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[MoonLightBird]

I had noting to do, and a shitload of cats. I locked them in a cage, then I built a room at the entrance of the fort. I put the cage in the room and made it so the floodgates close and all 50 cats (and some kittens too....more than half) come pouring out. I had an orc attack and got 1 lone orc trapped in the room. He starts to slay them with a whip. Blood and kitty bits all over the place! He spent along time killing them, so long he starved to death! After he died there was one kitten still alive, Missing both eyes, ears, and it's right front leg and left back leg. The damn cat won't die! What should I do with this Dwarfly cat?
I was thinking of building it a grand burial room made with pure platinum for when it does die.

[Retro]

Well, you could do that. Alternatively, you could make lunch.

[smjjames]

Waiit a sec, I thought invaders don't need to eat or drink and so wouldn't starve to death?

[AnotherDwarvernDeath]

Unless you somehow modded in the need for invaders to eat (which I believe is impossible), then no, he wouldn't die. In one of my fortresses, I had ten goblins trapped in a little room, and I waited for about three years before I realized they weren't gonna starved.

I caved in the roof.

So, erm, yeah, I find the bit about a kitten surviving all of that a bit suspicious, as well. You'd think it would bleed to death very quickly.

[smjjames]

The orc starving part alone is suspicious enough.

[Bandages]

caught red handed 

[Deon]

Probably the cats were able to mass-adopt the poor orc while he was fighting for his life! Thus he became a member of your cat-ruled civ and lost his food/water/sleep invulnerabilities.

[Sysice]

Or, you know, the cats killed him.
50 cats can do a lot of damage.

Hm... I'm thinking throw in the weakest thing you can find once a year. See how long the cat lasts.

[MoonLightBird]

I can't wait for the next release so I can see if it got cuddled to death. I wish we had combat logs now. And the cat did die after 3 weeks of passing out all the time.

[smjjames]

I can't wait for the next release so I can see if it got cuddled to death. I wish we had combat logs now. And the cat did die after 3 weeks of passing out all the time.

Agreed, it would probably answer some potential mysteries as theres always some wierd stuff popping up.

[jryan]

Maybe he died from a million scratches.

[Deimos56]

I can't wait for the next release so I can see if it got cuddled to death. I wish we had combat logs now. And the cat did die after 3 weeks of passing out all the time.

If I remember right, the saves won't be compatible.
I suppose you could recreate the situation, though.

[MoonLightBird]

Thats what I'm going to have to do. Might make for a funny combat log.

[alway]

Heh, sounds like the dwarf I had who singlehandedly saved what turned out to be one of my best forts, by not dieing for over a year with both arms and a leg gone and without anyone bringing food/water until migrants showed up. 
He nearly lived, but mysteriously bled out.

[NW_Kohaku]

If you feel guilty, though... Think about all the engravings you will have of cats from now on.

I stopped butchering all my extra dogs (just letting them hit pop cap) after I kept getting engravings of dogs screaming, and figuring that would be bad for morale...