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[NJW2000]

That's some fucked-up dwarven kindness.

[Sprin]

Me playing 6 months of a succession fortress according to Necrothreat

[Sutremaine]

I just witnessed the death of one of the darkest threads on bay 12. Its humor was perfectly dark, showing the horrible treatment of dwarf kind.

Oh. Which one was that?

[TheBiggerFish]

I just witnessed the death of one of the darkest threads on bay 12. Its humor was perfectly dark, showing the horrible treatment of dwarf kind.

Oh. Which one was that?

I think it got necro'd, actually.

Also sig'd.

[Somebodyelse]

Once I had a fresh embark that started my dwarves near a scattered pile of random armor and skeletons.

I checked the surrounding for why and found a zombie Roc a dozen squares from my wagon.

GG

[Urlance Woolsbane]

But, seriously, though. I just witnessed a dog that had gotten the back half of its body chopped off at the legs. Essentially, It would pull itself around, pulling on its body as it dragged its intestines around. I tried to have him slaughtered, but he was adopted.

He can make it on his own!

[Amperzand]

Once I had a fresh embark that started my dwarves near a scattered pile of random armor and skeletons.

I checked the surrounding for why and found a zombie Roc a dozen squares from my wagon.

GG

oh jesus christ

I can see that ending badly.

[LordPorkins]

I Once spawned in next to a cliff, and one of my dwarves ended uo midair. He was decapitated upon hitting bottom. We couldnt reach his body for a month.

[Veylon]

A while back, I was playing a surface fort with all dwarves living and working in buildings. My miners discover Adamantium! I celebrate this accomplishment by creating a dedicated adamantium processing building with nine workshops.

But then disaster strikes. A horrible monster tick crawls out of the underworld right into the middle of my fort. My military promptly slaughter the thing. Satisfied by the pool of monster tick gore, I write off the episode as a success.

Big mistake. The blood carries a plague that causes flesh rot. Dwarves - starting with my military heroes - are dragged one after another to my hospital where despite the desperate work of the doctors, they slowly perish. Everyone catches it. Everyone.

And then the tantrum spiral sets in. Everyone at my hospital - which is everyone at this point - engages in the mother of all brawls. They writhes insanely across the blood-soaked floor, gouging and biting at one another as madness claims their minds just as the rot has claimed their bodies. It was downright hellish.

[Thorgrim Grudgebearer]

I once had a dwarf, a clerk who was a part of my citizen militia (they were all equipped with crossbows and leather Armour of course). And he was inevitably injured when he was dragged into the underground lake by a giant cave spider. for months they fought in cold dark water the clerk barely keeping his head above the waves. And in one of the most bad-ass displays i have ever seen he killed a giant cave spider by himself in water while have the majority of his bones broken. He dragged himself out of the water with broken legs and arms and was dragged to the hospital.

You would think that would be the end of the story, Heroic dwarf shows amazing skills and lives to fight another day. Well the citizens of this fort had another idea. It appeared that he had accidentally hit another dwarf with a crossbow bolt during his epic fight and that dwarf and his friends were pissed. I am not joking when I say he was dragged to a isolated hospital bed and was beaten upon by 10 guys. The thing is he survived for far longer than he should have, they took eyes, ears and teeth. they broke bones and punctured organs. But the awful thing the awful, awful thing. that actually made me laugh in pity and despair was that The chief medical dwarf still patched him up. Soon there were not any eyes or ears or teeth left so they started taking limbs. And when they cut him up and broke his bones and took his tongue he was healed by a passing doctor. This happened for 2 years until he was a quadriplegic, deaf, blind cripple who was put out his misery by the passing Axe lord by a swift chop to the head.

Never have I seen something so cruel. Amok save us all.         

[LordPorkins]

I had a very long playthrough where many terrible things happened due to the fort i was recoaiming and the terrible mods i created. Im making a forum story of it here. Search Boozeweiser

[greycat]

It appeared that he had accidentally hit another dwarf with a crossbow bolt during his epic fight and that dwarf and his friends were pissed.

That shouldn't be possible unless the dwarf who got hit was not a fortress dwarf.  There's no "friendly fire" in this game.  No matter how badly you miss, you may hit a different enemy but not someone on your own side.

This does sound like a miniature loyalty cascade, though.  Makes me wonder what the actual trigger event was.

[pikachu17]

on embark everyone is on top of a frozen river.
6 seconds later everyone except the hunter (who had good sense to get to dry land) was drowning. I took pity on them and used dfhack to teleport them to dry land. a few died because stuff fell of the wagon and killed them. also for anyone who wants to know you can resurrect dead people with full-heal -r

[Dutrius]

It's a good thing my dwarves are ambidextrous.

I once had a woodcutter who got hit by a falling log that crushed his right hand, mangling it beyond recognition.
He got up and continued cutting down trees afterwards. He was lucky.

I once had a woodcutter who was not so lucky. A log crushed his throat.
He still managed to cut down another tree before he bled to death, though. Talk about dedication.

[Thorgrim Grudgebearer]

It appeared that he had accidentally hit another dwarf with a crossbow bolt during his epic fight and that dwarf and his friends were pissed.

That shouldn't be possible unless the dwarf who got hit was not a fortress dwarf.  There's no "friendly fire" in this game.  No matter how badly you miss, you may hit a different enemy but not someone on your own side.

This does sound like a miniature loyalty cascade, though.  Makes me wonder what the actual trigger event was.

Really? That is quite interesting, I do wonder what the hell could of caused it then.