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[Archereon]

It looks as if Sponges are now benign.

[MiniMacker]

Doesn't that still mean that they will attack? Even benign creatures will attack if they're cornered. And since the Sponge can't move, it's cornered from the start.

... Right?

[Archereon]

Well, now they won't cause mass job cancelations. Making it easier to get rid of the damn things. Then again, if what you're saying is true, woe is the dorf fortress that happens to have giant sponges at the edges of their rivers.

Anyhow, the brief rein of the Giant Sponge as the king of a sea should be commemorated in the wiki. Most passive agressive menace to dwarven society ever.

[MadocComadrin]

Most passive-agressive menace to dwarven society ever.

Heh, that gives me the image of thousands upon thousands of passive-aggressive notes being left all over a fortress signed simply The Sponge.

[GhostDwemer]

Just embarked on an untamed wilds area and quickly saw the red C pop up, checking the combat reports I saw a report from an echidna man and woman. The reports said they both had just curled up into a ball. "Well they're more scared of my dwarfs than my dwarfs are of them!" I thought, "And they're on the other side of a stream, so no worries." Well, they are still right there a season later. So I looked in the stream and, sure enough, they are right next to a giant sponge. Did the sponge scare them? Since it won't ever move, will they stay curled up in little balls forever?

[Spinal_Taper]

Not even a vampire unicorn can stop a vampire giant sponge...

[Spinal_Taper]

Continuing from my previous post, nothing can kill them. Bronze collossi, Unicorns, Carp, elephants all tests show they are invincible. Is this the trend we are finding?

[Naryar]

Nothing but a cave-in, obsidian/ice encasing, a drawbridge or an eerie glowing pit (i mean being tossed in it) can stop a vampire giant sponge. Yes, giant sponges are that badass.

Though best weapon dummy ever.

[wierd]

..... terrible thought....


Can sponges create a werecurse? 

Ordinarily, this would just cause riotous laughter, as urist McUseless morphs into the spongy menace.....

But, coupled with autozombies................... and dwarf cloning..................

Oh gods, the terror!

[GhostDwemer]

It's winter now and the two echidna people are still curled up in terror right next to the giant sponge. So, as well as all the other badassery they are capable of, they make great echidna traps...

[Nil Eyeglazed]

..... terrible thought....


Can sponges create a werecurse? 

Ordinarily, this would just cause riotous laughter, as urist McUseless morphs into the spongy menace.....

But, coupled with autozombies................... and dwarf cloning..................

Oh gods, the terror!

It's my understanding that werecurses are never generated using aquatic animals (as that would be pretty ridiculous-- imagine the mean lifespan of a werewhale).  However, one could certainly mod in such a curse.

The thing is that sponges wouldn't really benefit from zombie lycanthrope cloning, because they don't have any zombifiable parts.  That is, they have no hands or head to cut off, to turn into a new zombie.  A curse that turned one into a giant two-handed weresponge, however, would be something terrifying, at least on reanimating biome.  The proliferation of giant undead weresponges would pretty much spell the end of the world.

[wierd]

Turning into undead zombie dwarves is the danger.  They have severable parts in that form, and being undead, don't need to breathe.

They are motile while in dwarf form, but on the full moon...... forest of blood sucking zombie sponges! Your masterwork axe, it does nothing!

[Nil Eyeglazed]

Duh, of course!

Simply terrifying.  I will not be able to sleep tonight, paralyzed by the howls of giant zombie sponges.

[rkyeun]

Sponges need to be coded to have a "root" body part, and several "branch" body parts which act as gills.
Sponges need to bleed "sponge ichor" when bludgeoned, and be severed by slashing weapons. Making it bleed enough will kill it, and severing all its branches so it has no gills will kill it. BUT!
Severed sponge parts use something like the necromancy code to raise themselves as not-undead juvenile sponges.
Sponge ichor is a contaminant infects sponge flesh and causes the growth of those "branch" body parts as a syndrome.

[Starver]

Sponge ichor is a contaminant infects sponge flesh and causes the growth of those "branch" body parts as a syndrome.

FTFY