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I have war grizzly bears  .  Bring on the gobbos!

Well at this point I enjoy my fortresses more for the stories than anything else.  I can't get motivated for mega-projects, etc. So I was working on a mature fortress (>$1million wealth) and out of boredom decided to undermine my trade depot while the humans were there trading.  End result was a hole through 8 plus levels of the fort, human and dwarf injuries, humans and their animals on various levels.  In order to increase the pain, I quickly walled in the surviving traders in their various tunnels, along with a particular unfortunate dwarf whom I named "Hermit".  All this in an attempt to get the humans to besiege me.  I would occaisionally dump beer and food down for Hermit.

When my "Hermit" finally died of neglect and my dwarfs broke into his prison, they found that he had built a mason workshop, crafts workshop, carpenter shop, his own dining room, bedroom, office and....tomb.  They proceeded to bury the poor guy in the tomb he had built from himself and move the countless skull totems he had created to the stockpiles.  The humans remain ambivalent about their lost trading party.

I'm finally tired of my 9million+ fort and am trying to figure out the best way to kill it.  The current plan is to post all military forever (thereby causing tantrums) and never filling any noble mandates.  What else besides starvation and flooding can I do to kill these guys (212 population, 29 champions, many legendaries, 75 children!)?

Wait just thought of refuse piles indoors.

So my favorite new feature is kill stats and I'm sure yours is too.  I was checking out my Axelord and here's what he has:

'Lefty' Tongsopened the dwarf, d. 203
Mafol Rulercities the dwarf, d. 204

All due to training accidents I'm sure.  He is the leading cause of death in my fortress!  I love this game.

So I have a stray tame Mandrill wandering around my fort and the message pops up: "Stray mandrill has given birth to a child".  Now she's carrying around a mandrill boy.  I wonder if soon I'll have a whole parallel population of mandrills?  Also, she must have arrived pregnant or there was some sort of inter-species shenanigans going on.

My (no trap) fortress has been a goblin killing, hauling and trading machine for 3-4 years now.  And I am bored bored bored.  So here's the idea: draft everyone except one legendary trader, nobles, children and babies of course.  Hopefully the kids and nobles can handle the hauling.  I think the biggest problem will be not having a cook and a brewer, but lets see how long I last.  Hmm and I wonder if military still gets punished for mandates?

Pumping water up from an underground river into a walled "aqueduct" across the "roof" level of my cliff fort, then dumping down the cliff face of my fort into a channel along the main road, into the pond.  There.

So I prematurely breached the deep and demons killed 90% of my population.  Luckily I had drafted them all and threw them down to that end of the fort and they overwhelmed the demons.  I'm still running the fort to see if they can come back, since most of their material possessions are intact.  It won't help that half the population is nobles.

Anywhoo...I happen to glance outside and 1/4 of my wilderness is covered in ash.  At first I thought I had a forest fire, but apparently a flaming dwarf had run screaming down my trade road and lit my silk rope restraint on fire (I like to tie up wardogs outside to harass random kobolds).  I wonder when it will go out?  I wonder how the trade caravans will like the smoke?