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[Oriolous]

I wanted to start a little well project by channeling down to 2 z-levels to try and fill it up with water. Then I realized it would take ages to fill since the brook with infinite water is at the top of the map and I'm at the bottom. ...and I forgot whether or not dorfs can climb back up their channeled holes so I don't have to sacrifice one when I trigger the brook's flooding of the well.

[utunnels]

I wanted to start a little well project by channeling down to 2 z-levels to try and fill it up with water. Then I realized it would take ages to fill since the brook with infinite water is at the top of the map and I'm at the bottom. ...and I forgot whether or not dorfs can climb back up their channeled holes so I don't have to sacrifice one when I trigger the brook's flooding of the well.

You can always leave the tile next to the brook intact before connecting the channel with the brook.
If you are digging underground, you can dig a deep enough hole(stairs) on the ground to delay the water/magma so you miner can escape.

[Detros]

I have just read about blocks in wiki after making walls and fortifications from three sides of like 100x100 area to secure my main entrance. From rough blocks. Few hundreds of granite stones. It took like two years so far.

Well, it seems doing it from granite blocks would a) be much faster (this hauling! even with dozens of wheelbarrows...), b) allow more to be build from less raw material... I was literally mining halls under my fortress to get more granite stones so as to keep the walls in one colour.  @_@

Now I will probably dismantle all of that, process stones to blocks and rebuilt because I am again low on unmined granite and the fourth side is still not completed. Those 40 idle dwarves in 120 head fort will come handy...

Update edit: Less then one year and all walls removed and rebuilt again from blocks. Yay, it really goes much faster then building from rough stones .

[99Hedgehog]

I started a fortress on top of a shrine.
It's inhabitant wasn't particularly pleased with it's new neighbors.

[Goblins]

Well... hehe!

I trapped 20 dwarfs into a cave, waiting for the cave crocodiles to finish them off.  But no!  The cave crocodiles will come up to MY fortress to come and kill us up there, but they won't appear in the cave at all.  So basically they all started to starve and my Butcher started to go insane.  He started to clobber people left and right.  Then a child went insane... and yea.  Always fun to be spammed with those messages!

Then I unlocked the door to my fortress... not a good idea!

So yea, in the end, I had a ton of spamming messages of people calming down from a tantrum, having a tantrum, or being discovered after dying from the insane child/butcher. 

[utunnels]

I embarked on a map with a cave and started a one-dorf only game(kill all but leave one worker). My strategy to explore the cave was simple: building hatches over downward stairs. Everything was well until I noticed my meat stocks raised from 0 to 30 or so. I checked the message it appeared a giant cave spider just visited my fort.

Then I quickly checked the hatch. It was built over an upward stair.

[Knit tie]

Instead of dumping the stone into magma, the dwarves have all decided to dump it into the corpse pit 174 Z-levels up. All of my populace has been lugging rocks up the stairs for the last 10 minutes.

[Urist Tilaturist]

Dumping stone into magma should make more magma, but stone volume has not yet been properly implemented (digging stone should produce an equal volume of boulders and rubble to dump, and putting it in magma should make more magma; what is not to like about more magma?).

[palu]

Had an undead seige. Decided to send my 15 dwarf militia out to deal with them. They were all armed, and had some armor. They readied themselves at the sally port, prepared to defend their dwarven brothers and bravely face the undead menace. They raised their weapons, gave a dwarven battle-yell... and ran at the undead one by one, every one dying. They managed to take out a grand total of one zombie. One. Words fail me. The only survivors were my commander and captain, both sleeping off hangovers in the barracks. They now go, to try to succeed where their brothers could not. Wish them luck.
EDIT: Annnnd... They're dead too.
EDIT: Annnnd... So is my fort.

[Urist McShire]

Not realizing that a Bronze Colossus could easily climb a 1 z-level high wooden wall and moved as quickly as a cat.

My fort lived, but not before 5 dwarves fell.

I guess this means that it's time to update my defenses.

[Rose]

I'm honestly not sure 'climb' is the right word to use here.

Step over might be more appropriate.

[Vyro]

Was getting an Evil embark ready, haven't done it in a while. Genned a custom world, handpicked the profile, embarked in the fanciest place possible.
We were feverishly digging in when lo and behold, there they come! Not undead giant ravens or camels or whatnot. A small herd of bunnies prances in. Living bunnies. No abnormal weather or anything, just bunnies. Bloody small living rodents. I felt the urge to slam my head face first into the laptop.

[gunpowdertea]

Just like at the cave of Caerbannoch!

[99Hedgehog]

Not realizing that a Bronze Colossus could easily climb a 1 z-level high wooden wall and moved as quickly as a cat.

My fort lived, but not before 5 dwarves fell.

I guess this means that it's time to update my defenses.

Can't climb fortifications.
Add them in addition to a pit.

[Urist McHendrix]

Not having a proper finished goods stockpile set up yet and having a kea steal some scepter artifact from my surface bone-arrow crafting workshop which is next to the butcher's... Dorfs at my forts often pick magmology over biology. I blame Toady.

Edit: oh yeah, the time I realized how the first animal from the stockpile list are... Toads.