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Furious Fish

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Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« on: March 31, 2007, 01:11:00 pm »
Like the title says. When the human trade representative met my Broker, I asked for pets, specifically cows. When the caravan turned up, it had four wooden cages in tow, each containing a cow corpse. Not quite what I had in mind.
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ktrey

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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2007, 01:42:00 pm »
This happened to me recently as well. I believe it was the result of temperatures.
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Svirfneblim

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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2007, 01:48:00 pm »
Holy bearded gods.
Cruelty to transported animals.
This game has everything.
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Furious Fish

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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2007, 01:50:00 pm »
I am playing on a Freezing map. That could be it.
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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2007, 04:52:00 pm »
Yeah, that's right.  They don't use lil mufflers and stuff for the cows.  Maybe they wouldn't be lil.
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BlueDestiny

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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2007, 10:49:00 pm »
For some reason, I just had the vivid image of a grizzled old human trader looking a dwarf in the eye and saying "you want cows? Here's your #$@%ing cows" before cackling madly and being summarily killed.
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DDouble

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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2007, 11:57:00 pm »
The idea of "mufflers on cows" as you put it Toady...hmmm...are the cows that noisy? I can't imagine where you would stick the muffler. I mean, a cow's exhaust pipe, is, well....
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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2007, 01:05:00 am »
Cows are abundant sources of natural gas. ;-)
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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2007, 01:05:00 pm »
<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarf"" TARGET=_blank>Scarves are also called mufflers in America. But I find the second idea hilarious.

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Toady One

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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2007, 05:24:00 pm »
The game doesn't have blankets does it?  Lots of blankets seems reasonable, or something.  I've never transported cows through Antarctica before.
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Draco18s

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Re: Requested pets from human caravan, got corpses.
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2007, 11:00:00 am »
Dogs and cats seem to do ok until their masters run out of food.
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