You've drawn it out of me. I've been keeping this movie a secret for some time now, but it's too funny to keep hidden forever!
You might know I've been narrating Severedcoils over in the Story board... well, it just so happens that I actually lost the fort once in the fifth year and was forced to savescum. I really hated to do it, but for the sake of the story I had to. Reclaim wasn't an option because I wasn't about to rewrite all of my characters. I didn't lose it to the 72 goblin siege, or any sort of magma incident.
I lost it to the dragon.
My fort has what I thought was an impenetrable defense. Two raising bridges, anchored on a small 3x3 platform surrounded by open space, with a single row of pressure plates between them. An enemy walks across the pressure plate, the bridges flip open, and the enemies are dropped into the pit below. There's nothing dangerous down there because I intended to station marksdwarves along the sides who can shoot at the enemies while they lay stunned on the ground, and I didn't want to hurt any of my dwarves should they accidentally fall in. If there weren't marksdwarves available, I figured the enemy would just fall in the pit, walk out through the preconstructed path, try again, fall in again, and repeat until I was ready to fight it.
A dragon appears, and I'm in no way prepared to fight it. I had just come off of two harsh sieges in a row - one with 50+ goblins followed immediately by a siege with 70+ goblins and human leaders. I really thought I was going to lose the fort to that siege because I had suffered a lot of injuries from the one in the previous season, but somehow I survived. After fighting back the second siege, I think I had two fighters left to protect the entire fort. The rest were all injured, and I was in the process of training up more. And in the very same season, in walks this high-and-mighty dragon.
"Well!" I say to myself. "I haven't had a chance to put this bridge trap into action yet. Perhaps I'll use it here to stun the dragon and put it below me so I can shoot at it safely. What could possibly go wrong?"
This movie shows exactly what could possibly go wrong.Despite what you see in the stocks screen in that movie, there really were only two healthy soldiers available. The dwarven caravan guards were successful in killing the dragon, but one of my !!dwarves!! made it to the booze stockpile and... yeeeeah, things got a little out of hand from there. You can actually see the dwarf responsible at the very end, running south with a trail of smoke behind him.
/Scummed, tried fighting it three different ways and forced to scum each time... after the fourth try it became apparent that I simply didn't have the power to stop the dragon, and my only choice was to cage it so that I could continue with my story. I do regret it, but having to restart would have ruined the story.
Now that this blooper reel has been revealed, I need to incorporate it into my next post in the narration!