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[Urist McUristUrist]

Well that's not something you see every day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My fort shares the site with a cave, where this giant apparently lived. When I finally explored the cave (year 210), I found his giant skeleton, with no indication about how he died. Turns out a human werellama had shown up, apparently never got spotted by my dwarves, ventured straight into the cave and killed this giant, then left.

A shame the giant didn't survive; meeting that would have been interesting.

If you find the werellama in adventure mode they may still have his face.

[nickbii]

Most likely, he's a runaway goblin slave, hence, the haircut and the kill list, which are actually goblin-style murders and not combat kills.
As for the name, it is possible he was originally born in an elven civ, probably a child of some traveling scientist or bard.

So, I was expecting to say "Never mind, you were right. He was just a goblin slave." after checking Legends. That is not the case, but he's apparently not an elf, either.

He's the only one to ever bear the name Ecamo, apparently.

Spoiler: "Ecamo, first of his name" (click to show/hide)

He's also definitively a dwarf. And those do seem to be combat kills.

Spoiler: "Legends mode dump" (click to show/hide)

I still have no idea how he got an Elven name. He's a dwarf from the very first generation of dwarves, in a dwarven kingdom ruled by an unbroken line of dwarves.

Spoiler: "The Adventurous Mechanisms" (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: "Ustuth Bustteeth" (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: "Kib Fleshmanors" (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: "Kol Beachedvessel" (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: "Bonus: Goblin Humor" (click to show/hide)

Dude was in charge of 11 Adventurous Mechanisms attacks on the goblins of Viceallies. He's got tp have some strategic skills that would be useful in your militia.

What happened in that particular war? Did he have to leave because the gobboes won?

[Bralbaard]

A visitor just wrote a quire. It has a description that will please mathematicians around the world. 

The interpretation of congruence:
This is a pig tail quire
Written on the item is a manual entitled the interpretation of congruence, authored by Rovod Canyonfurnace. It concerns the properties of similar and congruent triangles. The writing shows a hint of tenderness and it takes frequent interesting tangents. Overall, the prose is passable

[Superdorf]

Several years ago, something like twenty performers petitioned for residence at my fort, and for citizenship a couple years later. I eventually intend to weaponize them in horrifying ways, but in the meantime, they've been hauling corpses.

Lots. And lots. Of corpses.

Spoiler: That choice has finally returned to haunt me. (click to show/hide)

[imperium3]

Just suffered eight dwarves killed by a werehorse attack, including six of the militia and my Legendary Clothier (this is the second Legendary Clothier who's bitten the dust in my fort); we had no warning before it reached the fortress gate, so the militia turned up one by one and got slaughtered. Quite impressive really - it couldn't directly pierce their bronze armour, but it could soak up damage all day and it only needed to land one bite attack, because the followup shakes were almost always an instakill. The bastard even escaped after transforming back into a dwarf, so maybe we'll see him again.

I have two injured survivors who may or may not be infected. Had them quarantined, but the first full moon hit (measured by a previous werehorse-victim who's been permanently confined) and neither of them transformed. Does that mean they're safe to let back into the fortress? Or should I wait until the second full moon to be certain?

In other news, construction of Stonebanners' tower continues quickly. I am currently devoting efforts to dig out more bedrooms, as I feel it's time to get more migrants in. The current population of 70 (including quite a lot of children) feels too small to get everything I want done while also retaining a full-time military - after the above massacre I'm not going to put up with a part-time militia again.

[TD1]

Does that mean they're safe to let back into the fortress? Or should I wait until the second full moon

Should be fine!

[Dunamisdeos]

Found out I am basically the center of known dwarven civilization now. There's a very isolated dwarven civ to the far south, but I'm in a tundra and those dwarves are basically 100% isolated by terrain. There's just two other dwarven settlements, decimated to almost nothing by war.

That said, have decided to build a manned fortress defending the only route from the candy mines from possible demon invasion. 50 Axe Lords and a squad of crossbow-dwarves will man it. We shall have the candy, but they shall not have our fortress. Hail Mr. Beard.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

A ghostly butcher chopped off both legs of a strand extractor.

But the announcement message is bugged, it just shows two names and titles.

[Splint]

I have two injured survivors who may or may not be infected. Had them quarantined, but the first full moon hit (measured by a previous werehorse-victim who's been permanently confined) and neither of them transformed. Does that mean they're safe to let back into the fortress? Or should I wait until the second full moon to be certain?

Check for a skin-break from the bite itself - latches that only bruise and the follow-up shakes won't transfer the curse, only breaking the skin will (so if the skin, fat, or muscle was torn by the initial bite, then they're definitely infected.)

Suppose that's more "for the future" knowledge, but hey. better safe than sorry and all that.

[Brakebein]

I must confess - after playing DF on and off for nearly 11 years, I have never gone for the adamantium.

Until this morning.

The fortress of Punchgate had had a relatively peaceful existence, fending off the occasional werecreature or traveling bard. The only metals we could access were lead, zinc and silver, which means our entire military was armed with only their bare hands and leather armour when the eerie pit was breached.

We'd all heard the stories about demons with catepillar's heads made from molten glass that could immolate an entire fortress with a single fart. What we didn't expect was over sixty of them billowing up with the scent of fiery brimstone, melting flesh with paralyzing webs and hellfire before systematically destroying every living thing and demolishing every stick of furniture below ground. All were slain, including the latecoming marksdwarves party who fired off multiple rounds to little avail.

Within a matter of minutes all lay dead, save for the possessed mayor who had been walled up amid his demands for ridiculously esoteric crafting materials and outlandish export bans. It took him almost two months to starve to death, during which an elven caravan arrived and was instantly incinerated, along with every single tree on the upper surface.

With the death of the mayor came the death of Punchgate. And I didn't even get to smith a single damn adamantium sword.

I freaking love this game. Can't wait to start again tonight. I'm thinking a desert fortress, made mostly of green glass.

[Kagus]

Now you know how the awful clown/candy slang came to be.

[Superdorf]

Within a matter of minutes all lay dead, save for the possessed mayor who had been walled up amid his demands for ridiculously esoteric crafting materials and outlandish export bans.

Spec-tacular.

[Ulfarr]

Embark with plans to make an above ground fort. Naturally it's been raining non stop for the past 10 years. Yay...

[Indricotherium]

So the 5th forgotten beast to assault the fort showed up in the second cavern layer. An eight legged, scaled dimetrodon with lidless eyes who undulates rythmically. And oh yeah, breathes fire. Maybe I should have been a bit more diligent about shoring up our cavern defenses but no matter, we slew that giant shrimp, giant lobster, winged lobster and giant scorpion easily enough! Send in the Crystalline Calm! The Salves of Rain! The Golden Presents! The Floors of Delighting!

Oh. My. God.

So much fire. So much smoke. And it moves like a toddler hopped up on cake and ice cream! Seventeen dwarves are down, including our two living champions Shrimp Slayer and Lobster Killer. Still, the survivors fight on and a few monster slayers are arriving on the scene. Perhaps we can still carry the day. And if all else fails.. we release the Vampire Legion.

[Naryar]

I've leaped from 16 dwarves to 46 in the migration wave of the second Spring.

And it's a... really memetically terrible migration wave.

Seven kids, six hunter/ranger types ALL novice (I guess I have a marksdwarf squad ready to be trained), three equally novice fishery workers,
six peasants which are all equally useless (the best is an Adequate Grower with no other skills), one good scholar type with Glassmaker (but nooo magma on this map) at great... a peasant, a woodcutter...

Did I mention the Great cheesemaker ? I think I forgot him.