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[Dr_Nocturne]

Fighting a Marsh Titan made up of tsavorite and emanates an aura of giving and kindness...
It's an uninvited guest but I don't think it is hostile... We will soon see...
 
Will upload a photo...

[Dr_Nocturne]

It is indeed hostile... Kindness my @$$...

[Dr_Nocturne]

Now I'm being attacked by a fire breathing sand titan that is a hadrosaurid... No clue what that was until I looked it up... Good to know that it is a dinosaur...

[Splint]

On kind one: It wants to give and be kind, and it wants only hugs! Shame its instincts tell it to CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY.

Sand titan: Why is it I imagined it accidently turning itself into immobile glass capable only of glaring and thinking angry thoughts?

[Lich180]

Well, the new year came, and a speardwarf who had recently reached legendary in spear skill just keeled over and died. I didn't know what happened, as there was no combat report, or any other indication until I opened the announcement window.

Speardwarf has died of old age.

Damn it, she was just getting good, too. Her husband is only a few years behind her as well... better get some fresh meat new recruits going soon. Gotta up the population cap and get more migrants, population of 60 and things aren't getting done in a timely manner anymore.

[flabort]

Don't sand dragons, in fictions where they exist, typically breath fire or lightning, therefore theoretically turning themselves into glass, but never seeming to?

[Orange Wizard]

Don't sand dragons, in fictions where they exist, typically breath fire or lightning, therefore theoretically turning themselves into glass, but never seeming to?

Yes, but MAGIC.

[flabort]

I guess MAGIC explains quantum stockpiles, too.

"Yer see, Urist, Der typical track stop is der perfect shape for der runes, which when coupled wit der runes on der minecart, creates der perfect way to keep yer socks organized." 

On topic, I THINK I've sealed my vampire away forever in the middle of a volcano, to do books for all eternity. However, I'm not sure whether she was or not. Also, I'm having trouble figuring out a way to drain the water from the top of the volcano to dig deeper into the tunnel and flood the lower levels too.

[Vox]

Just started up my semi above ground fort for the second time.
Lost the last one to a necromancer that rolled in with 3 undead elf corpses, was totally not prepared.
Got a pretty good pig/bee/chicken food source rolling on this one.
Just caged a few black bears up, working on getting animal trainer on them.
Struck Rock Crystals for the first time ever in my history of playing DF, gunna have to start up some nice glasswares soon.

[Larix]

Tried out an evil embark for a change. Volcano on the border of two (evil) biomes. Everything peaceful at the start, so i dug into the nearest wall and ordered everything brought inside. By late spring, an accursed gloom crept over the landscape, so i battened down the hatches and observed what it did. A kitten husk and two hen husks. Ah well, i had brought two kittens and three hens, no big loss. Forbade everything outside and ordered the entry walled off. Which happened before the kittyhusk made its way inside, but of course an idiot miner had to run outside before the wall was closed. Since there was no new gloom coming, i eventually got him inside after all. Breached the volcano from somewhere down the side (to avoid going outside for the purpose, the gloom happily crept all over the mountain whenever it came) by first hollowing out a basin below, then carving a fortification, smelted the cassiterite i had brought and combined with local bismuth and copper for unrottalbe 'clothing', got a dozen chicks to hatch and...

well, that was it. Nothing interesting happened, all migrants were huskified or killed, the caravans got scattered. A pair of husk has been pushing each other around for two years now. Four caravan guards rose as un-memorisable ghosts but the dwarfs are still happy about their legendary dining room. It's just boring.

Interestingly, the liaisons kept hanging around until they, too, got huskified and then 'left unhappily'. So at least we have an insight into the mental state of husks - they're not happy creatures. And they promptly wandered off the map, presumably to report back to the mountainhome:
"GRRAARGH BLARGLE WWWAAAUGH!! RNNMF!"
"Why yes, my good dwarf (?), the weather has been dreadful down in the mines, but at least this year's crop of children is coming along nicely. Another slice?"
"WRRRNBLBLHOWCANYOUBESOUNCARINGABOUTYOUROWNOFFSPRING?!?! THIS MAKES ME ANGRY! ANGRIER! WHATEVER! HUSK SMASH!!"[proceeds to eat the mountainhome PR flunky]

[Lich180]

Finally, a migrant wave. Took most of them and tossed them into squads with the weapon masters currently training. Didn't have enough armor for them all apparently, and a few are quite upset that they are running around without boots or shirts, but I think they can deal with it.

2 of the named weapons (a masterwork and exceptional steel battle axe) were passed to the trainees by the masters. I guess its an attempt to see how well a raw recruit handles an artifact of the fortress, or as a good luck charm. Whatever the reason, these recruits will have to prove themselves soon enough, I expect sieges to arrive any season now.

A great strand extractor arrived with the migrants, so I guess I will start the harvesting of candy and production of a few select items for the militia commanders of the melee squads. Already discovered the top of one spire in the third cavern level, so all we have to do is wall it off and start digging. Hopefully its a nice, solid one.

[MrSparky]

I got lost interest with Kolothduk so I started a new fort on a new world.

Othilcatten, Weakenedchannels. The name sounds a bit like an ill omen.

On arrival I found we great plain with a good river running through near the center. Miners struck the earth and woodcutters struck the trees. We lost a woodcutter to an alligator. They were running all around our side of the river for quite some time before the gator finally caught the cutter and tore him apart.

The walls of the keep are up, no doors or roof yet. The workshop and food production levels have been dug out and the first of an eventual 8 bedroom wings has been dug out and is being smoothed.

[Flanderbland]

Things are calm in Splashcanyon. The second Tidal Wave Weapon is under construction, despite the shortcomings of the first one. It's not like I have anything better to do, and it does kill some goblins each siege after all. Amusing to watch, if nothing else. The new one will cover the fortress' eastern approach, just like the other one covers the south. They will also be capable of re-supplying one another, so that I can pack some extra punch on one flank, if needed.

The demands from the nobles have calmed down, for now. They are now just annoying, rather than being unappeasable. My baron is constantly demanding bolts, mixed with the occasional bracelet. Fine by me, bolts are used all the time, and bracelets are useful for trading. Having a supply of 2000 iron bolts for 6 marksdwarf/hunters is, however, somewhat excessive in my mind. Yet he seems to be preparing for the end of days, where hordes upon hordes of goblins will come rushing up the mountain.

[varnish]

Well no wonder this dwarf civilization is doing so well!

[0cu]

Well no wonder this dwarf civilization is doing so well!

Blasphemy!