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[Mrhappyface]

This is a really boner-killing piss off and makes me orgasmically joyful at the same time. A zombie kills a person, who then becomes a zombie who kills the next person and so on and so on. It's a fuckin' pain on embark (lost 5 teams that way; Damn zombie weaselpeople), but is awesome when a goblin ambush ended up fighting themselves after one lucky shot from a marksdwarf. Think Dead Space, including all the fun times with severed limbs. 
Share your zombie spiral stories.

[greatorder]

I embarked on an evil flat area. nothing turned up for 30 secs, so I thought 'OK, this is gonna be one of those 'evil' biomes where fuck all happens'

a zombie skunk arrived, and I thought 'oh, hey, it won't be as boring as I thought. I bet skunks are killed easily' and my dog went after the skunk and tore it apart. Some zombie kangaroos entered, and I thought 'well, I hope they stay away from my dwarves'
They did, but then someone called 'Bim' I think it was, went to the caravan to get a drink. The skunk came back to life and started to chase him. he ran straight into the zombie 'roos and was killed. He came back from the dead, my dogs were killed by him, who in turn were zombified.

I began to lose track at this point, and the cat became a zombie, along with another dwarf. The 'roos were still kicking about and the skunk was hanging around my fort entrance. The dogs met the miners, and the miners tore tham a new hole. Several, actually, and lopped off the head of a dwarf. at this point, I thought it prodent to make a corpse stockpile far away from the fort entrance. Bim and the other dwarf were taken out by the miners, and the dogs came back (one headless dog, and the animated head of a dog, as well as a dog missing it's front left paw, and a zombie front left dog's paw) and as one of the dwarves was carrying a corpse to the stockpile, he threw a tantrum, tossing said corpse onto the pile, saving him some work.

The dogs killed a dwarf, who also came back, and then my miners were overwhelmed, and mr tantrum and one miner were all that was left. In a last ditch effort, I recruited the pair of them into the military to try and thin the ranks of the zombies, but it was futile. they overwhelmed the two poor dwarves and my settlement crumbled to it's end.

[Kestrel]

Should be interesting to see what clever zombie quarantine efforts people come up with.

[Elf Lover]

Should be interesting to see what clever zombie quarantine efforts people come up with.

ZOMBIE MOAT.

[Deathsword]

Should be interesting to see what clever zombie quarantine efforts people come up with.

ZOMBIE MOAT.

The main problem with that is getting the corpses to keep dead long enough for you to drop them there.

[Elf Lover]

Should be interesting to see what clever zombie quarantine efforts people come up with.

ZOMBIE MOAT.

The main problem with that is getting the corpses to keep dead long enough for you to drop them there.

Kill all creatures on a retractable bridge which is over the moat. Retract bridge. Profit.

[Kestrel]

Actually, I'm envisioning a zombie pit to drop my captured enemies into. Heh heh heh...

[Zaerosz]

I'm just dumping all my dwarf corpses down a walled-off 2z-deep pit so they can't get out. They'll get incinerated once I get down to magma level.

EDIT: Also, I find it somewhat odd that my metalworker is still listed as 'missing' despite his zombie being listed as 'deceased'.

[Murphy]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

[Mrhappyface]

I'm just dumping all my dwarf corpses down a walled-off 2z-deep pit so they can't get out. They'll get incinerated once I get down to magma level.

EDIT: Also, I find it somewhat odd that my metalworker is still listed as 'missing' despite his zombie being listed as 'deceased'.

I wonder, are there ghosts from dead dwarves, even though they are zombies?

[Deathsword]

I'm just dumping all my dwarf corpses down a walled-off 2z-deep pit so they can't get out. They'll get incinerated once I get down to magma level.

EDIT: Also, I find it somewhat odd that my metalworker is still listed as 'missing' despite his zombie being listed as 'deceased'.

I wonder, are there ghosts from dead dwarves, even though they are zombies?

I belive Toady said that it is possible to get both ghosts and zombies out of the same dwarf.

[Kestrel]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

I probably missed the note on this somewhere, but does anything that dies in a sinister area reanimate?

[i2amroy]

Pretty much, yeah.

[Deathsword]

Any evil area, actually. So as long as it is a biome that is classified as Sinister (low savagery), Haunted (medium savagery) or Sinister (high savagery) it might rise up.

[Mrhappyface]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

There's a good reason why the dwarves in evil areas are vegetarians.