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[Lagg]

Hello, I'm a long time lurker on the forums and thought I'd finally get around to registering. Today I found a particularly interesting migrant, I believe the image speaks for itself:

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That's right, this migrant who had no notable skills apparently took down a hydra at some point in his life and proceeded to pull its nails out and make a crown out of it. It seems like an interesting thing to look at in legends, which I might do after posting this. Needless to say he's the militia commander.

Then directly after that migrant arrived this guy showed up:

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The fire managed to take down a good 20 dwarves and the only thing I could find after it was over was their heads. No arms, lower body, hands. Just their heads. It felt like a pretty damn epic battle at first, but then towards the end I looked at his description.

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Yep. Surprisingly this is my most interesting fortress I've ever done so far and I haven't even broke into the caverns yet.

Edit: It seems Catten was just one incredibly lucky Dwarf. "In 57, the Hydra Talin Breachsweat the Right of Raunch's fourth neck was smashed by Catten"

[Dsarker]

Hehe. Sounds like a pretty cool dorf - and fight.

[omg_scout]

I think that vampire - dwarves conceal their kills.

[Loud Whispers]

I think that vampire - dwarves conceal their kills.

It'd be lethally evident if said hammerdwarf was a vampire

_{You do not suspect... Muahhaha...}

[Lagg]

Yeah that was my initial suspicion too but according to legends she just walked up to a hydra one day and slapped it upside the fourth head and down it went. It's too bad legends doesn't show weapons that were used in major duels of history. But I'm pretty sure she literally slapped it to death. On that note I'm actually wondering if there are any vampires left in this world, this is my first fort that hasn't had one in the 3 years it's been established.

[ledgekindred]

"Them's some pretty nice nails you got there.  They'd make a nifty crown.  I want 'em."

"RAWWRRRRRRR!"

*The hydra bites at Catten, but the blow is deflected!
*Catten is unimpressed
*Catten bitch-slaps the hydra in the fourth head, crushing the skull and driving it into the brain!
*The hydra has been killed

"Like I said...  Gimme."

*Catten walks away whistling with a pocket full of hydra toenails to make into a crown at the nearest village

[Mr S]

Does that imply that someone else had already killed the other heads?  Or does killing any of the heads remove the [CAN_THINK] or [THOUGHT_CENTER] or whatever it is, and kill it?  Haven't had the pleasure of combatting a hydra yet.

[i2amroy]

Hydras can lose heads and still keep fighting.

[BFEL]

You think thats badass? I had a dwarf in legends beat up a troll when she was TWO YEARS OLD.
Apparently she threw her pacifier at it.

[Nyxalinth]

You think thats badass? I had a dwarf in legends beat up a troll when she was TWO YEARS OLD.
Apparently she threw her pacifier at it.

In my Kobold Camp I have a 'bold in legends who took down a troll.  I was impressed.

[Lagg]

Does that imply that someone else had already killed the other heads?  Or does killing any of the heads remove the [CAN_THINK] or [THOUGHT_CENTER] or whatever it is, and kill it?  Haven't had the pleasure of combatting a hydra yet.

Hydras will keep on going up until they bleed to death or you take off all the heads. Unfortunately as far as I know they don't entirely fit the myth yet so when the heads come off they stay off and so it can be easy sometimes to bleed them out. However when browsing notable events in history you'll see if one of the duelers was wounded, while the hydra had several kills and devour entries there were none where it was wounded. Which leads me to believe that Catten was really good at dodging and rolled around like Urist McMaxPayne while the hydra bled out.

[Lagg]

Well this is turning out to be a mighty interesting world. Now it would appear that my civilization has been infiltrated. I need to remember to look these things up in legends later.

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[Sus]

Hydras can lose heads and still keep fighting.

From experience, so will ettins. Even when their upper spine nervous tissue, left head is torn and brain, right head is torn apart. (Wait, what?)