The horror!
I just got my entire adventuring party outfitted (in some NICE gear) and out the door to take care of a local vampire in one of the temple catacombs, when we disturb a mummy in said catacombs. I put the mummy down almost as soon as it came out the door, preventing it from raising anything else, but unfortunately it's chamber consisted of some ungodly number of corpses that it raised before opening the door! Within five turns we were overrun, undead skeletons all over us. But we beat them back, and back again, and again. I noticed one of us was cut off in the room, surrounded by zombies, then suddenly, due to some ☼dodging☼ on my part, I too was in there with them. Except they were dead, and I was almost a goner as I'd been dogpiled by a half dozen or so of them, but I apparently dodged multiple attacks only to land in the door to the mummy's chamber again. Not often do you get a free two-way ticket to the middle of a skeleton horde and back.
Eventually, after a 15-minute real-time battle, the last corpse returned to being a corpse and sank to the floor with a clatter of dry, hollow bones. I surveyed the damage, and discovered that 3 2 out of our 7 died in the battle, presumably dragged away into the middle of the horde. All that effort getting everyone suited up in the best quality gear available, and they just HAD to die the first chance they got. Fucking dorfs. I came in with all 6 available dwarvn military professions, but only the swordsdwarf, speardwarf, and marksdwarf (and apparently the hammerdwarf. Thought I saw him flee like a coward halfway through!) survive, the latter only becuase she stood back and shot things like a good girl. The speardwarf will never walk again without these crutches I snagged for us.at all, ever. Apparently crutches don't help with a broken lower spine.
None of us had a martial trance as far as I know, despite being outnumbered by at least 25:1 and cleaving through them as if we had been in a trance. And we're all dwarves, too. If there were any more mummies down here, we'd be screwed beyond belief. My biggest regret is not taking an elemental mage caste character so I could zap the damn things and generally kick ass. After all, the only thing that could make such a ☼fight☼ more dwarfy would be magma/fire in general.
Turns out the mummy was previously the queen of my civ...
Welp, it seems my adventurer has been cursed by elemental mage lightning to always be asleep when leaving fast travel. I really need to figure out why it causes permanent chronic sleep upon exiting fast travel...