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Jaqie Fox

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O.o mutant attack cows!
« on: March 20, 2007, 06:18:00 pm »
I have some pet cows wandering around my fortress, not with their owner...

I have been getting lots of kobold thieves..

The wierd part is the cows seem to be guarding my entrance and have killed many kobolds... Most cows are herbivores. Maybe these have some elephant DNA in them?  ;)

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puke

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2007, 06:25:00 pm »
sounds like a load of bull.
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Jaqie Fox

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2007, 06:27:00 pm »
What?
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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2007, 06:40:00 pm »
It's a joke son.
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Jaqie Fox

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2007, 06:47:00 pm »
I didn't know women could be the 'son' of someone :P
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2007, 07:55:00 pm »
now, i admit it wasnt very funny.  but it was at least worth a groan and maybe throwing a shoe at me as i run out of the room.

mutant attack cows (or bulls, as the case may be), on the other hand, are danm funny.

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2007, 08:08:00 pm »
The only good pun is a bad pun.  If the pun invites groans, stones, or broken bones, you've done your work properly.

But a pun also has to be obvious.  A load of bull, while a good pun in verbal form, doesn't work too well online.  Besides, everyone knows ox jokes are better.  Get it?  Ox jokes?  It's a play on ox yokes!  Ha ha, I kill myself.

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2007, 08:16:00 pm »
Hmm... that's 2/3's of a pun... P.U.

lolzorz   :D

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2007, 12:22:00 am »
Well, I thought the "load of bull" joke was easily understandable (:P) and worked rather nicely  :)

As for the mutant cows:

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2007, 01:24:00 am »
The real fault is that the the thief AI is really dumb.  I've even had wild elephants detect them.  From what I can tell, they attack whomever or whatever detects it, which, of course, if an elephant it ends with a squish.
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2007, 01:58:00 pm »
i dont think thats true.  i've had thieves detected by things like deer and elephants and such, and they just wander a few steps away and then vanish again.  (at least in the newest version, in the old ones they would be permanently revealed).

Even domestic animals, they seem to avoid if possible.  Kobolds seem to walk around my cats and dogs, and only get in fights with them if they cant avoid them.

There must be an awfully thick pack of aggressive moo-moos holding the enterance to that fort!

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2007, 02:07:00 pm »
Three to five, always in close proximity. mini-herd, I guess. the hallway is 5 wide, with my usual door-wall-door-wall-door (three 1 wide passages making a 9x9 door grid) going to the river. that's where they find them and have fun.

Since I dug that fortification area below it the cows seem to have left though x.x you can still see the blood from their last attack.

[ March 21, 2007: Message edited by: Jaqie ]

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2007, 03:39:00 pm »
"Yes, welcome to the Dwarfen stronghold of forteyfort, friend Human.  We have many things to trade.  

"Enjoy our architecture on the way to the Trade Depot.  Here is where some of our bovines like to loiter.

"Slaughter house?  No, the slaughter house is far from here.  Why do you ask?  Blood?  What blood?  Oh, that blood?  Why thats nothing at all.  Nothing of consequense, really.

"Dont be silly, the cows arent looking meanicingly at you at all.  Thats absurd."

....ominous mooing....

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Re: O.o mutant attack cows!
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2007, 03:49:00 pm »
LOL!

You're good.

only one problem: the humans are attacking that same fortress right now... about eight squads (no kidding).  they wont attack they just sit at their campfires across the river... thankfully I set up a few channels and levers just for this very reason...

They want fire, I'll give them fire. *Pulls lever while laughing maniachly*  (What? I am an engineer after all...)

[ March 21, 2007: Message edited by: Jaqie ]

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