So, in the new version, FBs fight with other cavern creatures and even each other. This can make for some awesome scenarios.
A few weeks ago I had a fort that was doing pretty well, population around 150, legendary military, ongoing domestication program, large fortress. In the caverns there was an FB that couldn't get to me, a theropod (humanoid) with webs and an iron pick it had gotten off of a miner who had climbed down to it earlier. Then a new FB arrived, an iguana with deadly dust. I sent my military after it, thinking it won't be so bad.
Wrong. The dust caused unconsciousness and suffocation. My military arrived one by one, fighting bravely for a while before succumbing to the poison. The crossbowdwarves fared little better. The beast slowly made its way toward the staircase and my fort. I was bored of the fort and decided to let it come.
Meanwhile, the other FB had somehow managed to make it up into my stairwell, getting in though some crack in the walls or what have you. It spewed webs, killing everyone and everything in its path. My four legendary swordsmasters were obliterated in seconds, each decapitated with one swing of its pick. But the military did not die in vain - by the time it reached the fortress proper, it was crippled, scarred, and had lost the deadly iron pick. But the beast continued the killing in the bedrooms while the other beast hung out in the caverns.
After a while I was down to three dwarves - a baby in the caverns orphaned by the iguana, a child in the mines, and a legendary miner that I had locked in the butcher's shop. The iguana killed the baby. The child got tired and decided to go to bed, passing the theropod and dying quickly. The theropod stood gloating over he fallen child's corpse, thinking it to be the last dwarf, secure in its victory. All that was left was the miner.
But then the iguana decided to walk up the staircase, slowly making its way to the fortress proper. It ambled down the hallway to the bedrooms. It turned a corner and saw the other forgotten beast, standing over the corpse of a dwarven child.
Webs flew. Dust spewed. The beasts tangled in mortal combat. Blood soaked the hallways as each beast sought to maim or kill the other. But in the end the web-spitter triumphed, the striking down the tangled iguana with a punch to the skull. But then its throat seized up. It fell over gasping, then died.
I couldn't believe it. The fortress was saved! I let the miner out, enabling all duties. He buried the bodies, cleaned the blood, and never cracked under the pressure of everyone he knew and loved dying. I abandoned the fort, the lone miner setting off on his own, to spread the tale of Earthtramples.
So what stories do you have of forgotten beasts fighting?
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