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[Alabaster]

So...I'm digging out a new fort, got the workshops and bedrooms ready for immagrants, got a farm going, survived my first winter, and churning out stone crafts like any good starting 7 would.  Dwarf caravan comes and goes, still no immagrants. Couple kobold thieves come an go, some successful, some not.  Elf caravan arrives, and of course they bring the usual kobold thief.  Well, then a second appears, and then an entire ambush party of kobold de-stealth in front of my depot.  I quickly draft a squad of 7 out of the total fort population of 7, and summon everyone to the main yard.  I beat em, but lost my cook/farmer/brewer and my jack of all trades dwarf.  How'd they die to kobolds?  Two of the kobolds were bow kobolds, and both were full of arrows.  I like to think the cook and the jack ran offensive blocking for the legendary digger who subsequently crushed both thier skulls.  You know, that slow motion jump in front of the incoming fire yelling "geeeet dooooown" while the other dwarf goes, "noooo doooon't" and then it's too late.

Tell me your "this one time, my starting 7 got messed up before any immigration arrived" stories.

[Fleeb]

I had my whole troop of settlers eaten by hippos once. Embarked right next to their river and they did not take kindly to the disturbance. Shortest lived fortress ever.

[Porpoisepower]

I Once had my entire starting group of seven killed by a single alligator

[Wolfius]

Shortest lived fortress ever.

I be contestin that! Af'er experiancin' m'self th' classic Embark-Atop-Gobbo-Tower(with Bonus Demon) in me first attempt t'lay siege t' them thar demon-lubbers.

Thar be burnin' dwarfy bits everywhere, yarrr.... 

[Eldin]

Shortest lived fortress ever.

I be contestin that! Af'er experiancin' m'self th' classic Embark-Atop-Gobbo-Tower(with Bonus Demon) in me first attempt t'lay siege t' them thar demon-lubbers.

Thar be burnin' dwarfy bits everywhere, yarrr.... 

Well I be contestin' THAT! I had me own brand o' fun embarkin' on an "un'erground" magma pipe.
It was in me bloody cou'tyad!
Dem Fire Imps even got the RUM.

[Jamini]

Back when I was testing the BotG II mod, I had a full-scale Storm Giant siege against a Dracon town.

They didn't stand a chance. Total domination.

[juice]

I Once had my entire starting group of seven killed by a single alligator

This.

[Duke 2.0]

 I seem t' remember a video within the Map Arcives of the 'ol Magma in a Bottomless Pit bug. Embark Anywhere + Nano Fortress + that particular version with that particular glitch = Fortress dieing from raining magma after two seconds.

 Nothing can beat that short of messing with extreme temperatures.

[Doppel]

Skeletal carp.
"OMG, THEY CAN RUN OVER LAND, AAARRRRGHH_MY KNEES_GURGEL_DEATH".
Marauding elephants next to a river filled with hippos.
Chunks flying into the river galore. I like to imagine the elephants spiking the bodies and swinging them into the gaping mouths of the hippos.

Ok, they didn't "nearly" wiped out my starting seven, they utterly demolished them.

[Aqizzar]

I fell victim to a kobold ambush myself in one of my first forts.  I think ambush size is related to the value of stuff they've stolen.

While I was still unpacking the wagon, three kobolds appeared and made off with my anvil.  Seriously.  Which at least gives me the hilarious image of three kobolds hucking over a mountain range, tumbling an anvil the whole way home.

That autumn, seven kobs with spears and shields appeared in my entryway and laid the smackdown.  Three dwarves died instantly and two others were seriously wounded, along with killing all my animals save for one cat.  One dwarf had already died to a fire imp, so one guy was left to care for two hideously maimed friends and a cat with a punctured lung.  That was my first abandon.

[Hypcso]

I had one on a regular glacier. Two Polar Bears decided to raid my starting wagon for.. well.. everything they could guzzle or eat. Attempting to stop this resulted in 6 dead dwarves and one stark raving mad lunatic locked in a hole.

[Tcei]

Not to long ago I had a bugged fortress where clothing had a random chance to combust causing the unfortunate dwarf to freeze to death immediately afterwards. As soon as I embark three of my dwarves die high on a cold mountain. Shortly afterwards my expedition leader tantrums and hurles the whole freaking wagon half way across the map! The other three managed to dig into the mountain while the now former leader strips naked and wonders around the mountain top, babbling to hisself. Shortly after his death the last three tantrum spiral into oblivion.