I don't understand why HFS wasn't good enough.
I still don't know what HFS is exactly
We do need an actual clown invasion of some kind. Real clowns. Or zombie clowns.
That would be fun. To where clown cars, hundreds of clowns pour out
I would think of the clown invasion as: Equal to demons in terms of sheer number you fight at once, yet much easier to kill. Clowns would probably do little to no damage to anyone in combat.
I don't particularly see a need for another euphemism to cause more confusion here. Personally the only one that I see a use for is "clowns", simply because "HFS" is a little ambiguous about whether it refers to the clowns themselves, the act of unleashing the wave of them, or the place they live in. Adamantine itself doesn't need a spoiler, since it shows up in several menus.
If it hadn't been for me finding DF by TVTropes, and reading spoilers, I would have had to find out WHAT adamantine is by myself. I see it in a menu, and don't remember 'oh yeah, its deep down there cotton candy'
I usually abbreviate Forgotten Beast to FB. Which then makes me think of FaceBook. Could we get an euphemism out of that do you think?
Took me a day to figure out it meant Forgotten Beast, whenever I saw FB, it took me a bit, when I first joined here.
I guess part of me wants a silly euphemism, or something to misguide the newbies. Not heavily, I mean, they'll know it isn't a good thing to find one, or usually isn't