My fortress of well over 100+ dwarves is humming along. Most dwarves do nothing since they suck at everything.
We had a noteworthy event recently. I had a Cyclops show up. The alarm was sounded and everyone went running for the safety of the fort. I wanted to lure it inside and capture it in a cage, because who wouldn't want a pet Cyclops to throw prisoners to? Unfortunately, the Cyclops had other plans...
One of my hunters was so focused on hunting her prey, that she did not notice the danger. While she was firing on some animal, the Cyclops approaches from behind, grabs her baby, and starts grabbing limbs and snapping bones. It then punches this poor baby right in the head with enough force to send it flying off of her mother's back. Well, now momma's pissed. She wheels around and pincushions this Cyclops with a flurry of bone bolts. It is quickly overwhelmed, and succumbs to it's wounds. Unfortunately, that punch to the head tore apart the baby's upper spinal nervous tissue, and it suffocated shortly after the death of the Cyclops.
Turns out, the hunter is married to the mayor. He is currently "holding a meeting" with his wife, I imagine to console each other. Fortunately, they have 10 other children...
One of my dwarves made a cool lignite figurine called "Sadgleam". It's of a goblin killing a human in "The Searing Siege" less than 10 years ago. It's encrusted in gems and menaces with spikes of lignite and tiger bone. It has images of the first dwarf to die in the fortress, (failed mood due to lack of glass, melancholy) the founding of the fortress, and amazingly, an image of the artifact that the image is on... I get a headache just trying to imagine how he managed to do that. I also have a spiked dingo bone shield with an image of Sadgleam on it. The captain of the guard used it to kill a kobold, I imagine once the kobold saw the infinitely repeating image on the shield, he had a mental meltdown and was easy pickings. We still can't convince the captain to clean the blood off the shield... He says it gives it "character".
Everyone goes running when an evil dust cloud blows in, they don't want to break out in bleeding blisters head to toe, being temporarily blinded and running a fever, but that's about as exciting as things get around here. I was wondering why the goblins never sent an ambush or siege, or even a kidnapper... Turns out we are at peace with them. The only civs at war are the humans and goblins. The gobs haven't sent a caravan though... I'm bummed, I'l have to start some trouble with the elves, they haven't brought anything interesting other than a giant dingo anyway.