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[Ross Vernal]

As it turns out, one of the dead goblin's names was Iceincest.
Please someone explain to me how that would work.

Incesty goblins in a frozen biome.

[Tibbz2]

Just started a new Nanofort, was going very well. Just need to find some flux then my metal industry is up!

Some traders came, traded and got more wood (1x1 embark, so i had about 3 trees) and everything was running fine, apart from one moody dwarf who withdrew

Until, the traders startted packing. That is. I went up to check on them, and everything was kicking off. (This is the first proper battle ive seen). Bolts flying everywhere, blood covering the ground, my dwarves and the caravan chasing some Capybara...

I had no real idea what started it at that time, but it was great fun to watch. Then the result was 6 dead capybara and a content caravan leaving, and us having some lovely meat for the month

Turns out in the reports what started the battle was my horse.

[MasterMorality]

Very happy: hit the caverns and finally found a flux deposit, after fruitlessly searching for several years.
Oh, and Ill Tefeqenebu is out of Hospital! He actually survived. He's been in that hospital for literally about a year or more, after being thrown off the entrance walkway and plummeting several Z levels to a a grisly halt. I didn't expect him to survive, but apparently he's tougher than he looks. Good to have him up and about, but he's lost his Noble position, as he wasn't doing anything.

More indoor farms built.
A corpse stockpile until the miners clear more graveyard space.

Then two sieges at once:
 
Demons:
An Elite Bowman leading swords unit
A hammer lord leading halberds.

Serpent Folk:
I think just one group of hammer wielders. Still, they will breathe fire on everything, and kill my FPS by igniting the entire map. Kinda hate them.

The swords group reach the gates just before the bridge can be raised, but are held at bay by three warriors. One goes down quickly, one newbie axebeast makes a good show of herself, and one somehow ends up at the back of their ranks, gets hurt and leads them off while the lever is pulled. Let our enemies weaken themselves killing caravans and each other. We will slaughter the remnants.

The sword-demon squad camps outside the gates, they also stand along a line of weapon traps which they continually trigger and it thins them out nicely . The Orc merchants are butchered by the Naga.

My enemies do not attack each other. The troops are sufficiently massed. The lever is ordered pulled.
One Demon swordsman just abandons his troop at random and wanders off the map.
The bridge goes down, the swordsdemons come in, the bridge goes back up. They are outnumbered.

Ill Tefeqenebu, first battle back, is the first to die - stabbed in the face with a copper scimitar.
The demon squad is swamped.
Bridge goes back down. Winter arrives. Squads form up on the walkway and in the fortifications. Demons charge. They meet a wall off Borioth, and then run.

The naga are just sitting next to the river in a ditch.

[Tibbz2]

Wow.

My beserk dwarf ended up dead earlier, so i burried him, along with an engraver who dies of thirst, while doing nothing, with 527 drink in my fort... No idea how he did that.

Anyway, a bunch of about 10 migrants had arrived, and after 5 mins i noticed none had entered my fort, and there were alot of cancelations. So i went to check. Oh it was like the site from earlier, apart from this time the 6 Capybara returned to rein all hell. I raised my bridge to watch the chaos ensue, but nothing much happened so i forgot about it. Until i noticed 3 dwarf bodies in the pool by my meeting area...

As of now, about 9 migrants are dead, and a total of 12 capybara are too. And the top of my fort is drenched in blood. And so is my pool

[NightlinerSGS]

I'm currently tapping a magma tube. Which itself isn't that noteworthy.

However, it is the first time I'm dealing with magma, pumpstacks and machinery ever.

This'll be !!fun!!

[Tibbz2]

I'm currently tapping a magma tube. Which itself isn't that noteworthy.

However, it is the first time I'm dealing with magma, pumpstacks and machinery ever.

This'll be !!fun!!

It shall be!##

Also my fortress failed horribly. And i still have no idea how to use the metal industry/how to set it up properly -.-

[ThatAussieGuy]

Building an water reactor atop an aquifer to bring REAL meaning to the words perpetual motion.

[FrisianDude]

My only elite marksdwarf decided to have a wrestling match with giant capybara. She got lucky though, because no bits were bit off but she's pale nonetheless with a foot and a hand in the red and her being slow to heal. My main melee militiaman has already killed the capbyara that bit her, just in case she did die. Quite quickly too, he stabbed it, causing it to fall, and then rammed his two handed sword in it's brain (with only his right arm on account of his left one having been torn off by the latest FB.)

And my game is running at record speed; THREE whole frames per second! So I told folk to stick puppies in a cage but I only have 8 puppies so that won't matter much. Maybe time for some dog-bombs as well. And I'm defragging my computer.

[Oaktree]

My only elite marksdwarf decided to have a wrestling match with giant capybara. She got lucky though, because no bits were bit off but she's pale nonetheless with a foot and a hand in the red and her being slow to heal. My main melee militiaman has already killed the capbyara that bit her, just in case she did die. Quite quickly too, he stabbed it, causing it to fall, and then rammed his two handed sword in it's brain (with only his right arm on account of his left one having been torn off by the latest FB.)

And my game is running at record speed; THREE whole frames per second! So I told folk to stick puppies in a cage but I only have 8 puppies so that won't matter much. Maybe time for some dog-bombs as well. And I'm defragging my computer.

In DF that means opening up the computer and pouring magma in.   

[Greiger]

Well it would get rid of all the built up dust anyway...


I noticed one of my spear gals was in jail, and I see in her thoughts she enjoyed starting a fistfight.  I check the gamelog for the fistfight and...

The Lancer stabs The lady in the right foot with her +steel lance+, fracturing the bone through the (grass assassin silk sandal)!
An artery has been opened by the attack, a sensory nerve has been severed, a ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!

I'm sorry I think you have 'fistfight' confused with 'attempted murder'.  At least it was one of the useless nobles that showed up with the monarch though instead of somebody important.

[Samuel]

So a flying, fire-breathing Hill Titan showed up. Quite a lot of things are burning, including the remains of my squad. Preparing to send archers at it.

EDIT: Holy shit, that was amazing. The goblins showed up and started fighting the Hill Titan for me. The Titan single-handedly drove off the Goblins, and is now dying of it's injuries. My fortress will remember it as a hero once it's dead (By eating it's corpse, presumably), but until then I'm making sure my dwarves stay the Hell away politely walk up to it so it can still massacre them with a broken spine.

[Qirex]

I abandoned it because I didn't feel that it was worth fighting for anymore.

To elaborate:

My outdoor archer towers have been able to keep 15 sieges and 3 semimegabeasts at bay with no problem.
I have running farms and a war dog training program. I have mined out a LOT of gold and galena veins which have led to enough native gold mechanisms for me to buy out completely every caravan that arrives. However, I'm on a desert, which means few trees, and caravans never bring enough wood due to weight limits. After exploratory mining down to z-50 I've failed to find any lignite or bitumenous coal, and dfprospector.exe -a tells me there isn't any to be found. With that, it's a boring matter of time situation as I can forge iron weapons OR armor for my meleedwarves who are always surrounded and slaughtered quickly, or keep my marksdwarves supplied with metal bolts. (Due to the sheer volume of fire produced by 36 marksdwarves, I've so far been fine with [modded] rock bolts.) My moods have been useless so far, and my dwarves are all happy or above. I have the option to wall off my entrance and self-sustain for literally forever, so I chose screw that and genned a new world.

[B@df-WF]

I just started a new Fortress, and right next to my starting point is a tower of Adamantine, starting at 10 levels above start point and going down at least 42 levels.

[malimbar04]

Well, I "captured" a forgotten beast today. I forgot their insta-knowledge of all paths to dwarves. I also thought (foolishly) that it would web a dwarf on a trap, and subsiquently be hit by a few good sized traps, if it happened to enter. Haha, Ugosh the gigant pale-pink serpant  with noxious secretions laughs at traps.

Luckily, he chased a few children through an area that could be quickly locked. He is now trapped behind a few closed doors (and soon there will be walls that block those doors forever).

In other news, I had my first goblin ambush recently. I didn't care much, they only killed a bunch of elves. They also left a good amount of bludgeoned goblinite in my doors, as tehy ran across well made traps with spiky steal balls. I still have to destroy it all in my trash compactor.

EDIT: the beast destroyed a door before fortifications could be raised. I smell a dead fort coming soon.

[AnimaRytak]

I've just finished a 117 z-level magma pump stack powered by a modified BATTERY reactor that has a maximum potential output of 4800 Urists, of which it is currently producing 3700. 

However the pump stack is only working at partial capacity, as I overestimated the capacity of the intake channel.  An additional pump will be needed to pump magma directly from the sea.