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Dorf and Dumb

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Caravans from the glowing pit
« on: August 27, 2014, 04:22:30 am »
First, I want a tweak with the screen of dead creatures.  In addition to Deceased and Missing, there should be a third category that applies to any creature that has disappeared into the glowing pit:  Sacrificed!

In proportion to the number of Sacrificed creatures, you should then have a chance that, if you have a Depot accessible to it, a caravan rises up out of the glowing pit, loaded up with the weird metals you can't make, in ingots and weapons and armor.
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Re: Caravans from the glowing pit
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2014, 03:15:19 pm »
I do not really think, that glowing pit creatures should be considered as rational and wanting to behave logically. I more think about them as pure chaos - destructive, twisted and irrational. If such creatures will decide to send a caravan someday, it should not be filled with valuable metals. Human bone flutes, maddening pictures and preserved suffering would be more suitable for this caravan. And as payment they should accept elven blood and stupid verses. And daisies :)
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Re: Caravans from the glowing pit
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2014, 04:40:12 pm »
Quote from: MightyEvilPunk on August 27, 2014, 03:15:19 pm
I do not really think, that glowing pit creatures should be considered as rational and wanting to behave logically. I more think about them as pure chaos - destructive, twisted and irrational. If such creatures will decide to send a caravan someday, it should not be filled with valuable metals. Human bone flutes, maddening pictures and preserved suffering would be more suitable for this caravan. And as payment they should accept elven blood and stupid verses. And daisies :)

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Re: Caravans from the glowing pit
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2014, 07:42:53 pm »
If the caravan is inevitably full of poisonous clowns that burst out and rip apart the entire fortress of anybody foolish to trust a caravan from the glowing pits? Then sure.
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Re: Caravans from the glowing pit
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2014, 11:44:21 am »
Well, you do have to be careful doing business.  "Hmmm, what did we get?  Underworld rum, underworld ale, underwood beer, underworld spirits..."
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