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Deathfloors had just had its second goblin siege (the first one was just a squad of crossbow gobs). A squad of lashers lead by a spearmaster and a squad of axes lead by a hammerlord along with some trolls. On my side was 3 full squads -swords, war hammers and spears - poorly equipped and with very little training. I also had a squad of crossbows. The dwarfs managed to somehow win, loosing 15 soldiers and permanently crippling 3 others with nerve damage (all of them from the lashers). Highlight of the battle was probably when the axegoblins managed to sneak into my fort through the barracks door (while the soldiers were busy playing with trolls elsewhere). When I saw them going in, I expected a civilian massacre, but what happened next actually made me proud of my useless marksdwarfs for the first time. Two marksdwarfs that were late to party outside stopped by the barracks entrance and proceeded to use the one tile corridor as a choke point, peppering it with bolts and holding off any goblins attempting to enter the fort. They didn't actually  kill any of them, but they injured them enough to prevent them from entering the fort until they finally routed.
The fort has seemingly already recovered from the losses. The dead have been buried, the tantrums stopped and the squads have been replenished. Not to mention the newly acquired goblinite. Now, let's hope there's not gonna be lashers next time...

Oh...It seems like they're all wearing gloves and mittens. I guess gauntlet's won't go over them. Gonna try and tell them to replace clothing I guess.

EDIT: It worked! Thanks. Now, are they gonna get bad thoughts because of lack of clothing or does armor count?

Been a while since I played adventure mode, but I don't think you get a special message when drinking vamp blood. Try drowning yourself (swim under a bridge or other covered area) to see if you still need to breath (of course, if you still do, you could die). Or, you could try feeding on an unconscious person.

So, weremonsters are friendly towards each other kind of like vampires are friends with other undeads? Why were those two fighting then?

I just found out that the mythical 'sewer access' actually exist. Now, I have to go down there and finish up all those sewer bandit quests. Though the most likely scenario is that I get lost or murdered by an archer.

I got a quest to kill a werecritter from some peasant. Me and my trusty goblin sidekick traveled to its cave lair, but it seems like it there was a bit of a territorial dispute going on there. Inside the lair, there was a werelizard, a weregila monster and a wererat (the rat was the one I was originally sent to kill). The rat was fighting with the gila monster, but the lizard was seemingly staying out of it. I watched it for a while, but it wasn't going anywhere. They were just biting each other and injecting extract, but there was no serious injuries. Eventually, I got bored and just killed them all. I've seen night creature families before, but those were all the same 'species' and were friendly with each other. I dunno what happened here.

Also, can companions be turned into werecreatures? I've tried letting my goblin buddy be mauled by them, but I haven't got the 'injected with extract' message despite several bites breaking the skin.

I've got a quest to kill some olm man dude hiding out in a town's sewers. I tried to access them rough the dungeons in the castle, but those were a dead end. I also found some dungeon-type thingy under a temple, but I couldn't explore it because a mummy chased me out. Is there any way to get into the sewers? I'm seeing 'sewer access' markers on the travel map, but they seem to only indicate grates. I know there are occasionally drainage pipes into nearby rivers, but I'm pretty sure you need to breathe underwater/not breathe at all to get through and I'm not ready to vamp myself yet (need to work up those stats, yo).