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[Vlynndar]

There was some funny moments though when my mayor kept running around and the goblin liason (yes you heard me right, goblin) kept following (both somehow escaped injury) with the bowgobs chasing and firing away and then chasing after they ran out of arrows/bolts. The funny part was when I activated my mayor to make her get inside, she chased those gobs.

Its like the bowgobs were like "KILL THE DWARF!" and then when she went at them "ACK! DWARF IS ATTACKING, RUN!". Neither the target nor the goblins got killed. It was more comedic than anything.

Another perfect moment for yakety sax.

[smjjames]

It didn't last real long because I wanted to get the liason to safety, so once the mayor had reached a point after the long wall I had recently built, I undrafted her so that she and the liason would path inside.

It was pretty fun though and nobody important got killed.

Although on one note, I did lose my second philosopher (I sacrificed the first one to collapse a big slab of rock). I think he tried to give them a philosophy lession as he seemed to be heading towards the goblins right before he died.

[KenboCalrissian]

One of my dwarves gave birth while sleeping, sharing a bed with her two daughters which were both also sleeping.  Without waking his mother or new sisters, the newborn boy deftly snuck out of bed and crawled all the way down the hallway of my living quarters, up the stairs, and was halfway down one of my main corridors before the mother finally caught up and nabbed him.

Where was he going?  The booze stockpile, of course.

[MuonDecay]

a philosopher has arrived. In her personality...she "regards intellectual exercises as a waste of energy".

This is about as close as a dwarf comes to flipping off the player.

[SquirrelWizard]

my current philosopher is married or a lover with the hammerer of my fortress.

[CobaltKobold]

So, embarked with nothing to try the challenge. No immigrants for two years, things go well- get anvil first caravan plus silver and fuel, letting me get the axe-path started, then get pick next year.

No migrants, but one marriage+child...

Grower gets her baby snatched, the snatcher is shown up on way out the bridge...I draft everyone to get the gobbo when he's about halfway to edge of map, and she just runs him down like lightning, getting there far ahead of others and kills him without pretrained skills or weapon, though he has the usual dagger.

Do not mess with mothers.

[Bardum Idith]

I started to build a house over a lake as a hermit yesterday. Today the first migrants arrived, a fisherdwarf and two peasants with a child. So I drafted the adults, walled them in and they starved. After that I looked at the child's profile:

Vabôk Balimush had been ecstatic lately. She has lost a father to tragedy recently. She has lost a mother to tragedy recently. She has lost a friend to tragedy recently. She has been dehydrated lately. She slept in the dirt recently. She has complained of thirst lately. She has complained of the nasty water lately. She has complained of hunger lately. She has complained of the lack of chairs lately.

VS.

She has been satisfied at work lately. She talked with a friend lately. She has made a friend recently. She admired a fine door lately.

fine door > parents   

[assimilateur]

fine door > parents  

Actually, I think it's more due to that "talked with a friend" and perhaps "made a friend" things. That's because I was under the impression, that those thoughts only showed up once even if they happened repeatedly, so for all you know, she could have talked like a dozen times with friends recently, all of them consoling her or whatever.

It's still ridiculous that they'd be able to console her to the point of being ecstatic even after the death of both parents, but perhaps she (or dwarves in general) is being depicted as a sociopath or something.

[darthbob88]

fine door > parents   

Actually, I think it's more due to that "talked with a friend" and perhaps "made a friend" things. That's because I was under the impression, that those thoughts only showed up once even if they happened repeatedly, so for all you know, she could have talked like a dozen times with friends recently, all of them consoling her or whatever.

It's still ridiculous that they'd be able to console her to the point of being ecstatic even after the death of both parents, but perhaps she (or dwarves in general) is being depicted as a sociopath or something.

Yeah, that's it. Dwarven psychology is craziness; they'll balance out at pretty OK, because on the one hand their entire family got eaten by elephants, but on the other hand they just saw a really nice door. Not even their own door, inasmuch as dwarves are allowed to own anything aside from the shirt on their back, but a door belonging to some other dwarfs entirely whom they don't know.

[assimilateur]

On a side note, it warms my heart when I see a fine piece of engineering or craftsmanship, so getting a good thought from it might be all that ridiculous.

Also, mechanics-wise, I believe this situation of being ecstatic even after losing one's entire family is caused not by admiring doors, but as I said above, by talking to dwarves. That girl got consoled by probably a dozen (the numbers would depend on the previous poster's population and meeting hall design) dwarves right after her parents' death. While it's ridiculous that this made her go ecstatic, it would be reasonable if she ended up "fine" or "content" after a while.

[Bardum Idith]

That girl got consoled by probably a dozen (the numbers would depend on the previous poster's population and meeting hall design) dwarves right after her parents' death.

I play a hermit challenge and killed the first wave of migrants (except this girl), so the total population was 2 
Her only friend died with her parents.

[assimilateur]

Thus unless she did manage to talk to them a lot shortly before they died, I wouldn't know how that was possible. Simply admiring a door would never, at least if I understand the mechanics correctly, be enough to counter the death of parents and friends.

[StrongAxe]

Dwarves building themselves between a floodgate and a grate, and later between a grate and a floodgate.

This didn't surprise me.

What surprised me is that my engineers actually linked up the levers fast enough to get the buggers out alive and sane.

Edit: One of them did die before he could actually get to water though ...

[Psychoceramics]

the economy was just activated in one of my forts. Whatever, I have 0 rent on so I don't have to deal with that nastiness.

after a while, I notice that one couple has a cabinet and a chest. They are the only ones with a cabinet and chest that aren't nobility. They appropriated it (both are legendary) and had them built all on their own. I didn't know they could even do that.