The beast made it's way into the fort, but I'll tell that tragic story later when I have more time.
My old nemesis the crundle has returned....say, wild animals count as "notable kills" if they've killed livestock, right? If so, I have a plan for giving all my military dwarfs cool epithets....
Now on Epic Battles: Catsplosion vs Crundlesplosion
I was thinking of using pigs actually, but cats would be cheaper, quicker and more efficient now that you mention it. However, I should mention that I don't want to BREED any crundles for this purpose; I just want to use captured wild ones.
But enough of that. Photobucket isn't working yet, but I don't need it to tell you all the details of the monster that killed 10 of my dwarfs. Oxut was a huge feathered dimetrodon with spindly antennae, a bloated body and fiery breath. He wandered around the caverns for quite some time, slaying a poor innocent wild cave crocodile as he did so. It wasn't until I mined and channeled out a route to a staircase for him that he reached any of the staircases. Once that happened, of course, he killed 8 civilians, including a prospective scholar (I really need to get those guys into their militia phase) and my favorite animal trainer, earning the title "Oxut Crevicemines the Hollow Burial of Shadow".
Now, I'd given the order to have my militia attack the beast as soon as it had arrived, but it had been in the lake and thus inaccessible to begin with. My militia took time off to pray, and so it was my militia commander Thob ended up facing the beast alone save for a helpful hunter taking shots at the beast. A legendary warrior in every way, decked out with steel masterworks, wielding a masterwork steel battleaxe, he let not the beast nor its fiery breath strike him as he hacked at its right rear foot, upper torso and twice his lower torso! However, he still melted for some reason.....perhaps because he was standing on burning moss that set his clothing afire. Though gushing blood, Oxut caused my Thob and the hunter horrible deaths.
And then comes along the wrestler (though he soon became an axelord) Astesh Painttrade. He is a father of 3, and his dead wife was one of my spearmasters from way back before I gave everyone armor (killed by goblins, no doubt). He has trained long and is just as legendary as any of my other veteran axedwarfs, but his only kills before this had been a giant dingo and a kingsnake. This was his trial by fire.
His first attack?
He fractured Oxut's skull with a mere pommel strike.
He dealt another impressive blow to his head soon after, that time with the proper sharp bit of the battle axe, ripping the muscle open, fracturing the skull again, tearing a tendon and opening an artery. He crushed his left eye with a slap from his axe, fractured the upper spine's bone with a mere punch, cut off his right front and left rear feet, fractured its left false and right true ribs and just made a bloody mess of its torso and limbs before decapitating the beast. That's dwarven vengeance for you.
Orbpolish was made militia commander, and a new recruit was drafted in.
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