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[DS]

My current fortress, Syrupurns, recently experienced a violent werebeast attack. The creature in question, a goblin werepanther (awesome!) tore apart two children and a woodcutter before setting upon a nearby ranger, Erush Boatswipe, who happened to be firing upon it. The werepanther landed a solid bite on Erush's right lower leg and shook it around a bit before my captain of the guard (a legendary miner) did it in:





That happened in late winter. It's currently late summer in the next year (the human caravan just arrived), but Erush has yet to shapeshift into a werepanther herself. I'm positive that Erush was, in fact, the dwarf who was bitten, as evidenced by her profile which I screencapped immediately after the attack:



Is this a bug? Does a werecurse not transmit via biting 100% of the time?

[Urist Da Vinci]

The initial bite didn't pierce the leather trousers, as shown in the combat report, so only bruising was done and no curse transmission happened. The shaking, which did draw blood, is tensile type damage and was not done by the teeth, per se, so no curse transmission happened.

[DrTaco]

It's only a flesh wound!

[Cobbler89]

Don't they have to inject their venom, not merely bite?

[DS]

The initial bite didn't pierce the leather trousers, as shown in the combat report, so only bruising was done and no curse transmission happened. The shaking, which did draw blood, is tensile type damage and was not done by the teeth, per se, so no curse transmission happened.

That explains things nicely, thank you.