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[Ascii Kid]

I would go with some unremarkable fortress dog who suffered a broken leg, just a stray, and no one seemed to want to adopt it, and the damn thing just wouldn't die. 
OH!  And once, this time (=->), one of my berzerking craftsdwarves murdered a puppy AND a baby on the same rampage.  Those where DARK times in the fort, I can tell you.

[Cajoes]

Most depressing... hm.

All my fortresses to date.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Okay, so I got the cistern project completed and up and running, I had just enough time to fill the bottom layer to 7/7 and a little change when the Freeze hit.

So I'm thinking, okay, the freeze has hit, this is good! Good good good. I can get around to dredging the bottom and make the brook deeper and the area around my pumps and my mega-waterwheel-plant wider.

So I send the dwarves out into the ice, burrowing in from z-1, to make a huge rectangle. Before I can stop anything, three dwarves "have been encased in ice" - my Overlord (Starting Noble Mayor-Apparant) and two others, all multi-Legendaries and Founders. I'm down to 12 dwarves now, and it's only the winter of the first year. (I have NO IDEA how I got immigrants IN THE FIRST YEAR, but I did. Not a lot, but they came.)

So, now... I'm kinda boned. I just hope my Fuckawesome dining room keeps everyone from tantruming. I have no idea how they froze, I guess when I mined out the ice, it un-froze and re-froze with a dwarf inside?

[Dwarfu]

Before the Queen showed up, our Duke had the run of the place.  For some reason, though, his consort would tantrum once or twice a year.  I just could not keep her happy.  She had everything she needed and when I check her, she was always ecstatic.  (After some research, I suspect it was from her like of bins, and was pissed every time a caravan left with their own bins - known bug).

A year or so after her elevation to Duchess Consort, she had a daughter.  I though surely carrying around the little Marquessa would keep her happy.  It didn't last.  Late in the winter, she was in her room and began a tantrum.  I didn't think she was doing anything until I started seeing blood sprays.

I was mortified.  She was bashing her baby over the bedpost.  It didn't take long for the baby to expire, and I ordered the Duchess locked in her room.  She died in the Spring of the following year.  In one corner of her tomb is a second, smaller coffin.

After the baby had died, I followed the Duke around a bit to see if this was the beginning of the end.  He walked out of his quarters, went to the dining room, had a drink, and then threw a party in the statue garden.  I guess he couldn't stand her moodiness.

Its been about 10 years since then and we've never fallen back down below the population cap (140 in this fort), so there's been no new immigrants.  He's remained a happy bachelor.

[Jetman123]

Duke's wife: *thwak, thwak, thwak* DIE! DIE YOU ARMOK-BLASTED BEDPOST-Is that blood? Oh my god, what have I d-DIE! DIEEEEEE! *thwak, thwak, thwak*

[Avelon]

This thread is full to the brim with Win. I don't have anything truly worthy of this thread, which is in itself a tragedy of such severity that it brings a tear to my eye.

More!

[Ubersoldat]

An unlucky dwarf was caught outside during a goblin ambush. He had a pet mule, which was indoors at the time. The mule would constantly wander out to where it's master had died, and basically mope around there every day.

Eventually, I ordered the mule to be butchered, along with all those damn stray puppies and kittens I had wandering around.

In the same fort, which was right on top of a chasm, I discovered the destructive power of giant bats (I seem to recall around 3-4 dwarves dying from an early giant bat attack), and also the paralyzing power of cave spider bites (that poor kid spent the rest of his days falling unconscious randomly, too bad you can't cure those.)


Oh, also, in a more recent fort, I think I caused a female dwarf to have a miscarriage by dropping her into a spiked pit. She went melancholy, and I took pity on her by flicking the lever controlling the spikes a few times.

That one made me feel bad enough, that I ordered the Executioner well, Executioned. Then I abandoned the fort.

[Tiler]

When I actually bothered to check the personality of my military dwarves and the status of their families.

All had lost at least around three close friends, one familily member, and quite a few had lost their spouse. Even worse, there were cases where soldiers would tantrum after losing their loved ones, and have to be put down by the nearby close friends and family members. I'm amazed that my army didn't go totally insane during the early battles, before they all 'gained' the 'doesn't care about anything' tag.

[Moron]

Most depressing...

Playing DF on a quad core machine and seeing 3 cores sitting virtually idle.

[lontrus]

a wife, a grower, of one of my married couples(owners of a Great Bedroom) went into a strange mood and ended up insane - the dwarves just wouldnt eat prepared turtles when there was so much lavishly prepared meals in storage.
what made it all tragic was the family had 2 offspring, a baby and a child.
when she finally died of thirst the child and baby both became very unhappy with "losing a mother to tragedy" and "witnessing death".
it happened near fortress main entrance and meeting zone... when the death message came i started to look for the corpse but could not find it. so looking for the children i found both had wandered out of the gate with other dwarves just running by each busy with their own stuff. the child was carrying her dead mother and was going upstreems a brook... from where the goblins and kobolds usually come from. the baby was much slower and was still hovering near the entrance but also well out of the fortress. now i had a brilliant idea to check the father(certainly he was on his way to save the children)... who was sleeping in the family Great Bedroom.

luckily no goblins appeared and the child returned to the fortress after dropping the corpse in the brook. today both children are well and safe in the meeting area.
oh the first thing the father did when he finally woke was go about the fortress collecting what i think were his late wifes clothes

[Goldsie]

I had a couple of Hunters and their retinues of wardogs wandering around the edge of the map, doing what hunters do best, when a gobbo seige arrived, 15 axegoblins, lead by a macelord staring him in the face. The area they were in was surrounded by cliffs and the only way back to the fortress was a single stairway... on the other side of teh goblin seige. Gobblins, seeing an easy target charged after the pair of hunters, they fired two shots, then fled leaving their three wardogs to cover their tracks. The wardogs attacked, were promptly decimated and left the hunters pinned against the cliffs, fireing random bolts at the horde, surrounded by all 18 of the wardogs puppys!. The resultant shower of legs, heads and lower bodys left the surrounding area a nice shade of red. Now this battle wasn't a complete loss, I think the hunters did bruise one of the goblins fourth right fingers...


And in the same fort, I had a resident Giant Egle that had a hobby of knocking unsuspecting dwarves off nearby cliffs and watching them go splat. Then waiting for the next dwarf to go after those *Rope Reed Trousers*

And VeryBadThingsDownHere, excellent quote on the all four limbs thing  , now my new Sig

[Ascii Kid]

Well, here's one that just happened:

Ase Fortressfull was born in 638 and lived with his parents as there only son.  He was a typical human 15 year old, getting drunk with the mayor in the town hall.  That is, of course, when some jackass arrived in town and convinced him to tag along on some hair-brained Giant killing quest the Mayor drunkenly cooked up. 
He was ripped apart by Giant Cave Swallows while the Jackass was pounded flat by the Noseless Giant.

Mothers don't let you babies grow up to be Mega-Slayers.    =->

[Possessed]

My wrestler just lay wounded for a year.
When she got out of bed i thought i'd let her practice her skills by hunting a little. First thing she does is get herself killed by a camel.





Fuck.

[ChazzyBurger]

During the second year of my only good fortress (one of two to date) there was a massive goblin ambush, 10-15 of them. I only had one squad of 7 wrestlers in my entire fortress, and the caravans were months away, and so I kept them inside, unfortunatly, a woodcutter was left outside and was killed

Unfortunatly, I left the food stockpile outside, and my dwarves were begining to starve and booze was getting hard to come by. So, as a desperate attempt to live, I sent my squad outside.

only one went out, the other 6 were drinking their hearts out 

His name was Edem Melbilónul, the most experianced of my entire squad. and infront of him were 14 goblin wrestlers and a single hammergoblin.

when the hammergoblin was first, I just went, "Shit, he's dead"

but he managed to kill him, I don't know how, and I wondered if he got any wounds. With that, I found he was actually a hammerman, he was an immigrant, and told him to pick up a hammer.

with that, he preceded to attack the main group, killing most of them, at least 7, suffering lots of wounds, most noticably red to his head, spine and lower body. With that, the rest of the squad came out and finished off the rest of the goblins

I was speechless.

They carried the war hero (or as I called him) to a bed for recovery, where he rested for over a year, before being struck with melaconey (or however you spell it, you know, when your dwarves get REALLY upset) with that he stopped resting and got out of bed, collapsing every 2nd step. I thought he'd stop eventually.

Then I got the announcement "Edem Melbilónul has drowned" he'd jumped in the moat. He got the best burial room I could give him.

A few months later his wife gave birth to girl, who, along with their son and other daughter, would never see their father again.

His eldest daughter is now a spearwoman in the dwarven army

and i've just realised that she has a dull yellow wound to her brain...

what an unlucky family

[sorbius]

I had a dwarf catch himself and a bunch of stuff on fire when he went to bury a dwarf who had died in the magma pumping accident.  I learned after that to only build the coffins once the body stops smoking...