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I broke my own rule, which was to have blood in every episode.  I guess the next one will have to have twice as much.

I got a migrant with the name Cosmosswords.  Naturally, I assigned him a sword and sent him off to the barracks.
A little while later, my militia commander went melancholy.  I started looking through my soldiers, to pick a suitable replacement, and noticed that Cosmo was dual wielding a sword and a whip.  I like the way this guy thinks.  Despite his inexperience, he is now the militia commander for an entire fortress.

I've decided to do a thing. 
I'm going to have my miners form a secret society, kinda like the Freemasons, but with miners.  These miners will live in a special burrow, which nobody else may enter (except maybe a special cook or brewer).  Their HQ will have tunnels that lead all over the map, and all sorts of important levers.  In my imagination, they will make all decisions for the fort.

Their children, should they have them, will either be miners or members of an elite, top secret military unit.  I'm picturing them the DF equivalent of the Men in Black.

So yeah, I'm working on that.  This is what happens when I play Dwarf Fortress, watch X-Files, and watch National Treasure all within a short timespan.

I have little magma experience, but doesn't the game refer to steel as "magma-safe"? 
Either way, it'd make a great story.  Your military lures the monster into a room, and you fill the room with magma, sacrificing their lives to kill it.  Only it survives.

It'd also make a great movie scene.  Scared dwarfs watching from a distances as a gigantic steel cockroach rises out of the magma to hunt them down.

Well, if you're thinking of using an atom bomb against it, don't bother.   

Sounds like you might just have to squash it.

I would go into castles, cut off my own body parts, and offer them to the Lady.