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RTiger

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Forgotten races
« on: April 30, 2011, 02:43:17 pm »

I got a FB message. It was a leech with deadly dust. I already knew that this was going to be FUN, looking at it. Not long after it appeared, it moved closer to where I had sealed the cavern breech. There was a small camp of cave swallow men there.

FB vs 5 Cave swallow man

FB got in close, and the birds started with blowguns and nether cap darts. When the beast got close, it unleashed that dust attack, filling pretty much the entire screen with dust and blocking vision. The facepalm came when the dust cleared. The FB looked like it had been thrown aside and was dead. More then that, none of the birds had been wounded.

All this happened in a single day.

Now, Will the birds be hostile to me also?
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NecroRebel

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Re: Forgotten races
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2011, 02:54:34 pm »
Beastfolk tribes in the caverns are hostile by default. However, if one of them lands a kill on a Forgotten Beast, that one will become friendly, even though all the others will remain hostile to you.

Also, depending on what syndromes that deadly dust attack causes, that tribe might still end up dying horribly.
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Lost Requiem

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Re: Forgotten races
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2011, 03:08:00 pm »
Like having their faces melt off. Cordon off the area for three months until you can determine the possible syndrome, if any.

It is kinda interesting how the creature would just turn friendly like that. Why is that?
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« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2011, 03:14:13 pm »
Quote from: Lost Requiem on April 30, 2011, 03:08:00 pm
It is kinda interesting how the creature would just turn friendly like that. Why is that?

Some kind of bug, probably. As a straight-up guess, maybe because killing a Forgotten Beast counts as a historical event, which would be expected to be made by one of your dwarves, and...I don't know.
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Re: Forgotten races
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2011, 03:27:54 pm »
Quote from: Lost Requiem on April 30, 2011, 03:08:00 pm
Like having their faces melt off. Cordon off the area for three months until you can determine the possible syndrome, if any.

It is kinda interesting how the creature would just turn friendly like that. Why is that?

Maybe it's like how it works in Adventure mode.  If you go out and kill some big bad guy (or enough little bad guys) that's hostile to some other hostile civilization, then they can all become friendly to you because you become a Hero to that civilization.  For instance, once I was playing a human (maybe dwarf) of a civ at war with these elves.  Their patrols would stop me and attack me and stuff when I was near their territory.  Then I killed a bunch of baddies nearby, night creatures and stuff.  Their patrols still stopped and threatened me, but they just stood there and wouldn't attack.
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