Hello, everyone. SO delightful to finally talk with all of you, for a change.
Anyway, I've been playing DF for several weeks now, and I've enjoyed scratching into the earth while juggling my lovably insane midgets.
A slight conundrum-or, well, issue of colossal scale- has driven me to finally creating a Bay 12 account. You see, I appear to have embarked in what I believe, based on the information I've seen on these forums, a demonic fortress: resplendant in eerie glowing pits and submerged on a strange pocket within the magma sea, I will simply call it Hell... for I have very little experience with DF, having played, again, only a few weeks.
So, anyway....
My embark consisted of a simple volcano in the middle of a red sand desert; normally I wouldn't pursue such a start without a river, but it was one of the few desert volcanoes I had found. I had felt Fate had smiled upon me, for there was a single aquifer layer I felt I might be able to exploit to create a desert oasis of obsidian spires and Viennan channels. As it finally loaded, I commenced my standard procedure of examining the features of my embark. I noted with a sigh that the snow glitch had occurred once again, and I was panned to a cavern collapse message near the volcano's portion of the screen; and I also looked slightly to the north to find with delight that the volcano had a caldera that ended within the middle of the hill. Looking around once more, I felt satisfied with the potential of this embark for me to begin my first real fort... until I happened across a great hole in the northeastern portion of the map.
I looked into this pit and felt shock as I passed by the 3 cavern layers, until finally reaching the magma sea I've heard so much about. I reached a structure of slade even further downwards, and there I saw labels of "Eerie Glowing Pit" mext to my wagon.
AT this point, I was dumbfounded. So I simply pressed resume, and the game froze for about a minute....
When it began again, I received a popup of horrifying screams from below or something like that, and a demon popped out of nowhere, moving at about 0.1 frames per second towards my hapless dwarves.
...What now?