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[Max White]

That way you don't need to constantly give out spears.

[ungulateman]

But you should always give out spears!

Especially to goblins! Give them to them, straight to the head!

[Some Internet Guy]

When an immortal vomit-blob showed up and wiped out an entire cavern of nasty undead critters, I was feeling pretty smug, because I'd just finished completely sealing off my fortress area from the larger cavern by two-story walls.

Fucker jumped two stories and ate everything. I still don't know what happened, one minute it was halfway across the map sitting on some dead swallowmen and the next someone spots it wandering out of a passageway leading to an unclimbable garbage chute and a steep drop. Can they all fly?

[o_O[WTFace]]

I legitimately lost a fortress to a goblin law giver with poisonous dust.  Some kind of turtle with external ribs.  I thought, sweet maybe I'll get a shell! and then half my military rotted to death and the rest of the fortress followed soon after. 

I knew I should have had an atomsmasher set up in my entrance...

[Max White]

Did you end up with a shell though?!?!?!

[Some Internet Guy]

Which ones are unkillable, anyway. Is it just blobs or anything composed of [stuff]?

[Max White]

Anything that is made from stuff and does not have a lower body and head. Single body part and no inner organs means no way to kill it.

[Some Internet Guy]

Okay, that's not nearly so bad. Awesome.

Actually survivable random disasters in Dwarf Fortress, why I never...

[Ieb]

Ahh, the immortal beasts. I'm pretty sure that's not what was meant to happen though, so later on everything can die from having their vomit or water chopped at enough.

Fourth fort in 2010 here. I've had experiences with 3 immortal beasts. One was sealed due to a lucky incident where it stopped in the hospital room and the place was closed with rock walls, and the two others were made from vomit and clear glass, in that order.

I've adopted the use of DFHack and it's liquid tool in case those immortal beasts show up. It's rather simple.

The military is ordered to attack, and they attack. If the beast is beaten into near oblivion, with all parts either gone or red, that means the military have won. Order a retreat, spawn magma and water near the creature, unpause and the thing is encased in obsidian.

I find it fair enough to use unconventional methods to kill them, since conventional methods have problems.

[Dave Mongoose]

The only thing that would kill it would be 'severing' its body, but maybe that is impossible...

Unkillables should be fixed soon(ish), but until then there's not much you can do.

[Booken the Blue]

This is madness!

Madness?! THIS. IS. DWARF. FORTRESS!

Water creature is full of WIN.

[Max White]

Urist McDiplomat: All we ask is a tribute of quadratics and primitive functions.

Iton McKickass: Quadratics and primitive functions? Well you'll find plenty in there.
*Throws Urist a maths textbook*
*Urist skims through the textbook*

Urist McDiplomat: This is madness!

Iton McKickass: Madness? MADNESS! This...Makes you...SMARTER!
*Kicks the textbook into Urists chest, throwing him back into the pit of death*

[Blackburn]

I can't help but shake the feeling that the unkillable beasts were intended for you to seal away in a part of your fortress.

All the parents can tell their children about the evil blob monster that heroic dwarves fought until it was sealed inside a dark room deep within the fortress...

Sealed evil in a can!

In case of tantrum spiral, break seal.

[moki]

I know my dwarves... if you warn a kid of certain death, it will most certainly pull that lever soon

[Krath]

Urist McSwordsdwarf: There is nothing I cannot cleave!

One Steel Sword and a water blob later...

Urist McSwordsdwarf has been struck down.

And that is why I'm sticking to 40d until the bug fixes for 2010 are out.