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[zuglar]

Hi all,

I've got a young fort here (second spring), and a werebison dwarf child just "immigrated" by springing out of ambush and slaughtering all my war dogs, some puppies, both alpacas, and a rabbit (unfortunately, the cat was indoors at the time). My idiotic carpenter chose that precise moment to pasture the other critters that ran away (how do you disable pasturing jobs???), and *very* fortunately dodged the beast's first and last attack before it turned back into a child. My axedwarf squad is on the way, but I'm currently on pause, wondering if there are any repercussions to just disposing of this annoyance? He's marked as "friendly" so I cant see his relationships to see whether anybody else cares about him.

FYI, werebison are really nasty. Excerpts from the combat logs:

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The Werebison Child bites The Stray Alpaca in the right rear foot and the
severed part sails off in an arc!
The Werebison Child bites The Stray Alpaca in the right front foot and
the severed part sails off in an arc!
The Werebison Child kicks The Stray Alpaca in the head with its right
hoof, bruising the muscle, jamming the skull through the brain and
tearing apart the brain!
The Werebison Child bites The Stray war Dog in the right rear paw and the
severed part sails off in an arc!
The Werebison Child bites The Stray war Dog in the upper body, tearing
apart the muscle, shattering the right false ribs and tearing apart the
left lung!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
A tendon in the right false ribs has been torn!
The Stray war Dog is having trouble breathing!
The Werebison Child latches on firmly!
The Werebison Child shakes The Stray war Dog around by the upper body,
tearing apart the upper body's muscle!
An artery in the upper body has been opened by the attack!
The Stray war Dog misses The Werebison Child!
The Werebison Child shakes The Stray war Dog around by the upper body,
tearing apart the upper body's muscle!
An artery in the upper body has been opened by the attack!
[first war dog dies, second one attacks]
The Werebison Child bites The Stray war Dog in the head, tearing apart
the muscle, shattering the skull and tearing apart the brain!
A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Werebison Child charges at The Carpenter!
The Werebison Child attacks The Carpenter but She jumps away!
The Werebison Child rushes by The Carpenter!
[the werebison turns back into Lokum Asobgusil, dwarven child]

Advice? I'd try to weaponize him, but the rampage was too short to be useful...

[MenacesWithSpikes]

Now I want to see a Werebison fight a Weremammoth.

[Garath]

the child should actually make a run for it now

[weenog]

Catch him if at all possible.  Isolate him in a small room with your very toughest dwarves (preferably heavily defense trained but none too powerful on the attack) and a food and booze supply, and wait.  Field a powerful regenerating military.  Eventually forget to keep track of moon phase and watch them destroy your fortress from within.

[omniclasm]

Catch him if at all possible.  Isolate him in a small room with your very toughest dwarves (preferably heavily defense trained but none too powerful on the attack) and a food and booze supply, and wait.  Field a powerful regenerating military.  Eventually forget to keep track of moon phase and watch them destroy your fortress from within.

Build a separate place, away from your fort for the werearmy. Seal them in with a raising bridge. Give them an armor stand to train with, beds and whatever to keep them happy.

If moon comes up while a siege is underway...cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

[weenog]

I was thinking use 'em as attackers even without the shifting, just don't train them to attack beforehand so they don't accidentally kill the werethingy before it infects every last one of them.

[zuglar]

Catch him if at all possible.  Isolate him in a small room with your very toughest dwarves (preferably heavily defense trained but none too powerful on the attack) and a food and booze supply, and wait.  Field a powerful regenerating military.  Eventually forget to keep track of moon phase and watch them destroy your fortress from within.

Catch, as in cage trap, right? He won't need food/booze, will he? Seems like he shouldn't.

So the main draw here is that they regenerate health (even lost body parts) at every form change? I guess that could be extremely handy for those times where a goblin axeman gets off some lucky swings...

Do werecreatures ever use their weapons when the moon is up? I'd heard somewhere that they don't, but this werebison was all too willing to use his hooves, so now I wonder. Armor is out, I'd imagine, given the size.

[omniclasm]

Catch him if at all possible.  Isolate him in a small room with your very toughest dwarves (preferably heavily defense trained but none too powerful on the attack) and a food and booze supply, and wait.  Field a powerful regenerating military.  Eventually forget to keep track of moon phase and watch them destroy your fortress from within.

Catch, as in cage trap, right? He won't need food/booze, will he? Seems like he shouldn't.

So the main draw here is that they regenerate health (even lost body parts) at every form change? I guess that could be extremely handy for those times where a goblin axeman gets off some lucky swings...

Do werecreatures ever use their weapons when the moon is up? I'd heard somewhere that they don't, but this werebison was all too willing to use his hooves, so now I wonder. Armor is out, I'd imagine, given the size.

Yeah, they drop everything.

Training unarmed is probably the best bet...though you should still have helmets to avoid FUN wrestling accidents.

[Garath]

hooves and horns are deadly weapons. Watch out for bizons, yaks, bulls, moose... stuff like those. Especially deadly in adventure mode if you're practicing sneaking over mountain terrain (no trees!) by holding the key down and reading a book in the meantime. Then have a run-in with some yaks

[weenog]

So the main draw here is that they regenerate health (even lost body parts) at every form change? I guess that could be extremely handy for those times where a goblin axeman gets off some lucky swings...

I hear tell they regenerate more than that.  You don't even need to feed the damn things.  They still want food, and booze, but form-shifting supposedly resets their hunger and thirst values.

Still might need to provide food and drink for your supersoldiers-to-be while they're waiting for it to happen, though.

[Quietust]

Just to clarify, that werebison "child" was an invader, not a migrant.