Oh man, Dorfs. Finally got around to trying out Fortress Mode now that there's a big new version out and I won't have to worry about a big savebreaking update killing my fort.
Fortress 1: Set it up in an evil mountain because I'm rad like that. Less than a week in it starts raining rotten ooze. I set up a meeting hall under a rock overhang but in the scramble everyone is exposed and suffers whole-body blisters, nausea, and bruising. I decide this place is obviously not habitable and abandon for the health of my dorfs.
Fortress 2: Set it up in a regular mountain. I try to create a flat surface several z-levels high for the entrance for future fortifications, but my miners, being dorfs, end up causing a rock shelf to collapse. The expedition leader makes it out okay but the miner/engineer ends up severely injured and almost dies. We manage to set up a rudimentary hospital and the Surgeon General, being a medical genius, confirms that she's fucked up. Broken arm, broken leg, broken hip, several bruised organs but they healed on their own. As we speak he's heading out to clean her wounds. With pond water. The Martians from War of the Worlds knew more about disease prevention than these guys.
EDIT: It's too late, the full diagnosis just came in and it was worse than we feared: She's really fucked up. Horrendous trauma, multiple compound fractures, and infection's already setting in, Probably from the week or so she spent lying on the ground while the carpenter put together a bed. Worse, she was also the engineer, so who's gonna make her traction bench? I don't have high hopes for her.