Playing standard LNP DF 34.05:
I had a goblin ambush sitting outside of my moat with my drawbridge rasied, harassing all my workers causing all kinds of crap to be cancelled. I'm a noob and this is the first fortress I've survived past 70 dwarves or so so I spent extra time trying to kill these goblins without lowering my bridge when all of the sudden, a weremonitor appears -- However, I accidentally skip through the screen too fast but realized I skipped some kind of warning without realizing its a weremonitor:
Then, he changes into a goblin without me noticing.
What happened next was too fast for me to really comprehend at the time. I pause the game and go to the units screen to check out what I missed. Under Other is a list of the goblin invaders and this other "goblin" with a label beside it saying friendly! I am pumped and want to see wtf is about to happen. This guy starts kicking goblin ass while my military is off getting equipment. I am watching the glorious details unfold when he just disappears and I spend a few too many seconds with the game unpaused looking for him and i am too late, he drowns in my moat
. Thankfully he weakened them enough for me to lower my bridge and take them out with ultra n00b militia +war dogs.
Pretty cool event overall but I was wondering, have any of you guys had a menacing looking monster show up with a warning and turn out friendly? Or is the friendly tag some kind of trick to cause more FUN?
TL;DR Friendly Weremonitor turns Goblin, helps me out, drowns, and I'm not sure if he was really friendly or just an enemy of my enemy.