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[Iamblichos]

Just ruthlessly slaughtered my fifth (?) major siege of goblins and trolls... had to dig a magma chute from the surface to toss all the bodies/useless loot faster.

[StagnantSoul]

Just had a troll rush from the stairway and knock an unopposed Bronze Colossus into the dry moat. This is now the perfect moat.

[utunnels]

A water forgotten beast came.
And it just lurked in the water so I counld't send dorfs to kill it.
I wonder if it wanted to path into my well.


A gremlin.
And my military lost track of it.


I used two squads to lure the FB out of water and killed it.


"Let there be peace throughout the world."
He didn't feel anything seeing a blahblah died.<a long list here>

I checked the thoughts of my militia commander.

[Immortal-D]

As Winter of year 2 draws to a close, I am fast approaching the first Cavern.  Here is the state of my metal stocks;

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I also have lots and lots of Flux Stone, to the point where 75% of my furniture is made of Chert   I disabled the use of Chert once I hit Granite and Kaolinite.  Thankfully the Giant animals of my little tundra provide sufficient bone to equip a Marksdwarf squad with bows & bolts.  However, any melee Dorfs will be relying on Gemstone armaments and whatever decent pieces I can snag from invaders once they show up (which at the current rate of gold smithing, should be any day now).

[The Bard]

A rhino reverted to wild state right after some giraffes were temporarily pastured in her paddock. She charged, broken the female's leg so she fell over, then stomped her head until it exploded like a ripe melon filled with meat.

She then charged the male, who dodged... causing her to stumble neatly into the emergency cage line.

[Eric Blank]

I've been having a lot of FUN with my new fort on my laptop. First trouble was a wereass showing up and murdering about five dorfs before being put down the husband of one of the dead was bitten, and is now himself a wereass. I've locked him in his own private gallery to fill with beautiful artwork, and he made an artifact, completing his life's dream; hauntednegated the cassiterite trumpet. From there onndorfs have been dying in unfortunate circumstances, including giant bats and a giant cave spider that assaulted the soldiers going to rescue the victim of the giant bat, which killed an extra ~5 dorfs.

Then there was a goblin siege. The only dorf left outside was a baby whose mother was killed by the gcs, now named Patches; when the goblin squad got to her, they just followed her around as she tried to flee. Eventually I mustered a couple squads and while half the goblin force was playing with the cage traps and the other was holding the kid hostage (following her around), I opened a point in the walls and released them. The fight was brief and brutal, and was a complete route with only one escaping goblin. The only friendly fatality? The babies' father, a ranger, who flew into a rage and bulrushes the goblin squad immediately outside. The kid and several soldiers suffered injuries at that point; I guess when the dwarves were released the goblins tried to execute the hostage.

Patches can't stand on her own anymore, but she survived to reach childhood. She is now hopping around on her crutches spamming cancellations because she's "shaken." Poor kid.

Anyway, after that came the cyclops attack. Two fatalities; one civilian and one soldier. Then the minecart accident while testing my trap hall of doom; one ranger killed by suffocation after being crushed under a solid gold minecart, multiple times. So at least it works...

[utunnels]

I saved before channeling a large area of floors (40.19).
Just as expected, crash!

So I removed all mining jobs from all of them but one after reloading the save.

Some blind cave ogres smashed a door and rushed into my fort.
I didn't notice until I saw the message about some animal caretaker was found dead.

[Staalo]

What's going on in the world?

Either the RNG is being really weird, or your civ is being eaten alive in a war, and the merchants are refugees.

The civilization was almost dead already when I started the fort; I think only the last king was alive as a bandit leader somewhere. Supposedly these merchants came from somewhere but there aren't any other settlements in this civilization. In that context merchants immigrating isn't that weird, I suppose.

[ptb_ptb]

I'm running with a pop cap of 7. Two pairs of the original seven have been 'living in sin' for four years now. GET MARRIED ALREADY!

[Sirbug]

Oh great, king consort is also a baron of my former mountainhome. Who's in charge of mountainhome now?

[Sirbug]

Some wildfire !!science!!. Trees when burning somehow collapse and penetrate several floors like phallic symbols they are. Also fruits appear to be non-flammable, so now I've got fields of ashes covered in limes.

[TheKaspa]

Managed to survive a Siege with only the loss of a Marksdwarf and of a Wrestler.
Gotta finish the trapped entrance soon.

[FallenAngel]

An update on my fort.
24 dwarves. First mood. Tetrahedrite scepter.
Almost 2500 food and food-related items.
60 meat, 147 fish, 1445 plant, 187 seeds, 596 drink, 38 other.
For 24 dwarves, I think that's good.

[Sirbug]

My mayor vampire is now completely pacified by hammering. Being paralyzed he can no longer drink blood, but why won't he die?

[utunnels]

An elven caravan arrived and sold my dorfs some giant pets. My dorfs dumped all those tattered clothes to them.
Then my broker died. I don't know how he fell maybe he got bored and jumped.
 

One of my miner was badly wounded in a cave-in. He's the reason why I made a traction bench.

Another wereskink attacked but since I always had soldiers stationed near the entrances, it didn't do any damage. The battle lasted for a while, it appeared the were had some dodging skills.

Lots of cundles surrounded my cavern entrance. I was too lazy to deal with them so I just locked the doors.

I dumped all their worn clothes, but then I noticed some naked dorfs. So 2 clothiers workshop working 24/7 were not enough?

Now the fortress was getting old and boring. Maybe it's time to move on and try 40.23 (or should I wait for 40.24?)