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[Togre]

I learned (the semi-hard way) that I should post guard "dogs" at every entrance to my front courtyard.  I trap the entrances and leave them with unlocked doors to snare animals when there isn't danger.  I just lost the left foot off two macedwarfs learning that gobbo's can sneak better than I thought.  Well, training for the medics and a bit of goblinite, so not all bad.

[Orky_Boss]

Making a set of candy armor for my militia commander. I don't think I have enough charcoal or wafers yet, and I only have 1 metalsmith, so I can't mass produce it.
Also digging into the candy vien to learn wtf 'clowns' and 'the circus' are.

I have been digging into the vein, and I've found a place with sla*e floor and with 'eerie glowing pits'. I don't see any inhabitants though.

Did I just find out what 'the circus' is?

Miner: "Shit, they're all over the vein! get the god damn militi-AAAAAGH!"

Militia Commander: "@#$%, somethings coming! I can hear their screams from way up here!"

Hammerdwarf: "Wtf is it, sir?"

Militia: "Son, we're about to find out! Get your damn weapons ready! We're heading to the vein!"

[humblegar]

I would like to thank Stinthad Odgubnomal and his consort for sportingly taking part in testing the new retracting bridge in such a demanding environment. He seemed more than a bit upset by no longer owning any furniture, but that did not stop him from bringing hot only his consort, but one of two children onto the bridge. The child miraculously still lives, while the duke and consort were last heard screaming about adamantine and a magma pool. Noone can question their dedication to giving us information, and no mandate ever passed in silence.

Sadly it seems like they are unable to communicate mandates beneath 30 levels of magma

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Mysterius construction here too

[proxn_punkd]

I've discovered the "autodump destroy" function of DFHack, and how to combine it with mass designations to make cleaning up after Goblin Christmas much quicker and easier.

[Orky_Boss]

@#$%, those things took my militia out fast...

[Orky_Boss]

Everyone has died to the clowns except for two dwarves, one in the hospital on a bed (The Mayor), and the other in the barracks on a bed, lickely injured (An Axedwarf).

I don't think they will ever get back up, but I certainly hope they elude the clowns. who are mostly travelling through the main hallway.

Both of the dwarves only have some of their toes smashed. I really don't see what they're doing in beds when it's only a minor injury like that.

[Orky_Boss]

And now a moment of prayer for the dwarves who died in such a horrific manner, and that the two survivors may live, and then elude the phantoms in an attempt to hold out until a migrant wave arrives.

And time to do my homework.

So that's what a forest fire in Dwarf Fortress looks like...

[Orky_Boss]

if I were to reclaim the area, would the vein to the circus still be open?

[Orky_Boss]

Damn shame my last two dwarves will die from dehydation, starvation, or blood loss, instead of quickly becoming an ash pile by the hands of the clowns.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

One of my idiot masons fell several stories from the top of my magmaduct and shattered both his arms and a leg.  No one would go out and rescue him so he sat around starving and dehydrated for a few months.  I eventually noticed him still sitting there and finally realized that he was stuck in a tree!  Lol!  So I built a little floor bridge over to where he was and he limped off to the hospital.

The poor guy was really traumatized by this whole ordeal, however, and went insane shortly after being committed to the hospital.  So I started him on some therapy sessions.  First he met with my friendly fortress psychiatrist, a stray black bear who happened to get locked in the hospital with him. 

After the longest time of him crawling around on his one good leg chasing the bear, he and the bear got into an epic wrestling match which lasted for several months!!  Both of them lost consciousness tons of times, but the fight finally ended when the mason kicked the unconscious bear through the head.

The insane mason's therapy continued as I dug out an arena mental ward just for him.  First, I pit him against two cougars.  He grabbed one by the tail and shook it around until it bled to death.  He then passed out for a long time while the other cougar shook him around by the head!!  In the end, though, the cougar did surprisingly little damage and the fight continued.  At some point my Captain of the Guard walked by the open pit which I used to drop in therapists and he fired off a couple well placed, therapeutic... um... crossbow bolts.  The mason didn't take to well to the Captain's therapy and started bleeding profusely.  He still fought on though, biting, kicking, and scratching the poor cougar from one side of the mental institute to the other, until finally, he gave in to a mixture of blood loss, exhaustion, and massive bruising to basically every body part.

So in conclusion, unless you have a whole bunch of extra bears and cougars hanging around your fortress, the best therapy for your mentally unwell dwarves remains the liberal application of crossbow bolts.

[Orky_Boss]

Damn shame my last two dwarves will die from dehydation, starvation, or blood loss, instead of quickly becoming an ash pile by the hands of the clowns.

they didn't die due to clowns! they hid in the fort and died of dehydration!
they are not dwarves. they are ELVES! it is  good that they died!

They didn't hide, fool! They had been in healing after the fight against the forgotten beast last year, and were only unfortunate enough to die in such an unseemly manner when their brothers and sisters were slaughtered by the clowns!

Also, I was looking for things that managed to go down in the book of legends, and I found out my fort only lasted 2 years...

[McDwarf]

My first Titan has come to visit.
The hill Titan Usluk. A great humanoid composed of siltstone. It has wings and it moves it's will in accordance with the truth of things.
It is currently chasing a pig around.

UPDATE: two dwarves went to protect the pastures from Usluk.

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The hammerdwarf bites the hill Titan in the head from the side, fracturing it!
The hammerdwarf latches on firmly!
The swordsdwarf bites the hill Titan in the left lower leg from the side, fracturing it!
The swordsdwarf latches on firmly!

After 16 pages of combat reports, an untrained female grizzly bear bite the Titan in the lower body sending severed parts flying. This earned the bear the name Atongebo, or Swamwork. My animal trainer recently died in prison, so I should look for a replacement to train this bear.
The dead Titan has left behind Usluk's sandstone instead of a corpse.

I have also recently finished construction of my first danger room. I currently have a pair of goblin volunteers testing it out. It is a 3x3 room, surrounded by an aquifer feed moat, with 90 training spears.

[scienceIswear]

Last three dwarves being chased by a maddwarf with a pickaxe. On the plus side, reclamation crew's gonna have more clothes than it knows what to do with.

[Trodglen]

This thing

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but with wings and noxious fumes just tore through eighty of my dwarves.

I released a caged giant in a sort of desperate, godzilla-esque attempt to get rid of it, but... yeah.

One of the last of my two tantruming dwarves is holed up in the animal stockpiles (forbidden door) and I hope the giant finds the Mega-Bristleworm and they kill eachother off or it eventually derps itself to death...

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On the other hand, the mayor has been brawling unarmed with this giant for what seems like a month... the weapon of choice for the giant is a (sheep wool sock) that he continues to strike the mayor in the head with while occasionally collapsing from overexertion.

The mayor is finally taken down, but manages to remove a tooth from the giant.

And now the two beasts have finally found each other and are fighting, doing no real damage to one another. It reminds me of a DBZ episode or the afore mentioned Godzilla movies. After a while it starts to get a bit boring, they've been going at it for ages, doing no real damage... but then:

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Then my last dwarf dies and the game ends before I can see what happens... I'm sure it would be interesting to send an Adventurer there.

[restricted]

This thing

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but with wings and noxious fumes just tore through eighty of my dwarves.

I released a caged giant in a sort of desperate, godzilla-esque attempt to get rid of it, but... yeah.

No magma?