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[Yaotzin]

2 goblin snatchers walked into my traps RIGHT before the Roc did. Had to kill it So sad.

[ZzarkLinux]

Second breach attempt on a new embark- success!

now I have to wait for the water to dry out.

I usually go with the 2X2 aquifer drill method mentioned here.

Did you use cave-in or something else?

[Wastedlabor]

I was down to two tantruming adults and two angry children in a terrifying biome, being hunted down by zombie wren men and zombie war dogs.

Then the mountainhomes decided to send an army of 50 migrants, including lots of soldiers and a professional mayor.

[Splint]

I was down to two tantruming adults and two angry children in a terrifying biome, being hunted down by zombie wren men and zombie war dogs.

Then the mountainhomes decided to send an army of 50 migrants, including lots of soldiers and a professional mayor.

It's like they knew....

[Broseph Stalin]

Out west in the Splendid Plains Unicorns dance through fields of bubble grass and fluffy wamblers chase pixies in the warm mornings air. In those plains sits a building of unimpressive dimensions and height of no consequence. By this building there lies a lake where clouds of black mist turn the stomach and wrack the body with fervent humors.

 In these black fetid depths in the heart of the Splendid Plains where the Unicorns prance and the fluffy wamblers play the water is so corrupted that it's touch give blight to the living. Vampires, sixty strong dwell here wringing their wicked dwarven hands contemplating their deep and impassioned hatred for all that breathes.

Beneath this fortress by this lake these vampires drag the dead beneath this lake where the water drips from the ceilings to cover them. The corrupting influence of this wretched font gives the bodies cause to spasm and rise from their slumber with a hunger for the flesh of the living.

In these black halls sit pixies and fluffy wamblers and the majestic unicorn all blasphemed into unrecognizable skinless abominations of putrescence and hate. If there is one kindness I can do the world may it be my warning that Danglehelms is a wicked place and that nothing in it is worth the cost of getting it out. 


My zombie army is 50 strong and composed of 32 dwarves five goblins a kobold two unicorns and a handful of other animals. This is my flowery, dark way of bragging. 

[Wastedlabor]

It's like they knew....

Yep. Now I have 54 unhappy and tantruming dwarves.

[YetAnotherStupidDorf]

Zombie mountain goat is surprisingly strong. I swear, these things get me when fort is still young and almost defenseless. Four dogs and four military (at least they were supposed to be) later... next embark, please. Again, as usual, 5x5 with two or three at border being evil. This time surely border outpost against horrors of undead will be successful.

[ZzarkLinux]

The ash ... it killed my flying squirrels !!!!
I loved the Rocky and Bulwinkle show.

Don't touch my bunnyz you red fart !

[AnimaRytak]

Murk Zombies.

I have em.

[Aspgren]

Got a siege and a FB at the same time. I closed the front gate (a broad section of wall grates) and focused on the FB.

 One dog perished but the battle was a definite victory. So time to check on the siege ... a group of trolls had appeared (I did not see them in the initial survey of the besieging parties) and were bashing down the grates! With my tiny military and 30% children population I was at their mercy.

 Thankfully the trolls were distracted by some cattle and stopped bashing down the grates for a while. When they returned to finish the job my marksdwarves had slain the FB and ran all the way from the bottom of my surface / cavern fort and out into the courtyard.
 The trolls were turned into pin cushions. Goblin marksmen came riding on rutherers and giant toads to try and help them and shot several of my boys. None of them was mortally wounded though... after the trolls died the other goblins withdrew some distance away where I couldn't reach them. Wounded goblins lagged behind as my dwarves climbed the fortifications and towers of the courtyard and shot at them.

 Unfortunately the giant toads had an ace up their sleeve. They can swim under river water without the rider being submerged. Thus they didn't need to take a roundabout way and leave via the bridge system but could just cut across the river and escape directly. (good thing I blocked the water-way access to my fort with grates!)
 In the end I lost 4 heads of cattle and 2 pets. Suffered 7 wounded dwarves of whom 3 or 4 will need crutches.
 I killed 4 trolls, captured 4 trolls, killed a web-spitting giant newt FB and killed 2 giant toads, 2 rutherers & 2 goblin marksmen.

 I suppose the siege was more of a skirmish than anything else. Had they brought more trolls or had the trolls been harder to distract ... then the doors would have been wide open and the goblin pikemen&macemen would have overrun my fort. Had I not lucked out and crippled one of the squad leaders with a few well-aimed bolts then the marksmen would probably have caused some real damage instead of retreating.
 ... but then again had the giant toads not been amphibious then about 5 additional goblins wouldn't have escaped at all.

[Stoup]

One of my dwarves recently created "EscortSwallows the Abysmal Direction"

Abysmal indeed

[Wastedlabor]

Year: 1.5

Coffin count: 45.

Population: 70.

[Stoup]

Oh god, fire. Fire everywhere. 4 dwarves are dead, among them an axe lord, my manager, and a nearly legendary bonecarver. The caverns are being walled off while the flames from the fallen horror Nekgolo recede.

For my Axe Lord's, that is, Obok's, final act, he named his battle axe, Dune-despairs. This was as he was on fire and having the booze in his pocket explode everywhere. It has five kills to its name, including the forgotten beast which slayed Obok. Rest in peace, Obok.

Ok, make that 4 casualties: Another member of my militia just bled out as well. Don't really know who he was... hopefully not too skilled.

5th injury: One of my militia commanders had his head and upper body's fat seared off. He's pale but still walking about. Lucky bastard...

And now, for the first time in this 4 year old fortress, my dwarves are partying. Only in Dwarf Fortress...

[Splint]

Should make an axe sqaud with the tradion of using that axe.
After he passes on/dies in battle, the axe is passed to the next solderi to lead the squad, giving it a story made made by all who uses it. For an added thing if the fortress falls, retreive the axe as an adventurer, and continue the weapon's story, making it become a legend in and of itself.

[Stoup]

Should make an axe sqaud with the tradion of using that axe.
After he passes on/dies in battle, the axe is passed to the next solderi to lead the squad, giving it a story made made by all who uses it. For an added thing if the fortress falls, retreive the axe as an adventurer, and continue the weapon's story, making it become a legend in and of itself.

I'm handing it off to someone I consider to be his superior, though all my sqauds are just pairs. The axe's new owner, Kubuk Clasplanced the Matched Clod-Reward of Tarnishing (wat) is a legendary fighter and axeman, and already has 7 Goblin kills under her belt, a lot more than what Obok had. I just hope I won't have to face another beast like that...

Weren't shield supposed to protect against fire breath attacks? Was that broken in this version, or did my Axelord really just not even bother raising his shield.

I think I'm ludicrously lucky, actually, that Obok did indeed die. He was a step away from the booze stockpile when he died, though I don't know if he was still on fire. That would have been an absolute catastrophe, since all the booze in the fortress is right there.