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0006203Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Noblespublic2012-09-19 22:162014-01-22 11:36
ReporterDDR 
Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityN/A
StatusnewResolutionopen 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version0.34.11 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0006203: Baron got possessed, diplomat raising the status of my lands left, noble position disappeared.
DescriptionBaron doesn't appear in noble screen, though he is appointed. He is in a limbo of sorts... I guess it went something like:
"I'm making this place a county."
"So I get to be a count? Awesome!"
"Yes, but you'll have to resign your barony first."
"OK, I resign."
"Now to make you a count... hey, were are you going?"
"Must have... raw... green..." *claims a glass furnace*
"Sod it, I'm outta here."
Steps To ReproduceSo, in order of events:
1) Diplomacy screen saying that I've been raised to 'county' status.
2) Urist McBaron has been possessed!
3) A diplomat has left unhappy.
4) Now the baron doesn't appear on the noble screen, but he does issue mandates.
Additional InformationLuckily, I can guess... he wants three or less drums made. My fortress is full of drums.
Tagsinterface, liaison, mood, noble, Save Included
Relationships
related to 0002960acknowledged Footkerchief deceased Baron not replaced 
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Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2012-09-19 22:16DDRNew Issue
2012-09-20 08:05FootkerchiefNote Added: 0023594
2012-09-20 08:05FootkerchiefTag Attached: AWAITING UPDATE
2012-09-20 12:00QuietustNote Added: 0023596
2012-09-20 12:01QuietustNote Edited: 0023596bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0023596#r8814
2012-09-29 17:06DDRNote Added: 0023621
2012-09-29 17:07DDRTag Attached: interface
2012-09-29 17:07DDRTag Attached: liaison
2012-09-29 17:07DDRTag Attached: mood
2012-09-29 17:07DDRTag Attached: noble
2012-09-29 17:09DDRTag Attached: Save Included
2012-10-10 16:21DDRNote Added: 0023649
2013-01-17 01:41AibaraNote Added: 0023832
2014-01-20 19:45FootkerchiefTag Detached: AWAITING UPDATE
2014-01-22 11:36FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0002960

Notes
(0023594)
Footkerchief   
2012-09-20 08:05   
Reminder sent to: DDR

Please upload a save demonstrating this problem to http://dffd.wimbli.com/ [^] and post the link here.
(0023596)
Quietust   
2012-09-20 12:00   
(edited on: 2012-09-20 12:01)
Diplomatic meetings always end when one party dies, goes insane, enters a strange mood, or gets replaced by somebody else (e.g. election of a new mayor while the old one is in a meeting), but that shouldn't be causing him to disappear from the Nobles screen - wait until he finishes his artifact and see if he starts showing up in the list again.
(0023621)
DDR   
2012-09-29 17:06   
OK, I've uploaded the save to http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6981. [^] Sorry it took so long, I had some technical problems with Chrome and the uploader. :(
(0023649)
DDR   
2012-10-10 16:21   
OK, I've played on a few years. The position has not reappeared, but my fortress has not grown past a barony either. The position is... gone. Poof. :(
(0023832)
Aibara   
2013-01-17 01:41   
The same thing happened to me. My baroness started making some item and the liaison left. She's still listed as baroness in the unit screen (and I can still see her mandates from there), but gone from the nobles screen.

Despite that, my barony soon became a county, and then a duchy. Yet no noble was appointed as count/countess or duke/duchess, no entry appeared on the noble screen. My baroness was still listed as a baroness. Later a queen arrived, and she's listed (but still not my baroness). That might have only happened because I fulfilled all the requirements to get a monarch just before the liaison left in a huff. This was probably possible because he had been there for a whole year due to 3 long back-to-back goblin sieges, and another Dwarven caravan had just arrived so there were actually two liaisons there at once.