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So... I just had a "something collapsed on the surface"... presumably a tree branch.  It threw a huge dust cloud and penetrated THREE FLOORS DEEP into my fort, killing one dwarf and stunning a bunch of craftsmen in the production area on -3Z.

Is this supposed to work like this?

I have the save if it's a bug, and yes it's Vanilla except for Phoebus.

I don't know why, but the word "scuttle" is pretty much guaranteed to make me crack up, even in writing.

This thread endangered my health with laughter.

May want to specify "go down stairs", because just general downness will have them crawling down the disposal chute/cliff face/cave wall/candy spire and getting trapped, or falling to their dooms.

That's why I made my narrator head out with the migrants at the end of my announcement.  He's "gone".  I will probably come back as some new form of psycho, next turn.

I just had a 10 year fort that received one (1) invasion of about 8 goblins and one FB.  That's it.  Wealth was more than 4 mil, nothing.  Even the caverns were empty of all life.

Fort finally retired due to a complete inability of merchants to successfully path to my trade depot... no matter where I built it, they kept getting stuck. 

I should have known Anguishedshields was cursed from the name alone.

First, it seemed like a reasonable embark.  I dug in, got settled, found some tetra and gold.  No flux, no iron, but tons of wood and I can trade for what I need, right?  Right?  No.  By year three, I'm in the candy and happy... except.

This is the embark of the cursed trade depots.  My first dwarven caravan, the first wagon did the rocket-across-the-screen thing, which was officially An Omen(tm).  It got stuck half-way in the depot.  Fine.  No way are you fuckers leaving without giving me some booze after I busted my ass making stone crafts for you.  Deconstruct the depot.

New depot, outside the walls this time.  Elves get by fine, humans get stuck.  Leave that one alone, they can't leave and go nuts.  I have to kill them.  Then the dwarves skip a year.  Third year, they come back, trade fine, liaison is happy, joy biscuits for all.  Then the humans get stuck again.  No matter WHERE I build my depot, the damn traders get stuck.  They get stuck in the woods.  They get stuck on the road, and if you explain that one to me, I'll give you a sweet.  They get stuck entering the depot.  They get stuck leaving the depot.  They rocket all over the map, but can't trade.  They lose one trader and a pack mule, and won't trade.  Sometimes they just won't trade in general.

I finally had to retire the fort.  I will come back when Toady fixes things.  This is just nuts.

So, new fort.  Anguishshields, lovely name... :/

First we have this...



And yes, we had some... rough days at first.  Poor butcher.  We hardly knew him.

... and then this.  Lolwut.