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I'm not really sure. Really, I don't know that much about modding.You're limited to tags in IT_REQUIRES. Sorry.
Anyways, liquid tissue layers stay on until an outside force breaks them off. Say, a goblin attacking.
Right, what I'm describing is the TISSUE_LEAKS tag on a solid tissue to make it leak a different, defined fluid. Another option would be a gaseous tissue layer composed of the desired extract that is generated at the dwarf's body temperature, forcing it to instantly undergo a state change to liquid. Does that change anything?
Yeah, I bet that if I had read that it would have been funny. Heck, I might read it now.I'm sure that that would be an amazingly clever joke if I knew why it was funny.
It's from Elves of Amanareli. The elves tried to capture an elephant to trade with the dwarves, and pissed off an elephant that killed off multiple elves and made a return appearance to kill off more. When negotiating with frogmen to make safe passage through their land, the frogmen demanded something of value from the elves, and the players tried to pawn off the rotting carcass of the elephant on them, and sparked a war for insulting them by offering what was essentially their trash.
I wouldn't call it rip-roaringly hilarious reference, but it was a pretty funny set of events at the time.
I thought that it was obvious. Clearly not, on further reflection.That does sound like a couple of pretty good ideas. I can imagine how well a show-of-force would go if you assumed that the whalepeople were militant...well, two ways, and neither of them much fun for the dwarf (although plenty of Fun). Other misunderstandings could be nice, but I like the idea of angering a tribe which you hadn't realised was so powerful...
Alternately, if you go to a militant powerful tribe with baskets of flowers and singing the praises of peace, they may just think you're a bunch of pansies and kill your envoy and steal their stuff.
Just so long as it isn't assumed that one position will always be superior to others.
Huh, you learn something new every day.-Snip-
It's doubtful that many Aztecs actually believed Cortez to be a god- we only have his word for it. Rather, contemporary sources suggest that leaders within the different areas of the Aztec "empire" recognized his unexpected appearance was a destabilizing element and attempted to use him as a combination of military ally, favorable omen and political pawn but were unable to make him stop once he had conquered the opposing rulers that they disliked.
Clearly my attempt at humor fell on deaf ears. The above stament I made was in no way meant to be taken seriously.Sorry about the misunderstanding.
I'm sure that that would be an amazingly clever joke if I knew why it was funny.You mean, send nobles to other sites and have them diplomat over there? Sounds like a good idea in general, epsecially in conjunction with the ability to send out one's own trade caravans. Which could also be useful in dealing with those tribes of animalmen...
You know, we've mostly been discussing based on the assumption that friendly contact is attempted and succeeds. But what could happen if one or both of those fail? For instance, judging by the fact that the Norse Greenlander's first record of the Inuit included notes on how much they bled, it seems that the former decided to experimentally stab the latter. What if a dwarf decided to do the same with, say, a plump helmet man or something he found roaming the underground depths? This could be Fun. Or maybe the tigerman delegate sneers at the metal weapons his tribe is being offered, not considering them worth sending his tribesmen to abandon their way of life. And that's assuming that they can find a common language to speak. Hm, what if we added language barriers in other ways?
Just some ideas to get us started.
OK, just as a hint, you probably shouldn't offer the frogmen your dead elephant off the bat. That didn't seem to go so well. Also, be careful with elephants in general, especially once one of them has a taste for blood.
Turtle diplomacy seems to go well, however.
Anyway, that depends on them not just meandering into your own fort, but post-Army Arc or during some time when you have control over barony hill dwarves and can send out expeditions, that would be a fun thing to have.That does sound like a couple of pretty good ideas. I can imagine how well a show-of-force would go if you assumed that the whalepeople were militant...well, two ways, and neither of them much fun for the dwarf (although plenty of Fun). Other misunderstandings could be nice, but I like the idea of angering a tribe which you hadn't realised was so powerful...
We could try to set the stance of the diplomats we send out - militant/show-of-force to get respect if they happen to be militant tribes, or a softer diplomatic touch for the more peaceful tribes, having to guess what they will respond best to, or just giving them a little show of what it is that's in store for the rest of your diplomatic missions.
I'm not sure why skin and hair would be a threat if reanimated since they would be weaker than rats which are harmless vermin.
Interruptions can cripple a fort, just like the total lack of leather and yarn cloth when a moody dwarf wants those.
I understand what happens in the game... I'm just saying from a development level the game should be designed where hair and skin were reanimated as vermin instead of actual enemies.
