DeadBerries has a tradition of pitting kittens into the zombie infested drowning trap maze to clear the fortifications of undead (since undead refuse to path normally once the water washes them into fortifications). i didn't want to bother sending dwarves because not everything has fully rotted yet and there's still miasma, and if you kill the undead inside the fortifications they'll generate miasma later when everyone is hauling.
i pit the kitten from the center of the maze where there's no visibility between Z levels and direct it by opening manual-override hatches on the sides. it's usually a suicide mission but this little guy proved me wrong:
after unstucking 2 goblin corpses and 1 arm he runs into a particularly stubborn goblin corpse, but instead of running he decides to fight even though the previous goblin arm he unstucked mangled his paw and the nerves in it:
to my surprise the little guy survived the encounter, but his ordeal wasnt over. the goblin was still stuck so i left him in there to finish the job. round 2:
finally the goblin was unstuck and i opened the hatch behind him to let him out, but for some reason he decides the best way out is past the goblin through another hatch:
but he managed to survive that too, and runs free.
my dwarves always get a nickname when they draw this kind of attention. but i can't name a kitten, he's even a stray. needless to say i dont think i'll be re-caging the little guy. he's worth his weight in fps. he might be given more... "missions" though, since he's proved his worth as a cat agent
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