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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« on: May 15, 2021, 03:14:11 pm »
I recently set up a 'Dodge This' bridge (1x wide path flanked by deep chasms, with archers firing down the path & weapon traps on it) to keep the goblins at bay until I can get something funnier built.
During the first 'live-fire' test of this bridge, one of my marksdwarves decided that the whole tactic was too dishonorable for him, and so charged out to meet the sole remaining goblin in glorious melee combat. As expected, he immediately had his hairy arse handed to him, but with the last remaining erg of energy left in his crippled body he...dodged. Sideways.
Into the chasm.
After plummeting ~5 Z-levels, he slammed into the bottom floor of the chasm...which was 1 Z-level above the upper part of my base proper. I can only assume that this marksdwarf (with no metal armor) was so prodigiously fat that it was his weight alone that let him punch straight through the floor of the chasm and land in a bleeding heap in the middle of my Manager's bedroom (who slept through the whole thing).
The funniest thing was that this marksdwarf survived the fall. I suspect that he has been the butt of a good few jokes around the barracks ever since, though!
During the first 'live-fire' test of this bridge, one of my marksdwarves decided that the whole tactic was too dishonorable for him, and so charged out to meet the sole remaining goblin in glorious melee combat. As expected, he immediately had his hairy arse handed to him, but with the last remaining erg of energy left in his crippled body he...dodged. Sideways.
Into the chasm.
After plummeting ~5 Z-levels, he slammed into the bottom floor of the chasm...which was 1 Z-level above the upper part of my base proper. I can only assume that this marksdwarf (with no metal armor) was so prodigiously fat that it was his weight alone that let him punch straight through the floor of the chasm and land in a bleeding heap in the middle of my Manager's bedroom (who slept through the whole thing).
The funniest thing was that this marksdwarf survived the fall. I suspect that he has been the butt of a good few jokes around the barracks ever since, though!