okay, i rarely post on this forum, or any forum for that matter, so this is a bit of a treat for me.
I had diverted the cave river to the map edge on a treeless map where there was soil, in the hopes of terraforming that area into a forest.
I even put fortifications up to keep cave-monsters out.... but I must have missed a gap, cause two snakemen and a giant olm were on the surface, far away from my dwarves... I thought nothing of them....
Untill i ran out of booze for lack of barrels...and suddenly my dwarves were drinking from the diverted river. I set up my military close to the drinking zone in case they got too close. Soon later the snakemen chased a mountain goat into my civvies, killing two before the military could get there, and losing one recruit. Okay, I thought, threat over... a giant olm won't do much, and hes just chasing some gremlin around the other side of the map.... oh how I was wrong.
The olm chases the little bastard right to the route between my fort and the watering hole, sending civvies into a blind panic.... before the military got there, there were several dead dwarfs and I zerg rushed them with every nearby dwarf.... it killed three miners, one legendary, two masons, and injured three other dwarves before being overwhelmed by my (slow) military which finally showed up...
In a map with no wood for beds, the injured are laying where they fell, screaming in agony and passing out to the pain for some sweet unconsciousness.... im just waiting for the tantrum spiral.....