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She was freed, assuming weregiraffe form on the full moon and attacking the other dwarves mercilessly. Instead, I forgot about her and later directed a dwarf to dig out an area that included one of the walls of Urist’s prison. In theory, she could have stayed there forever, the infection contained, allowing my colony to thrive. As quickly as I could, I input the commands to have a mining dwarf wall her up in a small cell. Though she looked like all the other dwarves-a tiny smiley face on a colorful rectangular field of numbers, letters, and punctuation-I checked out her backstory and deduced that she had to be some kind of werebeast. Older than the others, Urist had a history steeped in blood, hunger, and rage.
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