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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / A miner and his goat taught me some valuable lessons about life.
« on: July 07, 2015, 08:37:59 pm »
Today I learned the !fun! of pet ownership.
I was 1.5 years into an amazing volcano embark. Our first violent visitor was a were-turtle, so I quickly mobilized the army and raised the main gate leaving the grazing animals to their fates.
No big deal I thought. We'll eat the animals after this rampage is over. I was wrong and found out instantly when the were-turtle killed my top miner's pet goat. Then the story plays out kinda like John Wick.
The miner was just chilling out with the alerted civilians in the main hall when he snapped. With his trusty copper pick, he almost instantly gibbed and/or dismembered TEN nearby dwarves. For ten pages of text, he raged against his fellows. No dwarf in range of his madness was spared, not even the babies. In the end, he was killed by another miner who finally put his own pick to use for justice on the suspect.
On top of it all, at least 3 members of the military got bit. It is probably time to see how well a were-turtle fort will work and then pull the magma plug on the whole damn thing.
Lessons learned:
1. Discourage pet ownership whenever possible, and protect pets if you are stuck with them!
2. Build an outer wall for the animal pen, possibly with a roof, until you can indoor graze animals on moss.
3. The dwarven mining pick is utterly devastating in the right/wrong hands.
4. Weaponize lava SOONER.
Unexpected fun is my favorite kind!
I was 1.5 years into an amazing volcano embark. Our first violent visitor was a were-turtle, so I quickly mobilized the army and raised the main gate leaving the grazing animals to their fates.
No big deal I thought. We'll eat the animals after this rampage is over. I was wrong and found out instantly when the were-turtle killed my top miner's pet goat. Then the story plays out kinda like John Wick.
The miner was just chilling out with the alerted civilians in the main hall when he snapped. With his trusty copper pick, he almost instantly gibbed and/or dismembered TEN nearby dwarves. For ten pages of text, he raged against his fellows. No dwarf in range of his madness was spared, not even the babies. In the end, he was killed by another miner who finally put his own pick to use for justice on the suspect.
On top of it all, at least 3 members of the military got bit. It is probably time to see how well a were-turtle fort will work and then pull the magma plug on the whole damn thing.
Lessons learned:
1. Discourage pet ownership whenever possible, and protect pets if you are stuck with them!
2. Build an outer wall for the animal pen, possibly with a roof, until you can indoor graze animals on moss.
3. The dwarven mining pick is utterly devastating in the right/wrong hands.
4. Weaponize lava SOONER.
Unexpected fun is my favorite kind!
Clearly I don't quite grasp atom-smashing either!
