I decided to embark near a tower for the hell of it because my last fort hadn't been exciting enough (noob).
Pretty much the moment I designated a location for my tavern, which was auto-named 'The Tummies of Uniting', a group of 18 dwarven Warriors, including several elite marks and hammerdwarves came trooping over the hills to take up residence there. I thought great at least they can help defend my fortress from were-beasts or whatnot until such time as i can build up my own defenses and a military..
6 months later and they had done sweet f** all except dance around and share stories in the tavern, not even one had applied for citizenship even after i had properly supplied the tavern with rooms, a kitchen and a drink supply (I have no idea if that makes a difference), and discovered the first cavern system (I thought they might be waiting for that to become monster-hunters).
When took a closer look at them, they all had the description
'This visitor has come asking question and to relax. He has come seeking information about 'A Course on The Seasons and The Moon'.
I suspected that might be the name of an artifact scroll or codice and I had a look at the list of known artifacts from the civ screen but there were so many (with no search function or filter) that I couldn't find it.
Anyway before a whole year was up a neighboring necromancer decided to to invade with about 70 UNDEAD elves and humans (i thought that was a little harsh since goblins don't even arrive until you have reached 80+ civs). My fort and military was nowhere near prepared (only about 20 stone-fall traps) and so I had the clever idea of placing my civilian borrow BEHiND the Inn and using the mercs as a kind of shield, since they clearly had no intention of coming out of there to fight the invaders.
So i let the undead into my fort squashing a few of their heads with the traps on the way, and when they broke through the tavern doors the USELESS F-ING mercenaries just starting panicking and running around and even ran into my burrow, mixing up with my civilians. Needless to say utter, murderous carnage ensued and my 50 or so dwarves got torn to pieces. As the massacre was occurring I got a message.
'The Cat has revealed the location of 'A Course on The Seasons and The Moon''.
Umm, what?