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So I had a FB spray my legendary speardwarf with some... FB goo or something. Dust I think. Anyway, he caught the flesh-rotting syndrome. I figure it's time to find a new militia commander, but I don't have the heart to take it away from him while he's laying in the hospital rotting away. I look away for a while, mopping up FB blood, overseeing some minor things, and he's up and around, as are all the other military dwarves who were sprayed with the stuff. I look in their description and apparently my epic doctor cut away all the rotting flesh, including the eyeballs, carefully and sewed up the wounds, leaving them blind and apparently immune to pain. They also moved a little faster since the doc cut away a lot of flesh, and are covered in stitches and scars. They succeeded in slaying every FB after that and never caught another syndrome. Except dying when I unleashed SPOILERS.

Anyone else had a dwarf survive a syndrome with similar effects? Or was this an alliterative aberration?

So anyway... I had found a nice place. Running water that's unfrozen all year, a volcano, and a perfectly square valley that amused me too much to NOT use. I was capping off my volcano, because that's what I do, with large amounts of water. After draining the water away, the last level of water, instead of evaporating, all froze quite suddenly.
The picture's after I decided to put my metalworking down there anyway, and had a little magma spill, but all around it is ice, with, and this is important, running water not a little ways off (off-screen). I tried digging down through it, that's the blocks of ice down at the bottom. Claimed one of my miners actually, so I decided to leave it be after that.
Is the mountain in a different temperature biome? I chose temperate deliberately after losing a fortress to frozen water.
Or... Am I just that cool?

[EDIT]
All the ice melted. Apparently the volcano's in a cold biome and the valley's in a temperate one. On the plus side I could make my freezing trap drop the frozen invaders into magma afterwards. Hmm...

A noble! And his consort! Dear Armok, I think the spikes in the migrant rejection office will need to be replaced...

On a more serious note, I once had a dragon show up.
It walked past my cage traps.
Then my military.
Then it sat in my dining hall and chatted with my idle dwarfs.
Turns out I had tamed it in a previous fort and it still decided to invade my new fort .

*The fortress is abandoned, leaving the lone pet dragon to wonder at its fate. It wanders around the empty halls for a while before deciding to move on, crying forlornly for its lost masters. After several lonely days, a familiar scent drifts across the breeze, causing the dragon to look up. Vomit. Blood. Alcohol. Sweat... Could it be? It dashes over as fast as it can, tongue lolling out in happiness as it gallops, flies and bounds towards the scent, ignoring the cage traps which it was taught to avoid, rushing past the surprised guards to find its way back into another dwarven hall. It was home.*

Sorry, but the idea of a dragon wandering around to find its dwarfy friends was too amusing. It's like Homeward Bound, but with a big, fire-breathing flying lizard.

So... My dwarves decided to fish in the magma pipe apparently. I wonder if this is a result of making them magma proof, if so, does that mean there ARE, somewhere, magma fish?
I tried searching the forums, but couldn't come up with any results of similar cases.

So.
Magma fish.
Silicon-based life-forms you can render down for mineral oil? Fish that menace with spikes of obsidian?
Curious if anyone's encountered any magma fish or some such, or if my encounter is merely a bug.