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[Fluoman]

I think it is starting for me.
This is the first fortress where, if there is a cave-in and a dwarf dies, I don't savescum. Flooding or magma-flooding a fortress that I have become bored with and would have deleted doesn't count.

[Ravendarksky]

I was getting annoyed with animal management so I took all named animals (pets) and locked them in a sealed area then flooded it with magma.

After that I pretty much started doing things to make my life easier rather than to please the dwarfs.

[wierd]

.40d era.

Prissy noble drew the last straw, by once again forbidding the export of green glass, iron items, and scepters. Greenglass trade goods (including scepters) were still the primary export of the fortress, and we direly needed the supplies the caravan had brought.

I asked if there would be any reprocussions from his untimely death here on the forums. I was informed that life would simply go on as if he had never existed.

I installed him in a lavishly furnished "heated bedroom", locked the doors, then told him to pull the lever. He complied. And stood there, motionless, as the magma slowly burned him alive. I imagined him being so detatched from reality that he simply refused to accept that he was being burned to death, shouting orders at the magma to stop being so unpleasant in impotent rage.

Once the magma had consumed his arrogant ass, I poured water in from above, (Used the magma reaction chamber as his new bedroom. hehehe) then mined out all the obsidian, paying careful attention to which wall had formed where he was standing previously. I forbid all other stones in the fortress, saved (for a savescum), then made stone crafts. Reloaded until I got a scepter-- decorated it with green glass gems, and GAVE it to the elven caravan.

Fortress life was never better after that point. All the supply and logistics issues just melted away.

I was never the same after that.

[Fluoman]

I am a scepter and I must scream.

[KiBoy]

I am a scepter and I must scream.

I HEREBY DECLARE MYSELF BANNED FOR EXPORT BECAUSE I AM A FREAKING SCEPTER WITH GREEN GLASS GEMS! ... Why are the elves taking me away!?

[HmH]

I am a scepter and I must scream.

I HEREBY DECLARE MYSELF BANNED FOR EXPORT BECAUSE I AM A FREAKING SCEPTER WITH GREEN GLASS GEMS! ... Why are the elves taking me away!?

"'Cause you're, like, eco-friendly an' stuff. No plants were harmed, man. Geothermal power is green power."
Truly, a dwarf's worst nightmare.

[Aspgren]

I care for my dwarves and I provide them with houses, dining rooms, entertainment and grand simply GRAND architecture.

... the dwarves have to sleep in the rain until their grand manors are completed but that's not important is it? Of course it isn't.

[Maul_Junior]

Basically, when did you start becoming the sociopath that the typical DF player is renowned for being?
Mine was quite recent; I decided to kill the mother of three dwarflings via drowning because she fell asleep in the aquifer and I couldn't be bothered to put off securing the final layer long enough for her to wake up and survive. I felt kinda bad afterwards, but only because I was planning on using her to test a magma chamber I've been planning out when she did the exact same thing earlier, but survived because I didn't need to change sides in the time that it took for her to wake up.

.....right about now.

I just started up a program where new recruits bash in caged prisoner's brains in to get training.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15096.msg5214856#msg5214856

[Visus Draconis]

Actually, I'm with FallenAngel and TGL: I get my kicks by building a fully-functioning dwarf fortress and exploring different industries. I save my cruel glee for when the enemies of the fort are torn apart in battle against my dwarves.

[WJLIII3]

KiBoy has just entered a fell mood!

I believe you mean:

KiBoy looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible!

One of my favorite pieces of writing in the game.

[malimbar04]

I'm not entirely sure. Even now I still love my dwarves and prefer to have them live and be successful and happy. I think the first time I noticed it was when I couldn't be bothered to name everyone anymore (caring about each of them was driving me crazy).

But then every now and then I notice things. Right now I have a miner problem - they keep dying. I realized that I cared mostly because their loss of skill meant the megaproject was going to take longer. Then someone told me how they're going to send OSHA my way. that woudl ruin my project, so I decided to increase safety standards (a lot more stairs, only one layer at a time, etc). Caveins are still happening though. Darn.

Then for a while I think I'm doing pretty good. Happiness is up, wealth is up, number of kids being captured and/or killed is down. All is good. Then i get a vampire and my thought process is "well, as long as they're punished once in a while, I don't care, we got too many dwarves anyways". I made some fortifications in the housing area and called it good. Funnily enough I'm half-positive that whoever it was was accidentally killed in the mine. I haven't had a dwarf drained of blood in a long time.

[KiBoy]

KiBoy has just entered a fell mood!

I believe you mean:

KiBoy looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible!

One of my favorite pieces of writing in the game.

Yep, that's what I meant. Never had a single fell mood yet in-game. And I hope I won't... Unless Urists McNobles will get annoying. I despise useless nobles...

[blapnk]

I think it might have been when I turned my magma defences on the new migrants because I felt my population was high enough.

Or possibly when I read witnessing enough death makes dwarves stop caring about anything anymore, and promptly began designing a dining room with an execution pit. Some dwarves had to be sacrificed for the greater good so rest may live in tantrum free peace.

[Eric Blank]

I was born into the darkness. I've always been a horrible sociopath, and I always will be.

First time I committed my dwarves to death intentionally was shortly after I began playing, and a dwarf went berserk after a friend got eaten by an alligator. I didn't save anybody, I just watched them die.

[BoredVirulence]

I'm pretty good to my dwarves, and never intentionally harm them. Not that I care for any of them but the legendaries.

I'd say my darkest moment was experiments with explosions and gas chambers. Crowding dwarves into a booze stockpile flooding with magma to see the effects of exploding booze barrels (nothing at all. There should at least be happy thoughts if no scalding takes place...). Then, disappointed, I worked out a modded poisonous gas activated by heat, and inert underground unless handled incorrectly. When I accidentally spilled some in my entrance way before completing the heated floors, the dwarves naturally walked through it. It took time for their body heat to activate it, by then they were at the party they started in the dining room. That caused a lot of deaths. That was funny, and I think I purposefully recreated it for giggles.

I'm not dark, I'm just indifferent. As Loud Whispers said, they are resources. I like having resources,I don't mourn the loss of dwarves more than the loss of trees.