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[Moosey]

What have you done.  WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!  I read this thread yesterday, and it gave my computer ideas.

So, I'm playing along in my subterranean fort, and a forgotten beast arrives.
"The Forgotten Beast Disuth Rakustzagith has come!  A towering humanoid composed of ice, blah blah blah, beware its poisonous vapors."

So I send my military over and they kill him, but not before getting breathed on.  Then each soldier reports to sickbay, lies down for a few seconds, and then goes about their business.

But now, each guy that got hit with the breath now has the following data in their health pages:
Status:
  Completely Numb
  Vision Lost
Wounds:
  right eye, eye tissue
    function totally impaired
  right eye, eye tissue
    function totally impaired

So yes, now I have a few dwarves who are trained for battle, completely blind, and I'm guessing (remember, "completely numb") immune to pain.

[Moosey]

Peh, false alarm.  Their "totally impaired" optic nerves somehow healed themselves.

[Tallefred]

If this syndrome could be removed from the elves and placed into, say, a new breed of mushroom that grows only in the bottom cavern layer, I would be really happy. Could it be done, or does the sacrifice require elven blood?

[zehive]

Could it be done, or does the sacrifice require elven blood?

1.) of course is does
2.) why wouldnt it?

[Girlinhat]

There are currently no edible syndromes.  In the next update, we'll be able to make poisonous mushrooms that cause blindness when eaten.  You could, currently, make a mushroom that causes blindness when you touch it, but it would only occur during hauling jobs.

That's right - eating something doesn't involve actually touching it.

[Oliolli]

Bringing it to the table does, doesn't it?

[Lezard]

mini update . I've moved the syndrome to caste level so now the female elves have the syndrome that effects male dwarfs and the male elves have the fat necrosis-Dwarven Liposuction ,Facial features paralysis - Dwarven Botox and Extreme swelling of lungs- Dwarven breast enhancement (I do not know why I did this!) 

I tried paralysis of only the head just to see what would happen and people just started suffocating, I wasn't aware that the head actually took part in respiration.

@Tallefred if you want a more controllable version you could try the workshop/inhalation method mentioned earlier in the thread

@Girlinhat That is a very pleasing collection of words.

[Mount]

A thought -- since it's possible for a syndrome to be inhaled, could you mod a stone to have a lower-than-room-temp boiling point and include a syndrome?  I remember long ago trying to mod a rock that would have an AOE freeze effect like certain things  have an AOE heat effect (i.e. flaming coal in a metal bin).  What I got was rock that would boil away into a cloud of vapor when mined...  It could be amusing to have certain minerals on your map that gave you, say, "projectile leprosy" when you dig 'em out. 

[elitepastafa]

yes. A few mods use this to simulate black lung, that disease coal miners get. Basically a stone that boils at 100 urists or so below room temp, and the miners would inhale the cloud, receiving the syndrome. I do seem to remember there being an issue with it sending the miners flying though, but I'm not sure. haven't messed with modding, much less syndromes, in a while.

[Lezard]

I've decided to donate and try to get a drawing of the exploding elf incedent ! will scan and post when and if it arrives, I believe there is quite a back log.