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[Alex Encandar]

I think my most screwed survivors were in a fortress that I was starting on an ocean side, but steep mountain area (filled in ^). Their wagon began on the edge of a cliff sitting on ice. Apparently this ocean froze...which was wierd. Anyways it immediatly unfroze and all my dwarves and supplies were flushed out to sea, 3 survived on a cliff ledge they washed onto but without a pick they had no way of reach food, water, anything.

Now THIS is what we were talking about!

I think it only would've been better if eventually they turned to canabalism but alas I abandoned that fort after the first caravan came and was unable to reach them.

A skeletal giant eagle would have worked just as well.

Well that too, although if I recall correctly there was a giant eagle. I know there were sea creatures from sting rays to sharks.

[scienceIswear]

Well, due to stupidity (both my own and the dwarves), 3 Forgotten Beasts are sealed INSIDE the fort and caverns. Only 1 dwarf made it out. No shrubs, water or plants. One barrel of sewer brew. Merchants are a long time off...

[Dunamisdeos]

Ok, I've got this.

Once upon a time in Inchbolt. A simultaneous goblin siege and HFS breach broke the military (which ended up stopping the clowns, but leaving too few to stop the siege) and/or clogged the traps. The dwarves were running about in the street, Trolls wandering the halls, slaughter left and right, etc etc.

Luckily, Inchbolt was prepared. The King, the Mayor, the remaining military consisting of one uninjured Dabbling Marksdwarf Recruit, their children, and anyone else who could get to the burrow in time ran to the King's compound. It was equipped vault-style with a food and booze stockpile complete with tiny farm, dining room, and dormitory. There was even a tiny hospital. All in all, there were about 20ish dwarves including the kids, living in an area built for about 60 to survive until it was safe to come out. Crisis averted.

Then, madness 

The Mayor went berserk. He was contained in the King's throne room initially. But over the course of time (from late autumn till spring autosave, about 3 months give or take) he slowly broke down each and every door and slew those therein piecemeal. The last dwarven children holed up in the bridge-secured treasure vault, and starved surrounded by artifacts and masterwork crafts. THE END.

[Lida_Brainbroken]

The last post was three years ago.  Necromancing ingame = good.  Necromancing in forum = bad.
In the future, please pay attention to dates.

...or start a new thread.

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

I once had a guy who was killed by a giant corkscrew. Can't get more screwed than that.

[Vox]

I once had a guy who was killed by a giant corkscrew. Can't get more screwed than that.

What a twisted way to die.

[Ianflow]

Two dwarves who were in the demon siege
Like 30 others in the fort, they became bedridden
Not because they had broken spines

But because I had neglected to set up a med bay before
These two had a broken foot each
They were rescued, and layed in bed

Eventually, only 3 dwarves were left
1 fed and watered them
He died trying to get to a food stockpile for himself, thanks to a salt demon

These two dwarves were now in bed, doors unlocked, unable to fend for themselves
A Chef and A Clerk

Here is where irony kicks in
Somehow they became immortal
I say that, because somehow, while in extreme pain, they stopped having any water or food. They were ecstatic, and two seasons in their beds, a caravan comes. It is massacred by one demon. Next season, migrants.
I was going to build supports and crush all my dwarves, because it was lost
The two entry points were blocked by individual demons who kept shooting their extracts

These two dwarves, where their deaths were supposed to come eventually, just kept living
They were still screwed because I gave up on killing them after the migrant wave starved, and then abandoned.

[CaptainLambcake]

you SEARCHED for a thread from 4 years ago to necro?  dedication.

[Lida_Brainbroken]

you SEARCHED for a thread from 4 years ago to necro?  dedication.

I imagine it was buried pretty deep, but he managed to dig it up anyhow...and for such a mediocre comment.  Must be an Elf.

[Possomtail]

I've had a few otherwise healthy dwarves with missing upper bodies.

[Eric Blank]

Some years ago, in the fortress of Lovearmors, I had a dwarf who took what seemed like a very minor injury; he had minor damage to one eye. However, he soon became the most crippled dwarf in the fort, as every once in a while he would flop on his face, unconscious. I guess he was having seizures or something... Many other dwarves had injuries that left them bedridden for the remainder of their lives. Such was the state of the doctoring system at that point in development...

In an even older fort, Finger the Anus of Horses (which I so lovingly named out of spite for the goblins that killed my last fort), there came the day it was to die; the entire population was dead, except a single fisherdwarf. He was completely unharmed, and working diligently, until a goblin ambush showed up. Screwed, was he.

With the advent of functioning heathcare systems, survivors of such poor circumstances are usually better off. However, I did have a couple dwarves who permanently lost the use of both their arms. One of them was a mother, who constantly spammed me about being unable to pickup her baby.

[birdy51]

I had my champions brain smashed by a modded creature from Masterwork.

Suprisingly, Champion Birdwig survived the brain crushing. I didn't get to see him recover though, as the fort was already dying to framerate issues...

Still, Braincrushing is probably not something he would have recovered from!

[Bhargo]

Right foot gone, lower left leg gone, left hand gone, all fingers on right hand broken, right arm cut and bleeding, trailing guts, punctured lung, cut arteries in the chest and neck, fractured skull.

That guy somehow survived, ended up dying of thirst in the hospital about a year later.

Although my favorite, though not too extensive injury, was a guard captain who lost an arm to a cave ogre, and after the fight took it to the refuse pile then continued his training exercise. The guy went on to kill 2 forgotten beasts and a hydra, I guess nobody told him it was his arm he found.

[Valikdu]

I had a dwarf that was missing his brain. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

In fact, he's worse than dead - his brain is gone!

[Dwarvinator]

I have a recent survivor who may fit the criterion.

A kid fell 20 z-levels down a staircase. I'm pretty sure it was because of his unwise deconstruction of a down staircase, at the top of a flight of up/down staircases.

He died, after colliding with an obstacle. The obstacle was another kid, Urist McItriedtocatchhim. Multiple injuries ensued, culminating in a half-year stay in hospital undergoing a string of medical procedures. He's back on his feet, no sensory nerve damage - tough little blighter. He's really screwed now, though...

Because this little incident brought him to the attention of the Draft Board, who have noticed that alongside being tough and 'getting used to tragedy', he also has a sense of duty and respect for authority and tradition.