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Syrupfondled is a den of surprise and mystery, and rather enjoyable at present.

The evil Creeping Zombie Camel (whose name shall not be mentioned) was valiantly slain by The Snarling Armours, along with the dozen or so Dark Stranglers that were all hugging the humpless, legless, noseless undead camel. Fully 90% of the 134 dead were slain by that zombie.

Of the six moods so far, the first five were all not possession, and even though the artifacts were so-so (two rings, an amulet, a wooden armour stand and a pig iron sword) I've got two legendary stonecrafters, two legendary engravers and one legendary weaponsmith. The sixth mood was a possession, but I got an iron serrated disc out of that, so I'm happy.

And first siege now we are camel-free, one cage trap was unforbidden, and one of my legendary engravers (Zuglar) went out, and managed to take an arrow and fall into the trap she was carrying. It took a lot to finally rig up a level and release her, but finally she's in the hospital (along with ALL my cloth), hovering between life and death. It's traumatic....

Also, the elven traders that brought on the siege decided to decamp just as I'd finished recovering all the body parts, so we killed them. Interesting to see where that leads.

Thanks - tried that, but you're right - only still breathing dwarves.

However, I just spammed a dozen coffins in one room and he's in the 11th, so it could have been worse.

Syrupfondles was an idyllic seaside retreat, with 20 happy dwarves and one content camel grazing outside.

Then we found out what the strange creeping fog does; Kadolerith Stelidtolis the One-humped Creeping Fog Zombie (Hatchetlaboured the Washed Top) has struck down eleven of the dwarves and now rules the surface, alternating violating the dead corpses and killing the stray hyena that wander onto the map.

We remainders have sealed the fortress and are looking downwards, and hoping any migrants find the emergency exit before Kadolerith does.

Hopefully things get better. Of the nine surviving dwarves, three are master jewellers. Not sure if that's good or bad, but EVERYTHING in the outpost is now encrusted.

Update; Big migrant wave. Also a lot of hyena zombies. Six were cut down, but 22 managed to make it into the fort. I'm surprised at their determination. Things must really be bad at the mountain home for them to come here...

So, trying to establish a fort in a haunted area for the first time.

I don't mind the death, the undead, the pain and horror. I DO mind that dwarves can't do anything at all if there is an undead thing anywhere on the %$# map and that they run like little girls.

My present problem, however, is that there is a dead undead thing outside the small cave I've managed to excavate. They are petrified of it, even though it is dead and not moving, and so will rather die of thirst in the cold than get inside with the booze. When I form the army, they can stand on it and it doesn't do anything, and I can't kill it, 'cos it's dead.

Anyone know of what the problem might be? I'm stumped here.

Just found out that a Steam FB isn't that scary. Spent four pages wailing on a child before the Romantic Oils could scramble. Kid didn't even get a headache.

Meanwhile, I'm getting spammed that another FB is caught in a pool of fire, but I've got so many to choose from roaming the caverns I have no idea which one or what's causing it.

I think my first ever artifact was a stone chair. Not exciting, but it was the first. That was about 5 years ago.

Recently, though, we just had a tetrahedrite amulet with many kinds of leather. Before that, a child produced Frezyfancied, the brush of pregnancies, a metal ring, that disturbed me greatly.

I'll add my problem here - my ground troops are awesome and recently acquitted themselves well against some clowns. The archers, though, just don't work for me.

Currently I've got a large goblin invasion, and two of the poorly trained marksdwarves are standing outside supposedly 'waiting for archery practise'. I've got both a barracks and a range for them, but I've had one bolt fired at it in the last two years.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I've got them on the same training regime as the axedwarves.

My legendary military strode out over the bridge over the magma pool, looking to kill the lone remaining goblin crossbowman.

I didn't expect three of them to dive off the bridge to avoid bolts.

The goblin only has one arm, for crying out loud....