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viila

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Ghost of who?
« on: January 31, 2012, 02:21:47 pm »
I just had a ghost of Litast Idalen, beekeeper appear to haunt my fortress...

Who is he? To my knowledge, he hasn't died in my fort. He's not in my unit list (deceased or otherwise). His body or remains doesn't appear to be anywhere on the map (and no creatures have died in a way their bodies are destroyed or unretrievable). And the coffin that he has been auto-assigned to is empty.

Ok, I'll engrave a slab, but what gives? Where'd he come from?
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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 02:27:21 pm »
Did you reclaim a fort?  I think this sort of thing can happen if you do.  Otherwise, I haven't a clue.
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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 02:29:02 pm »
It's possible that he could have been a merchant or diplomat. IIRC though the merchants and diplomats have skills, they aren't counted as members of their respective professions until after they have died.
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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2012, 03:02:18 pm »
Once the previous liason is dead, they appoint a new one. If you have the current liason trapped /abandon then reclaim, they'll send random Dwarves with their professions showing. (Soap maker diplomats are the subtlest diplomats)
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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2012, 04:08:29 pm »
Quote from: Telgin on January 31, 2012, 02:27:21 pm
Did you reclaim a fort?  I think this sort of thing can happen if you do.  Otherwise, I haven't a clue.

First player fort in the world. No reclaim.

Quote from: i2amroy on January 31, 2012, 02:29:02 pm
It's possible that he could have been a merchant or diplomat. IIRC though the merchants and diplomats have skills, they aren't counted as members of their respective professions until after they have died.

To my knowledge no dwarven merchants or guards have died, but that's not impossible. The caravan did once tussle with a cyclops, but I didn't notice any casualties. (They saved one of my dwarves even that was too slow to get inside.)

A human caravan did get massacred by a goblin siege, but this isn't a human ghost (at least the description says it's fond of drink and industry). Would human merchants leave ghosts anyway?

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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2012, 04:10:11 pm »
No. Right now the only creatures that leave ghosts are dwarves.
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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2012, 05:57:10 pm »
Quote from: i2amroy on January 31, 2012, 04:10:11 pm
No. Right now the only creatures that leave ghosts are dwarves.

No, the only ghosts you'll get will be from creatures defined as part of the entity you're playing with that are a part of your civilisation ;)
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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2012, 06:26:53 pm »
In other words, ghosts are annoying because sometimes they are unexplained, like they should be... :P
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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2012, 06:38:13 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 31, 2012, 05:57:10 pm
Quote from: i2amroy on January 31, 2012, 04:10:11 pm
No. Right now the only creatures that leave ghosts are dwarves.
No, the only ghosts you'll get will be from creatures defined as part of the entity you're playing with that are a part of your civilisation ;)
I suspected this was true but wasn't 100% certain. Thanks for answering the question though, nobody who was on the modding forum at the time of my first post seemed to know the answer.
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2012, 02:08:11 am »
I'm fairly sure I also had a diplomat or merchant die, and have his profession change to a spinner or something.
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« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2012, 01:59:26 am »
I wonder if it was a dwarf that died in that area during worldgen?
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Re: Ghost of who?
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2012, 02:14:45 am »
Quote from: C27 on February 03, 2012, 01:59:26 am
I wonder if it was a dwarf that died in that area during worldgen?

That doesn't happen as far as I know.
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