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A goblin seige took out half my population. The goblins themselves aren't a threat anymore, but they don't need to be. My dwarves are kindly saving the goblins some time by murdering each other for them. Berserkers are running about, nobody's doing any work, and a fort that used to be the home of 110 dwarves now has less than thirty people in it. That's if you don't count all the corpses everywhere, soon to be spewing miasma all over the place. There seems to be good news: Most of the dwarves are maimed or injured in some way, so the berserkers don't go down very hard. Best thing to do is sit back and wait for it all to blow over, then rebuild with the few survivors.

I'm have lots of Fun.

"Lurak Pulpylarvae the Spurting Starvation of Tombs is a deity of The Lucky Hammers. Lurak most often take the form of a skeletal female dwarf and is associated with deformity, disease, blight, death, and suicide."

Wow. I'm sure that's good for morale around here. That both of the permenantly bed-ridden dwarves in my hospital are worshippers is troubling.

my fortress is dieing
not to massive sieging
not to FB's or titans

...to cats (struggling to figure out how the trap systems work)
 /wrists

Burrow all your dwarves in a room with a non-pet-passable door, then flood the fortress with magma (or water, if you've got non-magmasafe valuables and the exits are cut off.)

I forgot how accurately fluid mechanics work in DF.

Now my hospital is flooding.

My crazy badass militia commander, after brutally killing 11 Troglodytes and a Cave Crocodile, earned herself a title. Dumed Relicenjoys is now Dumed Relicenjoys the Cage of Noses!

I may have discovered some correlation between a creature's actions and their subsequent namings. The only named Troglodyte of the bunch, who'd killed a gem setter fell to Dumed briefly after she cut his nose off with her axe!

Not sure what the cage is about, though.

My militia commander hurt her right hand fighting a Gorlak. She is now weilding a bronze shield and a bronze battle axe in her left hand. I am eager to see if she is still effective like this.

Dear Improvised Cook,
I'm not blaming this problem on the incompetance that comes with being a beginner, because I know you'll always have this problem. I'm not asking you to change, because I know you will ignore me as always. I'm just letting you know that if you hadn't been uselessly rendering fat instead of cooking like I asked you to, the work room wouldn't have filled with the stench of rotten Camel parts. Also, we would have food to eat and wouldn't starve to death.

If this issue eventually leads to malnutrition, I'm going to lock you in a hole so that we don't waste precious food supplies on you.

Signed,
Samuel