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Author Topic: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves  (Read 1484152 times)

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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4980 on: May 24, 2013, 12:47:24 pm »

Dear Marksdwarf squad,

Staring is not a substitute for bolts. Stop staring at the goblin and go pick up some bolts to shoot said goblin with! The bolts that're RIGHT BEHIND YOU!

Sincerely,
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The toad is having a nice relaxing swim.
The goblin mounted on his back, however, is drowning.

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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4981 on: May 24, 2013, 01:02:44 pm »

Note to the marksman squad:

Stop pretending you are going to Archery Practice. You're standing in the food stockpile. For a full year.
I know i ended up throwing you by the door like a wet dog.
In front of an army of undead.
I also know you annihalated every single one of them, from 50 urist, without missing a single time, brillantly using our defense perimeter to your advantage, forcing them to cross one by one, lined up for a perfect shot.
Grats about that. You will be the firsts to get masterwork weaponry and armor.
But, as scarry as they were, we will encounter far worst in the following years.
I understand you liked shooting zombies a lot, since you are now all ecstatic. I also understand you are now borred at shooting inanimate targets.
So I'm digging a pit and throwing the surviving undead elephants in it, since you like so much to shoot them.
So, please, i ask you one more time. Can you please go training?
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4982 on: May 24, 2013, 01:46:19 pm »

Dear alpacas,

Why the hell are you in the dining hall, starving to death? I've got a pasture defined for you, you've been there for months, why did you come inside? I did not issue any order for my dwarves to do so. And speaking of dwarves, why aren't any of you lot taking the alpacas back out? They're still set to pasture and you've all got instructions to haul animals. Why the hell are you idling?
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4983 on: May 24, 2013, 02:29:48 pm »

It's possible they can't reach the pasture at all. My first thought would be to check for trees growing to block off dirt paths. Doesn't explain why the alpacas are inside, I guess...
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4984 on: May 24, 2013, 02:56:45 pm »

There is a clear, wide path to the pasture. Deleting the pasture and then redefining it worked, but I have to wonder if it will happen again.

Dear Dwarven Baby,

Welcome to this world! I just realized you were born with braided hair.
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4985 on: May 27, 2013, 05:30:18 pm »

Dear Kivish Somethingorother,
  Good job chasing that fleeing goblin all the way to the edge of our territory. Even better job jumping in front of him just one step away from sweet freedom, and then slicing off his hand and forcing him to flee back towards the rest of the troops. I see good things in your career, if you survive long enough.

Sincerely,
Overseer

Dear Captain Cog of the Fortress Guard,
  Sorry about your right hand. ...And your right hand. I mean both your actual hand, and your second-in-command. Didn't mean to throw the both of you into combat with just colorful clothing and training spears. You weren't meant for that.

Sincerely,
Overseer


Dear Mayor the Legendary Engraver,
  Why would you put artwork of the baron being fired from his previous position of expedition leader in his tomb? It's not a particularly happy image, nor is it particularly accurate, since your predecessor took his job when he was elected mayor.

Sincerely,
Overseer

There is a clear, wide path to the pasture. Deleting the pasture and then redefining it worked, but I have to wonder if it will happen again.
Did you accidentally set the Active setting for the pasture zone to off?
Dear Dwarven Baby,

Welcome to this world! I just realized you were born with braided hair.
Babies are born with full facial hair.
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4986 on: May 28, 2013, 08:07:27 am »

Dear Urist McButcher.
Re: work ethics.

Yours was the simple job to give mercy to the bait-dog #86 which was integrated as a part of our FB slaying automated device. Said dog well deserved it, since it somehow almost chewed to bits the previous FB, and held off the last deadly dust one for several months, rotting alive and going in and out of consciousness while your Hivemind was scratching his ass, wondering what to do with an ice quadruped that just took 44 pages of dumps on our repeated masterwork steel spikes.
You eagerly took the task, grabbed the aforementioned dog by the tail and dragged it along to the butchery. Yes, you are no animal caretaker, you just kill stuff. Yes, it didn't feel like moving at all. Whistling merrily you crossed the passage and casually stepped over the glass disc trap everyone, including me, forgot about. Then you heard a characteristic SPLAT sound and felt your back being sprayed with copious amounts of something. Intuitively you pulled the dog tail you were grabbing... only to lift it in front of your puzzled face. And behind your back you found a fresh new "make a dog" puzzle, hardcore edition. Which just made you shrug your shoulders and go have a drink.

That was not nice, try avoiding it in the future. This dog won't be the last one of your clients, most likely. And next time you might happen to be in this dog's place.

Sincerely, your almighty laughing Overlord.
« Last Edit: May 28, 2013, 11:03:10 am by Vyro »
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4987 on: May 28, 2013, 09:35:14 am »

Dear Urist McButcher.
Re: work ethics.
Ow, my sides.  At least he got the job done...what does neatness count for anyway.
« Last Edit: May 28, 2013, 09:37:02 am by Greiger »
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4988 on: May 28, 2013, 09:40:02 am »

Well... Hopefully the dog blood won't be a vector for that rot syndrome! :P
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4989 on: May 28, 2013, 10:34:35 pm »

And behind your back you found a fresh new "make a dog" puzzle, hardcore edition. Which just made you shrug your shoulders and go have a drink.
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4990 on: May 29, 2013, 01:14:07 am »

You just made my night. Now I have to play as elfs so I can get butchers to drag gobbo POW's over traps.
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4991 on: May 29, 2013, 01:43:25 am »

Dear Mr. Shearer,

You went berserk and killed approximately half of my remaining fort population with a pickaxe. Prolly shouldn't have had you be a miner as well. Then, you got shot by one of the few still-sane dwarves and died. You could have at least finished the god-damn job. I mean really, after you killed the one guy in the military that was still eligible for action (as in, not stripping in the dining room and dying of thirst like our chief medical dwarf), who also made an awesome fucking axe out of bones and became a legendary Bone Carver, I ran out of fucks to give. I wanted to see this fort end by your pick and a ranger who failed to understand that A DINING ROOM BEING REPURPOSED AS A FOOD STOCKPILE IS A SIGN WE DON'T NEED ANYMORE VENISON came along and shot you a few times before you decided, "Welp, I'm done here! Bayh!" and fell on the grass. I would have at least liked you to have died in the hallways of the fort so I could add you to any of the many basalt coffins lining the walls to the dining stockpile and miasma room formerly known as the hospital because I didn't feel like/didn't have the miners to dig out more crypt rooms. Well, there was only one coffin in the hallway, but you would have made a nice new addition to the collection of rotten and skeletonized dwarf bodies lying in the corners, slumped against the wall, and tumbling down the stairs to cavern level one, that long, bumpy slide lubricated by blood and vomit and a hole where I thought, "Maybe building a well would make this better?". 2/3s of my fort wouldn't give a damn, being either melancholy or otherwise insane. Or just that fucking ecstatic. Anyways, you disappointed me. Your body will be eaten by the animals rather than preserved in a coffin or played with by the troglodytes that started this whole spiral.
« Last Edit: May 29, 2013, 01:49:35 am by Slayerhero90 »
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4992 on: May 29, 2013, 02:38:08 am »

You just made my night. Now I have to play as elfs so I can get butchers to drag gobbo POW's over traps.
I don't think you need a butcher for that - the dog was shredded because it was/became unconscious the moment it got dragged over the trap.
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« Reply #4993 on: May 29, 2013, 01:16:20 pm »

You just made my night. Now I have to play as elfs so I can get butchers to drag gobbo POW's over traps.
Actually it's a bug I discovered a long time ago in one of my Evil forts. Where formerly caged hostile prisoners somehow triggered the traps while being escorted by a hauler to the Death Pit. Which had been adding a lot of good laughs since said traps were cage traps too. Turns out it works on civies as well, provided they are somehow knocked out prior to that.
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Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« Reply #4994 on: May 29, 2013, 01:21:46 pm »

Dear Urist McHunter;

I know you're trying to kill the badger, but instead of aiming for its legs and wasting your ammo, how about shooting it in the head?

-The Overseer

Dear Urist Mchauler; I expect you to take the wasted bone bolts, along with the flung off limbs, to their respective piles. You have orders to do so, so do it.

-Your frustrated overseer.

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