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Dear Urist McHaulerson,
                                    All I asked was for you to bury Urist Gemcutter's body. We had a coffin and everything. Instead, three years later, his rotting corpse is still sitting there. No-one wants to use the workshop because of it. You keep complaining about having to see his body each time you go to the crafts stockpile. His ghost is actively haunting us. I know you hauled something, because only half his skeleton is there. What did you do with it? Actually, don't tell me. Just bury the bloody thing.

                                   Love and Kisses,
                                                            Your Overseer

Reclaiming fortresses in a dead world, and quite a few of the doors/walls/etc are made of 'Unknown Material'. Is this a bug or related to the circus?

Using 40.24, LNP, DF hack.

My home civilization is mostly dead, afaik, being warned of such on embark, though no-one was appointed to fill in the gaps. The first two migrant waves arrived, followed by merchants (without liason, which was remarked on in an announcement). They unloaded, refused to trade (even with broker present, said there was no merchants trading at the time), then re-loaded their carts and prompty stopped moving. The guards wander about near their merchant, but the wagons, animals, and traders are frozen in different spots across the map.

Primary questions:
Is this because they have no-where to return to?
Will they go insane eventually?
If they do, can I defend myself w/o going into a loyalty cascade?

Secondary question:
Can I take their stuff out of the wagons while they're sitting there?

Nah, no messages. And there are certainly more dwarves in the world. Plenty in legends

did you get any migrant waves after the initial two hardcoded ones? I assume you got those...

No migrants at all, period. Only the seven from embark

Possible war at your mountainhome? Whole place may have been destroyed by a were-rabbit during the two weeks you were travelling to the embark. Checking Legends will give you some hints. Might just be something simple like a vast army of goblins camping just outside your site.

Any way to check that without bouncing retire?

Liasons will only go insane after their meeting. Until then, they can spend years doing random things or locked into small rooms.

There is a bug where wagons de-spawn, which counts as an attack and causes merchants to flee. Don't know about the liason, pretty sure he would have stuck around. Sure he's not around somewhere? Or dead in a pond?

As far as repercussions, I'm fairly certain attacks not originating from you don't trigger anything in and of themselves. Though if enough build-up, people get suspicious.