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[Dunc]

My mayor made some silly mandate for items of nickel, and I just didn't have enough nickel. My legendary weaponsmith was then declared an outlaw. He was pissed, so pissed he tantrumed. He walked into the mayor's quarters (one of my founding seven) and beat her to death. Then when he was arrested he didn't put up a fight, just quietly went to jail.

He died of hunger in prison

I don't know if that's rare or anything but I've never had a noble targeted by someone who failed one of their mandates so I figured I'd post it.

[Leafsnail]

My mayor made some silly mandate for items of nickel, and I just didn't have enough nickel. My legendary weaponsmith was then declared an outlaw. He was pissed, so pissed he tantrumed. He walked into the mayor's quarters (one of my founding seven) and beat her to death. Then when he was arrested he didn't put up a fight, just quietly went to jail.

He died of hunger in prison

I don't know if that's rare or anything but I've never had a noble targeted by someone who failed one of their mandates so I figured I'd post it.

Probably just chance.  Shouldn't have starved in prison unless he was melancholy/ noone bothered to feed him though.

[Byakugan01]

<If i'd known that was going to happen i would have recorded it :\>

Same gos for me and the one time a dragon attacked during a human siege, killing over half or maybe even three-thirds of it before being brought down by horse archers. The best thing? He was injured during world gen, so he did that while periodically going unconscious!

[McSmaster]

In one of my first forts, I had a Mayor who appeared to be getting "friendly" with an Elven trade ambassador in her room. She was having many closed door meetings with him and neglecting her duties as broker. I checked in on her to see what she was up to, and she was sleeping in her bed...with the Elven Ambassador on top of her!

Horror stricken by her fraternizing with the enemy (not to mention the unnatural aspect of her tastes) I at once ordered the captain of the guard and his retinue into her room to witness this deplorable, degrading situation. Dutifully, the guards piled into her room, while she slept on apparently oblivious. The news of the Mayor's perfidy must have spread throughout the fortress faster than a magma fire through a booze stockpile because less than a minute later she was voted OUT of office and replaced as Mayor. Coincidence?

[zchris13]

In one of my first forts, I had a Mayor who appeared to be getting "friendly" with an Elven trade ambassador in her room. She was having many closed door meetings with him and neglecting her duties as broker. I checked in on her to see what she was up to, and she was sleeping in her bed...with the Elven Ambassador on top of her!

Horror stricken by her fraternizing with the enemy (not to mention the unnatural aspect of her tastes) I at once ordered the captain of the guard and his retinue into her room to witness this deplorable, degrading situation. Dutifully, the guards piled into her room, while she slept on apparently oblivious. The news of the Mayor's perfidy must have spread throughout the fortress faster than a magma fire through a booze stockpile because less than a minute later she was voted OUT of office and replaced as Mayor. Coincidence?

In a word, yes.

[Nerserus]

Once every single dwarf woman man and child ( Most if not ALL were legendary socialites ) was killed...By just ONE creature...A chosen one of Armok. The most badass opponent i have ever seen, slaughtered everyone ( I admit we messed him up pretty badly but he got us in the end when a huge tantrum spiral REALLY turned the tides of the battle. ) there wasn't a single square to stand on that was not oqupied by a Dwarven corpse. Hell he still fights in the nearby chasm. Even though he has tons of permanent injuries and lost his sword he ALWAYS wins.

I suppose that's what happens when you really piss off a demon swordmaster chosen by Armok himself for the kicking of Dwarven ass.

[smjjames]

Maybe not a one in a million thing, but I would say certainly lucky. I once had a mining accident happen when my miner was channeling a skylight or something, I forget, and he fell three levels (I believe) splat into the bottom layer which was soil (and probably contributed to his survival), yet he was basically uninjured. I'm pretty sure there was a dwarf shaped crater on the floor where he fell.

[RAM]

It isn't that surprising, dwarves are pretty tough so long as they land head-first...

[smjjames]

lol, true....

[carebear]

It's probably not 'one-in-a-million', but the exact situation doesn't occur all that often so it was quite unique to me and I probably won't get it again.

A cage happened to end up on the edge of a draw bridge, and for some reason nobody wanted to move it. Having heard that opening a retractable bridge while items are on it will make the items fly away, I of course opened the bridge.

When I opened the bridge, the cage flew a few tiles to the north, and landed on top of a groundhog that was walking there, and it got caught.

Cage traps? We don't need no stinkin' cage traps!

[Mephansteras]

That...that is awesome.

Hmm...it's not necessarily useful, but you could probably use that trick to drop a bunch of cages down on enemies from above to catch them. Might be able to get trap-avoid enemies that way...

[Leafsnail]

That...that is awesome.

Hmm...it's not necessarily useful, but you could probably use that trick to drop a bunch of cages down on enemies from above to catch them. Might be able to get trap-avoid enemies that way...

No, you get a team of 10 carpenters.  Then you get them all to make 100 cages each.  Then you dump them all on a retractor.  Then an orc siege comes, and there will be an explosion of cages.  Come to think of it, it would probably trap all the local wildlife too, and overwhelm your animal stockpile.

[Kav]

Ever been totally unprepared for a megabeast?

Got a Dragon very early in this fortress by a river my friend and I go back and forth playing. This was our very first "good" fortress. We did have walls up and an elevated drawbridge. Of which was only in place to protect us from the occasional roaming bands of monkeys we were getting. We were waiting for all the farmers and wood collecting peasants to run in before locking the gates.

The Dragon was closer than we thought.

Suddenly the fields are scorched leaving at least 3 bodies. Seeing what was happening we throw the switch to the drawbridge. We start maneuvering the military into position. Somewhere in the field an infant burns to death. Then we realize we can't find the dragon. I zoom to her from the unit list and find her near the field of scorched peasants....

Unconscious and missing an eye, lying near to an inexplicably(no burnt grass) dead dwarf.

As it turns out the husband of one of the peasants that died, who was also the father of the baby that burned to death shortly thereafter, was a hunter trying to get back underground. He shot the dragon in the eye rendering it unconscious and then ???somehow??? died next to the dragon.

Another 8 peasants ran right past the incapacitated dragon through the back entrance. He gave his life to save them all.

Shortly thereafter we caught the dragon in a cage trap, later tamed her, and now she's on display in the center of the dining hall. I'll note that this fortress still going strong between the two of us.

[zchris13]

Watch out for the bloodlust! She has it!

[AtomicPaperclip]

I had a baby with the unhappy thoughts of a parent dying, witnessing death, and being forced to view the decay of a loved one or whatever. The baby climbed up a ramp and jumped down until it died of thirst

After that, both of the babies parents (who were still alive and well, legendary even) dropped down to unhappy.