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[Auto Slaughter]

Like as in mediums channeling the spirits of the dead, Scooby Doo!  Dwarves and other creatures should become possessed by the ghosts of dwarves who have passed away and should try to resume their previous lives: continue working at the "wrong" job, pursue the love affairs they had when they were alive, take revenge on those who killed them, maybe write messages in blood on the walls.  Poltergeist hauling would be cool too.

[TheyTarget]

hmmm. The addition of ghosts, or souls of the dead could work. Though I can just imagine ghost of hundreds of goblins, moving things randomly around my fort.

[Auto Slaughter]

How about an army of undead as in Return of the King?

[TheyTarget]

I doubt they would be useful. More like actually negative, giving you another incentive to not have dwarfs die. Though I can't think of many things right now. Kinda tired. Maybe in the morning.

[Kurouma]

The game already treats bodies as species-specific stock containers that hold a 'soul' object with all the individual's info attached to it. There is not currently any mechanism for souls to move around and there is always exactly one soul in a body at any time. However I think Toady mentioned he was looking into ways to flesh that out; ghosts and wandering spirits potentially being included. The 'Possessed' Strange Mood is actually meant to be a kind of temporary possession of the dwarf by another's soul/spirit, but the mechanics of that don't actually happen yet.
So yes, something like that might happen.

[TheyTarget]

The game already treats bodies as species-specific stock containers that hold a 'soul' object with all the individual's info attached to it. There is not currently any mechanism for souls to move around and there is always exactly one soul in a body at any time. However I think Toady mentioned he was looking into ways to flesh that out; ghosts and wandering spirits potentially being included. The 'Possessed' Strange Mood is actually meant to be a kind of temporary possession of the dwarf by another's soul/spirit, but the mechanics of that don't actually happen yet.
So yes, something like that might happen.

Me wanders. Could dwarfs who die in moods, possess other dwarfs and make them finish the mood? Would make sense to me, and dwarf coming back from the dead, to build a granite figurine of dwarfs.

[Bohandas]

Me wanders. Could dwarfs who die in moods, possess other dwarfs and make them finish the mood? Would make sense to me, and dwarf coming back from the dead, to build a granite figurine of dwarfs.

Now that's a cool suggestion!

[KaguroDraven]

The game already treats bodies as species-specific stock containers that hold a 'soul' object with all the individual's info attached to it. There is not currently any mechanism for souls to move around and there is always exactly one soul in a body at any time. However I think Toady mentioned he was looking into ways to flesh that out; ghosts and wandering spirits potentially being included. The 'Possessed' Strange Mood is actually meant to be a kind of temporary possession of the dwarf by another's soul/spirit, but the mechanics of that don't actually happen yet.
So yes, something like that might happen.

Me wanders. Could dwarfs who die in moods, possess other dwarfs and make them finish the mood? Would make sense to me, and dwarf coming back from the dead, to build a granite figurine of dwarfs.

If this where true it brings up another question, If someone who was possessed died before they could finish the mood, is it the original spirt who possesses someone else, or the new one, or both?

[Urist McMick]

If this happens then both souls suffer a critical quasi-existance failure. Or you call in the ghost busters.

[KaguroDraven]

Ah, I figured if a dwarf failed this badly Armok curses them with life as an elf.

[Auto Slaughter]

...dwarf coming back from the dead, to build a granite figurine of dwarfs.

Or even more mundane, I just had a clothier make a pair of underwear while in a mood.  That's right: artifact underwear.

("Hey baby, wanna see my artifact?")