So I recently accidentally broach HFS... a second time. I had done it earlier this fort, but luckily sealed it back up before the hordes upon hordes of demons swarmed me. Eight or so years later, as I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel of my blue veins (well, actually, more like discovering the bottom of the iceberg) I accidentally breach it... AGAIN.
I obviously need to be more careful.
Anyway, this time I wasn't even paying attention when it happened, and no notification came up. Lucky for me, it seems opening up a new entrance to HFS in a new blue vein doesn't respawn a new invasion fleet, and no demons immediately swarmed in. I noticed before anyone came in, I (thought) I sealed it up, and everything is fine, right?
Well, wrong, actually. Turns out I the way I had breached HFS was with a staircase on the side of the tube, and it opened both horizontally AND vertically into HFS, and I only sealed the horizontal. A few months later I receive the notification, "Miner cancels dig: Interrupted by flat worm clown."
I nearly have a heartattack. I quickly zoom to the announcement and see that indeed, two flat worm clowns have begun chasing around a miner, who is doggedly 10 squares or so ahead of them. I quickly station my military to head them off. They head over, the flat worm clowns breath out some poisonous gas engulfing the miners and the entire squad, the squad kills the clowns, and then the miner and one entire squad of military dwarfs is paralyzed and suffocate to death.
Well, shoot, I think, that sucks.
But low and behold! Flat worm clown corpses! My prodigious butcher shop gets to work and pretty soon I find myself the proud owner of 118 globs of flat worm clown tallow. I'm currently waiting for it to be rendered, but the solution is obvious: I need to make me some flat worm clown soap.
The only question is, what to do with that? Save it for a mood? Build a monument out of soap to the fallen dwarves? Stock a hospital built in the HFS itself once I implement my budding plan of copying that guy who colonized the HFS? What should I do with my newfound globby loot?
I'm taking all suggestions. In particular models of monuments that are beautiful, dwarfy, and involve exactly 118 bars of soap would be great.
Okay, so... Flatworms. They're worms. Usually intestinal parasites, IIRC. But these are
giant. And also demons. Who are also full of toxic gases or blood or stuff.
This raises two questions...
1. How does a critter like that evolve? Does this mean there used to be more, even giant-er creatures in the depths whose insides played host to these abominations before they attained demony wormy parasitic sentience and ATE THEIR WAY OUT and 2. OH GOD BURN THE HERETIC KILL THE MUTANT PURGE THE UNCLEAN.
Build an unholy tomb from the vile substance, wall your least-favorite dwarf in alive, and drop the whole thing into the magma sea.
...I can't believe dorfs consider the intestines of an unholy gut parasite to be FOOD. D:
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