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[Slackratchet]

It's fairly early in my Fortress life. I am hiding behind my walls from a few swarms of goblins that my newbie military can do nothing about. A caravan wanders by and is slaughtered. Now the ghosts of the traders are haunting me and scaring people to death. Great.

[Sunday]

Because it's yoooooooour faaaaaaault.  OOOOoooooooOOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOO!

[Mel_Vixen]

Wait. Are you sure these are the traders Ghosts? This would be something new.

[Slackratchet]

here, a copy from my gamelog.txt

"Melbil Asteshthob, Ghostly Merchant has risen and is haunting the fortress!"

It's annoying since I can do nothing about it right now.

[chewie]

It's fairly early in my Fortress life. I am hiding behind my walls from a few swarms of goblins that my newbie military can do nothing about. A caravan wanders by and is slaughtered. Now the ghosts of the traders are haunting me and scaring people to death. Great.

scaring people to death.

Really? 

[Slackratchet]

Really. One of my Marksdwarves was scared to death in the middle of fighting.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Can you build a memorial for them?

[UnrealJake]

Because you can see why kids love the taste of Cinnaman crunch!

You can engrave some slabs, make a stone slab at a masons and engrave it at the craftshop.

My liason was killed about five seconds after he appeared, and he started to haunt so I just created a slab and he buggered off. Seempelz.

[Urist is dead tome]

I've never had to deal with ghosts before. Would it be dumb to intentionally get a ghost?

[UnrealJake]

Not if you say it's in the name of science!

If you're going to pick a "Volunteer" to die, name him Casper.

[Urist is dead tome]

On a related note. What would be the best way to get a specific ghost type?

[UnrealJake]

I'm not sure, I expect someone needs to do a few tests, it's probably relating to the Dwarfs personality while alive, but other factors may come into play. Will a murdered Dwarf be more violent? Will a suicide be more moany? Will a magma death create a sense of satisfaction that most of the bay12ers seem determined is achieved from magma?

[Dakk]

Hmmm I was thinking of conducting an experiment. Creating a fortress and subjecting my dwarves to several different types of treatment followed by death just to see what kind of ghost they spawn and to see if there's a pattern.

I shall do it for !!science!!

[Tcei]

In another thread around here, it was found that you can change the type of ghost by creating and deconing tombstones.

From my experience with ghost it seems mostly random what you will get. In one of my forts my military has terrible luck (damn ogre raids), the ghost seem to be mostly benign. The worst I've gotten is the one that follows his friends around.

[pixl97]

I've seen this issue with dwarven merchants getting killed and becoming ghosts later. Just build some coffins and place them (and remember to set them for burial). Your guys should go pick up the body and the ghost will go away.

If the body is completely gone, you'll have to make, engrave, and build a slab.