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Five chickens

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A polar bear man scholar keeps stealing my library books
« on: November 24, 2019, 02:29:28 pm »
This time, I tried to target him for death on my squad screen, but I got a long list of scholars, none of whom were listed as polar bear men.  (I had written down the name of the last polar bear man scholar to visit my fortress.)

How can I get this guy?
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PatrikLundell

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Re: A polar bear man scholar keeps stealing my library books
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2019, 02:38:15 pm »
On average, scholars probably leave more books behind than they steal. If they had one when they arrived they'd have to drop that one to take one of yours, scholars also write books occasionally (assuming you've got the materials available), although sometimes they arrive without a book and leave with one... I don't bother, though.

The only way to murder him with the current release is to wait until he returns to the fortress.
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Re: A polar bear man scholar keeps stealing my library books
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2019, 05:45:41 pm »
I tend to prevent that with the double library method.
One for my Hoppleheads that contains al the books
and one for the visitors where they can write as many books as they want.
Avoids the stealing issue since they dont have access to the books.
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Re: A polar bear man scholar keeps stealing my library books
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2019, 10:07:14 pm »
Quote from: Five chickens on November 24, 2019, 02:29:28 pm
...How can I get this guy?
If he is in your fort but you cannot target him with soldiers, try to lock him between doors to trap him, then you can proceed from there (drowning, dropping, etc).
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Re: A polar bear man scholar keeps stealing my library books
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2019, 08:46:35 pm »
Quote from: PatrikLundell on November 24, 2019, 02:38:15 pm
On average, scholars probably leave more books behind than they steal. If they had one when they arrived they'd have to drop that one to take one of yours, scholars also write books occasionally (assuming you've got the materials available), although sometimes they arrive without a book and leave with one... I don't bother, though.

The only way to murder him with the current release is to wait until he returns to the fortress.

Ah.  In this case, I won't worry about it.  Thank you for pointing this out (and thanks also for the other responses).
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