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[TheCheeseMaker]

I recently lost 12 of my 16 military dwarves to a necromancer siege. Only the marksdwarves (who didn't participate in the battle) survived. The siege was defeated through liberal use of traps. 

Not 10 seconds later, a goblin siege shows up, so I send in the marksdwarves and they all die except for 1. I draft a random noob and he manages to massacre the remaining goblins where the elite legendary +5 marksdwarves failed.

THEN, 10 seconds after this a forgotten beast shows up, so I send the noob and the last marksdwarf to fight it. They, of course, are massacred and the beast rampages through my fort, the dwarves only killing it by a luck shot from a draftee.

Within 1/2 an hour of play, I went from one of my most successful fortress (only one death in 5 years) to a train wreck on par with some of my fist fortresses.

I love this game.

[MobRules]

FPS death was getting annoying, so I decided to make my first foray into the HFS.

Damn clowns slow down the FPS an order of magnitude more than things were previously... (The only reason it says "1 FPS" is because it's (barely) non-zero and the display doesn't do fractions. REally should be SPF...)

I don't think that a high SPF will do any good in blocking out the hellish flames /s

Very true .

(My favorite was the Steam Banshee)

[soulsource]

The axedwarf that was injured when I sent the army after raven corpses attacking migrants has died. Obviously the doctors didn't get thread early enough to suture all his wounds, so he kept on loosing blood...

Also, one of the glassmakers decided to demand silk cloth for a strange mood, so now I'm rushing to find the caverns just to gather a single web and have it spun as fast as possible. With a little bit of luck, the caravan from the mountainhome will arrive be for he goes crazy, but as there are undead ravens around, I'm not sure if the traders will make it to my depot. I'm currently considering sending out the soldiers to deal with the ravens, but they are still lacking parts of their armor, so that attacking the birds will probably cause casualties...

On the bright side, while digging down towards the caverns cassiterite was found, meaning that my soldiers will soon be able to upgrade their equipment from copper to bronze.

[pisskop]

ravens are small enough that gibbing their bitis fairly easy.

[customlemon]

A bone doctor got punished for not producing anvils.
While in prison, 'He felt pleasure near a fine Restraint'
So the hammerer gelded him 'accidentally'.
Now he feels free...

In other news:
My 1st functional magma pump stack is working properly. As it turns out even injured goblins are faster than fire 

Edit:
Nice - a trader constructed an artifact bow. It depicts a goblin becoming a dwarven baron. I want him in my fortress

[Staalo]

Finally caught a male Voracious Cave Crawler; now I can start a breeding program with those wonderful beasts. For some reason the animals went into a state of deep anguish when they were moved from their cages to their breeding area and refused to move for a long time. Haven't seen that before.

Other thing I haven't seen before is that most of the civilian population in Copperfell is "nervous not having adequate protection." What exactly does that mean? They're not missing any essential clothing and my militia, though small, is more than enough to protect the fortress.

[NJW2000]

Other thing I haven't seen before is that most of the civilian population in Copperfell is "nervous not having adequate protection." What exactly does that mean? They're not missing any essential clothing and my militia, though small, is more than enough to protect the fortress.

Looks like you'll be getting a few dwarven babies pretty soon, then

[Staalo]

Looks like you'll be getting a few dwarven babies pretty soon, then

Hmmm... the dwarves have been unusually fertile in this fort, almost .40.07 fertile. But how do I go on with acquiring adequate "protection?" Is there a workshop task for producing dwarven... protective devices? I imagine they'll be made out of leather, probably menacing with spikes of something, them being dwarven and all.

But seriously, even babies are nervous about the protection thing. What could it be?

[TheFlame52]

No military? No captain of the guard?

[Staalo]

No military? No captain of the guard?

Law enforcement could be the key. There are dozens of unpunished production violations courtesy of the resident exile Duke of Questedstake. He has sentenced a sizeable chunk of the population to prison and citizens might be thinking they are living in a crime zone when the violators run around freely.

[NJW2000]

No military? No captain of the guard?

Law enforcement could be the key. There are dozens of unpunished production violations courtesy of the resident exile Duke of Questedstake. He has sentenced a sizeable chunk of the population to prison and citizens might be thinking they are living in a crime zone when the violators run around freely.

Wait, in which  longstanding fortress would the dwarves not have reason to think this?

[Oda]

Keas are becoming a problem, stealing my stuffs.

I don't really have the heart to send out a squad to attack defenceless parrots either. 

[Iamblichos]

How could things go so, so wrong?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

His name translates to "Ocda Helpfulgrips the Hood of Crushing".  Sounds like a wereelephant to me...

[pisskop]

Capybaras in my area have killed a war dog and an invading goblin.  The former was being itself and the later fell into a pond and the capybara ripped it up.  They also attacked Utes the troll :|

  The little buggers are even attacking my cleanup crews!

[Aristion]

Capybaras in my area have killed a war dog and an invading goblin.  The former was being itself and the later fell into a pond and the capybara ripped it up.  They also attacked Utes the troll :|

  The little buggers are even attacking my cleanup crews!

Aren't those guinea pigs? Terrifying.