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[kilozombie]

I've been playing on a small, mountainous area for a while. I was starting to thrive with trade and metals, and was ready to go deep. In this land, there were NO animals, besides the meager amounts of fish and turtles (turtlessss) in the river. So my military, armed with basic copper, bronze and iron weapons, were ready for anything.

I'll explain my land a bit.

Since there were few dwarves for fishing early on and no animals whatsoever, I had everybody-everybody, I'm serious- gather plants, each season. I had over 400 seeds at one point, and when migrants came, if you can't get seeds you'll fucking starve to death so do it. Then, gradually, I turned every migrant into a fisherdwarf, mason, and furnace operator at the same time, regardless of what they were to come. Food in Hammerdented was, more or less, the economy. (Did I mention that there was hardly a single beer for everyone once per year? Yeah.) And tombs were made, for anybody who was important, a tradition in Hammerdented.

But I dug deep, and a Forgotten Beast arose from a previous cave. I ignored it for a while, and it traveled outside, terrorizing my dwarves. I muttered "psssh" and sent my 8-person armed military to fight.

They all died.

I made sure my expedition leader and miners were inside and locked the doors, watching as 50 dwarves were immediately drafted into a new squad and then murdered. Slowly, the people inside became thirsty. I dug into the side of a storage room into a lake, flooding it and killing two dwarves. We got water, but we couldn't get rid of the bodies. Miasma spread everywhere, and nobody wanted to make coffins. Most people's children died. Slowly, the miasma turned people into maniacs, and chaos in the fort began. I ordered my miner/expedition leader to go into the food storage and locked him in with a farmer. People outside banged on the doors and died.

Goden, my leader, and Litast, my farmer, slept and wept. Goden is throwing a tantrum. I order Goden to mine to the underground lake through the engraved wall-the one with the first rendition of a famous engraving- as soon as he wakes. They're both injured a bit, but I have ~390 biscuits, turtles, and cut liver to be eaten. Someday, they will fight back...

Also oh fuck I'm so boned right now.

[SkillageFTW]

Can you post a description of the forgotten beast?

[kilozombie]

A towering crocodile with external ribs. It has thin wings of stretched skin and it appears to be emaciated. Beware its deadly dust!

And its health:

Its first toe, right front foot is broken. Its first toe, right front foot is smashed open. Its left floating rib is fractured. Its left floating rib is torn open. Its left false rib is fractured. Its left false rib is torn open. Its left rear leg is fractured. Its left rear leg is dented. Its left wing is fractured. Its left wing is dented. Its right rear leg is fractured. Its right rear leg is dented. Its left front leg is fractured. Its left front leg is dented. Its right front leg is fractured. Its right front leg is dented. Its left rear foot is fractured. Its tail is fractured. Its right wing is fractured. Its right rear foot is fractured. Its skull is fractured. Its left front foot is fractured. Its upper body is dented. Its lower body is dented.

It's also covered in scars.

Did I mention he's in a random lake, strangling a hunter to death slowly?

[Mitchewawa]

Deadly dust is truly one of the worst to actually fight, but on the plus side the deadly dust usually blasts the FB all over the place as well (hence the injuries).

[kilozombie]

Indeed.

Should I laugh at the fact that every 2 minutes, a foal or horse is slammed into a wall and exploded?

[Mitchewawa]

Yes you should.

[Loud Whispers]

Only 8 soldiers out of 50 civilians?

I am disappoint.

You need 100 soldiers for every dwarf to survive DF. That said, no one has managed to turn one dwarf into two soldiers yet.

[kilozombie]

Only 8 soldiers out of 50 civilians?

I am disappoint.

You need 100 soldiers for every dwarf to survive DF. That said, no one has managed to turn one dwarf into two soldiers yet.

Yet.

[Loud Whispers]

Only 8 soldiers out of 50 civilians?

I am disappoint.

You need 100 soldiers for every dwarf to survive DF. That said, no one has managed to turn one dwarf into two soldiers yet.

Yet.

Yet.

[kilozombie]

I let in a militia recruit, some hungries (I call the people outside "hungries" now) and a dorf capable of mining. We've started going to the underground lake and hopefully we can wall off the other stairway. Either way I want all the water for myself and the survivors.

-Goden

[kilozombie]

I forgot if double posting is disapproved or not, but if it is, sue me.

Everyone except Goden and an engraver died. One of them, the metalsmith who got his own tomb, hobbled on one leg outside, bare naked and starving, and kept punching the beast until he finally died of hunger. I'd bury him if Goden and the engraver weren't the last ones.

I was surprised that Goden had survived, anyway. He was the first one to get food, sure, but he was as thirsty as the others- or so I thought. During the crisis, he wandered outside and took a drink out of the river. I screamed at my computer and ordered him back into the food room. Turns out he was the only one besides the asshole engraver to survive. Therefore, he became the mayor and had tantrum after tantrum after tantrum. A tantrum spiral with himself.

There were- ironically- 7 of us. 4 died of thirst. Goden finished the mine and drank and drank. So did two others. The farmer presumably jumped into the lake or something; a day later, he was dead and it was only us and a couple survivors in the base who had somehow drank right before the doors permanently shut.

Though it wasn't exactly permanent. The beast tore open the front doors and slaughtered everyone inside. Three dwarves alive, then the metalsmith died. I should have worked harder to try to get him in. But the room was already walled off at the immediate warning that our front door was broken down, and he died anyway. Goden threw tantrums, the engraver mined to try and find water for a farm that wouldn't be far underground, and also access to the river.

Also, in the future, there were migrants, who I made into squads and wrestled the FB, injuring it a bit. But doing so made the engraver a head guard, and he doled out punishment to- I shit you not- Goden, the fucking mayor.

Goden died, I predictably raged, and turned off my computer without saving.

So here I am.

Digging toward a river to the west, two alive. Migrants will come soon but I don't know how soon and how much damage 12 untrained wrestlers can do against a scarred and healing FB.

What do I do here? Do I fight it off? Do I wait for a caravan? The FB will heal, and I'm not sure if scars actually count as hindrance. If they don't, I may be completely fucked. If so, I'll abandon and someday try to reclaim.

[peregarrett]

See BronzeMurdered tale. Barricade your engraver at dining hall, and try to survive, making engraving till the last day.

[Sus]

Only 8 soldiers out of 50 civilians?

I am disappoint.

You need 100 soldiers for every dwarf to survive DF. That said, no one has managed to turn one dwarf into two soldiers yet.

Yet.

Yet.

Y'know this kind of reminds me of a character in the Chainsawsuit webcomic... "I accidentally enrolled in the Dwarven Military academy twice, now I am... Two Axedwarves."
Let the modding commence.

And yeah, pulling a Bronzemurdered would be all kinds of awesome, at least for future archeologists. 

[Blizzlord]

Only 8 soldiers out of 50 civilians?

I am disappoint.

You need 100 soldiers for every dwarf to survive DF. That said, no one has managed to turn one dwarf into two soldiers yet.

Yet.

Yet.

Step 1: Chop the arms off.
Step 2: Wait for Toady to release the next patch.
Step 3: Reanimate the arms.

1 dwarf = 3 soldiers.
Profit?

Edit: Or am I mistaken and !!NECROMANCY!! isn't the answer to everything?

[miauw62]

Only 8 soldiers out of 50 civilians?

I am disappoint.

You need 100 soldiers for every dwarf to survive DF. That said, no one has managed to turn one dwarf into two soldiers yet.

Yet.

Yet.

Step 1: Chop the arms off.
Step 2: Wait for Toady to release the next patch.
Step 3: Reanimate the arms.

1 dwarf = 3 soldiers.
Profit?

Edit: Or am I mistaken and !!NECROMANCY!! isn't the answer to everything?

Only works for biters tough.