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[GreatWyrmGold]

Recently, I breached a cavern. I decided to breach an underground lake I had found.
The "muddy stone" was actually by and aquifer. And it was above my bedrooms. Thank Armok that the doors were closed.

[FrisianDude]

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I wanted my miners to make a pond-to-be a bit deeper, but apparently, there was an aquifer below. One of the poor miners, Thikud Idenlaltur, had just become legendary but now he got caught in aquifer water. And it was freezing. He was encased in a block of ice and is now my first, on this fortress, casualty. I wish I could assign a tomb to him, just to honour him, even though I don't have his body.

Oh, it does count as if he's buried. Good. I'll remove the bed from his room and place a statue instead.

New fortress; I managed to get another miner encased in ice. This time I don't know which room was his. And this time it wasn't due to an aquifer, but because I wanted to make a channel a bit deeper and wider. Not sure how he managed to get in the water before it froze, but he died anyway.

[Horizon9]

Hoping my traps will hold off the goblin ambush after they slaughtered my military, only to realize that I forgot to link the pressure plates to my spikes.
I just caved in my forehead.

[Soapalope]

Right.
Spawn.
Send dwarves on orders.
Fisherman walks to nearby riverbank to catch some fish.
'An alligator has attacked!'
I press the look button, and look at the area.
'The hand of  something-somethingson'
'Alligator'
'Pool of blood'
'Pool of blood'
'Pool of blood'

Just how much blood do dwarves have?

[bremarv]

just noticed my Milita commander is 'Leading Biting Demonstration' to the new axedwarfs   
just what they need to stay alive

[Musashi]

just noticed my Milita commander is 'Leading Biting Demonstration' to the new axedwarfs   
just what they need to stay alive

Hey, don't underestimate biting! From experience, once a dwarf manages to keep their grip on something and shake a limb, it will almost certainly sever arteries or nerves, and the smaller parts, like toes or ears, are very likely to get torn off and contribute to the blood loss!

[Stoup]

But from a training standpoint, you've got a bunch of dwarves standing around... biting things. .-.

[Jacob/Lee]

I can just imagine the demonstration...
"And remember troops, you must turn your head 45 degrees to the right when trying to bite an arm, and you must bite with your front teeth first, and shake left and right to tear off smaller parts.."

[Musashi]

... well, yeah.

On topic: why the frig is the human diplomat in the water reservoir of the hospital well? There was a ramp leading to it that I neglected to get rid of, but... why the hell is she taking a bath in 6/7 deep water? It's not even clean! It's stagnant! And now she's stagnating there, too! And I need that well to drown all the paraplegic patients once the normal ones are done healing! I can't have a human corpse in that one well!

[Jacob/Lee]

Is the human diplomat actually human?

[Musashi]

Is the human diplomat actually human?

Last time I checked, yes. I have a law-giver in my well, and her name's not Sadako, nor is she dead. Yet.

[Saetar33]

Going into a desert with the sole purpose of acquiring giant scorpions and forgetting to set up cage traps.

[AllThingsLive]

Okay, so I have the complete opposite of a facepalm moment here...
So this crazy minotaur guy spawns and runs right into my fortress. I send all my dwarves deeper underground to a room surrounded with traps, except one of my original embark miners ( Legendary ) doesn't quite make it in. He gets gored by the minotaur and thrown on the ground. The minotaur proceeds to punch the hell out of his arms and legs...
Then out of no where, the miner strikes the minotaur in the head, killing it! Such a beast!

[Iados]

One about modding: trying to mod in a new creature, but forgot to insert a 0 in the token used to set creature temperature.

Result: a creature at 1070 U° (instead of 10070), instantly freezing and dieing on spawn. for comparison, absolute zero is 9508 U°

/EPIC facepalm

[FrisianDude]

Right, I had a nice system with multiple lakes connected to each other, filling my moat. And the moat had a small hallway somewhat beneath it from which I welled. Now the water's risen so much that the wells flooded and now there's water in my hallway, and for some reason my broker/herbalist forgot where the wells used to be and fell into it and drowned. 

So, pussy that I am, I am starting a new one. I like starting anew.