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[Org]

Ahh...Hmmm....

What do you mean by sicken?

[Neonivek]

Ahh...Hmmm....

What do you mean by sicken?

To Sicken is to inflict with an ailment.

[Org]

Ahh...Hmmm....

What do you mean by sicken?

To Sicken is to inflict with an ailment.

Im not an idiot. I mean, what kinds of inflictions?

[Footkerchief]

Im not an idiot. I mean, what kinds of inflictions?

[...] contact/injected/inhaled poisons that cause syndromes in affected classes of creatures involving pain, swelling, oozing wounds, bruising, blisters, numbness, paralysis, fever, bleeding, coughing/vomiting blood, nausea, vomiting, unconsciousness, necrosis, impaired vision, drowsiness and dizziness [...]

[Org]

Nice.

What is necrosis? Isnt it decaying?

[Fieari]

It's cell death.  As seen here.  (Warning, images are revolting)

[Jakkarra]

necrosis the premature decay of living tissue, caused by toxins, trauma and infections.

WARNING, some may find the image distressing yeah, right, DF players? pshaw

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Love jakkarra

EDIT: awwww, dammit.....

[Org]

Cant wait.
I have been modding, and this will be a much expected add-on.

[Areyar]

no. celldeath is apoptosis (PCD), generally.

necrosis is dying off of a tissue, usually while still attached to the living organism.
Causes range from freezing, through poison, to infection.

[Jakkarra]

Ah, but Apoptsis is the natural cell death, its beneficial. its the flaking off of skin cells and the like, whereas Necrosis is the death of cells prematurely E.G when they are still needed.

But you are still correct Areyar.

Love, jakkarra

[Hoborobo234]

So, toady, how much longer are we looking at here 'till the new release? Days?Weeks?Months?

Also, finally Dwarf Mode Combat reports!!!!

[Dame de la Licorne]

Apoptosis is the process of controlled cell death, usually in response to extensive DNA damage or the actions of T-killer cells (the cells turn themselves into a bag of enzymes which are taken up by macrophages (one subtype of white blood cell)).  Necrosis is the process of uncontrolled cell death as a result of trauma (and the reasons listed by Areyar) which causes the cells to burst, releasing all of the contents into the surrounding environment and triggering nearby cells to die, by necrosis if the enzyme concentration is high enough, otherwise by apoptosis.  (Yes, I'm a biologist by training, this is partly what I did my Master's in. )

[Footkerchief]

So, toady, how much longer are we looking at here 'till the new release? Days?Weeks?Months?

Also, finally Dwarf Mode Combat reports!!!!

Months.  As he just mentioned in the dev log, the underground alone will take the rest of April.

[JoRo]

I wonder if "the underground" would include both the "map features" and "sites" sections from the list.  I could see the rest of it getting wrapped up by the end of May.

[Alfador]

Spoiler: Suggestion inspired by above.  Bigtime HFS spoilers (click to show/hide)

Be awesome if it ended up being a randomised world underground too.  Randomly generated while exploring it as big as the overworld without fast travel, populated with powerful (respawning daily) demons.  Random useful items (food, weapons, armor, clean water) placed to give an adventurer a chance of survival yet still making it incredibly difficult.  Map gets saved so a later adventurer encounters the same areas if already visited.

Maybe even impossible to access in dwarf mode(whithout sending an army there)  So it gives more meat to adventure mode, by allowing a player to see how long they can keep their multi-legendary super adventurer alive in the depths of hell.  Or a poorly equipped adventurer gets running in to try to get some easy gear only to become lost fleeing from the spirits of fire that just happened to be placed by the bottom of the stairs.

Of course it would need some kind of access point...maybe a spiral stair going around in a circle into a glowing pit.  Maybe spawns a demon or 10 a couple times a year. I can imagine some players seeking that out just to embark on top of it and create a suitably evil looking castle.  Even if they can't access the underworld in the mode.

Nothing to see here you people who donno bout HFS.  Go throw a cat off a tower.

That gives me an awesome idea!  And like all awesome ideas, it is shamelessly stolen from one of the greatest games of all time

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Say there's this demon-world you mention, and everybody believes in it and has some vague idea about what it's like, but no concrete info.

Now, on a completely unrelated note, say that somebody (undoubtedly a dwarf) figures out a way to transport objects between two points almost instantly.  It works perfectly with rocks and elf corpses.  However, when they try it with surplus soapers brave volunteers, most come out the other end as a gooey red paste, and those who don't are little better than gibbering morons.

And then, one of the research forts is overrun by demons while the fort at the other end of the rapid-transit experiment vanishes.  No bodies, no strewn equipment, not even the fort's tunnels: just a big, empty hole in the mountain.

So the researchers' race sends in an army, which is promptly slaughtered.

At that point, the demons are pretty much running rampant in a gradually-expanding area surrounding the non-vanished research fort.  If you go there with an adventurer or dwarf-mode army, you find out that the rapid-transport system worked by sending the transported objects through the big HFS.  Needless to say, the demons figured out how to use this system to get out of their HFS-world and into the mortal realm.

Doom!