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[pbnjoe]

I've become a famous hero; I asked to serve the populace and they sent me to seek a man in a fort to get a quest from him.
Sadly, he's better at hiding then I am seeking.
I've searched the ground, all the floors of the building in the center of the fort, and every floor of every tower. I can't find this guy. It's the middle of the day if for some reason that would change it.

Anybody know why I can't find him?

[pbnjoe]

No-one's ever had this problem?

[the woods]

Look for a rectangular building that's within the main walls and separate from them. He should be in there. If you can't find him in the keep then it could be a glitch where he's in a room without doors, or some other weird thing.

[pbnjoe]

Yeah, that's what I meant by the building in the centre of the fort, and odd, because the marker told me to go east whenever i went in the building. Sadly, I can't test this anymore because I got sick of waiting, went out, and walked off a cliff by accident (meant to swim in a river, but the river was a couple z-levels down). Maybe I'll try to get a new adventurer up to the same status to get the same quest.

[itisnotlogical]

Somewhat related, I got a quest to seek out a vampire in a town. However, following the quest marker leads me to a bridge over a river with no vampire in sight. Is he underground or something?

[pbnjoe]

I'm not sure, though I honestly get lots of quests where the people/monsters are not able to be found by using (at least just) the quest marker. Maybe I should change the thread of the title to "We can't find anyone"

It seems to me that when you're over top of the quest site the cardinal direction symbol changes to a "+" until you're on the right level and it does the usual "***"

[Orange Wizard]

I don't know about the guy in his fort problem, I've never seen that before. As for the marker for the vampire, the marker directs you to the edge of the town the vampire's in. Inside the town, you can ask random people about "service", and they should direct you to the vampire's house; i.e., "Search first in a cottage to the southwest." You'll know you've found the right house when the random people no longer give a direction about the cottage.

[Starver]

I've just started out a peasant adventurer, whom a local Cheesemaker in his starting location gleefully directed to deal with more than a dozen 'threats', until going "Isn't that enough for you?"...

Notably, one of the CotNs he was sent to deal with[1] appeared to be in the next village over, but was actually in a cave a short distance away from it (the same tile on world-scale maps).  As the first Adventurer I've played in 0.34.11, and for several versions beforehand, I took a while to work out the town-plan (and equivalent local terrain area) maps, but am now finding those to be very interesting[2] and informative.  And at least now one doesn't have the "TSK"ed site-direction indicator giving out at a large distance from the cave, and having to run a 'search pattern' from there on in.  Cave entrances are utterly findable.

(And so far I've found every single target at the back of such a cave.  I've still got quite a few more enemies to target, after querying at other townships, so maybe eventually I'll get a non-cave one. [As now ninjaed, obviously I've got that to come...])

You probably already know this, but being new to this feature myself I might as well mention it...

Of course, if he's in the town, no idea.  I remember having difficulty with some contracts in a much older version (was it a druid I was seeking, or am I misremembering drastically what his job-title was?), where there was a copious population wandering in the open around the 'embark tile'-sized destination and I couldn't find the guy I was looking for at all.  Could be that problem again.


[1] Actually a potential were-beast, that one, but one of the really pathetic ones who was a Peasant him/herself when I found him.  The "cave fish man vampire" was a lot more difficult, for the obvious reasons, and even worse than the Lions.  Not yet been to any of the outlaw camps, yet.

[2] Because I'm still training ambushing, I'm only using them as reference (when I'm not prohibited from Travelling due to proximity to obstacles and cave-sites.

[pbnjoe]

As for the marker for the vampire, the marker directs you to the edge of the town the vampire's in.

Genius, never really thought about that before. Did know about the cottage thing though, oddly enough.

[Mr. Dwarfinton]

I've also been sent to find a person I cant find, a goblin vampire. The townspeople say that it's located in a leather clothing shop east of them. I have looked inside every shop in the town and there're only elves and humans. Any tips?

[Blafnigem]

I've also been sent to find a person I cant find, a goblin vampire. The townspeople say that it's located in a leather clothing shop east of them. I have looked inside every shop in the town and there're only elves and humans. Any tips?

To the sewers with you!

[Orange Wizard]

I've also been sent to find a person I cant find, a goblin vampire. The townspeople say that it's located in a leather clothing shop east of them. I have looked inside every shop in the town and there're only elves and humans. Any tips?

To the sewers with you!

Huh. Sounds like that's a viable solution.
If I were you I'd just skip that one; the sewers are deathtraps.

[pbnjoe]

If I were you I'd just skip that one; the sewers are deathtraps.

Not from my experience. There are easy walking paths (the place is never flooded from what I've seen), and almost everything down there is dead and skeletal. More boring than deadly.

[Orange Wizard]

Really?
The cave fish man spearman charges you!
You tangle together and fall over!
The cave fish man spearman stabs you in the left lower leg, shattering the bone!
The flying -fungiwood blowdart- strikes you in the head, shattering the skull, jamming the skull through the brain and tearing the brain!
You have been struck down.

[pbnjoe]

Yes, really. Never happened to me before. Everyone's always been dead for ages. As for being hit so hard, get better Dodge