The forgotten beast Quula, an enormous, bloated, three eyed, oval-skaled snake with three curling horns, thirsted for warm blood.
So it went after a cat, pinned it down with its central horn, and sucked the blood out of the living cat. That obviously killed the cat.
But the dwarves didn't care. They celebrated that another one of the furry FPS killers, whatever that means, had died. That didn't last long, for the beast set its eyes on the dwarves in front of it.
As it so happened, it was square in the middle of a shipping lane, at the staircase leading down to the forges. The dwarves sped by beast, mostly ignoring it. The giant beast was rather slow, as it didn't manage to even nip a single dwarf.
After a day, dwarves noticed the beast exists, dropped the goods they were hauling, and ran widly around the caverns till they decided to eat a lavish roast while admiring adamantine statues laced with elf bone.
Zon was not pleased with the interruptions to the forging industry, so the core 5 were dispatched to deal with the beast. Some of the dwarves in these five squads were becoming rusty in their skills, even though there had been a recent joint human-goblin siege; they were always too late to the battlefield as their comrades had singlehandeldy murdered the masses by the time of their arrival.
This time was different. A rusty hammerdwarf, Goldenrod Stakemurders the Pristine Sandals, arrived first on the scene, as she happened to be drinking some ale down near the forges whilst watching stupid fire men get caught in primitive wooden cage traps. Goldenrod jumped atop the beast and proceeded to bash its head in.
The beast was annoyed and threw Goldenrod off its head. Goldenrod took no time to quickly bash the Quula's trunk several times and then bruise its guts.
Goldenrod swung so furiously that all the beast had time to do was snake out of the way of another swing. Goldenrod was on a roll here, recalling all the gory days of battling crundles in the caverns of times long gone.
To her dismay, her bashing of the trunk and breaking of several ribs was not sufficient to take down the beast. Not even stun it! Its at these moments of despair that dwarfs get inspirations. "Why should I keep whacking it like a mole?", she thougth to herself. "I'll bite it!"
So Goldenrod jumped up and bit the snake's eyelid, denting it. As Goldenrod hung in the air with her mouth firmly latched on the beast's eyelid, it threw its head back and let out a fell roar.
As Goldenrod swung over the beasts head, she took advantage of the oppurtunity and whacked the mutant mole snake. Unfortunately, that didn't even phaze the beast. A measly fracture was nothing more than a beaty mark to Quula.
Moments before Goldenrod his the ground, she stretched her neck out and bit the beast's tail, denting the scale, bruising the muscle, and latching on firmly.
Quula easily broke Goldenrod's grip without breaking a sweat.
Frustrated, Goldenrod began to run around the beast, bashing it in various places. Quula is not amused. It gores goldenrod in the right foot with its middle horn and the severed part sails off in an arc still enwrapped in a masterfull adamantine high boot, causing Goldenrod to fall onto her back.
Nobody said this would have a happy ending. In her lifetime, Goldenrod had killed two elves in Ironroast in the year of 161, Quazi Paddlecrevice the forgotten beast and a goblin in 162, a goblin in 163, and two more in 164. Not counting her eight various underground wildlife kills.
Quula takes its slow pleasure in killing Goldenrod. First it gores her in the right upper arm, causing her to drop her masterful steal hammer.
It takes another stab at her, but she has just enough time to roll out of the way, up to the feet of a Swordsdwarf who had just arrived.
Mang, a swordsdwarf, takes a look at Goldenrod, then at Quula. Mang is enraged and jumps at Quula. She stabs it in the trunk with Thosbutlesast, "Drillflank", her trusty copper short sword. This sword has Eleven notable kills and sixteen others. It was first wielded first by Carp Danceiron the Ashen Wires of Creating, who procurred four kills. Upon the obtainal of a steel short sword by Carp, Thosbutlesast, then unnamed, was passed onto its current owner, who obtained the other 23 kills.
Back to the battle, Mang took a slash and several stabs at Quula. Some scales were torn, its guts were ripped apart apart, and it gets stabbed in the trunk.
The mighty snake falls over as Mang twists the embedded copper short sword in the wound.
Mang had slain 13 goblins and a troll in her time, besides sixteen various wildlife found roaming the caverns.
Before another attack is made, some dwarves arrived on the scene and spectate the epic battle unfolding between a professional swordsdwarf and a legendary forgotten beast from ages long past.
Mang lashes out with her sword and cuts Quula's trunk clean off. The severed part sails off in an ark, landing on Goldenrod as she lays wallowing in a pool of her own blood.
In a rage, Mang kicks Quula in the heart, bruising it. Quula feels the pain as of one who was rejected by their lover. Mang takes advantage of this disturbance and slashes Quula's middle eye, tearing it apart. She then slashes Quula's left eye.
Quula awakens to reality when Mang jumps up, bites it in the head, and kicks it in the third horn with her left foot. A swordsdwarf nearby gets to grips and decides to gang up on the beast, together with an axedwarf.
The axedwarf, wanting to be dwarfy too, bites the beast. The swordsdwarf slashes its tail with his masterful iron short sword.
A nearby speardwarf stabs Quula with an adamantine spear, tearing apart its right lung.
Mang, enpowered with a new burst of adreline, slashes and tears apart Quula's third and finnal eye.
The speardwarf follows this up by ripping apart Quula's guts with the masterfull adamantine spear.
Mang fractures the beast's skull, but manages to tear apart a tendon.
"Hah", said the spear dwarf. "A cheap attack like that will never work. Try this." The speardwarf thrusts the masterful adamantine spear into the large snake's head, tearing the muscle, chipping the skull, and tearing apart the brain. The adamantine spear is lodged firmly in the wound.
Thus was the fall of the forgotten beast Quula in the year 164, on the 24th opal, mid-winter. A large, bloated, three eyed, oval skaled snake with three curling horns and a thirst for warm blood.
It was the talk of the gold statue hall of drinking and gluttony, along with Delioth's acension to elite hammerdwarfism and promotion to "Goblin Purger".
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