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I can't seem to find the raws for it, any chance you have them to hand?

No, but it will be! Toady's working on some major improvements to adventure mode, probably as we speak!
Listen closely, and you may hear his godly fingers typing out the code that shapes the very world..


..of Dwarf Fortress.

"Surprise" does not sound like a happy feature.

Excellent writing, cool story, epic dwarf.
A few more incidents of awesome and Donatella may match up to the greats like Morul and Cacame. 'Bout time a female was in Dwarf Fortress legend.
See if you can engineer a situation wherein she dives down a cliff to massacre goblins below.
Keep a backup save, that could go very wrong.

Right, moved the insectoid body bits from their own file into the main body file, that seems to have fixed the primary problem. The periphery bugs are probably within my knowledge to fix.

Pie charts are cool.
But not as cool as line graphs!


*Disclaimer; Neither pie charts nor line graphs are cool. This man is a nerd.

One very recent moment pretty much encapsulates my relationship with fortress mode.
Fortress mode makes me care about my dwarves. My original seven are my little pioneers, diligently bringing my machinations to life. And the migrants are mine too. They used to be part of the mountainhomes, but they saw fit to come to my little hole in the ground and help out with whatever grand design I have at the moment.
Every little achievement my dwarves make elicits some reaction.
My current fort is an underground keep guarded by a small castle and a moat. The only way in is a bridge at the front. When a group of rhesus macaques  came a'chargin too late for me to trap them all out, I had the bridge shut off and trapped most of them in. The two left outside ran away immediately. Moments later, leaving the monkeys to their devices on account of them not being able to make off with my phat lewts, I found at least three macaque corpses littered about my fort. "Damn", I think, "Nice work, dwarves." Please note, at this stage I had no military whatsoever. One macaque remained, however. He'd gotten out of the way of my dwarves on the castle wall. I took my only peasant and made him my militia commander. I commanded him up to the wall and didn't even need to give the order. He immediately started beating the crap out of it with his bare damn hands.
That was the first time I have ever impulsively and triumphantly called out "Dead Macaque!".
So, yeah. I like my dwarves. They're my little happy alcoholic workers.