Mountain Bats

[Megabass]

Picked up a recent trunk build. Ran into a "Mountain Bat".

"Huh, that's new."

x->v

"A species of bat that lives at high altitudes. How it got into the dungeon is a mystery - probably something related to the sudden demise of dwarves in those lands. But don't worry, an eradication team is on the way."

Heh.

[Serne]

I now have a line by Hunter S. Thompson stuck in my head. Guess what it is?

[Megabass]

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." ?

[Serne]

Nope, "There's nothing as depraved as a man in the depths of an ether binge."

[XuaXua]

That's what replaced Mountain Dwarves.

[Serne]

Wait... Mountain Dwarves are being replaced by a new "Junkie" race now? really, will wonders ever cease?

[Anonymous Bosch]

Wait... Mountain Dwarves are being replaced by a new "Junkie" race now? really, will wonders ever cease?

All he set out to do was cover the race. Ended up shambling past ogres, bats and snake people chugging bottle after bottle of whatever he could get his hands on chasing down the American Dream.

[Confidence Interval]

New playing style proposal: Gonzo Crawl.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

New race proposal: New game style proposal: New fork proposal: New genre proposal:

[Confidence Interval]

New race proposal: New game style proposal: New fork proposal: New genre proposal:

A metaproposal, then. This thread is becoming very abstract.

[Grimm]

New unique proposal: Hunter. A HuWa with a full complement of potions. His own body is chaos-branded.

[ilpalazzo]

what are these mountain dwarves anyway?

[Serne]

As a replacement for Mountain Dwarves we need sentient Bags of Cheesy Poofs.

[Grimm]

what are these mountain dwarves anyway?

[Confidence Interval]

what are these mountain dwarves anyway?

OK, I'll bite. What is that?

[Serne]

It's obviously a monkey eating a burrito and riding a unicycle on unicorn back across a high-wire situated above magma.

Jeez, it's so obvious... But seriously WTH is it? Lol.

[ilpalazzo]

crypto or tolkien?

[nicolae]

Looks like a NATO battlefield tactics icon, they use those to mark the locations, types, and affiliations of units on the battlefield. In this case it's Mountain Infantry with a few other symbols thrown on.

[Serne]

With that info to go on I'd say it's the 1st divsion(regiment? whatever) of the Mountain Infantry in the city of Khazad(?)

[Grimm]

I guess gamers are more segregated than I thought - I figured that for instantly recognizable.

Yes, it's a NATO standard symbol for representing a military unit on a map or graphical display. They are also common in board wargames and some computer wargames (though their use in the latter is diminishing). The central X box means "infantry". The triangle means "mountain". So: mountain infantry.

The I at the top indicates a company sized unit. The 1st on the left means 1st Company, and the word on the right is the unit designation: Khazâd, Tolkien's endonym for Dwarves.

This is therefore a symbol that would be used to represent the first company of the Mountain Khazâd, Mountain Dwarves, unit.

A UNIT THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN RECENT ACTION.

More on unit symbols if you're interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Milit ... ed_Systems

[Confidence Interval]

I guess gamers are more segregated than I thought - I figured that for instantly recognizable.

I tried searching for it on Google Images but didn't come with anything that I thought was very similar. You are evidently more familiar with NATO strategy than your average Crawl player.

A UNIT THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN RECENT ACTION.

Not actually destroyed in action - unless you are talking about the metagame of playing against the devs - rather just spirited out of existence. For players new to Crawl from this point on, Mountain Dwarves will be no more than a myth from the past.

Good use of the word endonym, though.

[Grimm]

You are evidently more familiar with NATO strategy than your average Crawl player.

It's just that I cut my teeth on games that involved moving little bits of carboard around on maps and consulting CRTs.

Not actually destroyed in action - unless you are talking about the metagame of playing against the devs - rather just spirited out of existence.

Like that Roman legion that vanished in Britain. Dramatic.

Good use of the word endonym, though.

Almost went with ethnonym but the Wik raised my game.

[nicolae]

I guess gamers are more segregated than I thought - I figured that for instantly recognizable.

Yes, it's a NATO standard symbol for representing a military unit on a map or graphical display. They are also common in board wargames and some computer wargames (though their use in the latter is diminishing). The central X box means "infantry". The triangle means "mountain". So: mountain infantry.

The I at the top indicates a company sized unit. The 1st on the left means 1st Company, and the word on the right is the unit designation: Khazâd, Tolkien's endonym for Dwarves.

This is therefore a symbol that would be used to represent the first company of the Mountain Khazâd, Mountain Dwarves, unit.

A UNIT THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN RECENT ACTION.

More on unit symbols if you're interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Milit ... ed_Systems

That is one esoteric knowledge bomb, damn.

[Megabass]

I guess gamers are more segregated than I thought - I figured that for instantly recognizable.

Yes, it's a NATO standard symbol for representing a military unit on a map or graphical display. They are also common in board wargames and some computer wargames (though their use in the latter is diminishing). The central X box means "infantry". The triangle means "mountain". So: mountain infantry.

The I at the top indicates a company sized unit. The 1st on the left means 1st Company, and the word on the right is the unit designation: Khazâd, Tolkien's endonym for Dwarves.

This is therefore a symbol that would be used to represent the first company of the Mountain Khazâd, Mountain Dwarves, unit.

A UNIT THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN RECENT ACTION.

More on unit symbols if you're interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Milit ... ed_Systems

Will this be on the exam?

[Confidence Interval]

I like the picture. They must be the ones who carry those Swiss Army Knives.

[Grimm]

Actually the Swiss Army was invented to match the knives, which came first.

Will this be on the exam?

Yes. Crawl is like life: there are exams.

[Grimm]

Just noticed that the stamp shows a mountain "BAT."

BAT. FUS. MONT. is probably something like Bataillon Fusiliere de Montagne, Mountain Rifle Batallion.

[pratamawirya]

Too much sanity for CYC

[XuaXua]

Huh uh. Someone said, "unit".

[ilpalazzo]

good one
(my guess was moria from above)

[Grimm]

This has given me an idea: a WWII roguelike. How cool would that be.

[Confidence Interval]

What's WWII, grampa?

[ilpalazzo]

"trench crawl"

[Grimm]

What's WWII, grampa?

Son, WWII is what we had before WWW.

[Confidence Interval]

What's WWII, grampa?

Son, WWII is what we had before WWW.

Is that what came before WWZ? I read that book.

[Grimm]

No, WWZ is the last WW we're ever going to have. It goes numbers first, then letters, in order. That's how WWs work.

[Blade]

No, WWZ is the last WW we're ever going to have. It goes numbers first, then letters, in order. That's how WWs work.

I must've missed WWIII-WWV, then.

[nicolae]

No, WWZ is the last WW we're ever going to have. It goes numbers first, then letters, in order. That's how WWs work.

Wait, how would you ever run out of numbers?

[Blade]

No, WWZ is the last WW we're ever going to have. It goes numbers first, then letters, in order. That's how WWs work.

Wait, how would you ever run out of numbers?

After WWXLVIII, they realized things were getting too unwieldy.

Unlike the Super Bowl.

[Grimm]

Wait, how would you ever run out of numbers?

Do the math.

[nicolae]

Wait, how would you ever run out of numbers?

Do the math.

WWε0

[Grimm]

QED

[AtT]

WTF?

[JeffQyzt]

WTF?

BBQ.

[Confidence Interval]

WTF?

BBQ.

TLDR