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[floundericiousWA]

Started a brand new fort a while ago. I've got my seven dwarves and I'm doing just fine. Then comes my first migrant wave. A husband, a wife, and their five children. Not thirty seconds after they get on the map, the husband dwarf goes berserk and slaughters most of his own children. I form a squad out of my seven dwarves and send them in to kill the father. Turned out he was a very skilled fighter. Had to have been, the way he beat the living hell out of everyone.

So I finally manage to take him out. Most of my dwarves are in the makeshift hospital I threw together at the last minute to care for them. Then the mother throws a tantrum due to the loss of her children and murders everyone in their sleep.

I freaking love this game! I wish I'd found out about it ages ago.

YOU, sir, have a great attitude!

See the wiki for FUN!!!
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/4/40/FunComic.png

[floundericiousWA]

Started a brand new fort a while ago. I've got my seven dwarves and I'm doing just fine. Then comes my first migrant wave. A husband, a wife, and their five children. Not thirty seconds after they get on the map, the husband dwarf goes berserk and slaughters most of his own children. I form a squad out of my seven dwarves and send them in to kill the father. Turned out he was a very skilled fighter. Had to have been, the way he beat the living hell out of everyone.

So I finally manage to take him out. Most of my dwarves are in the makeshift hospital I threw together at the last minute to care for them. Then the mother throws a tantrum due to the loss of her children and murders everyone in their sleep.

I freaking love this game! I wish I'd found out about it ages ago.

YOU, sir, have a great attitude!

See the wiki for FUN!!!
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/4/40/FunComic.png

[SixOfSpades]

I did some exploratory digging and found . . . a volcano with no magma. Seriously, it looks just like a regular magma pipe, with perfectly sheer walls going for around 20 z-levels . . . to end up on a muddy cavern floor. What gives? Worldgen bug? I haven't found any magma whatsoever on this map yet.

I think the pipe's walls are gabbro, not obsidian, but I could be wrong.

[Hanslanda]

Deep pit. Its a normal underground feature. My volcano map has a normal volcano, and a pit like the one you just described, to the gabbro and all.

Shadebeast has begun and completed construction of the first three levels of my 15 z level magma and bees mug megaproject. Built of dacite, as a tribute to Spearbreakers. And also, I wanted to build a big thing, and I'm not artistic, so no animals.

[Felix False]

The fortress of Cloutship weathered its first major siege today. A squad of goblin spearmen and another of goblin bowmen charged the entrance of the fortress. We went to close the gate, but a tantruming recruit destroyed the lever that operated it, leading to the premature deaths of a squad of marksdwarves who were set to rain death from the tower above. The squad of goblin spearmen charged up the stairs and slaughtered them all.

The recruit, who didn't have the decency to take a goblin arrow in the back, has since been fed to the Giant Sponge that dwells in yonder river. His beard hangs over the entrance to the barracks as a warning to all other recruits.

Luckily we had a fallback position underground with a secondary blockade which the majority of our military fell back to and held. The goblin spearmen charged the barricade but were quickly caught in cage traps along the length of the hallway. Unfortunately the goblin bowmen were a little more savvy, and hung around the outside edges of our traps. Thankfully, a contingent of war dogs had been bred for just such an emergency. The gate to their kennels was thrown open and they rushed the goblins, providing a perfect opportunity for Cloutship's military to charge in from behind their fortified position and end the nuisance once and for all.

Cloutship, 19th of Slate, Year Fourteen
Baroness Cerol Mengkol

[SalmonGod]

My current fortress is built under a very steep volcano peak.  It's about 50 z-levels from the bottom to the top.  A kobold snatcher appeared on the side of the mountain, and a marksdwarf immediately took a shot at him.  He dodged the bolt, but fell and broke his neck in the process (upper spine nervous tissue torn and he dropped everything he was holding).  A hunting deep wolf went to finish him off, and I guess the kobold must have lashed out very menacingly with his eyelids or something.  The wolf dodged an attack from the kobold, fell, and immediately killed itself.

I'd been planning to level out this mountain a bit eventually, but it just got pushed up on my agenda.

[ZzarkLinux]

The Rustic RabbitHut

Spoiler: Previous Chapters (click to show/hide)

01) Embark
02) Raise the Roof
03) Sour and Sweet
04) Spring Growing - Part 1
05) Spring Growing - Part 2
06) Spring Growing - Part 3
07) Acceleration is Easy at Low Speeds
08) Guard Duty activate
09) Drumroll ... your fingers
10) Good Times lead to Fun
11) Slugging Stone Around
12) Trading Season - Part 1 - Awaiting the Surge
13) Trading Season - Part 2 - Here they come
14) Trading Season - Part 3 - Trade Winds are blowing
15) Roadkill
16) Bed Intruder
17) Cuttin the Cows
18) Extrememe Pain is better than Death
19) To the Quarry for You
20) Moar Haulers Moar Gems
21) Tranquility in Terrifying
22) Forgotten Beasts on the Rack
23) Feelin the Migrant Squeeze
24) One Fancy Trademark
25) Whistle While You Work

26) Endless Autumn
27) Endless Autumn

I unpause, and it is mid-Autumn.
The traders haven't arrived yet, and the dwarves are very busy handling food and clothing and such.

Some migrants arrive. Among them, I get a good Clothier and a good Bookkeeper.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So I shuffle some dwarves and some nobles around.
It's about now that I notice that (a) we have a mayor and (b) we have a Captain of the Guard.
No rooms for them yet though.

This large population is making me edgy, and I feel vulnerable to things other than the undead

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

...

I seem to get some sort of cloth together to make bags.
And with bags come quarry bushes, and with quarry bushes comes biscuts.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, and the migrants brought a baby llama.
No, wait, a grown Llama.
Either way, I pasture it near the butcher area.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'll handle that later.
Gotta go to bed now.

[crazysheep]

A purple spinel bed eh? Sounds like something I'd give to a noble.. I dunno.

Update: Oooh and the first generation of raven hatchlings are now domesticated! (Y)

[Greiger]

Discovered something.  I was channeling out some surface tiles to get a nice contiguous farm plot(damn rocks) and forgot to build the farm there when the miners were done.

When I finally get back to it I see it is full of grass.  This is a desert biome and not just a desert biome but a no vegetation whatsoever desert biome.  Yet I have a plot of surface grass growing.  I'm sure  others found this ages ago but I have somehow just noticed it.  Yay my sheep will be able to see the light of day!

I'm guessing the explanation for it would be the miners uncovering the more resource rich soil a few feet under the surface?  I dunno.

[Broseph Stalin]

An axedwarfette has started calling herself the "Bone of Whores" after wracking up thirteen kills. Not the name I would have chosen but whatever.

[Lich180]

A mason was injured by a magma crab while working on the roof of the forge area over the local volcano.

Lower spine broken, major bruising. Mason is now crawling around everywhere, and refuses to rest.

At least Dwarven Medicine didn't leave any lasting scars

[Broseph Stalin]

A mason was injured by a magma crab while working on the roof of the forge area over the local volcano.

Lower spine broken, major bruising. Mason is now crawling around everywhere, and refuses to rest.

At least Dwarven Medicine didn't leave any lasting scars

Since dwarves can't fix spinal damage they don't request diagnosis.

[Lich180]

Since dwarves can't fix spinal damage they don't request diagnosis.

Well the medics DID go up to the mason in the hospital, and give a diagnosis, and suture and dress the wound

[Splint]

A human kid grew up and was inductedinto the Townwatch to replace Gelu, the girl the Townwatch Commander had beaten todeath the month before. I assigned him to make mechanisims and work in the forges to pick up the slack our jack-of-fuckall woodworker/mechanic/furnace girl/metalsmith Tal. I have no godly idea how she's managed to juggle all those different jobs, but she's done well so I left them active. the only things being neglected are the irrigation pumps.

However, instead of doing things as I intended, this kid has been doing solo drills in the townwatch barracks, stopping only to eat, drink, and sleep. He's socially retarded, becomes useless under stress, hates helping people, and doesn't like doing more than what he needs to. And yet he's been training alone in the damn watch barracks for three weeks now. He's only just started his secondary job of making stone furiture. Three weeks after he was supposed to. I'm also expecting goblins any day now, since they last sent an ambush a couple months ago, heralded by snatchers. Likewise, a few snatchers have shown up, and all but one had been promptly cut to ribbons. One got stepped on by Bugi the title'd axelady. She didn't take kindly to a goblin staring up her skirt. The goblin got his skull smashed and then he was decapitated after she chopped both his legs off. Two others got themselves trapped in the trash area, mauling a cat out of panic (it's fine though. Just broke a leg.) And in thier attempt to run when I opened the doors leading inside, they met three axelords. There was a minor argument, and in the exchange several goblin bits flew about.

But I know they're coming. Just a matter of time. I hope the caravan from home beats them here...

[Iceflame]

I recently dicovered that something about 90% of my dwarfes lost their vision, maybe caused by their full-body blisterings.
Is there a way to cure them? I don't like the idea of having blind marksmen on my walls.