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[tyrman]

So I've played for a few years now, on and off.  I can get to a point where my forts can get fairly comfortable until they inevitably die from slowdown.  So I say, "tyrman, my lad, it's time to embark to an evil biome!"

Yeah.  Some kind of murky rain fell on my dorfs immediately, started melting them, and then... then the zombified ravens came.  Chillingly, they pecked out the eyes first

So I picked a new embark, 4x4.  Half of it was a savage woodland, the other a terrifying evil biome to the north.  I feverishly brought everything down a z-level once I spotted the horde of a dozen or so bloodthirsty owlman corpses.  My dorfs gripped their weapons grimly and I waited for... ...

Huh, where are those owlmen anyway?



Turns out they'd spotted a Giant Sponge.  And they hated it.  The whole horde just settled on it, beating the crap out of the giant sponge.  It took about a year for my fort to get almost walled off, unfortunately due to a pesky aquifer that took forever to slip through.  I was in the process of finishing the last bit (the roof) when undead keamen descended on my lone (priceless, doomed) woodcutter, killed him, and then took off with all of his clothing.  His body got hit with an evil cloud, zombified, and got in the fort.  Then it was the typical downward spiral from there,  culminating in almost all of the undead getting walled off in a side channel before someone's severed zombie head gnoshed my last dorf to death.

And, as he lay bleeding out on the ground, the giant sponge was still getting thrashed into unconsciousness by those owlmen.  Thank you, nameless Giant Sponge, for keeping me alive for a year.  You win MVP of the fortress Netstraps.

[Hans Lemurson]

4 of my original 7 dwarves became legendary wrestlers when my attempts to settle in and seal off the caverns were interrupted by a herd of Crawling Eyes.  They have no attacks whatsoever but dwarves nonetheless hate and fear them and fled when they came by.  Having no weapons, I ordered my militia to attack barehanded and a slow battle was fought for several weeks until my dwarves gained enough wrestling skills to tear their bodies apart.

Attacking large defenseless creatures with non-piercing weapons is a quick route to hilarity and massive skill gains.  I hope the undead don't gain skills while animated though, since otherwise those Owlmen would become vicious unstoppable killing machines.

Given that you died anyways however, that's not too much of a concern.

[Pardus_]

Attacking large defenseless creatures with non-piercing weapons is a quick route to hilarity and massive skill gains.  I hope the undead don't gain skills while animated though, since otherwise those Owlmen would become vicious unstoppable killing machines.

That would be terrifying if they could, could you imagine the mussel shells!?

[Telgin]

I'm pretty sure husks can gain skill anyway.  That only applies to things that can gain skill in the first place of course, which doesn't include animals as far as I know.  Animalmen on the other hand...

[nekoexmachina]

(If anyone would share a comics about the Heroic Giant Sponge fighting a Badger Zombie, I would greatly appreciate!
The point was in the fact that sponge after being unconcious for a year waked up and pushed badger so hard his leg was sent flying.
Can't find it )