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[Broseph Stalin]

20 Timber 206

In the span of a few days Subjects seven and four went insane, both became melancholy and were quickly dispatched by the drawbridge. In a more interesting note the original ghost with no warning attacked legendary archer Militia Captain Procella ripping off his right leg. While Procella will live this is significantly more troubling than the initial attack on the fish worker. It seems unlikely that our spectre will be content with simple mischief making. a slabs is being engraved to the mechanic doesn't interfere.

[Rushmik]

Posting to follow. I like this sort of home-brewed Fun.

[Broseph Stalin]

18 Opal 206


#1: Starved before completion
#2: Crushed by drawbridge before insanity set in.
#3: Melancholy
#4: Melancholy
#5: Stark Raving mad
#6: Berserk
#7: Immune to suffering?
Subject's one and two perished before the experiment was complete due to complications regarding the levers and a failed effort to starve the test group into submission. They will now act as a comparison for the ghosts of subjects who fell to insanity before they died. If mood at time of death is indeed a factor their responses in death should be more violent than a ghost killed in a fair mood. Subject #7's apparent mood fell to miserable before rising to content with no explanation. Her chamber has no redeeming factors, she is immersed in the stink of rotting flesh, trapped in a cramped space, starved and denied booze for long periods of time, and is constantly being assigned pets only to have them killed. Somehow as the objective horror of the situation increases her mood improves. She is being assigned more pets for slaughter, if this fails weapon traps will be used to torture her more directly.

[Tevish Szat]

I don;t think she'll trigger weapon traps.  You'll have to use upright spears/spikes

check her bio: if she "doesn't really care about anything anymore" you might not be able to drive her insane through suffering.  If that's the case, she can be reintegrated into society as part of an anti tantrum-spiral safeguard system.

[Broseph Stalin]

I don;t think she'll trigger weapon traps.  You'll have to use upright spears/spikes

check her bio: if she "doesn't really care about anything anymore" you might not be able to drive her insane through suffering.  If that's the case, she can be reintegrated into society as part of an anti tantrum-spiral safeguard system.

I meant upright weapon traps.

She actually doesn't have that tag and even if she did this is too dramatic to be just that. Every single time I lower her mood to miserable she bounces right back. I killed 12 of her pets, starved her, and threw rotten meat on her all in rapid succession but as soon as she got depressed she decided she was fine. I did notice she keeps getting "Attend Meeting" even though she's alone in a 1x1 room but there's no happy thought from it.

[Kromgar]

#1: Starved before completion
#2: Crushed by drawbridge before insanity set in.
#3: Melancholy
#4: Melancholy
#5: Stark Raving mad
#6: Berserk
#7: Immune to suffering?

#7 must be used in a dwarfen breeding program to create Dwarves immune to all pain

#6 Could become a killer ghost Engrave just incase.

I say you Torture #7 with a bit of magma make sure she can escape as quickly as possible. Expose her to magma lightly. A melted dwarf is an unhappy dwarf. *make sure test subject does not die*

[Broseph Stalin]

#1: Starved before completion
#2: Crushed by drawbridge before insanity set in.
#3: Melancholy
#4: Melancholy
#5: Stark Raving mad
#6: Berserk
#7: Immune to suffering?

#7 must be used in a dwarfen breeding program to create Dwarves immune to all pain

#6 Could become a killer ghost Engrave just incase.

I say you Torture #7 with a bit of magma make sure she can escape as quickly as possible. Expose her to magma lightly. A melted dwarf is an unhappy dwarf. *make sure test subject does not die*

I'm actually doing this with no failsafes, I've had absolutely nothing interesting happen in this fort that didn't involve ghosts and I'm already nearing FPS death. If When this goes wrong it's going all the way wrong, I'd like to see what would happen in a fortress that wasn't prepared to deal with ghosts.

[Kromgar]

#1: Starved before completion
#2: Crushed by drawbridge before insanity set in.
#3: Melancholy
#4: Melancholy
#5: Stark Raving mad
#6: Berserk
#7: Immune to suffering?

#7 must be used in a dwarfen breeding program to create Dwarves immune to all pain

#6 Could become a killer ghost Engrave just incase.

I say you Torture #7 with a bit of magma make sure she can escape as quickly as possible. Expose her to magma lightly. A melted dwarf is an unhappy dwarf. *make sure test subject does not die*

I'm actually doing this with no failsafes, I've had absolutely nothing interesting happen in this fort that didn't involve ghosts and I'm already nearing FPS death. If When this goes wrong it's going all the way wrong, I'd like to see what would happen in a fortress that wasn't prepared to deal with ghosts.

I'm just going to assume all of the Dwarfs are going to have arms and legs ripped off. Possibly all of them because there will be so many ghosts.

[Girlinhat]

Screencap this dwarf's thoughts and info screen?  Perhaps some Dwarven Psychologist can determine her resistance to torture?

[Oaktree]

She is made of sterner stuff.  Cardinal Fang will have to fetch... the Comfy Chair!

[Urist Da Vinci]

Screencap this dwarf's thoughts and info screen?  Perhaps some Dwarven Psychologist can determine her resistance to torture?

Furthermore, isn't discovering which dwarves won't go insane a useful bit of science?

[Girlinhat]

Both torture and torture prevention are both valid realms of dwarven psychology investigation.

[Broseph Stalin]

This torture prevention sounds like junk science to me but here it is

Portalis Before Torture

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Portalis after torture

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There is no way throwing things is that awesome.

[FrisianDude]

Dude, Portallis (odd name) is perfect for a militia Dorf. Alas that she is in your fort.

[Broseph Stalin]

Dude, Portallis (odd name) is perfect for a militia Dorf. Alas that she is in your fort.

She actually was a militia dwarf but she's also a mason and insisted not only on standing on the wrong side of the wall when she sealed the chamber but allowing the dwarf I hand selected to escape. If she survives this I'm definitely locking her in a danger room until she's ready to become Commander.