It's early, so it's time for a
Before Breakfast Special!My current fort, near a Necro tower. After the gobbos and zombies got together and had a great big ole shindig, I sent my dorfs out to clean up the refuse once the party was over.
There was an elf upper arm in a tree that got reanimated before the necro scampered off that was scaring my dorfs as they exited the fortress, preventing them from a) picking anything up, b) going back in the fort, before I finally got a marksdwarf to shoot it to death.
So: an elf arm bone in a tree, causing several dozen of my dorfs to run around in circles.
P.S. This is one of the most win threads I've had the pleasure to read.
This one's not combat, but it should be entertaining:
Remember, a magma crab is for life, not just Christmas.
I just remembered one from a friend playing Adventure mode:
His adventurer had returned to town after dispatching a group of bandits (biting an arm off the bandit leader in the process).
It was after selling the loot from the bandits and walking out of the shop he checked his inventory and found out his adventurer was still latching on to a rotting bandit arm with his teeth...
Imagine the look on the shopkeeper's face.
"Whaf, do I haf somffing im my feefh? "
"Do you floss daily?"
"Yershff!"
I had this LEGENDARY moment when I, as a spearhuman, attacked a badger in adventure mode with my spear.
You charge the badger with your silver spear!
You bite the badger in the left back paw, tearing the skin and tearing the fat!
You shake the badger around in the air!
Yes, I went running towards a badger with both hands gripping my spear and for some reason my first attack was biting him on the back paw and shaking him around with my muscular human mandible, finally tossing him a few squares away.
My avatar. Urist McCartass.
Crossposting from the Facepalm thread:
I tried to set up a minecart repeater in my last fortress using a novel (read: buggy) design, but after many problems trying to drop the minecart onto the track from above, finally decided to have a sacrificial dwarf go and push it instead to jumpstart the process. I then unpaused the game and busied myself checking on some crundles who were lingering near my cage traps.
The first dwarf went to go push the minecart. It accelerated as planned, reversed direction as planned, and mowed him over before he could move an inch, grievously injuring the poor sap. Then another dwarf decided to go "recover the wounded" and walked right into the high-speed minecart as it ran him over a third time, bowling her over as well. Then someone decided to go rescue her... This blossomed into thirty dwarves out of fifty dying in the accidental meatgrinder.
At least, that's how I reconstructed the scene after finding a ceiling-high pile of bodies in the minecart oscillator. Never again shall I leave the game unattended.
I realized that when it comes to a bunch of dwarves in a pile, colour-coding them by profession is funnier than giving them all pig tail/rope reed shirts.
The dangers of dust attacks in confined spaces.
The Forgotten Beast breathes a cloud of forgotten beast frozen extract!
The Forgotten Beast is caught in a burst of forgotten beast frozen extract!
The Forgotten Beast is caught in a cloud of forgotten beast boiling extract!
The Stray Dog is caught in a burst of forgotten beast frozen extract!
The Forgotten Beast is caught in a cloud of forgotten beast boiling extract!
The Forgotten Beast is caught in a cloud of forgotten beast boiling extract!
The Forgotten Beast is caught in a cloud of forgotten beast boiling extract!
The Stray Dog is caught in a cloud of forgotten beast boiling extract!
The Forgotten Beast slams into an obstacle!
The Forgotten Beast's left pincer takes the full force of the impact, tearing apart the fat and bruising the muscle!
The Forgotten Beast's right first leg takes the full force of the impact, tearing the fat and bruising the muscle!
The Forgotten Beast is caught in a cloud of forgotten beast boiling extract!
The Forgotten Beast slams into an obstacle!
The phyllite strikes The Forgotten Beast in the right pincer, tearing the fat and bruising the muscle!
The Forgotten Beast is caught in a burst of forgotten beast frozen extract!
The {Kogan's bone [140]} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the right first leg, bruising the muscle!
The flying {copper bolt} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the right first leg, tearing the muscle!
The flying {<F0>copper bolt<F0>} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the right first leg, tearing the muscle!
The flying {<F0>copper bolt<F0>} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the right fourth leg, tearing the muscle!
The flying {<F0>copper bolt<F0>} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the body, tearing the muscle!
The flying {copper bolt} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the right first leg, tearing the muscle!
The {Stray Cat mutilated corpse} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the left fourth leg, tearing the fat and bruising the muscle!
The {Stray Cat right front leg} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the head, tearing the fat and bruising the muscle and bruising the brain!
The Forgotten Beast slams into an obstacle!
TLDR: the FB decided to dust the bait dog, fell into adjacent channel, breathed dust a couple of times there and was killed by {Stray Cat right front leg} that was left there by some previous FB. Don't breathe dust in the vicinity of cat legs.
Remember this guy? Every time you don't specify what the FB was, I'll draw him instead because he's funny.