I am a monster.... but first a little background:
It's currently 177, 1st of Granite. I embarked on 174, 15th of Granite.
I'd say back in Galena - late summer - the local tower sent a massive siege (massive for this early in the game... like 3 necros and 70 undead.) So of course I just went underground and stuck a big middle finger at the world. Figured it's a great time to dig out my fresh water cistern, my hospital well, drainage for said water tanks. I also decided to design & start digging out space for 8 magma forges off a vent stack deep in the earth. As many of you know - it's tedious work.
Back in the autumn of 175 I received a migrant wave of about 27 dwarves. Halfway through their journey to Silverdeep to join their brethren of the Unseen Chamber we were viciously attacked by the weremouse Onaf Thepxugot. I had no proper militia so the only choice for me to save the colony was to draw the bridges and hope that the migrants made it. Unfortunately only about 2/3 of them did. 12 of them were left staring in horror at the huge Gabbro doors that forbade entrance to sanctuary. Carnage insued. Teeth, ears, and a few body parts later - and lots of blood - 4 dwarves lay dead and 6 lay uncounscious and bleeding. 2 had somehow managed to flee to safety. The weremouse changed form and fled and I went to work trying to salvage what I could. 2 more dwarves bled out before I could get to them. Of the other 4 badly injured I wasn't certain which had been cursed. Long story short I ended up saving & restraining 4 in locked cells. 2 of them turned. (Miraculously Stodir Ilashlibash lived without being cursed despite having a nose exploded into gore and a right arm bent, broken and twisted. He works to this day as a metalsmith and all the children of the fort watch him from a distance and tell stories about the horror of that event.)
So, I imprisoned the two weredwarves - Imush Sastresrimtar and Doren Ducimseng into separate cells just beneath the surface and off the tunnel I use for access to my trade depot with plans of weaponizing them in the future. And there they've sat since - every full moon a somber tone falls on my fort as the barely audible screams of the beasts remind the population of Silverdeep about the horrors that lurk in the darkness.
So there I am doing the tedious work of digging shafts & wells in the autumn of 176 and I get like no less than 3 or so notifications that a child has been born. That's great I think - my plan is to have this be a multi-generational fort. But I keep working through the notifications. At this point the undead on the surface have been regularly catching and slaughtering wildlife - so I'm also used to almost constant fight notifications and I miss this one until this morning: "Dwarven baby Deduk Ducimfoker is fighting!"
O noes I think. Yes... it seems that while locked away Doren Ducimseng gave birth. Which was fine and all until the full moon struck and then:
"Doren Ducimseng bites the dwarven baby in the left foot, tearing apart the muscle! A Sensory nerve has been severed. Doren Ducimseng grabs the dwarven baby by the upper front teeth with its left hand! ...... Doren Ducimseng kicks the dwarven baby in the right upper leg with its right paw and the injured part explodes into gore!. An artery has been opened by the attack!..... Doren Ducimseng bites the dwarven baby in the head, tearing the muscle and bruising the skull!... shakes the dwarven baby around by the head and the skull collapses!"
Yea. So now I have a dead baby in the walled off cell. And I'm going to leave it there. And the dark secrets of Silverdeep are going to continue to accumulate....
It's things like this that create insane uniqueness and character every time I embark....