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[Brunste]

As the title say: describe your most terrifying forgotten beast or titan attack.

Just recently I had TWO forgotten beasts with deadly dust right after each other. The first one caused fatal nerve damage and the second caused rotting of flesh.

I lost many good dwarves.

[Jorn Stones]

Whenever I hear the words 'deadly' used together in the same sentence as 'dust' , I wall off the cavern entrance asap and vow to never open it again.On my current fort though, I have two underground civs. Who knows what blowguns can do to nasty creatures.. The one group did kill a cave croc

[vjek]

I had one where even with stabbing/retracting adamantine floor spikes, all it did was chip the creature over and over, and it survived for months, in-game.  It was truly horrifying.    And it eventually made it in and killed everyone.

If I 'm going to breach the caverns, now, I build a cave in trap and that's that.   Nothing survives a cave in trap.  Line it with doors for bait, and voila, 212 FB roasts on the menu!

[Brunste]

I had one where even with stabbing/retracting adamantine floor spikes, all it did was chip the creature over and over, and it survived for months, in-game.  It was truly horrifying.    And it eventually made it in and killed everyone.

If I 'm going to breach the caverns, now, I build a cave in trap and that's that.   Nothing survives a cave in trap.  Line it with doors for bait, and voila, 212 FB roasts on the menu!

I just started making cave-in traps for beasts I couldn't kill. That's how I kill my deadly dust ones now.

[FallenAngel]

I had a webber made of solid hematite.
Needless to say, it won.
The one person not in the fort, a fisherdwarf, was eventually killed by it.

[Brunste]

I had a webber made of solid hematite.
Needless to say, it won.
The one person not in the fort, a fisherdwarf, was eventually killed by it.

I've still never had a forgotten beast made out of rock or metal. Only flesh.

[Gukag]

Cave-in or obsidianizing traps are your friend for those unkillable metal/gem/ore titans or FB's. Webbers are pretty bad too. If i can I usually try to trap one somewhere for silk farming.

[than402]

without doubt my worst experience with forgotten beast was the Great Beast Wars at Flagbore.i had walled in the caverns and when i decided to reopen them,there were like 6 of them in one place.one was made of nickel silver,another one of mud,a third had a blister causing gas,and the other 3 were typical fleshy ones.i charged with my steel clad legendary militia,and lost 2 legendaries the moment the beasts came.eventually,i fought them off,but from then on i had two beasts every year,which caused a very high kill count.eventually,a beast which shot web came,and soloed my entire army(at this point some soldiers had adamantine equipment).then,as soon as i had finally killed it,another one web spitting beast came and started rampaging through my fortress,with my only defense being conscripted peasants equipped mostly with copper armor and iron weapons(my good stuff were still webbed by the previous battle).it took many more dwarves to finally bring it down.my fortress fell through a combination of that,me being bored to rebuild and the resulting tantrum spiral.

kill count:

14 beasts

casualties:

over 50 dwarves

[Brunste]

without doubt my worst experience with forgotten beast was the Great Beast Wars at Flagbore.i had walled in the caverns and when i decided to reopen them,there were like 6 of them in one place.one was made of nickel silver,another one of mud,a third had a blister causing gas,and the other 3 were typical fleshy ones.i charged with my steel clad legendary militia,and lost 2 legendaries the moment the beasts came.eventually,i fought them off,but from then on i had two beasts every year,which caused a very high kill count.eventually,a beast which shot web came,and soloed my entire army(at this point some soldiers had adamantine equipment).then,as soon as i had finally killed it,another one web spitting beast came and started rampaging through my fortress,with my only defense being conscripted peasants equipped mostly with copper armor and iron weapons(my good stuff were still webbed by the previous battle).it took many more dwarves to finally bring it down.my fortress fell through a combination of that,me being bored to rebuild and the resulting tantrum spiral.

kill count:

14 beasts

casualties:

over 50 dwarves

This is pretty much the plot of Pacific Rim but with dwarves instead of robots.

[Urist McVoyager]

What was that line about monkeys and Shakespeare?

Dwarf Fortress: Ripping off movies since 2006. 

[JonathanCR]

I decided to reclaim a world-gem ruin. Things went pretty well to start with. The ancient dwarves had dug their spiral tunnel down through the first layer of caverns and set things up below them. This included walling off the caverns as they dug through them. I decided that this was cowardice on their part and knocked down part of the wall so we could use the caverns' resources; I also dug a well down to the lower cavern level to supply the hospital I was planning.

Unfortunately it was while I was doing this that the ancient dwarven wisdom became more apparent. A giant pterosaur with a single eye, a shell, and fiery breath appeared in the caverns and shot straight up the well hole. My dwarves were utterly powerless against it. The main problem was that they simply had no defence whatsoever against the breath and died like flies caught in a flamethrower. The beast did wander off into more remote sections of the fort, and I tried to wall it in, but the attempt failed.

I was down to three incapacitated dwarves slowly dying in their bedrooms and a single child wandering around the hallways, when a wave of migrants appeared. Here, I thought, I had a chance. No such luck: the beast erupted out of the fort's entrance into the enormous pagoda that the ancient dwarves had built over it, and set the forest on fire. Those migrants didn't last long, and neither did the few pitiful survivors indoors.

I decided to reclaim the fortress. Several attempts were all fruitless as even dwarves equipped with shields were terrified and scattered before the beast's onslaught, allowing it to pick them off easily before they'd even entered the pagoda, let alone made their way into what remained of the great hall. I decided to start an adventurer and come and kill it myself. Unfortunately I found that as soon as I arrived at the site the lag went through the roof. It had been fine for the entire adventure, but the moment I set foot on site there was a two-second delay for every step. I don't know why, given that there wasn't a single living soul in the entire place. But my companions were understating things when they commented on how horrific the destruction was.

I'm in the middle of exploring the fort, trying to find the forgotten beast, but it is unplayably slow. Which is a pity, as I'd really like to squash this thing and revive the fort.

Also, the ghosts are surprisingly chatty.

[than402]

This is pretty much the plot of Pacific Rim but with dwarves instead of robots.

i know,right?it's a shame i never released it as a community fort.i also had a colisseum where i regularly threw armed goblins and war grizzly bears,and a captured cyclops which killed prisoners...with a loincloth he had looted from a troll i threw to him.oh,and a badass adamantine artifact sword.my favorite fort yet.

[golemgunk]

I had a FB with deadly dust, but the syndrome had no symptoms. The beast was slain without major incident, and none of the militia seemed to be oozing blood or rotting all over, so I thought we were just lucky. A couple months later, more than half of them dropped dead one by one in the dining hall.

[Skullsploder]

I don't have any truly terrifying FB stories but my first encounter with the Clowns was less than stellar... Every dwarf in the fort was equipped with a masterwork silver war hammer (my first experiment with an all-military fort). To my regret, I found out too late that blunt does bugger all against the denizens of the HFS.

My current fort might have a better story when I eventually open the caverns though... I only hit the second layer on the way down with my main staircase, and the FBs have been piling up outside the walled-off section. I've lost count how many are lurking out there now; it's more than 10 though. Someday I will open the caverns and have an epic battle. It is not going to be any day soon.

[DrLambda]

Like i said in the "What's going on in your fort" thread a while ago, i encountered an webbing black opal titan when i had nothing except for a 1 zlevel deep moat set up for defense parameters (which, as you may know, might as well be a paved road for a titan.) It then got killed with the most lucky emu bone bolt shot of all time by one of my hunters, taking just 3 or 4 dwarves with him.

A few years later, the same hunter killed a Jabberer very much in the same way, but this time he was so fast that my now efficient military wasn't even able to step down the 130 zlevels of stairs to get close to it first. It was just him and the Jabberer, alone in a cave. It took two bolts. He is now my millitia commander, and also the only legendary marksdwarf in my military.