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Zombies showed up way too early, right after the first migrant wave of 3 dwarfs, and are hanging around deterring any more migrants. Also have an aquifer, and I've lost two picks with miners so far. Basically watching my population drop slowly while I try to make the best of it, but I am quantum creating steel, so at some point I will charge with steel clad dwarves. Oh, and I somehow ended up with 4 pieces of stone. Two for slabs for miners than froze to death, one for a mechanism for a well, and the final stone is probably the most precious thing in the fortress. It could be anything I could end up needing, but it's the last.

Fun way to start an attempt at not using traps or doors/bridges to protect the fortress. I kind of feel like the Roanoke Island colony, and I didn't really have to try and make it like that, it just happened. I'm amazed it's lasted as long as it has. This would be a fun fortress to have the mod where I could make robots to do my work for me. The dwarves would eventually die out and it would be all machines.

I'm trying not to think really hard how to fix my situation, it's kind of fun just hanging on with 8 7 dwarves working and zombies on the border. The first real goblin attach will be the end of it though. Might just build a wall at the entrance and go deep, or at least z-2 to the aquifer, lol. It doesn't take much room to entertain 7 dwarves.

Then I suggest seeking an alliance with ants. Ants should have little love for anteaters.

If they are not against us, they're for us, right?

Huh. I never knew that giant anteaters have panda heads on their forelimbs.

Wow. Just wow. I had to. like. go check the picture on the website to make sure you didn't photoshop that.

No, really.
http://news.yahoo.com/giant-anteaters-kill-two-hunters-brazil-211858253.html

Dwarf fortress has gotten so lifelike I think Toady has broken the plane between the worlds. I didn't even know they were aggressive in real life. Or dangerous. Next thing you know, Carp will be dragging people into the rivers and drowning them.

Yeah, you almost have to make sure your embark will have some fun now. I've embarked in a location at war with elves, and by a tower and several goblin pits. My last fort saw one invasion and then nothing. My miner finally drowned after a few years, and he had the only coffin the whole time. The one invasion ran away when my hammerdwarves showed up on the ramparts.

Yeah, I get some covered up, same as when I'm trying to plant, and also I have a few that black out randomly. Not sure what they are.

IIRC, I can brew and cook them, just can't see what they are, and I only have one.  The other random ones I don't remember what I could do with them.

I just found a cave with a pathway to the caverns. Down in the caverns, I found an ettin, who promptly fled. I ran after him and gave him a few hits with my axe. The I proceeded to hit him with a necromancer's book I got earlier (the zombies in this tower were surprisingly friendly, I only had to kill ten of them, the rest just did not care). While beating the crap out of the ettin, I had a nice talk with him. I even offered him the position as lord of a small dark pit, which he gladly accepted. This was followed by horrified screams on the ettin's side, not even my comment about the weather ("At least it doesn't rain down here") could cheer him up. He eventually bled to death.

I love DF. You can tell that someone has played it a lot by the way they can make a comment like this and act all nonchalant about it.

not even my comment could cheer him up. He eventually bled to death.

I love it. I hope I never get tired of laughing at stuff like this.