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[Tenth Speed Writer]

We all have them. Those brief fits of crazed giggling, chuckling, or outright evil laughing while performing some sort of !!SCIENCE!! or another.

Mine was when I realized I could designate the lava moat as a kitten pit.

What was yours?

[javierpwn]

When I figured out that soap makes a great building material
When I make lead barrels
When I made my drawbridge launch enemies for the first time,
when my first minecart hauling stone launched stone into several dwarves
When the goblin attack fell into my most filled with giant sponges

[MrWillsauce]

Every time I intentionally dig too deep after getting bored of a fort.

[ikachan]

When I first made and used a drowning trap to dispose of an ambush.

[MasterShizzle]

The first time I figured out how to use the stocks screen and dump command to disarm goblins from within their cages. Sent five fully steel-armored axedwarves into the arena, then pitted in about 15 unarmed gobbos. Parts flew. Even with 60 haulers, there was so much carnage that some parts rotted before they could clean up the mess.

[Bartholomew The Pious]

Just today, I managed to make a fort have at least around 60-100 FPS in the first two years. And it was an above ground unorthodox Dorf fort built in a day (I nervously played all day because of 2012 hoax) to boot.

[Jacob/Lee]

There was a kitten strolling down one of the minecart tunnels one day. It was minding its own business, happy as can be, when a minecart loaded with ores roared down and ran it over. It broke multiple bones and suffered cuts, and tried to drag itself towards safety. That same minecart comes back down the track and runs it over again, this time empty. More broken bones, more cuts. This time it passes out. Then the cart comes back full, runs it over. The cart comes back, runs it over. The cart comes back full, runs it over. This happens several more times, each time it suffers more injuries and falls unconscious every time. Blood has covered the hallway, and the kitten finally succumbs to its wounds. We cleared it out later, when the minecart was taken offline for a bit while I changed what stones were in the stockpile it loaded from.

All the while I was giggling like a madman.

[Putnam]

Majin Buu getting his kill on.

[Kaitlyn]

There was a kitten strolling down one of the minecart tunnels one day. It was minding its own business, happy as can be, when a minecart loaded with ores roared down and ran it over. It broke multiple bones and suffered cuts, and tried to drag itself towards safety. That same minecart comes back down the track and runs it over again, this time empty. More broken bones, more cuts. This time it passes out. Then the cart comes back full, runs it over. The cart comes back, runs it over. The cart comes back full, runs it over. This happens several more times, each time it suffers more injuries and falls unconscious every time. Blood has covered the hallway, and the kitten finally succumbs to its wounds. We cleared it out later, when the minecart was taken offline for a bit while I changed what stones were in the stockpile it loaded from.

All the while I was giggling like a madman.

God damn. I'm tearing up reading that. It was just a kitten. D:

[MythagoWoods]

When I finished my hallway of traps and had my first siege beat itself upon it.  I had so much fun watching small 2's and ]'s fly everywhere as goblins and dragons were dismembered.  The clean-up was a bit of a pain, though.

[Donuts]

When I make lead barrels

Dwarven Radioactive Waste Dumps?

[Donuts]

There was a kitten strolling down one of the minecart tunnels one day. It was minding its own business, happy as can be, when a minecart loaded with ores roared down and ran it over. It broke multiple bones and suffered cuts, and tried to drag itself towards safety. That same minecart comes back down the track and runs it over again, this time empty. More broken bones, more cuts. This time it passes out. Then the cart comes back full, runs it over. The cart comes back, runs it over. The cart comes back full, runs it over. This happens several more times, each time it suffers more injuries and falls unconscious every time. Blood has covered the hallway, and the kitten finally succumbs to its wounds. We cleared it out later, when the minecart was taken offline for a bit while I changed what stones were in the stockpile it loaded from.

All the while I was giggling like a madman.

That encouraged me to close my entrance with a fully loaded minecart constantly driving around

[oven_baked]

When I get the announcement "Thief! Protect the hoard from skulking filth!" and when I zoomed to the location I found a very dead kobold surrounded by blood...

[Chattox]

A very well timed goblin ambush managed to take my population from 120 to 39 (I hadn't gotten my military going properly because of a complete lack of ore) and everyone started throwing tantrums and murdering each other and generally hastening the end of the fortress.
I locked 4 dwarves in a room deep underground with a buttload of food and drink with the intention of repopulating the fortress once everyone else had died. I set them to smooth and engrave the walls to keep their minds off what was going on above. There was a child, a crafter, a miner and a farmer. The crafter quickly went berserk and punched the farmer in the head so hard he died immediately. He then picked up a barrel of wine and started bludgeoning the child over the head with it. It went on for like a month, it was hilarious. All this time, the miner was running in tight circles near the door (which was locked). Once the crafter finally killed the child, he went straight for the miner. He stood in the miners path, this was his mistake. Without skipping a beat, the miner swiftly wrecked his shit with a pick to the skull, and just continued running in his circles. He then went insane and died of starvation.
While all this was happening, there was a dwarf upstairs in the main hall who, according to Dwarf Therapist, was ecstatic. I checked her thoughts in DF and she was indeed ridiculously happy. Nevermind the fact that everyone she knew and loved was either dead or about to be, or that there was a tribe of angry goblins raping and pillaging their way through the fortress! This dining hall is LEGENDARY.

[Donuts]

A very well timed goblin ambush managed to take my population from 120 to 39 (I hadn't gotten my military going properly because of a complete lack of ore) and everyone started throwing tantrums and murdering each other and generally hastening the end of the fortress.
I locked 4 dwarves in a room deep underground with a buttload of food and drink with the intention of repopulating the fortress once everyone else had died. I set them to smooth and engrave the walls to keep their minds off what was going on above. There was a child, a crafter, a miner and a farmer. The crafter quickly went berserk and punched the farmer in the head so hard he died immediately. He then picked up a barrel of wine and started bludgeoning the child over the head with it. It went on for like a month, it was hilarious. All this time, the miner was running in tight circles near the door (which was locked). Once the crafter finally killed the child, he went straight for the miner. He stood in the miners path, this was his mistake. Without skipping a beat, the miner swiftly wrecked his shit with a pick to the skull, and just continued running in his circles. He then went insane and died of starvation.
While all this was happening, there was a dwarf upstairs in the main hall who, according to Dwarf Therapist, was ecstatic. I checked her thoughts in DF and she was indeed ridiculously happy. Nevermind the fact that everyone she knew and loved was either dead or about to be, or that there was a tribe of angry goblins raping and pillaging their way through the fortress! This dining hall is LEGENDARY.

My chair flipped, landing me on my bed laughing.