Utterly Mad

Hnng, my sides. Oh well, I eventually killed the overgrown locust. First I had to send my bowkobold after it, who shot it half to death with wooden arrows and ineffectually bopped at it with a bow. So I had to cancel the kill order, order some stone arrows, left him restock, and order up round two.

Amazingly the giant grasshopper was content to limp off and ignore the kobolds further.

And in belated response to earlier...yeah, normally-produced metal bars have a product dimension of 150, player-crafted metal bars have a product dimension of 1, while the adventurer reactions only use 1 unit of metal. I've tried make it use the require 150 units of metal, and in the case of adventure mode reactions seems to interpret that request as 150 separate bars, draining a single unit from each. :V

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Quote from: Zaweri Runewright on March 02, 2016, 01:59:38 pm

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I lost my shit. What are those sprites from, they look familiar? Also, am I the only one who sees a "doge" on the elves brooch?

I don't know. The clip was from a Warhammer video.

Quote from: saltmummy626 on March 02, 2016, 06:19:07 pm

Quote from: Zaweri Runewright on March 02, 2016, 01:59:38 pm

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I lost my shit. What are those sprites from, they look familiar? Also, am I the only one who sees a "doge" on the elves brooch?

I don't know. The clip was from a Warhammer video.

from an old PS1 warhammer strategy game, can't remember the name of it though.

Quote from: Zaweri Runewright on March 02, 2016, 01:59:38 pm

Quote from: saltmummy626 on March 02, 2016, 06:19:07 pm

I lost my shit. What are those sprites from, they look familiar? Also, am I the only one who sees a "doge" on the elves brooch?

I don't know. The clip was from a Warhammer video.

from an old PS1 warhammer strategy game, can't remember the name of it though.

The video is ravindil's quest, the video game is "Warhammer: shadow of the horned rat." It looks familiar because my dad played a lot of it on the playstation. It was also available on the PC and you can still get it on GOG. I GOTTA KNOW FOR SURE!

A legendary stone worker was bit by a werechameleon at my most recent fort. Of the four who were bitten, he was the only one to exhibit signs of infection. Because I have never kept a live werecreature before, I decided I would keep him around and so began the process of building a cell for holding him. Before the cell could be completed, he went fey on me, broke out of his hospital room, and claimed a workshop. He is now a legendary stoneworker. Perhaps it was the uncertainty of his future that spurred on his fit of creative zeal? His cell was finished in time and he was instructed to inspect them. As he did so the iron bars slammed shut, sealing him in. A hatch was built so that various supplies could be dropped in to him for various projects but in such a way that he could not escape should his bestial side reveal itself.

THE PLAN
I have thought at length about what to do with this wretch, and have decided I will drop a pickaxe in to him. He will construct a sub fort and will survive within it by himself. (or until more werechameleons are created.) From now on, his life will be lived within a den of his own creation, the only rule is that he may not breach the main fort. (I may break that rule for various reasons, such as creating a delivery room to dump his crafts into the main fort.)

Too late. When he was done erasing all his furniture, he just walked through the bars of his cell. By walked I of course mean that he ripped them out with less effort than it took him to reduce his table to dust. I've locked the doors and am now walling him in. HE MUST NOT ESCAPE! I notice though that once he starts breaking furniture, he doesn't stop when he changes back to a dwarf. That kind of behavior pisses me off. I might just change my mind about keeping him alive if he keeps doing that. That gives me an idea...

[edit] he did it again

NEW PLAN!
My miners have been ordered to excavate the earth around the building holding the werechameleon kogsak, taking special care not to breach his basement quarters. this is a special project, handed down by the mayor himself. the stone beneath the structure is to be dug out and removed, creating a deep bore in stone, and pillars built beneath kogsaks prison. When the bore has reached sufficiant depth, a lever will be pulled, and kogsaks prison, along with the vandalistic werechameleon himself, will plummet into the depths to be dashed into oblivion in the darkness below. I only wish I could see it in slow motion.

question, will this actually kill kogsak? considering how dwarf fortress works, I have my doubts. I know constructed stuff deconstructs when it collapses, but im not sure if the natural stone of the basement will collapse and smash him or if it will protect him.

[edit edit] he has escaped.

5 dead dwarves, 3 dead dogs, an exploded yak, and 4 seriously injured and numerous minorly injured dwarves later, the operation was an entertaining success. I didn't account for the fact that the room would leave a fresh cloud of dust for every level it fell. I dropped the room 30 floors. The blast cleared walkways and side tunnels. In one case, a gelder who had been, bafflingly enough, climbing up the bore was thrown clear of the pit entirely. He had been three levels below the surface when I dropped the room and ended up nine tiles away as a mangled lump of bone fragments and meat paste on top of the hospital. I know this because the game, obviously, auto pauses when a collapse occurs. I took the time to look and see what was what. Oddly enough, there is a combat log for every dwarf involved in the drop, except kogsak. He just died outright when the room fell. No combat occurred. The game just decided "welp, this fucker is gonna be dead, better pull the life out of him."

True true. The weirdest thing of all is the "telefrag" tendency of things getting caught in a collapse. Kogsaks body was present and accounted for. Not only that, but his body was completely in tact. Not a scratch on it.