Whiterocks, 15th Felsite, year 17.
Little Sazir Dotshot has been a punching bag for a pair of giant zombies for over two weeks now.
He had somehow managed to sneak outside during a very careful hauling operation in a far corner of the map, and inevitably attracted unwanted attention from local roaming megabeast undead. I resigned to seeing him becoming another corpse among the dozens littering the non-reanimating areas around Whiterocks, but then something completely unexpected happened: He survived. And kept on surviving.
It looked like the attacks just glanced away or passed right through, unless a blow connected hard enough to send him flying several blocks away. Sometimes a limb would bend, but Sazir was still completely unharmed. Stunned, yes, and scared and exhausted, but it seems he is invulnerable to attacks from the Giant and Ettin zombies tormenting him. He does seem to get thirsty and hungry, though.
Of course I tried to find out what superpower could make him withstand the undead onslaught, but he seems to be quite normal child, except... he is negative one hundred eighty-two days old. His birth date is in the future, in Timber this year. Now there's something I have never seen in DF.
I have so many questions now. Was he always like that or did a zombie punch him so hard his birthday was propelled away by the force of the blow? Is he invulnerable because he doesn't actually exist yet? What happens when his birthday rolls around? Most importantly, how do I save him before he dies of thirst (if he does)?
EDIT: After nearly a month of pummelling, a lucky kick propelled Sazir away from the zombies and landed him right next to an entrance, allowing him to escape to safety. He is now well fed and boozed and is currently getting a new set of clothes to replace those torn to shreds during his rough handling. I'm curious to see what happens in 28th Timber when he's supposed to be "born."