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[Lectorog]

A whole herd of trolls just invaded my fortress (the goblins and their GCS's are waiting outside). One of the trolls is a bone doctor.

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Waht.

I couldn't find anything definitive on this topic. I'm pretty sure the troll didn't enter the map as a bone doctor, but I'm not sure. All I know is she's wrestling my engraver, and will very likely break her bones very effectively.

I'll almost certainly be reloading to my save at the moment of the siege announcement, so I can see if it happens again.

EDIT: Apparently, there's a metalcrafter also. And a wood cutter.

[ext0l]

trolls [CAN_LEARN], so they pick all kinds of useful skills during world gen.

[Lectorog]

Had to reload; no specialized trolls this time. Thanks for the answer! I really had no clue what the cause of this was. They don't have any skills displayed or anything like that.

[elf-fondling human]

Mod them to be part of your civ, they'll be great additions to your dwarven lifestyle!

[Yoink]

I get this all the time, Troll furnace operators, crafters, woodcutters and such, and I believe I know the answer:

Those cruel, vicious goblins brutally conquer the trollish settlements, whipping their backs open with flails, slamming them into manacles and forcing them to fight for them on pain of agonizing death.
The poor trolls bear you no ill will, they just want to be back in their village, weaving, or sculpting! Just kill the goblins, free their poor slav-- Oh, right. Snosdub McTrolldoctor has been impaled on a large iron spike.

[Fire_fox]

They try to work at dwarven workshops but because of their great size they just end of smashing the workshop. This drives them mad so they go berserk and kill your dwarves. They really just are good people they just too big!

[Lectorog]

The trolls killed my bear. My tamed grizzly bear. Wrestled it to death, about 6 of the trolls. They're also smashing coffins outside my fortress. I think they probably bear me ill will.

[Yoink]

Troll 1: Hey Bob, first day on da job too?
Troll 2: Yeah, Snosdub. We's gonna have fun workin' for dese dwarves!
Troll 1: Yeah! Hey, lookit dis. A lunchbox! Dem dwarves is nice, leavin' us food.
*Troll 1 smashes open Urist McLongdead's coffin and begins munching on his bones before heading to the workshops*

[Croquantes]

I like trolls, they always come by my fortress to admire my traps. They usually wind up getting stuck inside of them, but at least they know good craftmanship when they see it.

[tmrt]

I have seen a troll administrator during a siege once. Goblins are indeed extremely happy to have semi-useful nobles (for shearing).

[Lectorog]

Shearing your nobles? If there was a way...

[thegoatgod_pan]

I think the most epic fight I ever saw a troll deliver was against an adamantine clad spearmaster.  The troll began the fight by jumping into a drainage tank for a freezing trap which doubled as a corpse aquarium and pulling the dwarf after it.  I quickly opened the tank so the spearmaster wouldn't drown. And discovered the troll beating her to death with her own helmet. Troll died, but took the spearmaster with it.

[flieroflight]

i thought this meant a doctor made out of troll bone.

[kopout]

as did I. Though I love the mental image of a troll doctor."I is  steing yur bone, this only hert alot"