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[Eric Blank]

My fort had a horrible 2 years. We've been under siege the entire time, never a caravan to be seen, and my horribly untrained militia horribly outnumbered and horribly under-equipped, so the bridges were left sealed except for one attempt to capture some of the orcish swordsmen. We captured about 12 of them, including their mace lord and his spiffy silver mace, now held by my militia commander. Nobody died trying to get them in the cages, but we did suffer several casualties (only injuries, no deaths) to the bowman squad that didn't stop until they'd reached the bridge. Said bowmen then moved to the top of the hill behind the fortress walls, but still across the moat, where they took pot shots at everything in that general area, including both the fortress' owned cats, who were the only ones killed for over a year.
The next summer, there was a gap in the sieges. I took it as a full-seasons break from the fighting and let everyone out to collect the elves' trash, some logs, and the clothes people has been spamming the announcements page for for over a year and a half. Needless to say, this was stupid. As soon as the first craftsman across the bridge turned south towards the elves, they discovered a Cobald ambush. Why Cobalds? WHY?! It was the orcs that slaughtered your liaisons, not us! Despite the dorf-sized fuzzball macemen and their elite crossbowman master in an obviously wonderful position to send 100% of the dwarves on the bridge running in completely the wrong direction, only the craftsman panicked, everyone else walked calmly back to the meeting hall as they were told, allowing me to shut the gate.
I immediately decided to rescue the idiot, so i drafted him to the extra squad and had them stationed by the north bridge, which i lowered and waited patiently for him to cross. It was at this time the orcs came back for another siege, catching him way out there by the east walls and pounding his face in with their maces. I closed the bridge and forgot about the ordeal, tending to the construction of the guard towers, when i remembered I hadn't cancelled the extra squads' orders, and that there were two more idiots sitting out in plain sight of the orcish bowmen that once again walked right up to the bridge and started shooting at them. One of them, a legendary tanner, died before I could give orders. Now with two people dead some farmer, owner of one of the recently dead cats, started tantrumming and I was afraid the rest would join him. Crisis averted by the legendary dining hall and *dog tallow biscuits*.
I've since built a small arena for the schmucks we caught last year and have been sicking my troops on them. No progress yet as far as skills, but they've killed all the orcs that didn't make an immediate beeline for the door and the cage trap in it.

[DrGravitas]

It's raining here again. It's always raining here. The only time it stops raining is when it starts snowing. The waters freeze around mid autumn and remain so nearly to mid spring. The merchants arrive in the late autumn and spring and stay for the early winter and summer. The humans are dead: no one comes in the Summer. The goblins are dead: nothing fights us in the winter.

The whole world beyond The Furnace of EXecutioners, is much the same: cold, wet, and full of Elves.

I tried cheering up the little dwarves that got "caught in a rain recently." I ordered carvings to be made in the grand halls. A few random items were drawn but mostly celebrated the founding of FOE by The Mountain of Crabs in 1220. There are many many engravings of Elves and Demons in the halls. They are not the most creative engravers.

I've scaled back the giant magma vomiting Foxface, but otherwise it's proceeding nicely. Speaking of our mascot, we now have 21 pups. A few have grown to adult hood and we have 40 total foxes now. Not a single dwarf has adopted one as a pet, despite their superior value. The cats continue to breed, and I struggle to keep a lid on the population. It seems every time I miss butchering one for even a second, some dwarf snaps it up as a pet.

I may resort to some terrible device to gather and eliminate the pet cats.

The fortress is centered around the open caldera of the volcano. Not only are the dwarves constantly exposed to the rain from it, but they'd be open to aerial attack from it. I fear the elves for now and kowtow to their demands. But soon... soon, I will have the military and FOX Head ready. Already the military and citizens have proofed their spirits (and I don't just mean their booze!) A magma man surfaced and threw a fireball at a planter. He dodged it. The military assembled quickly and before another fire could fly, an axeman took one swipe at him and sent his upper body sailing through the air.

The military is ready, the populace is restless. Trenches still need to be dug, but The FOX Head is nearly ready for testing. The Elves will watch as 12+ z-levels of solid Hematite-Iron glow an eerie red, releasing a tsunami of lava. Their demands will become pleas as their precious forests ignite around them. Their men will flee as the endless rain scalds them with torrents of steam. All Elven kind will soon gain a FOE in the form of a FOX.

[Johuotar]

I'm planning to make gladiator arena, to test my military againgst the animals I've caught. Design is going to get inspiration from ancient rome. (I'm fan of the Gladiator movie)

I just got awesome idea about luring elf traders into the arena with TD just to kill them ther in front of cheering crowd. 

[Beeskee]

Not a single dwarf has adopted one as a pet

They're marked as available in the animals screen right?

[Tarran]

I'm finally moving my workshops underground, about time, they've been above ground for 2 years. I also finished my magma forges, so I'll never have to bother with fuel again and I can just pump out metal at a alarming rate.

[bremarv]

since there is not a lot of trees on the map I have now walled of about half the first cavern, although none of the walls go all the way to the ceiling yet, so flying creeps are free to come and go almost as they want. have cut down most trees in my parts of the caverns and expanded the wall twice because the tower caps are too slow at growing. Also there is a huge hole from the first cavern into what I assume is the second cavern. Havent so far bothered walling it up, though I guess its a matter of time before a dwarf decide to jump it.


For some reason I got 27 imigrants while I was already struggling with my food supply, but I managed and now have a healthy buffer of both above and below ground food and booze. But thanks to all the new hands, its not taking forever to make my above ground walls and towers, though having 7 z levels and verry inneficient layout, thanks to aqufiers, my masons have to run at least 130 squares to get the stones.

I have almost managed to dam one of the rivers. just missing the second waterwheel so I have enough power. originally forgot the ramp into the area I am pumping dry in the river and my carpenter got washed down there and last of my 7 was accidentaly washed into the river further down trying to make that ramp also lost a second miner to the same accident before making a restricted traver zone there so if they got washed into the river, it would be upstream and they would hopefully get washed into the dry strip before drowning. Planning on using the same method for drying out the second river, but the third one is too short, having 1 or 2 tiles before connecting with the other two.

Also got about 10 caged goblin thieves sitting in my stockpile, which is a change since my first fort died before goblins began pestering me and the second fort didnt have goblins at all. Right now my outdoor activites have come to a stop since my carpenter working outside discovered an ambush. Thanks to bridges the only casulty was the carpenter himself. Since I now have enough wood, I have started on bronze armour for my military. doubt the military will finish training before the goblins leave.

So far I Twinklecrypt got 10 buried dwafs, 5 lying in the rivers and 1 dwarf getting corpse camped by goblins.

Also had a second named Warthog camping one of my entrances for a while, though I think he only got 1 or 2 dwarfs. think he have left the map now though.
EDIT: seems I caugth the second one as well, so got two named warthogs, Rûlked and Rulråsh, sitting in my stockpile. Do anyone know how I can view the translated names? I managed to do it once, but can't find it anymore.

[DrGravitas]

Not a single dwarf has adopted one as a pet

They're marked as available in the animals screen right?

Yep. 

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

Just caught a Female Giant eagle ! Finally my war eagle aviary dream will come true, if only i can get a Dungeon master. still on the first year so for now it's nothing to worry about

Also got 3 goats.should be able to survive on goatling for a bit of tme with them.

[melomel]

Not a single dwarf has adopted one as a pet

They're marked as available in the animals screen right?

AFAIK only dwarves who like an animal will adopt it as a pet...  do you have anybody who likes "foxes for their [whatever]"?

[MechaGodzilla]

While building my fortress-tower of glass, suddenly my mechanic gets a secretive mood. Fortunately he manages to get what he wanted, and runs off to build his project.
A while later he finishes, and the result made me laugh for a while.



Truly Urist McMechanic is a humble dwarf.

[DrGravitas]

AFAIK only dwarves who like an animal will adopt it as a pet...  do you have anybody who likes "foxes for their [whatever]"?

Well, I found one that likes boxes...

I think you may be right, I checked all the folks who've stealth-adopted cats and they all like them (one of them owns two.) Except for one, my chief medical dwarf. However, I think that cat came in with his migration.

[Segnaro]

Ah, well... I think I accidentally built on an island without realizing, so I haven't gotten a single siege or thief or even snatcher in my entire run through.
I've got a rather bustling city of nearly 130 dwarves, but my military is essentially nonexistant except for some layabout peasants who I've drafted, and I've got no flux stones except for those imported from the mountainhomes.  All iron equipment.

This all means that I was woefully unprepared for anything hostile that might arrive.  So naturally, it arrived.

A dragon, specifically.  The Flames of Jade.  I created some burrows and ordered all of my dwarves inside, before raising the drawbridge, unfortunately before my grand master butcher and his cat could get inside.  The dragon chased the cat to the other side of the map, and burnt the surrounding countryside to crisps.  By that time I had raised the bridge again, hoping my butcher could get inside before the dragon came back.  Alas, he was set aflame as well.

I raised the bridge, and stationed my militia at the end of the entrance hallway, behind a row of traps, and hoped that the traps might hit it someplace painful so that it wouldn't destroy my fortress.  Dropping the bridge, it ran inside, and all of my dwarves charged forward, past the traps before it could step on even one.

My dwarves arrive at the fortification chokehold just before the dragon does.  In the first instant, it lets off dragonfire.  But my dwarf blocks it.  All of it.  Then it swipes and bites a total of 8 times at my squad leader.  But my squad leader blocks it.  All of it.  An axedwarf leaps over my squad leader, and cuts into the dragon's neck, embedding the axe, before violently twisting it.  In the next instant, a swordsdwarf leaps over, severing the dragon's nerves and tendons in its leg, instantly dropping the dragon to the floor, crippled, bleeding, and unconscious because of the intense pain.  Then, in what I imagine to be some kind of bizzare tag-team combo,  an axewoman, holding her newborn child, runs over, and in one swipe decapitates the dragon.

So this is all a roundabout way of saying my fort is busy butchering, bonecrafting, and making meals out of a centuries old dragon.

[Vastin]

Going into my second winter now.

Entrance corridor is lined with mastercrafted, razor sharp glass disks on account of an early mood for my glass-maker. He's likewise set up my legendary dining hall with a nice set of clear glass tables, chairs and statues. Surprised however, at how tough it is to get the clear glass production set up to run steadily. Metals are much easier.

No iron yet, lots of other metals. Finally found casseterite around the edges of my first cavern, so my first squad is fully bronze outfitted at least, and thanks to another mood I now have an artifact elephant leather quiver worth about 50k, and I should be able to get my squad into mastercrafted leather as well if I can figure out how armor layering works.

No sign of goblins yet, oddly, even though I'm in a mountain range just two world-tiles away from a major gobbo fortress. Hope they get off their butts soon and head over here - I could use some goblin iron to get a steel industry up and running.

Only serious incident so far was when old Doc threw a fit after some raccoon snuck off with a couple of his mastercrafted wooden bolts. <sigh> The sheriff had to put him down before he beat one of my masons into pulp.

[Internet Kraken]

I've been getting a lot of Forgotten Beasts lately. There are at least 3 of them alive on the map still, and 3 have visited the fortress in the last year. A giant quadruped made of ice entered from the top cavern layer and was killed almost instantly. Then less than a week later some weird poison crab crawled up from the bottom layer. It killed a fisher and hauler before the military could get down there. The time it takes to travel from the top to the bottom is far to long I'm going to carve out a new shaft to allow quicker transmit so my military can properly respond to threats found at the bottom of the fortress.

At least my military is getting experience by killing all the beasts and zombies.

[Tarran]

Warning: Big brick of detailed in-combat text ahoy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So I've now got two forgotten beasts that aren't doing anything, so I decide it's okay to let my dwarves roam around the caverns. I was wrong.

One of the forgotten beasts just attacked one of my dwarves, however, this one is an off duty military dwarf, thus he has an axe and a shield, and is also activated when I order a kill order on the beast.

But before he can close into melee, he gets hit by the beast's fireball. And can you guess where it hits?

His right testicle, which is now bruised and smashed open at the same time. OUCH! That's gotta hurt.

Ooh, he's loosing the melee badly... His lung was bruised and he suffered lots of damage to his body.

Oh goddamn the forgotten beast just kicked his already badly hurt right testicle!

Hell yeah! He broke open the beast's shell! Kick his ass! Yes! He hit the beast's body! It's now spewing blood!

He's now running away, and his pet roster is trying to come to his aid!

While he was being chased, he managed to land another blow, this time on the beast's right front leg! Actually, they now appear to be in melee, as my dwarf landed another blow with his axe on the beast's body, which is now gouting and running blood! The beast throws a blow and fires a fireball, but my dwarf is unharmed! He landed a blow on the beast's left rear leg and opened an artery!

Oh no! My dwarf took a hit to the upper body, and got his liver bruised and skin shattered! Not looking too good for my dwarf...

My dwarf's roster gets between the beast and his master! The beast collides with the roster and pushes it over! Oh dear, the roster just got hit badly and is propelled away by the blow! Ah crap, the beast is breathing fire, but my dwarf blocks it twice! The poor roster is battered even more by the beast. And the roster finally dies.

Reinforcements are on the way, but they will they be fast enough to save the poor dwarf?

Oh no, the beast latches on to the dwarf's upper body, but my dwarf isn't easily beaten, as he hacks away at the beast's shell once again, fracturing it! The beast breaths fire at my dwarf, but he blocks it. My dwarf retaliates by hacking at the left rear leg again, tearing the muscle! The beast then charges at my dwarf and knocks him over! Oh freck, the beast kicks my dwarf again, this time in the lower body, bruising the guts. Oh no! He kicked my dwarf in the left lower leg, shattering the bone, and tearing a ligament! Oh god, the beast hit my dwarf's right upper arm, jamming the bone through the right shoulder's muscle and shattering the right shoulder's bone, it also opened an artery and tore a ligament and tendon... But my badass dwarf still stands up! And dodges a charge by the beast! Twice! And my dwarf fights back, hacking at at the lower body from behind and tearing the scale! The beast tries to rush my dwarf, but the beast rushes past him. The beast collides with my dwarf, knocking him over. OH MY DEAR GOD! HE BIT ON MY DWARF'S LEFT TESTICLE AND LATCHED ON! That's got to hurt, bad. But once again my dwarf is a freaking badass and stands up! However, the beast collides with my dwarf again, knocking him over again. My dwarf slaps the beast on the left rear leg to no effect. Ack, the beast kicked my dwarf in the right upper leg, shattering the bone and tearing a tendon! The beast strikes, but my dwarf blocks it! My dwarf then hacks at the shell again, shattering it a second time! And then he stands up again, the beast tries to rush him but he dodges, and then the beast tries to rush him again, but rushes by. The beast, once again, knocks my dwarf down. Oh man, my dwarf was kicked in the upper right leg, jamming the bone through the right hip's muscle and shattering the right hip bone, opening a artery, tearing a ligament and a tendon. My dwarf blocks another blow despite him being severely wounded.

Oh the dwarfmanity, the poor dwarf is still being battered, his friends are still too far away! Oh my god, he lost a leg, but his friends are almost there! Yes, they're there, they're trying to save their poor friend! And they're definitely pissed, they've literally knocked the shell off the beast! And they've killed it! ...But were they fast enough to save their friend?

He's in the hospital. Will he survive? Will he ever be able to fight ever again? Find out, next time on... Whatever the frick this is!

...I think I was a bit excessive. Oh well, don't care.

Oh and if you're wondering, I'm playing Deon's Genesis mod.