Well, I can't summon forgotten ankylosaurs into the arena, so I used the next best thing:
giant saltwater crocodiles.Unskilled as crocs (and forgotten beasts) are, we can dodge their melee strikes with ease, while landing solid hits of our own. The trouble I found in the arena isn't that we
can't kill the thing-- we can-- but that it takes
so long to do. The limbs on these critters just don't sever the way those of a trog do; killing one is a long and tedious process of striking at the head, upper body, or throat until either you get lucky with a brain-shot or it bleeds out. The skulls on 'em are so thick, trying over and over again for the throat-shot is actually
faster, Impossible strike difficulty or no.
If we were fighting a croc, that would be okay. But this isn't a croc.
It's a forgotten beast. And that means it almost certainly has at least one of eight different tricks up its sleeve with which to hurt us, a trick that we'll probably have a very hard time avoiding. Any time we spend stabbing this beast is time it can spend shaking dust around or excreting horrible oozes or whatever it does to kill things. We can't afford to give it that sort of oppurtunity.
So what do we do?
I don't know. This is a nasty situation we're in. It's probably going to get worse.
First thing, I suppose:
Can we sense this thing's blood? If we can, that'll give us a far, far better chance at surviving this.
Second:
Is the beast secreting any kind of fluid from its skin, or smoking from its nostrils, or leaving dust in its wake, or anything else of the sort? If so, that's valuable information. We need that. But nothing's been said yet, so I suspect whatever this beast can do, it's not doing it just yet.
Third:
Can we convince our goblin friend to not charge until the dwarf's closed in? If we can't tell what this beast is capable of, we may have to sac our last dwarf buddy to find out. To go in there without first knowing is suicidal-- best let somebody else do the suiciding. I'd have suggested we let the champion, but... well. He wasn't much of a champion after all was he.