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[Blastbeard]

When was the last time you or one of your dwarves had an excuse to say that? Odds are if you've played long enough, you've lost a fort because your resident schmuck screwed everyone over through action or omission of action.
A more recent fort of mine never got off the ground because one of the starting seven died less than a season after embark. When the only available dwarf couldn't be bothered to stop taking breaks or drinking long enough to make a coffin, a short but brutal tantrum spiral sealed the deal.
Wish I'd saved the combat log, I had no idea you could do that with a toe...

How about you?

[zubb2]

This might not count, but due to me designating windows in my dining hall instead of fortifications with marksdwarves or a WALL.

All my civilians were trapped just out of reach of the food and drink stockpiles because they kept running back away from a troll I had no way of getting to to kill.

So the coming on 30 dead could justifiably have "construction accident" on their coffins.

They thirsted and killed each other but it was sort of caused by them windows. Hehehehehe, Vista (veiw) caused my fort to crash.

[Ravendarksky]

One of my dwarfs deconstructed a wall in an above ground fort. Directly above the wall was a door allowing exit from a barracks. 7 soldiers all died of thirst neatly simultaneously... I never noticed because the door hid the fact there was no floor underneath!

I guess its really my fault but I blame him!

[Solon64]

Soooo many mistimed lever pulls because urist was off getting drunk in the booze cellar.

Also, the time when Urist KNEW that channeling out that tile was a mistake/bad idea and I misclicked, but he channels it anyway out of spite. Cue thirty or so "has been crushed!" messages.

[Mura]

Urist cancels "seal off HFS": On Break.

And thus a great kingdom fell.

[Deus Asmoth]

Urist notices a new sock in the werebull moat. Urist goes to acquire new sock, dropping his old one in the doorway on the way. Urist gets mauled (trampled?) to death and the other ~60 dwarves quickly follow suit thanks to the unclosable door.

[wierd]

Just the usual "Oh gawd Urist, please PLEASE pull the lever! Please!" Situation, where Urist walks up to the lever.. turns around and gets a drink... heads back to the lever... goes and gets a mushroom to snack on... heads back to the lever, and feels sleepy. (Obviously from eating mushrooms and drinking hard river spirits) takes a nice long nap. Wakes up, decides it's too early to be pulling levers, and just decides to rejoice in the tortured screams of his supposed friends as he takes his clearly much more important morning break.

Meanwhile, a forgotten beast claws its way through the fortress, while the desperate overseer tries to get anyone, anyone at all to close the airlock, while jamming the hallway with as many useless puppies, kitties, chickens, and other misc lifestock animals as possible to impede the FB's pathing, while it sprays cloying and festering filth everywhere, while simultaneously suspending Urist McClothier's industrious insistence that he go down the hallway to collect webs, and Urist McHunter's incessant attempts to go hunt the native draltha.

Ultimately resulting in a tantrum spiral as Urist McCatlady goes positively apeshit from her precious babies being thrown at the nameless horror from the depths, Urist McHunter, who was on this Obsidian's issue of "Life" magazine as the fortress's most popular title holder, ends up a festering puddle of rotting flesh on the floor, causing Urist McLeverPuller to go straight from lazy asshole to tantruming douchebag before even finishing his break, while the rest of the fortress goes bonkers.

Yes Urist. You should have pulled the lever, and listened to the screaming in the hallway. Yes Urist, YOU are responsible. Everyone else was busy trying to be safely isolated against the creeping chaos, and you were standing in a corner with Playdwarf and your trousers down. Don't try to deny it.

(This exact situation has happened a surprising number of times....)

[BoredVirulence]

Just the usual "Oh gawd Urist, please PLEASE pull the lever! Please!" Situation, where Urist walks up to the lever.. turns around and gets a drink... heads back to the lever... goes and gets a mushroom to snack on... heads back to the lever, and feels sleepy. (Obviously from eating mushrooms and drinking hard river spirits) takes a nice long nap. Wakes up, decides it's too early to be pulling levers, and just decides to rejoice in the tortured screams of his supposed friends as he takes his clearly much more important morning break.

This is why I have layers upon layers of doors. You might say that 10 different layers of doors connected to the caverns, with a bridge behind the first and last doors, is a bit much. Or hatches every 5th layer of staircases is overkill. I disagree. Those 10 sets of disposable doors buys me time, and if they won't pull the lever then I can get someone else to build a wall. Or at the very least, there should be some hatches that aren't jammed open.

[Tevish Szat]

An Airlock only works if you do not open it up the whole way.  Sadly, to my knowledge there's no way to set up levers to toggle linked objects so raising one bridge always lowers the other.'

Lever accidents are also why I like to have a few idlers at all times and don't profile important levers.

[flame99]

I had something of a troglodyte problem in the first cavern layer, so I blocked it with a door. The trogs were right next to the door when one of my haulers goes berserk and breaks it, letting in all of the trogs to play and have some !!FUN!!.

[PDF urist master]

I think the image speaks for itself.

[wierd]

... I see a few dead gobblins and dead dogs.. and somebody set the world on fire...

The notice about creating a masterpiece is possibly hilarious, if the dwarf in question is the one who started the fire...

[flame99]

I see nothing wrong with that picture.

[laularukyrumo]

Iiiiiii don't want to set the woooooooooooorld ooooooooooooon fiiiiiiireeeeeeeeee....

[Ravendarksky]

An Airlock only works if you do not open it up the whole way.  Sadly, to my knowledge there's no way to set up levers to toggle linked objects so raising one bridge always lowers the other.'

Lever accidents are also why I like to have a few idlers at all times and don't profile important levers.

You can do this by linking up leaver to a gear, switching it then linking it up to another gear. Now have your gears move mine carts on/off of pressure plates which raise/lower your bridges.