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[Zeebie]

My liaison keeps giving me a bizarre report of a kidnapping where the same victim is kidnapped from multiple sites:



This happens every year. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?

[TheHossofMoss]

Mosus seems to be a popular dwarf!

[Wastedlabor]

Or a professional ransom scammer

[Dirst]

"In a step toward increased efficiency, the Department of Missing and Abducted Children now officially renames any kidnapped child as Mosus Quakerubbed.  That way we only need to print the one missing person poster."

[FantasticDorf]

So goblin civs are stealing babies from each other? (may be the case that a lot of infants aren't being born) interesting.

[Talanic]

That, or kidnappers now hunt in packs, and a success is reported once for each surviving kidnapper.

[MonkeyHead]

Or maybe it was witnessed by more than one person, each of whom generated some kind of record of the event, all of which are now being passed around in parallel.

[Dust Bunnies]

Maybe it's a tag-team of kidnappers.

[MobRules]

But the news is coming from different settlements, implying that he was kidnapped from different settlements.

This requires legends-digging.

[suburbanplankton]

Perhaps it's some sort of reverse Dwarven hot potato...whichever settlement ends up with Mosus when the timer goes off, wins a prize!

[Urist McVoyager]

Yup. They win a prize alright. An adventurer kicking down the door, slaughtering every one of them to the last troll, and freeing the kidnapped child.

[Torrenal]

In my first fort to make progress, the first liason brought tell of 5 kidnappings, involving 3 kids and 4 different kidnappers.

Yes, one kid was kidnapped 3 times, by 2 different kidnappers.
At least, that's what the liason reported.  Whether it was one kidnapping or 3 I cannot say.

[Dirst]

It might be a shortage of historical figure children, or can a child become historical by getting kidnapped from the generic population?

[Zeebie]

The saga continues:



Even the humans are reporting on his kidnappings now.

[vjmdhzgr]

I noticed this once with some nodded baby snatchers playable race that showed up in my fortress. I checked legends mode and they had been kidnapped like, 5 times between a bunch of different hamlets.