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[psychologicalshock]

I had blistering rain on one map just about year round. Blisters your entire body and your flesh bursts. Death was very quick. Not a single immigrant survived more than 10~ tiles into the map. The evil of the land then resurrected you as an undead.

I would call that Dead Rain

[Masked_Hunter1825]

Husk clouds are now known as "kill people clouds".

[MetalHead]

My brother got an FB back in 31.25 that secreted a mucus causing rapid necrosis and death within about 30 cycles.  While the cavern exploration team sent to find was wiped out except for the one guy who got to the dwarf-washer in time (and he still wound up contracting Black Knight Syndrome from it, got a hospital dedicated entirely to him too from what he found) the beast itself walked over a webbed cage trap and demonstrated that such things really DO catch EVERYTHING (at least in 31.25).

He noticed that when this thing walked through a shallow stream in the cavern some of its slime washed off and contaminated the small lake it flowed into (and killed off a whole village of olm men to boot).  So he rigged up a reservoir with a small 1-tile wide area where the beast was dumped (which cost another 6 dwarves) next to a fortification and a spillway over the valley leading up to his fort entrance.  The slime washed off of the beast literally annihilated entire sieges, caravans, useless migrant waves, and whatever else happened to wander into the valley in a heartbeat.  After a couple uses (and another 15 or so lost dwarves) he built a bypass spillway so he could rinse the valley and recover the leftovers safely.

The name he gave it (the trap setup at least) was Acid Reflux.

[Urist Da Vinci]

That Frozen Extract syndrome will now be known as Ascendant Plague. The rain will be known as Raining Death.

The FB dust is known as Zombifiy now, and Callista's FB syndrome is "Black Knight Syndrome"

Hm. Cloud syndrome, causes brain necrosis. I shall call it.. TOO MUCH TV!

Splitting Flesh Virus and Underworld Ash.

Husk clouds are now known as "kill people clouds".

"Fun" would suffice.

[mikuhlt]

The worst syndrome I've ever had (back in DF2010) was a FB that completely paralysed everyone around it.  I only notice when I got the message: "The kitten (tame) has suffocated", then my goats, then my sheep, and it kept on moving up the scale in size to my dwarves.  This was one of my first Fortresses too- I had first hand experience with "fun".

[FoiledFencer]

FB-gas causing instant necrosis of exposed areas, especially eyes. Instant eyeless lepers. I call it Roteye.

[Loud Whispers]

FB-gas causing instant necrosis of exposed areas, especially eyes. Instant eyeless lepers. I call it Roteye.

The title is worst syndrome - not the best

[FoiledFencer]

FB-gas causing instant necrosis of exposed areas, especially eyes. Instant eyeless lepers. I call it Roteye.

The title is worst syndrome - not the best

Most FUN then? 

[Loud Whispers]

FB-gas causing instant necrosis of exposed areas, especially eyes. Instant eyeless lepers. I call it Roteye.

The title is worst syndrome - not the best

Most FUN then? 

Eye-rot is one of the most useful syndromes possibly attained. Not to mention this is a contact syndrome - say buh-bye to pain receptors!

[FoiledFencer]

FB-gas causing instant necrosis of exposed areas, especially eyes. Instant eyeless lepers. I call it Roteye.

The title is worst syndrome - not the best

Most FUN then? 

Eye-rot is one of the most useful syndromes possibly attained. Not to mention this is a contact syndrome - say buh-bye to pain receptors!

Perhaps, but I failed to mention the tantrum spiral that was triggered when the survivors started walking around the meeting halls and stinking up the dining room with their rotting extremities. So much purple...

[Masked_Hunter1825]

I appreciate all the horrific syndromes everyone is posting. Roteye is also a suitable name.

[Wwolin]

I found a forgotten beast with slime the other week. It didn't seem to harm anyone, so I caught the beast with minimal loss of life. Since Nobody seemed hurt, I didn't wash the dwarves. Instead, I sent those who were too injured to be of use out to fight a goblin siege. They died, but not before covering the goblins in goo. The siege eventually packed up and went home, and several months later, dwarves just started going berserk. Turns out the goo that the original military squad happily coated their friends and family with actually caused the skin to ooze the same slime permanently, causing everyone to seem fine until they just had enough and snapped. And traders and siegers just walked out of my fort covered in the stuff. The later forts I made on that world dealt not only with monsters and goblins, but "corrupted" migrants who once visited my previous forts. I lost the save eventually due to there being too much goddamned slime for the world to handle, but this was the scariest syndrome I have ever come across in my many years of Dwarf Fortress.

[Alestom]

I had one with dust that seemed to have no effect, but after 5 mins IRL my dwarves got nosebleeds. I got scared and locked all of the affected in a 7x7 room and waited and observed. 2 mins later they start bleeding out of their ears and eyes.... I am dealing with more pressing matters 2 mins later (3 gobbo seiges, a FB and a minotaur). I look back and they are all dead. I look at the bodies and their legs and ears got blown off by (What I am guessing was) the syndrome

[rtg593]

... "corrupted" migrants who once visited my previous forts. I lost the save eventually due to there being too much goddamned slime for the world to handle,...

That. Is. AWESOME.

A syndrome that spreads and eventually kill off the entire world? You my friend, might have been looking at an Age of Death in the near future

[nenjin]

FB-gas causing instant necrosis of exposed areas, especially eyes. Instant eyeless lepers. I call it Roteye.

Alternatively, the "J-Bomb" extract would also work, for those Dune fans out there.