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[raxistaicho]

And he just arrived. Should I be afraid for the life of my dorfs? @.@

[StagnantSoul]

Yes, you should be afraid. He will drink, a few times.

[Absentia]

I've had lots of vampire diplomat visits with no problem, but apparently other people have not been so fortunate. If you conduct the meeting quickly he shouldn't have time to get thirsty.

[Thisfox]

I've had it happen a few times, and the diplomat usually manages to drink a few times before the slacker mayor or equivalent gets around to chatting with him. I've never had him drink from the person he's meant to have a meeting with, if it helps any. If you're fast, you might be able to lock them in a room together with a desk and chair: The one time I did that, and made the chair an "office", they hung around for a few weeks then finally had that chat.

I have once set the guards on a human vampire diplomat. He had been sighted by several dorfs when he ducked out for a nip of red. He and his guards were chased all over the map by my squad, and eventually I called them off. He promptly went back to trying to talk to my leader like nothing had happened. I expected repercussions, there never were. Perhaps there would have been if I'd actually managed to kill him.

Links to previous threads of this nature:
Here, And here,
and this sort of thing a lot too...
And there are plenty more.

More recently I had a goblin "dwarf liason" turn up. That was really confusing for a while, as he helped us turn a forgotten beast into so many ingredients for cooking...

[raxistaicho]

Luckily, my mayor wasn't busy at the time and had a meeting with him pretty quickly. He then left through the caverns beneath my Fortress instead of going out the front door o.e

Diplomat: Until next we meet! >D *goes down the stairs*
Mayor: Uhm, but that leads into the caverns.
Dipomat: *Trailing evil laughter*

[Thisfox]

Oooh, awesome. I've had merchants do that, but not diplomats.

[Eric Blank]

They seem to do that if they think pathing through the caverns is the shortest route off the map.

I recently dug a drainage into the caverns to relieve some flooding, and the stairwell I dug was apparently still usable. When the dwarven caravan left that year, they tried to go through the caverns, where the drainage pipe opened up. They all drowned. Next year, the merchants tried to get into the fortress through that stairwell, because the river level had dropped (flooding from the river.) They got stuck there until they went insane, then died. Then my dwarves went to collect their stuff...

I suppose vampires don't have to worry about drowning.

[utunnels]

I wonder how do your dorfs know he's a vampire.
I mean the human shouldn't just promote a vampire intentionally, should they?

[Loud Whispers]

I wonder how do your dorfs know he's a vampire.
I mean the human shouldn't just promote a vampire intentionally, should they?

Diplomatic immunity