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My 180108 years old vampire mayor who I locked in her room was taken by a fey mood.
So I unlocked the door and let her out. And I read the thought:

'Dracul' Lalturdegel has been quite content lately. She was upset that a criminal  could not be properly punished. She was upset by having a mandate ignored lately. She admired own fine Cabinet lately.

It is funny she was upset by some unpunished criminal, because the only criminal I recall was she drained a neighbour. 

And this vampire claimed a craftsdwarf's workshop lately and started collecting some bones for her work. Wonder what she's making.

Tried to pit a troll and failed. Instead, the troll pushed the dwarf into the pit and ran away...

A possessed dwarf is asking for body parts.
But I have dumped into pits.

 

I caged a giant cave spider, a troll, a barn owl, a skunk, a kobold and a bat.
Too bad I dropped the kobold in deep water.

Thank you friends. Although pickup equipment is not a job so it can't be removed.
Fortunately, I just found I have a bridge in the way, which was linked to a lever a while back. Lucky.

 I think the forbid all items way should work, I'll try it when I want to cage the spider.

I have a save with a dangerous giant spider in the way. Some dwarves shown as 'pick up equipments' in the job list just start feeding themselves to the spider. So I restored my last save, to test if there's a way to save them.

So I watched, a baby sitting ranger tried to pick her equipments but got webbed and killed. I restored the save again, added a large restricted traffic area around the spider (with a cost of 100), but that didn't stop the ranger. The third time, I quickly defined a burrow and assigned the ranger to it, still not working. The last time, I alerted the whole fortress before the ranger bumped into the spider, this time it worked, somewhat, though the spider caught up the ranger and killed her.

I wonder if there's a way to stop a dwarf immediately. Or, maybe more direct, how to forbid an area? It is too late to construct a wall now.

1. Some dwarf weaver was missing in the cavern and starved to death. I have to build a bridge to get his corpse. I think that was because I removed some ramps, poor guy. I recall I went through the unit list to find vampires and saw him standing near a cliff, but I totally forgot about him because I was too busy building furnitures for the new mayor later.

2. After his corpse was reached, I began to build a lever that linked the bridge, for I was not ready to explore that area. But I was too late again, some creatures came and killed some dwarves and dogs before I sent my army to clean them up. I dropped the bodies off the cliff, just to find misama everywhere --  there's a deep pool 2 tiles below the cliff.

3. My new mayor is a 170 years old bone carver. Almost all her parts are yellow or orange(for old age? I don't know). I suspect she'll die soon.

4. My underground hideout is 45 tiles below the ground.Too bad I designed narrow stairways so they are crawling like worms and the fps is really poor.