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[Kamamura]

It was a semi-joke from my side, apologies.

Let me rephrase my proposal - let your colony die, switch to Adventure mode, create a demigod character, put all points into Fighter, Spear and Dodge, come to your former embark site, stab the monster into pancreas, stab the monster into lungs, stab the monster into liver, stomp on its head when it falls over, die on some random kobold accident, embark with new colonists on the same site - and voila, problems solved.

You now have your old site minus the monster plus a lot of corpses plus a few months (minus all your carefully nurtured dwarf specialists you might have had in the original fortress) minus kittens, puppies, etc. plus heaps of FUN!!!

Can't go wrong here, that will be 178USD for consultation, thank you, next!

[Ieb]

Are night creatures trapimmune? You could try capturing it and putting it up on display.
You could go doublesure, and get a GCS somewhere and chain it near the cagetrap. Guy walks out, sees GCS, goes in for the kill. GCS spits web, guy is tangled in web, repeat until it is caught in web at a cagetrap spot and is caught. Profit!

You could then just throw him in your dining hall and everyone has parties around the cage, kids marvelling at the horrors of the night. And then when it all goes to hell, the guy will just have a new home. Assuming that he is freed from the cage upon fort death. If not, put up a pressure plate at the fort entrance and hook it up to the guy's cage so it's released when the plate is activated. Enable trap activation on Adventurer mode, go to your old fort, *CLICK*, let the games begin.

[Encased in burning magma]

If not, put up a pressure plate at the fort entrance and hook it up to the guy's cage so it's released when the plate is activated. Enable trap activation on Adventurer mode, go to your old fort, *CLICK*, let the games begin.

But there is no way to recage him .
I would rather put pressure plates that open bridges connecting various sections of your fort in random patterns, isolating invaders from each-other, and tossing some of them in dark, damp pits. Let the hunt... begin.

[UnrealJake]

It was a semi-joke from my side, apologies.

Let me rephrase my proposal - let your colony die, switch to Adventure mode, create a demigod character, put all points into Fighter, Spear and Dodge, come to your former embark site, stab the monster into pancreas, stab the monster into lungs, stab the monster into liver, stomp on its head when it falls over, die on some random kobold accident, embark with new colonists on the same site - and voila, problems solved.

You now have your old site minus the monster plus a lot of corpses plus a few months (minus all your carefully nurtured dwarf specialists you might have had in the original fortress) minus kittens, puppies, etc. plus heaps of FUN!!!

Can't go wrong here, that will be 178USD for consultation, thank you, next!

See, Ieb is going about this the right way. Make the most of it, not just mindless slaughter! This is a rare creature, never seen before, that is pure and magical, we should honor this creature for all it's worth, for it is more valuable that anything Dwarf could make. Stick it in a cage and laugh at it.

[Ieb]

And if you're lucky, a tantruming kid will trash the cage.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Hmm. . .
Halloween parties, anyone?

[NewSheoth]

I think that drowning it is a good solution if you want to get rid of it. As I see it has no wings so it can't fly. If you can't drown it, try making a cave-in on the tile it occupies.
If you want to keep it, try to trap it. Cage traps are awesome. You can then try to use it to kill goblin sieges you catch in your cages.
Or just keep it sealed in its lair.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

I think that drowning it is a good solution if you want to get rid of it. As I see it has no wings so it can't fly. If you can't drown it, try making a cave-in on the tile it occupies.
If you want to keep it, try to trap it. Cage traps are awesome. You can then try to use it to kill goblin sieges you catch in your cages.
Or just keep it sealed in its lair.

I'm pretty sure night creatures are [TRAPAVOID], so you need to cause a cave-in to rocket him into a cage trap.

[Encased in burning magma]

I think that drowning it is a good solution if you want to get rid of it. As I see it has no wings so it can't fly. If you can't drown it, try making a cave-in on the tile it occupies.
If you want to keep it, try to trap it. Cage traps are awesome. You can then try to use it to kill goblin sieges you catch in your cages.
Or just keep it sealed in its lair.

I'm pretty sure night creatures are [TRAPAVOID], so you need to cause a cave-in to rocket him into a cage trap.

If they are anything like FBs, you can only web.

[Skwerl]

A have Sasquash in my current fort. He is quite unfriendly neighbor but he's truly lazybones and don't go out much so I was fine with him. When kobold thief tried to rob him he had promptly brutalized intruder, alas one not so clever woodcutter decided to move corpse to refuse stockpile and had angered the owner of cavern, what's worse he brought him right into our fort I had to activate said woodcutter and he managed to live long enough for our better trained woodcutter and caravan guard to arrive. Reinforcements managed to wound him and chase him away. Later he had returned and performed a little jogging along with  liaison, and finally calmed down and went home.

These things are new addition, and main target for adventurers quests. They're something like semi-semi-megabeast (or a forgotten ones), yours looks tougher though, being night creature.

That's very interesting how you are afraid of a Sasquatch, I embarked as per normal recently in a mostly mountain with forest and a small river, my hunter right off the bat goes to do his thing, kills something like 4 giant eagles a pack of wolves and 2 sasquatches that happened to wander into my area without so much as flinching....

No real point I just wanted to brag.

[nordak]

skilled hunters are sometimes better than an entire squad of marksdwarves.

[Urist McUristy]

I think that drowning it is a good solution if you want to get rid of it. As I see it has no wings so it can't fly. If you can't drown it, try making a cave-in on the tile it occupies.
If you want to keep it, try to trap it. Cage traps are awesome. You can then try to use it to kill goblin sieges you catch in your cages.
Or just keep it sealed in its lair.

I'm pretty sure night creatures are [TRAPAVOID], so you need to cause a cave-in to rocket him into a cage trap.

If they are anything like FBs, you can only web.

And, as I said before, they don't breath, so they can't drown.

[Dishwater]

last time i fought a cracked skin thing its limbs fell off in one strike.
so it could be easy to kill unless i'm mistaken.

[Bronimin]

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[Deimos56]

Here's an idea.
1)Make a route to your fortress through his tunnel. Not the main route, mind, but find a way to make it accessible when you want it to be and not when you... don't. Yeah. Add doors, I guess?
2)Wait for a siege to come.
3)Close all other entrances.
4)Unlock Rakust's doors (Make sure you can control your civilian population during this time...
5)When siege enters Rakust's room, lock all doors so the fight doesn't enter your fortress proper.
6)After Rakust/the siege dies, laugh maniacally. Because you can.
7)If siege survived, they can replace Rakust and (assuming they don't starve or go nuts) are your new siege defense. For other warring civilizations at least. Congratulations.

Would probably work best if multiple civilizations are at war with you, and even better, each other as well.

Make sure Rakust can't get into your fort by sealing him in with doors when not in use. Assuming he can't bust doors. But then, why would he bother with one?