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Author Topic: Surprisingly, Melancholy Dwarves actually jump off stuff  (Read 1015 times)

TeDDD

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Surprisingly, Melancholy Dwarves actually jump off stuff
« on: December 07, 2007, 08:29:00 pm »

I noticed that one of my Dwarves somehow got himself trapped in an empty channel that will later be a canal.  I dug some stairs down to him, but he didn't move.  That's when I noticed that he was the melancholy Dwarf who failed to make a metal craft.  There were no stairs down, and no digging had gone on in the area, so the only way down was to have jumped.
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Re: Surprisingly, Melancholy Dwarves actually jump off stuff
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2007, 09:34:00 pm »

That's kinda sad when a dwarf fails to kill himself.

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Re: Surprisingly, Melancholy Dwarves actually jump off stuff
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2007, 09:38:00 pm »

I've watched one throw them self into a DRY murky pool. It's still muddy though so he sat in the mud until he starved to death.
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TeDDD

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Re: Surprisingly, Melancholy Dwarves actually jump off stuff
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2007, 10:04:00 pm »

This Venice project is cursed.  My second Sherrif threw himself off the second story down into the West excavation after being injured.

Edit: successfully this time, I should add.

[ December 07, 2007: Message edited by: TeDDD ]

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Re: Surprisingly, Melancholy Dwarves actually jump off stuff
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2007, 12:58:00 am »

I had a melancholy dwarf throw himself repeatedly off a bridge into the dried up moat around my first fortress.  He'd go running straight for the edge, fall off, sit there stunned for a moment, run for the ramp, and then run straight off the edge again.
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