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Quote from: Wannazzaki on February 15, 2012, 04:12:43 pm

Right. Because a sponge with HAS_NERVES and can Air-drowned is totally accurate

Nerve's - no, air-drown - YES - they require constant water flowing through their pores to survive. Google them.

I thought they were capable of some degree of dessication, especially those that live on the shore line and are subject to tides. If i'm wrong then i'm wrong.

Quote from: Loud Whispers on February 15, 2012, 04:13:21 pm

Quote from: werechicken on February 15, 2012, 03:47:14 pm

Firstly I just want to say I meant attack, not attract (stupid predictive text on my phone).

Secondly I think that strategy might be a bit beyond the mental capacities of a BRAINLESS SPONGE! They're mindless filter feeders!

Instincts bra. Sponges know when to attack for their own survival. It's in their DNA.

But instincts are pre-programmed responses evolution has placed in the brain and as I mentioned sponges don't have brains. Sponges just sit their filter feedings and occasionally reproducing.

Why is this annoyingly so much!? I can see the logic behind giving them nerves and that as otherwise they'd be unkillable, air drowning because I doubt its practical to simulate them drying out, yet. It's just the sheer logical brick wall that is a completely inert creature also being an unstoppable killing machine.

Well. A wall is an unstoppable killing machine if everyone beats their head against it in hope the wall breaks first. XD

ESPECIALLY IF THE WALL IS AN EVIL SYMBIOTIC WALL THAT ATTACKS IT'S TARGETS AND FUSES THEM TO IT'S MASS, MAKING IT A LONGER, THICKER WALL TWISTED INTO BRICKY TORTURED SHAPES OF IT'S VICTIIIIIMS

"And this is where the van from the Funny Farm bursts in and tranq darts the erstwhile Wannazzaki in the neck"

Beware its deadly absorption!

I mean this literally.

Quote from: slink on February 15, 2012, 02:53:50 pm

Quote from: Wannazzaki on February 15, 2012, 02:51:33 pm

Quote from: slink on February 15, 2012, 02:50:47 pm

So ... does this mean we can be attacked by zombie water buffalo cartilage?     *sproing*  *sproing*  *sproing*  Look out!  Here it ...  URK!  *messy sound of someone being garrotted by a stretchy cord*

I imagine them to sound like they are going "RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!" as they swarm around the floor in a black carpet of nippling shells and razor edged lips.

I guess they tie your ankles together so you fall over, then garrot you?   

Living malicious razor wire.

Raised adamantine thread. OHSHI-

This is just like the zombie mussel shell thread. How the hell does a giant sponge actually attract, let alone kill, anything larger than plankton!?

Maybe they fall on their victim?

Launch themselves at victims and forge their way into their lungs. They then replace the lungs. This means the new invidivual can breath air (internal moisture provides the sponge with ..well. moisture) and under water the sponge extracts oxygen. It linkes with the blood supply for sustainence...if the host however starts do things detrimental to the sponge IT EXPLODES FROM THE CHEST in a welter of blood, gore and loofa.

So ... does this mean we can be attacked by zombie water buffalo cartilage?     *sproing*  *sproing*  *sproing*  Look out!  Here it ...  URK!  *messy sound of someone being garrotted by a stretchy cord*

I imagine them to sound like they are going "RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!" as they swarm around the floor in a black carpet of nippling shells and razor edged lips.

Oh wow, just fought a giant hedgehog, the two hammer dorfs I told to go kill it collapsed from exhaustion a while ago.

Apparently they can roll into balls now. And that makes them pretty much immune to damage. Crap.

Weaponise them!

Now, tell me if this sounds silly, but this is a sponge, right? Attack it with water and see what happens.

Or magma; magma never hurts. (Except for the burning and maiming, but those are just side effects.)

Then it soaks up the magma, becomes a magma sponge and then rolls over your dorfs like the slowest moving boulder ever.