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[Lyceq]

Aban Dodókčrith the hunter is quite tenacious. After becoming bored with hunting Giant Badgers and Gigantic Pandas, he decided to hunt in the caverns below. Turning a corner he comes face to face with a Giant Olm.

Combat Ensues:

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The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the right front leg, tearing the muscle!
The yak bone bolt has lodged firmly in the wound!
The Giant Olm charges at The Hunter!
The Giant Olm bites The Hunter in the right foot, bruising the fat through the pig tail fiber shoe!
The Giant Olm collides with The Hunter!
The Hunter is knocked over and tumbles backward!
The Giant Olm bites The Hunter in the right lower arm, bruising the bone through the draltha leather cloak!
The Giant Olm latches on firmly!
The Giant Olm shakes The Hunter around by the right lower arm, tearing apart the right lower arm's muscle and bruising the bone!
An artery in the right lower arm has been opened by the attack, many nerves have been severed, a ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Giant Olm shakes The Hunter around by the right lower arm, tearing apart the right lower arm's muscle and bruising the bone!
An artery in the right lower arm has been opened by the attack, many nerves have been severed, a ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Giant Olm bites The Hunter in the right upper leg, bruising the muscle through the draltha leather cloak!
The Giant Olm latches on firmly!
The Giant Olm shakes The Hunter around by the right upper leg, tearing apart the right upper leg's muscle and bruising the bone!
An artery in the right upper leg has been opened by the attack, many nerves have been severed and a tendon has been torn!
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the upper body, tearing the muscle and tearing the left lung!
The Giant Olm is having trouble breathing!
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the right rear leg, chipping the bone!
A tendon has been torn!
The Giant Olm gives in to pain.
The Giant Olm falls over.
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the right front leg, chipping the bone!
A tendon has been torn!
The Giant Olm regains consciousness.
(Note: The Giant Olm begins fleeing.)
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the lower body, tearing the muscle and tearing the guts!
The Giant Olm looks sick!
The yak bone bolt has lodged firmly in the wound!
(Vomiting, retching and passing out ensues.)
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in th eleft rear leg, chipping the bone!
A tendon has been torn!
(More vomiting and retching.)
The Giant Olm regains consciousness.
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the lower body, tearing the muscle and tearing the pancreas!
The yak bone bolt has lodged firmly in the wound!
The Giant Olm gives in to pain.
(Vomiting and retching.)
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the tail, chipping the bone!
A tendon has been torn!
(Fading in and out of consciousness.)
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the lower body, tearing the muscle and tearing the guts!
The Giant Olm looks even more sick!
The yak bone bolt has lodged firmly in the wound!
(Even more vomiting and retching.)
The flying yak bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the right front leg, chipping the bone!
A tendon has been torn!
(Standing, vomiting, passing out and retching, again.)
The flying turkey bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the lower body, tearing the muscle and tearing the guts!
The Giant Olm looks even more sick!
(Vomiting, retching, standing and passing out some more.)
The flying turkey bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the right rear foot, chipping the bone!
A motor nerve has been severed, a ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
(More vomiting, retching and passing out. No more standing up though.)
The flying turkey bone bolt strikes The Giant Olm in the head, tearing the muscle and tearing the brain!

To recap, Aban got off the first shot but it wasn't enough. The Giant Olm rushed him and tore apart and arm and a leg. At such close quarters, Aban gets off a shot in the Olm's lung. This causes the Olm to flee. Bleeding out and unable to stand, Aban shoots the Giant Olm in the leg to keep him from fleeing and then blows the Olm's brain out.

He then staunches his bleeding and begins a slow one-armed crawl to the Giant Olm in order to return his kill. Several days have passed and he is half way to the Olm. Since he never passed out, no one is coming to help him. And since he is dead set on returning the kill, no one is coming to retrieve the Olm's corpse. At this rate the corpse is going to rot and Aban is going to starve, all alone is the deep recesses of a cavern, with nothing but his trophy and his useless hunting dog to keep him company.

Is there anything we can do to help Aban out? Can a dwarf deliver crutches to him? Can his job be cancelled so another can haul the corpse? Anything at all?

[Sphalerite]

Press 'j' to see the jobs screen.  Find the job to retrieve the kill and cancel it.  Then go to Aban's Labor screen and turn off all his labors.

[Lyceq]

Press 'j' to see the jobs screen.  Find the job to retrieve the kill and cancel it.  Then go to Aban's Labor screen and turn off all his labors.

Cancelling jobs from the Jobs List sounds fantastically useful. How do I do this? I'm not seeing how to do this in the Job List hot key hints, forum searches or Google searches. The Wiki page for DF2010:Controls is blank.

[Sphalerite]

Press 'j'.  Press the down arrow until you have the job selected.  Press 'r'.  That should remove the dwarf from the job.  If that doesn't work, try forbidding the corpse.

[Frogwarrior]

I'm pretty sure jobs can only be canceled from the jobs screen if they're associated with a particular building. I don't think Return Kill jobs are, although I'm not sure (I don't hunt, really).

However, forbidding the corpse will probably work.

[Lyceq]

However, forbidding the corpse will probably work.

Good idea, but no luck. So obstinate... Perhaps he would abandon the job once he reaches the corpse, but that won't happen this year.

[Lyceq]

Press 'j'.  Press the down arrow until you have the job selected.  Press 'r'.  That should remove the dwarf from the job.

The remove creature option is grayed out and has no effect.

[Lyceq]

Aban finally reached the forbidden Olm corpse. He then abandoned the task. A dyer then received an ESP message from Aban to help him get to the hospital. I do believe he will live, if infection doesn't get him.

[Lyceq]

Just when I thought Aban had settled down in the hospital to recover, he reminds me that he is a dwarf. So the chief medical dwarf walk up to him and says, "You need a good cleaning before I diagnose you." Aban replies, "Not now doctor, I have a brilliant idea for a chain made of bones!"

So off he crawls to create Mostodled, also known as Shameracks. I suppose he felt it was atonement for being mauled by his mark. Here is the description.

This is a yak bone chain. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with deer bone. This object menaces with spikes of yak bone, rope reed fiber and copper. On the item is an image of Basespasses the giant cave spider silk bag in cat leather.

Basespasses is setup in the hospital and contains the thread that will be used to stitch up his wounds. It must have made an impression on him.

This chain is rather timely; I was about to setup a well in the waterfall room.

[Girlinhat]

This is fairly glorious.  I can just imagine the hunter, silently fuming about his lost kill.  Not that he missed the kill, but that he, a proper hunter, left the fresh corpse in the dirt.  Sure, someone else went to retrieve it, but it was his task, his duty, that he failed.  It's left him laying there in bed, drinking Armok-forsaken water and staring at this gloriously constructed bag that the doctor keeps reaching into.  He doesn't need any damned stitches or crutches.  He needs to grab a pack full of bone bolts and go kill some more damn animals!  It all comes down to the bones, after all.  More kills means more bones, and those bones become bolts, so that he can kill more.  Bones all the way down.  Such brittle, sharp bones...  Hmm...