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I dont know what I like more about these updates, that they're in this ridiculous voice or that they're finally beIng posted from my half of the planet. I've been reading the updates in an Australian accent and it's even more funny. I have a friend who's going to new Zealand tO study English and boy is she in for a surprise.
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Arglebargle III posted:I dont know what I like more about these updates, that they're in this ridiculous voice or that they're finally beIng posted from my half of the planet. I've been reading the updates in an Australian accent and it's even more funny. I have a friend who's going to new Zealand tO study English and boy is she in for a surprise. In my recent trip to New Zealand, I was surprised that they put banana on french toast. The accents I can handle. Step-dad is Maori. I would, however, hate to write a Kiwi Dwarf. e: Also, thanks  3 months down. I hope the pace is ok for everyone? OhCrap fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Jul 18, 2012 12:30
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Pace works for me. It is clear that water is our most dangerous enemy yet. We've not lost one dwarf to so feared murk, but we've lost several dwarfs to drowning. We need to declare a war on water. If you elect me overseer, I'll teach everydwarf the ancient secret technique of not-drowning. (Once my dwarf is born)
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Jul 18, 2012 12:55
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OhCrap posted:3 months down. I hope the pace is ok for everyone? Pace is pretty phenomenal. I only just realised what the murk actually is, incidentally. The greenery had blended into the grass previously, I kept looking for purple tiles on the map and couldn't see any so I assumed the threat was pretty minimal. But now I can pick it out from the background, those clouds are huge! They could take out an entire caravan or migrant wave. Man.
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 From the Overseer Diary of OhCrap MountainMist, 237, Bronzestabbed 1st Moonstone 237 Winter arrives just as I move into new Quarters with Beloved Husband. Beloved Husband is impressed and says I am a Good Overseer. Best.  3rd Moonstone 237 Leperfish continues to meet with Cog Smoothlances.  8th Moonstone 237 Another snatcher! RUN! RUN LIKE YOU HAVE WIND!  NOT RIGHT NOW I DON'T CARE WHATEVER!  DAMMIT!  Militia need faster running. 11th Moonstone 237 Leperfish met with Cog Smoothlances for 3 weeks. I do not know why it takes so long.  Vim Fuego rests in hospital. Goblin Thief stabbed his cheek.  By order of Overseer, dwarfs must not block with their head.  16th Moonstone 237 Gnu Sheriff in Town expresses satisfaction with Quarters. However is worried about lack of Cages and Chains. I do not question if they are for personal use.  I do not know how many cages and chains a Sheriff would require. I order Psalmanazar to forge Chains and Cages.  17th Moonstone 237 Someone retrieved body of El Belmondo but did not Inform me.  I order a suitable tomb prepared. I do not know how we will recover Bikindok. Perhaps JimmyTheD should do it.  18th Moonstone 237 I do not understand what is meant by Demon Rat. Are they Bad Rats? Why do Cats eat so Many?  28th Moonstone 237 I decide that Glorious artifact Shedlisid should be enjoyed by all. I order it to be Placed on a Pedestal in Meeting Hall.  2nd opal 237 Another Kobold Scum! THIS TIME REALLY RUN. HEED ME.  Collusion! A Goblin also runs! GET THEM! HEED! HEED!  He is a Good Cat.  SirPenguin and i poo poo trains are observed in hot pursuit. They are heeding!  ActionMontage.Engraving  Kobold too far and too fast. He will escape.  But i poo poo trains is closing on Goblin!  Never forget.  You nearly have him! Don't let him escape! Everyone cheer i poo poo trains on! I poo poo TRAINS! I poo poo TRAINS! I poo poo TRAINS!  Bugger.  But they heeded! They really heeded! OhCrap fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Jul 18, 2012 14:29
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Your updates are Good. Best.
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Jul 18, 2012 14:46
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So, Gnu Sheriff has a 'great musical sense' and a 'great feel for the surrounding space' which makes me concerned that their primary interrogation technique will be interpretive dance. Quick question: are we free to use the art/music in derivative dwarfy works for Bronzestabbed? Loden Taylor, I'm looking at you especially.
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Jul 18, 2012 14:57
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OhCrap posted:In my recent trip to New Zealand, I was surprised that they put banana on french toast. Oy, banana-toast is awesome. Don't knock the banana-toast. Besides, if it's french toast, doesn't that mean there's 3 or 4 ingredients involved, all of which seem strange to mix when you don't realize how it's done? I find it perfectly Dwarfen (I think that's the right spelling for DF, since Dwarven is too normal) to have food made from: 'Bread, milk, egg, banana' A '+banana roast+', if you will.
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aerion111 posted:Oy, banana-toast is awesome. Don't knock the banana-toast. Bananas are better used as ‼ammo‼
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Jul 18, 2012 15:15
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 Discovered on the overseer's chair, somewhere past 9th of Moonstone Standing overseer: OhCrap Mountainmist Petitioner: Scamtank Sabrestraps THE PETITION IS AS SEEN: Overseer our Advisor and Heedsman. My quartering is in the earthen housing hall.  I look upon the floor. There is sand here. I look within my alcove. This is any alcove. The floor is packed tight, but still there is sand here. I look within my boots. There is sand here. I look upon my bed. This is any bed also. There is sand here. It is of miserable sleep quality. To repair I propose blocks and bricks of malachite. A paved footroad of superior architecture and pleasant green across the main corridors of the earthen dormitory hall. My grandfather and father and I have known malachite in many occurrences and it is Good Flagstone to admire. It would eventually clean bed and boot and sleep contaminants with exceptional efficiency. Enclosed is a floorplan of the earthen housing hall with courtesy to mining records. GLORIOUSLY UNDERSIGNED, scamtank
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Jul 18, 2012 15:28
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See that's how you make a suggestion to the overseer! If you've been dwarfed, that is..  Still need that emote with a beard.I also hate building stuff in earth. The mere thought that it will never be engraveable! If only constructed walls could be engraved..
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Jul 18, 2012 16:25
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OhCrap posted:In my recent trip to New Zealand, I was surprised that they put banana on french toast. The accents I can handle. Step-dad is Maori. I'm sure I've got banana on French Toast here in Scotland, so it's not just a Kiwi thing. Banana and bacon on French Toast might be a Kiwi thing though. OhCrap posted:I would, however, hate to write a Kiwi Dwarf. My experience of everywhere in the world that isn't NZ or Aus is that everyone would read an update from a supposed Kiwi dwarf and go "Oh wow, G'Day mate! Where in Australia is your Dwarf from? THROW ANOTHER SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE HAHAHAHAHA NEIGHBOURS" If you want you can all pretend that Pozzo at Gemclod was an alcoholic Lynn from Tawa or something
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Okay I'm caught up look at all these updates holy hell. Poor Bikindoc. On the other hand he deserved to die, for wasting steel bolts on hunting! Agh! Do you have any idea how much those things cost.
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Jul 18, 2012 17:37
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The pace of the updates so far is beautiful.
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Pozzo posted:I'm sure I've got banana on French Toast here in Scotland, so it's not just a Kiwi thing. Banana and bacon on French Toast might be a Kiwi thing though. Except for all the Australians, who'd be going "say fish 'n' chips! say fish 'n' chips!"
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Jul 18, 2012 18:19
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The quality of this LP is simply spectacular. It occured to me, how do people pronounce Ugath? Does 'u' sound like 'you'? If that's the case, the name sounds eerily like Yuggoth. 
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Jul 18, 2012 18:32
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Oo-gath for me.
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Jul 18, 2012 18:43
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Thanks to the the complex intricacies of dwarven language, Ugath sounds exactly like Charley.
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3rd Opal 237 Some days ago many of us stood under the sun and watched Bikindok wrestle with a weasel, which my mother used to call a 'euphemism,' and then she would laugh. If she were here I would ask whether drowning is supposed to be part of the joke. I suspect not. That is an even worse joke than the one about beer and at this point that is saying something. After two drownings I think the source of the syndrome of evil they speak of here might be the river, or at least the river is allied with the evil like a kobold thief running along with a goblin thief--but I worry that if I say this then OhCrap will have JimmyTheD hammered for bringing it into the fortress. I think that may be why she decided to appoint a hammerer now anyway. If Chickenfrogdwarf has that name because he strikes as hard as a real chicken pecks then I must not be guilty of crimes. That should not be a problem. Nobles and leaders never have the sense to demand fine metal bars be made, although a mayor in Pagevoice once ordered me to melt down a statue a blacksmith had made. I regretted it for the statue was platinum and of excellent quality. But it showed the mayor embracing a horse in a most unfitting way and the mayor stood behind my shoulder until I destroyed it. It is not likely either that nobles will demand soap. I have never known a noble to bathe. Although I must be honest: I do not wish to bathe in this river either. Maybe JimmyTheD's 'water necromancy' (seriously what is that) should be used to raise a well indoors. But then if zombie weasels jumped out of the well I would be hammered for suggesting it. There is to be soap but there are to be new weapons also; weapons mean metal and metal means smelting so I probably will not get to try my ideas for rum-smelling soap soon. I wish for pig iron and flux stone from the traders but it seems we have instead bought many animals. I knew once a dwarf who liked camels very much and convinced the nobles that camels defecate steel. If there is a dwarf here who has mastered that tactic then I must find which dwarf that is and convince him to tell OhCrap we need a zombie weasel well. Kaishai fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Jul 18, 2012 19:17
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OhCrap posted:
Oh, I hope you bought those steel and iron bars! The yearly dwarven caravan is likely our only way to get steel.
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Jul 18, 2012 19:37
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Let's hope that the Demon Rats are not in fact Bad Rats.
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Excerpts from the diary of JimmyTheD, ex-overseer 10th Sandstone I tried to explain why the Mister was beneficial to the fortress today. I got as far as 'raising water' when OhCrap, in that strange voice of hers, suddenly pipes up. "You Water Necromancer?". I had no idea how to answer the question, especially considering... Water Necromancer? What? But she saved me the trouble. "If you Water Necromancer, you Bad Man". Oh, boy. First the Mister gets taken down, then this child accuses me of a crime no sane dwarf would even think of. Especially because nobody has a clue what a "Water Necromancer" is, except for OhCrap. I'm going to hide as much as I can for now, wait till this Overseer leaves. She had no parents from a very early age, and that has... twisted her, somehow. 12th Sandstone Well, diary, it looks like we're going to have to pretty much scrap the Mister, our Benevolent Overseer has almost entirely dismantled it! 19th Sandstone Murk took another creature today, this time a weasel. OhCrap looks as frightened as she should, but doesn't order the military to kill it. She's also looking at me strangely, the same way she looked when I tried to explain the Mister. 24th Sandstone While nobody cowered inside like with the kestrel, there has been a casualty. I didn't really know Bikindok that well, but it's pretty clear he drowned during a fight with the murk-weasel. Later that same day, I hear I am accused of being a Water Necromancer again. Don't know what I said, because I stopped speaking to her earlier this month. Too drat risky, to try and reason with a crazy overseer. 11th Timber El Belmondo was found today. It seemed that, when he panicked and ran from the harpies? He'd drowned. We go to recover the body now, as best we can. 23rd Timber [This entry is scratched out hurriedly, with the words "We Shall Never Speak Of This Day" written below]
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Anchors posted:Thanks to the the complex intricacies of dwarven language, Ugath sounds exactly like Charley. Charlie The Wonder Dog. VoxNihili posted:Oh, I hope you bought those steel and iron bars! The yearly dwarven caravan is likely our only way to get steel. OhCrap MountainMist: "Uh ... " *nods vaguely*
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From the Private Overseer Files of OhCrap MountainMist, 237, Bronzestabbed Petition Received - 2nd Opal 237 I note ≡Petition of scamtank≡. Such things were not in ☼Briefing Notes☼ but it menaces with spikes of Heeding and grains of Sand and Lines of Good Grammar so I listen with eyes of Attention. I do not know if I understand it properly. I nod at Petition to show Wisdom. It does not feel same as nodding at Dwarf. I did not need to nod at ☼Briefing Notes☼. They had ≡engravings≡ to illustrate. Petition of scamtank speaks of Malachite. Malachite is Ore of Copper. Petition speaks of Self Cleaning Beds. I do not know if Bed Golems are Good. I have not seen Bed Golems. I do not know of their Self Cleaning. Leperfish is Bookkeeper. Leperfish speaks of malachite. He advises that there is 49 boulder of malachite. He states that malachite is not made to Blocks because copper. Copper because bronze if cassiterite. I would like to see Bed Golem of scamtank Petition. But I think that Leperfish is right. Bronze is good for weapons and armour and we have little iron yet. Quarters were to move Underground to Protect from Murk. Bed Golems are not planned. Veins of malachite are in walls and floor near new storage and quarters. Thus I will show Petition of scamtank compromise. I will build quarters of malachite there. Not all will be malachite. But none will be Sand. We will dig malachite for Copper but leave it where Walls and Floors. All will be safe from Murk and Bad Weasels and Sand when they sleep. This will be better than Bed Golems which are only said to Protect from Sand. I listen to all and decide for sake of Last Hope. I am a Good Overseer. OhCrap fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Kaishai posted:Some days ago many of us stood under the sun and watched Bikindok wrestle with a weasel, which my mother used to call a 'euphemism,' and then she would laugh. If she were here I would ask whether drowning is supposed to be part of the joke. I suspect not. That is an even worse joke than the one about beer and at this point that is saying something. After two drownings I think the source of the syndrome of evil they speak of here might be the river, or at least the river is allied with the evil like a kobold thief running along with a goblin thief--but I worry that if I say this then OhCrap will have JimmyTheD hammered for bringing it into the fortress. I think that may be why she decided to appoint a hammerer now anyway. I love all of the journal updates so far, but this one tickles me particularly
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OhCrap posted:
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JamieTheD posted:But she saved me the trouble. "If you Water Necromancer, you Bad Man". Or Dwarf perhaps. Let's not accuse anydwarf of speciesism here quote:I'm going to hide as much as I can for now, wait till this Overseer leaves. She had no parents from a very early age, and that has... twisted her, somehow. I think things might have changed somehow. Perhaps... quote:El Belmondo was found today. It seemed that, when he panicked and ran from the harpies? He'd drowned. We go to recover the body now, as best we can. OhCrap MountainMist doesn't know this, but the last that was seen of El Belmondo (alive) was that a harpy picked him up by his trousers ... I was waiting for someone to ask. e: The official cause of death is drowning, in-game at least. I prefer "Pants-based Misadventure." quote:[This entry is scratched out hurriedly, with the words "We Shall Never Speak Of This Day" written below] You might be surprised at the effect that event had. OhCrap fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Jul 18, 2012 21:26
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Juc66 posted:Bad Weasel? This should go on the poster. THAT WAS HIM I'D KNOW HIM ANYWHERE. John Charity Spring posted:Let's hope that the Demon Rats are not in fact Bad Rats. Eek! A Ghost with an Engraving of Bad Rats!
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Jul 18, 2012 21:29
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OhCrap posted:OhCrap MountainMist doesn't know this, but the last that was seen of El Belmondo (alive) was that a harpy picked him up by his trousers
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Leperfish posted:Poor Bikindoc. On the other hand he deserved to die, for wasting steel bolts on hunting! Agh! Do you have any idea how much those things cost. OhCrap MountainMist: "Uh .." *nods vaguely* Leperflesh posted:Okay I'm caught up look at all these updates holy hell. Yeah, sorry about that. I aimed to get to at least the 3 month mark. I have a "rough" limit in mind of around 20-30 images per update which is simply to try to keep them under control, size-wise. That meant multiple updates, but I was generally pleased with how they broke up. As it turned out, with a couple of play sessions, I hit 4 months which I'm fairly pleased about. It's given me a few ideas on where the rest of the year "might" go. I just hope the multiple updates isn't too much of a pain. I can't guarantee, of course, that this means that I will complete 3 or 4 months today .. I have to go to work and so on. But I do aim to do another update tonight. OhCrap fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Found in the Diary of OhCrap Mountainmist, 2nd Opal 277 I am Pleased at Heeding even though Goblin escaped. I find myself singing a simple song under my breath. It is pleasing to Beloved Husband who says it is a Good Song. I do not sing it to Other dwarfs because insensitive even if Bad Dwarf, but I write it Here. He was afraid to come out of the water. He was as nervous as he could be. He was afraid to come out of the water. He was afraid that Bad Weasel would see. Two, three, four. Tell the dwarfs what Weasel saw. It was an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Hunting Dwarf we called Bikindok Who was stalking for the first time today An Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Hunting Dwarf we called Bikindok Who in the water, he wanted to stay He was afraid to come out in the open. And so he fired at Bad Weasel on-shore He was afraid to come out in the open. For the Bad Weasel would chase him some more. Two, three, four. Tell the dwarfs what Weasel saw. It was an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Hunting Dwarf we called Bikindok Who was stalking for the first time today An Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Hunting Dwarf we called Bikindok Who has drowned, in the water he stays.
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OhCrap posted:I love all of the journal updates so far, but this one tickles me particularly Aww, thanks! I'm snickering right now myself at 'I nod at Petition to show Wisdom. It does not feel same as nodding at Dwarf.' Edit: And now I'm picturing a dwarf in a teeny-weeny bikini. Thanks for that. Really. So much. (Great song even so.) Kaishai fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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OhCrap posted:This should go on the poster. THAT WAS HIM I'D KNOW HIM ANYWHERE. bad demon rats are they? 
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FinalSin posted:Pace is pretty phenomenal. I found it hard when I was first following the LP, too. It is much more readily visible "in-game" even with it being green. One of the problems with taking screenshots of the murk is knowing the "right moment" to catch it so people can see what you're talking about. The green definitely does make it difficult, and it's more so when you're trying to show it in context and in relation to other things. On a similar note, I wish I could have done the weasel screenshots easily as an animated gif. The bemurked weasel flashed between the icon of a weasel and the monster-style icon per below;  which can make it difficult to pick out in a screenshot, given blue on green. I did show the weasel icon in a couple of shots. But the flashing really makes it stand out in-game. I am having a lot of fun doing this, though.
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At least the Bad Dwarf is dead, and won't come back to life as a horrible undead abomination, right? ...right?
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You can make an animated gif pretty easy in photoshop, you just need two screenshots, one of each state, I think I made one before for a little LP I did of one of my own forts... Ah, here it is:  Yeah that fort was pretty screwed...
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Do we actually have any sort of bridge across the river? Just restricting the shallow part of the river won't prevent dwarves from entering if it's the only way across - the pathing restriction effectively makes the dwarven pathfinding look at each tile as though it were 25 tiles when trying to find the shortest path. If we want dwarves to be able to get across without getting wet we need a bridge; if we don't want them going across at all then we'd probably need a wall.
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President Ark posted:Do we actually have any sort of bridge across the river? Just restricting the shallow part of the river won't prevent dwarves from entering if it's the only way across - the pathing restriction effectively makes the dwarven pathfinding look at each tile as though it were 25 tiles when trying to find the shortest path. If we want dwarves to be able to get across without getting wet we need a bridge; if we don't want them going across at all then we'd probably need a wall. I habitually mod the init files to inflate the pathing costs of traffic designations (My restricted cost 125) and then place them over and inside all the murky pools on the map so dwarves don't go near them and get pulled or pushed to a watery doom. Also, it appears I was wrong earlier. From the description of what happened after the fall of Bikindok it seems that animal cloud zombies do leave the map. Not sure about the rest, but if it applies to everyone, might be funnier to just let the goblins camp in the murk, go home, and eat their families faces (Sadly, this kind of happening won't be possible until the next version, but we can dream).
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