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[Skelephant]

Following an unexpected clown invasion, my population has dropped to one. One tiny, insignificant, helpless dwarf walled off in a storage room while the clowns guard the only exit from the fort. The good news is that my lone survivor has access to a pick, and plenty of food (although the booze is running out rather quickly, and the lack of empty barrels means that I can't really brew any more...). I also have a couple of caged animals, none of which are remotely threatening.

What should I have him do, then? I've already tried engraving a history of my fair fortress's fall on the walls of the storage room, but he refuses to make anything but coins and swords...

On a related note, does anyone have advice concerning slate monsters?

[kotekzot]

Blunt is good against rigid material enemies.

[thatkid]

Check to see if you have any seeds.
Then dig your way to some muddy soil WITHOUT giving the clowns access to you.
Then make a craftsdwarf's workshops and set about making a few pots. Use the pots in place of barrels and make some booze.
Or do the craftsdwarf thing first, and then the muddy soil thing.

Create a bunch of massive, intricate underground lair all on your own. Perhaps find a way to build a secret entrance so that some day an adventurer can find your corpse after you die of old age.

[Acperience]

Well as he drinks the booze the barrels will empty so....

Also maybe after a few dozen waves of migrants and traders the demons will be somewhat weakened?

Have him train alone in a danger room until he gains superpowers to avenge everyone.

[Necro910]

Try and find a source of water (Aquifer?) and food. Farm until the migrants eventually kill them all.

[kotekzot]

Try and find a source of water (Aquifer?) and food. Farm until the migrants eventually kill them all.

Death will come sooner than a bunch of migrants manages to kill a couple clowns. And won't migrants stop coming after there've been too many deaths?

[LilSassy]

He needs a hyperbolic danger room

[Girlinhat]

Micromanagement, but forbid all the food and booze.  Only unforbid one piece at a time as he starts to starve or dehydrate.  You can keep him alive much longer if he's slightly dead.  This also makes him more prone to tantrum, however.

Best bet may be to try and drop some stone into the cavern, if you can manage it just-so, you could probably drop natural wall onto part of a cavern, and from there dig down to the cavern and access some mud or something.

[Acperience]

He needs a hyperbolic danger room

I think you're thinking of Hyperbaric

[Oliolli]

1. Dig some blue metal
2. Make masterwork armor and weapons
3. Danger room
4. AVENGE!
5. ? ? ?
6. Profit!!!

[nanomage]

beware ghosts though, be ready to memorialize the dead so that one angry Urist McSadisticCheesemaker doesn't tear away your legs and spoil your plans.
Also. it's not migrants who really may soften up or even kill the demons but caravan guards, and those will keep coming.
If you manage to do that it would make a really great story and your dwarf will surely get his place aside armok in his magma palace!

[Angel Of Death]

Save the game and back up your save, start a farm, work your way up to getting adamantine weapons and armour, and then UNLEASH HELL DORFDOM ON THE CLOWNS!

[Syrup Roast]

What should I have him do, then? I've already tried engraving a history of my fair fortress's fall on the walls of the storage room, but he refuses to make anything but coins and swords...

By the look of those engravings I think that dorf wants to fight back (dem swords) and reclaim the fort's riches (dem coins).

[Askot Bokbondeler]

this is promising. following