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[Ifeno]

Soooo after losing my last game in less than 5 minutes i have decided to dedicated a threat to telling stories of losing in record time.  Here's mine:

I decided to embark in a moderatly dangerous area with a river and a lake in it.  Guess where the cart starts out?  Yep, at the bottom of the lake.  I unpause it, and 5 minutes late all my dorfs are drowned.  Thanks Urist.

[Masked_Hunter1825]

In a minute, I embarked where a roc nest was. Everyone, dead.

[Wannazzaki]

About a minute, badgers ended me with extreme vengeance.

[Crazy Cow]

Strike the earth!
A section of the cavern has collapsed!
Your fortress has crumbled to its end.

[Necro910]

Strike the earth!
A section of the cavern has collapsed!
Your fortress has crumbled to its end.

I smell a pun.

[Moonshadow101]

Well, I probably quit about 80% of all games that I start almost immediately because I don't like the look of the embark site. So... a few seconds.

Aside from that, Skeleton Carp and Zombie Elephant fury have been known to end fortresses rather quickly.

Threads like this are usually looking for a good story, but it's hard to have one good story about something that happens so often.

[jcnorris00]

Back in 40d, on my first embark into an evil biome, my fort was quickly buried under a wave of zombie carp, led by their zombie sturgeon master.  I've done a few evil embarks since then, but never one with a river.

[King DZA]

Probably around two years. I embarked on an area where the entire third layer was an aquifer. I tried making it work, but I couldn't stand the fact that I was only leading more and more dwarves to their demise. 'Twas the only time I've ever abandoned a fortress.

[ZeroSumHappiness]

I used Embark Anywhere to embark in the ocean once three times.  Though games I actually played expecting to survive?  Giant Badgers immediately bum-rush my little beardies, killing them viciously within minutes.

[Loud Whispers]

The shortest?
Well, none of my games have been short. Embarked in a cave, swarmed by crundles, no survivors.
Reclaim, hundreds of bunny meat shields, and DIG DOWN FAST LIKE A TREE.
Flood fortress, reclaim, turn fortress into resevoir.

ALWAYS ADAPT! IT IS THE DORFY WAY!

Come to think of it, most of my fortress's come to an end with something related to things underground. Might explain my paranoia about it and my obsession to start in comepletely flat lands above ground.
My most hopeless fortress would definitely be the antman apocalypse.

[drilltooth]

a month or so. careless designation caused my agricultural canal to merge with the entrance tunnel, right after I ordered everything moved indoors fun fact: dwarves don't care about flooding until the passageway gets more than half full.

[melphel]

One time when I embarked on a glacial volcano, the wagon ended up hanging off of the lip of the volcano.  Also, something wrong must have happened when the area was created since the volcano wall was made of ice near the surface instead of obsidian.  This caused  the nearby ground to melt and collapse simultaneously.  5 of the dwarves were killed by cave in, falling into the volcano, or being encased in ice.  The other two were left with no food or tools, and being a glacier, there was nothing to gather or eat.  The ice wolves got to them before hunger and insanity.

[Loud Whispers]

One time when I embarked on a glacial volcano, the wagon ended up hanging off of the lip of the volcano.  Also, something wrong must have happened when the area was created since the volcano wall was made of ice near the surface instead of obsidian.  This caused  the nearby ground to melt and collapse simultaneously.  5 of the dwarves were killed by cave in, falling into the volcano, or being encased in ice.  The other two were left with no food or tools, and being a glacier, there was nothing to gather or eat.  The ice wolves got to them before hunger and insanity.

Damn, I've heard this happen before.

You shoulda made those last dwarves into wildwarves xD
All hunters... Roaming with the wolves..... Omn omno monomon ommagamaaonmonmagmanom

[Necro910]

One time when I embarked on a glacial volcano, the wagon ended up hanging off of the lip of the volcano.  Also, something wrong must have happened when the area was created since the volcano wall was made of ice near the surface instead of obsidian.  This caused  the nearby ground to melt and collapse simultaneously.  5 of the dwarves were killed by cave in, falling into the volcano, or being encased in ice.  The other two were left with no food or tools, and being a glacier, there was nothing to gather or eat.  The ice wolves got to them before hunger and insanity.

Damn, I've heard this happen before.

You shoulda made those last dwarves into wildwarves xD
All hunters... Roaming with the wolves..... Omn omno monomon ommagamaaonmonmagmanom

Omn omno monomon ommagamaaonmonmagmanom

ommagamaaonmonmagmanom

ommagamaaonmonmagmanom

magma

MAGMAAAAAA

[Loud Whispers]

Your observation skills are grand master.