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[IronValley]

The Grizzly bear training program is finally coming along! The elves finally brought a female bear last year, and she's got two more female pups growing up as we speak!

In other news... my obsidian generator/dragoncave sewer system is also nearing completion! Where can it go wrong? =)

[Yoink]

Had a fairly large band of migrants, most actually seem somehow useful.
I've buried most of my ghostly dwarves, have at least two hunters out most of the time, and am planning to try going underground to build a well. Oh, and with some slight modding I'm about to train a lion.

Is there any way to assign hunters a uniform (like basic leather armour) without a militia commander?

[ThatAussieGuy]

One of my dwarves is making a stink in the hospital.  Mainly because he's half-rotten.  Literally.  His left leg, left arm, left lower body  His ENTIRE upper body, his right eye, a few random toes and fingers, and most strange of all; his left cheek.  On the plus side; he really doesn't care about anything anymore.  It's just a shame he doesn't have the good decency to DIE so i can toss his body in a coffin and call it a day.

[Melissia]

I just found a HUGE vein of magnetite.  I just mined a HUGE vein of magnetite.

Now to make some pig iron (limestone is a common material here, so common it's being used for most of my statues and I even find it at ground level because of how the river cuts into a nearby hill) and then steel!

[KtosoX]

"A Black Bear has guzzled some ({sewer brew [25]})!"
Now that's something new...

[Melissia]

...

Okaaaay... I just went from 10 to about 26 members in one migration wave.

And I lost my leader due to a frickin' weird cave-in.  So these noobs are now digging his grave while I nominate a replacement manager/broker/bookkeeper amongst the useless guys and draft several more (lyemaker, spinner, the three milkers, dyer) into my militia.

[Reiina]

Is it me or do goblin ambushes happen at the same time as caravans arrive?

Elven Caravan! At last brothers, we will be able to sell those 20 bins of stone goods encrusted with the finest gems!
An Ambush! Curse them!
Quick send the militia to help them out, we need their wood to burn!
<long battle, 2 dwarves lost their lives after it turns out that there were 3 groups of goblins out there>
<I look around for the elves, or maybe their corpses>
By Armok! The elves fled without even fighting! The cowards!

<later>
Human Caravan! At last brothers, we will be able to sell those 40 bins of stone goods encrusted with the finest gems!
An Ambush! Curse them!
Quick, send all the militia(20 men) to help them out, we need their goods!
<quick battle, no casualty(I guess training did pay out :p)>
Ahhh those humans would do Armok proud, they fought without losing one member!

Elves are really chickens >.<

[KtosoX]

...
And I lost my leader due to a frickin' weird cave-in.  So these noobs are now digging his grave while I nominate a replacement manager/broker/bookkeeper amongst the useless guys and draft several more (lyemaker, spinner, the three milkers, dyer) into my militia.

Don't forget about the cheese makers! Those guys make great cannon fodder!

Is it me or do goblin ambushes happen at the same time as caravans arrive?
...

How do you think those goblins got to your fort? They followed those stupid elves! Those damn hippies bring nothing but trouble... and animals.

[Melissia]

Oh yes, I'll include the cheesemakers and the beekeeper and the soap makers and the fish cleaners later.   Once I have made enough iron warhammers and waraxes for them to use.

[Lielac]

Pointpost

What's that, self? You left Dwarf Fortress running while you went to get breakfast and when you got back your mechanic was dead because he dodged into a pond that you hadn't made an escape from?

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Eh, 19 dwarves means no more artifacts until the first babby comes, and I can set some other semi-useless fool to mechanic duties.

Speaking of artifacts, my first one was my chief med dwarf getting possessed and making an iron bow. M'eh.

The main fortress is going well, with the above ground portion made out of kaolinite because it's red and I ran into a large cluster of it. I'm planning on turning invaders on eventually, but I want to enjoy serrated steel slicing sieges and not dead dwarves, so I'm going to get my fortress set up, pave the entrance with *serrated steel disks*, and then open for business. Besides, I seem to have embarked on a badger dance studio, and they're plenty fun for now.

[Iren]

One of my rangers thinks he´s Aragorn or something, he won't sleep in beds (even when plenty are avaliable) and he prefers to be sleeping in the fortress corridors or at the outdoors.

Actually that's behaviour of every ranger in DF

I had rangers before but never noticed them sleeping around Thanks for pointing it out

[Yoink]

Well, here it is. The end. Kneadwildness is doomed, as far as I can see.
It's been a good run, but I always knew this was coming, what with no military and all... A vile force of darkness has arrived.
It's a pretty piss-poor siege all things considered, but it doesn't really matter.

[Andal]

My current fort seems destined for a dark fate even though things have been going well (except for an avoidable cave-in. D'oh!). It's named Tomburges, of the civilization the Attic of Seizures, whose symbol consists of... skinless demons. The first artifact was a spiked dwarf figurine called the Delight of Scars, and the next, a black bronze bracelet, depicted a dwarf surrounded by flies. Why am I having this overwhelming sense of foreboding? So much for a pleasant, cheerful mountain-home-to-be.

[Yoink]

Yikes, Andal! Sounds fun!

Well, I think my prediction about my own fort will prove fairly accurate. Goblins came in, shot down a few people, the partiers locked safely in my tower were like, "Meh! Hey Logem, try this minced groundhog tallow soup!"
A few more... A few more, and BAM! Pretty much everyone's at miserable, and a crippled child is bashing the cook over the head with his crutch.

Edit: Hehe, there's still a bunch of people escatic, partying away in the magnificent dining rooms along with a few who feel content! This is gonna get messy fast! At least the army of berserkers should give the goblins something to think about...

[Hels]

Bah my latest fort was doing so well. Kick ass embark with tons of metals and a volcano, and set up on these kind of points I was gonna build a keep on. Well my awesome defense of raise the bridge failed when I missed a single gap in the wall and a single ramp I failed to remove. I'm working on reclaiming the fortress but everything is scattered everywhere it's breaking my soul. I might turn off invasions so I can just clean the place up because the embark is just too damned awesome to not use.