RIP A Stray [Exceptional] Wardog
Most of the time when Kobold thieves skulk around my base early on in a fortresses life, my war dogs can chase it, but not kill it. Once in a while 2-3 dogs chained up by a doorway can savage a Kobold before it escapes, killing it - but it`s uncommon.
Today I had a lone war dog catch a Kobold thief and really lay into it. The thief seemed to be trying to escape at first, because it didn`t fight back for the first five pages of the combat report. My war dog kept latching on to hands or legs and shaking the Kobold around. A lot of damage was done - tendons severed, bruises...err...purpled? And so on.
Eventually the Kobold thief began to fight back - probably because the war dog had latched on to its HEAD and had begun shaking it around by the head, doing serious, serious damage. Unfortunately, the thief stabbed my dog in one paw, then another, and got a critical on the second. It severed a sensory nerve and the war dog immediately collapsed - the thief then stabbed once more, and ran off, leaving the dog to bleed out.
It`s truly sad...my first exceptional war dog does its duty, only to be paw-stabbed and bleed to death :(
Posted Mar 3, 2011, 8:57 PM UTC
My fortresses are always full of crippled war dogs (because they're somedwarf's pet, and they'd be upset if I were to put them down).
For example, my current fortress has two completely blind dogs and a three-legged hunting dog.
Makes me think of Lightning the Blind Crossbow Champion.
HAHAHAHA
I laughed way too hard at that
There's one really depressing thing in my fort. A cat with a broken back. It just moves slowly around, taking forever to bring it's master dead rats.
Makes me sad every time I see it.
That's nothing. My current fortress had some issues with Forgotten Beast extract and now I have some 50 cats dogs and one donkey who all have had blistered paws/hooves for the past 3 years. I really can't kill any of them (though I might look into butchering the donkey) because they all belong to someone.
That's nothing. My third last fort got struck by such an incredible drought, followed by an intense heat wave that the fortress, normally teeming with pets, became a massive graveyard as the animals trapped outside and inside the fort went unconscious from the heat and eventually died of thirst, hunger or exhaustion. First one by one, then pages upon pages of dying cats, dogs, mules, horses and all manner of creatures were consumed by the heat.
Jesus McUlrist that`s awful.
How did the dwarves react? Don't leave out any detail. grabs some popcorn
Can animals actually get heat stroke and die?
I think it's not the heat stroke so much as the lack of drinks. DF is complex, but I don't think heat stroke exists on its own.
I'm willing to bet that I had so many cats and dogs running around and almost no animal caretakers making sure that everything was being fed. Eventually, my booze production picked up, but not after months of almost none.