So I've been playing for a few months now and one of my earlier ¨good¨ forts had a peculiar occurence happening to it. I had about 100 dwarves, with thirty or so relatively skilled soldiers clad in full steel armor and weapons (silver blunt weapons) and when I was visited by an FB with the tagline ¨Beware it's deadly dust!¨ I had no idea what to expect. I figured this was going to be easy seeing as how I had previously defeated a ¨Noxious Secretions¨ FB without any casualties at all earlier but boy was I wrong. Needless to say, my military was wiped out in literally seconds, a fact to which my eyes widened and I panicked. I promptly enlisted all my civvies in the military and sent then at the beast in hopes of defeating it. When I finally reigned victorious I only had three dwarves left, two of which were children. This didn't really affect me too much though because I can honestly say I had a good dose of both uppercase Fun and lowercase fun.
Now here's the real issue; I later went into the legends to get an overview of all the events that occured in my fortress from founding to downfall and I noticed something peculiar. Towards the end of the entries I noticed A LOT of messages along the lines of ¨Urist McDwarf1 was struck down by Urist McDwarf2¨ AFTER the FB had rudely dropped in on my plans for greatness and BEFORE I said FB was finally slain. When I checked the legends entry for the FB in question, he only had six kills to his credit out of the hundreds of dwarves that died in my fort. So my question is, does dust cause Dwarves to somehow ¨Frenzy¨ and go apeshit on their fellow colonists? This is the only conclusion I can arrive at, because I highly doubt I suffered a Tantrum Spiral seeing as how practically none of my dwarves were EVER allowed to socialize, meaning the amount of friending going on was minimal.
So... What killed my fort?