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[dirkzen]

So.. lets say one of your dwarves somehow becomes a necromancer..  (if this is at all possible, i'm not exactly sure.. but lets theorize)  ..and starts reanimating corpses in your fortress.
He controls them,  so now you have a small shambling army to guard the outer reaches of your fortress as a first line of defense. 
...or as further entertainment for your elf concentration happy camps.

Do you think this would affect dwarf morale?
He has been happy lately.  He has admired a fine door lately.  He has been depressed by the shuffling corpse of his brother lately...

[Eddren]

I was thinking that, perhaps it would be impossible in Fortress Mode.
However, if you captured a Necromancer, and then dropped him whatever bodies happened to be lyin' around...

[TheeBaconman]

I was thinking that, perhaps it would be impossible in Fortress Mode.
However, if you captured a Necromancer, and then dropped him whatever bodies happened to be lyin' around...

And then unleashed them on the goblins....

[dirkzen]

I was thinking that, perhaps it would be impossible in Fortress Mode.
However, if you captured a Necromancer, and then dropped him whatever bodies happened to be lyin' around...

And then unleashed them on the goblins....

Weaponizing things before they're even implemented into the game.
I love you guys sometimes.

[Girlinhat]

Today I made a debug button that converted every dwarf but the first into a zombie that is also the first dwarf's child to test out the various negative thoughts from before.

Seems there's been some work done about "my child's corpse is attacking me" negative thoughts.  So it'll probably be similar to "endured the decay of a friend" but something like "endured the reanimation of a friend" or such.  I do look forward to the Science that shall be performed when necromancers are captured and used to atrocities, I mean... no wait, yeah, atrocities.

[Eddren]

No, what you really mean is, reanimate gore-fests. Bring about reanimated fleshbags, whose souls have been absorbed into the very essence of their master, allowing them infinite POWER! POWER WHICH CAN STRIKE DOWN THEIR FOES, AND CAUSE ARMOK AND HIS FOUR HOLY BEARDS TO TREMBLE! POWER WHICH CAN DWARF THE GREAT MONSTROSITIES OF HELL! POWER WHICH CAN bring back Urist Mcdeads left false rib. As a false-rib snake.

[TheeBaconman]

No, what you really mean is, reanimate gore-fests. Bring about reanimated fleshbags, whose souls have been absorbed into the very essence of their master, allowing them infinite POWER! POWER WHICH CAN STRIKE DOWN THEIR FOES, AND CAUSE ARMOK AND HIS FOUR HOLY BEARDS TO TREMBLE! POWER WHICH CAN DWARF THE GREAT MONSTROSITIES OF HELL! POWER WHICH CAN bring back Urist Mcdeads left false rib. As a false-rib snake.

Armok: *20 sieges and the carnival circus with FB with deadly dust*

[Iton Ibrukrithzam]

He has been happy lately.  He ate in a fine dining room recently.  He admired a masterful zombie lately.  He has complained about the nasty water recently.

[Mitchewawa]

"Oh no, mister unarmed elf merchant, please don't make me train on you again!"

I could just picture a gang of dwarves just hanging around the corpse pile, with a necromancer chained to the floor constantly reanimating the unarmoured elf-merchants and hoary marmots over and over while the big, burly militia kill them over and over for lots of experience.

This might be the next danger room.

[irdsm]

"Oh no, mister unarmed elf merchant, please don't make me train on you again!"

I could just picture a gang of dwarves just hanging around the corpse pile, with a necromancer chained to the floor constantly reanimating the unarmoured elf-merchants and hoary marmots over and over while the big, burly militia kill them over and over for lots of experience.

This might be the next danger room.

That's actually a really good idea...

[Melissia]

I had a fort that was killed by a veritable wave of zombie tigerfish in my first attempt at colonizing a sinister area

[Kromgar]

"Oh no, mister unarmed elf merchant, please don't make me train on you again!"

I could just picture a gang of dwarves just hanging around the corpse pile, with a necromancer chained to the floor constantly reanimating the unarmoured elf-merchants and hoary marmots over and over while the big, burly militia kill them over and over for lots of experience.

This might be the next danger room.

Oh my god... this is way better its not as op and way more fun.

[Benedict Hardy]

ASDAA

[Eddren]

Well, the idea was that Necromancers would just keep raising dead things until he was killed.
No, the problem I see is that eventually, the Dwarf will have hacked it into so many pieces, he'll be fighting 20 SMALL zombies, and not 1 AVERAGE zombie.

[Ubiq]

The easiest way to test this will be to have an Adventurer steal a book or tablet and drop it off at a site before switching over to Fortress Mode and embarking on it. If Reader is a skill that can be embarked with, you could just spend a few points in it and see if the dwarf does anything with it.

Otherwise, a way of training reading will have to be added in via a reaction or weapon.