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0005087Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Justicepublic2012-02-14 17:592012-02-28 10:41
Orkel2 
 
normalminoralways
newopen 
PCWindows7
0.34.01 
 
0005087: Soldiers will not attack a vampire that is in-progress of sucking a sleeping dwarf dry
So yeah, as the title states, when a vampire is in progress of sucking a sleeping dwarf dry in his own bedroom, if you send the military in at that moment, they will continue watching the vampire suck blood. Once the vampire is finished and the sleeping dwarf dies of blood loss, the military will rush to report of the found corpse + accuse the vampire dwarf of what he did.
Station military next to a vampire that is in progress of sucking blood in fortress mode
Intentional/Expected?
Issue History
2012-02-14 17:59Orkel2New Issue
2012-02-14 18:17FootkerchiefTag Attached: Intentional/Expected?
2012-02-16 15:44MaDeR LevapNote Added: 0019852
2012-02-16 17:22Matt_SNote Added: 0019879
2012-02-17 16:33Dekker3DNote Added: 0019994
2012-02-21 17:45etherflanTag Attached: 0.34.02
2012-02-21 17:45etherflanIssue Monitored: etherflan
2012-02-28 10:03etherflanTag Detached: 0.34.02
2012-02-28 10:41Hieronymous AlloyIssue Monitored: Hieronymous Alloy

Notes
(0019852)
MaDeR Levap   
2012-02-16 15:44   
I would thought vampire caught red-handed by police/military force (non-civilians) would cease sucking and immediately become permamently hostile. This would be logical (yeah, I know, this is DF, but still).
(0019879)
Matt_S   
2012-02-16 17:22   
You know what they say: "Let sleeping dwarves die." *dodges tomato*
(0019994)
Dekker3D   
2012-02-17 16:33   
I'd consider this a bug as well. If you see someone killing someone else, that's one thing... either one may be the bad guy. If you see someone feeding upon someone else though, you can be pretty sure it's a vampire and it's evil.

Maybe a fort should be capable of setting local ethics when dealing with vampires and weres and stuff. I'd like to have them marked as an enemy and hunted til the ends of the earth, not locked up or slapped a few times and then forgiven!