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The latest goblin siege at Chasmfall brought half a dozen War Sea Dragons.  I forgot that they were building destroyers, so my bridge-drop didn't work on them.  And they managed to deconstruct one of the bridges entirely, cutting me off from the outside world while three squads of Furies sit outside my base.
And now I just learned that there's stuff blocking construction on the inaccessible side of my system.  Which means that I need to unseal the shortcut passage.  Since my military's not up to snuff (there're only about 14 dwarves, clad in candy but otherwise of low skill), I'll just have to wait out this bloody siege.

Once I've finally gotten the furies off my back, I'll finish walling off the outdoor refuse decomposal area.  It's a 20 x 35 room in Z -1, and I'll wall it off on the surface and then pave it over with green glass (That is, that'll be a whopping, what, 700 glass blocks that I need!).  Will stuff still decompose?  If not, I don't care, I'll do it anyways...

I dunno, I think it'd be ironic and awesome to sacrifice him to the GCSs.

I want a DF Boozecruise.

I'm facepalming right now.  One draltha somehow killed 6 dwarves, including 2 poorly armed military ones.  Time to wall off the caverns until I feel that my military can successfully kill a groundhog without any losses.

Edit: Now most of my military has been killed by a combination of 4 dralthas and a bugbat.  RAGE

Edit²: I've lost a total of 18 dwarves to this fiasco.  It's FUBAR.  Several more invalids are about to be purged.  One of them is in a fey mood at a clothier's.  And somehow, something destroyed part of the bridge system that leads to the outside.  Tantruming dwarf?  In any case, I'm hopeful that I can survive the incoming tantrum spiral.

Quote from: Savolainen5 on February 11, 2011, 08:08:16 pm

Well, the Frogman siege is just sitting outside my fort.  There's a perfectly nice way for them to path in, but they're just sitting there.  Haven't even captured their leaders or anything.  They just stopped.  I've even stopped paying attention to them.  Meanwhile, the candy industry is slowly getting going.  Stupid candydwarves aren't working fast enough.  Starting with breastplates and then moving on to other armour.  Steel weapons for now.

Edit: I am anger.  The candy let out the clowns, who, like the creepy-ass mofos they are, decided to break up my happy party with their creepiness.  I am anger.

Frogmen only have access to helms as armor. Mailshirts cover arms, are lighter and are one bar cheaper to produce. But I'm not sure if your fort still stand to make good use of that info ;p

Well, I'll remember it for this fort.  Speaking of which, merchants keep dying when they arrive on site.  That just happened to my first caravan.  Just died as soon as he spawned.  Must've gotten ambushed along the way or something.  I'll have to check it out in Legends mode...

I have four total invalids in my current fort right now who basically just lay in bed and sleep all day. For dwarfitarian reasons I haven't killed them. They just lay there and keep getting fed. Have never seen them wake up. Maybe they're all in comas, but they seem quite happy with their situation. I changed their job titles to "Invalid" so I wouldn't accidentally assign them to anything.

This is precisely what I do, and when I start to collect them, I just lock the doors of the hospital and let them starve/die of dehydration.

Yes, happens to me all the time.  Also "Giant Cave Alligator has given birth to hatchlings" is a common one for me.