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Not that that matters anymore; my fort's population took a nosedive from 81 to 3 (2 adults, 1 child), the survivors are all some kind of stressed and the drinks have burned away.
Oh, and goblins decided to invade, so my fort is pretty much dead.

Wow, what happened to it?! Is that all the flame titan's doing?

Just suffered eight dwarves killed by a werehorse attack, including six of the militia and my Legendary Clothier (this is the second Legendary Clothier who's bitten the dust in my fort); we had no warning before it reached the fortress gate, so the militia turned up one by one and got slaughtered. Quite impressive really - it couldn't directly pierce their bronze armour, but it could soak up damage all day and it only needed to land one bite attack, because the followup shakes were almost always an instakill. The bastard even escaped after transforming back into a dwarf, so maybe we'll see him again.

I have two injured survivors who may or may not be infected. Had them quarantined, but the first full moon hit (measured by a previous werehorse-victim who's been permanently confined) and neither of them transformed. Does that mean they're safe to let back into the fortress? Or should I wait until the second full moon to be certain?

In other news, construction of Stonebanners' tower continues quickly. I am currently devoting efforts to dig out more bedrooms, as I feel it's time to get more migrants in. The current population of 70 (including quite a lot of children) feels too small to get everything I want done while also retaining a full-time military - after the above massacre I'm not going to put up with a part-time militia again.

A werehorse killed a handful of dwarves and left one infected survivor who's now permanently locked in his room.

His mate turned up some time later in the middle of a massive goblin siege and infected about half a dozen before they killed him. Sadly the goblins left before any of those transformed and caused carnage.

Also a sodding rhesus macaque stole one of my artifacts - a gold toy mini-forge that one of the children carelessly left outside.

The miners have discovered incredible mineral wealth, with the awkward exception of iron. I have finally found a bit of cassiterite though, so the forges are hard at work making bronze armour so that we can actually have a militia with a decent life expectancy (the first squad got wiped out by one minotaur...).

The fort's entered an unfortunate cycle:

1. Urist enters strange mood.
2. Urist claims workshop, starts gathering materials. I see that all is well and move onto other things.
3. Urist can't find a material he wants and sulks. I don't notice.
4. Urist goes berserk.
5. Urist takes a steel mace to the face.

It's happened three times in a row...

Started training our captured cave crocodiles. I look forward to the reptilian horde that we will one day unleash against our foes.

A forgotten beast got into the cage trap setup. A huge blob made of water that shoots webs. Being made of water I assumed it would be easy for my Legendary-skilled squad to deal with - and it wasn't. A spearmaster and a swordmaster were crushed by its deadly pushes before an axe lord finally landed a blow, which killed it straight away. Then we just had to rescue three dwarves that had got themselves trapped in cages (fighting web-shooting monsters while standing on top of cage traps is a bad idea).

You can't build coffins (or anything else) on a bridge.

But the physically impossible demands have been patched, if i remember correctly.

That's what I thought, but the steel-bed-demanding duke suggests otherwise.