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[skyte100]

I embarked on a dragon nest, I came back with all military, but he had fled.

[Jake]

Back in 40d, before burrows were a thing, I embarked on a site with a magma pool.

My hunter decided to take a shot at a fire imp, the fire imp took exception to this and started a forest fire. I hadn't even finished digging out a couple of stockpiles and a dormitory and nearly everything was still stored in the wagon.

Yeah.

[Corona688]

I am certain that this guy has us all beat.

[origamiscienceguy]

I have beaten him. I embarked on a cold biome, and retired it with all my dwarves standing on a frozen river. When I unretired it, it was winter but the river was liquid. One frame later, all my dwarves fell into the river and it froze.

1 frame

[Corona688]

I must submit to your superior, alien intellect.

[Corona688]

Back in 40d, before burrows were a thing, I embarked on a site with a magma pool.

My hunter decided to take a shot at a fire imp, the fire imp took exception to this and started a forest fire. I hadn't even finished digging out a couple of stockpiles and a dormitory and nearly everything was still stored in the wagon.

Yeah.

I remember my first magma pipe...  The imps were always attacking random cats and groundhogs.  This happened repeatedly.

First burn, "Holycrap -- FIRE!!!  Get everything inside!"
Second burn, "...What the -- again?"
Third burn, "...meh"

[Mrandom]

reclaiming causes all sorts of FUN, because it is still somewhat buggy.

I remember once I retired a fort and reclaimed it just 1 month later. All the dwarfs were somehow stuck in walls, and they had no picks on them. There was nothing to do, so I retired again...but they magically lived on for many years, even sending me caravans.

I don't have really fun embarking locations besides assaulting a generated fortress with the initial 7 and watch them die. But I am currently thinking of making a ghostly chamber. Say, building a small house then killing all the starting dwarfs, letting their ghost rise, and having all kinds of traps inside. Can't think of a really fun way to do this tho. Maybe I'll let a human adventurer called "Snow White" visit the ghost house.

[Max™]

Ok wait, I think I might have a negative lifespan fort but it isn't a player fort...

"Hmmm, wonder what's in this next room, weird that there's no warm-blooded prey talking in there."


"Uh, you guys should probably put a sign on that door which says something like 'CAUTION: WATERY DEATH ROOM' next time."

[Lyra]

I embarked on a vault and everyone was brutally killed within moments.  I think someone compared it to unleashing HFS immediately upon embark.

I eventually managed to get something of a hermit fort going on in the caverns, but haven't done anything with it since.

[Corona688]

[edit] wrong thread AGAIN.

[Skuggen]

Embarked on a river fork. Wagon and dwarfs were placed on the frozen water, which thawed the instant I unpaused it.

[Staalo]

"Uh, you guys should probably put a sign on that door which says something like 'CAUTION: WATERY DEATH ROOM' next time."

That reminds me of my probably shortest adventuring career: I opened a random door in the fort I spawned in and got a faceful of magma with an announcement "You have discovered a great magma sea."

[maxcat61]

I once tried a terrifying tundra biome. The wagon spawned, and 15 urste's away was an undead zombie polar bear. I had almost got my dwarfs underground before it arrived, but it followed them down. 7 dwarfs in a small, dirty hole in the ground, and standing in the staircase was an huge, angry bear. An undead bear. I militarized everyone, but they were just slaughtered.

[Sanctume]

Terrifying Glacier (aquifer off), instead of 1-pick challenge, I decide 6-picks + 1 anvil from a previously saved embark profile, go! 
Turns out I had a pair of cat with it, wtf?!  Oh well, everyone dig fast to caverns.
A cloud turned fluffy into a husk; husk-fluffy went following straight down to the miners.
Miners decides to punch-out vs husk-fluffy. Game over.

[blue emu]

In an earlier version of the game (v34?) I chanced to embark directly on top of a troll cave. Some of my dwarves didn't even live long enough to get down off the wagon.