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[Trelack]

In my current fortress a Baron came with his Baroness consort. Sadly the Baron could not handle the lack of attention from the other dwarfs who only seemed to be interested in surviving and building a monumental castle rather than catering to the demands of nobility, so he committed suicide. A few months later his widowed wife gave birth to a son, who shall never know his father. Also his mother might pull the wrong lever once he learns to walk....

[Dwarmin]

Tragedy....One of my Dwarfs got her upper body mangled by a fireball, and i drafted her husband into the military. For 10 years it never healed, and he visited her every day. Until we released the Demons, the husband got his hand ripped off by a frog demon, and he was laid in the same bed, where he died for lack of sleep. The wife went crazy and lept into the river...leaving their only child an orphan.

[pushy]

After saying quite proudly last night that I'd never killed a fire imp, I watched in horror early this morning as some dogs chased a kobold past the caldera on the map, only for one dog to continue chasing the kobold (it escaped but the dog bumped into another one that it killed while chasing it), while the rest of the dogs got distracted and tore all four fire imps to pieces Damned karma...

[Derakon]

Tragedy....One of my Dwarfs got her upper body mangled by a fireball, and i drafted her husband into the military. For 10 years it never healed, and he visited her every day. Until we released the Demons, the husband got his hand ripped off by a frog demon, and he was laid in the same bed, where he died for lack of sleep. The wife went crazy and lept into the river...leaving their only child an orphan.

You might want to report this one as a bug.

[GrimmSweeper]

A word of caution, his sleeplessness may be due to his hand missing (phantom pain!) rather than trying to sleep in the same bed as another. I've had a dwarf injured, resting his injuries while another slept in the same bed. It can happen! =)

[Strangething]

I had a baby get decapitated by a goblin axman. The goblin finished off the mother soon after.  I feel responsible, since I drafted the mother without realizing she was carrying a kid around. First child born in my fortress, too.

Then there was the dwarf who lost an eye to a goblin arrow. The pain made him pass out at random. So I tried to train him up until he had the toughness to withstand the pain. I put a screw pump exercise machine in his bedroom, and turned off every other task.  He became very agile, but not tough at all. Then, for unknown reasons, the decided to hike all the way down to the underground river to work the pump in in the underground forest project. After some pumping, he passed out and fell in the river. He died before I could get an emergency stairway mining team down all those z-levels.

[Asehujiko]

I modded for a bit and somehow got the temp damage tags messed up. So during winter, all my dwarves will start taking miniscule ammounts of cold damage, causing them to bleed all over the place. Most of the time they heal faster then they get hurt but their spines and brains don't so after 2-3 years they all start passing out all the time and generaly be miserable from their injuries, causing them to trantum, faint, trantum, faint etc... untill they die.

[Quiller]

I had one guy who was a planter who got caught outside during a goblin raid or something.  He wound up perfectly fine, except for missing both of his eyes.  After the constant barrage of dwarfy mcdwarf has cancelled get seed: unconscious got annoying, and I realized that at best he was going to mess up my stockpiles, I took him off farming duty and stuck him on royal guard.  The dwarfy mcdwarf has cancelled follow dungeon keeper: unconscious messages were much less frequent.  He eventually died, but I forget how, thirst maybe, since he was always cancelling get drink.  My initial thought with him was that he was going unconscious everytime he accidentally smacked into something, but I gather now it was just pain of his injury.  Hopefully it will eventually be coded that chronic injuries increase toughness or else become less painful over time.  It would be cool to have more functional blind dwarves.

[Mephansteras]

Back in one of the many forts that I started and abandoned during modding, I had a truly heroic dwarf. His name was Sunhammer, and in the evil swamp that fortress was in he was truly a bright spot. Always first to the defense of the fort whenever monsters showed up. I'd see Werewolves or Harpies getting close to my civilians, and send out the military. He had countless kills to his name (I really wished I had kill counters then! Glad to see they'll be in the next release), including quite a few Werewolves and Ogres. Then, during a siege by some rather nasty enemies I'd modded in, he was killed. Not even by a Spearmaster or anything, just some normal swordsmen. Despite the fact they he died in battle, as a true warrior should, I was really sad about that. And, having accomplished my modding goals for that fort, I ended up wiping the world and starting anew with my next batch of changes.

More recently, I was depressed at seeing a weaponsmith go into a strange mood...and realized that it was a possession. *sigh* I almost never get metalsmiths to go into moods. Even worse, my current fort has had 6/7 moods be possessions, and the one fey mood was just a woodcrafter. Yay. And no metalsmith moods there yet at all.

[Ancient Whale]

I had a dwarf go melancholy because of a failed mood. He probably needed shells or something. Anyway, he made his way to a cliff I had been digging out inexpertly. I had my miners pull back for a moment in respect. And so he threw himself off the(not very high, about 3 z-levels) cliff and smacked into the ground...
... and survived. I have rarely seen so many broken and mangled bodyparts on one dwarf. And so the epic failure crawled off, falling unconscious twice for every square he moved and finally after what was probably a few months, he arrived at the top of the cliff again and finished what he started...

[Kronos]

Might as well contribute my most depressing sight: in my oldest fortress (some 7 years), I was building a gigantic arena (spectator level, above that a balcony level, two empty levels below and finally the arena floor level, all about 30x15 squares). Due to being new to the excavating thing, I had finished the four lower floors before working on the balcony floor, and, due to even more newbiness ended up splitting the 'to-be-excavated' floor in half and almost completely disconnecting it from any support. I managed to collapse one half without casualties, but the other half took my legendary miner (also one of the founders) down with it. Still, he had a glorious death, I suppose, riding a massive chunk of rock down a four z-level drop...
Some time later, a baby (his, I think) commited suicide by jumping into the arena. The first match in the Underworld Colosseum was between four goblins and two fire imps. The goblins ran to the edges of the arena and burned.

[Brdn666]

About 15 goblins showed up with iron spears and shields. I was very scared. When they showed up on one of my bridges, which was 2z's above a magma pipe, i was worried. My lever to raise the bridge is in a gate house. The dwarves had to travel outside to pull the lever. Which they couldn't cause i blocked it for the safety of the fort. My military contained a expert wrestler squad of 5 (minus 2, who are sleeping...Damn dwarf-hippies) and a marksdwarf squad of 3. (minus 2..Hippies) The wrestlers killed one spearless goblin and then promptly fell off to a firey death. My markdwarf decided to leave his bolts behind the forbidden door. He killed all the goblins singlehanded. When he was standing there, the other dwarves found the lever and launched their hero across the map...into the river. He didn't get the only royal mausoleum in the whole place (artifact coffin). Damn hungry carp...



Another sad thing was when, later on in the same fort, my ultra-mighty, superdwarvenly though, perfectly agile, very strong miner/clerk literally killed every one in the fort.. All 87 of them, while they where cleaning up the battle or sleeping. Carp bit off his head later, when he was eating all of 4000 plump helmets i had stored.
   

[Flame11235]

Is it bad that this thread is making me laugh so much?

[Tylui]

The goblins ran to the edges of the arena and burned.

Aw jeez... How sad.


On a more serious note:

One time(in the fort I have going now), I was too stupid to realized that a cave-in was going to happen, and about 4 or 5 years after founding the fort, one of my founders/legendary miners killed himself because I designated the wrong block of wall. >.<

[Zsinj]

A fortress of 78 dwarves hadn't quite gotten around to setting up proper defences, and were still working mostly outside 

Several goblin ambushes later (in a short space of time), EVERYONE was dead or dying, bodies and body parts strewn everywhere, except for the uberlegendary miner/mayor, a carpenter and two children. They were only saved by the timely appearance of a dwarven caravan, which drove the current goblins off but all died of their injuries. Oh and the Dungeon Master noble, who didn't say had gone melancholy but shortly died of hunger despite seeming fine. Obviously, after seeing pretty much everyone they have ever known and/or loved being killed, they were a little upset and had a bit of a tantrum fest.

A couple of years (and many tantrums) later, only the mayor had survived, and being a stubborn dwarf, would not abandon the fortress to the wilds and the prowling goblins, so he quickly dug channels in all the strategic places and built a nice bachelor's apartment - quickly getting over the tragedy of the past by having 400 units of booze all to himself and laughing as elven caravans were swiftly slaughtered by goblin ambushes almost as soon as they appeared.

After a few seasons of this, new immigrants arrived and it was a mad dash to lower the main bridge and get as many dwarves as possible across while sending a few brave souls to die, leading off the two goblin ambushes that appeared. This happened again a bit later and a few immigrants were saved, but outside of the fortress is still strewn with dwarven bodies and possessions. Not as bad as the 77 corpse carnage of '69 though.

There are enough dwarves now that the fort should be able to get back on its feet, and one day, maybe one day, the dwarves will be brave and strong enough to go back into the wilds and fight off those sneaky goblins, with the legendary mayor (now simply referred to as "The Founder") leading the charge...