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[Arcvasti]

There's some way to make a lunar calendar with a captured werebeast. Which is exactly as many style points as you would think it is.

[Treason]

Apparently the act of turning a prisoner into a succubi cures them of their curse.

Ah, well.

Edit: Woops!  I was wrong.  My recently corrupted fiend/werezebra did not last long against the giant eagles I'd been breeding and letting run loose.

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

My dwarves are desperately trying to survive while a malevolent force laughs at their pitiful attempts. Oh, wait, that's me.

[ruxpin_exe]

Finally trying to get around to trying out dwarf sorcery.. fairly newish fort, foregoing my usual rush to steel to instead build a modest below ground fort for less than 50 dwarves, heavy on the masons to build a giant above ground obsidian mage tower ;x

[smakemupagus]

Lakeside embark, occupying a bit of a tight space so far in a nice corner of land where a small river meets the waterfront. 

Playing with the GUI option to have invaders coming a little early than default, so had to do an emergency draft when a couple squads of macedwarves show up.  Every thing is under control, no problem (well, except deaths and tantrums and all that, and unrelated major flooding, etc.)  Later it is time to set up real squads so i do the normal thing: Scheduled train in groups of two, until the barracks are done, just hang out by the armor rack topside.  Grab the looted maces and a couple macuahuitls if you need 'em.  Except I forgot about the emergency draft, so all the fort's weaklings were still in the squad.  They spar for about 20 seconds before the warchief winds up with his looted gold mace and punts the clan oracle out into the lake, to his death by drowning.  Also some kind of eels, but mostly drowning.

[smakemupagus]

The elven delegation, and their Princess of Elbereth / Toximancer* brought us some home decoration supplies.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There's nothing in particular to do with the slab of secrets in Fort mode, right? 

* I was picturing the Peter Jackson version of evil green reverb-voice Lady of Pain Galadriel

[slay_mithos]

I also found a slab in one of my forts, and I built it in a corner, so that I can visit as an adventurer later to learn the secrets of the arcane.

[urmane]

Caught some cave dragons in the caverns - alas, they do not appear trainable.  Oh well, what else can I do with them ...

[slay_mithos]

butcher them for quite a bit of meat and valuable hide/leather/scales?

[smakemupagus]

OK, wow, elves still have some interesting packs of war animals.  Related note, the icon for manticores looks a lot like lions if you aren't paying close attention.  Reminds me of the old days with the packs of those invincible lava dog things ^^

Fortunately mumakil are big and a dose of manticore poison only paralyzes them for a couple seconds.  All my best warriors were all out cold from the poison but the backup scrubs with pikes/spears were able to get the kill shots in while the poor oliphaunts tanked most of the stings. 

[94dima94]

Just had my first major problem in my succubi fort: I'm in the process of building an obsidian palace with clear glass windows everywhere, those being ONLY masterwork quality. Just after I obtained and placed the first 4 windows, something creates a huge forest fire (it was probably a cerberus); everyone runs inside, except for a stray rat thing, but I haven't paved the floor on the outside of the palace yet: the fire reaches the walls and destroys my 4 masterwork windows. Therefore, my glassmaker goes from extatic to miserable in a single moment, throws a tantrum and kills another rat thing in the middle of the meeting area. She has calmed down, it looks like, but is still miserable. I hope she survives this, and she doesn't kill anyone else; of course, there is the possibility of a tantrum spiral...

[urmane]

butcher them for quite a bit of meat and valuable hide/leather/scales?

I was really hoping to tame them, but alas they don't show up on the Animals list ... guess there's nothing for it but to wait for my military to spin up and arrange a pit fight ...

[Tirion]

Just had my first major problem in my succubi fort: I'm in the process of building an obsidian palace with clear glass windows everywhere, those being ONLY masterwork quality. Just after I obtained and placed the first 4 windows, something creates a huge forest fire (it was probably a cerberus); everyone runs inside, except for a stray rat thing, but I haven't paved the floor on the outside of the palace yet: the fire reaches the walls and destroys my 4 masterwork windows. Therefore, my glassmaker goes from extatic to miserable in a single moment, throws a tantrum and kills another rat thing in the middle of the meeting area. She has calmed down, it looks like, but is still miserable. I hope she survives this, and she doesn't kill anyone else; of course, there is the possibility of a tantrum spiral...

How the hell does a forest fire destroy a glass window?

[LMeire]

The pressure increase caused by rapidly expanding heated air could probably shatter a window or two. Does DF model air pressure?

[smakemupagus]

I don't know about the mechanism in DF (there's not air pressure), but in real life the temperature in a really vigorous part of a big fire is 800C or more, and glasses will begin to go molten in the high 600Cs 500Cs. 

(edit:  i mean common soda-lime or "container glass" which contains all sorts of stuff including a high fraction of lime.  IRL pure quartz or fused silica has a glass transition temp around ~1200 C, maybe a little higher.  But even Green Glass in DF though has melting point of 13600 U or 2000 C, even a coal fire in DF doesn't get that hot.)