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I have a confession. Despite playing (on and off) since 40d, I've never lost a fort to Fun. Usually, I always quit out of boredom and go play adventure mode instead. Well, it finally happened. My current fort, "Deathfloors" had finally tasted true Fun. A siege arrived and I had to face them because a tantruming dwarf had destroyed the lever that shut the floodgates of the main entrance. A whole bunch of soldiers were killed and shit hit the fan. Soon after that, everyone had a flashing red arrow, dwarf were going insane, children were going berserk and beating their parents and everything was getting destroyed. The murders/executions of berserking dwarves was the first wave of death. After that, a whole bunch more died from dehydration due to being stark raving mad (or babies having their mothers die).
Now, my population of 200+ has been reduced to 50-something (most of them children). There is barely anything left of the military, all of the industries are gone, I'm struggling to bury everyone, there is junk everywhere, THE DINING HALL IS FULL OF DEAD BABIES and overall, its not a very fun (but very Fun) time we're having over here. The only luck is that a tantruming dwarf broke a trade depot while human merchants were in it, so I kinda ended up stealing all their stuff by accident. Hopefully, that should keep my food supplies stocked while I get some new farmers.
Sooo, yeah...

Okay, so I had a bunch of forges and smelters set up at an edge of a magma pipe. It was working nice and safe for a while, but just now, every dwarf that comes to the edge of the magma has his/her clothes catch on fire and dies. I guess it realistic, yeah, but it didn't happen before, so what gives? I've already lost two furnace operators, two architects (who were trying to build a smelter) and a miner who was digging around the edge (and a couple of babies too, but that's not important).  There's a couple of fire imps swimming around deeper in the tube, but it doesn't look like they're bothering anyone. Other than that, there is nothing suspicious about the tube or the dwarfs that it burned.

EDIT: Nevermind, it is the goddam fire imps after all.

My current fort has a bit of a metal shortage,  so I decided to at least give my militia some bone and shell stuff until I can get some goblinite. They have no problems wearing shell leggings, but refuse to equip bone/shell gauntlets. The 'e'quipment  screen in the military menu has the little green checkmark next to the gauntlets, but the dwarfs don't have them in their inventory (they're all in a bin). Naturally, I checked that the gauntlets are accessible and I tried setting their uniforms to 'metal gauntlets' (since the wiki says that bones count as metal) and re-assigning the uniforms, but no luck. Anyone know what's going on? I don't want kobolts cutting their hands off.

I've got a quest to kill some olm man dude hiding out in a town's sewers. I tried to access them rough the dungeons in the castle, but those were a dead end. I also found some dungeon-type thingy under a temple, but I couldn't explore it because a mummy chased me out. Is there any way to get into the sewers? I'm seeing 'sewer access' markers on the travel map, but they seem to only indicate grates. I know there are occasionally drainage pipes into nearby rivers, but I'm pretty sure you need to breathe underwater/not breathe at all to get through and I'm not ready to vamp myself yet (need to work up those stats, yo).

My very young fort has recently been visited by a Giant Snail. Since this was clearly a great danger to the fort, I sent out my militia-in-training (3 losers swinging pieces of obsidian on a stick). For the next 3 minutes or so they proceeded to chase after it. By that I mean the SNAIL was actually outrunning them and they only got in occasional hits as they were pursuing it. Also, the snail was apparently capable of jumping to dodge their attacks...


It eventually ended with the snail getting its shell ripped off (so, I guess it became a slug) and then getting kicked in the brain by one of the soldiers. Now I wanna know if its possible to tame one. It would sure make a great tank to distract the invaders and draw the fire...

I finally managed to get a vampire adventurer and so far things have been pretty good, I guess. But I'm a little confused about how much blood I need to drink. With normal food/drinking, you get a limit of 3 'noms' before you have to fast-travel, right? With blood, I can feed from a single creature dozens of times repeatedly and it doesn't even seem to affect them (they die from suffocation due to me strangling them unconscious or they bleed out from wounds I inflicted earlier). The only time I can drain anything dry is when I feed on them while I'm 'Thirsty' (and even then, it only works on small creatures or those who already lost some blood). So, does bloodsucking only work when I'm thirsty, or is there like a hidden hunger meter that fills up every time I drink someone. (and if there is, is there a limit on how much it can fill up?) 

I just started up the new version and soon discovered there is a tomb near my starting location. Foolishly, I decided to venture into it.

So, I started a new adventurer and I was asked to kill a bowman for my second quest. As I was on my way to his lair, I got a random encounter. It was the guy I had to kill and a couple of dudes. I kill them and proceed to his camp to loot it. Well, apparently, he didn't want that to happen because the camp was guarded by around 60 dudes. I grinded skills with that adventurer, so I killed them all pretty easily, but it was still crazy. Even bandit quests from lords and ladies don't have that many guys.
It does make me miss dark towers, though. Fighting an entire army by yourself is incredibly fun...