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[CaptainLambcake]

right, so i have an on-going fort, atleast 20 years now, still can't find the demons, (I hate people that say candy and circus and clowns and all that), but I have found adamantine in the magma sea.  anyway, we get some human traders, they're about to leave, bam, dwarves arrive, and since it's a jungle, i have only one path into the depot, the wagons crash, and they're stuck there.  i'm thinking about a solution, when bam, goblin siege!  hooooray, so i get my guys out there, but not before a zombie siege is announced.  i call everyone inside, and luckily only have one casualty while getting everyone inside, which was a war dog, who was already crippled from past sieges.  all the dwarves and humans die, save the dwarven merchants who rode in on animals, not on the wagons, because i kept them safe in the depot.  two human animals survive, all the merchants and wagons died.  i finish off the sieges, and now i have sooo much shit to pick up.  best part is, a new year started during all of this, so now i have extra things to bury.  i love sieges for the fun they cause, but i've began to hate the aftermath of picking up all their useless copper shit.

edit:  forgot to say, the circle of death is near the enterance to my fort, where everything killed eachother, first the goblins killed the merchants and hung out there, then the zombies killed them, then my guys killed them.  it resembles a circle, in blood of course.

[toomanysecrets]

You hate people who try to avoid spoiling the endgame for others who haven't encountered it yet?

[CaptainLambcake]

yeah.  it's stupid.  this isn't an RPG with a story or something, then it'd be okay.  if you've played DF, you've heard about adamantine and demons and shit

[etgfrog]

its a carry over from older versions of dwarf fortress when it would be game over and some of the more interesting posts of people losing because of it. Hence it being a spoiler.

oh, I guess I also forgot how the game pushed you to dig deeper constantly through mandates, so it was game designed to be pushed into the unknown and having something that is tough(it stopped being instant game over after the game went 3d)

as for your post itself, you could try searching for another vein to get past the magma sea.

[Findulidas]

yeah.  it's stupid.  this isn't an RPG with a story or something, then it'd be okay.  if you've played DF, you've heard about CANDY and CLOWNS and shit

Isnt there some kind of rule you just broke? No matter what you think, you still have to follow the laws in the forums.

[CaptainLambcake]

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[Naros]

Instant rule quoting does not speak well for you.

[Sutremaine]

if you've played DF, you've heard about adamantine and demons and shit

Not necessarily.

[Orange Wizard]

The whole HFS, candy, clowns, circus and circus tent thing is kind of an unwritten Bay12 rule. It's like the whole fork goes on the left, knife goes on the right thing. We still do it because it's part of forum culture, and you're welcome to ignore the rule and just say

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

demons

or

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

adamantine

because no-one is forcing you to follow culture. But when you say that you hate people who follow that convention, it borders on offensive.
I would politely ask you to not do so in future. I don't like the idea of being hated because I do something that is, at first glance, stupid, and I am certain there are others on these forums who would agree with me.