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Too many damn migrants.

I am seriously considering just locking the meeting hall and all forty-something dwarves inside and leave them to die so I can free up some space.

Found the aquifer.

Digging out bedrooms in the glacier. Hope the dwarves have blankets. Oh, wait, they can use their beards...

Lost my two legendary miners who ran into the aquifer and were encased in ice. Their bones are stuck in the wall now, and I can't get them out.

Oh, and migrants. Too many damn migrants. I carve out some bedrooms and another wave arrives. I don't need this many damn migrants. I don't have enough food or anything.

THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS FORT. GO AWAY.

I've been sent fisherdwarves, farmers, metalsmiths...

WHO SENDS THESE MIGRANTS? A BLIND, CRIPPLED, BRAIN-DAMAGED DWARF? (Probably...)

I'm starting a fort in a glacier.

My only problem is that I have no water.

Coulda sworn there was an aquifer somewhere...

I'm looking forward to the next version, when diseases and 'creature metamorphosis' are implemented in a manner that will hopefully allow for infectious lycanthropy. I'll try rigging up a system to get my werewolves to wound prisoners without killing them, so that once they turn I can tame them and add them to the ranks of my army's warbeasts. What could possibly go wrong?

This just gave me an idea, but not werewolves, and it probably won't be added to the game. But it's still an idea.

Zombie arena.

Chuck a goblin into an arena with a zombie beast in it, doesn't matter which. The zombie beast will kill and turn the goblin into a zombie goblin. Throw another goblin in.

When you've got a good horde of zombie goblins, start throwing in more than one at a time.

Perhaps try giving them weapons to give them a sporting chance.

...Hehehehe, a sporting chance...nah, just leave 'em unarmed and naked.

Journal of Caiman, Metalsmith

Fort has a dragon.

I have an awesome golden helm.

We found silver.

Life is good.

Journal of Caiman, Metalsmith

Dungeon Master died. Went to funeral. Boring. Didn't like him that much. He was OK. Meh. Least it wasn't worse. Least I don't have to listen to his stories anymore. Least I get my forge back.

Wish I got his hat.

Oh, well.

Goblins.

Better make more bolts.

Maybe smelt down those platinum statues that were raising such a fuss and make platinum bolts...

A giant cave swallow ripped the throat of a hunter out, and he fell unconscious, bleeding all over the place but taking forever to die. It bogged down my FPS because the "Cancels rest, interrupted by Giant Cave Swallow" messages where coming in over twenty a second. I made another hunter a recruit and sent him over, but he didn't attack the dang bird. So I turned him back into a hunter and he started to hunt. So he started wrestling the giant cave swallow next to the dwarf bleeding all over the place, and they're wrestling on top of the chunk of his throat that got torn out. FPS is still low as hell and the dwarf takes forever to break the bird with his bare hands.

He killed it.

Then the bleeding dwarf immediately died afterwards.

And a guard was struck with melancholy because he was so unhappy with laying in bed with his lower body seriously wounded. So he dragged himself out and started walking/crawling all over the fort 'til he died of thirst (wish he jumped in the well instead just to speed it up).

And I'm currently filliing a room below my dining hall with magma in case I decide to drop all the dwarves into it. The digging killed a legendary miner.

I've read that they won't.