I started this map to see what fun I could have with a cave. There wasn't much else interesting about the site, although it's located right in the middle of a bunch of human towns I'd been messing around with in adventure mode, so it will be easy to loot later.
The site has a two layer aquifer, but the existing cave cut straight through that. So I used the cave to get down to the rock layers and started the bulk of my fort below the aquifer.
Then I decided to make a shower that pumped water up from the aquifer, and very stupidly didn't check to make doubly sure that where I was putting it was far enough away from the cave walls. While channeling out the aquifer for the shower, I accidentally hit exactly on one of the cave walls, exposing the aquifer and starting the flooding of my fort.
The dining room was freed, and a meeting zone was set on the first floor, but not all dwarves made it out in time. Various pumps were constructed but to no avail. A section of the cavern was carefully collapsed to punch through the aquifer, but some glitches in the process kept it from being a functional solution until after it was already too late.
And then the survivors started throwing tantrums, getting depressed, and going berserk.
There were 50 dwarves and a handful of animals at the time of the accident. When all was said and done 3 dwarves and 2 animals remained. Two of the dwarves were resting with various red and yellow injuires, one of the animals was a pet donkey (owner deceased) who keeps passing out from the pain of his multiple injuries. The other animal is a tame deer, bough from the elves and put in a cage in front of the old dining hall. I guess the cages are water-tight, as it seems to still be alive based on the unit screen.
Later another animal survivor was disovered, as I tunneled back into some of the rooms in the submerged section. The muskox was more than happy to follow the miner back to the main fort. In addition to the muskox, several beds were retrieved, as well as all the tables and chairs from the old dining hall.
Despite the danger, soon wave after wave of migrants arrived, and now there are more dwarves at the fort than ever before.
The mayor and his wife, two of the survivors, each have gigantic prison sentences which are delayed as I never got around to setting a sheriff or making a jail. But now the hammerer's arrived, so who knows what will happen.
In retrospect, it's obviously way too close to the fort. But it's easy to see that now, with water flooding all the caves. - Mister Six
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