Hello, I am fairly new to the DF, and this is my second fortress, explanation is a little long so bare with me
I finally felt that i am starting to get the hang of it and made it into my second year without much of a problem, everyone seemed to be happy, working, drinking, eating, etc, but then some weird thing happened.
A goblin thief arrived to my fort and tried to get past, i assembled a squad of 5 dwarfs to quickly deal with the intruder when after a few second of chasing him my dwarfs went uphill and i got the message popping up on my screen which paused the game:
-The Wererhinoceros Shorast Erithtashem has come! A large rhinoceros twisted into humanoid form.
It is crazed for blood and flesh. Its eyes glow spring green. Its sepia hair is long and wavy. Now you
wili know why you fear the night.
A wererhnocerous has sprung from ambush!
What puzzles me is how exactly the dwarfs who were inside the fort got interrupted by him 3 times after the message and then the beast (i assume this refers to werewolf type creature) transformed into a goblin who started to interrupt my dwarfs again for a while during the transformation confusion. Right after i got a message that a dwarf named Ducim (my dissector) is no longer enraged where there was no previous message about anyone being enraged at all, this followed by him falling unconscious that gave error cancel Clean Self.
I disbanded that squad feeling all confused not knowing what had happened when i saw some blood splatter around unconscious dwarf, assuming he got hit by the intruder somehow, but there was no sign of the goblin.
Later there were a few notifications about a snatcher, goblin thief, kobolt thief who i tried to kill once again everything calmed down and no one was dead, injured dwarf was healing just fine.
Horror began after about 5-10 minutes of unpaused game.
- Ducim (dissector) has transformed into wererhinocerous!
lots of dwarfs started to get interrupted by him, next,
- Farmer Loloradag has been found dead.
interrupts again
- A cat bled to death
interrupts again
- Dwarf bled to death
- Dwarf bled to death
- Cat bled to death
- Dwarf bled to death
- Dwarf bled to death
- Soldier bled to death
Note that this has happened during the time when i promptly assembled a squad of 10 again to try and deal with him, this was happening while my dwarfs were swarming him in fact trying to kill.
Later he transformed back into dwarf again! (COME ON!)
More crazyness follows, i started getting messages that my recruit is harrasing and interrupting my other dwarfs from work, which recruit, i have no clue, was no way to determine even though i tried to track him. Again note that recruit harassment started immediately after the Ducim's transformation but that wasn't him harassing the rest because some messages show that Ducim himself was interrupted by recruit. One of the soldiers entered martial trance, then he exited it and afterwards he was struck down by someone or something. Interruptions continued, some other soldier entered the trance meanwhile soldier marked Soldier3 was struck down as well. Interruptions continue, lots of them, a page long. What happened next showed me who was the recruit (it is really odd because this person wasn't assigned to do anything as he was not nicknamed by me and was only hauling)
Minkot Erithhat has become a wrestler. this followed by another round of interruptions by a Wrestler this time, this wrestler was struck down too after a while.
Recruit interruptions continued once again!
I disbanded the squad still desperately trying to find out who is doing this and what is happening.
After disbanding Recruit was tagged as a Siege Operator (wave default tag) who once again was interrupting everyone.
The last message at this point that followed continuous interruptions by siege oprator is that my metalsmith is interrupting everyone...
I am really confused at this point because i haven't a clue whats going on and how to stop this madness.
Tried searching wiki, google something about wererhinoceros, there is no information at all, even on the forums i tried search, while found some references there was no useful info. If someone has an idea what is going on and how to deal with it please reply.
Thanks.