So there I was, congratulating myself on the smooth running of the fort, when I noticed a yellow flash on the ticker: someone throwing a tantrum. I look at the "a" log:
Unib Betanfath, Child, has been struck down.
Lolor Toralinod, Child, has been struck down.
"Catty" Razzon, Siege Engineer cancels Recover Wounded: Interrupted by Skeletal Giant Eagle
Amost Atiskib, Child has been struck down.
"Furny" Rakustken, Clothier is throwing a tantrum!
Argh! They were attending a party in a small room in the very centre of the fortress. The damn eagle must have used ninja skills to sneak in, past all the fortress guards and royal guards, past a hundred and fifty dwarfs without being noticed in the slightest - there were no other messages about interruption until Catty tried to rescue one of them - and then tore apart the three children in seconds. Their bodies are scattered around in small bits.
Catty dispatched the eagle with an axe to the skull, but the real bad news is that the three were siblings... the only children of poor Furny the Clothier. Who is understandably going mental.
Ninja skills, though. That was the l33735t eagle in the land.
And to add insult to injury it was called "Simpletone".
(edit)
Oh, grim! She went to the scene of the slaughter and picked up Lolor's right lower arm, and was hauling it to the tomb when suddenly she went into a tantrum and hurled it across the fort, leaving a trail of blood.