8/17/2023 0 Comments Dwarf fortress nobles meme![]() ![]() They should just punish you instead of specific dwarves. Or was it the player who ordered all those things of many different dwarves, none of whom were fully aware of what they were doing? Even if you WANT to track all those things, what killed the duchess was a magma flow, not a dwarf, and the dwarves had no direct hand in introducing the magma flow to the duchess, they simply dug pits because you ordered them to that happened to get filled with magma under someone else's watch, when it happened to have a floodgate that dropped magma onto the duchess's shiney new lever room. Was it the miner who carved out the chamber? Was it the miner who carved out the channel the magma flowed through? Was it the engineer who installed the floodgate? Was it the other engineer who installed the lever? Was it the other-other engineer who connected the lever? Was it the other-other-other engineer who built the lever that you set the duchess to pull as bait to get her into the deathtrap? Was it the dwarf who finally pulled the lever to the deathtrap floodgate, or the dwarf who pulled the lever that started the pump that would fill the deathtrap's magma resevoir? Please keep the hating and calling me an elf to a minimum.īecause we don't have the ability to invade yet, but trust us, when we get the ability to, we will, and those dirty elves will all see their Final Solution in the concentration camps.Īs for preventing atom smashing - HERESY! Besides, even then, there's magma dumping, or just plain walling off the duchess's coffin entirely so that there is no way to find it.Īs for tracking "who built the trap that killed the duchess", that's just plain absurd. ![]() ![]() In more extreme cases, like repeat offenses, they may even lay a sanction on you, or even send an "honor guard" who take up the job of law enforcement.įeel free to add thoughts on the subject. In the case of the Queen or King dying, punishment should be much more severe, such as also taking your mayor, taking a percentage of your wealth, or even refusing to send caravans for a long time, up to five years. (In this case, blame would fall on the mason and mechanic who built the floor, support, and trigger.) When they find the culprit, they take them into custody and either a) give them to the Sheriff/CotG/Hammerer, or b) take them away to the mountainhome, depending on what noble it was that died. They rough up your dwarfs a little, find out who killed the Duchess. They begin asking questions, and they aren't as polite as the investigator. Two seasons later, when you would be getting a caravan, you instead get an Inquisitorial Squad. He begins snooping around the Duchess' chambers and, depending on how good of Liars your dwarfs are, eventually he investigates the pit and finds the Duchess' rotting body. The next season after, a single dwarf comes with the title of Investigator. Some amount of time later, perhaps with the next Dwarf Caravan, the liaison comments on the missing duchess. You, pissed off and tired of this ungrateful waste of flesh, decide to stage an "Unfortunate Accident." Namely, you have her pull a lever that drops her thirty z-stories into a pit. ![]() The Duchess demands green glass items for the fiftieth time, despite the fact that this map still, consistently, has absolutely no sand. Here's the type of scenario I'm imagining: It should, however, require ingenuity and resources in order to avoid a worse punishment. So, why not have a punishment system in place? It doesn't have to be super serious, like instant failure of the fortress. How many fantasy stories do you know of where an important noble dies in strange circumstances and nobody notices or cares? You can probably count them on the fingers of one head. It is, in fact, supposed to be a simulation of a fantasy world builder. Let me explain.ĭwarf Fortress is supposed to be a simulation of a fantasy world. And this, in the most un-dwarvenly tradition, in the most apologetic course of action, is my suggestion: This, in the nature of things, has lead to many, many people creating extraordinarily complicated ways to kill their nobles. They make horrible demands, order the hammering of dwarfs who could not have possibly completed their mandates, and generally bring a fortress to a spiraling death halt. Nobles are generally agreed to be the most worthless wastes of space since Soapmakers. ![]()
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