Wallchance has survived the fourth forgotten beast attack!
The first was Vafice the web spitting three-eyed hawk, who managed to kill a mason and a clothier, but after an endless battle of web spitting, he finally succumbed to a copper bolt.
The second was Stozu who was... ummm something fleshy with a necrotic deadly dust, I only had four hammerdwarves and a marksdwarf squad so I sent them in, the battle ended with Stozu falling into the water and my militia commander slamming on top of Stozu. The casualties were my militia commander's, her squadmate's and a weaponsmith's vision, the rotting was quickly taken care of with some upper lip surgery, except in the case of the squadmate's baby, who started getting into a pretty bad shape, I had to station them above ground to avoid the miasma, and then the goblins took pity and rescued him in a bag from death.
Here lies Stozu:
The third was Ngasmuk the hairy lobster with unkempt brass hair , and deadly blood, I imagine it terrorized dwarven barbers because the fight was remarkably short with a single hammerdwarf walking up to it and bashing in its head, though it did manage to tear a ranger's upper spine, who suffocated in result.
After that the fort was going on peacefully, with the occasional kobold thieves and goblin snatchers trying hard to cause ruckus, and rangers getting eaten by cave spiders, but then Ngokang has come!
It found a ranger first (rangers are the luckiest dwarves in my fort), so I let them fight for a time to determine how dangerous it is, my impression was that it only caused dizziness, while copper bolts could damage it. This was important, because I only have access to tetrahedrite ore, so copper and silver is what I can supply my army dwarves with. I sent in a mostly melee squad with a weapon of choice and a shield, backed up by a dedicated marksdwarf squad.
The forgotten beast seemed to have quite a variety of syndromes above dizziness, it caused fever and blisters too (they might be related, I don't know
), what was interesting is that the silver blunt weapons just glanced off of it, while copper battle axes could fracture it. The battle was ended with a copper bolt severing the beast's lower body. Yay for uber crossbows!
Then the melee dwarves headed to the hospital, rested for a second, some of them were diagnosed, but they got better without medical intervention, while still being covered in forgotten beast extract, for some reason the militia captain didn't want to clean himself, even when off duty, the others did, but no further harm was done to him.
Do dwarves know when it's dangerous not to clean themselves?
Also one of the axedwarves got blinded in the battle, my dwarves either die without hope of being saved or go blind in this fort
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