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[GreatZamboni]

Forgive me if this has been addressed elsewhere - I tried the search function and didn't turn anything up.

There's currently a goblin lasher on the surface four z-levels above my fortress dormitory, and he's somehow contriving to interrupt the dwarves in the dormitory and seems to be whipping my dwarves to death through four z-levels of solid stone. Um... how should I respond to this? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: When he killed one of my dwarves (who had been resting in his quarters) he also pulled the dwarf's corpse up through those four z-levels so that the corpse was on the same tile the lasher was.

EDIT 2: When I finally killed him - he was a dwarf, not a goblin; guess he was a kidnapped baby - he was wearing more than five identical sets of chain-over-leather armor and over 20 different amulets, 40 rings, 40 earrings, etc - it looked like many, many duplicates of the same set of gear. This is officially the weirdest invader I've ever dealt with.

[Quietust]

The many pages of trinkets is something typical of worldgen squad leaders - every time they kill something, they automatically make a craft out of its bones or skin, so a creature with a massive kill list will have a ridiculous number of rings, amulets, and earrings on it.

[Doomshifter]

That's also something that's handy in adventurer mode. If you retire and come back, you will have a random trinket for every one of your kills; including random wolves, sentient creatures and anything else.

Then, sell them for great profit!

[Grimlocke]

I think wou will need to retire in a goblin tower to get the ones for sapient creatures as well.

I realy dont have any idea what happened with that lasher dwarf though. Never had anything remotely like it, nor heard of it. Did you do any modding or did you use utilities like dwarf companion?

[Rowanas]

The dwarves spamming cancel messages is fairly common in open air dormitories, but lashing someone through 4 z-levels is something else. Are there any unusual things at all about your map or DF game?

[Grendus]

Sounds like a bug. Report it in the bugs forum.

Also, save that game and look up the dwarf lasher in legends. Sounds interesting.

[KenboCalrissian]

The only related bug I've heard was one where a dragon with Building Destroyer 2 was able to destroy buildings from above through 1 level of constructed floor.  Perhaps these are related?

[Shaostoul]

Sounds a lot like the similar thing of a flying creature attacking something XX Z-levels down and bringing it up to flying creature height and dropping. Seems to be a "grab" attack sorta deal. Does a whip grab a creature by chance?

Is it natural flooring/walls between where he attacked?

[darkflagrance]

Yes, this might be connected to another bug where dwarves can supposedly melee enemy units flying several z-levels directly above them, and perhaps even to the bug where dwarves regard stones several z-levels directly above them as closer than stones a few squares away on the same z-level.

[assimilateur]

and perhaps even to the bug where dwarves regard stones several z-levels directly above them as closer than stones a few squares away on the same z-level.

That is a pathing problem. When determining distance, z-tiles count as equivalents of x- or y-tiles, regardless of how far away stairs or ramps are. Just clarifying here, not saying that it couldn't be related to the other bugs that have been described.