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I think a person can only 'change', as such, if they themselves want to do so, if we're talking about going from 'bad' to 'good'.

Going from 'good' to 'bad' can probably be caused by various forms of trauma, and such, as well as choice.

I like to make the trade agreement with the liason have maximized priority on all boozes and a few types of food. That way I can churn out trade goods, sell them, and have 800 or so extra food roll into my fortress every year.

Get some cats and you'll never have to worry about meat supply again though, those things breed like crazy.

GemerKnight would make a fun, yet strangely single-minded deity.

I think he's aware of the grammar issue now. I find poor grammar hard to read as well, but I think it has been said enough already.

I'm thankfully yet to experience a 'who am I?' phase.

As for the JRPG, I'd be one of the guards wearing the cool helmets. I may get killed by a spiky-haired dude with a ten-foot broadsword, but I'll look cool doing it.

Anyways... In an attempt to answer the OP's question:

Possessions can't be reversed, once they happen, the only way to end them is for it to reach some level of finality.

There are three possible ends:
1) Possessed gets the resources he/she wants, creates an artefact, and goes back to his business like nothing happened.
2) Possessed doesn't get the resources she/he wants, a certain amount of time passes, and the dwarf goes insane.
3) Possessed dies due to other circumstances (like magma falling on him/her).

Insane dwarfs either commit suicide or commit murder/suicide. Either way, they always die in the end.

Quote from: Shambling Zombie on February 11, 2011, 05:45:00 am

When the situation was "Five people are trapped on a railway, and the train is coming. The only way to save them is to drop something big and heavy on the rail line, but unfortunately somebody is trapped directly under the only heavy object available. No-one on the train is in harm's way, no matter what happens." The results, I believe, were quite split.

It must be getting late, I have read this several times and can not make sence of it. If somebody is trapped under said object, wouldn't getting the object off of him, and onto the track, save all 6 of them?

Quote from: Taricus on February 11, 2011, 05:54:16 am

You humans are all emotionalists

It is a trait that has lead race for some time, it works for us.

Whoops, that was a poorly worded bit. I meant the object is hanging like a cartoon anvil above them, and you can drop it down onto them. They're trapped in some form of... trap, and can't move, except just enough to avoid the train, unless they get smooshed.

Yeah, I always wondered how a fat guy could stop a train too.

Catch the goblins with cage traps near your front door. Toss the goblins down a hole into a room with no exits and one wall made up of vertical metal bars, and have your crossbow dwarfs on the other side of the bars.

Don't throw crossbow goblins down there though, because they can shoot back.

Rig one of the vertical bar sections to a lever, and you can make an opening for when the goblins are dead to go claim all that sweet goblinite.