I decided to take a break from my current fortress, and make a second world to do some adventuring in. I mad a human swordsman, and was doing pretty well, in addition to all the ordinary undead, minotaurs, ettins, giants, and cyclopes, I had taken out a titan...all done solo. The next quest I'm assigned is to kill a bronze colossus. I'm nearly to the cave, when I find a hidden site...so I decide to take a side trip. It turns out it's a kobold cave.
I kill a dozen or so kobolds of various types without difficulty, when a kobold bowman pops up some stairs as I finish off an ordinary kobold. Naturally, his first shot goes right through my superior iron plate, piercing both lungs, my liver, and my heart.
I live just long enough to stagger over and attack him. The same action that I behead my killer, I bleed to death.
I guess that colossus will have to wait for another adventurer.
Edit - I just checked the character's legend. The last two lines are:
In the early summer of 1050, Ked struck down Thriliglaylber Grindsavage in the White Hole of Trenches.
In the early summer of 1050, Ked Highmasters the Willful Savage Blade of Seals bled to death, slain by Thriliglaylber Grindsavage in the White Hole of Trenches.
It looks like the bowman earned a name for killing me, even though he was dead before I was.
[ June 08, 2007: Message edited by: Exasperation ]