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Yeah, good thing unicorns can't jump and aren't magical. Oh wait, wrong on both counts. And then there's the other unicorn.

"Thank you."

Ironhide will organize an expedition to search for a new nest, bringing Highleap and Rainstriker unless some PC speaks up and wants to come. We'll head north, as suggested.

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Any ONE of those rolls can still kill us though. So yes, it still leads to a higher chance of us ending up dead.

What rolls are that dangerous? even failed dodge roll shouldn't be as bad as no dodging at all due to time displacement. I am sure that it's hard to get us killed by one bad combat roll

Have you ever heard of "getting enormous stab wounds in your torso tends to be lethal, you video-game-expecting fool?" Internal bleeding, organ damage, external bleeding...unicorn horns are think and long. It's not gonna be pretty.
And, of course, one injury would probably leave us weaker and ergo more vulnerable to further attacks, as well as hindering time displacement efforts.

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Also, any combat related rolls that arn't magic that we make are subject to some penalties. One from being over encumbered, another for being unskilled.

I know. That's why that situation is bad. But we have an ally, an artifact spear and magic.
I still don't understand why at character generation players chose  night creature empathy to some combat skill, it was an awful decision

We have only an ally with a freaking wooden sword, an artifact spear we don't know what it does (and it's made of gem--not exactly cutting-edge weapons tech), and magic which doesn't include any defensive magic.
We chose night creature empathy so we could get others to fight for us.

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While flinging ourselves forward in time would have a whole bunch of bonus's, including our Eon manipulation (one of our two greatest skills) our tattoos and our greater skill at using magic to fling things forward in time.

I know, +6 to the roll... even if get no penalties then we still need 5 or better to get result above ten... that's 20% chance of almost certain death... even 5(11) and 6(12) may be not enough

You're assuming failure means death. Heck, you're assuming a low success equals death! I'm guessing failure will either mean we don't displace ourself or we don't displace ourself as much as we intend, not that we die or go all frozen.
Let me give you a hint: Out combat bonuses are worse. That's a much lower chance of success. For many more rolls.

I vote displace ourself and run.

Okay, we need to have a talk.

I am happy to let you have Budapest, but you have to support my action to reclaim Trieste. Any other action is tantamount to a declaration of war.

Interesting thought. Here's another one: Wait, me attacking you provinces wasn't a declaration of war?

That sulphur is important you know. Some species are eating it. Also, it's an important antigreenhouse gas.

Faced with the increasing dangers of the surface life, the algae start to clump together, and also gain a much stronger cellular wall. They attach themselves to the rocks along the coast, but even to other organisms.

((Also, did we almost skip a stage of evolution again. I believe it was supposed to go like this.
Normal cells-->Clumps of cells-->Blobs with limited specialization--> plastic bag organisms-->"modern day" multicellular organism))

I'm not sure what you mean by "plastic bag organisms," but the poripinnans are nothing more than sponges which use their "pumps" to move, so they're pretty simple.

Daggers aren't weapons that dwarves can make (as far is fort mode/worldgen is concerned). And are you sure they're fairly uncommon? Because in many of my fortresses, Urist, Tekkud, Bėmbul and Cog are far more common that any other name.

You can't deny that daggers are, in fact, weapons.
I've only seen a handful of Jurists in all of my fortresses, so it's fair to say that it's not all that common. Besides, there's selection bias in place here, too. You remember memorable names, and because Urist is "the" dwarven name, it's more memorable than Dodok or whatever.

I'd like to bring up the idea of more than one golem type again.

Anyways, golems going "insane" is as old as Prague, the place of origin for the first golem (more or less)