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[Callista]

At the moment, I've got a fort in a terrifying biome. This means lots and lots of death, and lots and lots of slabs (sixty-some, at the moment). I also have some un-memorializable ghosts from merchants' guards. They are all peaceful ghosts, and nobody knew them, so they are not causing much trouble.

What I've noticed is that these ghosts are almost always to be found in the memorial hall. They died outside (to the zombie horde, what else?), and they don't have relatives memoriaized there.

Is this a known phenomenon? Do ghosts always hang out in memorial halls, if one is available; or do they head for statue gardens, meeting halls, etc., gathering places in general?

[weenog]

I don't know the answer, but my suspicion is ghosts that aren't up to no good will congregate in meeting areas like everyone else.  There was at least one ghost that threw a party.

[krenshala]

My ghostly fisherdwarf that  fell down an 8z waterfall and landed on his head (just before 0.34.11 came out) was more than happy to haunt his place of death.  He wasn't bothering anyone so I was planning to leave him as some ~science~ to see (verify) whether he would die of old age if I got the fort to run long enough.

Then I the entire fortress, and 34.11 came out, so I never did find out for sure.