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[gabrek]

Alright. Started a fortress, made it to year 2 and was at 57 dwarves. Necromancer brought back the hair of a yak, which killed a horse, which killed a dwarf, and my fresh faced military was wiped out. Settlement crumbled.

Reclaim- arrive to find necromancer hanging out.
The FIFTH reclaim effort killed the necromancer and was able to wipe out the last of the walking dead with two survivors- one of which threw a tamtrum, killed the other with a thrown.. *sigh* plump helmet biscuit, then went berzerk.
SIXTH reclaim stuck. Eliminated the 'zerk dwarf and proceeded to start burying the dead. Something like 80 caskets built, almost all the ghosts laid to rest.
However, I now have 6 ghosts left and no dwarven bodies anywhere; sent the military around looking for them and checked the stock list and nothing. Only two of them are in the engrave list, both marked as "Ghost"- the other 4 aren't in the list.

How do I put these other souls to rest? They have custom titles, which I only assigned to the first settlers that went out there- I haven't lost any dwarves with the sixth reclaim team and I'm pretty sure they came back as ghosts during the initial seige that wiped them out.

EDIT: DF2012, v0.34.11? Whatever the latest download is.

[Matoro]

Reanimated yaks or yak hairs are just terrible. They are like the elephants of 0.34.11.

DFHack has a command for this - select a ghost (by v) and write a command "tweak clear-ghostly". It should remove those ghosts entirely.

[gabrek]

Thank you, thank you, a dozen times I thank you!  I wish DFHack's usefulness was more obvious during google searches. Anyway, fixed it perfectly- I think I know where to turn for Issues now!

[gabrek]

Ugh. Now I have FOUR necromancers bombarding my refuse pile- and I can't seem to find any of them; I only know of them from the combat reports.
Fortunately, my military is much more competent now; I've got them stationed on the pile and they're eliminating all the hands and hooves that arise, though they cannot seem to spot the offending necros. Dumping remains in a pit now.. >_<;