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Author Topic: Could someone explain... The thread where we muse over what causes certain wtfs.  (Read 466841 times)

tahujdt

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How does a dorf with the personality trait "views helping others as an imposition on his time" manage to migrate in as a master suturer?
He is most likely Urist McHouse.


Why don't my dwarves store thread in the correct stockpiles?
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Komra

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The threads of their sanity have frayed so much that they think all of the silk lying around is part of their brain remnants.
Alternatively, they were trying to make field hospitals. In the stockpiles. Yeah.

Why does every aventurer start out with crappy equipment?
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But you never see a movie where a terrible coal plant accident causes a horrible devastation, do you? Nope, everyone seems to think that nuclear plants get their energy by smacking live atomic warheads all day or something.

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Because when Armok created them, they wandered into the nearest buildings and took whatever they could find until they were fully clothed and armed.

Why do creatures which hate life ignore plants?
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tahujdt

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Why do creatures which hate life ignore plants?
Because elves hate life, therefore creatures which hate life are elves.

Why can't my dwarves feed cattle?
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Because whenever the overseer tells a dwarf to feed them, the following conversation happens:
Overseer: Hey Urist, can you go feed the cat-
Urist: What?! Have you gone daft? WHY DO YOU WANT TO FEED THE CATS?! Are you trying to kill the fortress?! Do you work for the Elves? You work for the elves! THE OVERSEER WORKS FOR THE ELVES!!!
Overseer:-tle.

Why doesn't pitchblende have any effect on the dwarves?
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It/its, they/them, in order of preference.

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Liber celi

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They carry around 15 centimeter thick metal shields with integrated filtration masks.
Better known as Beards.

What is that invisible border about 20z levels over the map?
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It's a magical shield that your king has ordered to raise to prevent victims settlers from running.

How it is possible to make a weapon that shoots 5 tons of spears, corpses and armor using only bridge, mechanism and a lever...?
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Therefore, starve your metalsmiths for maximum gains.

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The lever is very long so it allows a single dwarf to apply 5 tons of leverage.

Why do necromancers build towers?
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Because the higher, the fresher air is. Have you ever tried studying secrets of life blahblahblah in a crowd of stinking corpses?

How do cage traps work? Someone steps on them, bam, he's caged. Even if it's a huge forgotten beast/giant/titan/dragon. Teleportation or what?
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Therefore, starve your metalsmiths for maximum gains.

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Ever played Molag Bal's daedric quest in Skyrim? It's like that, except bigger, more portable, and rigged with motion-sensors.

Why did the elves eat Cacame's wife, anyways?
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Elves are monsters

If elves are monsters than what are goblins?
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Training dummies.

Why do some people think this thread is for "tech support"?
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Because they are inexperienced at being dwarves.

Why don't any Titans or Forgotten Beasts use poisonous webbing?
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Because they are web immmune, and immune to their own syndromes, and, being so conceited and self centered, judge all creatures against themselves.

If kobolds survive exclusively by stealing food supplies, why do the insist on stealing XxPigtail ThongxX instead of the plump helmets and strawberries that nobody would notice going missing?
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Liber celi

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You wouldn't believe how much nutritients you can win out of a Pigtail Thong once it has been Xx'ed a little.

What do magma crabs breathe?
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