Strange times had befallen Impaledwomen. Because the mayor, the local vampire, was locked away in her own little world, trade liaisons had begun to build up. They had all found various stupid places to stand around and mope, including half-full bodies of water. So, logically, they were gaining swimming skill while they stood around in there. Eventually, I got tired of them and forced the mayoral office to change four separate times, and sent them all home with big diplomatic frowns on their stupidly-pruned faces. For roughly a year, one of the caravan guards did something similar in the river, exercising his impressive swimming skills, while also tearing a giant sponge many, many new holes. Of course, that didn't matter much to the sponge, but the guard went from a spearman to an elite wrestler before I got tired of the constant combat report spam and nuked the damn sponge with dfliquids. I didn't like the thing being so close to the bridge anyway.
What surprises me currently, is that two of those now-legendary swimming liaisons arrived on my doorstep as migrants.
One of my civ's deities is the god of fish and water, so I think I'll make these lowlife liaisons his high priests. Although only one of them actually worships the guy...
That migrant wave brings me up to 207 dwarves total. FPS is reading 55-60 pretty consistently, I have several legendary glassmakers and associated artifacts, and the dragon men haven't shown their ugly mugs in years, so clearly I'm doing something horribly wrong
Speaking of the deities, I have a gradn green-glass-roofed dome being built, which I intend to make a temple of. In there I can place statues of all the deities and burrow their chosen priests and whatnot.
This just in; the migrant liaisons also became cave-adapted whilst underground for several years