Some plugin (soundsense?) is spoiling Fun

[pkmnfrk]

I noticed something using a quite recent LNP (r59) (I do see that it is now up to r61, but I don't see anything in the change notes that might be relevant).

So, like many people, I get seasonal ambushes and sieges from our green-skinned neighbours. However, in the case of ambushes, I always seem to get notified in advance by a quiet "A vile force of darkness has arrived!" There are a few things odd about this:

1. It's not a full-screen "OMG drop everything and pay attention" notification, it's just a simple announcements, with equal priority to, say, cats having kittens.
2. It only happens for ambushes, while that message is typically reserved for overt sieges.
3. It shows up in the dfhack console, so I suspect it originates from there.

Then, once I actually discover the ambush, the real message "An ambush! Curse them!" appears. This behaves as expected.

My guess is that this is something for SoundSense? I can't recall where I read it, but there are extra announcements for SoundSense's benefit (workshops completing, etc). This feels like it's along those lines (although, I can't see what purpose it might serve, since ambushes and sieges get their own announcements already).

(Tangentially related to this is that the FixGrowth script also makes noise in the dfhack console when it does it's thing to the goblins as well. Technically, this also spoils that I have... let's see... 54 hidden units. But, since it doesn't make an announcement, I don't think it matters.)

[pkmnfrk]

Test case: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbq57uz54ruk3hu/region1.zip

This is a seasonal save at the beginning of spring. Let it run until the elves arrive. You should see the message before seasons' end.

[Putnam3145]

SoundSense isn't a DFHack utility.

[pkmnfrk]

Yeah, thanks for that.

I'm referring to this: https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack#id159

[PeridexisErrant]

This is the script soundsense.lua, which is not distributed with dfhack (soundsense-season.lua is, but that's not responsible).

I'll point this out in the soundsense thread, but it's not a dfhack problem so the issue should be closed.

Edit: acknowledged in the relevant place