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Dwarven WMD

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Ninja siege? (Not elves, nor a mod.)
« on: March 16, 2010, 01:02:24 am »
Alright, I was on my newest world on Dwarf Fortress. I'd already gotten thirty immigrants, and I planned on being above ground. Well, around the entire area I planned on building my fortress, I had a wall, with a highly decorated gate that had four sword toting guards at it. However, a nearby civilization was at war with me. Now, it originally said humans had entered. But I saw no humans. Just in case, I added four more guards to my gate, and I had them patrol.
Apparently, this human was a ninja, because next thing I know I see "A dwarf has been struck down." x2 on my logs. I paused the game and looked around, and saw no one. Looked at the page that had all the creatures on it, it showed a diplomat. Then, when I unpaused, ANOTHER guard dies. So I send the rest of my armed forces towards the gate, and midway along the road to the palace (Yes I built a palace.), a guard from the group I sent dies. Suddenly my men are chasing down the road to the palace before the finally manage to kill a human right before he opened the door to the palace.

Now, what the hell just happened? The only human on the creatures page is the diplomat, and he arrived moments before. The so called ninja's name doesn't come up on there anywhere, either. Not sure if it's a bug.
« Last Edit: March 16, 2010, 01:42:32 am by Dwarven WMD »
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Re: Ninja siege? (Not elves, nor a mod.)
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2010, 01:46:53 am »
Does your fort have any criminals listed on the Justice screen?  Do you have anyone in the Fortress Guard?  Someone noticed a while ago that if you have a Fortress Guard member but no Sheriff or cages/restraints set to be used for justice, that Fortress Guard will go around killing anyone who's committed crimes.
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Re: Ninja siege? (Not elves, nor a mod.)
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2010, 01:53:46 am »
Quote from: SkyRender on March 16, 2010, 01:46:53 am
Does your fort have any criminals listed on the Justice screen?  Do you have anyone in the Fortress Guard?  Someone noticed a while ago that if you have a Fortress Guard member but no Sheriff or cages/restraints set to be used for justice, that Fortress Guard will go around killing anyone who's committed crimes.

No criminals, and there is a Fortress Guard.
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The Russian loses juice.

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Re: Ninja siege? (Not elves, nor a mod.)
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2010, 02:29:19 am »
Maybe you forgot to put soldiers on duty, and they sparred each other to death?

Also, did you check the kill screens of your dwarves? If a dwarf is guilty of those murders, the game will list it.
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Re: Ninja siege? (Not elves, nor a mod.)
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2010, 04:13:48 am »
check for insanity as well. If a guy tantrums enough, he can just simply go berserk and start killing.
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Re: Ninja siege? (Not elves, nor a mod.)
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2010, 06:00:12 am »
The easiest way to find out what happened when your dwarfs die is to look in the z-stocks screen at the corpses list, from there you can zoom to the body (zooming doesn't work on the unit list screen for dead people.. sigh).  There's probably a human corpse in there too, although you won't really find out much more than his profession.
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