Some of you here have probably seen better, but Id like to share my first tantrum spiral with you. it was rather silly and violent to a fort that, until then, had seen NO violence. the only attacks made on it in all of its twelve years of life had been a giant, a were-camal, and a plains titan.
one bright and clear morning, a high master marksdwarves four (out of 5) children and wife were killed in a collapsing cavern accident. no idea how they got under there, they just were. he became miserable, and as I watched he suddenly began to flash with the one thing no one wants to see on a near legendary fighter, a red "!". he climbed up onto the wall enclosing the tower I had started building and began picking off children and dogs. I sent the militia after him and lost three recruits. unfortunately, these recruits had grown from children in the fort. along with all the other children who had just been shot and killed AND the pets and various work dwarves injured and killed, things had become ripe for a coup. dwarves started to tantrum or go berserk. a child punched the teeth out of a miners head, who in exchange put the tip of his pick into the childs head! the crazed marksdwarf who started all this continued his rampage by swinging his crossbow around at anything he could reach and was brought down by a mule. things were looking bad. I posted my militia in the main hall where all the major incidents were occurring but to no avail, the militia had been all but destroyed. not paying attention to what I was doing, I punched several holes in the thin wall keeping the ocean out of the animal storage/training room. no problem about the water though, I could just drain out the room and- a tantruming dwarf destroys one of the doors blocking the water from the rest of the fort. the plains titan appears suddenly, it is a massive flat worm with a regal demeanor. beware its webs. it descends on the fort and sprays plains titan silk all over the place, tying up the new ramshackle militia and killing what few animals are left, the booze catches fire for some reason. the dwarves try to get to the clothing left behind by those killed by the titan, the front gate is simply turning into a pile of corpses! what do I need a wall for? I have this fetching pile of bodies! finally, after a long battle the titan goes down and I am left with 10 very unhappy dwarves. three of them are malencolic or stark raving mad, one is berserk and hiding out in the still room, the other 6 are either tantruming, or dont really care about anything anymore. no immigrants come in the next year, a couple more of the dwarves go crazy and kill the others. down to just two dwarves I decide to abandon when DF crashes, restarting the whole thing over again.
im certain anybody could out do this, so lets hear em.
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