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[Pyro627]

During a short battle against a weretortise, a dwarven baby being carried by my bone carver took several minor, non-fatal wounds. I am almost certain that he, and a ranger, both of who I will shortly be quarantining, are now infected with weretortisism.

Is this is rare as I understand it to be, and if so, what should I do other than share the save file?

Edit: 23rd Felsite, 132

[AutomataKittay]

Keep them sealed up and make a closed factory out of them? That's what I do with annoying dwarves, and I'd imagine werecreature works like regular dwarf except for monthly wereism

[Pyro627]

OK, the ranger is actually dead, so the baby is the only one infected.

Sealing him up won't work that well because he's still being carried around by his uninfected mother.

[Trif]

"We've secretly replaced Urist McBonecarver's baby with a tortoise-like monstrosity. Let's see if she can tell the difference!"

[Scootagoose]

They can be useful, but quite risky. If your baby bites someone then it can spread and so on.

[Callista]

You'll have to quarantine his mother with him. Give them a suite of rooms, separated by doors, with the door to the suite locked. Personally I would go for four rooms or so, where each one connects to both rooms on each side of it. When the baby turns, she will probably drop him and run, hopefully toward a door, and you can lock the door between them. Then you can let her out (if she hasn't been bitten) or keep her quarantined (if she has).

Incidentally, only bites will cause them to turn. Check the combat report to be sure they really were bites rather than scratches or punches or something.

[Pyro627]

You'll have to quarantine his mother with him. Give them a suite of rooms, separated by doors, with the door to the suite locked. Personally I would go for four rooms or so, where each one connects to both rooms on each side of it. When the baby turns, she will probably drop him and run, hopefully toward a door, and you can lock the door between them. Then you can let her out (if she hasn't been bitten) or keep her quarantined (if she has).

Incidentally, only bites will cause them to turn. Check the combat report to be sure they really were bites rather than scratches or punches or something.

Oh, that's a good idea. I'll have to try that.

Also, looking at the combat log, the child was never actually bitten, but after the event he was briefly flashing the icon for a werebeast, which seem suspicious to me.

[Pyro627]

Okay, after several months of quarantine, I'm afraid that I can safely say that the baby is not, in fact, a tortise-like monstrosity. I am sorry for any confusion this may have caused. In the future, we will strive to prevent this kind of mix-up from happening again.

[AutomataKittay]

Awww, no were-experiments

[Pyro627]

Nope, afraid not.

What's funny though was that, due to a scheduling mixup, the quarantine was actually lifted a day before the next full moon. Lucky he wasn't really infected.