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Why do my legendary fighters sleep in the stupidest places, and then complain about it, when they have a barrack AND a very nice room?

Yesterday (last night, actually), I learnt that Forest Fires are an inevitable consequence of releasing even small bits of magma when in a jungle.

Damn effective against sieges, though.

I had a Musk Ox Bull GRAB THE LLAMA BY THE THROAT!

Aside from the anatomical issues, it looks like my Musk Oxen have joined the mob...

Deathcrafts - I'm managing to recreate a little Boatmurdered in my own way.

Halfway through trying to build a moat to fill with magma, I'm attacked my a huge amount of gobbos on bleak dogs, with assorted trolls. Accidently release the lever that's holding back a little magma, right as I notice all invaders can path over the floors I made around the back of the existing magma channel and around the raised bridges into the fort. Mayhem ensues.

Start fighting on the second line of bridges, and suffer no casualties.  Then I notice that the released magma has started a forest fire (except the trees are the only things not burning) and that's scattered or killed most invaders, the livestock and all wildlife, except for a few goblins that manage to kill a speardwarf that arrived in advance of the main party and someone out scavenging for socks.

Now I have 184 corpses, a charred outside world, two tantruming axelords, the two killed happened to be my mayor and my chief medical dwarf (and I'm better off without either) and 140 misc. body parts.  My dwarfs are making crafts out of goblin bone - is that normal now?

It's all red and black....  I understand the feelings of Urist McTantrum, almost.

My first fortress-destroying, WTF, how-do-I-deal-with-this monster was a Bronze Colossus.

Never had a giant, FB or dragon before that.

Epic battle with untrained militia in front of the force, and at the cost of about a dozen dwarves, it got stunned enough to fall into a cage trap.  Then, a little later, I thought I could sell it, and ordered it brought to my depot.  Unfortunately the animal stockpile was, for some reason, in the dining room.

Did not end well.

Last year sometime, was on a mission to create a waterfall.

Embarked in a nice two river cold climate - yes, it was evil, but what will that matter?

Skeletal crocodile killed a hunting dog straight away and all 7 dwarves ran around and around escaping from the stationary croc.

Formed the miners into a squad to kill it, which they did, then set about chasing and killing the other three or so friends of skeletal croc.  Then one dodged into the river and over the waterfall.  He was friendly with all the others, who went depressed.

Needless to say, nothing ever got mined as the suicidal remaining miner killed the others one by one. 

It was like watching Survivor, the way it should be, with murders and death.

Dear Family

Now that my exile is over, I feel that I may stay on for a bit.  This place is rather peaceful and the management is rather consistent.  We have a disproportionate number of mismatched gloves and are now hoarding steel;



We seem to have a revolving door policy in the Forgotten Beast area of the caverns.  As soon as one leaves, another, even stranger looking, arrives and takes up residence.  Still only ever four down there.



A delightful interlude occurred when a gremlin was found hovering around some levers.  It soon ended well with a little dismemberment, but someone really needs to work out how it got in.  Every time I go walking around the deep tunnels, I get lost, and with the racket the FB’s are making, with their partying and loud music, it’s rather intolerable.

  Here's a dwarf and his dog being surprised And here's a dead gremlin.

Administration seems to be the new craze? Perhaps there's something in it...

 

Anyway, the latest Vile Force of Darkness was fun, even though it did involve some loss.  And, of course, someone got moody during the invasion...

Soon turned into

Unfortunately, one of the recruits was struck down in the mayhem.  I assume she's been buried somewhere - goodness knows there's enough coffins lying around the fortress.



And, during the invasion, we noticed a strange presence;

 

Good luck to whoever has to settle THAT ghost.  And it wouldn't be a normal mass goblin invasion without;







And that's all from my year!  Consolidation, with me being slightly overwhelmed at first, realising I'd never understand all the levers or the layout - I managed to find the magma smelters and the jewellers twice each during the year, and the craftdwarves workshops only once.  But I built a new entrance, mined some minerals, built a LOT of bins and tidied up outside a fair bit, only using a little magma. Good luck with the fortress...

BIG day at work today, and more stress on the horizon...  However, I have FINISHED my turn, and will post the final chapter soon.

But for now, I will pass the save onto Darisuh -

1. sorry about the ghost (good luck on that one - I can explain)
2. just suffered a mood and a major assault that ended just as Spring arrived, so it's a bit messy
3. had issues with miners not mining, so 'temporarily' recruited others.  Please remove as required
4. sorry about blocking the river with obsidian.

That's about it.

Ok - loaded it on dffd, but it's not there - if anyone can find it, let me know, otherwise I'll do it again tomorrow (sigh)