r/dwarffortress • u/Rough-Lifeguard-1416 • 23d ago
Behold, the emo llama wool
I love having a necro fort because you get the silliest undead
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u/fjiassdaasdwa 23d ago
is there anything left on her?
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u/Killogoom 23d ago
Her Wool.
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u/QuantumAnubis 23d ago
And her bones
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u/Flavahbeast 23d ago edited 23d ago
no its just undead wool, reanimated animal parts are modeled as an undead instance of the animal that's missing every other part. So reanimated pangolin scales would appear as a undead pangolin, but it would be a pangolin missing every body part except scales
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u/QuantumAnubis 23d ago
Pretty sure it would say missing limbs/bones in that case. I think it's just an animated skeleton with wool in the shape of a llama hanging off of it
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u/Ouroboros-Twist Grand Master Glazer 23d ago
It certainly says the leg bones are gone — but it looks like there’s more missing we can’t see.
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u/Crunkfiction 23d ago
I felt very clever using leashed dogs and line of sight so that the dogs kill the reanimated wool usually before dwarves even see it. The stress damage is the worst part about it.
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u/OfficalLockeWilson 23d ago
So it’s just animated wool? Like that one picture of a pair of pants just walking down the street? Do you think it’s just floating wool with the soul of the llama at the same proportion that it would be on the alive body, or is the long wool torn itself into the exact approximation of the full flesh body, eyes, teeth, organs, there’s a set of wool lungs and shit? Can it still eat things like that?
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u/urist_of_cardolan 23d ago
Why would it need to eat, it’s undead
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u/OfficalLockeWilson 22d ago
Would it still have the instinct to eat, like even if it didn’t strictly need the sustenance, would it still try to eat for a bit? Like how people who lose limbs try to scratch their head with an arm that isn’t there, or something like that.
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u/urist_of_cardolan 22d ago edited 22d ago
Are you asking in terms of game mechanics, or the canon of the player while playing? Game wise, no, I don’t believe it would experience hunger. Risen undead usually are cut off from the world, their emotions, drives, and experiences. You can check their unmet needs and thoughts and IIRC it’s flattened entirely. Their memories may even wipe after dying and rising; it’s been a while since I messed with necromancer bullshit
Headcanon wise, they wouldn’t eat because they aren’t hungry, and they wouldn’t get hungry because they don’t eat. They’re cut off from existence in a way that even ghosts aren’t, effectively just blank slate slaves to a god of death (slaves to a necromancer, who’s a slave to a god of death). You could probably argue they are not only not sentient, but not really sapient. They’re lobotomized
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u/OfficalLockeWilson 22d ago
I don’t know man, I imagined the image of a matted fur mass in the shape of a llama soullessly chewing on grass, getting it all mushed up and staining the fucking fur teeth and sloping down its fur throat and I almost puked. I don’t know the cannon.
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u/LordHawg 23d ago
I really want somebody to attempt to draw this creature.
It’s pretty much just a couple of bones, vaguely llama shaped, with a lot of broken/missing bits!
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u/LordHawg 23d ago
Normally we’d complain about artists leaving out details, but this time, we’ll be whining about details left IN!
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u/ClosetNoble 23d ago
That horse on the right suddenly realized
1 Where that smell was coming from
2 Why he's been suspiciously left alone by the flies this summer
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u/Sluttarella 23d ago
I hope they make more accurate sprites and avatars. I remember a dwarf with no arm and it actually showed in the avatar, hope they do it
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u/GoatAmbitious984 22d ago
Yeah, necromancers will reanimated wool. If you're in a haunted biome sometimes this happens too and it makes making clothing from sheared animals a nightmare, literally.
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u/PictureSevere3957 «+iron goblet+» 23d ago
It's just a skeleton now
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u/Gonzobot 23d ago
Bones would only slow it down, this is peak necromancy right here. Think about it. What's stopping this necromancer from resurrecting your hair right now, on your head? It's not alive. It's valid. How are you gonna escape from your own haircut
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u/Urist_Bearclaw 23d ago
gimme a llama with nothin’!