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[Voyager]

Day One:  I've lost my Dwarves.  Can you help me find them?
Upon embarking, a cave-in occurred, and my dwarves are no no longer on my screen.  This could be a problem.

Day Two:  They have a Cave Troll.
So, the zoom to item fixes the missing dwarves problem, and I have located them all standing around the wagon, next to a frozen lake.  This will be fun when it thaws.

Now to scout the area, and select a good building point for my dwarfy home.  Ooo: Lignite exposed on the surface.  Ooo: Bituminous Coal exposed on the surface.  Huh, someone has already built a cave here.  I wonder what's with all the stuff lying around.  One corpse, two corpse, one Twilight thing?  Now I know why I fear the night: they have a Twilight Troll.  It was at this point that I decided I should record the tale of my Fortress of the Soon to be Devoured, preferably before the Devouring takes place, as a lesson and a warning to others, or at very least entertainment, preferably before my dwarves are devoured by Mrs. Nabsiztamed, and her husband if he ever shows up.

Well, let the fun begin.

Day Three: Windows is Dead!  Long Live Windows!

We have resolved to press on, even with the discovery of the Troll, (mostly because none of us can out run it, and we might be able to dig in before it finds its way out of the snow).  Now to dig in.  Digging appears to crash the game.  It also appears to be repeatable.  This might be a sign, but I've never been one for those.  I've been talking about trying Linux for a long time now, so presents a perfect opportunity.

Download to fun started.

[Voyager]

Conclusion to Day 3:  The Fun is Escaping!

Conclusions from the day's adventures:
It is, in fact, possible to crash a Linux install.
The ghost in my RAID may be malicious.
The cat has apparently learned how to execute commands with his posterior.  This is, incidentally, what happened to the previous post.
The crash on unpause seems to be limited to Emalrigoth.  A new fort on a new world does not have the crashing problem.  Given that this same world also had one embark that simply crashed to desktop, I suspect it may be a world issue.

Thus end  the tale of my second fort, destroyed through planetary anomalies and feline missintervention before a single hole has been dug, and even before Mrs. Troll used my dwarves in her own person game of nine pins.  I would suspect that this might be a record for rapidity of downfall, except this is Dwarf Fortress.  Somebody, somewhere has had an even more rapid and catastrophic downfall to their for than Emalrigoth.