I had quite an interesting migrant: he showed up with a title, six dwarf kills in his list, and this:
`w11 Shorast' Imushzareth Keshshaktogal...
He is a citizen of The Blunt Paints. he is a member of The Staff of Skills. He is feared as a killer by The Spears of Shade. He is feared as a killer by The Staff of Skulls. He arrived at Rikkirzuntir on the 17th of Slate in the year 258
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HIs third toe, right foot is broken. His third toe, right foot is smashed open. His nose is broken.
I initially feared that Shorast Dikedeserts the Sweltering Storms might cause a loyalty cascade, but he walked right past the soldiers training in the entryway and proceeded through a crowded hallway to vampire quarantine, which he cleared successfully.
I consulted legends and found that he was a survivor of the riots from early in 0.40. He was a miner in Torchborn, a dwarven hillocks, when my adventurer Pabat Galleyreward the Harmonious Fellowship showed up and instigated a riot with her very presence. Boegeymen then invaded the building and Pabat & many dwarves died. The next year, elves conquered the site. A year and a half later, Shorast married, and six years after that he migrated to Whiskeranvils.
I'm left wondering what I should do with him. He's a novice miner, a novice fighter & a talented building designer, and the only dwarf in my fortress with a title.
After he arrived, I didn't play for a few weeks. I then upgraded to 0.40.13 and observed that despite regular outdoor work, many dwarves were cave-adapted. Other than that, a kea attack being shot down and a puppy mysteriously falling down the stairs, nothing remarkable happened.
A season after the upgrade, in the early summer of 258, I got the largest goblin invasion this site's yet seen. It was still small enough that I expected my standing army to brutally crush it, and the goblins were using the same tactics as usual, so I sent my army to the standard intercept points. The marksdwarves should have opened fire from high ground as soon as the goblins cleared the treeline, after which the primary & backup melee troops should have charged.
What actually happened is that the marksdwarves stood around twiddling their beards. Not one bolt was loosed. The melee troops mostly stood there too, except for RCL Tulon Zuglaramkin, second-in-command of the spear squad, who dropped down the hill, danced around & got his head caved in.
Seeing this inaction, I moved all the melee troops up into direct contact & started calling up reserves. The dwarves moved in but mostly stood around dodging, blocking & making snarky comments. Marksdwarves finally started firing, but it was too little & too late. The predictable thing happened, and all told ten dwarves fell in battle. The spear squad lost more than half its members (including some promising dwarves); with only four dwarves left it's going to be a while before they can fight again. The other front-line squads suffered some losses but are still combat-ready.
The goblins were eventually killed or put to flight (I didn't see if any escaped) and the trolls scattered. There is only one survivor, Song the troll, whom the military seems to be actively avoiding. She's been shot up and has several broken bones, but the marksdwarves are the only ones who've even tried to do anything about her. Now everyone seems to be ignoring her: she's been standing systematically mutilating one of w2 Ral Mortalfountains, legendary weaver & clothier, who was out hauling after the battle.
I have called out everyone, including green units, the fortress guard and the zombie containment specialists, and ordered them to kill Song, but they don't seem to care. There are more than fifty soldiers standing around within six tiles just watching her break Ral's bones. Some are suffering from cave-adaptation, but there are swordmasters, axe lords & legendary war miners with legendary discipline & no symptoms standing around doing nothing. We're short on textile workers already, and if Ral dies they're going to have even more reason to complain about their worn-out clothes.
It seems my dwarves only attack things that personally attack them first. If they insist on this cowardice, I'm very tempted to decimate them. Of course, if I do that, I'll have 17 slots to fill on top of the new slots from my recent military expansion, and I might need to activate the mass-casualty burial procedures.
Edit: the troll keeps passing out from exhaustion. At least now she's constantly missing soldiers instead of my legendary clothier.
... oh wait, that didn't last long. My soldiers will wear rags because, with the possible exception of Mistem Stakudtilesh who actually bothered to shoot Song Otkelsmunstu once, that is all they deserve.
Edit: okay, that troll killed a recruit and w1 Meng Lornir the war miner, then mauled some soldiers and w5 Stukos Fokeriden the legendary engraver before RCL Rakust Nethgoden the axemaster deigned to one-shot it. Decimation's too good for these dwarves.
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