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[ThatAussieGuy]

AhHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAH!  The WATERCLOCK WORKS!  Even the progress bar displays correctly!  MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I could only time it to ten months, but I think that should work satisfactorily for what I need it to do...

[Sus]

My militia is turning into a real forgotten beast killing machine. Four so far, though the last on was some kind of flaming cow that died to 2x{*silver bolt*}... The first took out its shell, and on the second, Boom Headshot!
Damn thing set a good portion of the 2nd cavern layer on fire though, and broke most of my cavern-side security system (a drawbridge plus a line of weapon traps leading up to a dog-guarded door). Fortunately, some of the traps and the dog were on a different z-level and avoided getting trashed or engulfed in flames.

Previously, we've had a pair of giant enemy crabs and a three-eyed porcupine with poisonous secrertions.

In the vanilla cave dweller department, we've had a GCS, a Molemarian that killed a couple of lumberjacks, a Cave Croc, and the usual trolls, giant rats, crundles and dralthas plus a gremlin or two.

A lot less ‼Fun‼ than I'd expected, really, though sometimes the military guys were in the caves crundle-hunting while a surface invasion strolled in, or vice versa.
(Yeah, I know I'm going to regret saying that.)

[MasterMorality]

Spring. Babies. Everywhere.
It's like breeding season or something.

[Lich180]

Population: 214.
Wealth: Just broke 4 million.
Sieges: None.
Invaders: 2 minotaurs, easily killed. No FB's, no ambushes, haven't had a thief or robber in years.

I'm starting to wonder what's going on... by now I always have some !!FUN!! begin... unless its going to be minotaur sieges or some crazy thing

[Greiger]

Decided that since my fortress has a population of 220 and is a mountainhome I should colonize the caverns.   Something I know people have managed to do, and do regularly, but I never got accustomed to the unique challenges down there.

Spoiler: long story (click to show/hide)

I know there is a forgotten beast someplace in the cavern, but it's an organic, and a webber.  Shouldn't be too bad.  So I dig out some quick defensive terrain.  Checkerboard room, archer fortificationed overlook, nothing too fancy.  Took all of 2 ingame days to completely dig out.

I station the military at their position.  10 Swordsmen with greatswords, 10 Spearmen with heavy lances, the 10 crossbowmen with siege crossbows go behind their fortifications, and the 5 legendary royal guards that migrated in with the queen in the front.  And break down the last wall and pull the siege alarm to keep the civs out of the way.

The webber forgotten beast is on it's way from the other side of the cavern, when out of a unexplored section comes a nightmare.  A massive quadruped made of clear glass.  Beware it's deadly dust!

I didn't count on a duster, I would have prepared the battlefield differently, but it's too late now.  The webber enters the checkerboard and the crossbowmen 2 z levels up have it half taken care of before it even reaches the melee.  And the glass quadruped enters the room while the melee is still chopping up the webber.

And here I notice my biggest design flaw.  The fortress has a deep pit for dumping going from the surface to the magma sea.  It also doubles as the central stairwell.  My melee line is set up only 5 tiles in front of it.  I did not build any doors there.

The quadruped breathes it's dust, the crossbowmen fire their salvo. The bolts disappear into the dust and the dust crashes over the crossbow position.  A couple crossbowmen somehow get blasted through the fortifications and fall below with the crunch of bones.  I order them to fall back, the bolts did next to nothing, and they are going to retreat due to wounds anyway.  Stunning, fever and necrosis, simply marvelous.  The cloud fortunately does not reach the melee as they finish off the first beast.  But I need to order them forward to get them as far from the garbage pit as possible, I queue up some Blind Guardian and order the royal guard to charge, hoping for a quick kill with their masterwork steel weapons.  And hoping the checkerboard pattern hallway will contain the dust.

No such luck.  Even if the dust can't move diagonally there is plenty of empty z levels above for it to move through to get around. The general manages to lop off it's back limbs but the entire squad gets blasted into dissarray with a blast of dust soon after.  The rest of the melee jump in once most of the dust has dissipated, but have difficulty doing anything more than a chip.  And also end up thrown around the room.

The battle continues, getting closer to the pit. And finally the beast gets into the main stairwell, where it breathes it's dust again, and cleans it out better than a vat of drain-o.  Almost every resident on the staircase falls to their death as the dust throws them into the pit. Fortunately, the forgotten beast also threw itself into the pit doing that.  Still prepping for the spiral.

TL;DR: Tried to take on an organic webber FB.  Clear Glass duster FB showed up the moment I opened the way in.   Fun was had.

Today's valuable lesson: Creatures falling onto semi molten rock still explode into limbs.  Even falling through multiple levels of magma, just as long as they built up enough speed falling through air.  My forge level is a horror show.

[Splint]

Greiger, that was beautiful to imagine in my head.

[laijka]

Urist McLovedbyall got bitten by a wererabbit just before my hunter and hunting dog chased it off.

Everything is calm until Urist McLovedbyall turns and kills 2 dwarfs and a handful of pets before being put down by the militia.

The Tantrumspiral is going well though.

[Eric Blank]

Eric Blank cancels embark to new fortress: game crashed

Eric Blank cancels embark to new fortress: game crashed

Eric Blank cancels embark to new fortress: game crashed

Eric Blank cancels play Dwarf Fortress: too insane

Eric Blank has gone berserk!

[Gizogin]

AhHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAH!  The WATERCLOCK WORKS!  Even the progress bar displays correctly!  MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I could only time it to ten months, but I think that should work satisfactorily for what I need it to do...

When can we expect to see your fort, then?  Presumably, you're planning to put it up as a challenge for anyone brave/foolish enough.  I'm curious as to how your clock actually works.

[peskyninja]

Marksdwarf goes bersek while training because his wife was killed in a ambush and shoots one of his fellas in the throat, tearing it. The poor bastard died in the way to the hospital.

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

Population: 214.
Wealth: Just broke 4 million.
Sieges: None.
Invaders: 2 minotaurs, easily killed. No FB's, no ambushes, haven't had a thief or robber in years.

I'm starting to wonder what's going on... by now I always have some !!FUN!! begin... unless its going to be minotaur sieges or some crazy thing

Spring. Babies. Everywhere.
It's like breeding season or something.

My fort is basically a combination of these two posts right here.

I am thinking of just having my miners break into Hell just to get some action.

Edit: No sooner than posting this and resuming the game, I get the following message: "a vile force of darkness has arrived!"

Time for !!FUN!!

I survived... Losing only my military Dwarves who had been training for the past 3 years. Farmers with no weapons > Highly trained, well-equipped soldiers.

[peskyninja]

Mayor is demanding an aluminium throne in his ass dinning room. Guess what? We don't have aluminium...

[bukitodinos]

the thing that popped into my head was a chair made of empty soda cans

[LuckyLuigi]

Very nice Greiger 
Amusingly enough I accidentally breached the caverns again and a poison dust flying thing had a lot of fun in my stairwell as well. Luckily mine did not end on a lava pit, but I still lost about 15 chaps.

More seriously, all the water on the entire map has turned stagnant. Including the water in the brook. I found out as we have run out of barrels and suddenly everyone was thirsty and complaining about the water. Horrible setback. Apparently pumping should make water non-stagnant but only if there was no stagnant water in my waterworks before...well, we'll see, without clear water getting wounded is almost a death sentence.
Well the siege just ended after ages and 200 dwarves ran outside and dove into the river and immediately got ambushed...hmmm my army is still decimated...well off you go lads...

[Greiger]

The Tantrum Spiral was untenable. And the goblins have arrived.  As the few remaining fortress guard hold the goblins at the gate.  I opened the floodgates built into the side of the lake, built as a joke on the fortress name, as the few 'sane' miners left dug into the HFS. 

The goblins will not claim the fortress of Watergate.  No one will.