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(wow I feel old. 3+ years!).

Ugh, you made me check when I registered. March of 2011, so I'm coming up on my 5 year anniversary in joining the forum. These old bones are feeling it, too.

You would think seeing the defeated remains of a hated enemy would make them happy, not horrified...

I must confess I probably don't 'update' properly, which is why I'm concerned for my world, lol. Normally I just completely wipe my DF folder clean, and put in all new folders. I play as straight vanilla as possible, I only change my pop cap, warm/wet stone digging cancellations, and yearly saving.


Edit: Yep. Updated and now it seems to work. Also, my strange mood leatherworker [whom I'd forgotten about] is finally going about the business of collecting stuff, where he wasn't before. So everything seems to be working now.

I think I missed the last... 2 or 3 updates? I think I am playing 40.19

I don't even know how this happened. 
 
I was running a very good Fort this time. Everything was going smoothly. I had a bit of a problem getting drinks because I'm a perfectionist, but I got through it and everything was fine. Everyone was happy. I had three squads training year round. No metal, so they were still in the wood shield/training axe/bone helm phase of deployment, but some of them were legendary fighters and the like. Everything was fine. 
 
But then it wasn't. 
 
A werelizard came. Killed two civilians before my military could beat him to death. He wounded two soldiers. One recovered, apparently unaffected, but the other had contracted the disease. My Fort has a long hallway to traverse before getting into the base proper in the mountain, and my military trained near the entrance so they could hold off anything trying to get in. Well, right as a Hauler was walking by, the second soldier morphed intoa  werelizard and gutted him. My military descended upon him and after a brutal fight [legendary fighters, and all.] they downed him. Suddenly I had more dead civilians and wounded military. Then I noticed they kept fighting. Civilians began punching either other. A stoneworker and a brewer got into a fist fight in the hallway. An axedwarf and a farmer teamed up against an Axe Lord, who handed them their asses on a plate. My three doctors, undisturbed by the violence, would run in, grab the wounded, and haul them off to my hospital which was barely even functional at this point. As more and more combatants were transported, the fighting slowly migrated to the hospital. The majority of my military is now dead or dying, my civilians are either horrified, suffering from emotional shock, or are punching each other. The stoneworker and brewer from earlier both passed out, were dragged to the hospital in beds beside one another, woke up and went back to punching each other in the head. They've tired, and severely wounded, but refuse to give up their little feud. 
 
I don't even know how this happened, but I love it.

It's definitely slathered in the DF essence. It's really kind of sad that Toady took them out. At least, I'm fairly certain I read that the underground structures were removed. It's been a while so I guess they could have been added back since then. If they have, maybe I should hunt one down. You guys could get a low budget, direct-to-DVD sequel.
 
Dragonwork 2: The Dwarfening

Pull the sword.