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[Bnethor]

Obviously there have been some very gruesome ends for dwarves and other creatures in DF, some of which must be described with stories to be fully appreciated.

I got the idea for this topic after witnessing an elf suffering a very Monty Pythonesque demise:


I undestand the topic is a bit macabre but please share your pixel brutality for everyones horror or enjoyment!

[Thisfox]

It's only a flesh wound!


Enisea just had a dwarf who licked the magma on a dare. Result: !!tongue!! injury, leading to fatality. I particularly like that there are even dwarven tears involved in that. How excellent is this game?

Then, if you scroll further down, you will note that the Enemy was killed using superheated dwarven blood. The !!dwarfiest!! way to kill.

[§k]

Sea water goes through an aqueduct from the billowing shore to the fortress deep underground...

Three grasshopper men are strolling along the beach. They see a walled construction far to the south. They pass by a sperm whale skeleton bleached by sun and wave.

Then they are stopped by a trench, which is neither a brook nor a river, but seems shallow enough to wade across. Two of them cautiously look at the strange ripple, while the bravest of the three impatiently chafes his wings and walks into the water.

A strong force gets his legs! There's a hole, which was hidden by sea foam, now an opening mouth guzzling him down with thundering water!

He rolls and bumps! He struggles for air! He is storming down the passage in rock! He skids along gneiss wall! He skids along granite wall! He quickly passes by a gold nugget! He skids along native gold wall! He skids along gem wall! He skids along another kind of gem wall! He skids along another kind of gem wall!

Finally, he gets to the bottom, with legs and arms broken and bleeding. Although the furious water keeps running along, he is not pushed anywhere deeper. The moment he stretches and takes a breath near the ceiling, he is dragged back by powerful flow. Thus he emerges and submerges, for several days. He is running out of blood, but he keeps struggling!

What's the furry thing... it must be a black bear. You're right! It is a black bear, who thought he could swim across the trench. Now the bear is sitting on our unfortunate grasshopper man, emerging and submerging!

Prone in the water, the grasshopper man drowns.

[Wimopy]

Though not necessarily gruesome, I believe dwarves would be crying after hearing the tail of the miner who was almost cut in half by his own steel pick.
Plenty of other "nice" deaths in that topic, but that definitely takes the palm for me. Imagine the horror: Getting blasted into a wall and then see the pick that was crushed out of your hand fly straight at your body and tear you apart. You'd probably even have a split second to actually have your brain process the freak accident, before dying on the spot of your injuries.
It's doubly terrifying for dwarves who work in such conditions every single day.

Safety Reminder: If possible, please use blunt copper picks and wear some light armour at all times during mining. Failure to do so may lead to unimaginably bizarre freakish accidents. Thank you for your consideration.

[Badger Storm]

Those may be fascinatingly gruesome, but for sheer drawn-out misery it's hard to beat out starvation or blood loss from infection.

[cephalo]

How about the pain of being utterly forgotten after trapping yourself on a ledge somewhere to starve, and being forced to haunt people for them to remember you. Oh well, better build some stairs to get that pickaxe back.

[Bloax]

You'd probably even have a split second to actually have your brain process the freak accident, before dying on the spot of your injuries.

You do realize that bisection doesn't kill on the spot, and is mostly just a very shocking and bad death to massive blood loss?

[Wimopy]

You do realize that bisection doesn't kill on the spot, and is mostly just a very shocking and bad death to massive blood loss?

I was basing the dramatisation on the fact that severing the lower body in DF counts as instant death. I realise that real life works differently, but I was describing an in-game event.

[cephalo]

You do realize that bisection doesn't kill on the spot, and is mostly just a very shocking and bad death to massive blood loss?

I'm confident that the drop in blood pressure would cause unconsciousness in less than a second. That's a big leak.

[mardouille]

I had a dwarf that got attacked by a raven corpse.

He passed out from pain and got saved by my military.

After resting for a while and getting treated for his broken leg and head injuries, he bled to death from "hair torn apart". He had dozens of those wounds and I did not notice he was bleeding out of them. I imagine the guy bleeding from his head, with the hair turned red and dripping blood everywhere for two months before dying. I saw he was "pale" for a month and then dropped dead in his workshop. It was terrifying.

Kinda gruesome when you think about it..

[Urist Tilaturist]

I was basing the dramatisation on the fact that severing the lower body in DF counts as instant death. I realise that real life works differently, but I was describing an in-game event.

Bisection across the waist should not be an instant kill, but it should only take a few seconds for the dwarf to lose consciousness and die. Think about how quickly a femural artery bleeds, then remember that the arteries above are even bigger...

[Button]

Slow-acting kitten rot is pretty bad. Stuck in a cloud of your own miasma as you slowly bleed to death from your swollen and rotting flesh.

[Naryar]

Starvation. Think hard about it. The denial, the "i will survive", the horror of being too weak to move to hunt, eat, or even digest food, the horror of seeing your body eating itself to survive... Also, it's slow. Very slow.

I would say infection would be the second worst.

[Urist Tilaturist]

The most painful would be some syndromes or burning, since all skin level pain receptors are stimulated. Starvation or infection could be more horrifying.

[ajar]

I've seen some deep discourse about this topic earlier.I don't remember where it ended, but as far as I know drowning or choking was pretty bad and psychological. I don't believe it, often think how horrible syanide death could be, but it's quite short. Belly has the second brain of the body (new knowledge) which could be even as conscious as a dog. Causing intestine most serious trauma could lead to a freak signaling to the real brain and deepen the suffering. Sick anyways.