Urgh. Just lost so much progress! Seasonal saves were on, but all the really crazy stuff happened since the last season so...
So, I built a huge facility intended to lure in the silk-spitting water blob forest titan so I could capture it. Meanwhile, I left one dwarf outside to keep it occupied while I sealed up the fort to give myself time to build the thing.
Almost done when I check the combat logs and find that after it murdered another straggler, the one dwarf I left out there took a potshot at it and one-shotted the beast. Sonuva...!
Okay, I can live with that, I guess. Oh hey, merchants! They have no depot, though, because the constant troll attacks keep knocking them down, and I haven't had time to build my planned elevated depot yet. Well, I have plenty of supplies, so I'll ignore 'em.
The liason annoys me for a bit, and then eventually the merchants announce they are leaving. Meanwhile, I have to deal with a couple of goblin ambushes. Nothing serious.
I dig some more, and suddenly: The Merchant Urist McMalingerer has gone berserk!
Turns out they never actually left my map. So, the merchant attacks the closest caravan guard and is scattered all over the mountaintop. A couple of other merchants get melancholy. The Water Buffalo has gone berserk! And by berserk I mean he just stands there and gives any civilian who comes near the evil eye. It'd be hilarious if my dwarves weren't trying to pick up the various items the merchants dropped when they went insane, and getting spooked by the 'berserk' Water Buffalo, then dropping Meat barrels and Gem bins and Weapon bins out for the kobolds to take. So, eventually, some intrepid dwarves try to fill the thing full of arrows. It takes a lot.
But eventually the evil Water Buffalo is vanquished, and my dwarves are all out refusing to pick up the merchant loot because some of it is cheese and they'd rather just picnic out there when:
The Dead Walk!
Oh man, not this again! I set my warrens to 'Errybody Indoors!' and hit space to unpause.
A Vile Force of Darkness has Arrived!
So, I watch with bemusement as the goblins, undead corpses, and insane merchants all clash in front of my fort, while I turn on the lava. Then I rage at the fact that some tantrumming dwarf knocked down the front door while I wasn't looking, and now lava is coming through the front door and probably destroying another bridge, which seems to have not been hooked up like I wanted and won't retract. I don't care too much, because I'm watching goblins and zombies tear each other to bits while the trolls burn under a magmalanche and it is awesome. I can't wait to engrave this all over my wa-
Dwarf Fortress.exe has stopped responding. Would you like to close the program or send all your private information to Microsoft and close the program? Uh... neither? It does that sometimes. Like when it's saving. Just let it run. X that dialogue box, I want to do neither! Oh, well, we'll count that as a vote for "close" then! *kills program*
*facepalm*