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[Drakeero]

After 9 years of peace and prosperity, out of nowhere one calm autumn evening, a giant eagle [the third to appear on the map, ever] comes out of nowhere, slaughters the crap out of my expedition leader and doctor, and then retreats back into the mountains.

Anybody else have other stories of just random attacks out of the blue [perhaps even literally?] that then run off quick as they came?

[Halnoth]

There was a slugman who got trapped on an island while I was channeling my moat and my dwarves gave it a name. So I thought "oh hey cool i'll let it off the island and maybe i'll get a slugman mayor" so I built a bridge to let it off. It resided in my fortress for a good two years and then all of a sudden killed two children and almost got a armorer before a hunter killed the bastard. Sneaky slugs.

[SkyRender]

I opened the path to the middle cave for exactly 3 seconds to channel a path to the magma pipe.  In those 3 seconds, a giant mole wandered in and terrified everyone in the entire fort.  I recruited 2 legendary miners to kill it, and it killed the miners and escaped almost unscathed instead.  That was a justified savescum, I'd say.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Goblin ambushers (lashers and an axegob) appear in my hospital, kill cripples, cripple doctors, run away before soldiers arrive, flee through caverns, get killed by FB (eight-legged quadruped composed of iron, showed up years ago, didn't attack until just then, met the goblins on their way out). FB gets to my hospital, kills two doctors, soldiers finally show up, it gets one-shotted after crippling my militia commander.

The tantrum spiral killed the fort.

[Rexfelum]

eight-legged quadruped

. . . Random . . . description . . . generators . . .

--Rexfelum

[Vehudur]

eight-legged quadruped

Wait...

What?

*logic failure*

[Internet Kraken]

I opened the path to the middle cave for exactly 3 seconds to channel a path to the magma pipe.  In those 3 seconds, a giant mole wandered in and terrified everyone in the entire fort.  I recruited 2 legendary miners to kill it, and it killed the miners and escaped almost unscathed instead.  That was a justified savescum, I'd say.

THERE IS NO JUSTIFIED SAVESCUMMING IN DF

Or at least that's my opinion at this point. Whatever works for you though.

On-Topic: Zombie ocean sun fish swam towards the fort and terrified everyone. So I sent my captain of the guard to kill it. Of course, he fell into the ocean instead of shooting it from afar. The sunfish then somehow managed to decapitate him (google ocean sunfish and then try and explain how it would decapitate someone). After doing so, it swam away and was never heard from again.

[Vehudur]

I opened the path to the middle cave for exactly 3 seconds to channel a path to the magma pipe.  In those 3 seconds, a giant mole wandered in and terrified everyone in the entire fort.  I recruited 2 legendary miners to kill it, and it killed the miners and escaped almost unscathed instead.  That was a justified savescum, I'd say.

THERE IS NO JUSTIFIED SAVESCUMMING IN DF

Or at least that's my opinion at this point. Whatever works for you though.

On-Topic: Zombie ocean sun fish swam towards the fort and terrified everyone. So I sent my captain of the guard to kill it. Of course, he fell into the ocean instead of shooting it from afar. The sunfish then somehow managed to decapitate him (google ocean sunfish and then try and explain how it would decapitate someone). After doing so, it swam away and was never heard from again.

Maybe it was secretly a kraken.

Yes, I said that.