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While working on the external decorations of Liontower, I had a goblin siege spring up while about a dozen of my dwarves were outside.  Figuring they were done for, I drafted them all, bunched them up together and waited for the raiding party.  Sure enough, the dwarves run and do battle, poor little recruits that they are

Then out of nowhere, one of the dorfs decides to run away from the battle.  He has no wounds at all!  So he runs, runs, runs, all around my fortress, to the opposite wall, back south towards the entrance, into the main corridor, and back to safety.

Meanwhile, the rest of the improvised squad gets completely slaughtered.

My fleeing dwarf was the only survivor of the onslaught.  He didn't need a drink or any sort of food.  I have no clue what pushed him to hightail it and do a lap around my fort.

I made a burial chamber just for him.

He might have been tired. In one of my recent sieges I sent out 2 champions and 1 swordsdwarf to fend off a goblin squad. Easy enough, right? Well turns out I missed a squad that came from the mountains. 1 champion is off doing whatever and the other 2 have to fight on their own, they obliterate the squad but they're a bit tired.
The champion who was doing whatever arrives, sees that there's no need to help out and takes a nap. The second goblin squad attacks him and cuts him to ribbons. So what happens? The swordsdwarf attacks the squad head on and kills 2 gobbos ... the surviving champion is weary and runs away, leaving her ally to die at the hands of goblins.

She didn't go to bed afterwards, not for some time .. so maybe your dorf was just weary from something. Like cutting trees, operating pumps, mining .. and wanted to go "on break" just that since he's a soldier his status doesn't say "on break" it merely says "soldier" and that was that.

I don't see why you're rewarding him though. I punished my champion by stripping her off her weapons, armor and shield and forcing her to duel a captured goblin hammerlord for her place in the fortress. She snapped his elbow and then snapped his neck.
She has been honorably re-assigned to my army! 

so you mean something similar to the mafia/gangster families? with alliances and blood fueds and whateverothercraptheydecidedtodo.

This actually seems fun. I have about 5 families in my (ridiculously fertile) fort with +10 members. A blood feud between two of them, an alliance between two others and such would be pretty cool. Repeat offenders that my guards have to throw in jail over and over ...

... of course while the current justice system is in place it would be pretty futile to allow these things. The hammerer would hammer every family involved into the ground and my fort would lose 25% of the population.

http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Cyclops


Guys. It doesn't have trap_avoid.

Along this lines, I'm wondering if it would be sound logic to lock possessed moods and dwarves you just KNOW are going to produce something useless?

I had this possessed migrant lye maker produce a 3000 dorfbux turtle shell gauntlet... the only thing he grabbed was a turtleshell and my heart sank a little thinking of the artifact steel warhammer with 12 items that could have been...

That doesn't sound impressive at all. What'd he do? Punch a hole in the shell and walk around "look at my gauntlet!" ?

This ... might seem like a stupid question but ...

How do you expect to mine the ores after flooding the cave?

What's being referred to as a "medusa" is actually a gorgon; Medusa is the name of a specific gorgon.

... *slap*

That's awesome.

You .. should probably use a floodgate instead of a grate though. Y'know. Marksgoblins.. shooting the kitten to death.. Urist McLegendary landing on his face.. that sort of thing.