Attack of The Weregiraffes!

Im migrating my content over from my r*ddit accout, so here was the story about my first fort!

After about 15hrs in my first fort, it finally happened. It imploded on itself.

I had just finished outlasting a siege from a nearby necromancer. Everything was going smooth, I was working on a couple mine cart rails, and getting an underground source of water when I notice that one of the adventurers in my Tavern had turned into a Weregiraffe, and killed one of my Dwarves. Well, I figured I had to stop it, so I send my squad of Dwarves in to dispatch of it, and they make fairly short work of it. No big deal, I think, problem solved. Right?

Well, shortly after, another one of the tavern goers turns into a were giraffe as well. I send my squad to get rid of it. Problem is, I start attacking this one, and about 5 other people turn into weregiraffes and absolutely shred my dwarves, gone in an instant. A giant bloodbath ensues as the remaining tavern members, my remaining dwarves, and the weregiraffes are all fighting inside the tavern. Blood, guts, and body parts everywhere.

I sit there in awe as I watch my dwarves slowly dying, just hoping a few can make it out alive to continue running the fort if at all possible. After about 5 minutes of fighting, I notice that my game is starting to slow down, frame rate dropping harshly. I see that there are no more weregiraffes, only my dwarves, a few tavern members, and ... a bunch of ghouls. I check the logs and see that there are a bunch of dwarven ghouls dying, and immediately being re-animated, then dying again, then being re-animated. It appears that there were a few necromancers among my tavern members as well...

These necromancers appear to be locked in an eternal battle of attacking dwarves, re-animating them, in a never ending fashion. The FPS is unplayable and, looking at legends, the dwarves have been re-animated almost a hundred times each.

So there they shall remain, eternally locked in their battle of black magic. I will be starting anew elsewhere.

Losing really is fun!