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Raven

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trading werebeasts
« on: March 28, 2016, 11:49:09 am »
A friend of mine, managed to cage a werebeast after he turned back human, then he tried to bring the cage to the trade depot

but in that moment the beast escaped and got killed by xbowdorfs

what happened? is not possible to trade caged creatures?
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Re: trading werebeasts
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2016, 12:21:33 pm »
Can't trade sentient creatures. Against dwaven ethics.
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Re: trading werebeasts
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2016, 12:32:13 pm »
the creature escapes out of the cage also if it's hostile and the cage is moved into the trade depot.
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PatrikLundell

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Re: trading werebeasts
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2016, 01:38:09 pm »
Well, actually, the helpful dorfs remove non tradeable items from containers before they're moved to the depot. That's one way to get artifacts stuck in bins out of the bins, and, as you've seen, hostile creatures out of cages. So while Bumber is correct ethics wise, I think the even more basic fact that hostiles can't be traded is at work here, and since sapients can't be trained [with the exception of gremlins], they can't be traded on hostility grounds alone, but shouldn't be on slavery ethics grounds either.
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