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[manored]

Its quantum mechanics man, the baby stays alive and death until you decide to do something about it, then it resolves to the most likely

[taf_esra]

Picture this: Urist McWrestler and Urist McHammerdude just staved off a goblin ambush (my other 13 champions decided it would be a good time to projectile vomit all over the trade depot).Then all of a sudden: BAM a dragon appears 15 tiles away from my bridge. I order dwarfs to stay indoors and prayed the two heros would make it back before I pulled the lever that would bring up the bridge (I know I probably could have killed the dragon with the 15 dwarfs but I didn't want any injuries and just wanted to kill him with my crossbowmen). Well my wrestler made it, but McHammerdude and some poor woodcutter didn't. They both fell and drowned just as the dragon was 3 tiles away. I gave him the best damn funeral a dwarf could get.

P.S. One of the goblins they killed was named "secretiveincest". I lol'd heartily

[taf_esra]

Double post. my bad.

[Jim Groovester]

In one of my forts, I had a lot of mining accidents involving the deaths of several legendary miners, and for that fort I abandoned my habit of save scumming.

So, as I'm trying to dam the shortest underground river with a chunk of ruck above it, I make sure that no one is around who would fall into the chasm, and dig the final piece. Except, that the large rock chunk doesn't fall. It's being mysteriously supported by an up stair case that doesn't even have anything above it. So I order the miner to remove that.

Immediately the chunk falls, crushing another of my legendary miners underneath it. Unfortunately, I didn't check for nearby dwarves. Several fisherdwarves, some carrying children, and a few champions filling their waterskins were knocked out by the cave in, and fell into the chasm.

I didn't really feel sad about it. Apparently, if you don't have any attachments to your dwarves, then you don't care what happens to them. This opinion might have been influenced by losing several of my original seven to the aforementioned mining accidents or failed moods.

[catoblepas]

I just witnessed a werewolf get strangled to death by children. Is there anything left in this game capable of surprising me?

[Flaede]

I just witnessed a werewolf get strangled to death by children. Is there anything left in this game capable of surprising me?

leave enough bones around the entrance to your fortress and all the "bonecarn" predators take care of themselves.

[Pixelfish]

I was attacked by a dragon tonight...

A 2 legged dragon. It apparently had both of them torn off shortly after being born.

Since it had been in constant pain its entire life it had no stats. It showed up and fell unconcious, and laid on the road rolling around in torment for 4 months till I put it out of its misery.

[magic dwarf]

I just started a fortress, between the wolves, imps and random drowning, I managed to get down to 3 of my original 7, all three were as unhappy as could be cause everyone died, 2 of them get married which brings there spirits up, and the third goes melancolly, the married couple is the only reason my fort was able to pull it through the next few weeks until 25 migrants arrive

[DisembodiedFoot]

Hello all; this is my first post

I drafted a couple of peasants, armored them up and set them to wrestling. About three quarters of the way to champion one of the two gave birth to the first baby dwarf my fort ever had. Some time later during an ambush the baby dies, apparently from being used as a shield. Its mother must have gone crazy because she keeps canceling sparring sessions because she's looking for her dead kid.

[brainfire]

I draft a new peasant and tell him to spar.

One second into sparring he's down and knocked out- yup, he has a brain injury.

Within five minutes, kobold ambush. I send my military in, and he dies.

So much for a new life at the frontier

(This is in a civ that's been almost entirely wiped out by goblins and elves, and is currently at war with the elves. Traders brought leather armor with an image of elves and dwarves on it in tin. The elves are massacring the dwarves.)

[andrei901]

1) I got a soaper, and i told him to hunt, hoping he would get executed by a crocodile or something- He punches the croc in the head, knocks it out, eventually manages to punch it to death, then goes to the nearest pond and commits suicide.

2) a legless elite hammergoblin vs. 17 Legendary Wrestler/Hammerdwarves. half of the hammerdwarves had artifact goblin bone hammers.

[manored]

In adventure mode a peasant snatched my sword from my hands and killed me with it... bastard

[woose1]

In adventure mode a peasant snatched my sword from my hands and killed me with it... bastard

In adventure mode a peasant took out the sword I had stuck in his guts and chopped my head off with it.... then he bled to death.

[Berrylee]

Oh god.

My bucket brigade has been building a tall tower of ice for some time now. The Queen is living happily on the 20th z-level in her engraved ice chambers, and the base of the tower is on a small hill. Come mid-summer, I'm looking over the magma forges under the hill and suddenly see "A sculpture of Urist McEngraver has melted!" and "The Queen has died after colliding with an obstacle!". I go up the z-levels, and sure enough, only a few blocks of ice remain of the tower. Water is running down the hill everywhere, and in it there are streams of blood. The queen's limbs and her severed head are floating around in the happily flowing water, leaving trails of red.

I wonder if I abandon now and go back to the fort as an adventurer I can recover her head and bash enemies with it or throw it through their kidneys.

Weird though, I was almost positive that ice does not melt in this biome and think I even had some test blocks outside in the sun for a while. It was on the edge of another biome, however.

[hyperbox]

I have a fortress with a massive chasm open to the surface, out of which a steady trickle of batmen and other random critters appears. Starting off, I try to keep my dwarves indoors as much as possible, but while trying to build a trade depot one of my miners is attacked by a batman. He takes a swing at it with his pick, which gets stuck in the batman, and runs. The batman stumbles around outside my fortress falling unconscious every couple steps for a few days, scaring dwarves and cats. A merchant caravan comes through and kills him. The miner gets his pick back, and years later the batman's skull becomes an artifact, and his bones become practice bolts.