Had some hilariously unlucky characters this week.

Started by Sola, August 15, 2016, 10:53:16 PM

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Sola

This world was relatively amusing.  I ended up with three doctors, all over 13 in medicine.  Unfortunately, two of them had an arm shot off.
Got a builder to 20, he also lost an arm AND contracted muscle parasites.  20 builder with 20% manipulation seems like a cruel joke.
Got an artist to 20, which happened to be one of my doctors that was missing an arm.

So, in this world of one-armed wonders with not a single bionic arm to be found, I encounter an infestation.  ...In my armory.  Two die, and all three of my doctors end up suffering from blood loss.  I rush 'em all to the hospital, which only has two proper medical beds, and a bunch of non-medical beds.  A guy with 4 medicine rushes to the scene and starts applying gauze like TP at a frat house, barely keeping the squad alive.  Unfortunately, there's blood everywhere, and some people simply aren't happy with being woken up to be fed and taken care of.  My two-armed doctor goes berserk, and is killed by a trained warg.

Another guy, sick with infection, decides to go on a psychotic wandering daze, refusing to be treated until the infection becomes far too advanced.  He dies before I can get him back to a medical bed.

I get a call for help, and I think, "Hey, why the heck not?  I just lost four guys.  I could us-OHMYGODHE'SAPYROMANIAC!"  Whatever.  He's also got a respectable medicine score and 100% manipulation.  The pirates on his tail all die to deadfall traps, leaving two charge rifles.  Joy!

That night, a pack of 20 manhunting boars come out, and I cordon off the town.  Everything's rather self sufficient at this point, so it's all gravy.  I'll just wait for everything to blow over.

Then my shooter goes into a daze, since we hadn't fully recovered from the bug nightmare yet.  Shooter decides to walk outside the town gates.   "Screw it.  She's dead.  Nice knowin' ya."

The icing on the cake happened right after that.  A dry thunderstorm sets my inner town on fire, and the pyromaniac decides to go all arson on me.  "At least mostly everything is made of stone.  We should be safe.  Everything will be fine.

...Except there was a section of about eight blocks that was only a single tile thick, and was made of wood.  There was a marsh behind it, so I didn't set up a second wall behind it.  The wood wall it was connected to had caught fire, and it slowly crept up the wall to eventually burn down the gate that was saving me from the boars.  I didn't know this was happening, since I was busy trying to save my geothermal generators, due to a spectacular lack of components throughout the course of the game.

By the time I notice, the wall that was going to let the horde in was already at 31%, and there was no way I was getting there in time.  The wall breaks down, the boars charge through the flames, and my already weakened group gets run over.

I can't stop playing this game.  It's like a fanfiction that writes itself.
Two tiers of construction jobs.  One for expensive/quality items, and one for walls/floors/etc.

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=28669.0

Sola

I decided to alt+f4 out of this one, just so I could take some screenshots.

Hilarious engineering error


RIP in peace, psychotic wanderer.


One-armed party!
Two tiers of construction jobs.  One for expensive/quality items, and one for walls/floors/etc.

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=28669.0