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[Mynoris]

I was scrolling down through the 'animal' section of the stocks and came across 'Floating guts'.  WTH? o_O  What kind of 'animal' is that anyhow?

And Plump Helmet men?  Some sort of myconid creature?  I didn't even know such things existed...

I think someone must have had WAY too much fun making up the critter list.

[Josephus]

Wait 'till you see the other stuff down there.

Floating guts are exactly what they sound like, and Plump Helmet men are indeed myconids.

[Mynoris]

I would imagine floating guts would me more...refuse than animal.  Unless they're sentient floating guts, which would be a rather miserable thing to be if you ask me. o_O  Imagine getting an ulcer if you were a floating gut...

[Josephus]

Haha, yeah. Technically, the Floating Guts is a slime-creature. It's called Floating Guts because you can see its guts, just floating there in its slime.

[Mynoris]

*shudders*

It's things like that which make me glad the graphics aren't all techy.

[Fluff]

In regard's to the OP's comment on Plump Helmet men...

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=54209.msg1163708#msg1163708

There was some (disturbingly) detailed discussions on them.

"Brew Plump Helmet Man. Taste the sentience."

[Josephus]

Yeah, plump helmet men are the new mermaids.

[Deimos56]

"...Taste the sentience."

They're like skittles to some people.

[NW_Kohaku]

Those might be the most disgusting, but there are some other creatures that are similarly Nightmare Fuel if you think about living in a cavern with these things: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Manera

[Urist Imiknorris]

The entire list of subterranean horrors _{except forgotten beasts} is found in creature_next_underground.txt and creature_subterranean.txt.

[Vercingetorix]

Except for fleshballs, whose prefstrings include "calming roundness" and "warmth".  Maybe they're the underground cousins of fluffy wamblers. And then there's blood men.  Even their description is creepy as hell...

It would be interesting for dwarves to also be corrupted by spending too much time in the underworld.

[monkeyfetus]

This game has some serious nightmare fuel.
Creepy Crawler - A tiny underground creature made of a mass of appendages resembling human fingers. It creeps across the ground like a starfish and eats with a mouth on the bottom of its body.
Foul Blendec - A man-shaped creature with the legs of a goat and the empty-eyed skull of a goat. (prefstrings include "rotten eye sockets")
Strangler - A large, four-armed ape creature with three eyes and razor-sharp teeth. (prefstrings: resounding hoots, graceful leaps, three eyes, toothy maw)
Knuckle worm - A tiny creature made up of a series of crackling knobs set at strange angles. (It's a worm made up of knuckles that pop when it moves)

[TomiTapio]

Haha, yeah. Technically, the Floating Guts is a slime-creature. It's called Floating Guts because you can see its guts, just floating there in its slime.

Like... an earthworm inside a transparent slime-sack.


BTW, come join us on the Genesis mod. We have double-strength skin, muscle, bone, tendons for the tough monsters.
Shortly we'll have weapon rebalance, much much less "lower body flies off!"

[gtmattz]

I think someone must have had WAY too much fun making up the critter list.

Someone?  Do you now know anything about the game you are playing?  Please give recognition where it is due, all of those creatures in the vanilla game are from the imagination of ToadyOne, you know, the only person making the game?

[cerapa]

Im fairly certain Threetoe helped.