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Set out on my first adventure in the new version.  Made myself a swordsdwarf, and went around to various human towns looking for quests.  I had trouble finding the questgivers, because they apparently don't just spawn in the building you spawn in anymore.  I then decided that I would go to the dark towers to fight some goblins.  None of them seemed to have any, but I did find one with lots of prisoners, so I recruited a half-dozen to fight with me. 
Went off on a couple of random encounters, (regular clothing is apparently pretty effective against wolves, bears, and sasquatches!) crippling the creatures and then watching the kids take forever to beat it to a pulp.  I also got to see the new scarring system in action. 

Eventually, I found a warlord who gave me a quest to kill a hyrda, and took it up.  Took me forever to find the cave entrance, because they are tiny holes in hills instead of huge holes in the ground now.  Made my way down and got a message about the hydra tearing off a troll leg or something, which I thought was really cool.  Ended up in a cavern with lots of webs but no spiders, and found my Hydra. It only grabbed one of the kids, and didn't manage to do much damage to him.  Once again I opened up all sorts of places for blood to ooze out of and let the kids finish the job. 
I later found out that the kid who got credit for killing it had worshipped the thing. I retired my first succesful adventurer in a while.

Yeah, I've been reading the current Something Awful dwarf succession game "Headshoots" and one of the rulers gave all the dwarves custom professions with "-smith" endings.  The engravers were Picturesmiths, the nobles Mandatesmiths, and the children Funsmiths.  I thought it was good fun so I adopted it.  At least I didn't have a story about my hammerer, which I renamed the Pancakesmith, wouldn't have been as easy to figure out. :)

And why would I want to avoid sounding ridiculous or childish?  What a childish idea, that.

My current mayor has just recieved a beating.  The Tax Collector, who issued the punishment, is friends with him, and I don't think the mayor had the skill needed for his mandate.  For some strange reason I don't feel as bad about this as when my engraver got beaten on orders from a past mayor.

The Renowned Empire - Human
The Ferocious Terrors - Goblin
and perhaps the best, The Fierce Growth - Elven

I also have The Large Syrup - Dwarven and The Red Lash - Dwarven.

Unless I'm just missing something else happening, it seems like vermin can escape from their cages and slip away when you try to tame them.  I've had my animal trap dragged to my kennel twice with the notice just when my Dungeon Master got there that there were in fact no small animals to tame, and the vermin was no longer in the trap or animal screen.
It makes sense that there is a chance for failure, but the error message is odd and the wiki doesn't mention anything about it.

My fortress has been fairly quiet for a few years, with no seiges and few ambushes or robberies.  Most of my problems I've created myself by ignoring the nobles. (Poor engraver got beaten badly recently.)  I have had two megabeasts decide to drop by, though.  The first this year was a titan, who went down to a champion wrestler, his pal, and an elite marksdwarf in a few seconds with no damage on our side. 
What really surprised me was when a dragon came in winter that same year and charged up to my 3 story tower by my hole-in-the-ground entrance.  I saw a shot or two go off and my wrestler grabbed the dragon and held him in place.  I figured it was only a matter of time before he was shot to death or swarmed, but I saw the newbie marksdwarf I had shifted in rush down the tower towards the dragon.  I realized he was out of ammo and started to worry a bit for his safety, and of course he ran straight towards the dragon with his crossbow held high.  He then proceeded to club the dragon through the air about a good ten spaces diagonally untill it crashed into a tree and died with no previous injury above light grey.  When I was inspecting to confirm it was his kill, I found that he had no skill in hammering at all, and no kills at all to his name.  Apparently, all my dwarves that aren't in the hospital beds (nearly half the guards) are potential killing machines.