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Podesta

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Forgotten Beast!
« on: September 02, 2012, 04:23:08 pm »

OK, it's late spring in Zulashnisgak (Painfrost), and after 3 visits of uninvited guests that couldn't reach my fortress I decide there was no room for more than one ruler on the underground. I prepare my men and send them to be stationed on the passage that was about to be opened by the miners. After the last piece of the wall is on the ground, they stay there, but nothing happens. Apparently the monster decided it was time to take a bath, and didn't leave from the depths of the underground lake. So i start to drain the entire lake, and after that I finally feel the excitement of being able to face such a creature (my first forgotten beast), known for the destruction it caused. So I send my man to attack, still with fear about the results that could come from such a battle. And thats the result:

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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2012, 04:28:05 pm »

The Railgun Crossbow Is the most Overpowered piece of shit !!Fun!! weapon in-game so far
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2012, 04:48:57 pm »

Try saying that when marksdwarves are only aiming at fingers and teeth.
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2012, 04:49:42 pm »

BOOM

HEADSHOT


You know a steel, even wooden bolt fired from a crossbow should be able to do this to a humanoid. What was this FB made out of?

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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2012, 06:48:22 pm »

Ahaha, it was a nematode  with cerulean hair.. It just gets better, lol

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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2012, 06:56:37 pm »

Satisfying to kill your first FB, isn't it?

They can be anywhere from trivial to totally overwhelming. Just wait 'til you get one with syndrome dust or made out of rock.
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2012, 08:25:22 pm »

Satisfying to kill your first FB, isn't it?

They can be anywhere from trivial to totally overwhelming. Just wait 'til you get one with syndrome dust or made out of rock.
Or both! Or one with webs made of gem! Nightmare I tell you. Required my entire military to throw themselves at him simultanueusly. But it got overwhelmed quickly by the 55+ Heavily armed and trained dwarves, so it went down pretty well.
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2012, 08:31:33 pm »

Or if you get a beast made of steam or something that vomits its syndromey stuff over a public area before you can kill it...
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2012, 08:40:24 pm »

The first titan I ever faced had me worried to death that it would massacre my entire fort, pretty much same thing happened to me, only it wasn't a crossbow, it was a regular once-kobold's bow that my only marksdwarf used, he shot it in the lower body and cut it in half in one shot. It was made of steam.
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2012, 08:42:47 pm »

Once upon a time, liquid and gaseous creatures would be nigh indestructible. Now they question how they can hold themselves together with every hit they take.
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2012, 08:48:05 pm »

I had my second FB come to the fort and I thought about taking one on, when I realized that one had stopped showing on the screen.  I had forgotten to disable hunting and a hunter zapped the steam thing in half
I looked for it for like 2 minutes before realizing it turned into a tiny little puddle -- bye bye steam FB.
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2012, 09:05:04 pm »

Physics at work, my friend.
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Re: Forgotten Beast!
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2012, 09:05:56 pm »

The caverns must've been some awesome sauna when that thing was alive. Up until you suffocated, but really, that's a minor detail.