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In Dwarf Fortress I am not a responsible pet owner.  They get hurt when sieges come around.  I had one dog who'd been gutted by a goblin but somehow survived.  He spent his days dragging his guts all over the fortress, bringing everyone down.  There were literally two squares of guts following that dog everywhere.  Every time I'd play, Downer the Dog would drag his stinking entrails onto the z-level I was looking at and I would get depressed.  Thought about killing him several times, but I just felt too sorry for him.  I'll twist the heads off of six newborn kittens at a time, but I won't put a gutshot dog out of his misery.

You are all so thoughtful.  My first megaproject was a big pair of green glass boobs.

One of my hunters, Dodok, was out shooting crundles in the caverns when he got interrupted by a giant cave spider.  It grabbed his head in its mouth and was just standing there shaking him.  Apparently you cannot load a crossbow while a giant spider is shaking you around like a rag doll.

Then I see a little dark red dwarf nearby.  His son, come to visit him.

Son: "Dad, noooo!"

Dodok: "Run, boy!"

Spider:  "SSssSssss" *shake shake shake*

Chilling.

Oh and enough water flow can push you into a campfire-force-fielded square.

I slept in a cave, foolishly putting a campfire just inside the entrance.  I waited for two days for it to go out but it didn't.  Finally, I used DFHack to douse it with some liquid.

But I still can't enter the square the campfire was in.  It's a fire force field.

Won't someone please help me?  I'd like to save this guy so he can go on to bigger and better things, like getting brained by a muskox.

Oiltramples is going strong, thanks in part to procrastination--we didn't breach the caverns until we had a strong military and over 10,000 bone bolts.  Though poor in useful metals, we have made up the lack thanks to exports of gemstone-encrusted gemstones.  (Yo dawg...)  It's my first fortress to become a mountainhome!  Yay, me.

Of our 197 dwarves, 85 are babies and 15 are children.  No activity is performed that isn't clogged with a cloud of mewling sprats.  A botched tower demolition a few years ago cost us many children.  That was generally regarded as a good thing.

Defense is designed around the 'campus of death' plan.  Beyond the walls and spires of the central area are all sorts of potentially deadly constructions like archer towers, bunkers, and recently, a building containing a narrow walkway with weapon traps and spikes 10 z-levels down.  A recent, mismanaged ambush led to hand-to-hand fighting on said walkway.  Two dwarves made the Fall of Shame.  Both were impaled by the neck, and both recovered after about a year in traction.

Now the Great Project begins:  to pump magma 110+ z-levels to a holding tank above the fortress for the sole purpose of burning up unwanted refuse.  It will require at least two power stations, not to mention glassworks on level -110 so I can make all those pipes and screw components.

The dwarves are happy, but they have two chronic complaints:  worn clothes and not enough tables in the dining halls.  I'm making clothing constantly--CONSTANTLY.  And there are so many tables.  What do they do, all eat lunch at once?  Bastard dwarves.

Or make a room full of a number of one tile stockpiles deep underground as a treasure vault haha.

Has anyone successfully done this?  I've made a few desultory stabs at it but so far, no luck.

As the trade wagons roll in from the mountainhomes, a goblin ambush springs up right along their route.  I send my military running to help.

One of my soldiers runs into the path of a wagon and is bowled over by the yak pulling it.  He promptly gets up, dusts himself off, and beheads the yak before going off to mop up goblins.

The caravan turned around and left.

In the caverns is the most phlegmatic forgotten beast ever.  A giant viper with exposed ribs and a jointed trunk, he appeared in the water next to the magma forges and hasn't budged an inch in two years.  I'm considering dropping some rocks on his head.