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[guitarxe]

So I have dug out a big empty room, put a bunch of beds in it and made it a dormitory and a meeting zone.
A dwarven child sleeping in one of these beds was found dead, drained of all blood. Yet there are no witnesses? How is that possible? It's an empty open space, there were tons of other children around there at the same time.

[Corai]

"Okay kiddies, theres socks on THAT side of the room! Dont look over here until you find them!"


I assume they were also sleeping or facing the other way. The game does handle what way people are facing.

[Azated]

I've found that if three beds are in a corner and a dwarf is asleep in the corner bed, vampires can feed on them with impunity. The solution is just to remove one of the beds on either side.

[guitarxe]

Hm, well the beds were arranged like this:

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And all the kids were in the meeting zone I designated around the beds.
If you say the game takes into account which way someone is looking then... well I guess I could assume that it was so crowded that nobody noticed?

[misko27]

Hm, well the beds were arranged like this:

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And all the kids were in the meeting zone I designated around the beds.
If you say the game takes into account which way someone is looking then... well I guess I could assume that it was so crowded that nobody noticed?

First, check to see who is your captain of the guard, crime reporting is entirly dependant on him. If hes a vamp, or incapacitated, wont go into the justice screen. In terms of cathcing, no, dwarves can see through other dwarves if there were too many you'd be spammed with responses. No, Its more likely that no one was there at the particualar moment. Heres wahat you do
1. Look at each dwarf and inspect their thoughts, vamps dont sleep or eat so they dont get thoughts about it.
2. For every dwarf who has eat/sleep thoughts, mark them by enabling alchemy or something, nicknames maybe.
3. a little while later, repeat.
4.once you've investigated for a while, use dwarf thereapist to see who isnt enabled, invvestigate those people.
5.if you find one who looks suspicious, (i.e. Loong former associations list,dead spouse, carries jewelry of dwarf nail, tooth and hair), look them in a room and se if they get hungry.
6. if so, try again; if not,  you have your vamp.

[guitarxe]

Cooool. Then I can solve my baby boom problem

[Garath]

as to witnesses, do you have a captain of the guard that is not busy all the time? People need to give a witness report before there is a witness

[guitarxe]

Ohhh, that makes sense. No, I don't have one.

[misko27]

as to witnesses, do you have a captain of the guard that is not busy all the time? People need to give a witness report before there is a witness

I just said that:

First, check to see who is your captain of the guard, crime reporting is entirly dependant on him. If hes a vamp, or incapacitated, wont go into the justice screen.

[Garath]

I read over it, so sorry
 happy?

[GreatWyrmGold]

There's another obvious way to tell a vampire apart. If it's been a while since they arrived, the vampire will be very, very sober.
See, while vampires do not need to drink, they DO still need alcohol to function at their best. So, after a while, the vampire will start to...slow...down...from...lack...of...alcohol. You can detect this in the thoughts screen; one sober dwarf in a fortress full of booze is probably a vampire.

[guitarxe]

Hm, I still don't get it how can vampires simply eat a dwarf in plain sight and no dwarf will interrupt...
The very reason why I put all my beds in plain sight of everyone was a defence against vampires. But if dwarfs simply shrug and say eh when they see a vampire drinking blood of another dwarf then that just makes very little sense...