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[Splint]

Another forgotten beast has arrived, this one a giant one eyed crap with deadly spittle. He spat frozen

I laughed far harder than I should have at this if it was a typo.

[Diablous]

Another forgotten beast has arrived, this one a giant one eyed crap with deadly spittle. He spat frozen

I laughed far harder than I should have at this if it was a typo.

Derp. Yeah it was a typo, it was a crab. I probably should have proofread my post. I wouldn't be surprised if a forgotten beast made of crap shows up one of these days. Hopefully it won't be a let down like the last two. After stories of beasts melting flesh with their dust I think I got my standards a bit too high.

[Splint]

And then you have that one that ends up causing spontaneous bleeding from pores and vomitting that kills one of your best soldiers.

[VerdantSF]

And then you have that one that ends up causing spontaneous bleeding from pores and vomitting that kills one of your best soldiers.

Surely not Obok?!

[PDF urist master]

i've been trying to get another jabberer to come to my fortress. decided that the extinction of all other life forms is best way to achieve that.

also, a web flinging reptile with wings just showed up. thankfully it was made of flesh. still it took my marksdwarves like 50 shots to kill that thing. in the end i think it died to cumulative damage. what kind of fleshy beast could take a rain of arrows and still attack? i think all forgotten beasts must have no pain. i've never seen one fall
unconscious yet.

luckily no one died. the beast was too busy flinging webs, conveniently missing this one guy who kept putting bolts in its body.

i should probably increase the frequency of jabberers. it's already [frequency 20] though. maybe decrease the frequency of everything else.

[Splint]

And then you have that one that ends up causing spontaneous bleeding from pores and vomitting that kills one of your best soldiers.

Surely not Obok?!

Oh no she's fine, in spite of the whole "Rotting breast skin" issue. i was referring to an unlucky pikedwarf named Awl, from the fortress of Spearbreakers, who died from such an FB though he had effortlessly murderized it.

[penguinofhonor]

The fort: Etes Mezum, "Blow the Smoke". The year: 505, spring.

One year ago, goblin ambushes began. We were a small fort of 18 dwarves (popcap 15, I want a generational fort), but our military was well-trained. The ambush was discovered by Ineth Abanrigoth the Chopper, our militia's co-leader. Her first move was to lop the nearest goblin's arm off. No goblins survived.

Unfortunately, a second ambush was discovered by the elves and most of them were massacred. Oh well, free caravan loot.

This year we didn't fare so well. As the first elves reached the depot (on the north side of the fort), so did the first goblins. Our military dealt with those easily, but another ambush was discovered on the southeast side of the fort by the rear of the elven caravan. One of our potters was going southwest to get water and discovered a third ambush almost immediately after the second.

Blow the Smoke is a large, circular above-ground fortress around a volcano. Ineth went around counterclockwise. The rest of the military went around clockwise. Ineth jumped right into the middle of the third ambush and was killed almost immediately. The rest of the military cleaned up the second and third ambushes, but not after the potter, a farmer, and some elves were killed.

The fort is recovering slowly. We've launched some new projects aiming to help them, such as a huge dining room for them to forget their troubles in and a burial chamber so the dead can be put to rest. There are also some targeted at avoiding tragedies like this in the future, like a reservoir so dwarves don't have to leave the fort to get water. We will survive!

edit: Maybe we won't. One season later, three more ambushes. All the non-injured military is dead now.

edit: I am live-editing this tantrum spiral. Miner goes berserk, gets killed by human caravan guards. Wounded soldier goes berserk, kills other wounded soldier, gets killed by human caravan guards. I have eight dwarves left. One of them is a wandering motherless baby that's about to die, another is a wounded soldier that's still laying in the field because nobody wants to carry him to the hospital. My trader is running around babbling.

edit: The last potter has been stricken with melancholy. I have two adult non-insane dwarves left. I'm sealing off the fortress.

[Diablous]

Oh boy. I am in trouble.

First, this guy shows up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

He got a new title part way through so his full name is Idash Swamsqueeze the Slaughters of Clouting. Remember earlier in the thread where I called the beasts I've gotten so far a let down? How they did nothing but breath harmless extract? Yeah, this guy was different. As the dwarves approached him he webbed up the first to reach him and then offed the dwarf with a single kick to the head. He did that to others as well. Those who survived the kick were paralyzed as a result of wrecked spines, and either suffocated or died of more hits. An axedwarf named Urdim managed to turn things around when she managed to reach him and start hacking at him. Idash started freaking out and spat webs everywhere instead of kicking, which let Urdim, a sword dwarf and a spear dwarf get close and destroy him. A long fought but won battle, at the cost of half the military. But there was no time to celebrate.

While the military fought Idash, some goblin ambushers appeared. Two squads total, archers lead by a pikegoblin and a lasher. I closed the gates to protect the fortress until the military was done with Idash. The dwarves who arrived to deal with the goblins were untouched, as Idash's blows were deadly. While the military raced to the gates, the goblins arrived at the depot and killed the elven caravan there. A few of the archers were caught in cage traps. When the remaining soldiers arrived I opened the gates and unleashed the fury of Wounddrinks!

It was a disaster. Most of the remaining soldiers were knocked out by arrows and killed by the pikegoblin. Only three dwarves were not hopelessly slaughtered. A militia captain and mayor, who was shot in the arms and knocked out before leaving the gate. Urdim did not leave the gates and engage at first, and a speardwarf called Imush went wild on the goblins. He killed them in droves, blocking arrows flying at him. Eventually only three archers remained. Imush charged at them, blocking arrows, and reached one. He attacked the bastard and dealt a blow that kept the goblins on the ground. Imush was then shot by the other two archers, which knocked him out and let them shoot him to death. The injured goblin crawled away, only to be caught in a cage trap. Urdim was still healthy, so I sent her out to confront the last two archers. They knocked her out with arrows, and when they ran out of arrows they finished her off with their bows. I was able to draft up another dwarf to finish off the remaining archers. But this was a horrible defeat. Only the militia captain/mayor remains from the military.

Welp, time to rebuild my military. I'm going to add a squadron of marksdwarves this time. That ought to help with the goblins archers at least. Either way, this was a dark season in Wounddrinks history.

[Lalasa]

A few of you may remember when I asked when the caverns are found.  Fishmine just discovered its very first cavern!  The caves are very small and mazelike, which explains why they took me such a long time to find.  Hopefully FUN will come crawling in because Fishmine needs it.  The military should finally see some actual use after all!

Here it is if any of you want to see:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't know why but I'm ridiculously happy.  Maybe it's because this is one of the most exciting things to happen to my fortress.  Plus I get underground trees! 
Hoorayy!

EDIT FOR REALS: There's two a bunch more levels to my cavern and what looks to be the edge of an underground pond/lake.  So cool!  Spider webs are everywhere and moss is growing in my kitchen!

[penguinofhonor]

I opened the doors long enough to let a dwarven caravan in. That was a mistake, as goblins ambushed immediately. The bone carver died, leaving only two children and the carpenter.

She held up the fortress for a little while, singlehandedly making coffins and hauling bodies into them, but it was too much for her. She went berserk. Unfortunately, the traps jammed when they tore apart the ambush so she's free to roam the fortress. She used that freedom to kill one of the children and a few animals.

I have only one two-year-old child left. Migrants aren't coming. I think I'm doomed.

edit: The child has gone mad. If migrants don't arrive before it starves to death, I lose the fort.

[Lalasa]

I seem to be confused with the edit feature.  Sorry!

[penguinofhonor]

some migrants have arrived
SOME MIGRANTS HAVE ARRIVED
SOME GODDAMN MIGRANTS HAVE ARRIVED!

I think this child was a week from starving to death. Oh well, guess I get to start my generational fort all over from scratch.

[enolate]

some migrants have arrived
SOME MIGRANTS HAVE ARRIVED
SOME GODDAMN MIGRANTS HAVE ARRIVED!

I think this child was a week from starving to death. Oh well, guess I get to start my generational fort all over from scratch.

Huzzah! Never give up. Never surrender.

[Lalasa]

I ran into the !FUN! I was looking for, although it's a bit too much at once.  I misread my food stocks so when messages kept popping saying dwarves were cancelling giving food because of the lack of it, I found out I really didn't have any food.  So I'm butchering about 20 animals and gathering aboveground plants like mad trying to have enough to cook into easy meals.  As I'm trying to prevent dwarves from hunting vermin (at least I have booze left) my first forgotten beast shows up.  Great.  Just great.  There are no caravans, nothing to eat, and an unholy terror in the basement.  It's a gross FB too, and it's blood is apparently poisonous.  And it flies.

Good grief I'm screwed majorly.  The only good thing about all this is my vampire queen.  If everyone else dies and she's still there by a miracle, I might get more migrants.

EDIT: What are possible emergency sources of food?  I don't have anything to hunt, I'm butchering most of my livestock, I'm increasing my farm size, and I'm gathering plants.  There's nothing to fish either.  D:

EDIT: Only in Fishmine can dwarves starve in happiness.  I'm serious.  They're starving but they're happy.  Why?!  ._.;

[Larix]

some migrants have arrived
SOME MIGRANTS HAVE ARRIVED
SOME GODDAMN MIGRANTS HAVE ARRIVED!

I think this child was a week from starving to death. Oh well, guess I get to start my generational fort all over from scratch.

As sad as the reasons were, this is kind of epic - a fort hanging on by a thread and barely making it to the migrants with not only a non-working dwarf, but an insane dwarf, too! I only once had a fort surviving by a single dwarf, and that was just mid-spring to mid-summer of the first year - harp seals may be described as 'small', but they're almost lion-sized and if they're undead... ordering all but the miners to wrestle them was not my best idea. It never deteriorated to insanity, i don't know if i'd have the heart for that.