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[Thisfox]

I'm just wondering whether any of you lot have some good stories involving serious injuries to citizens. What is the most seriously injured dwarf you have had who didn't require traction? Or pets? Is there a way of speeding up the healing process when they have multiple injuries?

I have a dwarf child in surgery at the moment who has been in surgery for three dwarf years: She came up against a fire breathing forgotten pterodactyl and lived to tell the tale, but not before breaking almost every toe and finger she has, for some reason. I'm trying to work out how it happened, I think she climbed and fell. There is no one in the fort willing to set her bones: They just clean the wounds and put in sutures. Ten sutures as yet. The kid must look like Frankensteins' monster: She has sutures on both hips, and on at least one digit per limb.

I want to keep the fort alive to answer just one question: Will she be healed first, or become an adult first? It's an even chance right now. She's seven, and many of her injuries are as yet uncared for, and none are immobilised.

Any advice or stories welcome.

[§k]

There was a child who got hit by a ballista-arrow. Bones in the right half of her body were mostly fractured. After being in hospital for quite a while, she was struck by a strange mood! While she was crawling around for months to collect materials, the child healed by herself, and became a legendary woodcrafter!

[Tacomagic]

Ghost tore the arm off a wood-cutter/carpenter.  Wood-cutter didn't even cancel his current job, finished chopping down the tree and headed for the fort.

By the time he got back, the bleeding had stopped so he immediated parked himself in the carpenter's shop and finished one of the outstanding work orders for beds.

I've always imagined him packing his wound with sawdust and saying, "'Tis only a scratch!  Ya' act like none of ye have e'er lost an arm before, ye babies.  Now back to work!"

[Skullsploder]

Had a bone doctor/bonecarver who got caught outside in a goblin ambush. With the immense skills he learned in mandatory self defense training, a copper crossbow, and the steel helmet and mail shirt that was mandatory for all citizens of that fort, he managed to dodge and deflect his way through three full squads of goblins trying to kill him before the military showed up. That's not to say he was unharmed: his foot got lopped off about halfway through. After the dust had settled, everyone forgot about him and he didn't generate a pick up wounded job. Instead, he crawled, with only one foot and bleeding, from the edge of the map to the hospital there he stayed for about a month, until the other doctor finally came round and gave him a crutch. That was it, he didn't even get his stump bandaged.

[Col_Jessep]

One of my woodburners was caught outside when a werelizard showed up. Luckily she was equipped with a pick and chopped the nightcreatures head off after a brutal fight. Blood everywhere, she got bitten a couple of times but the lizard only 'bruised' her with the bites.

I brought her into the hospital, although I had my doubts, and quickly build a drawbridge and a quarantine room with food and drink. It turns out she had severe nerve damage in a leg and a torn artery but my novice medicine man patched her up okay. I managed to burrow her into the quarantine room and to my surprise she didn't turn on the next full moon!

'Slayer' Puzzlingmines walking past the hospital and quarantine room:

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She's now 83, in an ecstatic mood and hobbling around as legendary crutch walker on a +Feather Tree Wood Crutch+. I really need to get her a nicer crutch. But how can I get her to equip it?

I checked maybe a hundred engravings but so far not one of her epic fight unfortunately. Well, I have my glassmaker making dozens of masterwork statues atm. Maybe something turns up.

'Slayer' would have been my first choice for baroness but she likes flutes, earrings and low boots, all things that would end up under the atomsmasher in my fort. I made her a hunter since she enjoys being outdoors and had the talent for it. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'll carve her a superb sleeping room and tomb, maybe even her own statue garden. So, churn out that statue of her glassmaker!

Oh, fun fact: The name of my fort is "Woundtorment".   

[StagnantSoul]

I had one wrestler exchange blows with an ettin for months. They kept fighting, no matter who was knocked down or out. By the time the wrestler got the mood in to finish it off, he was already an insanely powerful elite wrestler. So, ettin gets knocked over, and two punches to the head, battle is done. Yay! But wait, why's he moving so slow? Did he just pass out? Every bone in his legs had been fractured. This dwarf got home, got to the hospital, got treatment, and went on with life like nothing had happened. I'd put him on crundle business, but he also is my legendary metal crafter. At least he can defend himself well enough.

[Findulidas]

In one of my fell moods the dwarf went down one level and picked up someone resting in the hospital from injuries and made a bone table out of him.

[Col_Jessep]

...fell mood... ...made a bone table out of him.

I guess that's one way to let you know that the meeting hall needs an upgrade.

[XArgon]

\While she was crawling around for months to collect materials, the child healed by herself, and became a legendary woodcrafter!

Holy Son-of-a-carpenter! It's a miracle!

I once had a miner who lost a hand to an alligator during the 1st year, killed that alligator, and then proceeded to become THE Legendary Miner of the fortress. Even helped to fight off an invasion once.

The most I've had, in the same fort, was a dwarf who lost both arms. Appointed him to a job of booze quality assurance specialist by disabling all of his labors.

[Swonnrr]

...fell mood... ...made a bone table out of him.

I guess that's one way to let you know that the meeting hall needs an upgrade.

Today, in "poor word choice":
"Urist, go make a new table with our mason."

I regularly have dwarves getting minor wounds, walking it off like it's nothing... then dying from infection 3 months later. :facepalm:
I once had a dwarf getting every one of her bones broken after a goblin ambush, FB intrusion, and gravity failure.
She survived all that, fully recovered after months in the hospital of almost full-time treatment without any sequels... Then died of dehydratation.

Also had a dog lose both front paws, and still shred an zombie-giant-something to death. I think he survived until he got killed by a kobold.

[ragincajun]

OT: What pack is Col Jessup using there.  Looks good, may try that out.

[Chevaleresse]

...fell mood... ...made a bone table out of him.

I guess that's one way to let you know that the meeting hall needs an upgrade.

Today, in "poor word choice":
"Urist, go make a new table with our mason."

May I sig this?

[Col_Jessep]

OT: What pack is Col Jessup using there.  Looks good, may try that out.

That's just the regular Phoebe that comes with the Starter Pack.

May I sig this?

Only if you fix my spelling and grammar first... ;P (Engrish is my 2nd language.)

!!YES!! The statue for my werelizard-'Slayer' has been produced:

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[Thisfox]

I once had a miner who lost a hand to an alligator during the 1st year, killed that alligator, and then proceeded to become THE Legendary Miner of the fortress. Even helped to fight off an invasion once.

The most I've had, in the same fort, was a dwarf who lost both arms. Appointed him to a job of booze quality assurance specialist by disabling all of his labors.

Yeah, when I was running Alligator Creek (I never remember what the original name of that fort was, the renaming wasn't official but it fitted better) I had a lot of dwarfs with less limbs than what they'd been born with. I had a dwarf who lost one hand and had grasping issues with the other hand, and scars on his face. He was a legendary engraver a few years later when I found out he was also a great crutch walker... yep, that's right, an alligator had also taken a foot. Probably during a rescue session. He repeatedly rescued the others from alligators, whacking the hell out of the alligator population with his lead crutch (I always make all crutches out of heavy metals, and don't have any wooden crutches in the fort, because as far as I can tell, there is no way to swap a crutch out later if you don't like the one they have). I eventually made him the noble of that community. He engraved alligators on all the walls...

The broken child still hasn't had any of her bones set, but she is washed, fed and watered regularly, and the sutures are good.
I've checked, we have two rusty bonesetters in the fort, who have little to do other than party, and there's someone else with a bonesetting labour enabled. She just lies there, brave little thing. I think they've forgotten her.

[Jigowah]

I once placed a defenseless vampire in a pit and tossed defenseless kobolds into it for fun.  In the first 1-on-1 fight, they beat each other for a full year, causing all kinds of blood, body parts and teeth to fly all over the place.  I actually felt bad about it.