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[MoonSheep]

  my face when i realize that the starting group of dwarves is named 'the sacks of romance'... yeah awkward

[Elf Lover]

...Since when can a BOOKKEEPER do that? I thought he'd be too busy labelling items when my woodworker (who was not insane, melancholy or any other mood) began to run around the fortress, interrupting everything. Well, that's new.

[Henrik Undrgrim]

...Since when can a BOOKKEEPER do that? I thought he'd be too busy labelling items when my woodworker (who was not insane, melancholy or any other mood) began to run around the fortress, interrupting everything. Well, that's new.

Check to see if he is also a captain of the guard because I did the same myself and paid with dwarven blood.

[bukitodinos]

three words Siege, magma, failure

It was the capital too!

[imperium3]

I'm not sure if it's a facepalm or an anti-facepalm but... WARNING SPOILERS!!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I decided to end my fortress by digging down to Hades. I've been very careful with my addy vein, just chipping bits off the edge for fear of a hollow centre. And it barely reaches out of the magma sea, so I've only ever had enough to make a couple of suits for my militia captains, and a few addy helms to go around.

Anyway...

My miner digs into the edge of the spire, and I'm sitting ther literally waiting for all hell to break loose...

Nothing. Solid adamantine. So I dig down. Still solid. I'm now 18 Z levels down, well below the top of the SMR, and it's still solid all the way through. And I now have SO MUCH RAW ADAMANTINE! I don't even know if I want to end it now...

Edit: 671 chunks of raw adamantine and counting... I'm starting to seriously consider building a tower out of the stuff.

[Vehudur]

I'm not sure if it's a facepalm or an anti-facepalm but... WARNING SPOILERS!!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I decided to end my fortress by digging down to Hades. I've been very careful with my addy vein, just chipping bits off the edge for fear of a hollow centre. And it barely reaches out of the magma sea, so I've only ever had enough to make a couple of suits for my militia captains, and a few addy helms to go around.

Anyway...

My miner digs into the edge of the spire, and I'm sitting ther literally waiting for all hell to break loose...

Nothing. Solid adamantine. So I dig down. Still solid. I'm now 18 Z levels down, well below the top of the SMR, and it's still solid all the way through. And I now have SO MUCH RAW ADAMANTINE! I don't even know if I want to end it now...

Edit: 671 chunks of raw adamantine and counting... I'm starting to seriously consider building a tower out of the stuff.

Yeah but when you do hit that hollow spot you're going to know it.

[imperium3]

The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DugTooDeep

[Urist McKiwi]

Order of events:

1st: The idiot miners haul barrels instead of mining. Which is odd, because mining was the only labour enabled. Ah well...
2nd: Wait, the liason is here? Ok, go hold the meeting.
3rd: Why are you shifting barrels and bins again? Get back to mining if you're not going to meet the liason. We need that plug set up to breach the aquifer!
4th: Liason, please stop getting in the way of the plug.
5th: Please stop standing on the plug, liason, you've just shoved the miner onto it and he's about to....oh....
6th: Carpenter, please stop putting stuff in bins, and make a pair of coffins. Stonecrafter, you're a miner now. Other Guy, you're also a miner now.
7th: hey, the water froze. So that whole plug thing was un-needed. Right. let's get cracking!
8th: Why are you doing that? I set your designations so you WOULDN'T get yourselves encased in-......oh, too late.
9th: Carpenter, please stop drinking, putting things in beds, and jerking off to pictures of the traders beard, and go and make FOUR coffins. Since you still haven't made the first two.
10th: Ah what the hell *savescum*

[Splint]

Order of events:

1st: The idiot miners haul barrels instead of mining. Which is odd, because mining was the only labour enabled. Ah well...
2nd: Wait, the liason is here? Ok, go hold the meeting.
3rd: Why are you shifting barrels and bins again? Get back to mining if you're not going to meet the liason. We need that plug set up to breach the aquifer!
4th: Liason, please stop getting in the way of the plug.
5th: Please stop standing on the plug, liason, you've just shoved the miner onto it and he's about to....oh....
6th: Carpenter, please stop putting stuff in bins, and make a pair of coffins. Stonecrafter, you're a miner now. Other Guy, you're also a miner now.
7th: hey, the water froze. So that whole plug thing was un-needed. Right. let's get cracking!
8th: Why are you doing that? I set your designations so you WOULDN'T get yourselves encased in-......oh, too late.
9th: Carpenter, please stop drinking, putting things in beds, and jerking off to pictures of the traders beard, and go and make FOUR coffins. Since you still haven't made the first two.
10th: Ah what the hell *savescum*

Cut off the last bit and that's probably many a fortress' average day right there. Or maybe only 4 dead from an aquifer incident is just a slow day, I dunno.

[Niccolo]

Order of events:

1st: The idiot miners haul barrels instead of mining. Which is odd, because mining was the only labour enabled. Ah well...
2nd: Wait, the liason is here? Ok, go hold the meeting.
3rd: Why are you shifting barrels and bins again? Get back to mining if you're not going to meet the liason. We need that plug set up to breach the aquifer!
4th: Liason, please stop getting in the way of the plug.
5th: Please stop standing on the plug, liason, you've just shoved the miner onto it and he's about to....oh....
6th: Carpenter, please stop putting stuff in bins, and make a pair of coffins. Stonecrafter, you're a miner now. Other Guy, you're also a miner now.
7th: hey, the water froze. So that whole plug thing was un-needed. Right. let's get cracking!
8th: Why are you doing that? I set your designations so you WOULDN'T get yourselves encased in-......oh, too late.
9th: Carpenter, please stop drinking, putting things in beds, and jerking off to pictures of the traders beard, and go and make FOUR coffins. Since you still haven't made the first two.
10th: Ah what the hell *savescum*

Cut off the last bit and that's probably many a fortress' average day right there. Or maybe only 4 dead from an aquifer incident is just a slow day, I dunno.

No, no, that sounds about right.

Except there's no mention of packs of badgers tearing ass through the campsite or bears stealing all of the booze.

[Splint]

Bah of course! I knew I forgot something!

Make it giant badgers though. Or unicorns. Unicorns are evil kidney gouging bastards, and giant badgers paint walls with dwarven baby blood.

[Reudh]

I should break down my recent happenings.

1. The mason assigned to build the Great Adamantine Road of Limulunnos in order that we may become the mountainhome is being lazy. No bother, I disable his labour to let one of the other six masons take over. They ignore it.
2. I find out it's because a goblin had died on the spot the GAR was being built. DORVES; Y U NO THINK TO MOVE THE ITEMS ASIDE LIKE WITH WORKSHOPS?
3. Liaison arrives. "I have arrived to empower your land as a county!"
4. FUUUUUU. Lazy Mason #1 and #2 are drafted as a ramschackle militia for one year for their laziness. Two idling dwarves (a fish cleaner and a peasant) are selected to replace them.
5. A vile force of darkness has arrived! The Inky Busts and the Bronze Temple are stationed at the entrance. The civilian alert is sounded. The drawbridge is raised, sealing the dwarves of Vathezzan and Limulunnos inside. The Bronze Temples and the Inky Busts are sealed outside.
6. Inod Gankivish, one of our two medical dwarves is caught outside. Her baby is ripped from her grasp and slaughtered. Oddly, Inod remains Ecstatic.
7. A hunter is surprised by a lone goblin. The hunter unloads his entire quiver in a few seconds, killing the hapless goblin. The hunter flees.
8. Our other medical dwarf, the Chief Medical Dwarf who does the majority of the hospital work anyway is struck by a fey mood!
9. He goes to one of the three workshops near the Spoilerite which are at Z-57. The supplies he uses are at Z-1 and 2.
10. By the time he has finally gathered all of his items (bones, raw spoilerite, spoilerite bars, wood) the Inky Busts and the Bronze Temples have ruined the goblin's day. Three of the military are wounded. One was killed.
11. By the time the CMD has finished his work, the three wounded are beginning to get thirsty. Finally they get seen to.
12. Zefon Abodnish, our Baroness chucks a tantrum because we didn't have a new room ready the second she was elevated to Countess.
13. She destroys her own statue, calms down, attempts to beat herself and fails.

Silly Countess Zefon.
6.

[Garath]

The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DugTooDeep

Dwarf Fortress, where even Hell isn't digging too deep

[Hybrid]

Hmm, let`s see...

• "An ambush! Curse them!"
• Raise the drawbridge!
• Hah! The 2 goblins fell into the pit!
• Go, my squads! Finish the last few goblins!
• Snatchers too? Damn!
• 3 minutes later and they still are chasing that pikeman!
• Oh god! Every dwarf is running around outside like an idiot! Gah, I forgot to set them an area to stay in! *facepalm*
• Eh, the pikeman still is being chased
• WHAT THE F*CK!? MY DINING AREA IS FLOODING!
• Wait, I forgot to close the floodgate *facepalm*
• Wait, he`s STILL not dead? And you`re injured, too? Screw this *Abandons fort*

And thus "Knightrings" was abandoned, now inhabited by some forgotten beast who made it in my fort from the outside.

Should have tried to get it back in working shape, but I abandoned it. Oh well...

[bombzero]

The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DugTooDeep

whoa.. DF has been linked too on TvTropes...