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I went to dump some loot at my house and found a horde of animals waiting for me. Six cheetahs, five lions, multiple groups of warthogs and monkeys. All on the lair site. More warthogs and some chimps showed up later along with some elephants.
I've never seen so many animals in one place except in a dwarf fort. I think they showed up because I have a lot of troops with me who, of course, immediately scatter in all directions chasing down the animals. I'll probably end up losing half the idiots.

Maybe this happens a lot, but...I reactivated a retired adventurer and found that the layout of my town had changed.

Before (old 3.17 save)

After

0_o
I guess they're laying down a new road

edit: now the buildings are back in their proper places. STOP FUCKING WITH MY HEAD

Seeing some Good plains I, as Kozi Growerclear the Harsh Strangulation, decide to organize a unicorn hunting trip. It goes bad as soon as we meet the unicorns. I'm bashing a unicorn in the head, thinking I got this, when suddenly I'm on the ground gored in three places. The unicorn is gone, two of my companions are dead, and the last one is fighting an alligator.
I admit defeat and head home with the remaining guy, a footless swordswoman who's somehow managed to survive all my other fail expeditions. On the way I decide to take a nap, figuring the bogeymen will leave us alone.
They did, but a Horned Troll Spouse Wife Thing didn't. She kills my companion while I'm still blinking the sleep out of my eyes and we proceed to have a retarded dodge fight. Apparently she sucks at aiming because she never lands a blow, but I can't hit her either. Eventually I get lucky and shatter her spine, reducing her to pushing. The next 30 rounds of combat consists of her pushing me (strangely enough she's suddenly very accurate) and me trying to bash her head in.
This is going nowhere so I try strangling. I guess her lungs are just for show because there's no effect. Then I try stabbing with my dagger and 20 more rounds go by. I'm now a Grand Master Fighter.
Finally I remember that my companion had a sword and I use it to hack her arms off. She bleeds to death almost instantly.
Yay. Only now it's night and my buddy is lying there with a copper carving knife sized hole in her skull.

"You are surrounded by incessant cackling"

Que a night of running. I actually manage to hit some of them for once and after an epic chase my battered adventurer collapses in the doorway of a crowded peasant hut as the cackling fades away.
It's gonna be a while before I get back to dwarf mode.

 
 

I must be going nuts or something.
I abandoned an elf adventurer after I found out elves are dwarf sized, but after tooling around with a bunch of other adventurers I came back thinking to turn her into a wrestler/knife user. Upon opening her inventory I find she's suddenly sporting a set of cat leather armor as well as an iron helm and a metric fuckton of animal part jewelry. Two pages of the stuff, and she's also holding 7 bone crowns.
I'm 99% sure I didn't pick any of this stuff up. Is it normal for adventurers to get stuff while retired or did I just blank out?

I hate those bastards. *nothing* I try against them works. I can hardly even bruise them, no matter what I throw/fire/hack with at them 

Same here, I only managed to kill one with a lucky strike. 99% of the time I miss, though if I charge every turn I can keep them on the ground.
The little fuckers can swim too. I swam all night to get away once, hacking my way through walls of fish. They're slightly slower than a novice swimmer.

You won't be disappointed with these current HFS, they come with FUN add on's you wouldn't think of.

Awesome.

I just hit the third level of caverns in my quest to fill the coffins of Paddledeeps. Took a lot less time than I expected since the top of the third cavern level was seriously one z level under the bottom of the 2nd. WTF? We're nowhere near the bottom of the world, maybe there's more caverns under these ones? How does the crust not collapse on itself? Who cares?
KEEP DIGGING

happened to look at a baby as soon as she was born. The description of her age read "She was born today, which makes her very young indeed."

dwarves only seem to twist a weapon once before pulling it out now. At least my speardwarves do.
Targeted strikes will  make spearmen more likely to stab you in the brain through your helmet instead of breaking your arms first and might even make spears and hammers overpowered compared to the other weapons.