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[Markham]

Apparently Dwarfs that are already legendary can enter a mood, or at least get possessed.  However, if they fail the mood and go berserk, they are capable of murdering the entire fortress.  The fortress had 34 Dwarfs and around 20-30 animals.  A legendary mason got possessed, but wasn't able to find the ore he needed.  Needless to say, he went berserk and went on a murderous rampage.  The berserker finally ran out of things to kill and starved to death, while the seven survivors only survived because they were crippled from the last siege and stuck in beds.  I really wanted a wave of migrants to come and see if he could take them all on but, unfortunately, none came.

The movie of the last bit of carnage: http://www.boogatech.com/images/df/berserker.zip
Unfortunately it wasn't until half the fortress was slaughtered before I thought to record it all, but it's still hilarious watching one dwarf take on everyone and win.

[Sergius]

Maybe you can post this in the DF Map Archive?

[RPB]

Wow, that's impressive; beating everyone to death with only one level of strength? With a mangled lower body and a couple of injured organs? I'll never look down on toughness agains.

Did he really take out all those marksdwarves in the "Deceased" list solo, or were some of them dead to begin with?

[Tarrasque]

I think it is time to reclaim that fortress, hehe.  

[Markham]

The fortress had 200 dwarves, then something went wrong with the food production and the pop went down to about 40.  The bridge population also dropped dramatically.  Then the goblins sieged the fortress and took it down to 34.  He killed two marksdwarves and one recruit.  The other two marksdwarves were injured.

The fortress was already reclaimed, as the first attempt failed when a nightwing got into the fortress.  I tried re-reclaiming it, but that just crashes the game.

[Pacho]

You never got immigrants because your fortress suddenly became suicide post.  As in going over there is just plain suicide.

The death of your population affects immigration.  Don't expect immigrants if a large portion of your dwarves die suddenly.

[Asehujiko]

Take a few stacks of coins, 1 fey dwarf who wants a workshop i don't have, 1 VERY crowded(120 odd dwarves and twice that much animals) dining/gathering/sleeping room. Put the dwarf in the dining room, hand him the coins and get behind cover FAST.

He took my population from 134 to 38 and my animals from 451 to 307 by flinging coins from the floor at them. When he collapsed from over-exertion he got swarmed by injured but not dead dwarves and animals. He lived and got chased(slammed into one by a hammerlord) into a noble room, where he finaly got to his senses by a dwarven shower(magma shower to be exact)

The majority of those 38 dwarves were not present in the room but those who were ended up with alot of red wounds and [gold coin, stuck in eye] etc. That was the last time i ever bothered with economy. I remember reading something similar on the forums a while back so i'm not the only person who uses frag grenades as currency.

[BurnedToast]

My worst was a moderatly skilled carpenter (few ranks of str and toughness iirc). I hadn't had my booze for the day so I was a little slow and forgot they came with axes. He went berzerk and I locked him in the workshop - I thought to myself, hey good practice for my military! (they were training wrestling in leather at the time). I positioned them, and opened the door. Then I watched in horror as they shuffled in 1 by 1 to death.

he managed to get 6/10 before a war dog wandered by and helped the rest finish him off. one of the survivors was crippled (severed right arm and leg and mangled the left leg) and went insane soon after, thankfully not berzerk, bringing the death total to 7/10.

not as bad as some of the people's here, but I was mad because I had been training them in wrestling for a while  

[jester]

I had a good one a while ago, a few years in and one of my well trained axedwarves gets a red leg wound from a giant rat, thats ok, a while later i see that the axe dwarf is in the same bed as an imigrant sword dwarf who has just braken her arm sparring and her husband who is a hauler in my kitchen.
then my expert miner goes fey. (cue rumblings of thunder) after gathering 6 items he screams for bones and leather, the butchers get to work but all they produce is miasma and a miner with a * bronze pick and a wild look in his eye.
then the axe dwarf loses it and hacks up the sword dwarf just as her husband ia leaving for work. he bolts but is already very unhappy, the axedwarf looking very spiffy in his plate armour and apparently not worried by his wound then wanders strait to my farm and proceeds to do damage,
the miner meanwhile also flips his beard and makes a beeline for the main hallway wiping out an axe and mace dwarf on the way, the husband by now has made it to my new gold block bridge and he proceeds to kick it apart and kill 2 more and a horse, while attempting to use what I thought was a clever internal moat system to contain the problem I accidently managed to drown quite a few more who were ore hauling in the tunnels.
The 2 bezerk dwarves are eventually put down, one by crossbow and the other thown into the chasm by a newby mason.
Amoungst the chaos, carnage and lots of purple clouds I found my last mistake,
I had decieded that an armed dwarf is a useful dwarf so I had cranked out bronze axes by the dozen and set about half of my dwarves to wood cutting. The sherrif went down early to a fisherdwarf but the hammerer managed to put down a few before getting it in the kidney from a hunter with a sheaf of 80 bone bolts, it didnt take long before i had wounded dwarves hiding and starving in their rooms while loons patroled the halls, on the up side a gremlin found its way into the nobles rooms and dispatched 3 before being taken down by the unhurt taxdwarf who already had 2 mandrill kills to his name after an attack on his immigration wave (I loved the theiving little bugger, he got a royal tomb after that) I will say that losing was fun and you cant realy win this game but by the end I knew that I had definately lost.

[God of Toast]

My worst was a novice craftsdwarf. I always have the shops in seperate rooms, so I just locked her in. Except, she had a baby, so she beat the baby to death, and her one pet, which was a kitten, she killed aswell...

Poor kitty.  

[JT]

Did you have a human siege the next year with flying banners of "Child Services" and "PETA"?

[God of Toast]

No, sadly.

I haven't actually been sieged once, and my fortress has been going for 6 years.

Only two children have been kidnapped by goblins and kobolds...

Like I really care.  

[Faces of Mu]

I never thought to see beserking as serial murder before! I think the next time I see it I will hit record and sit back to watch the thriller. Loved how you peeps described these events!

On another note, I've never known dwarves to hide in their rooms like mentioned above. FEAR would be a great element to add to the dwarves (and not just the running out of sight type of fear that the civs do). It's crazy to see dwarves get all the courage they need just by recruiting them, even if they haven't got their armour and weapons yet. Those dwarves that haven't built relationships with others could hide in their own quarters or their most familiar room, and those that have friends and partners could seek each other out and hide somewhere.

It would also be good if tantrumming dwarves could attempt to use stealth and hence would occassionally disappear from the screen if no-one was in sight of them. Then watching for them would be like watching a horror movie when the killer reveals himself to the audience for a second behind one of his victims and then disappears again in an instant!  

[Blargh]

quote:Originally posted by Faces of Mu:
<STRONG>I never thought to see beserking as serial murder before! I think the next time I see it I will hit record and sit back to watch the thriller. Loved how you peeps described these events!

On another note, I've never known dwarves to hide in their rooms like mentioned above. FEAR would be a great element to add to the dwarves (and not just the running out of sight type of fear that the civs do). It's crazy to see dwarves get all the courage they need just by recruiting them, even if they haven't got their armour and weapons yet. Those dwarves that haven't built relationships with others could hide in their own quarters or their most familiar room, and those that have friends and partners could seek each other out and hide somewhere.

It would also be good if tantrumming dwarves could attempt to use stealth and hence would occassionally disappear from the screen if no-one was in sight of them. Then watching for them would be like watching a horror movie when the killer reveals himself to the audience for a second behind one of his victims and then disappears again in an instant!   </STRONG>

I second that! That would be the greatest failed mood ever.

"Hannibal Lecterdwarf cancels murderous rampage: Eating."