Too new of a fort for that, Heliman. My dwarves also have slow-learner to up the challenge as well.As if they aren't stupid enough without your help?
I received a notification recently that a kidnapper had made off with one of the children of my fortress - a baby actually. I was sad, but only because I thought I'd had the security part of my fortress pretty much on lock and apparently I was wrong. One less baby certainly ain't a big deal.
Then it stuck me that, as the victim was a baby, the goblin must have stolen it right out of the arms of its mother! Crazy!
But it gets worse. I tracked down the mother - and it was one of the speardwarves I had guarding the front door. Some goblin thief snuck up on my guards and snatched the kid out of the arms of its military mother whose sole purpose was keeping an eye out for goblins.
I took her out of the military, as that life certainly didn't seem to suit her. She will be tending the fields for the rest of her natural life.
Too new of a fort for that, Heliman. My dwarves also have slow-learner to up the challenge as well.Jesus, no wonder the gobbo got away. also when running a fort like that get the dwarves training up their wrestling first because of how easy it is to skill-up and avoid injuries from the near permanently dabbling recruits.
'Urist McMother cancels sparring in barracks: Seeking infant'I will never look at the 'Seeking Infant' message the same again.
from years of wrestling naked with her husband.Are you SURE they are WRESTLING?
Yeah, but dwarves don't reproduce by "that". They reproduce through spores.from years of wrestling naked with her husband.Are you SURE they are WRESTLING?
It would explain the baby.
I FREAKING KNEW IT!Yeah, but dwarves don't reproduce by "that". They reproduce through spores.from years of wrestling naked with her husband.Are you SURE they are WRESTLING?
It would explain the baby.
They were my only military, and the baby would occasionally take a roundhouse kick from daddy and fly across the barracks.
If dwarves reproduce by spores than how do they know who the father is? Dwarven bloodlines must be largely guesswork. And full of accidental incest. And rape. I mean, getting knocked up would be as easy as walking into a poorly ventilated room full of lonely men, and you wouldn't know what hit you until a baby falls out while you're sparring.
...God, that's disturbing.
Amalgam cancels Post: Busting out the brain bleach.
And that's why Armok designed dwarf brains to be almost permanently ecstatic if they eat in a dining room that has really neat stuff in it.I thought he did it so that they wouldn't realize any of the things that we're talking about.
If dwarves reproduce by spores than how do they know who the father is? Dwarven bloodlines must be largely guesswork. And full of accidental incest. And rape. I mean, getting knocked up would be as easy as walking into a poorly ventilated room full of lonely men, and you wouldn't know what hit you until a baby falls out while you're sparring.
...God, that's disturbing.
Amalgam cancels Post: Busting out the brain bleach.
Civ races have learned of a special screening process for spores so that they do not get impregnated by, among other things, their own parents, the way that other, lower creatures, like cats or cattle or mermaids do.
Instead, they have a special imperviousness to all mating spores at birth, preventing any pregnancy. Now obviously, this would result in extinction if they remained impervious to mating spores, so they undergo "marriage" to allow themselves to mate with their chosen spouse. This is not the "marriage" people in our world know of, however, this is a special mating spore sac alignment marriage, although it does result in the sharing of a bed.
Unfortunately, once the spore sacs are aligned, they are permanently aligned to just that one other member of their civ - all civ races mate for life. Once their aligned spore sac bearer is dead, they will never again have children, causing great sorrow and torment, to the point where creatures like dwarves may go insane.
And that's why Armok designed dwarf brains to be almost permanently ecstatic if they eat in a dining room that has really neat stuff in it.
"And that's how baby dwarves are made."
"Ugh!!!"
from years of wrestling naked with her husband.Are you SURE they are WRESTLING?
It would explain the baby.
The spoilered image below was the only entrance to my fortress.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
A kobold got past the constant flow of traffic. Deftly tiptoed across the many cage and weapon traps. Crossed the green glass bridge with champions standing guard on it. Snuck past the chained black bears just after the bridge. Avoided all of the dwarves entering and exiting the barracks, went 2 screens deeper into the fortress, and made it out again with a clownite buckler stolen from my central armoury that constantly had dwarves pathing through it. Then he came back a few months later and stole a suit of clownite platemail.
For 2 years after that I had kobold ambush parties.
That kobold was possibly the greatest kobold thief ever.
Is there a way to track him down in Legends mode?
My barracks is set up right outside the only entrance to my fort, so intruders have to sneak past that, a line of cage traps, a guard jaguar and her brood before getting into my proper fort.The spoilered image below was the only entrance to my fortress.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
A kobold got past the constant flow of traffic. Deftly tiptoed across the many cage and weapon traps. Crossed the green glass bridge with champions standing guard on it. Snuck past the chained black bears just after the bridge. Avoided all of the dwarves entering and exiting the barracks, went 2 screens deeper into the fortress, and made it out again with a clownite buckler stolen from my central armoury that constantly had dwarves pathing through it. Then he came back a few months later and stole a suit of clownite platemail.
For 2 years after that I had kobold ambush parties.
That kobold was possibly the greatest kobold thief ever.
Is there a way to track him down in Legends mode?
I think thefts might show up in engravings. Alternatively, thefts do show up in legends mode, there's just not an easy way to search for them. Check under your fortress under sites, and do a lot of scrolling.
Unless you just know his name, in which case, yeah, use that.
I had a sneaky kobold in my last Dig Deeper fort...nicked the ammunition out of an Orc bowman's quiver!