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[Flaede]

So my airlock system forgot, you know, to actually seal out the AIR.

NOT COOL, DF2010.

Well, actually, it's very cool. It just took me by surprise. Also, I paid 5000 for those steel gauntlets, dammit. (funded by Golden Salve. "The burney feeling let's you know it's working!")

[slothen]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Maybe not invisible, but vultures and buzzards.

[Bishop36]

My high school teachers didn't believe me about invisible flying final project thieves, maybe they should play DF and realize how wrong they are!

[Flaede]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

All ground and water based entries are entirely walled off and have been for multiple seasons. And yet I had two thefts. On top of this, the only ground based exit to my fort, when it IS open, has 3 mules strung across it. This has been like this for longer than the past game year. How could a thief walk through this and not be caught? how could two?

Maybe not invisible, but vultures and buzzards.

The place is prone to buzzards, but all the visible buzzards were dead for this same length of time, and no visible flying units were on the map. Believe me, I already had a buzzard attack. Only groundhogs and horses were on the map. (not counting the critters in the caverns, which have no physical access, at any level)

[Eric Blank]

What did the announcements say stole them?

[Rotten]

Were there any items sitting around outside? Kobolds can steal those without becoming visible.

[Halo]

I've had my immigrants drop all kinds of crap when they first arrive, far away from the fortress and near the edge of the map. Lots of it got stolen

[Zangi]

Kobolds have some pretty durn good ambush skill.  I occasionally see them getting found inside the entrance of forts.  Its one way in and out and there is a lot of traffic...

[Flaede]

They stole from my depot. trust me, two masterwork steel gauntlets were NOT dropped by my migrants.
The ONLY path to the depot is 3 tiles wide.
It has three mules chained across it at one point.
There is a drawbridge that was closed since I got them (other than letting the traders leave) for the duration anyways.

The only hold in security is the traders leaving. How did the thief walk OVER my mules (and the traders, and the 3 departing warriors) without being spotted? That's some grandmaster legendary ambush skill right there, or a flying itemthief. It did not tell me what had stolen them, which bugs me.

[Psieye]

Just to check: all the underground entries to your fort are also accounted for, right? I assume so but you didn't explicitly say it.

[Flaede]

Just to check: all the underground entries to your fort are also accounted for, right? I assume so but you didn't explicitly say it.

Hm. you're right. I thought I had explicitly said it.
Yes. All underground entries aren't. As in, there are none. The last was underwater, was technically blocked by a fortification, and let in a flying webslinging poisonous leechbeast. It didn't even climb out of the well before I locked the doors to the room and walled it in.

[katyrnyn]

A suggestion: make a copy of the game's save, abandon, and go to the Legends mode.  That should tell you who stole the gauntlets.  I'm guessing kobolds, but it would be nice to know if there's a new threat hiding out there.   

[Headache]

Buzzards are the new and improved rhesus macaques.

In one of my recent, sandy desert biome fortresses, gangs of them staged regular raids once or twice a year, stealing prickle berry seed roasts from my food stores.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Buzzards are the new and improved rhesus macaques.

In one of my recent, sandy desert biome fortresses, gangs of them staged regular raids once or twice a year, stealing prickle berry seed roasts from my food stores.

Naked mole dogs will also do this, from the caverns. They don't fly, but they can run in and steal them before you notice there is an opening.