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[Moonshadow101]

A Vile Force of Darkness has Arrived!

Oh, neat. Let's have some fun.

*12 War Giant Cave Spiders*

What in the fuck!?

Casualties are about 10 times what I expected, but on the plus side, I have plenty of silk outside of the fort to harvest!

[Aiyon]

Just had the world's most idiotic miner decide to go insane at the bottom of my mine shaft, and start breaking the pillars holding the cavern roof up...
The cavern roof is in turn holding my base up, in that my entire fortress will disappear into the ground if all the pillars go.

So I send my 10 strong militia, clad in iron, to deal with him.
He kills 8 of them with his pickaxe before I give up and flood the room with magma... sadly it doesn't flow fast enough, so those dwarves who survive the fall can burn to death.
Oh well, Hellfall was suitable name, I guess.

[Niccolo]

Just had the world's most idiotic miner decide to go insane at the bottom of my mine shaft, and start breaking the pillars holding the cavern roof up...
The cavern roof is in turn holding my base up, in that my entire fortress will disappear into the ground if all the pillars go.

Wait, so insane miners start randomly mining? That's either awesome or scary.

[NRDL]

Just founded Spikestreaty after a long hiatus from DF- a Terrifying Temperate Freshwater Marsh with an aquifer, flux, clay, and shallow metal (singular.) My intention is to make this a Spartan fort- all military, no walls, no traps, basically an above-ground fort except I can mine for stuff. And by "mine" I mean "dig a pit of endless falling and dying to throw my foes in, and hey whatever I find while digging is bonus."

Strike the earth!

Someone REALLY needs to do a community fort this way. 

This. Is. DF!

[Luckymoose]

Beginning to build the foundation for the MEGA HYDRO POWER DAM OF DOOM!!!

[Tharwen]

Trying to build a very deep sewage pipe, the dwarves insist on undermining each other so they keep falling and breaking their legs. This would be so much easier if they dug in a predictable pattern...

In other news, there's a caravan in the depot, and my broker has spent the last few days standing in the meeting room with No Job...

...

 Death will be too good for him.

[trees]

Niccolo, they can topple buildings, just like any other tantruming dwarf.

[Niccolo]

Niccolo, they can topple buildings, just like any other tantruming dwarf.

Ohhh, it was... Oh. Like, actual supports. I imagined it to be naturally carved pillars. My mistake.

I knew they could topple buildings, I was just imagining a psychotic miner swinging his pick wildly at whatever walls he could find.

[ThatAussieGuy]

performing !!SCIENCE!! experiments with waterwheels in order to help design my colossal reactor.

[Haspen]

Niccolo, they can topple buildings, just like any other tantruming dwarf.

Ohhh, it was... Oh. Like, actual supports. I imagined it to be naturally carved pillars. My mistake.

I knew they could topple buildings, I was just imagining a psychotic miner swinging his pick wildly at whatever walls he could find.

If that thing will be implemented, it shall be frightening sight.

"No, Urist, calm down FOR FUCK'S SAKE THAT'S WATER CISTE-*Whooooosh!*"

Your fortress crumbled to it's end

[Tharwen]

I just tested the pressure level in my drinking water reservoir and it literally flooded the entire fort in under a second.

Fortunately, I had the foresight to build the control levers above the maximum water height, so I should be able to recover the fort after several minutes of hardcore draining through a 1 tile-wide hole into the caverns.

Maybe I overdid it a bit...?

EDIT: Before this, 80 dwarves died of thirst after a siege trapped them inside the fort and I had to hurriedly fill the reservoir from the river. They died of thirst because a fisherdwarf stood in the way of the incoming flow and stopped me from filling it because he would have contaminated the water... He was immune to both burrow designations and having the fishing labour removed. He was absolutely determined to doom the fortress.

EDIT 2: Just noticed the water cistern comment by haspen...

[jaxy15]

Five hornlizards hatched.
I knew it was a good idea to make egg laying somehow-milkable cow sized lizards with a horn on their head!

Also, our siege engineer migrant won't lay the damn eggs.
LAY EGGS, DANGIT!

[moki]

Wow... seriously, wow. As mentioned many times before "Utteredtraded" is at war with the elves and regularly visited by large deposits of goblinite. And now some human diplomat decided to enter the map and drop dead right at the edge - probably of old age, as there was nothing dangerous nearby. Promptly (well, one year later) there are many more humans on my doorstep... to apologize for the inconvenience of having a dead diplomat in my forest, I assume. They brought lovely whips, scourges and meltable armor as a gift and promised to come back next year.

Yay! I'm at war with everybody without intentionally pissing anybody off 

[Lexx]

Nisgakezum or the Frosthames finally plugged an aquifer. 2 levels through the stone and I have found gold. literally hundreds of it whilst carving a spiral ramp down to the caverns. The ground level straddles the edge of an untamed wilds Taiga. With moose and giant badgers aplenty strolling the taiga/glacier. The only casualty so far has been the carpenter falling in after dropping the plug to seal the gap in the aquifer. Though he had 2 broken legs and bruised organs he healed most of them in the space of a month thanks to his tough trait I guess. He drank some defrosted water, some booze and ate some yak meat and he only had a dented arm and bruising after finishing that meal. Now to get him to clear cut the trees in the surrounding area near my entrance.

There is an ad-hoc surface camp on the go whilst the excavations continue. My grower/brewer and cook/butcher/tanner have brewed all the plants I brought with me and slaughtered/prepared the 2 horses that came with the wagon. Whilst a breeding pair of goats have been temporarily pastured and 5 chickens a rooster have their own pasture near the new staircase until a spot underground can be made safer for them. At least they'll have all the food they'll need to last themselves whilst the base proper is finished.

I plan to furnish the main dining hall with gold furniture and gold well!

[jaxy15]

Our siege engineer finally laid the eggs.
I'm giving the Impalion [NO_EAT] and [NO_DRINK] until the eggs hatch.