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jaxler

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guys freinds with a ghost
« on: September 28, 2011, 07:19:39 pm »

guys freinds with a ghost?

some miner is a longterm aquentece with a ghost. and he was at the village when the minner died.

the minner died when i made the well so his body is stuck inside the well so i just left it there
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Re: guys freinds with a ghost
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2011, 12:25:49 am »

most likely a log term friend of the ghosts moral self. reclaim the body and build a tomb...or engrave a slab and the ghost will go. the friend probably already has the bad thoughts associated with the death so nothing to be done there.
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Re: guys freinds with a ghost
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2011, 12:26:13 am »

I assume what you're trying to say is a dwarf's friend died mining an opening into a well, and has become a ghost? Yeah, that's normal. Dead/undead dwarves are still counted in relationships.

If you want to exorcise his ghost, get a mason to make slabs at the mason's workshop (q -> a -> alt+s) and then at a craftsdwarf workshop (q -> a -> alt+s) and navigate to the dead miner's name, then select it.

By the way, if that well's a watersource for your dwarves, you might want to consider making a new one- bodies stink up water something awful and can make dwarves ill.

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Re: guys freinds with a ghost
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2011, 10:07:26 am »

By the way, if that well's a watersource for your dwarves, you might want to consider making a new one- bodies stink up water something awful and can make dwarves ill.

True, dwarven bodies do tend to ruin water supplies. But I believe an actual well will purify the water magically if one is built. It works for salt water and water that's sort of muddy anyway.
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Re: guys freinds with a ghost
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2011, 03:21:15 pm »

most likely a log term friend of the ghosts moral self. reclaim the body and build a tomb...or engrave a slab and the ghost will go. the friend probably already has the bad thoughts associated with the death so nothing to be done there.

they were not ever friends in life. the dwarf died before the other one imagrated. and its my well and i'd rather not drain the thing for some poor old dead minner

and the body decomposed 3 in game years ago.
and also pust be clear THE DWARF DIED BEFORE THE OTHER ONE IMAGRATED. and no i don't wan't to exersize it. i find it fun to know there magic going about in the fort
« Last Edit: September 29, 2011, 03:23:47 pm by jaxler »
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“Ok, Neo ChosenUrist, before you is two levers. Pull the Kimberlite lever -- you wakeup in a random bed and have whatever thoughts you want to think. You pull the Bauxite lever -- you stay in the caverns and I show you how deep the adamantine hole goes.” - psalms