop them from the retracting bridge into the magma and BAM "Praise the miners!" "Praise the miners!" "Praise the miners!" "Praise the miners!" they had seen 4 adamantine veins before they bled out,at least they died happy.Have you had a useless migrant do something useful like this?(Edit)I just found 2 Adamantine veins not 4 and I found about 5 gold veins and a SHITLOAD of gems.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2010, 02:34:03 am by Dwarf mc dwarf »
Logged

kaijyuu

  • Bay Watcher
  • Hrm...
    • View Profile
Re: Praise the useless migrants!*spoilers*
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2010, 02:29:27 am »
I embarked on a volcano, and my wagon was *right on the edge* of it.

First thing I saw was a cave in message, followed by ~4 pages of "you have struck (stone type)" and the adamantine message. Finally, Urist McJewelcrafter has bled to death.
Logged
Quote from: Chesterton
For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

Vercingetorix

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Praise the useless migrants!*spoilers*
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2010, 02:52:59 am »
I did that when I made the genius decision to try building floors with a bridge as support.  The builder didn't die, but the falling stone did reveal the magma sea down to the bottom.
Logged
Do you always look at it in ASCII?

You get used to it, I don't even see the ASCII.  All I see is blacksmith, miner, goblin.

Firehound

  • Bay Watcher
  • !!human!!
    • View Profile
Re: Praise the useless migrants!*spoilers*
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2010, 04:02:31 am »
I think my favorite was where a random, unskilled peasent freaks out and [censors] a whole seige army with his bear hands. of course, he died shortly afterwards, but I'm sure the goblins pissed themselves when a 2010 dwarf starts breaking spines and skulls like they are cardboard with his bare hands. No modding. I figure Cacame possessed him or something.

Of course, afterwards there were millions of

The cheese of looks
Urist Mcbadass, the Sues of doctors, and a goblin. The goblin is making a plaintitive gesture, Urist is making a menacing gesture
Logged

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

derekiv

  • Bay Watcher
  • The smile.
    • View Profile
Re: Praise the useless migrants!*spoilers*
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2010, 07:05:56 am »
My favorite batch of migrants was the ones I atom smashed. They were the least unruly of them all.
Logged

Hokan

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Praise the useless migrants!*spoilers*
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2010, 04:05:07 pm »
Quote from: Firehound on August 02, 2010, 04:02:31 am
I think my favorite was where a random, unskilled peasent freaks out and [censors] a whole seige army with his bear hands.

A short, sturdy creature fond of drinking and industry.
BEWARE HIS BEAR HANDS
Logged
Quote from: Clamatius on July 22, 2011, 07:37:43 pm
Valuing life seems too close to an aesthetic rule for me, I think.
Only in Dwarf Fortress is the value of life placed as "aesthetic."

Encased in burning magma

  • Bay Watcher
  • Nekkid
    • View Profile
Re: Praise the useless migrants!*spoilers*
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2010, 04:09:51 pm »
Quote from: Hokan on August 02, 2010, 04:05:07 pm
Quote from: Firehound on August 02, 2010, 04:02:31 am
I think my favorite was where a random, unskilled peasent freaks out and [censors] a whole seige army with his bear hands.

A short, sturdy creature fond of drinking and industry.
BEWARE HIS BEAR HANDS
edit: dead link
« Last Edit: August 18, 2010, 07:10:53 am by Encased in burning magma »
Logged
[MILL_CHILD:ONLY_IF_GOOD_REASON]