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Completely ignore this (if you want). I thought I had made this point earlier, but I realised I was just blabbering on about some random nonsense. I left it here because I thought it made another interesting point.
In my opinion (here we go  ) The way in which the local populace decide to react to the dealings of a creature should be based off the personality of the local leaders. A local psychotic priest/bishop (or whatever) would begin to explode and blabber on about heathens from the opposing village have sent a missionary of their devious deity to impose some impure implications of an impetuous and imposing manner (hehehe). Both the destruction of the creature and some random action towards these unholy neighbours should be the conclusion of the beast trial, and the beginning of some silly war which would continue to develop into other things. The local drunkard mayor would react differently and so would some chivalric lord, all to do based on their abilities to convince people, their personalities, their beliefs and their experiences.
* Because of the actions of the priest a new religious group have formed in the village
* Because of the war created, an entire future of new events is just waiting to come into play
* Because of 'blah blah blah' (I hope I've made some sort of point by now)
* Even though I didn't make this idea earlier, I just added it anyway so I could sound interesting.

To focus on the 'in the way' part

Now finally for the relevant part: Night creatures wouldn't necessarily be hostile towards a civilization, but rather 'in the way' if you get my drift.

( yeah that part) The night creatures need not act directly towards anyone or even hint at it, as they are probably already busy with their own aspirations and problems ( a ware creature busy searching for a cure instead of succumbing to his/her hunger)

(also I'm going to hold it here since its taken me almost an hour just to understand what I was actually talking about)

I recall that story, it was about some 'cursed night creature hunter'. The story mentions several new ideas for night creatures which I believe already summed up the suggestion you've made (When hasn't someones idea already been mentioned before...). In dot-point form, the story hints at:
* Individuals which intentionally travel from village to village searching for creatures to slay.
* 'Cursed' individuals (or possibly night creatures themselves / vampires) use their abilities to seek, hunt and slay night creatures ( this differentiates from the first point as it's creature vs creature)
* Creatures which are extremely difficult to slay. (As mentioned in the story, the creature must be burned and guarded as pieces of their body attempts to flee the flames... the creatures power will then reveal itself for the taking).
* Night creatures may be commanded if you hold their source of power / weakness

I believe this is the story... 

How would the adventurer learn to train these animals? In dwarf mode, the dwarves run away from the animals unless they're caged... how would our adventures capture these animals let alone have the knowledge to train that specific animal? A civ which has the specific knowledge to train a certain animal may offer these animals for sale in their market place, whats to say these animals won't just run back to their original owner, as they were trained by them... . I'm sure we could just work around that by transferring the ownership and what not, but eh... 

I really like the sound of this. (see what I did there?  )
Although how could we be sure the game would create 'understandable' songs, rather than a random babble of instruments?
What if we become tired of the new repeating tune? ( I mean we could just turn off the music and play our own, but hey)

There are also low laying clouds which create fog, so no need to suggest that either. 
If you're ever unsure about something before you suggest it, just check up on the DF Wiki to see if it's already implemented.

I literally just had a rat gnaw its way out of a cage from an elven caravan which had just arrived, came to see if anyone had already suggested the idea.
If vermin can already 'hitch-hike' around the place like this, whats to stop them spreading plagues and killing everyone? 

IIRC Goblins don't need to eat or drink, so they won't die of thirst... if that's what you're insisting. 

The way that the goblins every now and then pop up to steal the dwarven children got me thinking... There are many fairy-tales and myths that goblins and fairies would steal human children and replace them with their own (to cause mischief and whatnot), this child would then grow up believing it is a human and then be chased out of town with claims that it was mutated demon spawn (or something like that  ) or would remain in town getting up to all sorts of no good...

I would like to put this suggestion forward to add more depth to child abduction instead of just 'abduct and rescue'
also before I get bombarded with 'planned' or anything else, I simply posted this to ask people opinion on the matter.