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[InsanityPrelude]

Out of curiosity (and wondering why I'd dug 40 z-levels down without hitting caverns) I used reveal. Yeaaaaah, something's really off about this map- there *are* no caverns until the magma starts, for one thing, and then it's a really weird cavern with regular above-ground grass (no specific type, just "Grass") and patches of obsidian and the magma sea draining into itself (how this didn't cause FPS issues before, I don't know.) Hell doesn't have any open plains, just semi-molten rock and glowing pits all the way down.

I may have made a mistake in the world gen parameters somewhere.

[TolyK]

burnin' goblins to death... as usual...

[tilly]

My fort is currently attending a party. As a result 100 tiles now have a pile of clothes. Stripping dwaves, you say? Yes... Stripping dwarves, it beith an orgy of mass proportions.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

My zombie mod fort is crawling along attempting to finish ou outer wall so those dirty alligators and scavengers. And my expedition leader destroyed a bridge across a river. While he was on it.

[TherosPherae]

Abandoned the automatic obsidianizer due to plumbing issues. Then that fort got overrun by goblins since my main defense had been abandoned.

In the new fort... Electrum. Electrum EVERYWHERE.

[Elanorea]

One of the children got battered by a ghost. He was mauled pretty badly - an arm torn off and a damaged lung - so I thought he'd be a goner. However, he simply trailed blood for a while, then went to the dining room and threw a party. He appears to be completely fine now, except for the missing arm of course.

[Andal]

Working on producing the green glass blocks necessary to finish paving over the caldera of Labouredcontrolled's -1 z-level volcano, and completed the green glass pyramid (complete with copper capstone) that presides over the 3x3 opening in the center I am leaving. My duke is celebrating our 10-year anniversary by mandating some commemorative coins. Adding the finishing touches to the outdoor tomb/garden/grove for my paraplegic legendary woodcutter. Business is booming!

[Stormfeather]

Three artifacts created in my new fort (about a year and a half old so far) already:

Bumaliton Rinulkanzud, Worryhall the Intense Convent, a green glass bracelet
Udos Ros, the Man of Deciding, a larch amulet
iltangzim, Forkedcrested, a willow amulet

And I had to pretty much bend myself over backwards to keep the first and second creators alive and sane, providing their materials right off the bat. Luckily the first one was while the trade caravan was here, and I managed to buy some of the stuff I needed for it (he wanted a few raw green glass and metal bars.)

And to add insult to injury, at least two of those were possessions. I can't remember about the third one. -_-

Edit: A fourth one, before the second dwarven caravan has even arrived. Othortislam Gethanriz, a yak bone piccolo. Oooh, ah. And yes, it was a possession! Of course!

[Tharwen]

I got wiped out by a couple of ambushes, and reclaimed. All the goblins were friendly, for some reason, and I started work on rebuild the stockpiles and trying to connect the bridge that had failed to raise during the original ambush. Before I could finish this, however, a load of skeletal camels came along. They spent about 5 minutes (real time) kicking my only soldier to death, before moving on to the rest of the fort. They killed everyone except my expedition leader, who was left paralysed and dying in a room deep in the fortress. I left the game running to see if any migrants would turn up to save the day.

Eventually, some migrants arrived, and literally a second later my last original dorf died of thirst.

Now I have to find a way of fighting off the skeletal vultures that arrived after them so they can connect that bloody lever

[Eric Blank]

The volcano fortress is going smoothly. No problems besides the constant crashing, and a water shortage issue.
I've started digging/constructing a tower for the workshops. Bedrooms need designated. The fact that the first stone layer contains mountains of hematite is a blessing, but I still haven't gone more than 3 levels beneath the lowest exterior ground level, so I haven't discovered the flux. My money's on it being marble though. I nearly always find marble and gabbro together, and I have gabbro. I wonder if I have kimberlite anywhere...
My focus right now is on ensuring I have enough food and drink stocked to survive the coming hordes of migrants. They've dipped to zero twice now. I should have brought more with me originally. An expedition into the caverns should provide some useful crops as I have only vanilla plants for the first time in a VERY long time, and not because I didn't install my mod files.

[McDwarf]

Winter has come to Bridgegate.

This has resulted in the water freezing, including the ocean, creating an ice bridge to the land of the dead (the undead haven't noticed or don't care). Ocean waves don't seem to freeze, which is kinda wierd.

I managed to dig out a kobold's remains from the bottom of a lake.
There was a massive freeze during mid-winter when the ocean thawed.
A panda seems to have ventured out onto the ice before the melt and now lives at the bottom of the sea. Will it ever drown?

Oh god, a werewolf is in my pasture!

Spoiler: combat log (click to show/hide)

. . .
The Stray Water Buffalo Cow bites The Werewolf in the lower left arm, tearing the muscle!
The Stray Water Buffalo Cow latches on firmly!
The Werewolf gives in to pain.
The Stray Water Buffalo Cow shakes The Werewolf around by the left lower arm and the severed part sails off in an arc!
The left lower arm is ripped away and remains in The Stray Water Buffalo Cow's grip!
The Stray Water Buffalo Cow let's The Werewolf left lower arm drop away as She attacks.
The Stray Water Buffalo Cow gores The Werewolf in the head with her left horn, bruising the muscle, jamming the skull through the brain and tearing apart the brain!

My military was too slow, the werewolf was dead before they got there.
Why is there so much biting at Bridgegate, and why do werewolves die so easily?

[MythagoWoods]

Beware the battle cattle.

[Samuel]

After embarking on a volcano, I immediately began dreaming up ways to use the magma at my disposal. Frist things first, a precaution in case the fortress is ever in serious case of destruction: A lever that will flood the fortress with magma, taking away from the goblins all the spoils that they fought and died for. The construction would proceed simple enough: dig the tunnel above the fortress, build the magmasafe floodgate, with magmasafe mechanisms connecting it to the lever, then open the floodgate, dig out the last tile to the magma, and close the floodgate behind the fleeing miner with inches to spare. With fingers crossed, I designated the tile for mining, and as soon as the miner reached the tile, desisnated the switch to be pulled. He dug out the tile, dashed from the approaching river of molten death, and...

He got out perfectly safely, without a drop of magma getting out behind him.

Well, that was unexpected.

[InsanityPrelude]

I just had the most heartwarming moment I've seen in this game.

See, when I first broke the caverns, one of my starting seven got killed by a troll. Badass unarmed wax worker and a migrant swordsdwarf took care of it (this same wax worker, before I even added her to the military, killed a helmet snake by throwing it into a wall,) life went on.

Just now, I was loading up the trade depot and noticed that one of the crafts was a figurine of the dead dwarf.

"This is a figurine of 'Prima' Blazeinked and butterflies in phyllite by Oddom Urmimsigun. 'Prima' Blazeinked is surrounded by the butterflies."

[Syrup Roast]

"This is a figurine of 'Prima' Urdumsigath and butterflies in andesite by Oddom somethingorother. 'Prima' Urdumsigath is surrounded by the butterflies."

RNG hates me.

All I got are statues of dwarves surrounded by barrels, and mussels.