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[Isngrim]

Never savescum unless the fort's unplayable. Accept the Fun, embrace it.

i only ever savescum when my wagon starts next to a couple of violent animals, and the important dwarves die.

[Yoink]

I just realised Urist McHeadpuncher and his wife are two of my deadliest warriors, both in the same squad.
I ordered them to murder the dwarven caravan as a way to cheer themselves up and put some spice back in their marriage.
*sniff* How romantic.

[nomoetoe]

It was a glorious fight, there were dozens of demons, thankfully they were either organic beings or made out of really weak stuff like snow. Only lost one soldier in the initial fight.
Later I began work on the 'colonization' project.

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Unfortunately during construction My champion was killed, kind of expected since she lost her leg during the initial fight and she was only dabbling in crutch-walker, but still she was my favorite. :C

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This is what came from the death of most of my soldiers and dozens of civilians, and having to deal with everything being very slow. Do I think it was worth it? Yes, very much so.
Not much of a colonization but I tried, and it was fun getting there. The fortress has been retired, was a good run 18 years.

[Yoink]

Hahah, a migrant just arrived and is already 'overcome by horror'.

[zdrgn]

My engraver went mad when he couldn't build some useless trinket at the craft shop.   I suppose I should have checked what materials he wanted but I forgot about him while outfitting a new squad.  Now he's locked up in a old mausoleum, and I'm wondering whether I should just let him run naked and free babbling around my fortress.  He has TONS of friends and family I'm not sure which approach would be less detrimental to everyone else' sanity.  It's kinda fitting that he'll die of dehydration in there with a coffin of a baby who died and filled my meeting hall with miasma in the early years of the fort before I dug into an aquifer and built a well.  But if he's no harm to others..??

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[Amperzand]

His buddies will probably be sadder if they see him die than if he just starves in a hole and you burrow a stranger to bury him.

[Urlance Woolsbane]

Hahah, a migrant just arrived and is already 'overcome by horror'.

It was inevitable.

[Wings]

One year after the attack of the Bronze Colossus, another Beast tried to invade Cudgelpages:

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It went right into the "trap" and the Crossbowman were able to kill it before it could break through!

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The only casualty was a dog, who gave the ballista the time to hit the FB. He was thrown ~11 tiles back through the fortifications.

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On the screenshot you can see the setup, the dogs corpse unfortunately was hauled away, but you can see blood, where he landed.

Im really happy the ballista did so much damage, otherwise I dont think the bolts would have killed it fast enough.

[zdrgn]

His buddies will probably be sadder if they see him die than if he just starves in a hole and you burrow a stranger to bury him.

Yeah yer right, I guess its over now for that poor engraver.. Its been another season or two and now he's probably unhappy because he's dying of starvation and thirst.. time to let him expire..  He hasn't even broken a coffin or slab, such a nice well behaved babbling idiot. 

[Amperzand]

Poor guy.

[zdrgn]

Well thanks to all your apathy, my engraver has died of thirst amidst the tombs of similarly thirsty babies.(quantity = 1)

Warning> explicit dead dwarf images below:

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(i waited for the miasma to subside to take this screenie..)

If you dont' believe me, view this next spoiler..

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[Pseudo]

I finally managed to do the double-slit method properly, as opposed to some crazy ad-hoc solution. ...And then I managed to punch through the bottom layer without realizing it, and had to improvise anyways (by which I mean designating the (full) stairs (or rather, the z level above) as water sources and telling my dwarves that the cliffside was an empty pond and they should go fill it, like, right now).

This fort is going weirdly, in general. I got my farm and still and kitchen up early (while I was waiting for the many steps of aquifer-punching), and didn't have much of any rock (I brought 10 mica. That's it - I spent 6 of it on two levers and links, and 1 on blocks for a temporary drawbridge (using one of said links), and 2 on cage traps, leaving 1 for a mood (or furnace) if necessary). I also actually built a surface structure for once (out of wood). I had to hunker down quickly, as there are two towers as neighbors. And I actually started an egg industry, for once. Although a) I brought 10 males and 2 females instead of vice-versa, and b) the females don't seem to want to use their nest boxes (I don't know why?). 

Also, PSA: going into announcements.txt and changing building cancellation to pause-and-recenter really helps with aquifer-punching. Although it'll make you want to strangle your brewer and/or planter.

[Ubrael]

Just visited the Circus for the first time, expecting and hoping for some Fun after the only two things attacking me were a small goblin siege and a steam FB which one of my miners punched to death.
What happened was that my extremely underwhelming and mostly unarmored militia beat off the Clowns with extreme ease, losing only 7 out of 30 dwarves.

Then my smith had a mood...

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I am now contemplating sacrificing him to the clowns.

[Dutrius]

Decided to get back into the game.

Right, new fort. Oooh, volcano with clay, sand, lots of metals and flux! Climate's nice. Lots of trees to cut down. Only downside is no running water.


All is going well, when suddenly, two months in, "Ineth Rigothgim, Woodcutter cancels Fell Tree: Unconscious."

Turns out, a larch log fell on him and crushed his hand.

So far so good...

[SyrusLD]

Weird. Very, very weird.

For the second time now a human caravan has decided to somehow attack my dwarves upon trying to leave (or shortly before actually starting to leave). It appears that the rest of the caravan is now broken occupying my trade post, unwilling to leave. I really don't understand what happened...was it maybe because they saw a war-trained grizzly bear from the elf raid earlier?


Well, my military made short work of them, just minor injuries to one civilian it seems...Appears that grizzlies can teleport through walls though, because there's no other way he got into my civilian area and spooked the human caravan - well, at least they can teleport through walls when fired against them via a "cage emptying"-shotgun.


Soooo many corpses to dump...first the elves, then the elves and goblins I captured and fed to my Jabberers and then the god damn human caravan...