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Found a mirrored site... damn, this thing is entertaining.

I lost epically today-- I was following the Lovecraft thread and tried to build an large, magma spewing Cthulhu (octopus-dragon) into a volcano, whereupon my dwarves would dwell in comfort.  Since my last fort was a humdrum 17 year fort guarded by 30 blue-equipped legends I had utterly forgotten that goblins do more than explode into bits upon encountering a member of my military.  I also discovered that sieges can come after your population has already dropped a whole bunch. 

First, to stop a raid, I blew open a magma chamber near my farms sealing half of my fortress away with magma.  Unfortunately the goblins were in the half with all the food.  And as I mentioned the farms were knee deep in magma. So I sent my entire population to beat the goblins to death.  We made it, losing something like 30 dwarves in the process.  Now I have 50.  Then the tantrum starts.  I now have 25.  A good portion of those are mad.  Then another siege comes!  Many, many crocodile riders. So I pull the levers--magma pours out of all of Cthulhus tentacles--three dwarves melt as do a bunch of goblins.  Magma is running off the mountains and into the real world.  Somehow the bastards make a beeline through it and kill everyone but a child, who runs around a while NOT pulling a lever which would seal off the volcano (children!).  When I tried to reclaim--still a dozen goblins and every square inch outside my fortress is covered in magma. After one f.p.s. death after another I consider this a win!