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[Kagus]

Okay, so I recently had agoblin snatcher make off with one of my fort's kids (no clue how it happened though, my front entry is crawling with dogs, cows and dwarves), and I decided to find the parents in order to gauge their moods.

They were both fine.  I couldn't find any thought that related to the misplacing of their child, and the seemed perfectly happy in their other business.  I then looked at the child who was snatched (who still showed up in the relationship screen, although being vacant from the units list).  Well, she was simply ecstatic.  Why?  Because she was happy to be free.

Okay, there are two things wrong with this picture.  Shouldn't the parents at least acknowledge that their boy has been kidnapped?   And do goblin snatchers realy just pop a short distance away from the fort, and let the kid out of the bag to frolick and play?  Catch-and-release sort of thing?

It's weird, but it's kind of entertaining just the same.  Maybe the parents aren't upset because they know their child is in safe, goblin hands?

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Just one thing:

As far as I remember, goblin snatchers are difficult to notice but will trigger traps. Kobold thieves are easily noticed but will not trigger traps. If that is still the case, it would explain how the goblin got into your fortress.

Deathworks

[Kagus]

No, it does not explain it.  I've got a six-deep corridor-wide block of traps blocking my only entrance.  

Some other cage traps farther out caught his two buddies, though.  I'll have to devise some methods of punishment for them.

[Torak]

Im not sure how, but Snatchers will ignore even the most vigilant of Sentries, pretty much proven in my fort Grapeape, I had two dwarves patrolling the entrance of my fort (4 tiles wide) and the snatchers were always being found in the deepest parts of my fort. Mind you that they were both Extremely agile, so it's pretty much impossible to sneak through them both.

[ikkonoishi]

quote:Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>
Some other cage traps farther out caught his two buddies, though.  I'll have to devise some methods of punishment for them.</STRONG>

I like the Pit zone over a weapons trap method.

I have an artifact mechanism weapons trap full of enormous green glass corkscrews which I drop my goblins on. It reduces them to a fine red paste. It is really fun as you actually have to check and find the name of the goblins in the cage next to the pit so that they can't get away as the dwarves haul them.

It is like you are pronouncing sentence on them.

[Kagus]

Wouldn't serrated discs be better?  Higher chance of dismemberment.  I'm thinking garbage disposal.

[Greiger]

We all know that the dwarven fortresses are deathtraps.  Migrants enter, none leave.

The parents probably paid the goblin to get their child away from the place so that he/she may live to see adulthood.

[Muffy St. Bernard]

This issue (a snatched child still appearing in the relationship list and apparently "happy to be free) has been confusing me for a while, because I'd assumed that the child must be somewhere still to be found...especially because, when I chose to 'z'oom on the snatched child, I saw an empty space (where I suppose she was first snatched from).

This happens every time a child is snatched. Now I'll assume that it's just a bug and that I should stop looking for the child, especially since the child and its parents seem ecstatic anyway.

PS: I assume the children are being snatched off the backs of the Dwarves I've sent out to construct roads. I wish I'd be notified when the snatching actually happens, as opposed to when they're off the map.

[Cthulhu]

quote:Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG> pretty much proven in my fort Grapeape,</STRONG>

LOL

Best name ever.  And I thought The Gang of Daggers was funny.

[Keldor]

Hmm... look around for a bag containing a child - they sometimes forget to leave the bag once they're freed...