After reading mrtspence's narrative, I knew I had to start a Chaos fortress. Funny, nearly the same thing happened to me, but instead of dragonfire (which came a little later), my reclaim came from a very unfortunate waterfall placed smack in the middle of my embark.
The forces of Chaos will not be defeated by such a mundane thing!
Well, actually they were. The story of my fort was just one giant Benny Hill plot, so I felt it would be cruel of me not to share.
Part One: Athodgithu, "Brasssins"
CHAOS POP COUNTER:
7The miner I embarked with was quickly swept off while collecting some lumber from across the river. I then lost my carpenter the same way. When I decided to do something about it (WALLS FOR THE WALL GOD), my cultists insisted on building the far edge first, and I lost another of my little chaos lemmings before I noticed and suspend the far walls.
CHAOS POP COUNTER:
4 + 5 migrants (2 of them children) = 9
Well, then my Khornite Champion went ballistic, as the one that was just swept off was her hubby. She brained one of the children from my first migrant wave with one of my dining hall tables (which promptly broke).
She then started to complain that I didn't have
enough tables in my hall.
Unfortunately for me, she was also the incursion leader (high speech skills, go figure), so when the father of the child went to her to complain about the death of his child,
whom she killed, she flew into a rage and punched his arm clean off.
CHAOS POP COUNTER:
4 + 4.75 migrants (
2 1 of them children) = 8.75
Oh goody, I thought, my first tantrum spiral! I usually play DF very, very safe, so this was new (and FUN) for me. I set my remaining cultists to work making slabs to engrave, so I didn't have crazy Chaos ghosts all over the place. That... would probably be when I realized that my only pick was swept off the waterfall. Oh, drat. Well, alright, I guess --
A Juggernaut of Khorne has appeared!--balls.
Keeping in theme with Chaos, I made an above ground town/castle, rather than the Dwarfy death-trap pit I usually went with. I decided that traps were also very un-Chaos, so all I had was a little drawbridge. I gave the order, and instantly turtles, instructing my remaining (unhappy) cultists and warriors that they should turn to farming, at least until the big nasty stops wandering around my forests. Anyway --
Migrant wave number 2!--
seriously?
I winced as the Juggernaut wandered over to my five little migrants and... sniffed at them. He snorted, and promptly walked away.
Yes, it seems that Juggernauts are friendly to Chaos, even when announced as Mega-beasts. I can confirm this now, as it happened in my next fort attempt as well.
CHAOS POP COUNTER:
4 (unhappy) + 4.75 (unhappy)migrants ( 1(unhappy)child) + 5 (slightly terrified)migrants (2 of them children) = 13.75
I lowered the bridge, unforbidded some of the Great Wall... and some spray knocked off one of the new migrants. You just can't get good help these days. I eventually walled everything off, and delt with some Dark Elf trading caravans. I bought a breeding pair of Juggernauts, and one Asur Dragon with a boatload of bone crafts my Khornite Champion-Incursion Leader-Hunter-Butcher-Bone Carver made.
That's when I noticed after flipping through my unit list that someone was drowning.
Oh come on, I walled that off, so I looked and... it was the last migrant that was swept off...
...about three months ago.
Turns out he was a Champion of Slaanesh, and I didn't bother to check, seeing as how he ran VERY FAST to start building the wall, then fell off VERY FAST.
He was quite content. He talked to a loved one recently. He admired a nice waterfall lately.
He was caught in the rain recently. (Really now?)
Apparently, when falling off of a waterfall, you're not killed by the impact, but rather the drowning that follows it. Champions have NO_SLEEP, NO_EAT, NO_DRINK, etc tags.
End of Part One.
(This was typed up in a little bit of a hurry, breaks between lectures and what all, I'll be coming back to fill in some missing names when I get back to my home computer)
Oh, yeah, this mod compilation has not only renewed my interest in DF, but actually got me over my fear of raw editing. Thank you for all your hard work!
(Edit: A few corrections for legibility)