I had some good !Fun! in my current fort.
After nearly a year in the badlands, we had a steady stream of visitors from neighbouring civs, including an Axedwarf who lodged a petition to stay as a mercenary. Our tavern was furnished and smoothed, the entryway had decorative statues of our groups symbol, and we had two shrines, one dedicated to Istrath Jadegolds and another for every other deity. The miners were working on a barracks and downward passage to the caverns, and despite the complete lack of wood our Carpenter had managed to maintain his skill until the caravan came along and offered a whole bunch of logs.
Shortly after the caravan left, we received a message:
Kubuk Thoedasmeng, Mage Poet is visiting.
I should've locked the door as soon as I saw his title of Mage, but I thought it'd turn out perfectly fine; after all, we had had a few strange visitors to our fort, and never had a problem with any of them.
As soon as he entered the entryway, two more messages popped up: microcline Statue toppled by Kubuk Thoedasmeng, Mage Poet.
Shortly after this, he ran straight to the temple dedicated to Jadegolds and toppled the statue of it. Immediately after this all hell broke loose.
Jadegolds cursed Kubuk, who immediately threw a 'strange chemical mixture' at the armourer next to him, who retaliated by firing his crossbow. Kubuk jumped away from the bolt, blinded the armourer, shocked him with a bolt of lightning and whacked him with the scroll he was holding before the armourer was suddenly petrified. Kubuk finished him off with a blow to the head, and proceeded to go on a rampage in the next shrine.
Dwarf after dwarf had bones shattered by Kubuk, who also had the ability to raise corpses and summon creatures. A stray hellhound tried to help, but ended up setting everyone in the temple on fire, and I could only watch as dwarf after dwarf was petrified, burnt or pulped by Kubuk, the Guineahen corpse, the Yak corpse and a bunch of 'Byakhees', until the militia commander finally managed to strike Kubuk down with an axe blow to the head.
In the end, we were left with only 9 dwarves out of the 21 we had, a couple of silkworms and 5 new calcite statues of various things. We also replaced the entryway statues with an image of Kubuk massacring dwarves.
All in all I am enjoying Dark Ages; I think I'll ban all legendary dwarves from visiting now though.