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Gruxneth

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Full moon question
« on: June 29, 2013, 06:54:51 am »
About a year ago my fort got attacked by a werehorse.  He caused some trouble including killing my mayor and biting my legendary stone crafter.  The stone craft lived though with the bite.  He hasn't turned horsey yet after a year of satying in a burrow i made to make sure he didn't bite anyone else.  I'm begining to wonder if he even got infected because he's giving no sign.  Still gets hungry/thirsty and stays relatively normal.  How often are fool moons? How can i be sure a were creature has infected someone?
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Re: Full moon question
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2013, 07:11:43 am »
Full moons come once a month like you'd expect. An infected dwarf will transform the next full moon, so your guy must not have been infected. Maybe the bite didn't break the skin.
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Re: Full moon question
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2013, 07:12:29 am »
You can be sure only when he changes.

It seems that always just a bite in not enough. Was it a only bite or did it latched firmly too? Where was he bitten?
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Vid_the_Impaler

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Re: Full moon question
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2013, 07:16:57 am »
A bite only passes on the curse if it tears the skin; additionally, if the bite severs the part immediately (for example, biting a hand off in one attack) the curse is not passed on.  I know this from experience; once in adventure mode I ran around the village in wererhino form, biting everyone's hands off, but was dismayed when I looked in legends mode and saw that I didn't transmit the curse to any of them.
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Re: Full moon question
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2013, 10:45:13 am »
Moon cycle is roughly 25 days. If he hasn't transformed yet, he's clean.
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Re: Full moon question
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2013, 03:55:43 pm »
What a wimpy were-horse. I've seen were-coyotes that can do a better--

...oh.
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