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Author Topic: I discovered two ways to detect vampires/mysterious deaths after feeding  (Read 3541 times)

Mitchewawa

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A known vampire was on the loose, I had forgotten to lock the door in his cell. I had nicknamed him prior (dude had a lot of dwarf jewellery). He drained the mayor's spouse with no witnesses. I was on an evil biome, so I threw the corpse in the magma chute, and slabbed the poor lady. I didn't convict the vampire of the crime, just put him back in his perpetual catapult training cell.

A while later, I was reading through the slab-graveyard for a laugh, and came across this. 'Drained of blood by the dwarf vampire 'Vamp' Shakenhates'? How did the dwarfs know? No witnesses, no conviction. So I looked further through and found a similar slab. This time about a dwarf who was murdered in a fell mood (again, no witnesses or conviction, even though I knew who did it).

So yeah, it seems your dwarfs when slabbing corpses can ask spirits who murdered them, sort of like that movie whose name escapes my mind... Anyway, if you find a corpse drained of blood or an otherwise mysterious death, slab the dwarf and view the slab's description.



Unrelated, but I find it funny that how on Vildang's memorial they saw 'lover of green nickel glaze' as important as 'loving mother and wife'.

E: I discovered another way. Nickname suspected vampires, and look at the description of their (and if they don't have any, other dwarf's) gods. It will say something along the line of, 'Had temple profaned by NICKNAME and cursed him to prowl the night in search of blood'.
« Last Edit: March 19, 2012, 04:20:33 am by Mitchewawa »
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Re: I discovered a way to detect vampires/mysterious deaths after feeding
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2012, 12:50:59 am »

Definitely a bug. Though a very nice one.
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Re: I discovered a way to detect vampires/mysterious deaths after feeding
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2012, 01:19:14 pm »

Oh, hey, expanded glazes mod  :P

It's kind of nice to see someone else actually using those things.

Anyway, if there IS a ghost that IS angry about the whole "being murdered" thing, it does make some sense that a ghost might come back and just tell people "Hey, that's the guy that murdered me!  It was HIM! He's the vampire! Go get 'im guys!"

I remember ghosts getting revenge on their killers as being a power goal, as well, but can't find it so easily...
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Re: I discovered a way to detect vampires/mysterious deaths after feeding
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2012, 02:06:27 am »

 This works i tired it.
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Re: I discovered a way to detect vampires/mysterious deaths after feeding
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2012, 03:36:29 am »

This works i tired it.

1) How tired was it? ...knackered? ....bushed? .....exhausted? .....wiped out?
2) How long did it take to tire it?

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It only took a few mins to tire it. I found it did not last long after some HFS.
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