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Brook:  Killstalker the Gully of Maggots, which is in the Forests of Worry.  Lovely.

Definitely raises and lowers. 

Pic:

Sorry about the graphics set.  Anyway, so there's 3 miners just standing outside like idiots.  The weird thing is, that they did cross in order to dig out the channels on the inside (the two ramps next to the bridge), and then just ran back out.  They don't seem to want to do any jobs further in.

Edit:  okay, so they'll go further in to dig a channel if it's nearby, and then run back, either outside the moat or just standing directly on the bridge.  I'm tempted to just fling them across the map and be done with it.  Burrowing and alerts don't seem to work either.

Edit 2:  migrants don't want to come in either.

My own dismantled wagon is listed as "dead."

Quote from: Loud Whispers on August 07, 2012, 09:57:02 am

Why would you want that raining on your day?



Master rain

What does it do?
Cause a syndrome that adds [ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT], [NOTHOUGHT], [CAVE_ADAPT], [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:FACIAL_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS] and [HABIT:COLLECT_WEALTH:100]? (ie: turn them into stereotypical bay12 dwarves)
Oh the horror the poor wildlife and caravans have to endure.

I love the sound of alcoholic woodland creatures with giant beards.  Brings a nice mental image.

If a dwarf does something to impress a god sufficiently, the dwarf should get a blessing. Just like if a dwarf does something to piss off a god sufficiently, the dwarf should get a curse.
Same goes for demons, except that their blessings should be horrifying to non-cultists and their curses should be devastating.

My point is that would be really difficult to do.  Sentient beings are generally more easily offended than impressed.  What would impress a god?

Quote from: blarg552 on July 23, 2012, 05:15:41 pm

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodsNeedPrayerBadly you mean like this DwarfMeister?

Only read a couple of lines, but it looks like it.

@Wyrm- What if we GTA that shit by making it where the demons that gain "faith" gains the respect of the others, thus allowing it to roam with bigger squads? It would be like how a lot of people believe in the Devil, which increases his status among his fellow demons. Or have it where the demons possess the followers when the "faith" weakens in an attempt to stay alive (and causing obvious Fun in the process).

@Gyerfry- Other games have done that with a lot of success. I'm not sure how "DF" this is, but I remember the game "Black And White" (fun game!!!) having "miracles" that get generated for the player to use to help the citizens out (i.e. watering crops, converting enemy soldiers into friendly ones, etc.). Even if we don't have "god powers", temples would still fit the DF universe.

I love that game!  But I was just thinking that it might give the gods some purpose other than occasionally cursing people to eternal damnation. I think god powers go a little far though.  It should be a little more subtle, aside from the aforementioned curses.  I think the gods should be pretty apathetic to the dwarves on an individual basis, unless they are really offended.  What matters more is the psychological effect the gods have on the dwarves.  In a game like DF, religion should be a tool for control.  It's just hard to find an actual use for this (aside from maybe a positive thought from worshipping recently) because dwarven society is pretty totalitarian anyway.  Demon cults and similar things could give it more of a purpose.

Making demon worship on its own illegal seems to go a bit far, what with all of the different things to worship.  However, things like digging without a permit and butchering the neighbour's cat without a permit should be punishable by jail time.  And the longer the dwarf is away from the cult, the weaker their influence gets.  That way, a sufficiently long jail sentence could "cure" them, and possibly make them immune to the cult's influence in the future.