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Work on figuring out a way to communicate. Body language, drawing in the mud, learn some words, if we're smart enough to do that safely.. Also, figure out what these little guys like. Whatever they are, they have a huge fricking city here. They're your best chance of survival.

(Yes. Survival and dwarves. Yes.)

Even better than fake limbs, why not give those poor dorfs whom have lost legs wheelchairs. but not just any wheelchairs... these are DEATHchairs.

Using a large rock throne, 4 millstones for wheels. 4 chains for the linkages, 3 mechanisms, a miniature dwarven power reactor (NEW!) to power it made from 2 miniature toy water pumps, 2 miniature toy waterwheels, and a bucket of water.

Now your poor, legless dwarfs will ride into battle in style, moving down beasts, goblins, and anything else smaller than a colossus.

I'd vote for that. It's dwarven.

Quote from: Urist McCheeseMaker on February 01, 2011, 05:43:43 pm

While I share your sentiment, a crossbow bolt in the eye isn't likely to leave you complaining of blindness. It's likely to leave you not complaining at all, ever, anymore.

Ok, so Gabrielle Gifford got top-slot modern medical care ASAP (and was extremely lucky, moreover!), and even so it's too early to say whether she'll be 'as she was' when finally pronounced 'recovered', but survive the initial trauma and potential for infections and I reckon a 'bolt from the blue' could be survived, statistically, if impact from such a messily ballistic thing as a bullet can be.

There are probably RL examples, as well, given our long history of flinging such things at each other.  Even accounting for the "Harold Godwinson" effect where he (or whichever poor soul might have been the inspiration for that particular immortalised segment of wool yarn and linen) would have had to deal with the more immediate threat of set of largely Norse migrants ending up with the upper hand in the melee and probably slipping the knife into (if not also dismembering) any fallen man who doesn't pipe up that he's only winded in a Frankish/whaever tongue.  And while not wearing any obviously Saxon garb, of course (although you'd do the same to one's own fallen, as well, so as not to prolong their death agonies.  After all, it's what you'd want yourself if and when you were dying of a mortal wound in some future engagement where your own luck ran out...).

Dwarves don't have the same kind of medical care, they won't have any care nearly as quickly as this person, and crossbows don't deform as much as bullets so they have a tendency to pass through their targets.. Also, I did not expect anyone to refer to a modern case. I think we can safely assume that a dwarf with a crossbow-bolt through the eye won't live much longer unless they weren't using that part of their brain much anyway. Not that I even meant for this to get this serious in the first place

Seriously. Here's our plan:

1: We loudly exclaim "Fuck this shit!"
2: We haul our sorry asses back to town.
3: If it's late, sleep. When it's day, go to town and buy a gun and some ammo if such things are acceptable in this society.
4: Try this whole expedition thing again.

If guns are unavailable, we need to think about getting around it, or mindtricking it to death.

A starling is a sparrow?
Anyway.. we're untrained, unarmed, unarmored and completely new to any kind of fighting, unless that's part of our memory I missed. There is a better course of action, than trying to fight it...

You have a log. Tackle another treeshroom, turn one log into a carpenter's workshop and use it to turn the other into a training axe to defend yourself with and cut down other treeshrooms more easily. Then build a fort.

*cough*
Investigate the monster.

Be careful while exploring. This really is suspicious, especially the fact that they didn't mention it in the news or anything.. most likely trying to hide it. It's probably full of things that aren't in the rest of this world. Especially little bearded dorfmen, but we don't know that.

Maybe pick up a weapon?