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[thriggle]

Okay, now I got a visit not from a poet, not from a bard, not from a dancer or musician... but from a slave.

And this elf slave has petitioned to join Lordknife for the purpose of entertaining citizens and visitors.

How can I say no to that?

[Broseph Stalin]

That was fixed in either 42.02 or 42.03, I believe.

I think it was supposed to be fixed in 42.02 but I got a human bowman vampire nonetheless.

[Ysyua]

That was fixed in either 42.02 or 42.03, I believe.

I think it was supposed to be fixed in 42.02 but I got a human bowman vampire nonetheless.

Was this in a fort you started in 42.01 or .02? Might be worth reopening the issue if it's still happening.

[Bouchart]

I had a human vampire guest in .02 so it isn't fixed yet.

[thriggle]

Update on the potential of a necromancer tower fortress:

My milita squad containing a single necromancer discovered a tragic truth today when they were issued orders to kill some wild boars.

It appears that necromancers will raise zombies from nearby corpses only if there is an enemy within their line of sight. Additionally, the zombies will immediately attack the necromancers. Sad times. It seems like my necromancer military will be more effective as marksdwarves.

In other news, the necromancer dwarves are all starting to get a little unfocused due to going so long without good food or drink. And the necromancy infection has ceased to spread because dwarves failed to return the three books containing the secrets of life and death to the library; they're just scattered about, lying uncared for on the floor of the fortress. I'm all out of wood, or I'd build some more book cases; my guess is that the books aren't being returned because the library is at capacity with the 57 books plundered from the tower.

[Rince Wind]

You can make the book cases out of other material I think.

[thriggle]

You can make the book cases out of other material I think.

Oh, you're right! They were buried under the "Rock" heading of the craftdwarf's shop, which is a little odd, since wooden ones can't be made under the "Wood" heading, but rather from the Carpenter's shop...

[FoiledFencer]

The "Caves are dangerous" burrow was briefly raised to facilitate cage-trapping and my legendary clothier instantly got into an altercation with a giant bat which stole his cloak and then exploded his throat with it... so, yeah.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A scholar also produced his second great work! "Dreams of the Dwarf", which is... an essay concerning the making of his first work "A Course on the Dwarf". Which was an autobiography.

[martinuzz]

Apparently, none of my dwarves are suitable cat owners. After 3 years of being uninterested, one of my embark cats adopted a (petitioned) human bard.

EDIT: Also, those rhesus macaques on my map are not the brightest of their kind. They are stealing stone blocks instead of tasty fruits.

[Ysyua]

Apparently, none of my dwarves are suitable cat owners. After 3 years of being uninterested, one of my embark cats adopted a (petitioned) human bard.

EDIT: Also, those rhesus macaques on my map are not the brightest of their kind. They are stealing stone blocks instead of tasty fruits.

That's what you think.

Meanwhile in the Jungles of Pleating: The macaque fortress Tailsplinters is an impressive monolith. Its halls are filled with spoiled plunder and constructed with the stolen blocks of 31 different civilizations.

[LMeire]

Genned a new world where the dwarves were conquered in the year 65, world-gen ended on 400 and now the only civilizations left are the humans that wiped everyone out and a goblin civ that's on another continent. From what I can tell, the "Union of Armor" is directly responsible for the destruction of the only dwarves, a goblin civ, the only elves and another human civ; no doubt they'd have gotten the other goblins too if only they could sail. Pretty much all of the books in Legends mode are written "with a hint of viciousness" so I can only imagine that these humans are far more goblin-ny than actual goblins.

Anyway, I started a new embark and proceeded to take a year channeling and smoothing a massive ramp into the fortress entrance until a king got elected. Then his wife got a weaponsmithing mood so now I'm scrambling to get their rooms set up while managing her currently impossible mood.

[EuphoriaToRegret]

Four of the fortresses I've possessed have been attacked by numerous werebeasts... all camels.

In the newest fortress, a migrant dwarf from Torchsmoke (the third fortress) who had been infected with the curse, decided to show up.
I'm not so concerned as to a ticking werebeast bomb showing up as I am to the fact that I had locked that particular dwarf behind a stone wall to forever be forced to do bookkeeping.

Do dwarves in retired fortresses dig on their own?
Or is it just that dwarves will go through migrant waves even if they possess no possible way of reaching your fort?

[NJW2000]

Four of the fortresses I've possessed have been attacked by numerous werebeasts... all camels.

In the newest fortress, a migrant dwarf from Torchsmoke (the third fortress) who had been infected with the curse, decided to show up.
I'm not so concerned as to a ticking werebeast bomb showing up as I am to the fact that I had locked that particular dwarf behind a stone wall to forever be forced to do bookkeeping.

Do dwarves in retired fortresses dig on their own?
Or is it just that dwarves will go through migrant waves even if they possess no possible way of reaching your fort?

He convinced them to let him out.

[nekoexmachina]

I have quite a lot of people meditating on 'Suicide'. :>

[TheFlame52]

Fact one: If a dwarf carries an object long enough, they will own it, and therefore not put it down.
Fact two: Werebeasts like to wrestle objects away from their owners.

I now have a leatherworker and a werellama dueling with beer pots outside the fort.