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Apparently they can.  My only installed chain is an artifact chain in the baron's room, which is also right next to the hospital.  So when I convict him I get the notification that VAMPIRE has become a hammerer.  He trundles off to the nobles bedroom, chains himself up, and goes to town on his left arm, torso, and both legs.  Then someone will carry him to the hospital, where he gets better.  This last conviction he went from the hospital back to the barons room, became a hammerer again, and beat himself again.  When I checked on him in the hospital, he was glad his sentence had been reduced.

Wagons will roll down ramps that are three spaces wide.

A down on the surface, and up/down each level below that.

I've taken to making ramps though.  I channel a 3 wide block, then drop down one level and channel an adjacent 3 wide block, then down again and another channel, etc.

What about the master relationship?  What does that mean?

I had a corpse drained of blood.  There were about a dozen witnesses, all children.  A bit suspicious there, but what's the chance that Toady implemented mass false accusation by gangs of children, right?

So I had the vampire beaten, then I drafted him to fight an ettin.  I'm pretty certain he lost both a foot and a hand.  He seems to be better now though.  Which I wasn't expecting.  I was sort of looking forward to have a gimp vampire that had to hobble around.  Is it normal for vampires to heal like that?

I built a slab, and the slab says he is a vampire and killed the dwarf as accused by all those children, so I'm pretty sure I have the right vampire.  But if he was seen doing it, why doesn't he have a kill list when I view him?

But now I'm looking at him, and he is "unfocused after being unable to acquire alcohol" (I'd run out, and the whole fort was drinking water).  Is it normal for a vampire to crave alcohol?  I thought they didn't drink anymore?

His relationships list a master for him.  I've never seen anyone with a master.  Should that have been a red flag before the death?

His thoughts indicate that he was horrified to see the dwarf he killed die.  Is it normal for vampires to be affected by what they do?

Since I've never had a vampire before, I've left him alone after the initial beating.  He seems to spend all his time socializing, and no one else has turned up dead.  But it hasn't been a year yet. How often should I expect him to kill someone?

UPDATE:  He is discussing pulmonary medicine with someone.   I'm not sure if I should find that amusing or if I should prepare a coffin.

I haven't had time to play for a long time.  Since 42.03 came out.  I downloaded the latest version, made a world, and saw a piece of magma in the frozen ice, so I did a 1x1 embark there.  It was a poor choice.  The magma took up most of my embark, and for some reason my miner climbed to the rim and couldn't get back down.  So I told him to channel out the entire rim.  Magma poured down on everything, and my fortress was lost.  So I decided to try the reclaim option, since I never had.  I went back to that fort to see what the magma had done.  It appears nothing happened.  The rim was still gone, but magma was no longer cascading out.  It was just pooled up there.  So I abandoned it.

But when I had tried to reclaim it I noticed there were lots of things to reclaim that weren't mine.  So I reclaimed again.  My embark had a giant building, with a dwarf living in it (and an @ sign character model).  There was a shaft down that lead to something.  I saw a room filled with armor down there, so I designated a food stockpile next to it to force dwarves down to it.  I found more dwarves.  A baron, a baroness, a queen consort, a baroness consort, three human guests, and three magma crabs.

What?

What have I found here?

My king likes the sight of The Pristine Luxury.  It's the last item, after the mink men for their long bodies.

I can't figure out what The Pristine Luxury is though.  Neither "pristine" nor "luxury" find it when I search all the findable strings in legends.

I had two kids play make believe in the pile of goblin corpses for more than a year.  Not even the snowstorm dissuaded them.