Can you remember the last time you were caught in the rain?

[Violence Enjoyer]

Really. Think about it. Assuming you, the reader, is someone who isnt in somewhere exeptionally rainy or it just rained, then really think about it. Do you think youre going to remember and dwell on how you felt for the next weeks, months, years even? Get over it dwarfs, youre supposed to be tough!

[amade]

When I was in New Zealand.

And mulling over the recurring memory allowed me to rethink my intellectual values and change my personal tendencies.

[AlP]

I get rained on or snowed on on an almost daily basis. It's always traumatizing me.

I remember the last time I was caught without an umbrella. I thought it was going to be just cloudy, but then it started to rain pretty heavily. I stood under a tree for a while, then decided to just walk home. It stopped raining just as I came near my house.

Another time I needed to walk somewhere, and it was literally a 5 minute walk. It wasn't raining when I started. It started raining while I was walking. It stopped raining at the end of my walk. It literally just rained to get me soaked.

[Wildecniht]

The other day, I purposely went outside and smoked in the rain. I honestly think some dwarves should enjoy rain. I understand the dwarvish opposition to flowing water, it's destroyed many a dwarf hold, but I don't understand how the same creatures that love mist beyond belief universally hate rain. Rain, which at it's gentlest, is literally just mist. Weather just seems like it should matter more and be more varied in a game which a third of it is a colony sim and another third is a adventuring rpg.

[Fincki]

Dwarfs don't fear water or to get wet, they fear things falling from the sky. In a world where evil weather is real you do watch rain with other eyes.

[Violence Enjoyer]

Originally posted by Fincki:

Dwarfs don't fear water or to get wet, they fear things falling from the sky. In a world where evil weather is real you do watch rain with other eyes.

after a quick glance at the frozen goblin blood-covered glacier to the north of my hatch, I believe this is probably a rational explanation

[Fel]

You also need to understand that it's not just getting rained on a bit, they are sent to work outside for days or weeks without even a break even if it rains.

If you worked on a manual job outside or have travelled relatively long distance on foot, you probably know how terrible it gets when you have to continue even under heavy rain, freezing cold, snow or intense heat, and odds are that you will remember it being quite unpleasant even years later.

[Climhazzard]

The short answer is yes. I've spent lots of years logging and we would work in the rain or snow unless it was particularly bad, and I'd hate every second of it.

[TPark]

Yes, I remember a day working in the rain 25 years ago where I got so cold and wet that I spent the whole night shivering and trying to warm up. Because I'd been sent to work out in the rain, exactly as Fel describes.

[mr_pan7s]

they are dwarves ,they don't even want to be outside. Rain is like a tornado or hurricane to a dwarf! i'm sure people remember the last time they had a disaster happen in their life. which is more equal of a comparison