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[phoenixuk]

My first evil beastie o doom turned up!

Zepave Dawnhogs the Butterfly of Vales the Marsh Titan.
Rather anti-climatically it was made of snow, and after crippling a farming dwarf (it must have swum up my well or something... i had everything locked down in abject terror) it was taken out by a single novice axedwarf and his pet war kitten (The kitten showed a rather violent combat log, so that's one cat not getting butchered).
Long Live Domas Etasastesh Adilloram, slayer of the snow butterfly!

Doesn't quite have the ring of heroics to it...

[Haspen]

My first evil beastie o doom turned up!

Zepave Dawnhogs the Butterfly of Vales the Marsh Titan.
Rather anti-climatically it was made of snow, and after crippling a farming dwarf (it must have swum up my well or something... i had everything locked down in abject terror) it was taken out by a single novice axedwarf and his pet war kitten (The kitten showed a rather violent combat log, so that's one cat not getting butchered).
Long Live Domas Etasastesh Adilloram, slayer of the snow butterfly!

Doesn't quite have the ring of heroics to it...

Mother: "...and after the evil snow butterfly was defeated, Domas and his kitten lived happily ever after!"
Kids: "Yaaaay!"

[Macalano]

So I embarked in a haunted jungle or whatever, first things first, a bunch of zombie elephants right next to the embark.

Fort Miasma Lovespit

The beginning:
The war dogs keep them busy for awhile, but eventually die, leaving me with the last resort of quick-drafting civilians and dog-piling the elephants.
The elephants (about 6 together) are all killed, and my dwarves suffer no injury.

Year 2
About 12 casualties due to a forgotten beast (giant filthy crab with wings). I dump all bodies in the moat surrounding the fort.

The dwarves are still happy because of all the zombie zoos I have.

Urist admired a gold cage lately.
Urist was disgusted by miasma lately.

My fort is filled with miasma, and has miasma "chimneys"... I don't understand how the dwarves are coping with this so well.

A moody dwarf built an elephant bone floor grate and I'm using this for a "special" chimney surrounded by zombie elephant cages. The miasma is comming from 3 z levels down from the zombie animal stocks. The "Shaft" is above ground, obsidian, with a lever to open and close the grate. I'm not sure what I'm gonna use a miasma chimney for though... I don't think anyone else has, so I feel special.

Thoughts
I think miasma is the general theme here. This is the creepiest fort I've ever had.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I just managed to head off a tantrum spiral that was slowly gathering momentum. My fort had 200 dwarves, exactly half of which were in the military (of which the majority was equipped with masterwork/exceptional steel armor and axes). After being hit with two large goblin sieges in quick succession, about ten dwarfs died in battle and another ten or so were languishing in hospital. Everyone was grumpy. And then one by one, they began succumbing to tantruming. I was actually too busy with cleanup operations to realize it at first, it was only when I noticed that my population had dropped to 167 that I put 2 and 2 together (there was a _lot_ of cleanup to occupy my attention). Unfortunately my dwarves always seemed grumpiest when they were on duty, and I always had squads guarding my inner and outer drawbridges, so both of those got smashed by tantrumers in short order. So when I set my whole military to inactive to get them to go cool their heels in the legendary dining hall (minus their murder-enabling axes) it was a bit of a risk. But I got the drawbridges rebuilt in short order, my dwarves calmed down, and the extra civilian manpower allowed me to finish cleaning up the corpse pile months ahead of schedule.

Dwarf Fortress stories are a bit dull when everything works out, aren't they?

If you have such a huge military, go invade the HFS.

[Tsarwash]

So the good news is that I got my hospital working a treat finally. It took ages to find anybody who would diagnose people, but now that I have found one, it works a treat. It looks prpoper hospitally as well, a built floor, white featherwood beds and microcline cyan tables.

The bad news is that five of my best militia were slaughtered by goblin crossbowmen. Thier bronze armour gave them no protection. Bum, they were legendary+3 to +5 too.

[Aklyon]

I got an awesome name for a fortress, and the dwarves start on open space, landing 30z below and dieing. (or close enough)

[McDwarf]

A trio of Ogres beat an Elven caravan to death with sunberries.

A dwarven caravan just left, but one speardwarf stopped three tiles from the map edge starring after the caravan. He has changed on the units list from merchant to friendly.

That's an interesting bug. Was he doing anything while he was there?

Not that I could tell.
However, he has since disappeared while I was elsewhere on the map. No combat reports, so I guess he just left, eventually.

[Haspen]

A trio of Ogres beat an Elven caravan to death with sunberries.

A dwarven caravan just left, but one speardwarf stopped three tiles from the map edge starring after the caravan. He has changed on the units list from merchant to friendly.

That's an interesting bug. Was he doing anything while he was there?

Not that I could tell.
However, he has since disappeared while I was elsewhere on the map. No combat reports, so I guess he just left, eventually.

It's common behaviour - the caravan guard stops before the edge, gets 'Friendly' status, and few days later he just resumed his 'leaving'.

[Bryan Derksen]

If you have such a huge military, go invade the HFS.

I intend to. I'm in the process of getting everything juuuuust right.

It actually worked out quite well, I built a cathedral for my dwarfs on a whim (there was a cave formation down in the third cavern level that sort of looked like one so I hollowed it out), and it turns out that there's a pillar of Fun located directly underneath the "altar" at the front. I only noticed it when I punctured the magma sea nearby to build some magma smelters. So that's where the stairs down will be carved. I expect I'll have a lengthy entry for this thread soon.

[Internet Kraken]

God damn Ogres. Theirs never a boring moment in Townbrush between the Ogres and Cave Zombies constantly tearing Dwarves to pieces. Normally when they wander onto the map, I just order everyone to go inside. But then my Giant Eagles apparently caught site of the Ogres, so they flew down to kill them. I wasn't going to let my Eagles die, so I ordered my military to go attack the Ogres. Of course everyone in my military is an idiot so this didn't work well.

They all charged at the Ogres one at a time, rather than work as a team. This meant that the Ogres were easily able to slaughter them one by one. The first one didn't even arrive in time to save my Eagles. He got punched so hard he flew into the ocean and drowned. The second one just got beaten to a pulp. Then they started arriving in groups, so I thought this might be the turning point (it wasn't). One of the Ogres became a major badass, slaughtering almost all of the Dwarves. My military started out at 10 Dwarves, and now it's down to 3. The ogres were starting to leave the map, but then my idiot Marksdwarf shows up (he was to busy drinking and eating to help earlier). He tries to beat the Ogre to death with his crossbow, which was about as effective as it sounds. So he got crushed, and now the Ogres are pissed off again. So it's time to draft everyone in the Fortress and pray they can scratch the Ogres to death. Again.

[Urist Imiknorris]

If you have such a huge military, go invade the HFS.

I intend to. I'm in the process of getting everything juuuuust right.

It actually worked out quite well, I built a cathedral for my dwarfs on a whim (there was a cave formation down in the third cavern level that sort of looked like one so I hollowed it out), and it turns out that there's a pillar of Fun located directly underneath the "altar" at the front. I only noticed it when I punctured the magma sea nearby to build some magma smelters. So that's where the stairs down will be carved. I expect I'll have a lengthy entry for this thread soon.

There better be a screencap of the bloodbath in the cathedral. I want to see dead HFS.

[krenshala]

Thank you for the wonderful DF sig!

All I've got to add to the thread is: had a few goblin thieves try to snatch the children gathered around the war-dog I had tied up at the entrance to my fort.  Then when that failed, try to kill a kitten there.  Both times the goblins ended up pincushioned by my hunters before making it far.  In both cases they were first hit in the spine with a wood or bone bolt damaging the nervous tissue, then hit in the throat and bleeding heavily from a major artery, then hit at least two more times, usually the hands or legs, before the hunting dog gets to them!

Now to figure out the military and training so I can defend against the elven caravans inevitable seiges I'm sure to face.

[Haspen]

Thank you for the wonderful DF sig!

You're welcome

[Encased in burning magma]

Assigned mooding mason to raw adamantine stockpile burrow. Siege, forgot about him.

Remembered a while later: he was amassing a shitload of adamantine in his workshop. Planepacked at will, people!

[Haspen]

Assigned mooding mason to raw adamantine stockpile burrow. Siege, forgot about him.

Remembered a while later: he was amassing a shitload of adamantine in his workshop. Planepacked at will, people!

Go on, I'm particulary interested if the count number would go crazy and show negative value of the artifact! Maybe that will spark reverse immigration? Nobles and useless peasants leaving the fortress!?

*imagines*