Does it count as a kill if they're already dead?
I brought Mogastad Stonehall out of retirement today. He's the one who killed a cyclops with its won treasure hoard and watched a cat kill a human. It's been about 3 month in game, I've spent the interim assembling a group of adventurers for him to recruit. Nothing unusual happened on the way to rally the troops, met the dwarven queen at a fortress, bitch-slapped an ettin to death, until I decided to take a shortcut across the one evil mountain in the entire world. What could go wrong?
Undead keas, that's what! As if the thieving bastards weren't enough trouble alive, these were a mix of flying corpses and skeletons. Thirty of them, approaching from above and surrounding me before I had time to figure out how a skeleton can still achieve flight. I killed four of them right off the bat, but then I started missing and they started doing chip damage. When one got a hit on my chest and bruised the lungs, I thought the flashing 'mortal wound' warning meant Stonhehall was finished.
Then the martial trance kicked in, triggering a hailstorm of severed Kea skulls. One such skull wouldn't die and continued to peck at my ankles for the rest of the fight, stopping only after I punted it across a brook outside the evil biome.
I moved on and my lungs got better. On the way, I stumbled upon an odd lair, colored green on the map instead of the usual grey. Investigating, I discovered the roost of a Zombie Roc, in mint condition apart from the zombie bit. The thought of an undead bird the size of a jet liner almost made me turn away, but when I noticed it was sitting on a nice pair of gauntlets, I knew I had to take this buzzard down.
I charged the rotting feather duster and laid into him. For some reason, my steel axe never seems to cut very deep against large targets, and the best I could do was tear the fat in the first few rounds. The zombie roc followed an odd attack pattern. It would push me over a few times, fly to the space one level above me, and then drop down. Whatever it was trying to do wasn't working, and the swarm of keas actually managed to do more damage against me than the roc.
Finally, I landed a good hit, severing one of its talons. It retreated back to is starting position and just idled there. Curious, I snuck up to it and prodded it a few times, with the edge of the axe. Before I was able to land a hit, the Zombie Roc collapsed dead. I can't tell if it finally succumbed to all the cuts I gave it or just lost the will to unlive after I hacked off its toe.
Still, A kill's a kill, and dwarf-sized gauntlets are dwarf-sized gauntlets.
Duspbu Waxhale the Cyclopean Beaches, Zombie Roc, was Mogastad Stonehall's 100th kill, taking place immediately after the destruction of thirty undead Keas. If undead creatures don't count for points, he's at 69 kills. 69 or 100, either way he's done all that completely alone, save for the assistance of a pack of cats earlier on.
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