The hamlet of Keskaleshtan (shotsmith) has an interesting history in less than two years.
Year 1.0: Lots of migrants, almost all related.
1.2: Things go really well
1.3: Cave croc attack, animals injured, mostly the chickens in the cave.
1.5: Dwarf injured by crock, the cheesmaker Oddom
1.5.1: Giant cave spider gets in, fail to notice, two die.
1.5.2: militia sent.
1.5.3: Militia walks around moving junk rather than fight, keep canceling and finally wander after the critter one at a time.
1.5.5: 50% of fort dead via spider
1.5.8: 99.99% of fort dead via spider
1.6: Oddom alive, he laid down below in the caves the whole time sobbing and begging for someone to carry him away safely. His injury? Crock bit his leg, no real injury but he bawled his eyes out over it.
1.7: Oddom now last survivor, spider leaves as legendary named cave spider for all the kills to its name. Dwarven militia in Shotsmith's will be remembered as horrible joke gone wrong.
Year 2: Oddom sole survivor, no shortage of food, drink nor things to do. Not enough hands to move corpses so they are left right where they are. Other priorities.
During the interim times to present Oddom found his dead wife, children, friends, family, etc. They are all dead. All of em. Caravan shows up eventually, he trades a bunk of junk and waits for migrants. 90% of his time is spent sobbing in a corner or pulling his hair out. Migrants show up, Oddom not alone anymore but doesnt want anything to do with them, wanders halls half of the time screaming and having conniptions. New dwarves start to do same, the horrors are just too much, corpses are now stored in with the food stockpile because there is no room yet. Every time they want a drink or something to eat they have to stare at a bloated, rotting dwarf corpses. But hey, fun!
More migrants how up, fort now divided, half are in a permanent mood while the others soldier on. Most are like Oddom now wandering around or a few ran through the halls screaming their lungs out. Oddom meanwhile is in charge of the place and hates it, he weeps forever for the loss of his dear wife. He never gets anything done anymore. Oddom keeps going into moods and the game registers he is no longer leader, he quit. Oddom leaves mood, game gives his title back, Oddom starts screaming again.
Game: "Good luck buddy! You got your job back!"
Oddom: "AAAGGGHHH!!!"
Strangely enough the one dwarf who finally snapped was a migrant not Oddom. The new captain of the guard... Poor feller just stopped moving one day, just stood there and died.
Update: 80%+ now have an EXTREME case of shell shock. They stumble around attacking shadows. An endless supply of mercenaries keep showing up wanting to stay so they can "eradicate monsters" but I am pretty sure they are referring to my dwarves now.
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