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[ArmokGoB]

I got a bug that when my monarch came, their entourage consisted of about three pages of lords and ladies. Of course this attracted every single megabeast, semi-megabeast, titan, and what have you from across the land. That was terrifying. It was inevitable.

[Skylord_Conor21]

I rebuilt an old Npc fortress that had been destroyed by a forgotten beast. So I specially brought iron to make ibto weapons to kill said beast. I got there made the gear and began hunting. After a while a found the ol' bastard. Some shitty faced scorpion fly. I put 25 iron bolts into him before my crossbowdwarf charged in to her doom. But all my men were running away. So I locked them in the room with it, it killed one and the othee injured it. The problem was he cut off a foot. So it ciuldnt chase him and make him finish it off so he kept running away in terror. I decided, after an hour of watching this, to retire the fort and come vack after some adventuring. He, settled into daily life indeed...

[Solon64]

I got a bug that when my monarch came, their entourage consisted of about three pages of lords and ladies. Of course this attracted every single megabeast, semi-megabeast, titan, and what have you from across the land. That was terrifying. It was inevitable.

That's not a bug, that's an extra special helping of Fun.  Just think of the variety of ways you could torture and execute all those nobles!

On topic: worst megabeast I ever got was a skinless one-eyed pterodactly that breathes fire.  I had built my civilization into a multi-z-level hand-dug cave.  Thought I was safe from this bad boy and then he zips down the volcano tube and out through my smelters and the Fun begins.  He floats a single z-level above my main town square, raining fireballs everywhere, dwarves exploding, running in terror, falling down and dying in the streets by droves.  I finally took the critter down when i gather a few brave idiots behind the town hall and had them charge headlong.

The initial fireball the creature shot killed two dwarves instantly and left two more on fire.  The rest of them kept sprinting, finally got to the thing, it floated one z down to the main level for some reason so they dragged it down and kicked/bit/punched it to death.

I then had many dwarves go mad, melancholy, or berserk.  The city underground was now a ghost town, more dead than living, and the living more dead than alive.  I was down to three miserable dwarves trying to make enough coffins to house everyone in the midst of huge clouds of miasma when i abandoned.  I like to think those three made it out of there and settled someplace nice.  Armok knows they deserve it.  But they prefer to shiver under a blanket rather than light a fire, even on a cold winter midnight.

[Caz]

Weretapirs. We killed the beast, barely. Then a year passed, a year of peace, of booze and +panda brain roast+. Then the dwarves began to transform. Ten died in a second, a third of the fort's population. They transform again and hide among the population. I can't excise them without a loyalty cascade. Hamlet Ulolzon, 'The Defence' is doomed.

[whatever1works]

I genned 10000 year old map

I reclaimed a fallen fort (and restarted the dwarf civ).. it had fallen to forgotten beast

Within a month a get sieged. Annnnddd... fuck

I race all my dwarfs into fort and lock the doors; except they failed epically at taking directions and got split.

Too late. Lock the doors and hope the forgotten beast doesn't find us (its still hidden btw)

Gobbo's rush in... they start going through rooms.... and the suckers found him! HA. Too bad it was composed of snow.. in a ... desert/ scrub biome... sigh

Ok, i gota get my dwarfs up to the caverns otherwise they'll starve. GO MINER DIG! (he's stuck at the magma forges )

After breeching the two cavern lakes, and a aquifer (yes, there was a lot of water)... we make to the caverns... ok, make booze, drink, eat! gather plants. Cool. Got a camp going

And then another forgotten beast comes... 5/7 die from an oversized lizard that destroyed all the doors holding back the water from before (flooded XD)

BUT.. the miner saves his skin and makes to the surface. He's the only one left... he then proclaims himself king.  CLEVER GIRL

[Splint]

My most recently deadly one was a gas-wielding towering blob of water. I figured my marksdwarves could kill it easily before it could hurt anyone.

I was wrong. So very horribly wrong.

Militia Captain ber killed it with a single bolt, but it managed a blast of gas a split second before the bolt hit and blew it apart. The resultant force of the blast threw Ber and another dwarf into the cave wall, breaking an arm each. Nobody immediately toppled from pain or sleeping sickness or what have you so I thought nothing of it. Figured I got lucky and this one's gas was either A. Harmless (as some FBs just lose out bad on the toxic gas lottery and turn into a mobile cave-in instead,) or B. Had a delayed reaction.

Militia Captain Ber was dead within two in-game days. Tosid Searchsteels, the other wounded dwarf, died as an orderly came to get him. 3 in-game days. Everyone else: Died en route to the hospital or within a day or so of arrival. Cause of death: Severe swelling on outer tissues to the point of necrosis, and bone rot. Yes, bone rot. Never saw bones be listed as rotten before. Things seemed like they'd potentially fine so long as the mayor talked with people and they attended some parties to help them make some new friends and calm them down.

Then children ranging from 2 to 8 started tantrumming, which made things worse as people started getting extra bad thoughts about being attacked or injured. This caused more tantrums. The justice screen began piling up with disorderly conduct charges and the main culprits? Children. And evidently children can get away with anything in dwarve forts. Even murder. You know, the one thing that gets you sentenced to death no matter what in dorf culture.

I quickly retired after I saw that and left the fort to its own devices while I went to seek out external conflict (which I never got. Apparently now player controlled forts aren't 'worth' attacking anymore >:C) On the upside though, I did discover that now commoners get good thoughts about justice being dispensed if they're the injured party of a crime or a member of the injured party's family.

[Button]

The worst I ever had was when I was new to the game in 0.31. I don't remember what it looked like, but I do remember it had necrotizing deadly dust.

I thought I was prepared. I had marksdwarves shooting at it from behind fortifications. It killed some of them, they eventually killed it.

I was a noob. I didn't realize that everyone who handled the corpses would be contaminated. I didn't know.

When the haulers began to rot I looked it up on the wiki and realized that they had been infected by the dust. So I did something that would make sense in the real world, but which doomed the fortress: I tried to wash it away.

I tried to wash away the forgotten beast frozen extract. By flooding the area it had touched with water from the river. Which I transported to the area by letting it drip down the main staircase.

The result... was sad, but not unexpected.

[Dunamisdeos]

I had a great eyeless shrimp with the trunk of an elephant. It shot webs and was slavering. Take a moment to get that mental image of a half spider part shrimp wriggling about with its elephant trunk on an enormous spider web.

[Urist McVoyager]

Never before has Arachnophobia made so much sense. And I might have become a tad allergic to shrimp now. Thank you for that, truly, thank you! 

[Brunste]

The worst I ever had was when I was new to the game in 0.31. I don't remember what it looked like, but I do remember it had necrotizing deadly dust.

I thought I was prepared. I had marksdwarves shooting at it from behind fortifications. It killed some of them, they eventually killed it.

I was a noob. I didn't realize that everyone who handled the corpses would be contaminated. I didn't know.

When the haulers began to rot I looked it up on the wiki and realized that they had been infected by the dust. So I did something that would make sense in the real world, but which doomed the fortress: I tried to wash it away.

I tried to wash away the forgotten beast frozen extract. By flooding the area it had touched with water from the river. Which I transported to the area by letting it drip down the main staircase.

The result... was sad, but not unexpected.
aquarium
I tried to do the same thing, except instead I completely filled a cavern with water.

Now I have an aquarium.