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[Aurastorm]

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-8700-helmshead

Under an hour ago now, this fort was a prosperous land with the burden of over 197 dwarves. Shortly after the breakthrough into a cavern and some attacks from cave crocodiles, the large majority of dwarves had died of blood loss. I'm guessing it's a deadly disease or something that's going around my fort, but could someone clear up what's going on? (The diagnostician was about to diagnose a patient with the heavy bleeding but then died, too)

[Rex_Nex]

Ah, and unfortunate bug. You have probably encountered something that spews out mist/dust/etc that can cover your dwarves. Unfortunatly, as of now, these dwarves have a hell of a time removing this covering, thereby infecting all the dwarves he comes in contact with. Hurry, quarantine the population!

[Aurastorm]

What i don't get however is how that had occured in the first place; My dwarves have never encountered a forgotten beast, megabeast, titan or demon which could do such a thing. The only creature i can imagine that would infect my dwarves in such a way would be a cave spider but their bite does nothing like what's happening to my dwarves. Until a cure can be found, a quarantine has been imposed on all dwarves currently residing in their room

[Tarran]

...Wow, it's almost a literal line of blood.

Maybe it's the acid rain bug?

[darkflagrance]

Why were so many dwarves outside and in a line when they decided to bleed to death?

[Aurastorm]

It's rained several times before and this has never happened.

And they all attempted to carry eachother's corpses to the cremation pit, only to find that they would die of blood loss too

EDIT:

A crack team of gorilla bodyguards just ripped off a besekering dwarf's head. It seems that there may be some good that comes from this mess.

[tastypaste]

Did you get any messages before you broke into the cavern about subterranean civilizations fighting Forgotten Beasts? Sometimes they appear early and fight with lizardman civs or caveswallow men. Perhaps its poisonous dust was spilled during the fight?

[Kidiri]

It's rained several times before and this has never happened.

And they all attempted to carry eachother's corpses to the cremation pit, only to find that they would die of blood loss too

EDIT:

A crack team of guerilla bodyguards just ripped off a besekering dwarf's head. It seems that there may be some good that comes from this mess.

Sounds nasty. And my best guess is the acid rain. also, what's with the humongous pit going down?

[Satarus]

Did you have wet dwarves walking on or near warm stone (warm from magma)?  That currently is kinda buggy causing them to be boiled to death.

[Brightgalrs]

It happened to me too, same scenario: workers on the surface, it rains, they mysteriously die then it starts spreading when everyone goes to pick up their belongings. It is probably the rain bug.

[Aurastorm]

Did you have wet dwarves walking on or near warm stone (warm from magma)?  That currently is kinda buggy causing them to be boiled to death.

Yeah i recently opened up the magma flood chamber, all dwarves were ordered to haul stones out of the pit and dump them, and i thought they were dying very similar deaths to those who boil to death. Dang. I can't believe i didn't link them together, looks like it isn't some mystical cavern virus then; just a horrific and brutal bug.

And the humongous pit is the limb explosion chamber. Many kittens have found their limbs severed in the death hole.

[Quatch]

Like the irrigation bug, the magma-boil at a distance is one I hope never gets fixed   Goblin boiling traps are awesome.

Its only confusing because you have been taught to consider danger only in the same tile, not at range. Magma is hot!

[Raviaric]

Maybe it's the acid rain bug?

Some stay dry and others feel the pain.

[Talith]

Maybe it's the acid rain bug?

Some stay dry and others feel the pain.

You are confusing chocolate rain with acid rain.

[tomas1297]

I'm now inspired to make a fortress,half of which is diseased and lives in the caverns and the other half would be rich and live luxuriously in engraved mountain halls.Doing this though...