*looks at wierds board comment and avatar*
(...just had to edit this twice because I kept correcting the spelling of your name...)
Curious indeed.
So, while playing with the fully-waterfall lined volcano and getting it ready for the population cap to be lifted from the initial 30, I noticed how amusing it is having the caverns open directly to the surface by way of a volcano tube around which my dorfs spend a lot of time enjoying the waterfall mists through the fortifications, due to their bedrooms and the two statue gardens being positioned in the same big room around the tube.
Since the civilians all carry a crossbow around, this means anything which decides to try and bypass the difficulties of climbing smoothed walls by flying up will generally attract the attention of every dorf in the room for an instant shooting gallery. THEN after they get knocked down into the waters below, the dorfs keep plunking bolts into it until it gives out or is lucky enough to end up near one of the sides it can escape into the caverns from...
Except this guy is waiting there:
Knifeambers the Bat Man, and Grooveclobbers the Tall Target, his black cap spear, with 100 kills under his... lack of belt.
He avoids the area right under the volcano tube, so I don't gotta worry about him getting plunked by stray dorf bolts, and absolutely wrecks whatever shows up. Recently he seems to be semi-retired as he just kinda stands in this one little alcove over a submerged ramp and chills. The flooding finally shut off the northwest part of the caverns entirely, watched a bunch of crundles and a troll die there earlier, while the ones that make it to where Knifeambers sits end up getting stabbed in the brain repeatedly.
Was very amused when I saw one creature actually make it up past the dorf shooting gallery briefly... noticed this:
Where else would a crossbow bolt get stuck in a hungry head, I am now wondering?
Oh, and having pets roaming the area where the military is training still gives this occasionally:
I recall that being mentioned in the child care thread as a possible way to get some more skillups from dorflets on top of the observer training they get.