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[FreakyCheeseMan]

Got my first forgotten beast. massive, 8-legged sauropod attacked my soldiers, miners and builders as they were trying to extend the main stairwell through the second cavern level.

By the way, my fortress? 18 dwarves. I thought FBs started showing at 80?

Anyway, fight didn't last long, seeing as my military were still equipped with training axes- I'd really only sent them there to bring the war dogs along, as the last time I breached a cavern level I got what was apparently the large rat equivalent of a streaker at a football game- ran through my fortress and made all my dwarves cancel their jobs.

So, yeah... Military got ripped apart, went back to an earlier save. I'll let you know what happens when I meet it with some actual force, next time.

[Urist McTaverish]

You dug too deep.

[Organum]

Forgotten beasts care not a bit about how many dwarves are in your fortress. They're plenty happy to rip holes in a fledgling.

[godisdead132]

I got what was apparently the large rat equivalent of a streaker at a football game- ran through my fortress and made all my dwarves cancel their jobs.

sigged lol 

[Eric Blank]

Don't prepare for that specific beast again. They're randomly selected from the ones in your legends list and you'll almost certainly get a completely different one, even more deadly than the last. They ARE on a schedule though, so it'll arrive at roughly the same time. Best hope is to wall things off so it can't attack, then set a series of cave-ins to trap it in a section of the caverns so you can drop goblins in with it and enjoy the display.

[FreakyCheeseMan]

I think it was already on-map at the time of the save- I got the "has arrived" message when it entered explored space. I'll know for sure when I actually explore that level.

Second try went fine. Reassigned my military and all idlers as masons, tore through and walled off the stairwell before anything could get to me.

I like to imagine what my fort must look like to a cavern explorer... Walls and pilliars of limestone, somtimes for or five a-levels high, sometimes just barely appearing at all, always melding back into natural rock without a single opening.