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Dwarf Fortress => DF Dwarf Mode Discussion => Topic started by: Karakzon on August 13, 2012, 04:59:25 pm
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Greetings dear dwarves!
Today the dwarves of Beastdiamond would like to introduce you to our latest innovation! The Bolts of Exsanguination.
Upon lodging into the flesh of your target, the secret (Vile Dust) ingrediant gets to work! within a few minutes it will rupture the subjects ectodermic layer and force their blood to leave their bodys in an energetic shower of blood. This wonder ingrediant (Vile Dust) even forces the targets blood out of their hair! Death occurs in utter agony in under a minute or your money back!
Disclaimer* This product works only against opponents with a circulatory system. if unsure of targets anatomy, damage and see if it bleeds. The producers (The Godly lenses) are not responsable for any deaths caused by contact with the secret ingrediant (tm) Nor the deaths of any animals or children who come into contact with residual resedue on their feet or if shot with said bolt. Upon contact with Vile dust, wash off imediatly or suffer a fast and excruciating death. Results with forgotten beasts may vary.
Production procedures leaked by an unhappy and since deceased laborer, found on a journel under a corpse devoid of blood with lacerations and ruptures across his back:
The Vile dust is a natural phenomina of this Terrifying Glacier. we were sent here to just found an outpost here at beastdiamond all quiet like to conduct some !!SCIENCE!! concerning the undead and minecart railguns. Top secret, very hush hush. The Allied Trades had been at war with several goblin factions on and off for the past hundred years. While we flourished, the king decreed a more ingenious device be manufactured for the disposal of our foes. tested on zombie corpses for full effectiveness.
Well. someone did their scouting wrong. Very wrong. This land dosent raise the dead, no, it adds to their number. Every corpse that litters the outside is devoid of blood, as if they had burst like a melon. Somehow we discoverd these properties when bolts that had been blown about in an evil dust cloud were retrieved. Before the deaths were too fast and obscured to really tell the process of death. Once we had the bolts, anything that had one lodge in them died horribly, but quickly. -Effective against one limb at a time presumed, the dust only affects that which it coats- This proved to be true even on a forgotten beast blood sucker. Ill never quite get the image out of my mind of that thing feeding on dwarves as its blood and its meal erupred from its legs and abdomen before it was put down.
It dosent appear to affect things without any blood though. The Blizzard man -made of ice- walked through those clouds and came out looking like a pink snowman. Thankfully he didnt spread it onto anyone. The dust dosent seem to be able to get through clothing, but animals who walk in it were the blizzard man has trailed it in the snow die horribly.... Its so cruel journal, i cant stand the screams...
Soon enought, we tried manufacturing more of these bolts. Building a secured area on the surface with fortifications and raisable bridges, we began systematically coating our bolts for all uses. Thats when we were seiged by goblins. The cloud destroyed them in one passing, they had dwarven turncoats. Oh armok the screams! I need to get out of this place before that happens to me journel.
I wont let it happen to me! even though were underground we get sent up to retreive the goods from the caravans that die here. Yesterday i saw Urist die by this vile dust. I cant stand this. The dwarves at the mountainhomes need to know what horrors are used to manufacture these weapons.... Ill try my luck tonight. If im carefull, maybe the guards wont notice me sneaking out. Since the manufacture began its been a once in you stay in policy. To keep this horrible secret.
The journal is coated in a pink dust. Your hands begin to swell rappidly with intense pain and pressure.
-Creative license, but this Vile dust does exist, and ill post my fort up once ive masterd the manufacture process to show you the results, this terryfing biomes cloud has given me the weapon to put down a forgotten beast with a single bolt, since anything that gets the dust on it will bleed out rappidly as if their blood was pressurized, and any bolt lodged into a creature will transfer some of what evers on it to them-
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Someone has weaponized a nonhusking cloud.... And it's the most badass weaponization ever.
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Totally awesome, so it makes them explode in gore?
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Someone has weaponized a nonhusking cloud.... And it's the most badass weaponization ever.
Animal men were weaponizing syndromes before it went mainstream 8)
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Totally awesome, so it makes them explode in gore?
Not gore. Their bodys -apart from the ruptures from the blood leaving- are completely intact :) so in the case of the forgotten beast i shot with these things before i knew they carried the dust on them, it made it bleed out through the legs and abdomen -several ichor pools made by spurting forgotten beast ichor- and i was able to butcher it for 253 meat, which is perfectly safe to eat ^^
The Dust has so far shown a 100% fatality rate for anything with blood/ichor.
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I have railguns that can gibbed enemies provided they hit something solid after the slug hits if you prefer gore. Otherwise this is like.... The perfect crossbow sniper's ammo.
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Ah, Good old bioweaponry. Looks like the heads have been coated with deadly contact dusts. I've done similar, using plaguebearers from Masterwork, but yours is certainly more effective. I am currently working on weaponizing a deadly dust FB, who dust cause immediate swelling of all bodily tissues until you explode in a shower of gore, in about 250 phases.
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Wonderful. DF has confirmed that somewhere in it's RAWs it contains my favourite spell from the BoVD. Alright babbies. Lets take this a step further. Is this now THE way to convert an entire fort into vampires if you are lucky enough to have it? I think OP should test this.
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Your civ is called The Allied Trades? The civ I use in my current world is called The Strapping Trades!
Also, does Ice retain any extracts that were in it when it was frozen?
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Are your haulers/marksdwarves wearing gloves?
I've experimented with full-body bleeding syndromes in the past, and they can kill faster than the often-used paralysis suffocation syndrome.
At this point, I'd be careful to prevent your fort's water sources from being contaminated with the extract.
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Ah, syndrome bolts. Brilliant. ;D
..I must try this with my husk dust.
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Can we get a save? :P
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Can we get a save? :P
Seconded
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Actually, it just occured to me that your dwarves never actually touch the bolts with their bare hands, programming-wise. (Hauled) items are funny like that - dwarves can haul minecarts full of magma, but get burned if they pick it up with a hand. The marksdwarves likewise transfer bolts directly into their quivers, and then shoot them from the quiver. As long as the quivers don't get contaminated, this should be safe.
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Can we get a save? :P
Seconded
Ill post the save when ive got the manufacturing facilitys up and running. But since your asking for one now ill post up a version that hasent finished it yet, so to get the bolts youll need to manually dump bolts outside and wait for the vile dust cloud to drift over them. To prove the effects of the dust youll need to sacrafice something living -i suggest getting a copy of the save and using the millatery- then quickly veiwing their wound descriptions, but it shouldnt be too hard.
Concerning water, its all accessed by a well, no physical contact between dwarves and water pools is currently possible. theres no mist generators in the fortress for that reason as well, since once it gets on the floor itll be a death trap for anything without shoes.
Save: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6766
Ill load up another version once ive got the process of making the bolts 'safely' built :)
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Great idea;)
Very dwarfy
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So...HOW are you making the tainted bolts, again?
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So...HOW are you making the tainted bolts, again?
Throw them out in the open and hope an eerie glowing mist rolls by
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Basicaly that :) if i was feeling really dwarfy ide try make a bolt spraying tower using minecart railguns and spray the map with bolts, sending workers out to retreive them when theyde been coated.
Update:
Alls going well, im having a massive child boom, and of course some of them are walking into the dust splatters outside. Currently working on providing clothing for near 200 dwarves and to burry those whove come into contact with the dust.
The first known survivor has emerged: Olon The blacksmith managed to get some dust on his right eyelid, spread alf the fortress in blood and then heal up. So it would seem so long as its not on a major blood vessel area, it isent fatal.
Observations about the Vile dust of beastdiamonds: It rots none dwarves for some reason. may not rot sentient races, but every animal or forgotten beast that survives long enought experiences the afflicted limb rotting. Apart from Olon who seems to be perfectly fine despite having an eyelid coated in deadly poison, all other contaminated individuals die.
Number of forgotten beasts killed via VD bolt: 4
Goblin seiges: 1 -unfortunately , we didnt get to test the bolts against goblins in a live setting due to there leaders mount running away from an unreachable dog sentinal above the entrance, However we do have goblin captives now who ill save up untill the bolts are coated, dig out an arena and show some live testing :)
Also a barony now.
The bolt manufacturing room is built, ill wait till i get a cloud about to go over it before i save and put the file up for everyone.
-Not attempting the tower, at leats not yet, due to the fact i dont know how to do railguns propperly. this was a science fort afterall :) -
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bump?
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Update: the coating pits are dug out around the map edges, just filling them with bolts now. I need to make a retreival room, but it should be done shortly. Once its set up and i get a coated pit full of bolts and they are retreived, ill save, upload and share :)
Theres a healthy supply of goblin prisoners for you to muck about with, the population is very high though so lower end machines may chug a little.
Dwarven testing with children is advised. since there is 73 of them in a fortress of 223 :P -thats a good old 150 adults, so over 1 in 4 is a child-
No wait. 224. another was just born :/
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My Arousal: IT CANNOT BE QUANTIFIED
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If you want to minimize risk to your dwarves, you can use retracting bridges to drop the coated bolts into a covered retrieval pit, or even an ammo stockpile.
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If you want to minimize risk to your dwarves, you can use retracting bridges to drop the coated bolts into a covered retrieval pit, or even an ammo stockpile.
Minimize risk? what is this elf concept of which you speak?
Though in all seriousness, the clouds are not fast nor frequet enought for it to be hard to retreive or place all the bolts in the pits. The current design works well, and has already done a few pits worth of bolts :) so i shall be uploading the save at the end of this post.
The bolts that are coated are all set to be dump in a collection square. None are assigned to crossbow dwarves yet and youll need to tinker with it for it for them to pick up the correct bolts -after theyve finished dumping the rest and you can unforbid them for collection-. also: allot of stuff is being retreived from the surface, since a seige got wiped out due to a Vile Dust cloud sweeping across the map. if you want to use the fort over a prolonged time: make sure to make shoes. Or else they will all die horribly :D the snow outside of the fort entrance got coated by a blizzard man -they are all dead now, bar 1 i keep as a pet in a cage, interestingly, if you coat them in the dust and set them to attack an unarmoured foe, hell transmit the Vile dust to them ^^-
Also of note: none of the levers are marked. Good luck ^^
Save: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6781
Enjoy :)
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